Follies Of Statesmen

professor Swing preached yesterday mornlng In Central Muslc Hall 0:1 the subject : "The National Distress." llis text was : ThoiiRh thou shonld'st lirny a fooi in a mortar jimongr wheat with i pestle yOt will nol llis foollshness depart from blm. - Proverbë. xxvii.. ■■. He saiil : It wonld seem from olomon'e illustration of tlie fooi and the mortar that he must have l-umvn gomething of the natural effect of violent ïnotion among atoms. Yellow suftar is now made white partly by violent niotion. In the career of this gweet stuff all yellowness is known to be an intruder and it can be whirled out or squeezed out. In that form of sugar known as candy the yellow Ia pulled out. Under that violence the oolor gradually disappears and the material lieeomes snow white. It would seem that BolomOD most have had this chemical fact in mlnd when he lamented that no pounding or pulling would bc able ti sepárate a fooi from nis coloring of folly. We are all foolish 10 gucn an cxtcnt as to give to the wlse man-a figure a pertional interest. Pounding wül brlng aoclety something of wisdom, even if it will not make it perfect in philosophy and prartice. The een trlfugal forces do not a little toward Whiiening the social inas. 'H:v hydrostatic presa will make all foreign elemente work to the outeide and fall away. A part of our folly lias been brayed out of us, hut society is much tormented with the parte that remaln. 0BOW8 wisi: si.owi.v. It is miu'li to the disgrace of man t Hat he growa wise o Blowly. He moves toward wisdom with the utmost reluctance. So much of a la.iiíxard is be along th soei.il patb that nature Is compelled at times to ponnd bim in a mort ar in the hope of geparating hlm from a part of nis tnrplua of folly. In all the good mout lis and Kood jears past the average laboring man and well-paid woman wonld not put aside a single dollar for some hour of need. The more abundain the work and the botter the pay, the higher the head and the greater the outlay for all the forms of picasure. Along comea the winter of '98 and 'Ui wit li its mortar and pestle. and we fools must all be pounded once again. golomon itated the c;ise too strongly, for some of our folly lias been taken away from us and we Bhall much ii' before nature geta wholly done with our glmple race. in oue ol the lamber distriets : famine is now rery near to many a ainily, the beer saloons mul; in $150i in i cloging year. Thcre was .1 saloon for each 120 persons- a saloon for eacli thlrty voters. If the voters are the bread-wimiers then tliese bread-winnera gave an enormous sum lor a bitter drink that ís worsc than worthlees. The family was tims made pooi even before the advent of winter. is WITHOUT JUMOS, The habits oí inany of onr worklng men would be bad enough. even la a olimate whlch had HO winter, for even there sickneM and other misfortunes come; but In our nortliern Btatea where winter is an inevitable and heavy fait, the eustnm of many laborers is empty of all reason. So despotlc has beer becorae that many gangs of workmen cannot walt until noon or evening for a drink. A man is sent out each two or three hours for it, and often he is seen with a lath or stick full of beer buckets. If the thing dronk possessed any value thi.s daily outlay of money wonld be more excusable, but it hu often been shown by great ]]i.vsici.uis and chemists that beer is nelther food or drink. It is simply a created and false pleasure. It is costing our poor peeple many millions of dollars each ye;ir, and altboagb the winter comes akmg and pounds these triflers witli mortar and peetle yct the terrora 61 the winter are forgotten as soon as the liluc birds and robins sing. MIST BI OUIDBB BY CI.IMATE. The people must regálate their economy partij by the cllmate. In southern lande where there is nu win ter. .'111(1 where traite abound neariy uil 1 lie jrear, the laborlng rlnss can endure Improvidence. [1 la a fortúnate tiiinir for a recklegs mlnd II it can live where there is Uttle need ol a house, or a Ure, or a bed, or clothinii, imt the Inhab the températe zeur unisi have thelr indu and pollcy modiüed by [ac1 ol winter. This fací dl' win I blessed the aorthern race 'm its bulk for it has made - house building and lióme building it lias diTin-atcd the tesldeo man musí speud hall the year ; it ' ; rged the arts, musí . esi and reading by cloalng up the exter nal show and happlness, and by lead iiiir the people wlthln the door ani the wall. Mllllona declina thi b ■ bleci inga if the winter, and havlng dissi pated all through the summer, they fall int o wiir.er's mort ar to be pound ed. IAI-1.1 (r THE GOVERNMENT. Not all the persons who are now in distress fall onder these reflectiong. Winter is nol t!ii' mly glant Uiat pounda ua wlth a mortar and pestle. The general government at Washington has not made the happiiiess of the eommon people a regular and zealous pursult. It lias permitted a hundred years to pass without helping the laborlng classes to any savlngs banks, whlch should be aa omnl-preeent as the postotHce and as reUaWe as the Nation. Such omnlpresent banks would by this time bare created an economlcal people. They WOUld have been edueat ional. As the l'nited States mail has ereated a raí-e of letter-wrilers, has made the art of reading and writing to be sought after and learned by even the humblest domestics, so the postoffice bank would have led every humble laborer to put away some money for morrow. The poor emigrant from Ireland or Italy has come hither to be taught lndustry and economy, but only to have an infinite ignorance supplemented by an infinite liberty. One of the worst combinations in the world is ignorance and liberty. The old despotisme fnrnished the ignorance and we the liberty. l'nder this compound of ideas, the paths of the exilcs are well wora toward the BalOOO, bnt toward a savings bank wholly untrodden. There are good banks in the city. liui the bank raust foüow the people. The saloon can follow the laborer to the pine wóods. So the bank sliould follow tile ax and the plow. To a hundred years of guch neglect the Nation has added the vice of being often a meddler Instead of being a írieiid. Having in BOme liour of assurned benevoleace reached the doctrine of protection, it has oí late year.s made its honey into a rank poison. DANQBB IN HKII'F TINKICKINCi. IÍ we admit for the moment the wisdom of a protectlve tariif we muèt preceive at once that it must reinain uniform at least for a generation. Men eannot build great factoriesona tour years' basis. American cutlery came at last to displace and rival Sheffield cutlery because the tariff on edged tools lay still for nearly forty years. Men can not be taught a trade by one tariff and then turned out of doors by another. The nation that teaehes ten thousand men to make axes. oitght not to go to them in four years and ask them to beeome the weavers of velvet, plush, or the makers of mnslin or palying eards. When a million persons have been indurled by a tariff into the trades that fall iwder the heads of brass. jilass. zinc, tin, copper, ïii.-kd. lead, ood, leather, paper, ■ ion and wool. it is grOSS injuslice for the government to come along and ask them all to quli thèir slio]s and teacb schooi or go to farmlng. Qur men have only one life. They eannot changë their pursuits at the requöst of a republican or a democrat. All art is at least as long as life. A government that changes it's pollcy every tour years OUghi to rule only in the shop of Home Prench inilliner. As soon as a Frejich milliner lias sold out her spring styles she sets her artista to work on a new forra of hat or rol)e. This Creative genius goes lato retirement for thirty days, and by ineaiiH of some Integral calculus and special spectrum analysis he learns that the plume which lay toward the horizon in May should point to the zenit h in September, and and the hat that was large in the fall must be small in the spriiiRtime. The artist emerges with this new diseovery, and our women pay a million pounds for the attitude of a feather. ERA OF TRAM I'S. Such Is the tariff at Washington. In 1824 Mr. Clay saw the country going to ruin by this route. In 1844 these tariff tinkers came back, and ever since every manufactory lias wondered whether it would live tivo years, or three or four. At last In 1872 the era of tramps set in, and if our Natlon goes on in its neglect and in its tinkering, the tramp army will oqual the sands of sea in multitud. , It is not necessary for one to kiunv or say whii-h particular tariff is the botter or the worse- tliat of McKinley i . thal of Wilson. Tlie ivhole ]int is that the (i.ooo.OOO of peo pie must not be knocked to and Iro every winter winter by the variable intcllccts of Smlth and Jones. ]f a lady wants a iuv style ii bonnet each eeason, let her have ii ; bu our Nat ion (■.-munt take a Frenen tnilllnet i'nr iis model. li must feel the valué of u is principies aa acting in long time. Each worklng man musí have before him a Ufe in hls .art. Men cattnot a fiord to bulld tactorlea on a thlrty-day plan. a lawyer a doctor ■■; preacher [ollows bis patta for liiv. s,i must the w ■ iho glassblower. The word permaneucy plays a great part In political economy. The panlc of Ias1 June carne from the nervousnesa which the Natlon lias been studlously creatlng for a century. ,s crimínala are manufactured by the ''glorious uncertalnty ol the law" and by the aubsequent faclüty of pardon, so each election is followed by a iicivous prostratlon that comes from the absence from Washington oí all fixed principies. PSBMANXKCY ís DE.MAXDKl). Once Borne of the si a les in 1'ac Southwest offered per cent, interest on meney. That millennium of the capltallsi dld nol last the whole of a thousand years. In a half dozen winters the interest and principal both dlaappeared, and then nothIng geemed ao gilt-edged as a good -í pr cent bond. Thus all through and through our country is hungry for some great form of permanent good. It needs postal bank and tariff lawa that will suffer ao ehange tor at least a coinmon lifetime. So dcstitute of principies are inany of our extemporized t-tatesmen that tkey luye a dollar that will fluctuate like i t hermometer between 100 cents nul 57 c(nts ; and as though Xationtl banke were too monotonons in tiicir excellence, these Impromptu Btatesmen aak for state banka and private banks that nuiney ni.iy be brought to our doors by the spring wagon of the rag man. They do not know or care anythlng abouï the noney of to-morrow. Kven we Ignorant preachers know that gold wlU be nioney muil the last trümpet hall sound. HO BUIDING HAND. Nu Nat Ion ever equaled our own in the desire to be industrio, is and s to the arena and resources of an Ininite indu.-t ry. But our inillions have m Btatesmen to guide hem. If the Btatesmen poseessed virtue enough to let the people alone, they iniyhl lie praiaed lor wisdom. The "Klng oí J'rance. wlio inarched his arm; up the hill and then marched Iliem down again," jiossessed an element of permanency. When he gol down he stayed down. His mareliIng had a terminus. The soldiers could coiint on a peace of body and soul. Our politlcal generáis havlng reached bottom or top, go up and down eternal'i.v until the Btupld hillBide is worn out and fiie army is in rags and broken-hearted. It la not for the pulpit to gay whidi general is the worst. One thlng is eertaln, the Xation is in a miserable plighi if It must be only a helpless ball flying bet ween the bats of the republican and democratie players of lawn tennis. The game is more fatal tlian either football or war. While the larger part of our midwinter poverty springs from the National indifference to the laborlng classes, yet were the Xation perfect there would still be in our land a large volume of poverty aiid BufferIng. It is not altOgether a blessíhl;- for one city to be conspicuous. for a city set upon a hill semiet h its liiflit not only to the good and Ingenlous who want a good field for greal works, imt it aünrea aleo tena of thousands who havtag be ome po.ir elsewhere come !;iiher and poséese nothing imt hope, and other thoula who possesa only .-i desire to follow their idlenese and rtce In a great center of population. MORE CAME TIIAN W DBD. Our city was so emblazoned and was so eplendld and grand all through the past three yeara bhat it drew toward ltsell an unusual throng oí persons, many of ivhom were noble - mlnds that luul educatlon, enterprlse, and honorable expectation. We must praiae all persona who journey at the bidding oí' a reaaonable hope. Tims the old saint Journeyed led by faith. Many of those who came hither have found what they sought and are already interwoven in this city's business and social life. But more came than were called and chosen ; and now good people are homeless in mld-winter in a climate haren even to those who have firesides of their own. There is one thing that is permanent. Tariffs and banks and money go up and down, but the sentiment of love sweeps along through nutions and república. It is not so strong as it should be, but it is upon earth in great force and beauty. A few years ago after a destructive ilood, this love swept over France and Spain. Then it was Vietor Hugo said that if Paria is the beart of the world, then the sorrows of the world must be those of Paris. So we must say that if this city is a center of Ughi and wealth and power, it must be bIbo a center of benerolence. It nmst iiiish'.s a perfect manhood .■nul perfect roman bood, for what a mutilated hnmanity would our city be ere ils beart proven to be only a stone : [ ron QtMBDIATE AH). Thli ! liman ove does not dare to walt to discusa the causes of hunger and raggedness and frozen feet. The men. woincn and children must be 0 :r. 1 o ■, ni 1 ih 'il niay come a BI ar -h after the lost statcsmen. The iuroadg oí machlnery may be helping the (eeble pollticlana to multiplj number oí the poor. Our love must the poor now and phllosophize and act and vote hereafter. Yon remember the Greek boy who had fallen tato a stream and was beg ging a phllOBOpher to tnrow him a board or a rope. The wise man began to lecture the lad on the value of prudence when one is in or uear the water. The boy erled out: ■oh wise man. glve me a plank nouand the lecture when I get out [" It was rumored that some of tne churches were about to m:ke oí basements lodging-rooms for sotne oí the nomeless. Wlial the details of theiiplan may be is not vet known, but t niíiy be well for us to remember 1 1 .- 1 1 the calamlties oí society have ilways been the opportunity of the huren. The charch lias oever touch■d the poor without touching the Inellect of the world. The church was bom of human sorrow. od )iticii the world and then Chrlsi iit I sd the world. Humanlty was sinul, eruel, tearful in life, hopeleas In leath. out of such poverty of body nul soil the architecture of the hurch arose ; the gospel was the ■loquence of benevolence ; the pray■rs all were whispered in the name of niercy ; the hymns and chanta were the melody made iy man's teara t mi hopee. The deep foundatims of every eathedral, the solemn colmuis and the graceful arches prolaim the everlasting power and divinenesa of man's love for man and teaven'a love for man. The noblcst irchitecture rests upon a great emot ion. When (lood r peatllenee or lamine strikes a human heart there the rhurch wavcs lier Rag as a lifeboat starts out when a ship has been lriven apon the roeks. What the ■hurch lias often lost by her intelleetual argumenta she has regalned by icr love. The gospel has been caried forward not by its collateral dogmas but by its gympathiea with our weeping race. Some lntellects augh at John Calvin but none at the good Samaritan. That story of the heart has traveled over the jarth for eighteen centurléa and lias tesa as popular as a sumbeam, as welcome as the evenlng Btar. Es jeclally oow, when the church is disturbed by the assatilts oí BClence and by the new Iokíc f a new age, doea tt need that crown of honor Which ■liarity can weave for it. The chattering world growe slleni when benevolence speaks. The ivords of belevolence are that Orphean music to which the trees and animáis once listened with such raptare. ín xatire's mortah. Each liarsh winter, each destructíve lire, each pestilence, eadi sweeplng nood is natuve's moi-tar in which the ehurch is pounded into a higher wisdom. In all labora for nian it parta wlth some of its oíd folly and takes a few steps toward iis divine toonder. Every year our churches must become the more ardent frienda ai educatlon and of all the highesi ends and alms of human life. It once helped the sla ve to libeily ; i once helped the drunkard escape írom the fatal cup ; it has helped the dumb animal to find some traeea oí mercy. Cheered iy these gucee the pulpit need make iis theology ,i full partner oí social science, lor there is a blessed relation between a man's home and in-i heaven - a blessed relat ion between our evening liynm ;inl the pillow where we sleep. Wheii that ISible cliarncter slept wlth a Btone under bis head he iliil bo In a Bweet rommer night, witu (rienda many and aear, aad with the aext day all covered over wltb the young heart's rich expectatlon. ThuB tbe angels on the ladder at nlght ditl not hover over a man whose feet were frozen and whose bed was In the snow. They carne to i lieart that was sleeping well under a starry sky and balmy winds. Every plani was aromatic ; in every field was a shepherd wlth bis flock ; each star was a geni ; the breeze, muslc. THE COTTAGE AND THE I'UAYEK. Thus religión cannot advance by theology alone ; it must open lts creed to admit all social science. In that peasant's prayer oí llobert Burns the cottage is as conspicuous as the prayer : Thy cheerful Bupper done, wlth serions face Thev rouud the iieartlistone íorm a clrcle wide. But this circle is not only around the lüble it is around the happy fire. In the closing Unes, lint haply In soine cottuse fur apart. God ln-ars. well pleaaed, the lauguage of the soul, And in hls book of üfe the inmates doth euroll. baek comes the cottage to help draw Hic beautiful picture of religión. Hut vlio belps man build this cottage and kindle this fin; on the hearth ï Do what the state and tiie srlioolhouse may, Christlanity mnst build the roof 1 1 1 ■ 1 1 is in cover tte own prayers, It must helj) kindie the evenlng fire that is t ghine apon the children's faces all through the wintry storm, If its wanderlng Jacob must have a .stone [or a pillow, it lunst help iic ate a summertlme aronnd hla heart. It must pull out the siK.w trom ander liis arm and glve him the benefit ol Borne bladea o! grasa and a few vlolets. There is a mlghty metropolis thai is now all the world over bedecked ii h the fame ol t te ''White city' the "Enchanted City." ïhe "Dream City," "The Vanlshlng ir. .'■ The Chrlstlan and pagan wm-iiis were amazed. That fortúnate town will Bot dare even appear before the nations in an.v Uttlenesa n' intellect or coldnesa ol soul. lts architecture and arts ai large whlch outdld Greece, its laste whlch in one Bummertlme took the world'i heart by storm, now whisper that its reiininns. its phlloeophles, its churches, lts courts, its palacea ol trade, lts homes, its humble Hrealdes, aad lts rii-li parlors must reveil a unity fiE both plety and Immanity. and iiavlng filled the sumnier wlth the iccumulated beauty of the human vare, it must fill the winter willi the bifjliesi philosophy of the intellect and wlth the best love known to modern