The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-15
Gilead, Ind, Feb. Is, 1898.
FROM "cALIco BILL"
oUITNOP"

Unless There Is a Change the Government
VIII BE Apt to Fail.
DEAR II. L. @. FRIENDs-I see that my
position has been assailed by the brilliant
intellect of Evening Star
My good sister, come and let US discuss
this question and see whether the present
indication does denote the downfall OF our
government or not. see on one side the
struggle for existence, sharp and constant,
while on the other is another class IN
dreamy inactiveness, revealing in opu-
lence the product of other meme toll.
When we see humanity with her JOYS and
sOrrows. leisure and labor, high and low.
rich and poor. we are pursuaded that
something Is wrong.
Go to the abode OF our day laborers and
see how they live. Our hearts bleed in
profoundest sympathy. The lowering
wind sweeps through their humble
domicile, chilling their half clad per-
sons TO the bone. The wife gathers
her little brood about the smouldering
Goals and clasps the youngest To- her
maternal bosom in vain endesvor 10
keep il warm The wolf raves Just outside
the door only waiting slight misbaD
when he springs into the home, snatchiug
the child from the mothers arms and
driving the rest into the cold, desolate
streets.
The poor must struggle hard TO prolong
their existence, and in their lowly novels
while near by rises the mansion OF the
wealthy. Towering walls rear their
lofty and inspiring spires. The walls
are festoOned with vRTiegRted cOlors,
the windows are curtaine5 with finest fab
RIGS and the floor carpeted with imported
brussels. upon which the foots eps fall as
lightly as on the untrodden snow. The
millionaire reveis in his ill-gotten gain
while less fortunate plies his hammer and
and trowel So long as we court the favor
of the wealthy we are tending 10 buld
caste, with rich upon one side and the
Door upon the other, that has Character
lied and preceded the fai of every an
cient government under whose ruins Wa
still find the mangled corpse OF the mil
lionaire ard still hear the clank OF the
chains OF vsssalage.
tell You II We expect 10 be happy we
must place our loot on the neck OF in u.s.
tice and crush il in IT'S infancy, for the
youth today must bear the burden IN the
future. Shall they be slaves or shall they
be freemen? We have q great and spa
ciOus country. The hills OF New HAmp-
shire and Vermont constructed OF granite,
the keystone state imbsdded with an in
exhaustible bed of coal and subteTranesn
currents of oil. a central part yielding
abundant agriculture products the Rock
les sg,ow with precious metal. a western
coast with abundant fruit, and vet with
all this the thinly clad dies cold and the
hungry cries for bread; the churches
resr their huge form OF brick
and mortar and lofty church
spires pierce the sky, while within a few
feet OF her sacred shrine the wait Crouches
for shelter meath her walls and dies OF
cold. DO not understand that l speak
desparingy of churches, but | do think
there are men who bow their head to
tn -ir God aud give their costly gifts TO be
seen by men who would not raise finger
in behalf of the hungry. but stand mex
orable to the shivering world. Through
the stone paved streets the outcasts wan
der and beg for bread IN the shadow OF
CO leges. Masses grow up ignorant and
vicious since the struggle for existence is
90 sharp and constant that the children
must at tender age enter the workshops
to keep the wolf from the door.
Where poverty enters hope retres. whore
hope retires inIQuIty enters and where
crime ensues. Before long the unfortunate
victim of depressions reefs and sways
along the streets or sleeps In a felon's
cell, while the unreseryed tears OF the
wife flow in silent anguish.
Such conditions the God Of our universe
never intended should be. Ii there Is
not a change made soon our government
IL sure TO meet with the same fate as the
governments of Rome and Greece. Was
not the king OF Babylon with oil his mag
4 D,
bv the great omn.pitent God. for it is
written that vengeance is mine and ven
geance will | pay What is the cause of
all this misery and distress?
see my article is getting very lengthy
so | will have to desist Tor the present 1
would like to hear some OF the older mem
bers' opinion on this subject.
calico BILL"
Feb. 8.