New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-18
MR.. MARKHAMs POEM.
.,,o-urR VIEW OF THE STATUS OF "THE MAN
WITH THE HOE"

WITH THE HOE"
ro the Editor Of The Tribune
c,r. AS woman Though the idea Of sex In a
,.s,ion Of criticism seems arrantly absurd) re-
ply 10 F. j. . Ill, -.
Mr. Markham OF course. was writing poem. not
. psychological or sociological treatise with heads
"a suhheads poem is always mpressionstic-
sosb annealng 10 the emotions rather than TO
49, intellect otherwise It is sermon on didactics.
D., never mind that What truths are In and be-
tween the Hnesf
RI SIS attitude OF noble ability TO endure her
,o,gbhors WEAKNESS is worthy Of Artemus Ward
=" bis feeling for his wifes relations about going
81 uar She is In this sweet compassion for the
ian who .'swinks and sweats." as tenderly philo-
o,b,cal as Is the comfortable "Jingless' Of The
los Angeles Times stakeholder and stock WARP
,or, who piously extols over labor as 'neces-
inv for spiritual development the dose In both
os we must remember being for the party OF
A. Second part F. J. S holds that the hoe man
.. 0ullard because Of his Sinking Of mental
xer,,on In the name Of Darwin and Weissman l
st her what is the impetus that makes man
have an impulse Of any kind? Cannot man be
horn with a will dwarfed atrophed. absent, as
we'll as a leg or an arm? What is sweeter than 10
follow ones own sweet will? Wouldn't noe man
,La = J. s. go In the direction Of least resistance
% he had the innate upward tendency? 1t is this
will TO rise this desire TO triumph, that Is absent
II is this lack that has left the hoe man void OF
environment and see t. with leisure and example
~ better things, he will not levitate. , -
The College Settlement people know the inner
ching They give the hoe material somethlns 70
rise toward The Elmira prison keepers know the
secret They give the man an ideal ana chanCe
~ grasp for IT, Must We indeed, give ala only 10
,,pose STRIVING for mental and spiritual uprse
1bese need little from us. The stars bend 70 them
II lie the lackwits. the dead souls, that wan, the
eslva nizine. the impact of the living spirit; ,
eNo F. j. S, as teacher of many years expert,
.rce saw that kindergarten children are nov an
equal in grasp of thought There are lame Ihin so
80 taIt souls, and these are manned through So
SaI conditions that prevented proper gTowt t ere
he child was born of mother what upillt can
~ mother who half fed, half rested must wGI \
sn ne washtub or sewing table for the perl0o
~ GOES 70 the making Of man put into me niue
Heart beating under hers? What is the Gnlo pot
Il SSar,eted Wizened edition of hersefE Does not
science show that these creatures dle nhe , me me
sUban,era Of the summer hours In the Sums OF I.e
etss9 And who can that they go PACK mo
81 hoso1o 81 the Fat perchance 10 Try the est.
tne isTer when men have learned that they must
ion hands as brothers TO give eaCn d so"' ~ ~
{oaa,-d ~ life each a fair beginning 49,, .-,.,.
~ course there is much IN lnoVldudl s.i iNa,,s'
,,e xSo resists the impulse 10 be better man COM
n1ts the sin against the Holy Ghost bus ra ao tb0
nho saws Evil be thou my god Ihere are i Hto bs
sands who never know the stir OF NE tMa, StIF''
10 a higher soul. ,eoo JO''>-'E
So n Francisco, Aug. 3, lS's