The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-02-17


the fact that years ago such collision
was reported in half dozen lines o
newspaper. if reported at all, and now
takes the whole side of newspaper t.
tell what TRANSFERRED between the frs
blood drawn by one loafer and the throw
ing up of the sponge by the other loafer
and it is not the newspapers fault, fol
the newspapers give only what the PEG
pie want, and when newspapers put cal
zion on your table it is because you pre-
fer carrion.
The same spirit of brutality is seen to-
lay in many an ecclesiastical court
when minister is put on trial. LooA
at the countenances of the prosecuting
ministers, and not in all cases, but IL
many cases, you will find nothing but
diabolism inspires them. They ret out
on one poor minister who cannot defend
himself the lion of ecclesiasticism, and
the tiger of bigotry, and the wild boar
of jealousy, and if they can get the Of
Tending minister fiat on . is back some
one puts his feet on the neck of the over
thrown gospelizer and looks up. spear in
hand, to see whether the galleries and
ecclesiastics would have him let up or
slain. And, loi many of the thumbs are
down.
ABUSED IN LIFE; HoNoRED IN DEATH.
In the worldly realms look at the bru-
talities of the presidential election eight
years ago. Read the biographies of Dan
lei Webster and Alexander HI. Stephens
and Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner
and Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
and James G. Blaine, and, if the story OF
defamation and calumny and scandaliza'
ton and diatribe and scurrility and lam
poon and billingsgate and damnable per-
tidy be accurately recorded, tell me In
what respects our political arena and the
bowling and disappearing galleries that
again and again look down upon it are
better than the Roman Coliseum.
When Tread few days ago that the su-
preme court of the United States had APP
propriately adjourned to pay honors to
the two last distinguished men men
toned, and American journalism north,
south, east and west went into lamenta-
lions over their departure and said all
complimentary things in regard to them,
asked: when did the nation lie about
these men? Was it when during their
life it gave them malediction or now
since their death when bestowing upon
them beatifcation?'
The same spirit Of cruelty that you de-
plore in the Roman Coliseum is seen in
the sharp appetite the world seems to
have for the downfall of good men, and
in the divorce of those whose marital life
was thought accordant, and in the alb
sconding Of bank cashier. Oh, my
friends, the world wants more of the
spirit of LET him up" and less of the
spirit of Thumbs DOWN. There are
hundreds of men in the prisons of Amer
lea who ought to be discharged, because
they were the victims of circumstances
or have suffered enough.
There are in all professions and occu-
pations men who are domincered over by
others, and whose whole life is struggle
with monstrous opposition, and circum-
stances have their heel upon the throb-
bing and broken hearts. For Cots sake,
let them up! Away with the 3tiTIt of
Thumbs DOWN. What the world wants
IS 1 200 men like Telemachus to leap out
If the gallery into the arena, whether he
be Roman Catholic monk, or a Methodist
steward, or a Presbyterian elder, and go
n between the contestants. BLESSED
Ire the peacemakers, for they shall be
,alled the children of Godr'
TRAIN THE CHILDREN RIGHT.
One-half the world is down and the
'ther half is up, and the half that is up
las it's heel ON the half that is down. If |
Tou, as a boss workman, or as a contract |
IT, or as a bishop, or as a state or ma
ional official, or as a potent factor in
ocial life, or in any way are expressing |
my one, know that the same devil that
the Roman Coliseum Expresses
-ou. The Diocletians are not all dead.
The cellars leading into the arena of
ife's struggle are not all emptied of their
igers. The vivisection by young doctors
# dogs and cats and birds most of the
ime adds nothing to human discovery,
nut is only continuation of Vespasian's
coliseum.
The cruelties of the world generally be-
in IN nurseries, and in home circles, and
q day schools. The child that transfxes
fly with pin, or the low feeling that
cts two dogs into combat, or that DULLES
weak or crippled playmate, or the in
Inference that starves a canary bird,
leeds only to be developed in order to
make first class Nero or full armed
Apollyon. 1t would be good sentence
o be written on the top line of a child's
'ook, and a fit inscription to be en-
in the armchair of the sitting
Dom, and an appropriate motto for
Judge and jury and district attorney ana
heriff to look at in the courthouse,
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
btain mercy~
And so the ruins of that Coliseum
reach to me. Indeed the most impress
We things on earth are ruins. The four
reatest structures ever built are in
uins. The Parthenon in ruins, the tenn
lie of Diana in ruins, the temple Of
Jerusalem in ruins, the Coliseum III
uins. Indeed the earth itself viii yet
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