The herald., 1894-04-15
MANS COLUMN.
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Equite another to face duty. The one is
bewitching. snticing, conducive to inn
mediate happiness. The other, as . rule,
ugly, repulsive. and often only q begin
S'ner OF happipess after many daya-it
may be only when we lay us down to our
last sleep. Both are to be faced, oil
course. For both are great, uplifting
forces In the evolution OF highest,
noblest manhood; of purest, truest
/ womsnhood. Probably of all nations
who have played or are still playing
their parts on our little ball that OF the
Greek has most steadily faced beauty,
while England expects every man to do
his duty. All, those Greeksl with their
perfect bodies, their keen, nimble,
highly polished minds, their beautiful,
expressive language, exquisite art, SUBJ
lime oratory. highly finished dra-
matte works; with their verse
which is poetry; their architecture,
| the remains of which are still the admir-
ation of the world with their sculpture
so marvelously perfect that today We
thrill with pleasuEable feelings do We
| but so much as behold q mutilated
specimen of it, and afl embosomed by
nature in her most beauty-loving mood.
De you wonder that Byron should fling
himself on her cold breast If perchancs
he might by his untSmable ardor rouse
her to new life, that supreme mistress
Of beautyP But alas, alas, real Greece
is no more. Turn now for q moment to
rude, inconGrueus, dominssrinS, greedy
England. 1t 10 9 common saying that
she 10 made up Of the mud OF all ma
tions. The bit OF earth and sky which
is hers by birthright is az intractable
as she herself. At immense expense
has she reclaimed the best part of her
land while her climate still remains to
be overhsuled and, il possible. reclaimed
from oankerinR fog. Yet this England,
go ugly, so oross-grained. SO stupid in q
good many ways. 10 the foremost nation
OF the world, mistress Of the seas, whose
lightest world is felt to the four corners
of the earth, and why? because she ex-
poets every man to do his duty.
To drop from the great to the compRr-
atively small as yet, to South California,
1t is impossible not to foresee that the
leading tendency OF sncient Greece will
be ours. Consider our soil, which
brings forth so abundantly such beauti-
AuAs AunCAO0c Out
ing atmosphere; our wonderful, divers
ifed scenery, with old ocean a-winking
on one aide and the bsckoning, grand
mountains, robed in purple and fine
linen, on the other. Is it any wonder
that hardly one day in seven can be
given to the worship of the unseen, real
Beauty? or that. though overrun with
ugly, ragged, pallid unemployed, we can
scarce give them 90 much as a dutiful
thought? hardly more that q curse?
All, yes, it is so easy to worship
beauty, SO difficult to sternly face ugly
duty Such WAS our thought az we sat |
among the multitude, watching in |
dreamy delight one beautiful float after
another wend its way along the thorough
fares of the City of the Angels; all
preachers OF beauty-even the music
but gladly voiced the beauty of the
hour.
But when all was over and the faces
OF the multitude lost their transient !
it was easy to see that |
many OF than soon oversqreed. with the |
care and anxiety born OF these trouoIous !
times it was easy to guess that ugly
duty now demanded our euffrsges, our
most strenuous thought, our best con-
certed action.
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Men, money and morals are now on
trial at the capital of cur nation. Never
since the great Sickles scandal has there !
been so much prominence to public men
of congress. Sickles made summary
work of the seducer, and public opinion |
him. Had Madeline Pollard |
had father, grown brother or husband, !
perhaps she, too, might have been saved |
the long and weary years OF copartner-
ship with the great Statesman, Kentucky |
colonel and gentleman, the religious in
structor of seminary girls. What will |
the people do with it? The character OF |
such a man for years representing this |
ia not to be settled by a
Jury, though composed of his peers, nor
can it be Grated by the eloquent Colonel
acrobstic somersaults and |
handsprings at court pleadings from
the conscience of the American people |
who trusted him. The people, yes,
the common people are weighing him in
the balance and finding him wanting,
and should he go scot free this congress
will become famous for demonetizing |
silver and demoraiizing men. Had tn
condition of these two litigAnts been
alike or,in anyway correlated previous to |
Miss Pollard's asking advice, we might |
conclude there had been a method in
her madness, but as all the testimony
now in, it stands: Position, age and
strength against youth, ambition and
weakness. Our nation is suffering from
great nervous strain, stagnation in
business from the great drains on the
body politic and social system, tariff de-
bate and Pollard breckenridge reform.
Why don't the representatives. repre-
sent? A republic is defined in our
text books ae a government that elects
its representatives, who make the laws
for the good ol the whole people. What
kind Of sophists will our children grow
if they read the papers concerning the
inner workings OF congress?
something can be done IN the way
OF building trsnscontinental boulevard,
and why not? Have we not already
roads from cocst to coast? but
they are railroads and belong to high
protective syndlcstes and the poor toiier
or non-toiler cannot afford to travel
that way. But these broad boulevards
would set 30 many of the people
to work and would belong to them, and
on them they could tramp. tramp,
tramp, till Mckinley Bill and protective
filibustering in congress bad been sent
to where McGinty went. High protec-
ton has always had local interest,
and, like high living, it kills the people
sooner or later.
"A prophet is not without honor save
in his own country" is usually true