The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-02-18

into the apothecary drug. But chemical
analysis and the microscope have made
wonderful revelations. The Board of
Health in Massachusetts analyzed
great amount of what was called pure
coffee, and found in it not one particle
of coffee. In England there is law
that forbids the putting of alum in
bread The public authorities examined
fifty-one packages Of bread and found
them all guilty. The honest physician,
writing prescription, does not know
but that it may bring death instead Of
health to his patient, because there may
be one of the drugs weakened by
cheaper article, and another drug may
be in full force, and SO the prescription
may have just the opposite effect In
tended. Oil of wormwood warranted pure
from Boston was found to have forty
five per cent. of resin and alcohol and
chloroform. Scammony is one Of the
m st valuable medical drugs. 1t svery
rare, very precious. 1t is the sap or the
gum Of a tree or bush in Syria. The
root Of the tree is exposed, an incision
is made into the root and then shells are
placed at this incision to catch the sap
or the gum as it exudes. 1t is very
precious, this scammony. But the peas
ant mixes it with cheaper material;
then it is taken to Aleppo, and the mer-
chant there mixes it with a cheaper ma
terial then it comes on to the whole
sale druggist n London or New York,
and he mixes it with cheaper material,
then It comes to the retail druggist, and
he mixes it with cheaper material,
and by the time the poor, sick man gets
it into his bottle IL is ashes and chalk
and sand, and some of what has been
called pure scammony after analysis
has been found TO be no scammony at
all.
Now, practical religion will yet recti-
fly all this. 1t will go to those hypocriti-
cal professors of religion who got
corner" in corn and wheat in Chicago
and New York, sending prices up and
up until they were beyond the reach of
the poor, keeping these breadstuffs in
their own hands, or controlling them
until the prices going up and up, they
were, after awhile, ready TO sell, and
they sold out, making themselves mil
lionaires in one or two years-trying to
fix the matter up with the Lord by
building n church or university or hos
pital-deluding themselves with the idea
that the Lord would be so pleased with
the gift He would forget the swindle.
Now, as such man may not have any
liturgy in which to say his prayers, l
will compose for him one which he prac-
tically is making: 80 Lord, we, by get
ting corner in breadstuffs, swindled
the people of the United States out of
ten million dollars, and made suffering
all up and down the land, and we would
like 20 compromise this matter with
Thee. Thou lInoweth IL was scaly job,
but then it was smart. Now, here we
compromise it. Take one per cent. of
the profits, and with that one per cent.
you can build an asylum for these poor
miserable ragamuffins of the street, and
will take yacht TO so to Europe, for
ever and ever. Ameng'
All my friends, IL a man hath gotten
his estate wrongfully and he build line
of hospitals aud universities from here
to Alaska, he can not atone for Il. After
awhile, this man who has been getting
n corner in wheat, dies, and then Sa-
tan gets corner" on him. lie goes
into a great, long Black Friday. There
is "break" in the market. According
to Wall street parlGnce, he wiped others
out and now he is himself wiped out.
No collaterals on which TO make a spir-
itual loan. Eternal defalcation!
But this practical religion will not
only rectify all merchandise; it will
also rectify all mechanism, and all toll.
A time will come when man will
work as faithfully by the job as he
does by the day. You say when thing
is slightingly done, 20, that was done
by the job" You can tell by the swift
nesS or slowness with which a haclkman
drives whether he is hired by the hour
or by the excursion. II he is hired by
the excursion, he whips up the horses
so as TO get around and get another Gus
toner. All styles of work have 10 be
inspected. Ships inspected, horses in
spected, machinery inspected. Boss to
watch the journeymen. Capitalist com
ing down unexpectedly TO watch the
boss. Conductor of city car sounding
the punch bell to prove his honesty as a
passenger hands him . clipped nickel.
All things must be watched and in
spected. Imperfections in the wood
covered with putty. Garments war
ranted TO last until you put them on the
third time. Shoddy in all kinds Of cloth
ing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Diamonds
for dollar and n half. Boolsbinding
that holds on until you read the third
chapter Spawned horses by slsillful
dose Of jockeys, for several days made
TO look spry. Wagon tires poorly put
on. Horses porly shod. Plastenng
that cracks without any provoeation
and falls off. Plumbing that needs to
be plumbed. Imperfect car wheel that
halts the whole train with a hotbox.
Sc little practical religion in the mech
anism Of the world. tell you, my
friends, the law of man viii never
rectify these things. IL will be the all
pervading influence Of the practical re-
ligion Of Jesus Christ that will make
the change for the better.
Yes, this practical religion will also
60 into agriculture, which is proverb-
tally honest, but needs to be rectifled,
and II will keep the farmer from send
ing TO the New York market veal that
Is too young to ldll, and when the farm
er farms on shares II will keep the man
who does the work from making his
half three-fourths, and 1t will keep the