The herald., 1895-03-25

newspapers, open and attractive hells in
tne public streets are poiluting and de-
basEg the thoughts of boys and
! gIrls Parts of Shakespeares wr tings are
quite lcentious. and parts of the poems
%. Bryou and Burns are not tit for young
eyes and hearts. Our young people should
not be encouraged to become familiar
with these authors. good book does
degraded human passion. The great
poets Longfellow. Bryon, Holmes. Whit
tier Lowell, Tennvson, Milton, and the
treat authors. Emerson. Dickens and
Scott have made good and attractive
books witnout wallowng in the tilthiness
of human degradat on. 1t is true that
parts of the Old Testament are not fit for
young readers, but it must be acKnowl-
e iged that our churches, Sunday schools
and religious press do not delight in m ak
ing these parts conspicuous. They are
always omitted in Biblical teaching which
the young receive. Los Angeles is
not large city, but it GER
tainly is too fond of initiating
great cities in wckedness Why do not
the people purify the city? The only ans
wcr there is not Christ anity enough in
the city t. save it from its fearful immor-
alties. We may be told that there is Cris-
tianity enough her. for that purpose
when it is aroused. How much more
wickedness must we have to arouse this
! lazy, sleepy, Christless Christianity? A
Christianity that needs so many arous-
! ings, calls appeals and cries is not worthy
/ of respect. We need decent and fearless
! Christianity that will watch, pray and
! work and not one that moves in ways of
! duty by fits AMI starts. There is nothing
more apparent this beautiful city than
the fact that Satan is conquering Christ
every dav and night, and the most awful
fact that stares us in the face is that we
are licensing Satan to allure our children
to perdition. We are beautiful Christians
{ M. n 70 tnnInl ~ Wn 70 inf oil
lectual, moral and refined Christians! We
belong to the glory OF the nineteenth cen
tury. What q progressive city We have!
Nay, are we not good deal like Sodom?
Church of the New Era
At the Church of the New Era.
the lecturer, W. c. Bowman, spoke in
the evening on the True Objects OF Civil
Government. He said: Government
the state-is the highest mutual relation
of man. Below this are the family, the
social and various fraternal relations, all
involving specific purposes duties and
obligations. The state is the ultimate
comprehending and regulating all. and is
varously called kingdom, empire or re-
government. The word state applies
equally to all as expressing the condition
under which the people live. Government
is not an 1btrary institution, but an evo-
lutionary growth from the nature and
necessities OF man.
Military necessity was probably the
first occasion for the larger compact of
families and tribes into the state AS |
men gradually rose from the physical to |
the moral plane motives higher than /
those of war were added to the purposes
of government. until at last government |
has become science of noble import,
engaging the study and powers of the
worlds greatest minds, These purposes,
now understood and defined in the
most civilized nations, are reduci ole to
single principle, namely, the securement
and guardianship of the rights and inter-
ests OF society,". e. of the individuals
composing society.
AS Blackstone puts it: Governments
were instituted for the preservation of
society, and society exists for the protec-
tion of Individuals Our Constitution
says the object is Ito establish Justice
provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and secure the bless
ings of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. Could even the most radi-
cal reformer want more than this? The
evils of which we complain are not in our
Constitution, but our failure to carry out
its purposes. Not in our foundation, but
the false superstructure reared upon it by
unworthy hands. These noble principles
have been trampled under foot. Our
pa riotic fathers are dead. and our Gov
interested in the people, but in them
selves and the spoils of office.
Instead OF establishing justice the polit-
lcal gamblers have established system
OF injustice that smells to heaven with
plutonan stencil. Itstead of promoting
the general welfare it is the special well
fare of the millionaire, while the land is
with poverty. tramps, mortgages
and enforced idleness. Instead of the
blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness, life is transformed into
curse, liberty into slavery and the pursuit
struggle for existence. '
Passing over the monster monopolies of
land, money. transportation and the boun-
ties of nature, whereby the public neces-
sites are owned and controlled in the
interests of private capital and the COM
mon people robbed of their just inherit ]
ince, there are many other wrongs in our
Government which sadly need to be
lighted.
Under a false pretense of protecting
american labor by tariff on foreign pro-
tucts, the American laborer is pauperiZed q
aud starved, crowded out by foreign
lordes imported without restriction to
ylut the labor market in the interest of
;apitalistic greed. government that I
VIII thus deliberately augment poverty in s
is own borders by inviting foreign pau 4
)ers to compete with its own domestic
)aupers i'll the game of starvation and
ramping commits high treason against
he citizen and deserves to be condemned S
md executed as traitor. And this will
Ie Its fate without a speedy change of
leart. Think of the American citizen re- d
luced to the necessity of competing with l
he Chinaman-a being endowed with
othing in common with himsef a being
Wholly foreign in speech, character tastes, l
Instincts, garb, haDitudes and purposes.
80 government can either take care of its
itizens or preserve its being without z
maintaining It's racial type of civilization.
he Chinaman has no purpose or thought
I assimilation in any respect. His very 7
resence here is all antagonism of one civ
ization against another, The American
itizen cannot compete with the Mon
olian without self degradation. Indeed,
oreignsm of any type cannot be fostered
'ithout peril. Let American citizens be- 5
are of these dangers and strike boldly
'r radical reforms in our corrupt body
Olitic. :
Y. w. c. A. q
AT the Gospel meeting yesterday after