The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-31

ing should be one of kindness il not
gratitude; they choose this man because
they know he has money and jewels;
they entice him to their room on pre-
text, and there try to kill and rob him.
The GOODNESS. the internal wickedness
OF the proceeding, when considered in
the light of family antecedents and con-
nections, raises the inquiry: How are
well-to-do and intelligent fathers and
mothers bringing up their sons now-a-
days, that so many of them become
toughs and highwaymen?
Mr.. Depew reports that English
money is not now buying American Sc
curities because the opportunities for
investment in Africa outbid the United
States. This is partly true, no doubt,
fortunes having been made in Africa in
recent years. But fortunes have been
lost there also, and the present investors
are largely spectators. The cautious
and conservative Briton seeks, as the
usual thing, safe rather than speculative
and risky ventures. He has lost good
deal OF money, both principal and inter-
est. in American securities" and the
fear that he might lose on larger scale
has affected him latterly as it does all
careful investors. British money does
not all go to Africa by any means more
comes to America even now than goes
to the dark continent; and much more
will come if we can give reasonable as
surance that it will not be dissipated.
-Ex-Governor Altgeld drew very
somber picture of the condition of our
affairs in his Fourth of July address in
Brooklyn. In state and nation, in city
and society. we are in bad way. Mr..
Altgeld gives the specifications, and we
must admit that he is amply supported
by his facts. The criticism to be made
on his presentation is not that he has
invented or distorted the truth of his
tory, 80 far as his citations go. The
criticism is, that he does not give all
the facts. He makes collection which
serves we'll for an indictment; he leaves
out of his summary and out of his calcu-
lation many things of different tenor.
His conclusions are not warranted be-
cause they are deduced from partial
data. An advocate for the rosy view
of our situation could present collec-
tion of facts, all genuine, from which an
opposite conclusion could be drawn.
But this would be equally unwarranted.
A true picture takes in everything and
reports all in their exact relations. Alt
geld is scene-painter.
The colonization scheme of Com.
mander Booth Tucker of the Salvation
Army does not appear to be altogether
impracticable. He proposes to take
hundreds and at length thousands of
those who now in large cities obtain
only scant subsistence, some of whom
are actually dependent on charity and
some are enforced criminals, to the un-
occupied lands of Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado and South Western Kansas,
and make farmers of them. The lands
are to be rendered productive by irriga-
tion, as large tracts of them already are.
He prefers to begin in small and severely
practical ways but to persevere until he
has repeated with Salvation Army colo
nists the successful agricultural expert
ment of the Mormans in Utah. There
are several hundred thousand people in
the great cities of the East who would
be immensely better off in the places
and pursuits marked out for them by
Commander Booth Tucker.
Most of our parishes treat their
ministers well, and doubtless all mean
to do so. But there are instances of
thoughtlessness or negligence. The
custom of taking vacation in summer
is so established among nearly all classes
that provision for it is made early, and
in some cases at the expense of the
church and minister. Some of the
money, at least, that should go into the
church treasury goes into the country
or to the mountains or to the seaside.
The church must wait till the absentees
return. They are pretty sure to return
with empty pockets. The church must
wait till they fill again. 10 such cases
the minister is likely to be left on short
allowance for months, and these the
months when his salary is most indis.
pensable to him. Other sources of this
peculiarly exasperating grievance exist;
but this is one of the more recent causes
of both church delinquency and church
deficits. There should be professor of
applied Christianity in every church.
CANTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.
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