Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-19
THE NATIONS POOR.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage Disco,rsas
on Poverty.
There Are Many Causes conspir,,r toK,
Wen POOR and They Are sation.,
- Well rs Individual to
Large Extent

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on the text: 'a'eN
Yc have the poor aiwava ,,t,h
XVI, II -
Who said that? The cbr;., ,,o
never owned anything during His
eai S1dy. iils cradle and His grave
were borrowed. Every fig lie ate was
from some one else's tree. Every drop
OF water lie drank was from some one
else well. 10 pay His personal tax,
Whieh was very small. only thirty-one
and one-quarter cents. He had tn ner
form miracle and make a fish nav IT,
All the heights and depths and Ieu1tbs
and breadths of poverty Christ meas
ured IN His earthly experience. and
When lie comes to speak Of destitntion
he always speaks sylnpathetcaIlv,
ana what lie said then is as true now:
nave the poor always with YOU"
Tor SIX thousand years the bread
question has been the active and abb
sorblng question Witness the people
croWdlng up to ,Joseph's storc-house in
Egypt. Witness the famine in samaria
and Jerusalem. Witness the seven
thousand hungry people for whom
christ multiplied the loaves. Witness
the amounted millions of people now
nvIng, who, ! believe, have never vet
had one full meal Of healthful and nu-
trltlous food in all their lives. Think
OF the three hundred and fifty-four
great famlnes in England Think Of
the twenty five million people under the
MOOT OF hunger year before last in Rus
STA The failure of the Nile to overflow
Tor the 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
emma Plague of grasshoppers in
America. Devastation wrought by
draught, by deluge, by frost, by war
by hurricane, by earthquake, by
comets lying too near the earth, by
change in the management of national
finances, baleful causes innumerable
! proceed to give you three or four
reasons why my text is markedly and
graphically true in this year 1894
The first reason we have always the
poo: with MS is because of the perpet-
ual overhauling Of the tariff question,
~ 90 ohdil coli IL Inc I3flIIlc con-
troversy. There is a need for such
word, and SO | take the responsibility
of manufacturing it. There are mil
lions OF people who are expecting that
the present congress of the United
States will do something one way or
the other to end this discussion But
it will never end When | was five
years of age | remember hearing my
father and his neigh bors in vehement
discussion of this very question. 1t
was high tariff or low tariff, or no tariff
at all. When your grandchild dies
at ninety years Of age it will prob
ably be from overexerton in discuss
ing the tariff On the day the world
Is destroyed there will he three men
standing on the post office steps-one
high tariff man, another DIV tariff
man and the third a free trade man
each one red in the face from excited
argument on this subject Other ques-
tions may get settled, the Mormon
question, the silver question: the pen
sion question, the civil-service queS-
ton. All questions Of annex ton may
come to peaceful settlement by the
annexation of islands two weeks
voyage away and the heat of
their volcanoes conveyed through
pipes under the sea. made useful in
warming our continent. or annexation
Of the moon, dethroning the Queen of
Night, who is said to bc dissolute, and
bringing the populations under the in
fuence of our free institutions; yea all
other institutions, national and in
tcrnational. may he settled. But this
taritfic question, never. It will not
only never be settled, but it can never |
be moderately quiet for more than
three years at a time. each party get
tin" into power taking one of the four
years to fix it up, and the next party
Will Tx it down.
Our finances can not get we'll because
G. too many doctors. 1t is with sick
nations as with sick individuals Here
is man terribly disordered as to his
body A doctor is called in and he ad
ministers a fcbrifuge spoonful every
hour. But recovery is postponed, and
the anxious friends call in another
doctor, and he says: what this pa
tient needs is blood-letting; now roll
up your sleeve" and the lancet flashes
But still recovery is postponed and
homeopathic doctor is called in and he
administers some small pellets. and
says "All the patient wants Is rest
Recovery still postponed, the family
says that small pellets can not amount
70 much anyhow. and an allopathic
doctor is called in and he say: What
this patient wants is calotnel and
jalap." Recovery still postponed, a
hydropathc doctor is called III, aud he
says What this patients wants is
hot and cold baths, and he must have
them right away, Turn on the faucet
and get ready the shower baths" Re
covery still postponed, an electric doe
tor is called in, and he brings all the
schools to bear upon the poor sufferer,
and the patient after brave struggle
for life. expires. What killed him?
Too many doctors. And that is what
is killing our national finances, My
peasonal friends, Cleveland and Harri-
son and Carlyle and Mckinley and
Sherman, as talented ana lovely ana
splendid men as walk the earth, all
good doctors, but their treatment of
our languishing finances is so differ
ent that neither treatment has a
full opportunity, and under the
constant changes it is simply
wonderful that the nation still
lives The tariff question will
never be settled because of the fact,
which have never heard anyone rec
ounize hut neyerthele the fact that