The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-14

miaistsrs d religion band together 10
conferences and associations? There Is
net in all the land Q city where ciefgy.
man do not come together. many Of them
once q week, to talk over affairs. For
these reasons you should not blame labor
guide. When they are doing their legiu-
mate work, they are most admirable, but
when they come around with drum and
Gfe and flag and drive people of from
their toll, from their scaRoldings, from
their factories, then they are nihilistic,
then they are communistic, then they are
barbaric, then they are curse. II a man
wants to stop work, let him stop work,
but he cannot stop me from work.
But now suppose that all the laboring
classes banded together for benefcient
purposes In cooperative association un-
der whatever name they put their means
together. Suppose they take the money
that they waste In rum and tobacco and
use 1t for the elevation Of their families,
for the education of their children, for
their moral, intellectual and religious i'm
provement, what a different state Of
things we would have In this country and
they would have in Great Britainl
better without stimulants.
Do you not realize the fact that men
work better without stimulant? You
say, "Will you deny the laborng men
this help which they get from strong
drink, borne down as they are with many
anxieties,an exbausting work" would
deny them nothing that Is good for them.
would deny them strong drink, II had
the power, because 1t Is damaging to
them. Ny father said: u became tenn
perance man in early life because !
found that in the harvest field, while
was naturally weaker than the other
men, could hold out longer than any Of
them. They took stimulant and l took
none"
Everybody knows they cannot endure
great fatigue--men who indulge in slim
ulants. All our young men understand
that. When they are preparing for the
regatta or the ball club or the athletic
wrestling, they abstain from strong
drink. Now, Suppose all this money that
10 wasted were gathered together and
put into cooperative institutiOns-oh, we
would have very different state of
things from what we have now!
remark again: The laboring classes
of this country are to find great relief
when they learn, all of them learn, fore
cast and Providence. Vast numbers of
them put down their income, and they
put down their expenses, and II the in
come meets the expenses that Is all that
is necessary. know laboring men who
are In a perfect fdget until they have
spent their last dollar. They fly around
everywhere until they get 1t spent. A
case came under my observation where
young man was receiving 800 a year
marriage day came. The bride had re-
ceived $500 rs an inheritance from her
grandfather. She put the $500 in we'd
ding equipment. Then the twain hired
two rooms on the third story. Then this
man, who had most arduous employ
ment, just as much us he could possibly
endure, got evening employment so he
could earn a few dollars more, and by
this extra evening employment almost
extinguished his eyesight. Why did he
take this extra evening employment?
Was 1t to lay by something for rainy
day? No. Was it to get life insurance
80 that il he should die his wife would
not be pauper7 No. 1t was for the
one purpose Of getting his wife $3.50
sealskin sack. l am just giving you
fact know. The sister of this woman,
although she was very poor girl, was
not to be eclipsed, and so she went to
work day and night and toiled and toiled
and toiled almost into the grave until
she gotta $50 sealskin sack Well, the
news went abroad all through the street.
Most of the people on that street were
handwriting people, and they
were not to be outshone in this way, and
they all went to work in the same direc-
ton and practically said, though not lit.
orally, Though the heavens fall, we
must have a sealskin sack!'
Mortsasins the Farms.
A clergyman in Iowa told me that his
church and the entire neighborhood had
been ruined by the fuct that the people
their farms in order to go
down to the Philadelphia centennial in
1870. First, one family would go, then
another family, and finally It was not
not to go to the centennial
at Philadelphia, and they mortgaged
their farms. The church and the neigh
borhood ruined In that way. Now, be.
tween such fools and pauperism there Is
only very short step. In time of peace
prepare for war. In time of prosperity
prepare for adversely Yet how many
there are who drive on the verge of the
precipicc and at the least touch Of acci-
dent or sickness over they 60 All, my
friends it Is not right, it Is not honest!
lie that provideth not for his own, and
those of his own household,
Is worse than an lnfdel. A man has no
right to live in luxury and have all COM
forts and all brightness around him, TAX
Ing his family with him at that rate
everything bright and beautiful and lux
urious, until he stumbles against tomb
stone and falls in and they all go to the
poorhouse. That is not common honesty.
l am no advocate Of skinfint saving.
abhor It. But plead for Christian
providence. There nre some people who
are disguised II they see anything like
such as man might show In
turning down the gas In the parlor when
he goes out. There are families actually
il you ring their doorbell
before they have the hall lighted. There
are people who apologize If you surprise
Them at the table. Now, 1t is mean or it
s magnificent to save just according to
what you save for. If it is for the
niserly boarding of it, then it is despica-
Die, but il 1t means better education for
FOUR children, II it means more house
lelp for your wife when she is not
,trong enough to do much work, IL 1t
means that the day of your death shall
lot be horror beyond all endurance be-
.ause it Is to throw your family into dis
upton and humiliation and the poor
house, then it is magnificent if it is to
lvoid all that.
Some of the older persons remember
yery well Abraham Van Nest of New
FORK, one of its Christian merchants. He
vas often called mean because he calcu-
atcd so closely. Why did he calculate
loosely? That he might have the more to
i've. There was not Bible society, or
tract society, or II rcformatory institu-
ion In the city Of New York but he had
lis hand In supporting it. He denied
limself many Injuries that he might give
o others the necessities. He has been
many years reaping his reward In heav.
n, but l shall never forget the day
When l, green country lad, came to his
Ouse and spent the evening, and at the
lose of the evening, as was departing,
e accompanied me to the steps, came
own off the steps and said: Here, De
Witt, $40 for books. Don't say anything
bout it." 1t is mean or it is magnificent