Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-01-17
THE POOR.
Poverty and Its Many Causes. Among
Them the Tariff Question,
The Theme of Dr. TaiinaEc. Who In "a 4 rae
teal Manner Himself Helps the
Seedy-Too Many Doctors
Kin Our Resources.

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sand pounds of meat and two tho isAnd
loaves of bread to the poor who gath.
cred shivering in the cold around the
bakery and meat store of Brooklyn.
where the food was distributed with
out tickets, and no recommendation re-
quired except hunger. The text was
Matthew XVI, IL: "Ye have the poor
always with you"
Who said that? The Christ who never
owned anything during His earthly
stay. His cradle and His grave were
borrowed. Every fig He ate was from
some one else's tree. Every drop OF
water lie dranl; was from some one
else's well. TO pay His personal tax,
which was very small. only thirty one
and n quarter cents, lie had to perform
a miracle, and make fish pay il. All
the heights and depths and lengths and
breadths of poverty Christ measured in
his earthly experience, and when lie
comes to speak OF restitution He always
speaks alphabetically, and what lie
said then is as true now: "Ye have the
poor always with YOU"
For 5000 years the bread question
has been the active and absorbing
question. Witness the people crowding
up to Joseph's storehouse in Egypt
| Witness the famine in Samaria and
Jerusalem. Witness the 1000 hungry
| people for whom Christ multiplied the
! loavcs. Witness the uncounted millions
! of people now living who, believe,
never yet had one full meal of health
| full and nutritious food in all their
lives. Think OF the 354 great famines
in India. Think of the %, GEO, OOC
! people under the hoof OF hunger year
! before last in Russia. The failure 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. Devastation
wrought by drough. by deluge, by
! frost, by war, by hurricane, by earth
quake, by comets flying too near the
earth, by change in the management
/ of national finances, by balcful causes
| innumerable. ] proceed 10 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
! poor with us is because of the perpet-
ual overhauling of the tariff question,
| or, as | shall call it, the tariff contro-
versy There is a need for such word.
and so take the esponsibility of man
ufacturing il. There are millions of
people who are expecting that the pres.
ent congress of the United States will
90 something, one way or the other, to
end this discussion But it will never
end. When l was 3 years of age re-
member hearing my father and his
neighbors in vehement discussion of
this very question. 1t was high tariff
or low tariff or no tariff Mt all When
your great-grandchild dies at 90 years
of age it will probably be from over
exertion in discussing the tariff. And
the day the world is destroyed there
| will be three men standing on the post
| Office stcps-one a high tariff man, an
other low tariff man and the other n
free trade man-each one red IN the
face from excited argument on this
subject. Other questions NAV get
quieted--the Mormon question, the sill
yer question, the pension question, the
civil service question.
All questions of annexation NAV
come to peaceful settlement by the an
neXation 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, dcthroninpr
the queen of night, who is said TO be
dissolute, and bringing the lunar popu-
lations under the influence OF our free
institutions; yea, all other questions.
national and international. may be set
tied, but this tariff question. never. II
will not only never be b, Jed. but il
can never be moderately quiet for more
than three years at time each party
getting into power taking one OF the
four years to fix it up, and then the next
party will fix IL down. Our finances can
not get well because OF two many doc
tors 1t is with sick nations as with sick
individuals. Here is n man terribly dis
ordered as to his body. a doctor is
called in, and he admisisters a febri-
fuge, spoonful every hour. But re-
covery is postponed and the anxious
friends call in another doctor, and he
says: What this patient needs is
blood-letting; now roll mp your sleever'
and the lancet flashes. But still recov-
sry 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
say that such small pellets can not
amount 20 much anyhow, and an al
loptthic doctor is called in, and he
lays: What this patient wants is Gallo
mel and jalap." Recovery still post
poned, hydropathic doctor is called
in, and he says: What this patient
wants is hot and cold baths. and he
must have them right away. Turn on
.hc faucet and get ready the shower
paths Recovery still postponed. an
electric doctor is called in. and he
| brings oil the schools 10 bear upon the
poor sufferer, and the patient. after a
brave struggle for life, expires What
| killed him? Too many doctors. And
that Is what is what Is killing our ma
tional finances My personal friends.
| Cleveland and Harrison and Carlisle
and Mckinley and Sherman, a. tall
entcd and lovely and splendid men as
walk the earth, all good doctors. hut
their treatment OF our languishinV e.
iances is so different that neither
treatment has a full opportunity, and
under the constant changes IL is sim
| ply wonderful that the nation stiIl
/ lives
The ta..f question never will be set
tied because Of the fact. which have
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