Connecticut western news., 1894-01-11
AT THE TABERNACLE.
REV. DR. TALMAGE BREACHES ON THE
 BREAD QUESTION:.

Some ef the Causes Which Lead to the
 Ever Prsssnt Distress Among the Work
 ing Classss-Alcohoi and Improvidcnce
 Are Potent Factors.
 BROOKLYN, Jan. Tt seemed appro- priate that Dr. Talmage should preach this sermon after his personal contribu- tion of LOGO pounds of meat and 5000 loaves of bread to the poor who gather ed shivering in the cold around the bak- cry and meat store of Brooklyn, where the food was distributed without tick 7 cts, and no recommendation required except hunger. The text was, Matthew xvi, II, "Ye have the poor always with you.
 Who said that? The Christ who never owned anything during his earth ly stay. His cradle and his grave were borrowed. Every fig he ate was from some one else's tree. Every drop of water he drank was from some one else's 7 we'll. To pay his personal tax, which was very small, only 31 4 cents, he had to perform a miracle end make fish pay it. All the heights and depths and lengths and breadths of poverty Christ measured in his earthly experience, and when he comes to speak of destitution he always speaks sympathetically, and what he said then is as true now-..Ie have the poor always with you"
 For 5000 years the bread question has been the active and absorbing ques- tion Witness the people crowding up to Joseph's storehouse in Egypt. Wit ness the famine in Samaria and Jeru- salem. Witness the 1000 hungry people for whom Christ multiplied the loaves. Witness the uncounted millions of peo- pie now living, who, 1 believe, have never yet had one full meal of health ful and nutritious food in all their lives. Think of the 354 great famines in England. Think of the 25, 900, 900 people under the hoof of hunger year before lest in Russia. The failure of tho Nile to overflow for seven years in the eleventh century left those regions depopulated. Plague of insects in Eng land. Plague of rats in Madras Presi- dency. Plague of mice in Essex. Plague of locusts in China. Plague of grass hoppers in America. Devastation wrought by drought, by deluge, by frost. by war, by hurricane, by earth quake. by comets flying too near the earth. by change in the management of pa1jonal finances, by baleful causes in- nu,nerable. I proceed to give you three cr four reasons why my text is marked ly and graphically true in this year 1894.
 TRR TARIFF BUGBKAR.
 The first reason we have always the poor with us is because of the perpet- nal overhauling of the tariff question, .or. As 1 ahall call it, the tarific contro- ve1eg. There is need for such word. asd Q I tahc the responsibility of man u1oCturimg it. There are millions of reuple who are expecting that the pres G1t congress of the United States will - something one way or the other to end this discussion. But it will never end. When was years of age, re- member hearing my father and his neighbors in vehement discussion of this very question. It was high tariff or low tariff or no tariff at all. When your great-grandchild dies at 90 years of age. it will probably be from over .exertion in discussing the tariff. On tho day the world is destroyed, there will be three men standing on the post, office steps-one a high tariff man, another a low tariff man, and the other . free trade man--each one red in the face from excited argument on this sub ject. Other questions may get quieted, the Mormon question, the silver ques- ton. the pension question, the civil serv- ice question. All questions of annex ation may come to peaceful settlement by the annexation of islands two weeks voyage away and the heat of their vol canoes conveyed through pipes under the sea made useful in warming our continent. or annexation of the moon, dethroning the queen of night, who h said to be absolute, and bringing the lunar populations under the influence of our free institutions; yea, all other questions. national and international, may be settled, but this tariffic ques- tion never. It will not only never be settled but 1t can never be moderately quiet for mdre than three years at . tina each party getting into power taking one of the four years to fx it mp, and then the next party will fx 1t down. Our finances cannot get we'll be- cause of too many doctors. It Is with sick nations as with sick individuals. Here is man terribly disordered as to his body. A doctor is called in, and he administers febrifuge, spoonful ev- cry 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 mp your slecvel" 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 say that such small pellets cannot amount to much anyhow, s,nd an allo- pathic doctor Is called in, and he says, What this patient wants is calomel and jalAp. Recovery still postponed, hydropathic doctor is called in, and he says: What this patinet wants is hot and cold baths, and he must have them r1ght away. Turn on the faucet and get ready the shower baths" Rs- covery still postponed, an eclectic doc- tor is called in, and he brings all the schools to bear upon the poor sufferer, and the patient, after a brave struggle for life, expires. What killed himr Too many doctors. And that is what is killing our national finances. My per sonal friends, Cleveland and Harrison and Carlisle and Mckinley and Sher- man, as talented and lovely and splen- did men as walk, the earth, all good doctors, but their treatment of our lan- guishing finances is so different that neither treatment has a full opportu- nifty, and under the constant changes 1t is simply wonderful that the nation still lives. The tariff question will never be settled because of the fact-which have never heard any one recognize. but nevertheless the fact-that high tariff is best for some people and free frada ia heat for 0thcrs Thia tariffic