Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-08

forts thinner his prospects thinner and
his face thinner And Isaiah shriekS
out: What mean We that We grind
the faces of the poor?' 1t is an awful
thing to lie hungry. 1t is an easy
thing for us to he in good humor with
all the world when We have no lack
But let hunger take full pos
session of US, and we would
all turn into barbariaus and
cannibals ana fiends. suppose that
some OF the energy we are cxpending
in useless and unavailing talk about
the bread question should he cxpend-
ed in merciful alterations. | have
read that the battlefield on which
more troops met than on any other in
the worlds history was the battlefield
of Leip>ic 100. 900 men under Napo-
leon, 100000 men under Scharze-
berg. No, no! The greatest and
most terr,ti battle is now being
fought all the world over. II is the
battle for bread. The ground tone of
the finest passage in one of the great
musical masterpieces, the artist says,
was suggested To him by the cry of the
hungry Topulace of Vienna as the
king rode through and they shouted,
Bread! Give us bread" And all
through the great harmonieS of mu-
steal academy and cathedral hear the
pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy,
OF uncounted multitudes, who. with
streaming eyes and wan checks and
broken hearts, in behalf of themselves
and their families, are pleading for
bread
Let us take another look around tn
see now we may serve our generation.
Let MS see, as far as possible, that they
have enough to wear. God looks upon
the human race and knows just how
many habitants the world has. The
statistics of the worlds population are
carefully taken in civilized lands. and
every few years officers of the govern
ment go through the land and count
how many people there are in the
United States or England and great ac-
curacy is reached. But when people
tell Us how many inhabitants there are
III Asia or Africa, at best it must be a
wild guess. Yet tod knows the exact
number of people on our planet, and lie
and il there be fifteen hundred million,
fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and
fifteen people, then there is enough
apparel for fifteen hundred million,
fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and
fifteen. Not slouchy apparel, not rag
ged apparel, not insufficient apparel,
bu, appropriate apparel. At least two
suits for every being on earth. sum
mer suit and a winter suit. A good
pair OF shoes for every living mortal.
A good coat, a good hat, or n good
bonnet, and n good shawl, and a com
plete masculine or feminine outfit of
apparel A wardrobe for all nstions,
adapted TO all climes, and not a string
or button or pin or a hook or an
eye wanting
But alas! where are the good clothes
for three-fourths of the human race?
The other one-fourth have appropri-
ated them. The fact is, there needs to
be and will be redistribution. Not
by anarchistic violence. IL outlawry
had its way it would rend and tear and
diminish until, instea All of three-fourths
of the world not properly attired, four
fourths would be in rags / will let
you know how the redistribution
will take place. BY generosity on
the part of those who have a
surplus and increased industry on
the part Of those suffering from
deficit Not all, but the large majority
of cases of poverty in this country are
a result of idleness or drunkenness,
either on the part of the present suf-
fe-ers or their ancestors In most
cases the rum jug is the maelstr ON
that has swallowed down the liveli-
hood of those who are in rags. But
things will change, and by generosity
on the part of the crowded wardrobes,
and industry and sobriety on the part
of the empty wardrobes, there will be
enough for all to wear.
God has done his part toward the
dressing of the human race. He grows
a. surplus of wool on the Sleeps back,
rNnd fiocks roam the mountains and
valleys with burden of warmth in
tended for transference to human COM
fort, when the shuttles of the facto-
ries, reaching all the way from Chat
tahoocha to the Merrimac, shall have
spun and woven it. In white letters
of snowy fleece tod has been writing
for 1000 years His wish that there
might be warmth for all nations
While others are discussing the effect
of high or low tariff or no tart II at all
on wool you and had better see if in
our wardrobes we have nothing that
we can spare for the suffering, or pick
out some poor lad of the street and
take him down TO clothing store and
fit him out for the s.ason. Gospel of
shoes, Gospe of hats! Gospel of clothes
for the naked.
Again, let us look around and see
how we may serve our generation.
What short-sighted mortals we would
be il we were anxious to clothe and
feed only the most insig nifcant part
of a man, namely, his body, while we
put forth no effort to clothe and feed
and save his soul. Time is little piece
broken off a great eternity. What are
we doing for the souls of the present
generation? Let me say it is gen.
Grafton worth saving. Most magnifi-
cent men and women are in it We
make a greet ado about the i'm.
provements in navigation and in
locomotion, and in art and ma
chinery. We remark what won,
ders Of telegraph and telephone and
the stethoscope. What improvements
electric light over tallow candle
But all these improvements are insig
nificant compared with the improve
ment in the human race. In Older
times, once in a while a great and gooc
man or woman would cone up. and
the world has made a great fuss about
it ever since; but now they are SO nu
merous we scarcely speak about them
We put halo about the people of the
past, but think if the times demanded
them it would be found we have now
living in this year 1s9S 80 Martin
Luthers. so George Wa hingtons, 81
Lady Huntingdons, so Elizabeth Frys
During our civil war more splendid
warriors in north and south were de
veloped in four years than the whole
world developed in the previous q
years. i challenge the 4, 900 years be.
fore Christ and also the is centurie.
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