The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-12-07

right 70 live includes q right to
breathe the free air of heaven, a right
to basque IN the glorious sunlight and
roll on the grass, a right to drink pure
water and eat good food, a right to so
much Of the soil of mother earth as
will give subsistence, furnish employ
ment and make a home. These are
charter rights, ell monopolists to the
contrary notwithstanding. These
rights are God-given and God-guaFan-
teed; and woe to the nation and woe to
the people that attempts to ALLEVIATE
these rights, OF allow them to be Wrest-
cd either by force or forms Of Law from
their righteous owners.
Bnt there was later dispensation-
the Mosaic. What did God intend for
his chosen people? What was His in
Propositions in their behalf? What was
the code of morals and what the statute
law of that ideal commonwealth?
He intended to. develop superb, a
superior race; and He did so. For
as much as men may effect to dispise
the Jew, even in this they show the
envy Of their superb physique, their
masterful intelligence and amazing
penetration.
Fhink of a Joseph and Moses in
Egypt Think of Daniel, Ezra and
Neamiah in Babylon and Persia! Think
of Beaconsfeld and the house of Roth
cbildsI Think of David and Solomonl
Think of Paul and Christ! No race
has produced greater men; none that
have touched the world more for veal
and less for woe, barring the Rothchilds.
And in comparison we may say, "What
advantage hath the Jew?" Much every
wayl
Whence came this "kingdom Of
priests" these incompatible prophets,
these extatic poets, these warriors,
these statesmen, these financiers, these
lawyers and moralists? They gradua-
ted in a hard school; in opulence and
poverty; in kingship and captivity.
We find him the Isralite) first in d
wealthy and powerful sheik- Abraham
-"the friend of God" We find him
next in a race of slaves, building Egyp-
tian pyramids and apprenticed in all
the arts of that great civilization; but
seemingly cowed and broken in spirit.
But they we're in the university of
divine providence; they we're under
"the schcolmaster" as we'll as the "task-
master" preparatory to diploma of
graduation into nationality. There was
a divine interposition; there was a
lsader-Moses.
He leaves JethrO's sheep in the will
derness to lead a more numerous, a
more glorious flock-"the people of
God" Shackles are broken and des-
potism is rebuked and scourged. It
was a glorious exodus; and the follow
ing of a divine lead-Moses and the
cloud Mountains shut them in but
seas part before them, while in trium-
plant amaze they witness the drown
ing of the last martial array of their
oppressors and their foes.
On which side was God in this strike,
this labor trouble, this serviIe insur-
rection? Watch closeI You will al
ways find him there. They come to
Sinai, the great law university, and
take a course in 'the eternal equities"
the equities toward God, and the equi-
ties toward all mankind. Our text is
the equity on the human side, "Thou
Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyselt"
This is the spirit of the law, the soul of
the decalogue
Here is some common law, OF the IN
folding the precipts of the second
table:
"He that stealeth a man and selleth
him, or if he be found in his hands,
shall be surely put to death"
"Ye shall do no .unrighteousness in
judgment, in mete-yard, in weight or in
measure"
"Just balances, just weights, a just
ephah, just hin shall We have. am
the Lord your God which brought you
out of the land of Egypt"
IF thou at all take thy neighbors
raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it
unto him by that the sun goeth down"
'Thou shalt not defra1d thy neigh
Dor, neither rob him, the wages Of him
that is hired shall not abide with the
all night until the morning"
I"Thou shalt not muzzle the OK that
treadeth out the corn"
''Thou shall not pillow with an OK and
an ass together"
Thou shalt not seeth the kid in its
mothers milk
G "Thou shalt not kill the dam and its
young in the same day"
"Thou shalt not take the dam with
the young" birds nests
Oh, what a law! Equity, humanity,
pity; even down to the brute creation
and the least of Gods creatures. Study
that law. You viii find it forbidding