San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-26

greater than he who taketh q
walled and fenced city. No man
yet ruled his own spirit, nor
woman either, who had not first
learned to rule the tongue, to but.
ton the lip. AS the lesser is con.
tanned in the greater 80 is this
power to rule the spirit, the inner
manifestation of anger, controlled
In wise reticence which giving
the anger no expression chokes
1t out.
1t is only when the shoulder
ing fire Is given an air blast, when
1t breaks through its environment
and finds breath, that 1t roars into
q conflsgration. So 1t Is with the
baleful fires OF anger and envy
and malice and deceit and jealousy
and all evil speaking. Button the
Zip and prevent these fires from
reaching the air of expression, and
they will die out as fire smothered
In its own smoke and the fumes
of the chemical engine. Dearly
Beloved let your wisdom act as
the chemical engine Of wise pre-.
vention and smother the tendency
to hurtful expression before 1T
gains any headway. Button your
lip securely and the work is done.
The fire dies out and there is no
outer damage done.
The world Ia q hard world and
growing no softer very fast. All OF
our cities, and lesser centers Of
population as we'll, are tread mills
to grind out the blood and bones
of unfortunate men and more I'M
fortunate women. 1t is upon these
that the lash of vindictive speech
falls with singing cruelty. The
old nations regarded the victims
of misfortune as under the special
protection of the gods, and all
such were the general care. 1t
was considered the stamp OF the
most ungenerous mind to speak
unkindly to or of one Of these, or
to treat them harshly. Their mis-
fortunes were to them in the gen.
erosity of that age, or in its super
stition, the ir shelter, their shield
and their defence.
Not so in this day. Like a
wounded deer which its fellows
hunt from the herd, is the man or
the woman upon whom the heel
of misfortunate is set hard, par
ticularly the woman. Manhood
in all its strength is pitted against
her weakness and the tongue Of
calumny is, busy with her good
name, without the least regard to
the truth or falsity Of the banded
Tord Of derision or insult. Her
sister woman, OF whom one would
expect better things, out Herods
Herod in the cruelties Of manner
and speech with which she insults
misfortune, and brushes aside her
garments at her approach as
though she was leper. The scath-
ing whisper is Kissed after her and
the despised and forsaken OF her
sex lie left to pray with the bitter
ness OF despair for some power to
button the Zip OF calumny.
Compelled to labor for her bread ;
forced to do what her hand can find
ito do for the life she would gladly
lay down, were 1t not for others
depending upon her exertions, she
meets the demands that are laid
upon her as best she can, but what
consideration does she receive at
the hands of society. Her me-
cessitated labor is a crime. Her
mingling with the great world in
her struggles for bread, Is counted
against her. Her use of the natur-
al gifts OF pleasing that nature
has endowed her with in her la.
bors for the bread that perisheth,
is construed into vicious desire
to court the attention Of men, and
the hue and cry is raised against
her by those who in inner clean
ness Of thought and life are not
| fit to wash her feet. How on her
hard couch at night, the tears OF
agony wrung from her eyes as she
thinks OF the cruel sting OF I'M
hnffanoI linz oho nrQUa for THAR