Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-24
MR.. J. T. RELY
Writes of Home, Sweet Home,
and Descants Upon
THEORETICAL SPIRITUAL CHARITY,
Which He Likens Unto Wilson'S Free
Trade Sophisrns.

shoulder. If there are two things in
the world that Mrs. r. cannot forget,
they are her dear home" and her old
friends and neighbors in Martinsburg,
and as usual we have to stand all the
blame-women make no mistakes
man, born of woman, is a bundle of
irreconcilable contradictions. She's
going to 'liye and die in Martinsburg
yet, so take down the sign ITO Let
and hunt mex job that will bring us
in a little bread and meat until the
Wilson bill brings on the good times,
more work. and higher wages prom
ised and as long expected and delayed
Many time in the last rs years the
young Democratic orators and the old
ones pictured the delights of this
workingmans paradise; the Court
House and old Rink re-echoed time
and again this false war-whoop, to
which men responded in the blindness
of prejudice, only to hope and be fool
ed again.
Four years ago this time millions
of cigars were packed and shipped
from this prosperous manufacturing
town; hundreds had work and high
wages; now millions of cigars are
packed in cellar and garnet; work is
limited to 200 a day and two or three
days week;--no orders-or orders
are held back awaiting better times.
Men who have building association
dues to pay can barely manage to pay
it and live, but the day laborer has a
long holiday and an empty stomach
Lent all winter
l have attended a series of dis
courses on charity lately on spiritual
or theoretic grounds that reminded
me lin practical results of Wilson's
Free Trade theories. Charity in the
DRY and theology does not consist in
wishing men wealth or health, long
life or happiness, but eternal sal
walton, We can love our neighbor
AID still oppose him, denounce him,
reprove him, if he is wrong and we
right; we need not talk to him if he
has injured us-all we have to do is
to wish him heaven in the next world
if we do help to make him hell on
this earth-a refinement of the prac-
teal theology of the days of religious
persecution. 1t makes as (self-inter-
ested) the judge and jury Of our fell
low man; there are two sides to every
question, but judge both sides and
hear only or1e-our own evidence. In
this selfish world who can rise to
such spiritual sublimity of heavenly
charity? Would such theoretical char
ity build churches and schools and
asylunso What did a free trade or
market of the world ever build st.
John said something about a man be-
ing a liar who thought he could love
God and have no charity for his neigh
Dor; ST. Paul talked of giving every
thing to the poor and losing his soul
if he had no charity. Did they mean
spiritual charity only? 1t is improba-
bic and unreasonable TO think that
men would stop to bother about hav-
ing or not having spiritual cha,1ty;
but the practical, neighborly, fraternal
charity is tie 7g,7He that goes so hard
to practice. When Christ talked of
cup Of cold water, of hunger, naked
ness, food, and clothes, did he mean
Sbiy1t"aI charity Z Free Trade is spir-
itual charity. Does it feed and shell
ter the millions in want everywhere
No, but it makes the few in office and
power the judge and jury of the mass
es, they hear the one side of the case
the theoretical-and turn down the
actual, the sufferers, the petitioners
tits industrial slavery-it is aristocratic
servitude-it is a delusion. One ounce
of practical charity is worth more than
100 pounds of theoretical advice; one
ounce of home industry is worth more
than ton of foreign cheapness, ig-
norance, and poverty.
We have had our ups and downs
since we left NJ Bought a Harrison
corner lot for $500. that is now i'm
proved Cleveland property without
decent market value-can't negotiate
a loan enough on it for the crows to
roost on, so they still fly towards the
pine hills Of My Maryland. Am
keeping country store and have
small printing outfit. just to keep our
hand in the case for 1896; for Uncle
Sam has a lookof determination on his
face that means anything but well
done" for the administration, which
has put the country in a hole at
home and discounted American pride
and independence away from home
to the level of feudal times. We are
willing TO fill 1.-THE DEVILS" place on
the Herald, help Mr.. Buxton to make
pike, or Brother Hensel to keep
store-anything to make a living
these times and keep peace in the
family,
With kind remembrance to all.
]. 7. r.