Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-01-12

Who sAid that The Christ who meyer
owned anything during His earthly STAY HIS
cradle and His grave werr borrowed. Every
flg He ate was from som" one else tr'".
Every drop Of winter VI" drank was from
some one else's we'll. 10 paw His prrsnul
tax, which was very small. only 81 cents
He had to perform miracle anl max"
fish paw It. All tho heights aud depths aud
lengths and breadths Of poverty Christ meas
ured in His earthly experience and when
He comes to speak of restitution IT, 1lwy,
speaks sympatheticallv AMI what II" sUid
then is as true now-'le have tn" poor al
wavs with YOU
For COCO years the bread question has lrcu
the active and absorbing question. Witness
the people crowding up to Joseph's store
house in Egypt. Witness the iam'n" in 81
maria and Jerusalem. Witness the 1000 hun
cry people for whom Christ multiplied the
loaves. Witness the uncouuted millions or
people now living. who, | believe. hav"
never vet had one full meal Of healthtul and
nutritious food in all their lives. Think Of
tho 354 great fnmines in England. Think OF
the $4,000, 600 people under the hoof Of
hunger year before last in Russia. The fail
ure Of the Nile to overflow for seven years
in the eleventh century left those regions
depopulated. Plague of insects In England.
Plague OF rats In Madras Presidency. Plague
Of mice in Essex Plague Of locusts in China.
Plague OF grasshoppers in America. Devas-
tation wrought by drought. by delugc. by
frost. by war, by hurricane, by earthquake,
by comets flvinc too near the earth, by change
in the management OF National finances,
by halcful causes innumerahle. | pro-
coed TO give you three or four reasons why
my text Is markedly and graphically true in
this wear 1894
The first reason we have always the poor
with us is because Of the perpetual overhaul
ing of tine tariff question. or. rs | shall call
| it, tho tarifflc controversy. There is Il noe |
| for such word. and 80 | take tho RESPONSE
| hility OF manufacturing II. There are millions
of people who ara expecting that the present
Congress Of the United States will do some
thing one way or the other to end this dis.
| cusson, hut 1t will never end. When
! | was five years Of age, | rem"m'
| Der hearing my father AMI his neigh
! hors in vehement discussion OF this very
! question. 1t was high tariff or low tariff or
! no tarifl Mt all. When Your great -grandchild
| dies nj n netv years of age, 1t will probably
| he from over-ev"rtiOn in discussing the
tarfr. On the day the world is destroyed,
! there will be- thre" men standing onthc post
! office stepS-Ono a high tarf man,
another n low tariff man and the other a
! free trade man-earh ono red in the face
from excited argument on this sub
| jet. Other questions may get Quoted, thu
! Mormon question, the silver question, the
| pension question. the civil service question.
All questions OF annexation NAV come &c
neareful settlement hy thc annexation Of isl.
| ands two weeks VOYAGE AWAY AMI the heat
of their volcanoes conveyed through pipp.
| under the aea made useful in warming OuI
| continent. or annexation Of the moon, de-
! throning the queen of night, who ia said tc
be dissoute. and bringing the lunar popuia-
lions undrr the influence of our free inItitu.
lions; yea. all other questions, National and
international, NAV be settled, but this tram,
uucs,ion never. II will not only never IL,
settled hut II cun never be moderately auic,
for moro than thrpe ycars Mt n time racl
marty getting into mower taking one OF TN,
four wears 10 fix il IN. and then tho mex,
marty will fix II down. Our finances cannot
get well because OF too many doctors. Ii i.
with sick Nations as with sick individuals
Here il "A man terribly disordrrcl rs To hi,
body 4 doctor is called in. ami he admin
listers a febrifuye a spoonful every hour
Rnt racoverv is nostnonpd md the nnyiOu,
friends r1l in another doctor and he SAYS
s.Whnt this natient needs is blood LETTING
now roll nm vour aleever' and thn ian .r
flashes Eut still recovery is postuonaI an,
n HOMEOPATHIC doctor il called in. and h
administers sotue ANAL nelle,e ana says
"All,the patient wants is rest"
Recovery still nostponrd tho family "A,
Tint such small nnIlnts cannot amount Il
murb anyhow and an nllonathin doctor /
called in and he saws .Whnt this pntirn
wants is calomrl AMI iniap." Recovery still
Dostponrd. n hy,lropnthic doctor is called in
and he saws: What this patient wants i
hot and cold baths. and he must have then
right away. Turn on the faucet and gr
ready TOR the shower baths, Recovery !
still postponed. an electric doctor Is callr,
in. and he brings all the schools to hra
upon the moor sufferer and the. patient. nftc
n brave struggle for life cXpiras VIVA
killed him? Too many doctors. And tina
Ia what is killing orr National finances NJ
nersonal friends Cleveland aud IIarriso
and Carlisle and Mckinley and sherman, a
talented and lovely and ~plendid men a
walk the earth. all GOOD doctors bur thri
treatment of orr Ianruishinp finances is :
different TINT neither treatment has n full or
portunitv. and under the constant changes
Is simply wonderful that the Nation SIT
lives. The thrift question will never bc sri
tied because of the fact-whirh have nrvr
heard any ono recognize. but naverthclc-
the fact-that high tariff is best for som
people and free trade is hest for others. Thi
tarIffc controversy keeps business struc
through with uncertainty, and that uncel
talnty results in poverty and wretchedne,
for vast multitude OF people. 1.-THE eterni
CAB on this question could have be IN fasl
toned into loaves OF bread thore would Nc
be u hungry man or woman or child on a
the planet To the end OF time the worc
OF the text will be kept true by the tariff
CONFERENCE.-THE have the poor always wit
YOU"
Another cause OF perpetual poverty il III
cause alcoholic The victim does not La
long. He soon crouches into the drunkarl
grave. But what about his wife and chi
dren? She takes I'm washing. when she CA
get it. or goes out working on small wages
because sorrow and privation have left he
incapacitated TO do a strong wohan's Wort
The children are thin blooded and gaur
: and pale and weak. standing around in col
rooms. or pitching pennies on the street CO..
ner, and munchlng a slice OF unbuttere
bread when they can get it, sworn at by pas
ersby because they do not get out OF tn
way. kicked onward toward manhood c
womanhood, for which they have no prep