The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-09-21
Says the lheress. From Year 10
Year IN Them IS Alarming.
WAS DIFFERENT YEARS AGO.
Ri. says Nc Does Nei ksss Ahsi TIE Pess
GirIs Viii Do 10 Matters Do Net aesa
lie Writes Of tse Trust,.

o.i people Who married half a cen
tury ago can appreciate the oon;ras,
bctwoen nov and then and the change
Tor tie worse Is alarming The MAJ
riocsEe-s. It's solemnity. H. dignity.
AMI consequently. >epaEa,lcns and d.
vo-ces havc increlr,d far more rapidly
tnan popu.ation. During the past
tweuty years populations has incrsas-
ed so per cen. Will. divorces have in
creased l6f per cent. wha; q record
Of broktn VOWS and conjugal misery.
d. Landrum. the eminen; Baptis;
pre2chF- of Atlanta. aid In q recent
sermon. Our h1m.s are in peril.
TIe foundations of society are threat
cred. Marriage Is ;oo often a mock
cry. Divorces are rapidly multiplying
in our cour;s and domestic dep-avi;s
grows apac-''
But legal divorces arc bn; a small
proportion Of the number of s.oara-
items. and 4 still smaller proportion 81
unhappy married people who suffer
and endure their conjugal misery
rather than mortify their childrsa .,T
excite public s-andal. A no,ab.n
lady Ct our town decl,r 4 recently tbs,
sac knew Of hut two happily married
couples in our whole community Oniy
two who are a. Loving ard devoted as
when they seed :; the marriage altar.
We al know many who IL not az hap
~ a. when frst married. are as low
ing and kind to each other. and their
happino.,s l. only married by The anxi"-
ties incident to marrisd life.
81. Pall sa.d. The love of money Is
the roo, Of all OWL. and Ben Franklin
said. me lack cf {; l. the cause Of all
mise Ty." Nei her cf these a crilons
are altogether true. bat thcy approx
mate The truth. WAS Illuminating
abcr. the greed a-d seliishness of
mankind. FIR have been reading
aEor: these trusts 20 much Of late
that like the City cf slu-han. I have
what is going 10 be the end Of Il. In
The Saturday Review Of September q
and 9ih. which Is a ladies iourEal Ji
great excellence. pub i=hed in Atlanta.
there are two articles IN trusts. writ
ten by Or. Alfred r. Seddcn. an Eng
li.hman. I ieiieve. bu: now a citizen
Of Allan "A. which for cogent and ciss-
sic though; eNc.tes both admiration
and alarm. After setting forth IN.
many evils thai will follow ihese grea,
combinations cf capl,aI. he ass
"Wha; is pushing on this rsghsy
mCvemeat-.his great ici berg tat T.
going counter 20 powerful currents
and bi.lows7 Popular deannci2fiOn
the press. the enec;men:s cf congress
waves spending their impofent wra;h
in vain upon the monster. Trusts viii
continue to move on. They will grow
in power and will in time corral all ;hs
wealth. the transportion. the proiuc,
of orr mines and fields. They will e..
| list in their service a vast army ol
tcilsrs, whose derdence on them viii
be soul-crushing and absolute. and
they viii bar out another army o.
woJld-be toiIeTs. who viii have no
visible means q suppoT:-and then
what To what goal are We hasten
ing? Congress might "a well try q
prevent the sun from setting on th'
west. or 10 stop the oown-rushing o
| Niagara. as 10 attempt by law To a-Tss,
th:s universal trerj OF modern com
| merce towards trrs;.'
Taen DR.. Sedjol writes of the new
factc. in American socie y-ihe factoi
of pove-ty-snd says that i;s p-eSeac'
| and lis poss- T. no. yet realized. III
| quotes from the address Of welcom'
by the Chicago Federation Of Labcr {,
| the trades assembly: We bid you vel
1 como in the namts Of a b snd-ed mo
nopolists and fifty thousand tramp.
| Here mammcn Esids her caniyal 4
palaces. while mo.hers are hear
broken and children are starving an
| men look in vain for WORK. We wei
come you In the r7me of hnadre'
thousand idle me3 and tonight W
will show you hundreds Of S.roug fasl
:y.ng On ;5e rough stones IN the cor
riders OF this very bBili.-s-n HON.
no food-ncn able and willing I;
work. but fo- whom there is .
work"
In New York ely there were owe
10000 families turned o1i last year 10
unpaid rent. There were $50 suicide
and ore person n e.e-y ten who die
IS buried in the po:.er's field. On. IN
pity of .;-;he pity Of T.. Wtsen wi
the millennium c5me. Dr. seidon De
Meyes 4; because he know That God
good and will not suffer suci mise.
10 BE- prolonged. and because he ia
promised that all the families OF q,
earth shall he blessed.
am almost afraid 10 read sue
thiags ncT. S1c1 pictures OF huma
misery bring sadness ard feeling {
despair. Long. long ago I wept oye
the Lay of the LaboTef." by To.
Hood, wien it first appeared in IIor
don. That came sad song has cote
over here On This side.of the water an
now our cwn strong men are singing:
Wherever nature needs.
Wherever labor Gals.
No JOB I'll srlirk Of the hardest worh
To shun the wcrkhorse walls:
M aims l ask, give me my taEk-
Her. are tie arm. tte leg.
rt.s E:r.rg;l. -ae ---ews " a ir.a.
b xt:k s-d IL IL beg
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