The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-26


Children are perishing by the thousands
-1eO00 in one city alone just estimates
in sweatshops and factories. The hapless
insane or disabled are. it is we'll said,
thrust out of sight II not out of exist
ence, under the protecting care of the
lowest cash bidder And With all our
animal study and humane laws. tho royal
president of the London society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty 20 Birds. sits down
to a lark pie for which 900 joyous song
sters have been sacrificed. Yet in the
teeth OF all this we are asked, by sci
ence, society and even religion, 10 be-
lieve that we are vending our way heaV-
onward and that darkness. wrong and all
manner Of wickedness are being daily
put under our feet. And in very truth
without the aid of any OF them we do
believe IL. But II is not because any or
all Of them conspire 10 call black white
but rather because some fierce Saul
among the prophets ventures still TO
show things as they are and demand
with the honest president. a publicity IN
all quarters that shall enable the befud-
died people 10 know them as they are
II IS that very roofing out Of evil IN
hidden places which is filling our daily
papers with such pages OF crime and hor-
ror that is, after all, one Of the best
signs Of our Improvement. There was
time when furies were bribed and Tam
many rings built up with less ado than
the public now makes over II. There
was time When an English editor would
scarcely have veuturcd 20 criticise houors
to a prince Of Wales. though expressed
in terms of lark pie There was
time. as Hugo and Dickens can show.
when children We're dwarfed and driven,
crippled and enslaved without the gen
eral cry that goes up today against all
lines OF child labor. To have enough
virtue to protest against vice II some
thing in Itself, that, from Socrates down
has been one Of the mose substantial.
though unpopular. signs of advancement
in either nations or individuals And TO
doubt We are moviag iu the direction q
the Bethlehem star even though Schiey
may not get his dues save IA the hearts
Of the American people. Tor Miss Stone
be rescued from the bFlgands save as she
unSettles their morals. That 50 many
ages Of moving find us no farther along
on our upward way s., Of course. the
problem OF the Christian centuries. es-
recIally in view Of the fact that the mes
sage and the meaning = the Christian
star was not long, slow, iolinS
through the painful years. bat swift.
glad awakening futo the I'm biesse5ness
of peace and good VII 20, in the ST.
lent night q child 10 God IS born. and
an = broceht again that ere was lost
or lorn sings the cher~bic fistial- ara
that is The mystery and the marvel n the
Christian STORY. Now. too. an science
is with f. and declares 10 rs thar % -
hut an attitude - the mird an attune-
ment II the soul 20 the neral order end
beauty ~ life that ends ai The fever.
fret ana discor5. aud bets 81 the angel
notes 81 peace and good VII Ard yet
that heavenly awakening is stll too faf
from our troubled eartl- %q- can W,
with an orr sanhlstrles. quite cheat oar-
.elr-s into the belief that i- 81 here
though coch returning Chri=tnlas seems
q, rloaH sWhr roo Truly. That
scheruhlr 81 Erlu- touched re kernpte
a. ere daiea rs when he sang % the az
Gent Way eref-
-rhoash l.srls- a thousand times fl Beta
lehem ~ BORN.
y he's nat bern 80 thee. ny sorl Is a.
forlorn
irene 4. saHors. n Gisbs-Demoorzt-