The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-07-21
CHAPTER III.
A DEMOCRAT OF TIE OLD SCHOOL.

'Provldonce has filed our noun :nins and our
oia!ns with minerals. and given US climate
1nd soil tor tho growing Of hemp and wool.
These ought to have extended to thcm ADEQUATE
ana falr protection, tha OR manufacturers and /
aDorers may be placed in fair competition
Win those OF Europe. 1t il time We should be-
como a little moro AmorlcuEizeu, and instead OF
!ced'nS the paupers and labor.rs OF England,
feed our own."--ANDnEw JACKSON. !
After tho gentlemen were seated at tho table
tho conversation turning upon certain past
events Incur history, Miss Fletcher fearing All
other oiscu "sion on party Issues, took the sub
1ect in hand herself:
"Speaktng OF past mistakes. Mr.. Peyton, dol
not $50 how We can blame our ancestors forl
them No man is ahead Of his tine."
You are right. Mise Fletcher. for nature
makes no leaps. 1t has taken centuries for
man to stand whore he docs to-day. We cannot|
pass at q bound from the savage to the states
man. for thousands OF years OF intellectual do
ve!opmant ito between. Wo must learn to walt"
1T Is 80 much easier to labor than to walt"
said Miss Fletcher. ''This talk about future
generations seems so hopeless. 80 far away.
vest plant"
Il h 70 that feeling myself" answered Pey-
ton. II md working for mans advancement
impossible unless buckle On the shield Of
Faith. AS st. Paul directs. Human Development
10 81 slow while the patience to work tvr it and
to wait tor 1t Is divino!'
Ethel Flether studied Maurice Peyton's rather
plain fac9, as he smoke. and wondered wherein
lay tue charm OF this mans personality.
Col. Ogtivio with his florid complexion, Dor
feet features and we'll bred manner, testifying
t" his noble Saxon llnoasc and her brother woro
Aandsonsr mon, as tbs world would Judge, ye.
would she change tho finely cut, board,ess face
beside her. for either Of these?
I Maurice PeytOn. phian til rnpist and Christian
teacher. had sprung from good old Virginia
had. upon gaining hts majority, freed them, and
because of this and certain bold utteranco.
from his pulpit. had found himself socially
ostraoised In tho conversstive city he had made
He had dared call his slaves brothers. Ind
jopenod school for thcir benefit and had even
Encouraged their entrance into the fold OF tn.
fashionable church over which no presided.
y All this had reused the caste feeling OF the
4 times: Vague murmure grow into mutterod
hts CHI srgs aid advised to sock fold OF labo,
ELSEWHERE.
Tho desire to study lifo in tho industrial,
/ Northern States caused him to close up his NJ
his Southern homo.
Col. Osilvie glanced curiously from Peyton to
Miss Fletcher as they talked apart, and hall
lost tho moaning OF what Thorpe Fetch or wal
saying.
He now turned from Fletcher and addressed
his sister:
European ideas In these small towns OF yours
: You Americans nssd more cosmopolitan train
? lug; you are too narrow
Il MtaD Fletcher smiled.
Il 81 cannot agree with you, Col. Ogilvie The
i trouble 10 that, as nation wa arc not indcpen
i don't enough OF monarchical traditions"
wish to cherish Individuality in this country
I and to copy 70 other peoplo on tho face OF tht
: earth: Who has said that a narrow orbit is ia
. vorable to = powerful indivlduatityP' There Is
: world OF truth In 1t for too much space 10 fata
y to concentration OF thought Or purpose. AZ In
D dividuals We work better by not OK listing on,
! vitality upon too many duties. II W live TO,
4 Others, is it not wiser to have tho number lin
t iteda Only Christ could hope to save ALL
II agree With Mr.. Peyten.' said Miss Fletcher
LIZ have purposoly curtsilod my own work Tor
have found that by doing . little do it WE'LL
:! "Whae % You esy TO those philosophers
Miss Ethel: who condemn your womanIy mis-
l STOMP s,nilingly inquired Col. oe,lvie "Tou
{ kaow there ere these Who c0ntell that you,
b harmless. pretty aritles destructive forces
0ndsfmini1g soolsty. s1d that. 4 eA4klsiae viii
| her white hsnd. IL sowing the sssds OF future
j pauporism and misery" 80
':lt 10 essy fov those who are not hungry TO b,
.Iph1losophere." ahsworsd Miss Fletcher. ''Awal
ltfre0 individual suffering Il IL vory comfortable
- ct snA teoor1eo about tho raoe. flow few mer
flor women would ts philanthropists did no
\ Lazarus beg aud lie at tho very doors Of thei
Ilhonei We cannot g abroad without being tor
neatsd by sight Of his poverty aud physics