Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-08-04
GsS@ County Aerald.
FRIDAY, AUaFsr 1, 1898.

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INDUCED in TO crafty the propcnsiti,
Of intellectual youthful beings to G,
rid of an exuberance of physical in
pulses directed by keen vitalizimg int
lects. At the same time it was inte
lects controlled 10y physical impulses.
may he intellect run wild; for til
brightest intellects are sometimes til
widest and most uncomfortable. Wealt
and culture are among the things mos
coveted by mankind. They are at tn
same time almost certain PRECURSORS G
pride, inSolence, oppression and aggre.
siveneSs. This is illustrated in imdividr
ais and especially in families. In tn
latter, beginning in poverty or scant
ness, each member is generous toward
the others. All are frank. rnterprisimg
economical and cheerfully contentrd
They share with the neighbors and exer
else emulation in all life affairs withou
envy, pride or covetouSneSS. The family
begins to prosper and then succeeds the
happiest period known. Contentment
health, prosperity and that hearty en-
1oyment of it which always comes from
the passage from hopes to their blending
into realities. This is the beginning of
a series of progressive proportions which
if the family held together long enough
and maintained its conditions Of in
crease, in wealth and culture would, and
in exceptional cases do, reach the high
est cminence. Even by the commoneSt
aGcretion if a family could maintain
itself and continue in moderately pros
porous conditions through several gener-
ations it could not fail of substantial
footing, and in such conditions of per
manence and perpetuity that each gener-
alton would not have to "begin" life in
poverty and often with nothing But
such is the nature of things that as a
rule families can rise only about 50 high
in culture and wealth. 1t is said that
the waves of the ocean rise only so high
above the sea level when they break up
into foam. They rise in strength and
magnihcence and then rushing away
from and then against each other are
dashed into a foamy mass.
Nobody can deny that the preservation
and transmission of family estates is the
greatest source of comfort, prosperity
and happiness known to human practices
or institutions. But accumulation pro.
roeds about so far and then springs up "A
desire to rush throughit There is even
a savage disposition in men to tear
down what they themselves have built.
Men grow weary of well doing. want to
put their little but sure accommodations
into faster conditions, ventures, chances
TO go into individual and tolerated grand
larceny by modern legerdemain, swiping
in piles and piles of wealth right before
the public eye and the crowd wondering
how it is done, and why some one does
not expose their methods. not knowing
that nearly all who know them are striv
ing or hoping to avail themselves of
them. And so individuals are rushing
off to new pursuits and many to other
countries. There is feverish unrest.
dreamy, restless spirit of adventure,
disgust for old systems, old ways and
old considerable notions. Show is sue
ceedlng substance, greed and wholesale
pillage is driving out justice and protec-
ton, success no matter how won is DEFY
Ing criticism, statesmen are at discount
while politicians are at premium. Sud
den undeserved and accidental fortunes
have destroyed the once generous and
patriotic sentiments of their possessors
and turned the heads of mnlmbered
throngS of incompetent imitators and so
individuals are rushing off in tangents
everywhere-to Cuba for fame. to klon-
dixie for gold, to Washington for office
and to the devil and everywhere else for
the means to get there. The great car
dinal principle on which the enquiry how
ought ] to act towards others to succeed
is exchanged for the enquiry how can | |
act and succeed? In short old things
are put away in disgust and entirely
new ones adopted; and success along
those new lines is applauded by those
whose appreciation was once despised by
those very successful possessors.
Then is it SO very strange that there
should have been nation founded in
Justice and believing that any and every
people on the face of the earth had 4
right to govern themselves; that that
nation should have been established
solely for its own independence and in
tcrnal development; that it should have
been established on theories and princi-
pies which were just as essential to its
and continuance as thew
were to its establishment? Nor yet is it
so strange that such nation composed
Of individuals so transformed by the
times as to despise and ridiculc the prin,
'iplcs and theories on which il was foun-
led, and to look with contempt upon its
founders and upon those elementary and
abstract universal principles which
formed the rule of their lives, should be
oosened from its moorinGs and moved
hto unknown seas and that this should ,