Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-13

Was reported IN q half dozen lines OF
newspaper, if reported at all, and now it
takes the whole side of a newspaper to
tel what transpired between the first
!bloed drawn by one loafr and the throw
inc. up Of the sponge by the other loafor,
and it is not ito newspapers fault, for
the newspapers give only what the peo-
pie want, and when newspapers put cal
riala on your table it Is because you pre-
fer. caTrion.
The same spirit of brutality is seen to-
.t,ay in many an ecclesiastical court
wien minister is Put On trial. Look
at t1.e countenances of tie prosecuting
ministers, and not in all cases, but in
many cases, you will find nothing but
d;a0olism inspires them. They let out
on one POOR minister who cannot defend
himself the lion Of ccclesiasticism, 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
ene 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 OF
slain. And, 10! many of the thumbs are
down.
ABUSED IN LIFE; HoNoRED IN DEATH.
In the worldly realms look at the bru-
,taities of the presidential election eight
years ago. Read the biographies of Dan
.iel Webster and Alexander Fl. 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
pooh and billingsgate and damnable per-
fdy be accurately recorded, tell me IL.
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 read a few days ago that the su-
preme court of the United States had APP
propriately adjourned to pay honors to
the two last disting uisned men men
toned, and American jNlrnalism north,
south, east and west went into lamenta-
tions over their departure and said all
complimentary things in regard to them,
.Iasked: ''When did the nation lie about
these men? Was it when during their
life 1t gave them malcdiction 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 i'll
the sharp appetite the world seems Ia
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 u 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
CT have suffered enough.
There are in all professions and occu-
pations men who are domineered over by
others, and whose whole life is a struggle
with monstrous opposition, and circum-
stances have their heel upon the throb-
bling and broken hearts. For Gods sake,
let them up! Away with the spirit of
Thumbs DOWN. What the world wants
is l 600 men like Telemachus to leap out
of the gallery into the arena, whether he
bea Roman Catholic monk, or Methodist
steward, or a Presbyterian elder, and so
in between the contestants. BLESSED
are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of Godr'
TRAIN THE CE1LD1LN RIGHT.
One-nalf the world is down and the
other half is up, and the half that is up
has its heel on the half that is down. II
you, as q boss workman, or as contract
or, or as "a bishop, CT as q state or I,-
t.onal official. or as Il potent factor IL
social life, on IL any way are depressing
any one, know that the same devil that
possessed the Roman Coliseum Expresses
you. The Diocletians are not all dead.
The cellars leading into the arena OF
life's struggle are not all emptied of their
tigers. The vivisection by young doctors
of dogs and cats and birds most of the
time adds nothing to human discovery,
but is only a continuation of Vespasians
Coliseum.
The cruelties. of the world generally be
Gin III nurseries, and in home circles, and
in day schools. The child that trans61es
q fly with pin, or the low feeling that
sets two dogs into combat, or that bullies
a weak or Crippled playmate, or the in
difference that starves a canary bird,
needs only TO be developed i'll order to
make q first class Nero or full armed
Apollyon. It would be q good sentence
to be written on the top line of a child's
book, and fit inscription to be en-
broidered in the armchair of the sitting
room, and an appropriate motto for
judge and jury and district attorney and
sheriff to look at in the courthouse.
BLESSED are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy'
And SO the ruins of that Coliseum
preach to me. Indeed the most impress
i've things on earth are ruins. The four
greatest structures ever built are in
ruins. The Parthenon in ruins, the tenn
pie Of Diana in ruins, the temple of
Jerusalem N ruins, the Coliseum in
ruins. Indeed the earth itself will yet
be pile Of ruins, the mountains in ruins,
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