The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-01-12
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
CASTORIA
Social Conditions.

Social Conditions.
To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL:
Some people get farm in the forest
and put so much energy into improving
it that it comes to be worth fortune.
Others float from place to place in search
of higher wages and die in poverty. Some
invest all their earnings in trying to sup
port as much style as their more fortu-
nate neighbors. Nearly everybody goes
to some extreme. Very few give proper
thought to the object of their painstak-
ing labor. Property is of the first i'm
portance, as man can not live without
bread. Good government secures the
conditions under which property may be
acquired. But neither of these are the
primary object of human existence. In
animate earth rises through an endless
series of vegetable and animal life to
man made in the image of his Creator.
The nobler elements of human nature
are too much neglected. And when an
effort is made to develop the higher ma
ture, it is apt to go as far to the other
extreme as the miser goes in the acqui-
sition of riches. One of our best preach
ers in pleading for his objects of charity
says: EDO you not realize that every dol
lar you give to your children, after you
have given them a good education, in all
probability will lessen their mental and
physical vitality?" He would be bet
ter preacher if he had said that "Charity
begins at home" Or, 3'He that pro-
videth not for his own household is worse
than an infdel.'
Under present conditions, capital is
essential to success in business. If our
government saw fit to loan money on
good security, at a low rate Of interest,
we should hear less said about the neces-
sity of equality of opportunity. There
is something more important for the
safety of the people than jails and pris-
ons. 1t is the training of children in the
paths of virtue, so they will not become
law breakers. There is something more
important than the poorhouses. 1t is aid
for those who are struggling against ad-
verse circumstances and word of warn.
ing to the idle and thriftless and sensua
and to those who squander their sub.
stance in vain display.
, Organized society can carry and dis,
tribute mails. 1t can carry and distrib
ute goods, or even manufacture them
We are making some progress. Gov.
eminent is furnishing water in dry re.
gions. But still other nations are doing
more to aid the struggling common peo
pie. We would do we'll to use portion
of our battleship money in placing soci
ETY. on a more equal basis. We neeo
more financial equality in order to give
US more physical, intellectual and relig
ious equality. Men buy controlling in
terest in banks and thus by small in
vestment in bank stock control the
credit of great industries.
The childish mind is nourished anc
made stronger by the simple acts Of
play. Amid all these acts of child OF
man there should be soul culture or it is
useless. The blood of Christ seems tt
be happy medium in which the aver
age human soul may meet the Creative
Energy of the Universe. The brain is
the delicate organ Of our body through
which mind or soul acts upon the mate
rial muscular organism of our body
This delicate connecting link is essentia
between mind and matter. But the sou
of man is of the same nature and image
of it's Creator. The necessity of con
Meeting link is largely imaginary.
Some men became acquainted with the
author of Nature before the days Of
Christ. But the way has been made
more plain by Him. The Jewish Law
pointed to Him as the leader of great
host who should live according to Nat
ure's design. If child's arm were plac
ed in sling at the age of one year ant