Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-05-16
Enemies of the
American People
Written especially for he Herald
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Mr.. Editor

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to agitate a spirit of reform within
the writer, both from a local and
national standpoint.
In the series of articles to appear
in this column we will deal with the
various evils that are destructive to
American civilization, educational
institutions, religious system, and to
the home life.
Aristotle, the great philosopher
Fand founder of the science of logic,
had wonderful power to observe
facts, and an equally wonderful tai
ent of systemizing and reasoning on
them. His treaties on rhetoric,
ethics and political science is unsur-
passed in the realms of secular liter
AZURE. In all departments of re-
search, he exhibited the same capic-
ity for scientific observation and dis
cussion; they extended over the field
OF material nature, the mind and
morals. The influence and fame Gre
ated by him is imperishable, although
2,213 years have passed since he COM
pleted his life work.
In his treatices on logic, he distin-
pushed four kinds Of causes for the
existence of thing the material
cause, the formal cause, the efficient
cause and the final cause. These
four causes enter into the formation
and propagation of the evil systems
that stand out as a menace to those
life giving and life sustaining insti-
buttons of our Commonwealth. These
causes are manifest in the formation
Of the evil system as we'll as those in
the life giving. There is first, Sec
ond, third and fourth cause for every
thing, whether it be good or evil,
and this is true throughout the ma
terial and spirit world.
To the American people God has
given a wonderful vineyard, beauti-
fully fruitful and marvellously pro
tected. Every advantage has been
given us for bringing forth the fruits
of righteousness in religion, civiliza-
ton, our great political platforms,
educational institutions, and in our
social and home life.
This great and marvellous vine
yard God has intrusted to us to cul-
ture for him, but the culture must
not be confined to the church or our
immediate sphere but must reach
out into politics, business, education,
social and home life.
The Son of God, in giving instruc-
lions during his earthly ministry,
once said, '"The last shall be first,
and the first shall be last" May we
not take this statement of Christ out
of it's natural sitting, or in other
words, borrow the phrase and apply
it to the nations from the earliest
ages to the present?
Study the history and development
of nations down to the present, with
the thought in mind that God has
been working out His great plan and
ideal through the nations as we'll as
the church, and when we come to
view the last great nation of His
founding, the United States of
America" it is easy to see how "the
last has become first"
In 1879, just 81 years ago, the pop
ulation of the United States was just
so, 100000, and since that time the
population has nearly doubled, while
the national resources have multi
piled many times.
Thirty-four years ago, less than
one tenth of the vast areas here
were under cultivation, and yet after
feeding our own population of fifty
million, there was a surplus of $685.
100000 bushels of grain for export
to the other nation. If the whole of
the area were brought under cultiva-
ton, it would feed .over 100000, 00O
people and leave surplus for ex-
port of over 5000, 900 bushels; elimi-
mating some of our wasteful Ameri.
cans farming methods, these lands
! not including Alaska, can produce
enough food to sustain population
| of one billion people and still have {
surplus of six billion bushels for ex
port. What mighty vineyard, anc
how are we helping it?
| Take five of the foremost powers
| in Europe: the British Isles, France
Germany, Australia and Italy; thel
add Spain, Portugal, Denmark, ant
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