Connecticut western news., 1898-09-08


 ar down until be wS, la ouni away thinner and thinner-h s'aa nforts thin- ner, his prospects thin CT md his face thinner. And Isaiah sh, lei out. "What mean ye that ye grind tb faces of the p1or?"
 Battle For rel, (.
 It is an awful thing 10 hungry. It is an easy thing for ur t, be in good humor with all the ,.o1Ll when we bavo no lack. But let au ger take full possession of us and we W ,1ld all turn into barbarians and cam ib ,is and fiends. Suppose that some of tf @ 'llergy we are OK pending in useless and unavailing talk about the bread qr estion should be expended in merciful alleviations. l have read that the battlefield on which more troops met than on any other in the worlds history was the battlefield of Leipsic-160, 900 men under Napo- leon, $50, 900 men under Sohwarzeberg. No, no. The greatest and most terrific battle is now being fought all the world over. It is the battle for bread. The ground tone of the finest passage in one of the great musical masterpieces, the ar list says, was suggested to him by tho cry of the hungry populaco of Vien- na as the king rods through and they shouted: ''I3read Give us bread !" And all thro lgh the great harmonies of nu- sil al academy and cathedral l hear thu pathos, the ground tone. the tragedy, of unctunted multitudes, who, witi streaming eyes and wan cheeks antl broken hearts, in behalf of themselves and their families, are pleading fo' bread
 Let us take another look around to sec how we may serve our generation Let us see as far as possible that they
 have enough to wear. God looks upon tho human race and knows just how many inhabitants the world has, The
 stt tistics If the worlds population are carefully taken in civilized lands, and every few years officers of government go through the land and count how
 many pu,ple there are in the United States or England, and great accuracy is reached. But when people tell us how maug inhabitants there are in Asia or Afl'ios, at best it must be 8 wild guess Yet God knows the exact num-
 
 made enough apparel for each, and If fbere te fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen people then there Is enough apparel for fifteen hundred million, fifteen thou sand, fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not sloucby apparel, not ragged apparel,
 not insufficient apparel. but appropriate apparel. At least two suits for every bc ing on earth, a summer suit and vintex suit. A good pair of shoes for
 every living mortal. A good coat, a
 good hat or good bonnet, and a good
 shawl and a complfte masculine or fem mine outfit of apparel. A wardrobe for
 all nations, ad&,ttd to all olimes, and not string or . button or pin or hook OF an eye wanting.
 Redistribution.
 But, alas, whero are the good clothes for three .fourth6 of the human race?
 The other ono-fourth have appropriated item. The fact i'd, there needs to be and will be redistribu tion. Not by anarch- is tic violence. If oltlawry had it's way,
 it would rend and tear and diminish
 until, instead of hree-fourths of the world not properly attired, four-fourths would be in rags. I will let you know how the redistribution will take place. By generosity on the part of those who have surplus and increased industry
 on the part of those suffering from de-
 6cit. Not all, but the large majority of
 cases of poverty in this country are a
 result of idIeness or drunkenness, either | ( k1 of ka their ancestors. In most cases the rum
 jug is the maelstrom that has swallow cd down the livelihood of those who are In ralya. Bat things will change. and by generosity on the part of the crowded Wardrobes and industry and sobriety on the part of the empty ward robes there will be enough for all to wear.
 Gcd has done his part toward tho
 dressing of the human race He grows
 . surplus of wool on the sheep's back and focks roam the mountains and val
 leys with burden of warmth intended
 for transference to human comfort,
 when the shuttles of the factories, reaching all the way from Chattahoo- chee to the Merrimac, shall have spun and woven it. In white letters of snowy fleece God has been writing for thou
 sand years his wish that there might be warmth for all nations. While others
 are discussing the effect of high or low tariff or no tariff at all on wool you and had better see if in our wardrobes we have nothing that we can spare for the suffering or pie]r out some poor lad of the, street and tale him down to . clothing store and ikt him out for tns
 Eason. Gospel of shDesl Gospel of hatsi Gospel of clothes ftG the nakedi Food F,r Souls.
 Agsdn, let us leuk around and see how we may serve our Seneratioo. | What shortsighted mortals we would | be if we were anxious to clotAo and feed
 only the most insignificant part of
 man-namely, his body-wlsle we put l forth no effort to olothe an3 feed and | ave his souE Time Is Eltle piece | broken off great eternity. What are | we doing for the souls of kk1s present generation? Let me say 1t is a genera
 tion worth saving. Most magnificent
 men and women are In 1t. Wc make a BICae 0uo hDOus tu6 impTUvOu6ub6 III
 navigation, and in locomotion. and in
 art and machinery. We remark what
 wonders of telegraph and telephone and
 the stethoscope. What improvement is
 electric light over tallow candle. But
 all these improvements are insignificant
 compared with the improvement in the
 human race. In olden times once in
 awhile a great and good man or woman
 would come up, and the world has
 made a great fuss about 1t ever since;
 but now they are 30 numerous 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 1898 50 Martin Luthers, 50
 George Washingtons, 50 Lady Hunting
 dons, 90 Elizabeth Frys. During our