The Progress., 1893-12-16

do whisper the horrible rumor that
folks say he is related by blood to "A mon
key! Whereupon society" Is shocked
and calls for smelling salts AMI 'ea for
400.
FAITH AND PROGRESS.
Now, faith in man is the secret of all
human progress.
For this reason the philosopher thinks;
for this reason the scientist tolls, tine
philanthropist sacrifices, and the inventor
never despairs.
Sweep from the human soul this sub,
lime thought, and civilization is dead.
1t is this faith that has sailed unknown
seas. opened the forests, tunneled the
mountains and brought to tbs whole
world the inspiring conception of its
unity and brotherhood. The poorest in
vestment any man ever made is infidel-
ity-especially in man and of man. No
investment pays such returns as faith
especially in man, the image of God.
And no man can have faith in God who
has no faith in man.
read the other day a strange story of
gulch near Shasta City, Cal. The writer
said that it is a deep ravine, with rocks
showing all the way up the sides. Gold
i'll paying quantities had been found
along the stream, but it seemed to disaD-
pear "A few feet from the channel One
day, while gang of men We're toiling III
the stream, stranger, evidently igno-
rant of mining. came along and leaned
on his ragged elbows to watch the results
of their labor.
The miner near him took out s. mug
get, and anxiety overcame the ignorant
stranger.
Say" he asked. "where can go TO
diggin to find it like that?'
The hardy miner stopped his work,
and giving the wink to all the boys, so
that the joke should not be lost, pointed
up to the barren rocks, where no gold
had ever been found
you see that rough lookin placer"
YES" said the new hand.
"Well, thar it is rich. Jes' YOU stake
ont a claim an go to work, an when we
finish here We'll come up too"
The new hand thanked the miner, and
the boys all grinned their appreciation
of the joke. That afternoon solitary
figure was seen picking on the rocky
hillside, and every time the miners
looked up they roared with laughter.
But the next day the new miner struck
a pocket and took out several thousands
of dollars in gold. Then he came and
thanked the miner who had sent him IN
there, and went down into the valley
and bought farm, while the other min
ers dotted that same rocky hillside for
days without finding a pocket They
agreed that it was joke, but not ex-
actly of the kind they had intended.
SO society lifts its nose in supercil-
ious surprise at the simplicity of bound
less faith in man, and would roar with
laughter at those who toll for that faith
were not roaring vulgar" Born of
this measureless faith in man was the
uniform good nature and kindliness that
beamed on the faces of the hungry mil
lions that crowded those palaces and
beautiful grounds.
NOWHERE AN ANGRY, sCOwIING FACE.
Everywhere good nature and fraternal
kindness! Who that saw it will ever
forget that crowd of ioy-lit human faces.
No drunken revelry! No envious glances!
No standing on privileges! Fraternity!
Humanity Verify, society" was not
therel
Third-The common people are hu-
manity. By the common people | mean
the aggregate, inclusive of the two great
classes continental writers would desig-
nate as bourgeois and proletariat. In
America there is. strictly speaking. no
middle clas7 as distinguished by hostile
ideals from the working class. The mid
die class people with us are working
people, and they are identified in the
main with the working people in life and
aims and hopes. Human progress is
bound up in the common people. Prog |
ress that is not in them and of them is
not progress. The little cliques of peo-
pie that form themselves into petty un-
social mobs apart from the common peo-
pie may be grouped as intellectual and
spiritual paupers, and with other feeble |
folk cared for by the state may be left |