The Red Cloud chief., 1894-01-19
AT THE TABERNACLE.
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE BREACHES or THE
" BREAD QUESTION.

Rome OF the Causes Which Lead % the
Ever Present Distress Among the Work
y ing Classes-Aicohoi and Improvidence
Are Potent Factors.
BROOKLYN, Jan. TT seemed appro-
pirate that DR.. Talmage should preach
this sermon after his personal contribu-
tion Of 5000 pounds Of meat and 1000
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
cts, and no recommendation required
except hunger. The text was, Matthew
xvi. II, I'VE have the poor always
with you"
- Who said that7 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 n else's tree. Every drop Of
water he drank was from some one else's
we'll. To pay his personal tax, which
was very small, only 31H cents, no had
to perform a miracle and make a 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 restitution
he always speaks alphabetically, and
what he said then is a true now-'Ye
have the poor always with you."
For 5000 years the bread question
has been the active and absorbing ques-
ton. Witness tho people crowding up
to Joseph's storehouse in Egypt. Wit
ness the famine in Samaria and Jeru-
salem. Witness the 2, 900 hungry people
for whom Christ multiplied the loaves.
Witness the uncounted millions Of PEG.
pie now living, who, ! believe, have
never yet had n full meal Of health
full and nutritious food in all their
lives. Think of the 1854 great famines
in England. Think Of the 25, 600, 900
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 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 delugc, 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 baleful causes in
Vulnerable. l proceed to give you three
or four reasons why my text is marked
ly and graphically true in this year
1894.
I THE TARIFF BUaBEAR.
The first reason we have always the
poor with us 10 because Of the perpet-
nal %overhauling Of the tariff question,
or, as l shall call it, the tarific contro-
kTefsy. There is n need for such q word,
4 nd 90 l take the responsibility Of man
'Sufacturing 1t. There are millions Of
people who arc expecting that the pres.
ent congress Of the United States will
do something one way or the other to
end this discussion. But 1t will never
end. When l was 8 years Of age, l 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 ut all. When
your great-grandchild dies at 30 years
Of age. it will probably DO from over
exertion in discussing the tariff. On
the 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 tho other
q free trade man-each ono red in the
face from excited argument OF this sub
.ject. Other questions may get quoted.
the Mormon question, the silver ques.
ton. the pension question, the civil serv.
ice question. All questions of annex
alton 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,
d~ethroning the queen Of night, who Is
said to be dissolute, and bringing the
lunar populations under the influence
OF our free institutions; yea. all other
questions. national and international,
may be settled, but this tarific ques'
tion never. II will not only be
settled, but It can never be moderately
quiet for more than three years at q
time. each party getting into power
taking one of the four years to nix II
MP, and then the next party will fix II
down. Our finances cannot get well be-
caus of too many doctors. 1t is with
sick nations as with sick individuals
Here is a mar terribly disordered az t.
his body. A doctor is called in, and he
administers a febrifuge, a 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 rol
up your sleevel'' and the lancet flashes
But still recovery is postponed, and 4
homeopathic doctor is called in, and h,
administers some small pellets ant
says, "All the patient wants is rest"
Recovery still postponed, the family
say that such smull pellets canno'
amount to much anyhow, and an allo
pathic doctor is called in, and no says
"What this patient wants Is calome
and jalap. Recovery still postponed
:,~ydropathic doctor is called in, ant