Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-14

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the fact that years ago such collision
was reported IA n holt dozen hhcs of
newspaper. " reported ut MI. and now "
takes the whole side ~ newspaper to
toll what trauspitcd between ihc first
blood drawn by one loafer and the throw
ing up " the sponge by the other loafcr.
and 1t Is not the newspapers fault, for
the newspapers give only what the reo-
pie want and WHOM newspapers put car.
rion on your table II is because you pre-
fer carriou.
The Same spirit of brutality is seen TO-
day in many an ecclesiastical court
when n minister is put on trial. Look
at the countenances Of the prosecuting
ministers. and not in oil cases. but in
many cases. you will find nothing bat
diabolism inspires them. They let ont
on one poor minister who cannot defend
himself the lion Of ecclcsiasticism, and
the tiger Of bigotry and the wild boar
Of jealousy, and If they can get the Of
Tending minister Fat on is back somo
one puts his feet ON the neck of the over
thrown gospelizer and looks up. spear in
hand, to sec whether the galleries and
ecclesiastics would have him let up or
slain. And, lol many Of the thumbs are
down.
ABUSED IN LIFE; HoNoRED IN DEATH.
In the worldly realms look ut the bru-
talities of the presidential election eight
years ago. Read the biographies of Dan
iel Webster and Alexander II. Stephens
and Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner
and Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
and James G.. Blaine, and if the story O.
defamation and calumny and scandaliza
ton and diatribe and scurrility and lam
poon and billingsgate and damnable per-
fidy 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 few days ago chat the su-
preme court of the United States had APP
propliately adjourned to pay honors to
the two last distinguished men men,
toned, and American journalism 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 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 tie world seems 20
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
ica 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 domineered 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. Fer Gods sake,
let them up! Away with the spirit of
Thumbs DOWN. What the world wants
is 600 men like Tolemachus to leap out
of the gallery into the arena, whether he
be Roman Catholic monk, or a Methodist
steward, or Presbyterian elder, and go
in between the contestants. BLESSED
are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of Godp
TRAIN THE CHILDREN RIGHT.
One-half 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 boss workman, or as a contract
or, or as bishop, or as state or ma
tional official, or as a potent factor in
social life, or in any way are expressing
any one, know that the same devil that
possessed the Roman Coliseum oppresses
you. The Diocletians are not all dead.
The cellars leading into the arena Of
life's struggle are not ell 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 continuation Of Vespasian's 8
Coliseum.
The cruelties of the world generally be-
gin in nurseries, and in home circles, and
In day schools. The child that transfixes
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 canary bird,
needs only to be developed in order to
make first class Nero or a full armed
Apollyon. 1t would be 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
Je,usalem i'm ruins the Coliseum in