The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-06-28


starving. doctors erumbling and
preachers fasting-and the devil gig
Cling. What's the matter, and what's
the remedy. ere questions NC must IN.
swer soon or we will "hit the grit"
While write nm touring Illinois,
and fnd that "Tree Silver and Al,geld
or Bust" 10 the popular cry of the people.
And so IL goes. Campbell of Ohio, out
for free silver, and Gen. Grosvenor sd-
wishing the G. o. P.-hnt they must not
declare for the single gold standard.
Hill. Of New York, using moral suasion.
Mckinley mum a. dead oyster, and so
1t goes. The whole thing seems to he 10
the AK Pat, the sailor. got into farming.
He had been discharged from service
on the ship and found employment on
= firm and was put to blowing with 4
ehike tenn. two oxen and Ally in the
lead; and he drove up on a yellow
jackets nest, and in less than no time
the oxen had turned the yoke and the
filly had become entangled in the har.
ness and fallen to the ground still kick.
ing. And Pat ran to the house and told
the boss that the oxen had turned the
yoke. the filly had kicked herself TO
death, and tho whole thing was drift
ing TO destruction az fast as il could 20.
All that comes from looking at one
side of the thing. There is another and
better side. This Is . great govern
ment and a great people. We can stand
much and endure much and still keep
ahead Of any other nation on the earth.
Thesun, moon and stars keep on in their
regular courses; seed-time and harvest
still come and go; babies are born, and
funeral professions move slowly along
rs Of yore. We cnn survive and do we'll
IL things were hundred fold worse
than they are. One or the other of the
great parties will save the country
again this fall. We have survived the
American revolution, the Mexican war
md the civil war. The reign Of tho
democratic, whig, and republican par
ties hundred years, and tho fact that
We still live is proof that as nation we
nre immortal. We shall live on in
some shape. At the henri the tree is
sound. Only the branches are diseased
and rs they drop Off other limbs will
shoot out from the grand old trunk,
and this shall be tho tree of lib
erty forever. Though upon some Of
the limbs buzzards and owls light
for time, still the great masses
will sit under its shades md en-
Joy its fruits forever. We shall never
como to want as long as seed time and
harvest comes on these fertile fields of
r,Ira md mon cop hn fo,,pd ~ xr,,-1-
them. We may occasionally have too
many city dudes and too few field hands,
but the laws of compensaticns, work and
things will regulate themselves il we
give them chance.
Mnybe cyclones and earthquakes, po-
liticai and social revolutions are Gods
ways of regulating things. The inno-
cent have always suffered with the
guilty. Dog Tray got into bad COM
pany and Caught it" with the balance
OF the bad dogs. But God has not ut
terly abandoned us to our fate. He
still reigns and is doing about the best
an infinite, wise God can do with tho
gang He is dealing with.
Even now many Of us arc happy and
prosperous. while many nre miserable
and poor. It's mans inhumanity to
man that makes countless thousands
mourn. Greed and gall on the one
hand and poverty and humility on the
other have gotten things out of whacls.
If humanity will come closer together
and man will be more helpful to man,
then we will drive out of the woods
into the road 10 happiness and prosper
lily. We have our spasmodic kindly
spells. We will contribute TO the suf-
fcrers by storm or fire or earthquake,
but we soon f. rget that there arc al.
ways sufferers md go on blinded by our
greed and deafcned by our gall.
Phi'anthropio patriotism lives only
In the hearts of tho few, while the
greater number are strangers to kindly
deeds and sentiment.
SAM p. JONES'.