The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-12-09


the logic numbers So that $500 or $3.50
is the tax which the gallaEtry Of our
civilization exacts from woman on the
score of her fcmininitY. | think our cOun
trys greatest peril lies along this line.
| The danger thence resulting can lie met
only by principles and economics that
are Christian; by that genius of brother
hood which weaves all into one web of
sympathy and concern, by the incorpora
ton of the Golden Rule into the business
and social and economic conscience; in
word, by that Lord of which we read in
Corinthians this morning, which spurns
limitations and calls every man brother,
whatever his creed or country or calling
or condition; without which creed, be it
ever so orthodox, almsgiving, though
ever SO profuse, zeal even to martyrdom,
are nothing love, making men charita
BILE in their judgments, gentle in their
temper, forgiving in their dispositions,
generous in their sympathies and self
sacrificing for others good, which bears
burdens and shares reproach and weeps
with them that weep; love, free as air
gladdening as sunshine and the song OF
birds, and iull to overfiowiug as the ever
bubbllng fountain in the mountains
breast, which looketh not only on its
own things, but the things of Others
Second-Another peril is to be found in the
great problem of want and wealth. The million
aire and the tramp are compliments OF each
other. Two gentlemen died not long ago one more
recently than the other the one in Chicago, and
the other in New York They represented social
extremes. But they were equally enemies of the
Republic-Louis Lingg, the dynamiter, and ay
Gould, the stock broker and railroad magnate.
The classes from which we have most to fear are
the two extremes of sOciety-the dangerously rich
and the dangerously poor. Both apt to be
lawleSS. The great middle class majority must
make the laws and master their transgressors,
and the grand lesson We need 10 learn is that |
eaith Is not veal. that money ought not to be
the preoccLpa ion OF our citizens; that to grow
rich is not the first or even the second chief
concern of man.
Third. The Rum Fower is another perl-per |
haps the greatest organized evil OF our day and |
generation. With its drunkard panuiactory for |
every 10Y voters east OF the Mississippi, and its
drunkard factory for every 43 voters in the noun
tain States OF the West, with its 100000 halt out
lawed dealers and g lributors, and its thousand |
million dollars off ssted capital, it spreads over
and washes our laid like loathsome leprosy.
we cannot cut 1t out like cancer. We must |
tone up the moral stamina OF the whole body |
polite until the good among US and in shall |
assert itself and cast off the disease like Ieper
Gus garment The conscience of the nation must
be marshalled to make its laws. Let Christian
conscience rise in its strength and make and |
execute our laws, and the reign OF rum Will be
broken forever.
Fourth. Another source OF untold danger to
our institutions is to be found in the great masses
OF unassmilated foreign populations in our
midst they are coming to US at the rate |
nearly OF 1000 for every working day. Some OF
them not only add to the nations numbers, they
increase its joy. They are good acquisitions.
But most are goddess and immoral. They come
from places like Hamburg, where only one out OF
every 50 OF the people ever go to church: from
Berlin, where only two per cent are ever found in
the house OF God, and where no increase takes |
places in the number of the churches, though the |
city grows at the rate Of $4,000 year; from |
Bohemia, where persecution long ago put out the |
Lamp that should be enlightening the nation |
from Italy, whe re superstition has bred infidelity,
from Paris, with its CHASTITY gaiety, its atheism |
immortality, its suicide. They come from every
land where the Bible and Sabbath are unknown, |
to seek here the opportunities denied them at |
home. These people refuse to accept our ideas OF
submit to our system. Bred under military |
deSpotism they regard all governments with |
hatred. 1nev have no notion of the sacredness
ofindivdual rights, conception o! the be nefi |
cience of Individual endeavor in lreo air. They
have brought with them destructive theories |
wrought out in revolutionary concIaves in the |
beer cellars OF their naive la rds theories boz
ages of oppression and in the nature binding to |
the possibility OF liberty under law. 1ney look |
upon cove. nment and social order their |
enemy. So, landing on shores, they find in
the slums of our cities, places that seem ike |
home and with luei" beer their whiskey, tbe'r
i~reliSion and inhdeliy, they live as in tnejr
native lends on'g conscious of gre:te liberty o
follow toe be desires. They ae e9em'es to
sOciet' and CAV i.zEton. TheJ re u3e TO become
Anne 'IcL1, 9cCCpt Americ. II ideas or adapt them |
selves to Ametican ils.itrt ons. And. unortu
nately the pc we're ide9s OF these foleign theor
lists have been l. oplgated here in subtle forms,
ve-y Flu * to the ignorant or half educated
And so llOd.auds Of American workmeu have
been seduced into ecoep,a nee of tber notions.
The outlook is ce@ta NV not cheering when we
look u pom thoee va, masses OF hostile emigrants
in our great cities. 1t is not s. ange hat the
ha-anGue OF the athe. site Ana 'chist should be
puactuated By the murderous thunder Of the
dynGmiters bomb. Great Is the peril aIorg this
liac.
Filth. finally, nlme but one other
source Ut dauger, which has menaced US long but
which at this moment and just here, Is pressing
ltselt upon our al: emit oa-The danger to our
public SCHOOLS ON the disclosed design of the
Romtsh church TO CAIN pat of The school funds
Tor the maintenance Of her pa Ochfal schools. In
the last eight YEAS Rome has secured mo 9 tnan
two-th'rds oithe money approp ''atcd by ;heU. S.
government Tor Indian schools, and through her
powerful bureau for promoting Catholic Indian
schools, she is greedilv grrsping er mole. Now
we must have our eyes wide open against this
threatening dFp-e-. Ere"v patrio.ic citizen who
has he welIare OF the nation at heaS must resist
lhis exc oacbment. Ire divorce OF Church and
State is part OF our heritage, and we must main
tain it, Let the RoEani.t S;;TSS-- hs "a: echal
SSTI leach there his players and his c. :
cnis-u. Let other sec;s do tne same il they |
choose But neither he nor they may support
their schools rom the public crib, nor must they
endanger the public school. The idea is un
American We must keep our eye on Annapolis
and " a-hins ION. We should all use the utmost
of our influence to secure the adoption of Tue
proposed Sixt cen Anne ldment 10 the Federal
Con- titution, which would settle the question
forever
And now where may we look ,or the remedv?
Our means of reliefis politcll. We must 1sist
upon our American ideJs. Ciizer-o'p lie is
too cheap. 1t demands ordinary type o.
mental and moral manhood. To meet lis oblisa
lions Il man must have a good cons cience, Ia
honest heart, a sOundIy educated u1dersta qdipg.
a viii well-drlled in self oyeInment. We do not
put raz RS and revOIger5 in our chiIdren's hands