The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-17
CITY AND COUNTRY.
DR.. Talmage Talks of the Good
Done by the Former.
ne says II IL the birthplace of Civil
sation and Not Necessarily
BviI--some Advice to
the Young.
copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
Warrington, Aug. IL

peived by the emperor ana empress
and the empress dowager, DR.. Tai
mage sends this discourse, in which he
shows the mighty good that may be
done by the cities, and also the vast
evil they may do by their allurements
10 the unsuspecting and the unguard-
ed. The text is Zechariah 1:17: MY
cities through prosperity shall yet be
spread abroad"
The city is no worse than the coun-
try. The vices of the metropolis are
more evident than the vices of the ru-
raj districts because there are more
to be bad if they wish to be. The
merchant is as good as the farmer
There is no more cheating in town
than out of town-no worse cheating;
st is only on larger scale. The coun-
tryman sometimes prevaricates about
the age of the horse that he sells,
about the size of the bushel with
which he measures the grain, about
the peaches at the bottom Of the
basket as being as large as those at
the top, about a quarter OF beer as
being tender when il is tough. and to
as bad an extent as the citizen, the
merchant prevaricates about calicoes
or silks or hardware.
And as to villages, | think that in
some respects they are worse than
the cities. because they copy the vices
of the cities in the meanest shape, and
as to gossip its heaven is a country
village. Everybody knows everybody's
business better than he knows il him
self. The grocery store or the black
smith shop in day and night is the
grand depot for masculine little tat
tie, and there are always in the viii
lage a half dozen women who have
their sunbonnets hanging near, so
that at the first item of derogatory
news they can fly out and cackle il all
over the town. Countrymen must not
be too hard in their criticism of the
citizen, nor must the pillow run too
sharply against the yardstick.
Cain was the founder of the first
city, and / suppose it took after him
I'm morals. 1t takes a city long
time TO escape from the character of a
kounder. Where the founders of n
city are criminal exiles, the filth, the
vice, the prisons, are the shadow OF
those founders. It will take centuries
for New York TO get over the good
influence of the pious founders of that
eity-the founders whose prayers
went up I'm the streets where now
banka discount and brokers bargain
and companies declare dividends and
smugRlers swear custom house lies
and above the roar of the wheels and
che crack of the auctioneer's mallet
ascends the ascription: 1--WE worship
thee, o almighty dollar!" The OLD
ahurch that used to stand on Wal
street is to this day throwing it,
blessing on the scene of traffic and OF
all the ships folding their white wings
in the harbor. In other days people
gatheredin cities for defense-none but
the poor, who had nothing to b,
stolen, lived in tbA country, but il
these times, when through civilization
and Christianity it is safe to live any
where, people gather in the cities fol
purposes of rapid gain.
Cities are not evil necessarily, al
some have argued. They have beer
the birthplace of civilization. In then
popular liberty has lifted it's voice
Witness Genoa and Pisa and Venice
After the death of Alexander tn
Great among his papers were found eN
tensive plans of cities. some to b.
built in Europe, some to be built il
Asia. The cities in Europe were to b
occupied by Asiatics; the cites in Asi
were to be occupied, according TO hi
plans, by Europeans, and so Their
should be a commingling and fra
ternity and a kindness and a goo
will between the continents and be
tween the cities. So there Away
ought to be. The strangest thing i
my comprehension is that ther
should be chickering's and rivalrie
among our American cities. New Yor
must stop caricaturing Philadelphia
and Philadelphia must stop picking a
New York, and certainly the cont
nent is large enough for St. Paul an
Minneapolis. What is good for on
city is good for all the cities. Her
Is the great highway of our nations
prosperity. On that highway of nj
tional prosperity walk the cities.
A city with large forehead an
great brain-that is Boston; cit
with deliberate step and calm name
that is Philadelphia; a city with II
pocket full of change-that is Ne
York; two cities going with n rus
that astounds the continent-they al
st. Louis and Chicago; a city thu
takes its wife and children along wit
it--that is Brooklyn. Cincinnati
Louisville, Pittsburgh, all the citi,
of the north and all the cities of IL
south, some distinguished for OF
thing, some for another, one for pr
fessional ability another for afiluenc
another for fashion, but none to
spared. What advantages one adva
tages all. What damages Boston cor
mon damages Washington squar
Laurel HILL Mount Auburn, Gree
wood, weep over the same grief III
stotua of BENJAMIN Franklin in Ne