Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-04-12

ne sang caruogue anu study WIN y0n |
zensstt and Bierstadt and Church and
Moran. Nothing more elevating than good
pictures.
Where are you goingf 'Well, you say,
Il am going up TO the Young Mems Chris
;ian association rooms" Good You viii
Ind there gymnastics to strengthen the
muscles, and books to improve the mind,
md Christian influence to save the soul.
| wish every city in the United States had
as fine palace for its Young Mems Chris
tian association as New York has. Where
Are you golngf "Well," you say, ST am
going to take q long walk up Broadway,
and SO turn around into the Bowery. II
Am going to study human life" Good
A walk through Broadway at s o'clock
At night is interesting, educating, fasci-
mating appalling, exhilarating to the last
degree Stop In front of that theater and
see who goes In. Stop at that saloon and
see who comes out See the great tides OF
Life surging backward and forward and
beating against the marble Of the curb
stone and eddying down into the saloons
What Is that mark on the face Of that deb
sucheef It is the hectic flush Of eternal
death. What Is that woman's laughteri
It Is the shrek Of lost soul.
Who Is that Christian man going along
with vial Of anodyne 70 the dying pauper
on Elm stroeti Who Is that belated man
on tho way TO . prayer meetingf Who is
that city missionary going to take box
In which to bury q childf Who are all
these clustszs of triRht and beautiful facssf
They are going 30 some interesting place
of amusarnent. Who IA that man eotrQ
into the drug storeP That Ia the man who
lost all his fortune on Wall
street. He Ia goinR in for a dose of bella
donna and before morning it will make
no difference to him whether stocks are
up or down. tell you that Broadway,
between and IL O'Clock at night, between
the Battery and Central park, Is an Aus
terlitz. n gettysburg. Waterloo, where
Kingdoms are lost or won. and three worlds
minrle In the strife.
svprSa rup .yu,fa
Imao+ .ro+hor coroinr, do,vn ~, tho bo.
.oi stors and saw my4bars aro Won e,o.
ingSn Won saw If am going with a ner.
ohe,,+ "a Nerr vort rybo bas nro,,ised N
| sho-y mo tbe pnderoronnd life og the citv
T a,,, b;s Ma c,,sto,ner and he "a go,no to obIisa
NC ,,orv ,,1,ch - StonI A h,,s,rasa bonsa
that t-,oo - oct or teer vnnr cnston,
tbro,@h sucb nrocass 40 that ia not vor.
thy ~ vo, Tbero ora b,,s,ra.z aatahIisb-
r,cyt. n o,r citias which have for vaars
haen sending to destruction hundreds and
thonsands o9 ,,,ercbont. Tbav have a se-
c,st c,,... JraSSor an tha co,,nter yhe-a money
= La,,+ and +ho cla,ir o,oos o,,d oets q 1vben
~ s,laTts to taka those vis,tors 40 tho citv
th,.,,,r.h - +ha 1o-r ~ .I,,,,s ~ tba n,aee
Sha11 roant,on the ranras ~ sorns of
.tasa rrra,+ oo,,,n,arc,oI ostabIishmentsS 7
49, 49, tba,,, ~, NV l,ns shall ~ Perhans
Ih"s ,St. Tst..r II Isave a. to ths voI,ng MON Who
q, G ~. - nroooss baya boen deetroved them.
so,,as xhiIe tbev have been destrovino
o+ho~. r oora vot bo,,z b,1,I, sorndipo, the
s,a.,,a "a : ,a,.c,aI esteI,,,.br,enti n a
--onosos - :, rot ,.+o,,,ers or ta [aen thsm
- ,'c.aSs a. +tat D,or, the,. oc.
cya,ntanoe Tbev will cheat Won before
yo,, gst tbrough Thev will scnd Won a
sty,e s ~ Goods d,fferont from tbat which
You bought by sample They will give you
underweight. There will be in the pack
age half dozen less pairs of suspenders
than YOU paid for. They will rob you. Oh,
Won feel In your pockets and say, "Is my
money qonef" They have robbed you Of
something for which dollars and cents can
never give you compensation.
When one Of these western merchants
has been dragged by one of those CONNER
cial agents through the slums of the
city, be is not fit to 90 home. The mere
memory of what he has seen will be moral
pollution. think you had better let the
city missionary and the police attend tc
the exploration of New York and under
ground life. You do not go to q small
pox hospital for the purpose of exploration
You do not 90 there because you are afraid
Of contagion.
And yet you go into the presence of a NOR
al leprosy that is as much more dangerous
to you as the death Of the soul is WORSE
than the death Of the body. Twill under
take to say that nine-tenths of the mer
who have been ruined in our cities haT'
been ruined by simply going to observe
without any idea Of participating.
| EXPLORING A cITY's INIoUITIEs.
The fact ia that underground city life i
| N fllthy. fuminr. reekinp, pestiferous deptl
which blasts the eve that looks at it. Il
the reign of terror in 1893 in Paris peo
Die escaping from the officers of the Law
rot into the sewers of the city and crawle,
and walked through miles Of that awfu
labyrinth stified with the atmosphere an,
almost dead, some of them, when they cam
out to the river Seine, where they washe
themselves and again breathed the fres
air. But have to tell you that grea
many of the men who 20 on the work @
exploration through the underground gut
tiers Of New York life never come out q
any Seine river where they can wash ot
the pollution of the moral sewage Strar
oer. If one of the representatives Of com
mercial establishment proposes to take 70
and show YOU the ''sights" of the tow
and underground New York, say to him
"Please. sir. what part do you propose t
show mea"
Abort IA vaars aoo ma n minister of rel
r,on r felt 7 bad a divine commission I
exnlore the iniouities of our cities I di
not asL counsel of INV session. or NV pre
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