The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17

ing. Supply and Demand stand
on the shore, one on one side, the other
sn the other side of the lifeboat, and
Ghey cry out to you. "Now, you pay
uA what we ask you for getting you to
shore, or go to the bottom" If you
can borrow S5, 900 you can keep from
failing in business. Supply and de-
mand say: "Now, you pay US exorhi-
tant usury, or go into bankruptcy,
This robber firm of Supply and Demand !
say to you: THE crops are short.
We bought up all the wheat and it is
in our bin. Now, you pay our price or
starve." That is your magnificent law
of supply and demand.
Supply and Demand own the largest
mill on earth, and all the rivers roll
over their wheel, and into their hop
per they put all the men, women and
children they care to shovel out of the
centuries, and the blood and the bones
redden the valley while the mill grinds.
That diabolic law of supply and de-
mand will yet have to stand aside, and
instead thereof will come the law OF
love, the law of cooperation, the
law of kindness, the law of SYM
pathy, the law of Christ. Have
you no idea of the coming of
such time? Then you do not believe
the Bible. All the Bible is full OF
promises on this subject, and as the
ages roll on the time will come when
men of fortune will be giving larger
sums to humanitarian and evangelistic
purposes, and there will be more James
Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and Will
" ua
As that time comes there will be more
parks, more picture galleries, more
gardens thrown open for the holiday
people and the working classes.
was reading in regard to charge
that had been made in England against
Lambeth palace, that it was exclu-
sive; and that charge demonstrated
sublime fact that to the grounds of
that wealthy estate 500 poor families
have free passes, and 40 croquet COM
panies, and on the half holidays 1000
poor people recline on the grass,
walk through the paths, and sit
under the trees. That is Gospel
Gospel on the wing, Gospel out
of doors worth just as much as in
doors. That time is going to come.
| That is only hint of what is going to
be. The time is going TO come when,
if you have anything in your house
worth looking at-pietures, pieces OF
scuIpture-you are going to invite me
to come and see them, you are going to
invite my friends to come and see them,
and YOU will say: ''See what l have
been blessed with. God has given me
this, and so far as enjoying it, it Is
yours also" That is Gospel.
In crossing the Allegheny noun
tains, many ears ago, the stage halt
ed, and Henry Clay dismOunted from
the stage and went out on rock at
the very verge of the cliff, and he stood
there with his cloak wrapped about
him. and he seemed to be listening for
something. Some one said to him;
What are you listening for?'
Standing there, on the top OF
the mountain, he said: II am
listening to the tramp of the
footsteps of the coming millions of this
continent" A sublime posture for an
American statesman! You and to
dav stand on the mountain top OF
privilege, and on the Rock of Ages, anC
we look off, and we hear oming from
the future the happy industries, anC
smiling populations, and the con
secrated fortunes, and the immune biz
properties of the closing nineteenth
and the opening twentieth century.
The great patriot of France, Victc
Hugo, died. The $40, 900 in his viii
given to the poor of the city was onl1
a hint of the work he did for all ma
tions and for all times. l wonder no
! that they allowed IL days to pass be
tween his death and his burial, hi
!. body meanwhile kept under trlumpha
; arch, for the world could haIdly affor
to let 90 this man who for more tha
eight decades had by mis- unparalle
>. genius blessed it. His name shall be
: terror to all despots and an encourage
ment to the struggling. He made tn
n worlds burden lighter, and its dark
i ness less dense, and its chain less gal
r ing, and its throes of iniquity les
S secure.
d But Victor Hugo was not the ovel
IS towering friend of mankind. Th
d greatest Friend of capitalist and toile
! and the One who will l yet bring thel
s together in complete accord, was Dor
e one Christmas night while the curtain
|
u angelic. Owner of all thingS-al tn
S, continents, all worlds, and all the
], lands of light. Capitalists of immens1t.
ID crossing over to our condition. Con
ID ing into our world, not by gate of pa
Of ace, but by door of barn. Spendln
it His first night amid the shepherd
u Gathering afterward around Him tn
ir fishermen to be His chief attendant
W With adze, and saw, and chlse
and ak, and in a carpenter She
" showing Himself brother with Il
n tradesmen. Owner of all thing
re and vet on hillock back of Jerus
re lem one day resigning everything +
xt others, keeping not so much as she
re ell to pay for His obsequies; by charl
n buried in the suburbs of city tn
to had cast Him out. Before the cross
an such Capitalist. and such Carpente
nd all men can afford to shake hands al
nd worship Here is the everyman's Chrl
g. None SO high, but He was higher. No
n? so poor, but He was poorer. At 4
ur feet the hostile extremes will yet r
lie nounce their animosities, and count
er- nances which have glowered with t
he preiudices and revenges of centuri
ng Shall brighten with the smile of Heav
ne as He commands: Whatsoever
he would that men should do to you,
ne you even so to them"
lg,
he seNI;ne Is a pitiable case" said the n
I who had reached the melancholy stage
as he leaned against the bar: What a v
:, it is to have a wife who has a habit
e locking you out of your own house" ..1
ClI amt one, tive, three with me-, said
OF nihar rnelanchnlv man tMine las "a