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Change of Firm.
THE FORMER FIRM OF
CROCKER & TULLIS,
ON COTTON AVENUE,
lias been dissolved by the purchase of Mr.
C. E. CROCKER’S interest by Mr. 15. H.
JOSSEY, and the new firm of
TULLIS & JOSSEY,
will assume the responsibilities of the for
mer firm, and will be pleased to have their
friends call and examine their new and low
priced stock of goods.
TULLIS & JOSSEY,
decistf Americus, Ga.
.A. CAR ID.
Buena Vista High School
will open its spring term, January Bth 1883.
This'announcement is made in the hope that
the patrons will take knowledge of the fact
that is highly important to each pupil to be
gin at tlie opening of the exercises.
A bill is now before the Legislature to fur
nish guns, and it is hoped this fact will still
add to the attractive features of the institu
tion. Calesthenics taught by a competent
teacher will afford a proper and graceful
exercise for the girls, while the military drill
will substantially furnish exercise for the
boys.
TERMS.
Preparatory Department ?2 00
Intermediate 2 50
Academic, 3 00
Music, 3 00
Painting i 00
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Drawing 2 50
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Payments required monthly.
decstf J. E. MATHIS, Principal.
DISSOLUTION.
The public is hereby notified that we have
this day dissolved co-partnership. The notes
and accounts due us are in the hands of G.
W, GLOVER with full power and authority
to collect and receipt for the same. The in
terest of R. J. PERRY having been assigned
to the said G. W. GLOVER for a valuable
consideration.
This, November 27th, 1882.
G. W. GLOVER,
R. J. PERRY.
To the many friends and patrons that in
Sast have favored the late firm of GLOVER
i PERRY with their patronage, 1, in re
tiring from said co-partnership, tender my
thanks, and take great pleasure in saying
for Mr. GLOVER, my former partner, that
he is a gentleman of strict integrity, and in
every way worthy of your confidence. I
most respectfully solicit for him a continu
ance of your patronage.
Respectfully, R. J. PERRY.
nov29tf
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To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first
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[Patented Aug. 22, 1882. L
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SYMFTOM3 OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
Eain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Lheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complain*
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Persons Traveling or Living In Un
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A Governor’s Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.,
says: Have derived some benefit from the use of
Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a
further trial.
‘‘The only Thing that never fails to
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pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never
have found anything to benefit me to the extent
Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min
nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for
such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim
ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only
thing that never fails to relieve.
P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex
perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in
my practice I have been and am satisfied to use
and prescribe it as a purgative medicine.
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INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1882.
YOOTS.Y.
Written for the Republican.
THE POETS LAY.
On a bright and lovely morning,
When no lowering sky gave warning,
Of a rain or tempest wild,
All things round seemed full of pleasure,
And the very brook had leisure,
Gurgling soft in accents mild.
It was in the flush of spring-tide,
When the valley and the hillside,
Each was decked with flowers wild,
When the wood-bine and the peach-bloom,
Shed abroad their sweetest perfume,
Each upon the other piled.
The woodland rang both far and near,
With voices trilling loud and clear,
Their sweet melodious song,
Which as they rose and kissed the breeze
Were wafted back beneath the trees,
In sweet cadence—loud and long.
The hillside caught up the refrain,
As if in voice it now would fain
Join in the happy throng;
And echoed back the rythmic chime,
As brook and bird—in perfect time—
In accent, firm and strong.
Naught disturbed that woodland lonely,
Save the crushing leaves which only
Crushed beneath the tiny feet
Of a brigl:„ and beautifui boy,
Who wandering far without employ,
Chanced to come in that retreat.
A beaming smile lit up his face,
As wandering ’bout from place to place,
He watched the songsters singing;
And ever and anon his soul
Was filled, and songs he knew of old,
Still in his ears were ringing.
There perched above an oreole,
Whose ceaseless song burned in his soul,
And ’roused it from its slumbers;
Hesitating there no longer,
His little voice rose firm and stronger,
Poured forth in “measured numbers.”
Scarce had the first note died away,
’Neath the distant gum and bay,
When a croaking, harsh voice said;
“Cease that fuss, you noisy prate,
Your tone is just the tone I hate;”
Then ’twas silent—still as dead.
The startled boy was dumb, half scared,
And turned about and round him peered,
But no form there met his sight;
Then upward sprang lie to his feet
Which bore him swift from that retreat,
Far away in hasty flight.
His little heart beat loud and fast,
And kept beating until at last,
He stopped ’neath the widespread sky;
Then he listened, again to hear
That sound that filled his heart witii fear,
But in vain— no sound passed by.
****# * *
A mocking bird just lit on high,
’Mid holly berries, lifts his eye,
And hearing all the birds tune,
Their cherry song, pours forth his own,
In all its richness like the zone,
Of Tropics, nor quits he soon.
The boy forgetful of his fear,
Now watched the bird, whose careless air
Like sweet music thrilled his soul,
Then poured he forth the song that lay
Within his soul—that old, old lay—
The lay that never grows old.
T. E. D.
[As Dr. Talmage did not preach in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday we pub
lish this week his sermon delivered last
Thanksgiving Day, Ed.]
THE AMERICAN SHEAF.
Dr. Talmage’s Sermon on Tanks
giving Day, Nov. 30th, 1883.
“We were binding sheaves in the field,
and 10, my sheaf arose, and also sto id up
right: and, behold, your slieavesstood round
about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.”—
Genesis 37: 7.
The Josephic Dream— A Thanksgiv
ing Day Vision—The Golden Sheaf
—The Best Place on Earth—Why
800,000 Immigrants Arrived—l.
Fair Wages—Eight Cents a Day
in Ireland—ll. Political Advan
tages—The Expenses of Royalty—
-111. Less Monopolistic Oppression
—Ecclesiastical Monopoly—Land
Monopoly—TnE Estates op the No
bles—American Millionaires—
Fathers Toiling for Their Chil
dren — IV. Undistdrbed Peace—
Frequency of European Wars—
—Canada’s Blushing Reply—Gun
powder Out of Fashion—Nothing
so hard to Split as a Cradle— V.
A Disappearing National Debt—
VI. A Better Climate—Room for
All—The Golden Sheaf Bowing
in its Turn.
A Josephic dream! At seventeen
years of age, and when life is most rose
ate, Joseph in vision saw a great har
vest field, himself and his brethren at
work in it, and after a while the sheaf
that he was binding rose up with an
imperial air and the sheaves of the other
harvesters fell flat on their faces as the
overawed subjects of an empire might
fall down on their faces before a king
The dream was fulfilled when there
was famine in Egypt and Joseph had
the ears of all the corn cribs, and his
brethren came and implored food from
him. Sure enough all their sheaves
bowed to his sheaf.
a thanksgiving day vision!
I am away oilt in the centre of a field
where the harvests of all nations are
being reaped, Here is the great Amer
ican sheaf. Sheaf of wheat, sheaf of
rice, sheaf of corn, sheaf floral, agricul
tural, homological, mincralogical, lit
erary and moral prosperities—all bound
in one great sheaf. It is kingly, and
on its brow is the golden coronal of all
the year’s sunshine, and its presence
all the sheaves of European and Asi
atic harvests bend and fall down, feel
ing their littleness.
Oh, the sheaf, the golden Bheaf, the
overtopping sheaf of American pros
perity. Other nations far surpass ours
in antiquities, in cathedrals, in titled
pomp, in art galleries; bnt in most
things their sheaves must bow to our
sheaf. I have an idea that the most
favored constellation of immensity is
the one of which the earth is a star,
and of the hemispheres the western is
the most favored, and that of the zones
the temperate is the more desirable,
and that of the United States are the
best part ot the American tontinent-
THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH <
to live is here. Had it not been so,
there would have been 800,000 Ameri
cans last year moving into Europe in
stead of 800,000 Europeans moving
into America.
Human nature has a strong tenden
cy to fault-finding. Where there is
one man who sings and whistles and
laughs, there are ten men who sigh
and groan and complain. We are
more apt to compare our condition with
those who are better off than with those
who are worse off.
I propose this Thanksgiving morn
ing, for the purpose of stirring your
gratitude, to show you how much pre
ferable is the condition of this nation
to all other nations, and how the Ital
ian sheaf and the British sheaf and the
Spanish sheaf and the French sheaf
and all the other sheaves must bow
down to our American sheaf.
I. There is not a land where
WAGES AND SALARIES
are so large for the great masses of the
people as here. In Ireland, in some
parts, eight cents a day for wages. In
England, a dollar a day good wages—
vast populations not getting as much
as that. In other lands fifty cents a
day and twenty-five cents a day clear
on down to starvation and squalor. An
editor in England told me that his sal
ary was $750 a year, and he seemed
satisfied! Look at the great popula
tions coming out of the factories of
other lands, and accompany them to
their homes, and see what privation
the hard working classes on the other
side of the sea suffer.
The laboring classes here are ten
per cent better off than in any other
country under the sun—twenty per
cent, forty per cent, fifty per cent,
seventy-five per cent. The toilers with
hand and foot have better homes and
better furnished. Ido not talk an ab
straction. I know what I have seen.
The stone masons and carpenters and
plumbers and mechanics and artisans
of all style in America have finer resi
dences than the majority of the profess
ional men in Great Britain. You en
ter the laborer’s house on this side the
sea and yon find upholstery and pic
tures and instruments of music. His
children are educated at the best schools.
His life is insured so that in case of
his sudden demise the family shall not
be homeless. Let all American work
men know that while their wages may
not be as high as they would like to
have them, America is the paradise of
industry.
11. Again: there is no land on the
earth where
THE POLITICAL CONDITION
is so satisfactory as here Every three
years in the state and every four years
in the nation we clean house. After a
vehement expression of the people at
the ballot box in the autumnal election,
they all seem satisfied, and if they are
not satisfied, at any rate they smile.
An Englishman asked me in an
English railtrain this question: “How
do you people stand it in America with
allegiance across the sea, will say:
“ASK MOTHER.”
Peace all over the continent, and noth
ing to fight about. What a pity that
slavery is gone! While that lasted we
had something over which the orators
could develope their muscles of vituper
ation and calumny.
We are so hardly put to it for mili
tary demonstration that guns and
sword and cannon were called out last
month to celebrate the bicennial of
William Penn, the peaceful Quaker for
whom a gun would never have been of
any use except to hang his broad brim
hat on. Oh, what shall wo do for a
fight. Will not somebody strike us?
We cannot draw swords on the subject
of civil service reform or free trade or
•‘corners” in wheat. Our ships of war
are cruising around the ocean hoping
for something interesting to turn up.
General Hancock on Governor’s Island
spending the winter with his wife.
Sumpter and Moultrie and Pulaski and
Fort Lafayette and Fortress Monroe
and all the other shaggy lions of war
sound asleep on their iron paws.
GUNPOWDEn OUT OF FASHION,
and not even allowed the juvenile pop
ulation on 4tli of July. Fire-crackers
a sin.
The land is struck through and
through with peace. The warmest
eulogies ot Garfield uttered at the South
and the heartiest appreciation of the
deceased Senator Hill, of Georgia, ut
tered at the North, and Wendell Phil
lips and Robert Toombs, if'they hap
pened to meet, would shake hands with
each other, and the former could lecture
to an applauding audience in Savannah
and the latter could call the roll of
national mercies at the foot of Bunker
Hill. Governar Colquitt’s last signa
ture before leaving the Executive Man
sion in Georgia secured $5,000,000 of
Northern capital to that State.
There is hardly a Northern city
where there are not Confederate gen
erals in its law offices or commercial
establishments or insurance companies.
There you sit or stand to-day, side by
side—you who wore the blue and you
who wore the gray—you who kindled
fires on the opposite side of the Potomac
in the winter of 1802—you who follow
ed Stonewall Jackson toward the North
and you who followed Sherman toward
the South. Why are you not breaking
each other’s heads?
Ah!, yon have irreparably mixed up
your politics. The northern man mar
ried a southern wife, and the Southern
mini married a northern wife, and your
children are half Mississippian and half
New Englander, and to make another
division between the North and the
South possible you would have to do
with your children as Solomon propos
ed with the child brought before him
in judgment: divide it with the sword,
giving half to the North and half to
the South. No, sir; there is
NOTHING SO HARD TO SPLIT AS A CRADLE.
Intermarriage will go on and consan
gninal ties will be multiplied, and the
questions for generations to come will
be, how we people in this generation
got into such an awful wrangle and
went to digging such an awful grave
trench.
But there is now—look! no blood on
the cotton, no mark of cavalry hoof on
the wheat. Twenty years ago, could
the wheat sheaf and the palmetto have
stood on the same platform? No.
Every grain of this wheat would have
been a bullet, and every leaf of the
palmetto a sword. “Peace on earth,
good will to men.” Apple and orange—
how the colors blend. In the great
harvest field of the world’s tranquility
all sheaves bowing to our sheaf.
V. Again: we a-e better off than
other nations in matters of
NATIONAL DEBT,
Our debt less than one half of that of
England, and not more than a third of
that of Frauce. We have for 10 years,
every day, paid $142,000 toward the
liquidation of the national debt. It is
going to melt away like a snowbank
under an April sun.
VI. Again: we have
A BETTER CLIMATE
than in any nation. We do not sufier
from anything like the Scotch mist or
the English fogs or from anything like
the Russian ice blast or from the awful
typhus of Southern Europe or the
Asiatic choleras. Epidemics here are
exceptional—very exceptional. Plenty
of wood and coal to make a loaring fire
in winter time. Easy access to sea
beach or mountain top when the ardors
of snmmsr come down. Michigan wheat
for the bread, Long Island corn for the
meal, New Jersey punkins for the pies,
Carolina rice for the queen of puddings,
prairie fowl from Illinois, fish from
the Hudson and the James, hickory and
hazel and walnuts from all our woods,
Louisiana sugar to sweeten our bever
ages, Georgia cotton to keep us warm,
oats for the horses, carrots for the cat
tle, and oleomargarine for the hogs!
In our land all products and all cli
mates that you may desire.
Are your nerves weak and in need of
bracing up? Go North. Is your throat
delicate and ill need of balmy airs? Go
South. Do you feel crowded and want
more room? Go West. Are you tempted
to become office seekers? Go to jail!
Almost anything yon want you can
have. Plenty to eat, plenty to wear,
plenty to read.
“It has been well the past year,” says
the loom. “It has been well,” say the
type. “It has been well,” say pen and
cliise and hammer and plough and
fishing-net. “It has been well,” answer
the groves and orchards and studios and
factories and workship and harvest
fields of America.
OUR NATIONAL SHEAF
is larger this year and more, golden
a revolution every four years? Wouldn’t
it be better for you, like us, to have a
Queen for a lifetime and everything
settled?” Englend changes govern
ments just as certainly as we do. At
some adverse vote in Parliament out
goes Disraeli and in comes Gladstone,
and after a while there will be another
admonitory vote in Parliament, and
out will go Gladstone, and in will come
someone else. Administrations change
there, hut not as advantageously as
here, for there they mav change almost
any day, while here a party in power
continues in power four years.
It is said that in this country we
have more political dishonesty than in
any other lands. The difference is
that in this country almost every offi
cial has a chance to steal, while in
other lands a few people absorb so
much the others have no chance’ at ap
propriation! The reason they do not
steal is, they cannot get their hands on
it! The governments of Europe are so
expensive that after the
SALARIES OF THE ROYAL FAMILIES
are paid there is not much left to mis
appropriate.
The Emperor of Russia has a nice
little salary of $8,210,000. The Em
periorof Austria has a yearly salary of
$4,000,000. Victoria, the Queen, has
a salary of $2,200,000. The royal
plate at St. Jame’s palace is wortli $lO,-
000,000. The Queen’s hairdresser gets
SIO,OOO a year for combing the royal
locks, while the most of us have to
comb our hair at less than half that ex
pense, if we have any to comb!
Over there, there is a host of attend
ants, all on salaries, some of them
SSOOO and S6OOO a year. Master of
Buck Hounds, SBSOO a year. Grand
Falconer, S6OOO a year. (I translate
pounds into dollars.) Gentlemen of
the Wine and Beer Cellars, Controller
of the Household, Groom of the Robes,
Misstress of the Robes, Captain of Gold
Stick, Lieutenant of Gold Stick, Lieu
tenant of Silver stick. Clerk of the
Powder Closet, Pages of the Back
Stairs, Maids of Honor, Master of Horse
Chief Equerries in Ordinary, Crown
Equerry, Hereditary Grand Falconer,
Vice Chamberlain, Clerk of the Kitch
en. Master of Forks, Grooms in Wait
ing, Lords in Waiting, Grooms of the
Great Chamber, Sergeaut at Arms,
Barge Master and Waterman, Eight
Bedchamber Women, Eight Ladies of
the Bedchamber, Ten Grooms of the
Great Chain, and so on, and so on, ad
in finitum , ad nauseam, until it is
said that the Queen sometimes actually
suffers from thirst because it takes so
much machinery to get a glass of wa
ter.
All this is only a type of the fabu
lous expense of foreign governments.
All this pa,d out of the sweat and the
blood of the people.
ARE THE rEOrLE SATISFIED?
However much the Germans like Wil
liam and the Spaniards like their young
King and England likes her splendid
Queen, these stupendous gevernmental
expenses are built on a groan of dissat
isfaction as wide as Europe. If it were
left to the people of England, of Ger
many, of Austria, of Spain, of Russia,
whether these expensive establishments
should be kept up, do you doubt what
the vote would be?
Now, is it not hotter that we be over
taxed and the surplus be distributed
all over the land among the lobby men,
and that it go into the hands of hun
dreds and thousands of people—is there
not a better chance of its finally get
ting down into the hands of honest peo
ple, than if it were all built up, piled
up inside a garden or palace?
111. Again: the
MONOPOLISTIC OPPRESSION.
is less here than anywhere else. The
air here is full of protest because great
houses, great companies, great individ
uals are building such overtowering
fortunes. Stephen Girard and John
Jacob Astor stared at in their time for
their august fortunes, would not now
be pointed at in the streets of Philadel
phia or New York as anything remark
able. These vast fortunes for some
imply pinchedness of want for others.
A great protuberance on a man’s head
implies the illness of the whole body.
These estates of disproportioned size
iveiken all the body politic.
But the evil is nothing here com
pared with the monopolistic oppress
ion abroad. Just look at their eccle
siastical establishments. Look at those
vast cathedrals built at fabulous ex
pense and supported by great ecclesias
tical machinery at vast expense, and
sometimes in an audience room that
would hold a thousand people, twenty
or thirty people gather for worship.
The pope’s income is $8,000,000. Ca
thedrals of statuary and braided arch
and walls covered with masterpieces of
Rubens aud Raphael and Michael An
gelo, against all the walls dashingseas
of poverty and crime and filth and
abomination.
Ireland to-day one vast monopolistic
devastaion. About thirty-five mill
ions of people in Great Britain and yet
all the soil owned by abont thirty-two
thousand.
STATISTICS ENOUGH TO SHAKE THE EARTH.
Duke of Devonshire owning 90,000
acres in Derby. Duke of Richmond
owning 800,000 acres at Gordon Castle.
Marguis of Breadalbane going on a
journey of 100 miles in a straight line,
all on his own property. Duke of Suth
erland has an estate as wide as Scot
land, which dips into the sea on both
sides. Bad as we have it here, it is a
thousand times worse there.
Beside that, if here a tew fortunes
overshadow all others, we must remem
ber there is a vast throng of other people
being enriched, and this tact shows the
thriftness of the couutry. It is estimat
ed that there are over five thousand
millionaires in the United States, In
addition to this, you must remember
that there are successes on less extend
ed scale. Tens of thousands of people
worth $500,000; scores of thousands
worth SIOO,OOO each. Yea, the major
ity of the people of the United States
are on their way to fortunes. They
will either be rich themselves or their
children will be rich.
If I should leave to some men the
question: “Will you have a fortune
and
YOUR CHILDREN
struggle on through their lives in the
struggle you have had to make—will
you have the fortune, or would you
rather that they should have the for
tune?” Scores of men would say: “I
am willing to fight the battle all the
way through and give my children a
chance; I don’t care so much about
myself; its only for ten or twenty years,
anyhow; give my children a chance.”
If anything stirs my admiration it is to
see a man without any education him
self sending his sons to college, and
without any opportunity for luxury
himself, resolved that though he shall
have it hard all the days of his life,
his children shall have a good start.
And I tell you, although some of you
may have great commercial struggle,
there is going to be a great opening
for your sons and your daughters as
they come on to take tlieir places in
society.
Beside that the domains of Europe
and Asia are already full. Every place
occupied unless it be a desert or volca
no or condemned barrens, while here
we have plenty of room and the resour
ces are only just opening. In other
lands, if fortunes fatten they must fat
ten on others; but here they can fatten
out of illimitable prairies and out of in
exhaustible mines.
We have only just begun to set the
thanksgiving table in this country.
We have just put on one silver fork
and one salt cellar and one loaf of
bread and one smoking platter. Wait
until the fruits come in from all the
orchards and the meats from all the
markets and the vegetables from all
the gardens and the silver from all the
mines and the dinner bell rings raying:
“Thanksgiving table spread. Comeall
the people from between the oceans.
Come from between the thousand Isles
and the Gulf of Mexico. Come and
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dine\” The prospects are so magnifi
cent that for centuries to come all the
sheaves will have to bow to our sheaf.
IV. Again: the nation is
MORE FULLY AT TEACE
than any other. At least 15,000,000
men belonging to the standing armies
of Europe to-day. Since we had onr
conflict on the other side the sea they
have had Zulu war, Afghan war,
Egyptian war, Russo-Turkish war,
German-French war. No certainty
about the future. All the governments
of Europe watching each other lest one
of them get too much advantage. Di
plomacy all the time nervously at work.
Four nations watching the Suez Canal
as carefully as four cats could watch
one rat.
In order to keep peace, intermarriages
of royal families; some bright princess
compelled to marry some disagreeable
foreign dignitary in order to keep the
balance of political power in Europe,
the illy-matched pair fighting out on a
small scale that which would have been
international contest, some times the
husband holding the balance ol power,
sometimes the wife holding the balance
of power. One unwise stroke of Glad
stone’s pen after Garnet Wolseley had
captured Tel-el-Ivebir and all Europe
woald have been one battle-field.
Crowded cities, crowded governments,
crowded learned institutions,
CROWDED GREAT CITIES
close by each other. You get in the
cars here and you ride 100 or 150 miles;
then you come to a great city, as from
here to Philadelphia, as from here to
Albany, as from here to Boston.
I got on the cars at Manchester and
closed my eyes for a long sleep before I
got to Liverpool. In forty minutes I
was aroused out of sleep by someone
saying: “We are here; this is Liver
pool. The cities crowded. The pop
ulations crowded, packed in between
the Pyrenees and the Alps, packed in
between the English Channel and the
Adriatic so closely they cannot move
without treading either on each other’s
heels or toes. Sceptres clashing, char
iot wheels colliding. The nations of
Asia and Europe this moment wonder
ing what next.
But on this continent we have
PLENTY OF ROOM
and nobody to fight. Eight million
square miles in North America and all
but one seventh capable of rich culti
vation, implying what fertility and what
commerce! Four great basins pouring,
their waters into the Atlantic, Pacific,
Arctic, and Gulf of Mexico. Shore
line of 29,909 miles. The one State
of Texas with more square miles than
all France, than all Germany.
Thatourcontinent might have plenty
of elbow room and not be jostled by the
effete governments of Europe, God sank
to the depths of the tea a whole conti
nent that once ran from off the coast
of Europe to the coast of America—
the continent of Atlantis —which
allowed the human race to pass
from Europe to America on foot,
with little or no shipping; that conti
nent dimly described in history, bnt
the existence of which has been proved
by geographical evidences innumerable;
that whole continent sunken so that a
fleet of German, British and American
vessels had to take deep sea soundings
to touch the top of it; that highway
from Europe to America entirely re
moved so that for the most part only
the earnest and the persevering and the
brave could reach America and that
through long sea voyage.
Did I say the whole continent of ours,
this North American continent? Gov
ernments on the southern tip of this
continent are gradually coming to the
time when they will beg for annexation.
On the other hand,
BEAUTIFUL AND HOSPITABLE CANADA,
the vast majority of the people there
are more republican than monarchical
in their feelings, and the chief differ
ence between them and us is that they
live on one side of the St. Lawrence
and we qp the other. The day will
come when Canada will be found wait
ing for our government to propose mar
riage, and when we do so, she will look
down and blush, and thiuking of her
and more regal and riper more richly
grained than at any time since the Pil
grim Fathers settled New England or
the Hollanders founded New York or
the Huguenots took possession of the
Carolinas, Sheaf of sheaves. While
all others bow before it.
LET IT BOW IN TURN
before the good Lord of the unparalleled
American harvest. Before Him come
down all the corn shocks. Before Him
come down the sheaf of governmental
sceptres, the sheaf of battle spears, the
sheaf of barbaric arrows, the sheaf of
commercial yardsticks, the sheaf of joy,
the sheaf of family reunion, the sheaf
ot thanksgiving, All the sheaves of
the harvest field bowing down low at
the feet of the great Husbandman.
You have in hackneyed phrase heard
over and over again that America is the
asylum ot the oppressed. This glori
ous Thanksgiving morning I declare it
to be the wardrobe off the earth, the
wheat bin of the hemispheres, the corn
crib of all nations. Hallelujah, Amen!
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