The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-08

.near in hand, TO see whether the gal
,s,;e. and ecclesiastics would have MN
I.t mn or slain. And, 10! many Oh the
thumbs are down. u.i
In the worldly realms look AT .ne
brutalities of the presidential eiec.ion
eight years ago. Read the oiogra ph,us
~ Daniel Webster and Alexander d.
stevens and Horace Greeley and Charles
Sumner and Lucius Quintius Lamar
and James G. Blaine, and it the story
of defamat ton and calumny and scan
.dal;zation and diatribe and scurrinty
and lampoon and billingsgate ana
damnable perfidy be accurately re-
corded. tell me in what respects our
nol;tical arena and the bowling ana
hlasnbeminp galleries that again ana
again look down upon IL are Uesso
than the Roman Colosseum. Wnen
read few days ago that the supreme
court of the United States had appro
priatelv adjourned to pay honors 10
the two last distinguished men men
toned. and American Journalism,
north. south. east and west, went
into lamentations over their oe-
narture and said all complimentary
/ things in regard to them, l ASKED
when did the nation lie about these
menp Was it when, during their life,
n rave them malediction, or now,
since their death, when bestowlng
unon them qualification. The same
spirit of cruelty that you depiore IN
the Roman Colosseum is seen IN the
sharp appetite the world seems TO nave
for the downfall of good men, and In
the divorce of those whose marital lie
was Thought accordant, and in the alb
sounding of bank cashier. Oh, my
friends. the world wants more OF the
shirt of s'Let-him up" and less OF the
sn;r;t of .'Thumbs down." There are
; hundreds of men in the prisons OF
America who ought to be discharged,
, because they were the victims OF cir
3 cumstances or have suffered enough.
3 Tbere are in all professions and occupa-
tons men who are domineered over Dy
a others and whose whole life is struggle
q with monstrous opposition, and clrcum-
e stances have their heel upon the throb-
It hing and broken hearts. For God
i sake. let them up! Away with the
e sn;rit of Thumbs down. What the
e world wants is thousand men like
s Telemachus to leap out of the gallery
e into the arena, whether he be Roman
Catholic monk or a Methodist steward
a OF a Presbyterian elder, and go in De
le tween the contestants. blessed arr
10 the peaccmalers, for they shall b'
TX called the children of God.
in One-half the world is down and tn
N y, other half is up, and the half that
u, ND has its heel on the half than is oo"n
I'LL If YOU. as a boss workman, or as a con
70 tractor, or as bishop, or as state Q
'e. national official, or as potent facto
re in social life, or in any way, are OF
ed messing anyone, know that the sam
N. devil that possessed the Roma
We Colosseum Expresses you The Di'
let cletians are not all dead. The &c
'rt lars leading into the arena OF lie
ne struggle are not all emptied OF the
ed tigers. The vivisection by young DO
be tors of dogs and cats and birds most
OF the time adds nothing to human III
covery, but is only continuation
no. Vesnasian,s Colosseum. The cruelti
lge of the world generally begin IN nu
os- series and in home circles, and IN d'
full schools. The child that trantixes
ern with a pin, or the low fleeing that Sc
uld two dogs into combat, or that bullies
i've weak or crippled playmate, or the
AXE difference that serves canary oil
'ees needs only to be developed in order
Ige, make a first-class Nero or full arm
les, Apollvon. Itwould bea good senter
Ind to be written on the top line OF cnii
/, on book. and a fit inscription to be e
hips broidered in the armchair OF the sittl
sea room. and an appropriate motto
fun! nudge and Jury and district attorr
APP and sheriff to look at in the court roc
n ..Rlessed are the merciful for Il
peo- shall obtain mercy"
phi And SO the ruins of that Coiiosse
IS to preach to me- Indeed, the most
be nressiye things on earth are ruins.
avs four greatest structures ever built
ruins. The Parthenon in ruins.
By temnle of Diana in ruins. The tenn
ncy? of Jerusalem in ruins The Collosse
has in ruins Indeed, the earth itself
that vet he a pile of ruins; the MOI
nity, aims in ruins, the seas in ruins,
that cities in ruins, the hemispheres IN ru
One Yea. further than that, all up
man down the heavens are worlds Dui
one up. worlds wrecked, worlds exit
ecta- worlds abandoned. Worlds on VIC
two in ruins! But am glad to say 1t Il
and same old Heaven, and in all'that "
static there is not one ruin, and never WI
, was a ruin. Not one of the pearly
t he will ever become unhinged. Not
arena of the amethystine towers will
men, fall. Not one OF the mansions !" -
n the decay. Not one OF the cnarioos
ntest ever be unwheeled. NOT one "
onted thrones will ever rock oown'
they make sure of Heaven LOT IL Is an
achus lasting Heaven. through ohrie'
But Lord. get ready for residence IL