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DR. TALMAGES’ SERMON.
“MONOPOLY AND COMMUNISM
STRUGGLING FOR THE POS
SESSION OF THIS COUNTRY/’
T xf: “Tin- Iru deliqtitefh in the** and
tb\ laud -hall 1 n.arried ” —la:ah. Ixii, 4.
A, tlio greater includes the lss, so does
the circle of future jov around our entire
world include the r-jc'cycl • of our own repub
lic Bold, exhilarant, unique, divine im
u/i-ry of the text. So many are depressed
bv tne lalxir agitation and think everything
in this country ingoing to pie.es, I preach
this morning a s rinon of good cheer and
an? loatc the time when the Prince of Pea e
and the H*-jr of Universal Dominion shall
take possession of this nation and "thy land
shall lie married. '
In di u.sing the final destiny of this na
tion it makes all th difference in the world
whether we are on the way to a funeral or a
wedding. The Bible 1 -aves n • doubt on this
subject. In pulpits and <n nlatforms and in
pla -es of public concourse, I hear so many of
the muffli"l di unis of evil prophesy sounded,
* though we were on the way to national
interment, and te-s.d'- Thebe*, and Babylon
and Tyre in the cemete. y of dead nations
our repubii • was t > be entimbcd, that I wish
you to un ierstand it is not to be obsequies,but
nuptials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar;
not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re
quiem. bat we lding mar h, for "thy laud
shall be marre-1.1 propose to name some
of the suitors who are claiming the hand of
this republic. Th s land is so fair, so beauti
ful. so affluent, that it has many suitors, and
it will dejxnd much upon your advice
whetiier this or tlicit shall lx* accepted or re
jected
In the first place J remark: There is a
greedy all ■ rasping monster who comes in
as suitor is king the hand of this republic,
and that monster is known by the name of
moil >polv Hi . - -cj tre is made out of the iron
<>f the rail tra k and tile wire of telegraphy.
He does everything for his own advantage
and for the roblau v oi the people. Things
have gone on from ha I to worse, until in the
Hire Legislatures of New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, for the most part,
monopoly decides everything. If monopoly
favor -a law it passes; if monopoly opposes a
law it is rejected.
Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put
ting into Ins pockets in one year two hundred
millions Of dollars in excess of all reasonable
charges for service. Monopoly holds in this
one hand the steam power of locomotion, and
in the other the electricity of swift commu
nication, Mom pr ly decides nominations
> and elections—city elections, State elections,
national elections. W ith bribes he secures
the votes of legislators; giving them free
pass-s, giving appointments to needy rela
tive- to lucrative positions, employing them
a.s attorneys if' they are lawyers, carrying
their goods fifte n per cent, less if they are
merchants, and if he tinds a onso very stub
born, as well os very important, puts
down before him the hard cash of bribery.
But monopoly is not so easily caught now
as when,during th© term of Mr. Buchanan,
the Legislative Committee in one of our
States explored and exposed the manner in
which a certain railway company procured
a donation of public land. It was found out
that, thirteen of the Senators from that State
received $175,000 among them. Sixty mein
bers ol the lower house of that State re
ceived r>,ooo and SIO,OOO each. The Gov
ernor ot the State received $50,000, his clerk
received $5,000, the Lieutenant-Governor re
ceived SIO,OOO, all the clerks of the Legisla
ture received $5,000 each, $50,000
were divided amid the lobby agents.
That thing on a larger or smaller
scalo is all the time going on in
some of the States of the Union, but it is not
*o blundering as it used to lie, and therefore
not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you
that the overshadowing curse of the Uuited
(states to-day is Monopoly. He puts his
hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon
every sack of salt, upon every ton of coal
end every man, woman and child in the Uni
teal States feels the touch of that moneyed
despotism. I rejoice that in twenty-four
States of the Union already anti-monopoly
leagues have been established. God speed
them in the work of liberation, i wish that
this question might lie the question of our
S residential elections, and that we compel
le political parties to recognize it on their
platforms.
1 have nothing to say n<rßinst capitalists.
A man has a right to all the money ho can
make honestly. There is not a laborer in the
land that would not bo worth a million dol
lais and he could. I ha ve nothing to sav against
corporations as such; without them, no great
enterprise would lie possible. But what Ido
say is that the same principles should be ap
plied to capitalists and to corporations that
are applied to the poorest man and the plain
est. laborer. \\ hat is wrong for me is wrong
for great corporations. If I take from you
your property without any adequate coin-
Sen-ation I am a thief, and if a railway
milages the property of the people without
making any adequate compensation, that is
a gigantic thief. What is wrong on asmall
scale is wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in
England has ground hundreds of thousands
of her best people into semi-starvation, and
in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants
almost to madness.
Fivo hundred acre* in this country make
an immense farm. When you read that in
Dakota Territory Mr. Cass has a farm of
15,0(H) a res and Mr. Grandon 25,000 acres
and Mr. Ihirymple 40,00.) acres, your eyes
dilate, eveu though these farms are in great
regions thinly inhabited. But what do you
think of this which I take from the Dooms
day Mook, showing what monopoly is on the
other side the s-ea. I give It as a warning of
what it would do on this side the sea if in
some lawful way the tendency is uot re
sisted In Scotland J. U. M. Heddle owns
00,400 acres; Earl of Wemyss, 52,000 acres-
Sir ,1. Riddell. 54,500 acres- Sir C W
A Ross. 55,000 acres; E. H. Scott,'
60,,0(1 acres; Mr. J. Baird, 00,000 acres
•' Ramsden, 60,000 acres; Earl of
I unmore. OO.DOO acres: Duke of
60,1HH) acres, Earl of Moray, 01,700 acres'
t ountessof Home. 02.000 acres; Lord Mid
dleton. 63,000 aci-es; Earl of Aberrieen. 63.-
50J acres, Mackenzie of Dundonnell, 63,000
acres; Mr. J. J. H. Johnston, 03,<HH) acres-
Earl of Airlie iw.ooo acres; Sir J. Colquhoun,
bi.OOOacms; C. Morrison, (77. < XX) acres: Duke
” Men*.rose, (iS,OOO acres; Meyrick Rankes,
■ 0.0. hi acres; Grant oi Glenmorriston, 74.000
acr. s; Marquis of Ailsa. 70,0 H) acres; Bar
ouess W illougby and Eresby. 76.000 acres; Mr.
J. 5 al'olni. M).oc acres; Marquis of Huntly,
*o,(\M)a res Balfour of Whittinghame. Sl.-
tHH) acres; Sir J. O. Orde, SI,OOO a res- Mar
quis of Bute. '.10.0-X) acres The Chisholm.
acros; Mr E. Ellice, 09.500
acres; Sir G, M. Grant, 103,000 acres:
Duke of Portland. 106 00 * acrs-
Cnnierou of Lochiel. 100.50) acres';
oi- L'L iT'-LM acres; Earl of Fife,
U>.AK); The Ma kiutosh. 124,‘XM acres; Lord
Macdonald, 100.000 acres: Earl of Dalhousie.
acres Ma -lend, of Macleod. 141.700
acres; Sir K. Ma kenzie. of Gairlock 164-
tvNi acres. Duke of Argvle, 175.000 'acres-
Duke of Ham 1 ton, ISS,b.X) acres: Duke of
A thole. I'.H.XVi a-res; Duke of Richmond,
2-*s,(xi acres: Earl of Stair, 270,050 acres'
Mr Evan Bail; e. 30'.0H) a.-es; Earl of Sea
flekl. 3(H',oot) acres: Duke of Buecleugh. 432,-
IS' a. l s: Kail of Brea lalbane. 437.tv>ia-*res-
Mr A. Matueson, 220,4 '-3 acres, and Sir J.
■athttson, ttrssi Duchess of Suther
land. 149,6?.) acres, anti Duke of Sutherland,
1,110 1*5:5 acres.
Such ii!Oto;v>iies imply an in On t- acreage
of wret hedaoss There is no poverty in the
l nited State- like that in England, Ireland
and Scotland for the simple reason that in
those lands monopoly has had longer and
la-go - sway. Last summer :u Edinburgh,
Scotland, after preaching in Synod Halil I
stood on a chair in front of the hall and
prea heel to an audience of 20,(XX) people,
standing ;a one of the most prosperous parts
of the city, and reaching out toward the cas
tle as dne an array of strength and health
and i eauty as one ever sees. Three hour
alter I preached tv the wretched inhabitants
of the Cowgat- and Canuongat'.the audien c
exhibiting the squalor and sickliness and de
spair that remains in one's mind like one of
the visions of Dame's Inferno.
v.ica; monopolies m auv laud imply great
pr;\at:on. Ti e time will come when our
go' eminent will have to limit the amount
of accumnliti'n of property. Unconstitu
tional do you say* Then constitutions will
tia\ e to be changed until thev allow such
Umitatiou. Otherwise the work'of absorption
* 1 a °d th# large tishes will eat up the
small h-hes, and the shad will swallow the
minnow -and the porpoises swallow the shad
aud the whales swallow the porpoises, an and
thousanu greed y men will own ail the wo t
and -iOo of these will eat up the other 500 an-i
one hundred eat up the other 400. and finally
there wilibe only 50 left, and then 40 an t
then 30 and then 20 and then 10 and then two
and then one
But would a law of limitation of wealth be
unrighteous' If I die so near my neighbor’s
foundation, in order to build mv house that
I endanger his, the law grabs me. If I have
a tannery or chemical factory the ma’odors
of which injure residents in the neighbor
fa >od. the law says: "Stop that.’’ If I drain
off a river from its bed and divert it to turn
mv mill-wheel, leaving the bed of the river a
breeding place for malaria, the law says:
"Quit that outrage!” And has not a
government a right to say that a few
men shall not gorge themselves on the
comfort and health and life of g Derations?
Your riphts end where mv rights begin.
Monopoly—brazen-faced.iron-fingered, an 1
vulture-hearted, monopoly—offers his hand
to this Republic. He stretches it out over
the lakes and up the Pennsylvania and the
Erie and the New York Central Railroads,
and over th telegraph poles of the continent
and says: "Here is my heart and hand; be
mine forever.” Let the millions of the peo
ple, North, South, East and West forbid
the bann of that marriage, forbid them at
the ballot box, forbid them on the platform,
forbid them by great organizations, forbid
them by the overwhelming sentiment of an
outraged natiou. forbid them bv the protest
of the church of God. fordid them by prayers
to high heaven. That Herod shall not have
this Abigail. It shall not lie to all devouring
monopoly that this land is to be married. °
Another suitor claiming the band of this
Republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but
a knife for universal blood-letting and a
nitro-glvcerine bomb for universal explo
son. He be! lev sin no God.no government,
no heaven, and no hell except what he can
make on earth! 11“ slew the Czar of Russia,
keeps Emperor William, of Germany, prac
tically imprisoned, killel Abraham Lincoln,
would out to death every King and President
on earth, and if he had the power would
climb up unt 1 he could drive the God of
heaven from his throne and take
it himseif, the universal butcher.
In France it is called Communism; in the
nited States it is called Socialism; in
Russia it is called Nihilism, but that last is
the most graphic and descriptive term. It
means complete and eternal smash up. It
would make the holding of property a crime
and it would have a dagger through your
heurt and a torch to vour dwelling and turn
over this whole land into the possession of
theft and lust and rapine and murder.
Where does this monster live! In St. Louis,
in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New York, and
in all the cities and villages of this land. The
devil of destruction is an old devil, and ho is
to be seen at every great fire where there is
anything to steal, and at every shipwreck
where there is anything valuable floating
ashore, and at every railroad accident where
there are overcoats and wat'lies to be pur
loined. On a small scale I saw it in my col
lege days, when, in our literary soci
ety in New York University, we had
in exquisite and costly bust of
Shakespeare, and one morning we
found a hole bored into the lips of the marble
an 1 a cigar inserted. There has not for the
last century been a fine picture in your art
gallery or a graceful statue iu your parks or
a fine fresco on your wall or a richly bound
album in your library but would have been
despoiled if the hand of rnffian’sm could have
got at it without peril of incarceration. Some
times the evil spirit shows itself by throwing
vitriol into a beautiful face, sometimes by
wilfully s aring a horse with a velocipede,
sometimes by crashing its cartwheel against
a carriage.
The philosophy of the whole business is
that there is a large number of people who,
either through their laziness or their crime,
own nothing, and are mad at those who
through industry and wit of their own or of
their ancestors are in possessions of large re
sources. The honest laboring classes never
had anything to do with such murderous en
terprises. It is the villainous classes who
would not work if they had plenty of
work offered them at large wages. Many
of these suppose that by the demoli
tion of law and order they would be
advantaged and the parting of the ship of
state would allow them as wreckers to carry
off some of the cargo. It offers its hand to
this fair republic. It proposes to tear to
pieces the ballot box. the Legislative hall,the
Congressional assembly. It would take this
land and divide it up, or rather, divide it
down. It would give as much to the idler as
to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Ni
hilism—this panther—having prowled across
other lauds has set its paws on our soil, and
it is only waiting for the time in which to
spring upon its prey. It was Nihilism that
massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago
and St. Louis a few days ago and that
burned the railroad {property at Pittsburg
during the great riots; it was Nihilism that
slew black people in our Northern cities dur
ing the war; it was Nihilism that again and
again in San Francisco and New York
mauled to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism
that glares out of the windows of the drunk
eries upon sober people as they go by. Ah!
its power has never yet been used. It would,
if it had the power, have every church,
chapel, cathedral, school house, college and
home in ashes.
Let me say it is the worst enemy of the
laboring classes in any country. The honest
cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring
men is drowned out by the vociferations for
anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds
who range through our cities talking about
their rights wlien their first right is the peni
tentiary—if they could be hushed up, and
the downtrodden laboring men of this
country could be heard, there would
tie more bread for hungry children.
In this land riot and bloodshed never gained
any wages for the people, or gathered up any
prosperity. In this land the best weapon is
not the club, not the shillelah, not fire arms,
but the ballot. Let not our oppressed labor
ing men be beguiled into coming under the
bloody banner of Nihilism. It will make
your taxes heavier, your wages smaller,
your table scantier, your children hun
grier,your sneering greater. Yet this Nihil
ism, with feet red with slaughter, comes forth
and offers its hand for this republic. Shall
the banns be proclaimed l If so, where shall
the marriage altar be? And who will be the
officiating priest! And what will be the
music? That altar will have to be white
with blea 'hed skulls, the music must be the
smothered groans of multitudinous victims,
the garlands must be twisted of nightshade,
the fruits must be apples of Sodom, the wine
must be the blood of St. Bartholomew’s mas
sacre. No! it is not to Nihilism, the san
guinital monster, that this land is to be mar
riel.
Another suitor for the hand of this nation
is infidelity. Mark you that all anarchists
are infidels. Not one of them believes in the
Bible,and very rarely any of them believe in
aGo t. Their most conspicuous leader was
the other day pulled by the leg from under
a bed ;n a house of infamy, cursing and blas
pheming. The police of Chicago, explor.ng
the dens of the .Anarchists, found dynamite
and vitriol and Tom Paine's Age of Reason
and obs eue pictures and complimentary
biographies of thugs and assassins, but not
one testament, not one of Wesley's hymn
books, not one Roman Catholic breviary.
There are two wings to Infidelity. The one
calls itself liberalism and appears in highly
lterary maga: ines and is for the educated and
refine i. The ocher wing is in the form of
anarchy and is for the vulgar. But both
wings belong to ih ■ same old filthy vulture.
Infidelity! Elegant infidelity proposes to
conquer this land to itself by the pen. An
archy proposes to conquer it by bludgeon
and torch.
When the midnight ruffians despoiled the
grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's church
yard everybody was shocked But infidelity
proposes something worse than that—the rob
bing of all the graves of Christendom of the
hope of a resurrection. It proposes to chisel
out from the tomo-tonss o. /uur lu.isiu
dead the words "Asleep in Jesus’ and to sub
stitute the words "Obliteration, anniu it
tien. ” Infidelity proposes to take the letter
from the world's Father inviting th' nations
to virtue and happiness, and tear it up into
fragments so small that you cannot
read a word of it. It proposes
to take the consolation from the bro.ien
hearted and the soothing pillow from
the dying. Infidelity proteoses to ear
in the President of the finite! Siatfs
and the Supreme Court and the Governors of
States and the witnesses in the court room
with their right hand on Paine’s "Ageof Re i
sm ' or Voltaire's “Philosophy of History.
It proposes to take away from this couture
the book that makes the differeu ’e between
the United States and the Kingdom of
Dahomey, between American civilization and
Bornesian cannibalism. If Infidelitv could
destroy the Scriptures it would in 200 years
turn the civilized nations back to semi-bar
bar sm and then from semi-barbarism into
midnight savagery, until the morals of a
menagerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chim
panzees would be better than the morals of
the shipwrecked human race.
tWri° nl - V i °’ p ? lse in the tight direction
w °tld has ever had has come fro m
Int uuT the mother of Roman law
and of heaUiful jurisprudence. That book
has been the mother of all reforms and all
charities mother of English Magna Charra
and American Declaration of Indendence.
Benjamin Franklin hold that holv book in
his hand, stood before an infidel club at Paris
and read to them ont of the prophecies of
Habaskuk. and the infide’s. not knowing
what book it was. declared it was the be-t
poetry they had ever heard. That book
brought Georgs lYadffnrto-i down on his
knee; in th suiv at Valley For’e. and led
thedving Prince of ales to ask someone
to ring “• Rock of Ages.”
I tell you that the worst attemrited crime
of th * centurv is the attemnt to destroy this
bock: yet infidelity, loathesome. stenchful,
leprous, p stifer us. rotten monster.stmt h“s
out it- hie I, i h -rou with the second death,
to take the band of this republic. It
stret hes it out through seductive magazines
and through ly euni lectures and through
caricatures of religion. It asks for all that
part of the continent alrca ly fully settle 1
and the two-thirds not yet O'cunied. It
says: "Give me all east of the Mississinri.
w th the keys of the church and the ( hristian
printing cresses—then give me Wyoming,
give me Ala-ka. give me Montana, give me
Colorado, give me all the States and Terri
tories west of the Mississippi, and 1 will take
those places and keep them bv right of poses
sion long before the Gosoel can be full}' en
trenebed.”
And this suitor pre sesliis case appallingiv.
Sha'l the banns of that marriage be pro
of the W est.a martyr band of whom the world
is not worthy, tolling amid fatigues and
malaria and starvation, "no! not if we can
heir* it. By what wo and our children have
suffered, we forbid the banns of that mar
riage!" “No!” sav all patriotic voices, “our
institutions were bought at too dear a price
and were defended at too great a sacrifice to
lie so cheaply surrendered!” “No.” says the
God of Bunker Hill and Independence Hall
aud Gettysburg, “I did not start this nation
for such a farce.” “No,” erv ten thousand
voices, “to infidelity this land shall not bo
married.”
But there is another suitor that presents his
claim for the hand of this republic. He is
mentioned in the verse following my text,
where it says: “As the bridegroom rejoiceth
over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over
thee " It is not my figure, it is the figure of
the Bible. Christ is so desirous to have this
world love him that he stops at no humilia
tion of simile. Ho compares His to
spittle on the eyes of the blind. He com
pare; Himself to a hen gathering the chick
en;. and in my text He compares Himself to
a suitor begging a hand in marriage. Does
tiffs Christ, the King, deserve this land? Be
hold Pilate s Hall and the insulting expecto
ration on the face of Christ. Behold the Cal
varean ma-saere and the awful hemorrhage
of five wounds. .Jacob served fourteen
years for Rachel, but Christ, mv Lord, the
king, suffered in torture thirty-three years to
win the love of this world. Often princesses
at their very birth are pledged in treaty
of marriage to prince; or kings of earth, so
this nation at its biith was pledged to Christ
for divine marriage. Before Columbus and
his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria,
the Pinta and the Nina, for their wonderful
voyage, what was the last thing they did?
They sat down and took the holy sacrament
of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they
caught the first glimpse of this countrv
aud the gun of one ship had announced
it to the other vessels that land
had been discovered, what was the song
that went up from all the three decks ?
"Gloria in excelsis.” After Columbus and his
120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to
the solid ground, what did they do ? They
all knelt and consecrated the new world to
God. What did the Huguenots do after they
landed in the Carolinas ? What did the
Holland refugees do after they had landed iu
New York? What did th 9 Pilgrim Fathers
do after they landed in New England ? With
bended knee and uplifted face and heaven
besieging prayer they took possession of this
continent for God. How was the first Amer
ican Congress opened ! By prayer, in the
name of Jesus Christ. From its" birth this
nation was pledged for holy marriage with
Christ.
And then see how good God has been to us!
Just open the map of the continent aud see
how it is shaped for immeasurable prospei i
ties; navigable rivers, more in number and
greater than of any other land, rolling on all
sides into the sea, prophesying large manu
factures and easy commerce. Look at the
great ranges of” mountains timbered with
wealth on the top and sides, metalled with
wealth underneath. One hundred aud eighty
thousand square mile; of coal, 180,000 square
miles of iron. The land so contoured that
extreme weather hardly ever last; more than
three days—extreme heat or cold. Climate
for the most part bracing and favorable for
brawn and brain. All fruits, all min
erals, all harvests. Scenery dis
playing an autumnal pageantry that
no land On earth pretends to
rival. No South American earthquakes. No
Scotch mists. No London fogs. No Egypt
ian plagues. No Germanic divisions. The
people of the United States are happier than
any people on earth. It is the testimony of
every man that has traveled abroad. For
the poor, more sympathy; for the industrious,
more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to
our father and how good He has been to us
and our children. To Him—blessed bo His
mighty name!—to Him ofjeross and triumph,
to Him who still remembers the prayer of
the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the
Pilgrim Fathers—to Him shall this land be
married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by
your contributions and your prayers hasten
on the fulfilment of the text.
We have during the past six or seven
years turned anew leaf in our national his
tory by the sudden addition of foreigners.
At Kansas City I was told by a gentleman
who had opportunity for large investigation,
that a great multitude had gone through
there, averaging in worldly estate SBOO. 1
was told iu the city of Washington
by an officer of the Government
who had opportunity for authentic
investigation that thou ands and thousands
had gone, averaging SI,OOO in possession of
each. I was told by the Commission of Emi
gration that twenty families that had arrived
at Castle Garden brought $85,000 with them.
Mark you, families, not tramps. Additions
to ths national wealth, not subtractions
therefrom. I saw some of them reading their
Bibles aud their hymn books, thanking
God for his kindness in helping them
cross the sea. Some of them had
Christ in the steerage all across the
waves and they will have Christ in the
rail trains which every afternoon start for
the great West. They are being taken by the
Commission of Emigration in New York,
taken from the vessels, protected from the
Shylocks and the sharpers, and in the name
of God and humanity passed on to their des
tination : and there they will turn your Ter
ritories into States and your wilderness into
gardens, if you will build for them churches
and establish for them schools and send to
them Christian missionaries.
Are you afraid this Continent is going to
be overcrowded with this population? Oh.
that show; you have not been to California ’
mat snows y .4 ..a.s ~i-> —.s.i to Oregon,
that shows that you ha;e u it neeu to Texas.
A fishing smack to-day, on Lake Ontario
might as well be afrai l of being crowded by
other shipping before night a; for any
one of the next tea generations of
Ameri ’an; to be afraid of being
overcrowded bv foreign populations
ia this country. The one State of Texas is
far larger than all the Austrian empire, yet
the Austrian empire support; 35,000,0)0 peo
ple. The one State of Texas is larger than
all France, and France support; 33,000,000
people. The one State of Texas far surpasses
in size the Germanic empire, yet the Ger
manic empire supports 41.000,000 people. I
tell you the great want of the Territories aud
of the Wo tern Stat s is more population.
While some may staud at the gates of the
citv. saying: “Staal back!” to foreign pop
ulations, I press cut a; far beyond those
gate; as I can pre-s out beyond them and
beckon to foreign nations, saying: “Come,
come!" “But," say you. T am so afraid that
they will bring their pre'u lies; for foreign
governments and plant them here.'’ Absurd!
Tney are sick of the governments that have
oppress *d them and they want free America!
Give them the great gospel of welcome.
Tarow around them all Christian hospitali
ties. They will ad l their industry and hard
earned wages to ibis country, an 1 then we
will delicate ail to Cur st, “and thy laud
shall be married.”
But where shall the marriage a’tar be?
Let it lie the Ro -ky Mountains, waen, through
artificial and mighty irrigation.all their top
shad be covered, as they will be, with vine
yards and orchards and grain fields. Then
lit the Boston-aud the New Y'orks and ths
Charleston* of the Fa in? coast come to the
marriage altar on one side, aud th n let ths
Bostons and the New Y'orks and the Charles
tons of the Atlantic coast come
to the marriage altar on the
other side, and there between them let this
bride of nations • kneel: and then if the
organ of the loudest “aunders that ever
shook the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or
moved the foundations of the Alleghante- a
the other side, should open full diapason of
wedding march, that organ of thunders
could not drown the voice of Him who should
take the hand of this bride of na
tions. saying: "A- a bridegroom rejoiceth
over a bride, so thy God rejoi eth over thee.”
At that marriage banquet shall be the plat
ters of Nevada silver and the chalices of Cali
fornia gold and the fruits of Northern
orchards and spices of Southern groves
and the tapestry of American manufac
ture and the congratulations from all the
free nations of earth arul from all the tri
umphant armies of heaven. "And so thy
land shail be mam hI. ”
MAKING ('ASTIRON LOAN"'
SOMa CI)±uO3TTIE3 OF BOESOWIIfG
IN NEW YOBS.
Moriov .loaned on Almost Everything
of Value—Loans Upon Furniture
—Advances Upon Salaries.
“You can borrow money on anything
wli'ch has value, from a railroad bond to
a dog blanket." remarked a veteran lo in
agent the other and iy. “There i- nothing
which can be sold that doesn’t have some
value as a collateral, and one would be
surprised to learn the various kinds of
articles upon which money is lent. The
pawn shops are not the only kind of loan
ing agencies that take everything as se
curity. The commonest kiud of a loan,
though, is upon furniture in use. In
every daily paper you will see from one
to a dozen advertisements from loan
agents offering to adance rnonv upon fur
niture which need not b ; removed from
the house. Those who usually avail
themselves of ths accommodation are
boarding-house keepers who have run
behindhand in their bills. It is a cast
iron loan, though, and subjects th? bor
rower to many unpleasant incidents.
When a hous keeper wants to make a
loan of this description she communi
cates with the agent, who sen Is an expert
to examine the furniture. If it i; in a de
cent condition—and I never saw any that
was too worthless to borrow soma amount
of money upon—he makes a complete in
ventory of every article that he will accept
as security. Then he closely estimates
its value, not at what it is worth to the
owner, but at what it would fetch at auc
tion. If you want to know what dis
counts are made upon first cost, I will tell
you that the moment,a carpet has been
laid upon the fioor, r.o matter how iittle
worn it is, it decreases one half in value.
Of course, after it ha; been used some
time the decrease is very much grater.
By this rule the furniture in a house,
which eost say $5,000, would be valued
by the expert at SBOO. He would lean
all the way from S3OO to SIOO upon this,
depending largely upon the character of
the owner. A wem in, who has outside
means or who shows ability as a manage r,
or who has good financial backing, would
secure much larger loans at le;s interest
than one who does not possess these
qualities in so high a degree. The inter
est varies—ten to thirty-three per cent, a
year—and the chattel mortgage that she
gives is iron-bound and steel-ribbed. It
gives the capitalist the riqht to turn her
out of house and home should l.e deter
mine that she intended in any way to de
fraud him.
“Workman often pledge their tools to
these sharks and give them a lien upon
their first earnings. This, however, is a
hazardous proceeding, as the debtor
sometimes evades the agent and skips
out. This is a difficult task, though, and
rarely attempted. The agent who looks
after these loans has a score of eyes,
more legs than a centipede and can be
everywhere at the same time and several
other places besides. I have heard of
actresses borrowing money on their
wardrobes, which they still retained the
use of. And I once knew a man to bor
row $5 on a double set of false teeth,
which the agent kindly allowed him to
retain after giving him a chattel mort
gyge on them to secure him against loss.
The worst sort of sharks, though, are the
men who advance money upon salaries.
The poor chaps who g > to them never
cease to regret it. They are not only man
eaters but soul-consumers as well, and
woe betide the wretch who enters their
maws. They positively want the whole
earth and all the reat of the planets; they
are never satisfied. It is against their
nature. If they ever were they wouldn’t
be in that business. They demand
about forty per cent. a month,
aud they get it, too, unless
the borrower becomes desperate and
kills himself to avoid their extor
tionate demrnds. If he doesn’t respond
promptly they go to his employers, and
of course that means a sure discharge to
the employe, for no business man cares
to have in his employ a man who can't
live on his earnings. lie would be too
fond of money to be trusted about the
establishment. There are men who loan
money upon expectations, such as judg
ments, bequests, patent rights and other
uncertainties, and you can be sure that
they weigh the chances with unscrupu
lous care and see as well as they can that
their interests are protected.”
“There are,” observed the relator,
“other classes of loan agents. I refer to
them as amateurs to distinguish them
from those I have already described. They
are persons in various caliings of life
who have a little ready cash on hand and
don’t know exactly bow to place it. For
instance, we will take a clerk who has
saved up a few hundred dollars. His
landlady borrows it from him, and pays
it back in board, given him a cheaper
rate than her usual custom in lieu of in
terest. Sometimes she falls before the
debt is paid and he loses his money with
out having any recourse. Then board
ing-house keepers who have musical
daughters often advertise to give board
in exchange for musical lessons. There
are also fortune-tellers who borrow money
and pay it back by disclosing to the
credulous capitalist what the future holds
in store for him. It is needless to say
that these loaners never get back the
worth of their money.”— New York
Graphic.
Hints for Conduct.
Fifty years ago there was a well known
publication called “The Good Manners
Book.” It contained instructions in re
gard to going to and returning from
church, on table etiquette, etc. On each
page was a picture repres anting the fault
mentioned in a couplet benrath. The
following are a few specimen couplets
that are appropriate for advice in some
domestic circles to-day:
AVrithe not your limbs in every shape
Of awkward gesture like an ape.
Twirl not your toes, nor lolling stand.
Nor in your pocket; place your hand.
All whispering, giggling, winking, shun;
Turn not your back on any one
When you blow your no be brief,
And neatly use a handkerchief.
Do not allow yourselves to look
la letters, papers, or a book,
Till you have leave).
Set not your knife and fork up straight.
Gaze not upon another's plate.
Dip not a dirty knife in salt.
And carefully avoid the fault
Of blowing while at meals your nose,
U nless necessity impose;
When drinking do not stare around.
Nor make a harsh or gurgling sound.
Turn not your meat nor view it close;
Nor ever hold it to your nose.
Stuff not your mouth, nor blow your meat
Wait till it’s cool enough to eat
If in your food should chance to be
What can't be eat conveniently.
Remove it from your mouih with care,
Lean not upon another’s chair:
Use not a toothpick to be seen,
But hold a napkin for a s -re-u.
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Song.
3h, three little birds on a bramble spray 1
Each flew to find him a nest;
There was one went rarely over the sea;
And one flew straight for the North Countries
But the third
Little bird,
He winged his way to the watery West,
Where one that I love sits sighing.
Oh, for the withering bramble spray,
And the bird that sleeps in his nest!
There is one in a castle over the sea;
And one in a pine in the North Countrie;
But the third
Little bird,
He sings at a lattice far in the West,
Where one that I love lies dying.
Ah me, for the thorny bramble spray
And the weary bird in his nest!
There is one that dreams of the silver sea;
And one looks over the North Countrie;
But the third
Little bird,
He sings o'er a grave in the silent West,
Where one that I love is lying.
— Chambers' Journal.
HUMOROUS.
A burning’ question—The price of
coal.
The lawyer's advertisement—Give me
a trial.
A tongue that never talks scandal—the
tongue of a shoe.
The butcher should always be placed
on joint committees.
“No,” said the hack-driver, “I can’t
stop; my business is driving. ”
An anomaly in pantaloons—They are
never tight when they are full.
A woman refused to give a meal to a
dwarf the other day, because she was
opposed to dine-a-mite.
Topers will patronize a bar; from place
to place they mope; the best bar they
could patronize would be a bar of soap.
“Ah,” said Jeliokes, taking his friend’s
baby, 4 ‘lie has got his mother’s eyes—and
my hair,” ho added, as the youthful
prodigy grabbed him by his fore-top. ’
She—“ What a man you are, George;
always making fun of the ladies’ taper
waists.” He—“And what should Ido
with a taper, but to make light of it.”
“Give us the ballot box!” is the cry of
but very few of the fair sex, while the
rest of our feminine population is content
with being allowed to frequently stuff
the band-box.
“Maud, dear, why is a gardener like
your cheeks?” “Now, John! you know’
I never can guess conundrums. Why is
he?” ‘‘Because he is the culler of roses,
love.” Tableau.
“Mr. Smith,” asked the professor of
natural history, “which animal exhibits
the greatest susceptibility of attaching
itself to the human race?” Smith reflects;
“Ah—er—er—er—l think the leech,
professor.”
The author of the lines, “Sit still, my
heart, sit still!” has at last been discov
ered. He proves to be a photographer,
and when it first became necessary for
him to use the expression he was taking
his best girl’s picture.
In olden times they used to punish a
man for lying by boring a hole through
his tongue. Ia modern times they quit
it, because a man's tongue would not
last more than six weeks, if a hole was
put in-for every be he told.
“I must have order in this court-room,”
aternly commanded a justice of the peace;
‘ I must and will have less noise and con
fusion here. I have already disposed of
three important cases without being able
to hear one word of the evidence. ”
Lieutenant (to a brother officer): “I
have ill-luck in getting married. A fair
one without money my father objects to.
A homely one with money my personal
feeling objects to. A fair one with
money her father objects to. A homely
one without money—why, naturally
everybody objects to.
“We never see a tear in the eye.” says
a celebrated writer, ‘but we are remind
ed of a warm heart”—or onions.
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