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DEFENSE OF YOUNG MEN.
Protect Thy Wayward Footsteps
with the Shield of Truth,
Which Loads You to God’s Throne nml
Makes Yon H«*;q>y Here—Sermon by ltev.
T. PcWitt Talm:igye, !>, D.
Brooki.tx, Oct. 30. Rov. T. DoWitt Tal
mage, I). I)., preached on ttso subject:
“Defense of Young Men,” and took his
text from 11. Kings, vi., 17: ‘ And the Lord
opened the eyes of the young man.” He
said:
One morning in Dothan a young theolog
ical student was scared by finding himseif
aud Elisha, the prophet, upon whom he
waited, surrounded by a whole army of
enemies. But voneru'blo Elisha was not
scared at all, because he saw the moun
tains full of dofenso for him, in
chariot?, made cat of lire, wheels of
fire, dashboard of fl to, cushion of fire,
drawn by horses with nostrils of fire,
and mane of lire, and haunches of lire,
and hoofs of lire—a supernatural appear
auce Yhat could not be seen with the natu
ral eye. Bo tbo oil minister prayed that
the young minister might see them also,
and tho prayer was answered, and the Lord
opened the young man, and ho also saw
the fiery procession, lookiug somewhat, I
suppose, like the Adirondacks or the Alle
ghenies in this autumnal resplendence.
Many young men, standing among the
most tremendous realities, have their eyes
Imlf shut or entirely closed. May God
grant that my sermon may open wide your
eyes to your safely, your opportuuity aud
your destiny.
A mighty defense for a young man is a
good home. Homo of my hearers look
back with tender satisfaction to their
early home. It may have been rude and
rustic, hidden among tho hills, and archi
tect or upholsterer never planned or
adorned it. But all tho fresco on princely
walls never looked so enticing to you as
those rough hewn rafters. You can think
of no park or arbor of trees planted on
fashionable country seat so attractive as
the plain brook that ran in front of the old
farm-house and sang nndor tho weeping
Willows. No barred gateway adorned
•with statue of bronze, and swung open
by obsequious porter in full dress, has
half the glory of the swing gato. Many of
you have a second dwelling place, your
adopted homo, that also is sacred forever.
There you built the first family altar.
Thoro your children were born. All those
trees you planted. That room is solemn,
because once in it, ovor the hot pillpw.
flapped tho wing ol death. Under that
roof you expect when yeffir work isdone to
lie down and die. You try with many
words to toll tho excellency of the place,
but you fail. There is only one word in
the language that can descrlbo your mean
ing. It is home.
Now, I declare it, that young man is
comparatively safe who goes out into the
■world with a charm like this upon him.
The memory of parental solicitude, watch
ing^planning ami praying, will ths to him
» shield and a shelter. I never knew a
loan faithful, both to his early and adopted
home, who at tho same time was given over
to gross form of dissipation or wicked
bass. He who seeks his enjoyment chiefly
from outside association, rather than from
•fee nfore quiet and uuprosuming pleas
ures of which 1 have spoken, may be sus
pected to be on tho broad road to ruin. Ab
salom despised his father’s house, aud you
know his history of sin and his doath of
Shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated
from your kindred and former associates,
is there not some room that you can call
your own! Into it gathor books and pic
tures and a harp. Have a portrait over
the mantel. Make ungodly mirth stand
back from the threshold. Consecrate somo
•pot with tho knee of prayor. By the
juomory of other days, a father’s counsel
*ud a mother's lovo and a sister’s con-
Adqnoe, call it home.
Another defense for a young man is in
dustrious habit. Many young men, iu
starting upon life iu this ugo, expect to
make their way through the world by the
tase of their wits rather than the toil of
their hands. A child now goes t.o the city
•ml fails twice before ho is as old as his
father was when he first saw the spires of
the groat town.
Sitting in 60me office, rented at a thou
sand dollars a year, ho is waiting for the
bank to declare its dividond, or goes into
tho market expecting before night to be
made rich by the rushing up of the
stocks. But luck seemed so dull he re
solved on some other tack. Perhaps he
borrowed from his employer’s money
drawer, and forgets to put it back, or for
merely the purpose of improving bis pon
mansbip makes a copv-plate of a mer
chant’s signature. Never mind, all is right
in trade. In sonle dark night there may
•onie in his dreams a vision of Blackwell’s
Island, or of Sing Sing, but it soon van
ishes. In a short time he will be ready to
retire from tho busy world, and amid his
flocks and herds culture the domestic vir
tue*. ' Then those young men who were
Once his schoolmates, and knew no better
than to engage in honest work,
Will come with their ox-tcams to draw
him logs, and with their hard hands
help heave up his castle. This is no fancy
picture. It is eveiy-day life. I should not
Wonder if there wero somo rotten beams
in that beautiful palace. I should not won
der if dire sickness should smite through
the young man, or if God should pour into
his cup of life a draught that would thrill
him with unbearable agony. I should not
wouder if his ohildren should become to
him a living curse, making his home a pest
and a disgrace. I should not wonder if lie
goes to a miserable grave, and beyond it
Into the gnashing of teeth. Tho way of
the ungodly shall perish.
My young friends, there is no way to
genuine success except through toil, cither
of the head or hand. At the battle of
Crecy, in 1340, the Prince of Wales, find
ing himself heavily pressed by the enemy,
sent word to his father for help, lho
father, watching the battle frem a wind
mill, and seeing that his son was not
Wounded and could gain tha day if he
would, sent word: “No, I will not come.
Let the boy win his Spurs! for* if God will,
1 desire that this day be his, with all its
honors.” Young man. fight your own bat
ties all through, and you shall have the
victory. Ob, it is a battle worth fighting.
Two tnonarchs of old fought a duel—
Charles V. and Francis—and the stakes
were kingdoms, Milan and Burgundy. You
fight with sin, aud tho stake is Heaven or
bell.
Do not get the fatal idea that you are a
genius, and that, therefore, there is no
need of closo application. It is here where
multitudes fail. The great curse of this
age is the geniuses, men with enormous
self-conceit and egotism, and nothing
else. I had rather bo an ox than an eagle;
plain and plodding and useful, rather
than high-flying and good for nothing
but to pick out tho eyes of the carcasses.
Extraordinary capacity without use is
extraordinary failure. There is no hope
for that person who begins life resolved
to live by his wits, for the probability is he
bus uut any. It was not safe for Adam,
even in his unfallen state, to have noth
ing to do, aud therefore, God commanded
him to bo a farmer and horticulturist. He
was to dress the garden and keep it, and
had he and his wife obeyed the Divin%in
junction and been at work, they would not
have been sauntering under the trees, and
hungering after that fruit which destroyed
them and their posterity; proof positive
for all ages to come that those who do not
attend to their business are sure to get
into mischief. I do not know that the
prodigal in Scripture would ever have
been reclaimed had he not given up his
idle habits and gone to feeding swine for
a living. “Go to the ant, thou slug
gard; consider her ways and be wise,
which having no overseer or guide
providcih her food in the summer and
gattiereth her meat in the harvest.” The
devil does not often attack the man who is
busy with the pen, and the book, and the
trowel, and the saw, and the hammer. He
is afraid of those weapons. But woe to
the man whom this roaring lion meets
with his hands in his pockets. Do not de
mand that your toil always be elegant,
and cleanly and refined. There is a certain
amount of drudgery through which we all
must pass, whatever be our occupation.
You know how men are sentenced, a
certain number to years of prison, and
after they have suffered and worked out
the time, then they are allowed to go
free. And so it is with all of us. God
passed on us the sentence: “By the sweat
of thy brow shalt thou oat bread.” We
must endure our time of drudgery, and
then, after awhile, wo will be allowed to
go into comparative liberty. We must be
willing tu endure the sentence. We all
know where drudgery is connected with
the beginning of any trade or
but this does not continue all our lives, if
it bo the student’s, or the merchant’s, or
the mechanic’s life. I know you have at
the beginning many a hard time, but after
awhile these things will become easy.
You will be your own master. God’s
sentence will be satisfied. You will be
discharged fvpm prison. Bless God that
you have a brain to think, aud hands to
work, and feet to walk with, for in your
constant activity, oh, young man, is one of
your strongest defenses. Put your trust
in God and do your level best. That child
had it right when the horses ran away
with the load of wood and he sat upon it.
When asked if he was frightened he said:
“No; I prayed to God and hung on like a
beaver.”
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath
will bo to the’ young men a powerful pre
servative against, evil. God has thrust
into the toil and fatigue of life a recreative
day, when the soul is especially to be fed.
It is no new-fangled notion of a wild
brained reformer, but an institution estab
lished at the beginning. God has made
natural and -moral laws so 'harmo
nious that the body, as well as the soul,
demands this institution. Our bodies
are seven-day clocks, that must be wound
up as often as that, or they will run down.
Failure must come sooner or later to the
man who breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration
has called it the Lord’s Day, and he who
devotes it to the world is guilty of rob
bery. God will not, let the sin go unpun
ished, either in this world or the world to
come. This is the statement of a man who
had broken this Divine enactment:
4 1 was f ngaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh river. On the Sabbath I used to
lest,, but never regarded God in it. One
beautiful Sabbath when the noise was all
hushed, and the day was all that loveli
ness could make it, I sat down on my
piazza and went to work inventing a r. w
shuttle. I neither stopped to eat nor d • ik
till tho sun went down. By that time 1 had
tho invention completed. The next morn
ing I exhibited it, boasted of my day’s
work and was applauded. The shuttle
was tried aud worked well, but that Sab
bath day’s work cost me £IO,OOO. We
branched out and enlarged, and the curse
of Heaven was upon mo from that day on
ward.”
While the Divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statue, God’s
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed, will throw a hallowed
influence over all the week. The song,
and sermon, and sanctuary wiil hold back
from presumptuous scenes. That young
man who begins the duties of life witb
either socrot or open disrepect of tho holy
day, I venture the prophesy, will
meet with no prominent suc
cesses. God’s curse will fall upon his ship,
his store, his office, his studio, his body
and his soul. The way of the wicked He
turneth upside down. In one of the old
fables it was that a wonderful child
was born in Bagdad, and a magician could
hoar his footsteps six thousand miles away.
But I can hear in the footstep of that
young man, on his way to the house of
worship this morning, step not only a life
time of usefulness, but the coming step of
eternal joys of heavens yet millions of
miles away.
Again, a noble idea and confident expec
tation of approximating to it will infalli
bly advance. The artist completes in his
mind the great thought that he wishes to
transfer to the canvas or the marble be
fore he takes up the crayon or the chisel.
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1887.
The architect plans out the entiro structure
before ho orders the workmen to begin,
and though there may for a long while
seem to bo nothing but blundering and
rudeness he has in his mind every Corin
thian wreath, and Gothic urch, and Byzan
tine capital. The poet arranges the entire
plot before he begins to chime the first
canto of tingling rhythms. And yet,
stranger to us, there aro man who attempt
to build their character without knowing
whether in tho end it shall be a nuli
traitor’s den or a St. Mark’s of Venice.
Men who begin to write the intricate
poem of their lives without knowing
whether it shall be a Homer's Odyssoy or
a rhymester’s botch, Nine hundred and
ninety-nine men out of a thousand are
living without any great life-plot.
Booted, and spurred, and plumed, and
urging their swift courser into the hottest
haste. I come out and ask: “Halloo,mat.,
whither away?” His response is: “No
where.” Rush into the busy shop or store
of many a one, and taking the plane out of
the man’s hand and laying down the yard
stick, say: “What, man, is all this about
—so much stir and sweat?” Tho reply will
stumble and break down between teeth
and lips. Every day’s duty ought only to
be the following up of the main plan of
existence. Let men be consistent!
If they prefer misdeeds to correct courses
of action, then let them draw out the de
sign of knavery and cruelty and plunder.
Let every day’s falsehood and wrong-doing
be added as coloring to the picture. Let
bloody deeds red-stripe the canvas, and the
clouds of a wrathful God hang down heav
ily over the canvas, ready to break out in
clamorous tempe t. iyct the waters be
chafed, a frost-tangle, and green with im
measurable depths. Then take a torch of
burning pitch and scorch into the frame
of tho picture the right name r or it—
namely, “The Soul’s Suicide.” If one en
toring upon sinful directions would only
in his mind or on paper draw out in awful
reality this dreadful future, he would
recoil frem it and say: “Am I a Dante,
that by my own life I should write another
Inferno?” Blit if you are resolved to live
a life such as God and good men will ap
prove, do not let it be a vague dream,
an indefinite determination, but in
your mind or upon papor sketch it in
all its minutiae. You can not know the
changes to which you may be subject, but
you may know what always will be right
and what always will be wrong. Let gen
tleness, and charity, aud veracity, and
faith stand in the heart of the sketch. On
some still brook’s bank make a lamb and
lion lie down together. Draw two or three
of the trees of life, not frost-strickon, nor
ice-glazed, nor wind-stripped, but with
thick verdure zvavlng like the. pa’.jni i-
Heaven.
On the darkest cloud place the rainbow,
that billow of the dying storm. You need
not burn the title on the frame. Tho
dullest will catch the design at a glance,
and say: “That is the road to Heaven.”
Ah, me 1 On this sea of life what innum
erable ships, _ heaviiy laden aud well
rigged, yet some bound for another pork
Swept every-whither of wind and wave,
they go up by the mountains, they go down
by the billows and aro at their wits’ end.
They sail by no chart, they watch no star,
they long for no harbor. I beg every young
man to-day to draw out a sketch of what,
by the grace of God,he means to b?,though
in excellence so high that you can not
reach it. He who starts out in life with a
high ideal of character, and faith in its at
tainment, will find himself encased from*
thousand temptations.
There are magnificent possibilities be
fore each of you young men of tho stout
heart and the buoyant step and tho bound
ing spirit. I would marshal you for
grand achievement. God now provides
for you the fleet and the armor an ’ the
fortifications. Who is on the Lord’s side?
The captain of the zouaves iu ancient
times, to encourage them against the im
mense odds on the side of their enemies,
said: “Come, mv men, look these fellows in
the face. They are six thousand, you are
three hundred. Surely the match is even.”
That speech gave them the victory. Be
not, my hearer, dismayed at any time by
what immense odds against you.
Is fortune, is want of oducation, aro men,
are devils against you, though the multi
tudes of earth and hell confront you, stand
up to the charge. With a million against
you the match is just even. Nay, you have
a decided advantage. If God bo for us,
who can be against us? Thus protected,
you need not spend much time in answer
ing your assailants.
Many years ago word came to me that
two impostors, as temp ; ranee lecturers,
had been speaking in Ohio in various
places, and giving their experience, aud
they told their audience that they had
long been intimate with me, and had be
come drunkards by dining at my table,
where I always had liquors of all sorts.
Indignant to tho last degree, I went
down to Patrick Campbell, chief of the
Brooklyn police, saying I was going to start
that night for Ohio to have these villains
arrested, and I wanted him to tell me how
to make tho arrest. He smiled and said:
‘‘Do not waste your time by chasing these
men. Go home and do your work, and
they can do no harm.” I took his counsel,
and all was well. Long ago I made up my
mind that if one will put his trust in God
and be faithful to duty, he need not fear
any evil. Have God on your side, young
man, and all the combined forces of earth
and hell can do you no damage.
And this leads me to say that the might
iest ol all defense for a young man is tha
possession of thorough religious princi
ple. Nothing can take the place of it.
Ho may have manners that would put
to shame the gracefulness and courtesy
of a Lord Chesterfield. Foreign lan
guages may drop from his tongue. He
may be able to discuss literatures and
laws and foreign customs. Ho may wield a
pen of unequalled polish and power. His
quickness and tact may qualify him for
the highest salary of the counting-house.
He may be as sharp as Herod and as
strong as Samson, with as fine locks as
those which hung Absolom, still he is not
safe from contamination. The more ele
gant his manner, and the moro fascinating
his dross, the more peril.
Satan docs not care much for the alle-
giance of a coward and illiterate being.
He can bring him into efficient service.
Biit he loves to storm that castle of char
acter which Ims in it the most spoils and
treasures. It was not some crazy craft
creeping along the coast with a valueless
cargo that the pirate attacked, but the
ship, full-wiugcd and flagged, plying be
tween great ports, carrying its millions of
specie. The more your natural and ac
quired accomplishments the more the
need of the religion of Jesus. That does
not cut in upon or hack up any smooth
ness of disposition or behavior. It gives
symmetry. It arrests that in tho soul
which ought to be arrested and propels
that which ought to be propelled. It fills
up the gullcys. It elevates and transforms.
To beauty it gives more beauty, to tact
more tact, to enthusiasm of naturo more
enthusiasm. When the Holy Spirit im
presses the image of God on tho heart He
does not spoil the canvas. If in all the
multitudes of young men upon whom re
ligion has acted you could find one nature
that haJ* been the least damaged I
would yield this proposition. You may
now have enough strength of character to
repel tho various temptations to gross
wickedness which assail you, but I do uot
know iu what strait you may bo thrust
at some future time. Nothing short of the
grace of the cross may then be able to de
liver you from the lions. You are not
meeker than Moses, nor holier than David,
nor more patient than Job, and you ought
not to consider yourself invulnerable. You
may liave some weak point of character
that you have never discovered, and in
some hour when you are assaulted the
Philistines will be upon thee, Samson.
Trust not in your good habits, or your
early training, or your prido oT character.
Nothing short of the arm of Almighty God
will be suflb'ient to uphold you. You
look forward to the world sometimes with
a chilling despondency.
Cheer up! I wiil tell you how you alFmay
make n fortune. “Seek first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness and all oth
er things will be added unto you.” 1 know
you do not want to be mean in this matter.
Give God the freshness of your life. You
will not heave the heart to drink down. And
then pour tho drcg3 on God’s altar. To a
Saviour so infinitely generous fou have not
the heart to act like that. That is not
brave, that is not honorable, that is not
manly. Your greatest want in all the
world is a new heart. In God’s name I
tell you that. And the Blessed Spirit
presses through the solemnities and
privileges of this holy hour. Pat the cup
of life eternal to your thirsty lips. Thrust
it not back. Mercy offers it, bleediug
mercy, long-suffering mercy. Reject all
ether friendships, bo ungrateful for all
other kindness, prove recreant to all
other bargains, but despise God’s love
for 3‘our immortal soul—don’t you do
that.
WITH CHEERFULNESS.
The Great Advantage of Keeping Cp a
Cheerful, Hopeful Spirit.
Half the consists in keeping
up a
comes, and tfflf iclouds; when the spirit is
loaded with deadening pain, all work be
becomee a drudgery, and life is a burden
and difficulty. -Whatever is done is carried
on under compulsion, with a wish that it
cfculd be avoided, and a feeling of pleasure
%-if so mournful a kind of congratulation
oan lie called a pleasure—that It is at last
completed. And even if—because there is
will tower enough to drive it along, and fa
vorabPVlireunistances to make It—success
ful, it wm afford but little satisfaction, for
'She spirit will be loaded with forebodings,
Aid the mind be full of prophesies of oom
i|g evil If any good work be well done it
must be amid buoyancy and hope. With
no matter how hard the task
may be; or how unpromising, there will ho
energy given to it and that facility of skill
and tact that, unless the hindrances are in •
vincible, will carry it through to a good
end Our religious work very often lags
end fails, not because we are not earnest in
it—perhaps we expend even unnecessary
labor on it—but because it is done under a
cloud. Hope is wanting. There is no en
thusiasm—no spring and. eager on-Jooking
and vision of inevitable accomplishment.
But if the heart bo right it will be able to
go cheerfully through any experience and
ard also bear its disappointment*, rejoice in
its tribulations, and not only believe, but
know, that God makes all things work to
gether for good to those who love Him. It
is not possible—not for all of us—all the
time. Moods are many, and we are liable
to fail into the dull ones betimes; but It
ought to he a part of onr Christian effort to
drive away tho clouds, If possible, and turn
to the beautiful and inspiring light—
Coded Presbyterian.
A Pertinent Question.
We heard the other day of a young minis
ter who was “taken down” very handsomely
by a bright iittle girl. He had been called
upon quite unexpectedly to address a Sun
day-School, aud to give himself time to col
lect his thoughts he asked a question: “Child
ren", said he, “what shall I speak about?”
A little girl on the front scat who had her
self committed to memory several declama
tions held up her hand, and in a shrill voico
asked: “What do yen know?” The same
question might with propriety be pHt to a
good many who attempt to talk to peep e
and there are but few, if their knowledge
were challenged, who would not discover
that they had nothing to say. Jiu t t »/
Weekly.
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Continually Growing.
The letters “Y. M. C. A” keep on meaning
more and more. According to the statistics
of the last international meeting, held in
Fan Francisoo, there are 1,176 American
associations in exis.ance, the aggregate
membership being 154,921. The real es
tate owned by the various bodies is valued
at $5,011,239, with an incumbrance of
something over eight hundred thousand dol
lars in all. The number of general secreta
ries and paid officers employed is 487. There
are said to be 258 college associations, and
fifteen Indian association .. The world over,
the associations reach to the number of
3,541. — Standard.
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You can not dream yourself into a char
acter; you must hummer and ')tge your
self one.— Fronde.
We aro no longer happy so soon as wo
wißh to bv happier.— Lamotu.
AMERICA'S NEW ERA.
The Grand Spirit of Nationality Devel
oped by the Domocratio Party.
A new era has dawned in American
polities. It began with the inaugura
tion of Grover Cleveland, and can only
be carried out to its fullest consumma
tion by tho continued ascendancy of
the Democratic party.
The Republicans, in a blind spirit
that seems to be almost fatalistic,
tenaciously cling to their old idols, and
the new issues that are pressing for so
lution are persistently ignored. Like
an old man in his dotage, this party
somnolently dwells in the past, pitiful
ly discussing themes that have long
since passed out of the vital concerns
of tire world. The war of the rebellion
is now a gigantic memory; but wilh
them it seems to bo a present reality.
They go on reaffirming the principles
that were long since settled by the
war as if they were vital issues before
(he country at the present day. They
talk of Confederates and rebels as if
the country was to-day in the midst of
an armed civil insurrection. They
“point witli pride” to their past, and
go before the country on a platform
of principles which have long since
been settled and inscribed on the pages
of history as accomplished realities.
The great indictment tho country
makes against the Republican party is
that it fails to put itself in harmony
with the forward movements of the
age. It fails to recognize the powerful
spirit of nationality that has grown up
iu these States since the war. For the
first eighty years of our existence
we were little better than two separate
and antagonistic natious trying to ex
ist under one constitution. There was
a steadily extending spirit of disunion
that perpetually threatened the stabil
ity of the Republic. There was no
true feeling of nationality. We were
not a firmly-established Republic, but
an experiment which the nations of
the earth expected to go to pieces, and
be numbered with the other unsuccess
ful republics of the past The war put
an end to the experimental era, de
stroyed sectionalism, and above its
battle smoke hovered for the first time
the genius of an indestructible Amer
ican nationality.#
The newly-born spirit or nationality,
which promises so much for the great
ness of our future, the Republican par
ty seems bent upon destroying. This
is a very serious charge, but the facts
in the case bear it out. Its leaders are
constantly endeavoring to revive the
bitter feelings growing out of the war,
and to resurrect the dead hates that a
reunited nation lias decreed shall be
buried forever. It seeks by all the
arts of demagogic rhetoric to keep
alive the antagonisms that dividod the
sections of this country for a period
of eighty years. It would suppress the
new and hopeful feeling o American
nationality, and replace it with the old
and dreadful hates of sectionalism,
which kept this country a mere com
pact of discordant and unfraternal
States through tho long experimental
period of its history. To discourage
or in any way thwart this growing
tendency of nationality is a crime not
far remote from treason. The Repub
lican party can not escape the indict
ment of being guilty of this crime.
The Democratic party, on the other
hand, is pledged to this new epoch
making idea of universal American na
tionality. It sees that a new impetus
and vitalization has been given to the
country by this lately-grown concep
tion, and that it marks a new era
in our history. The Republican party,
by its narrow and hate-breeding sec
tionalism, is fighting against the course
of inevitable progress. It is in direct
hostility to the ruling spirit of the age.
It might as well fight against the stars
in their courses. —Boston Globe.
tigTht~ PLACE.
The Uncomfortable liileratna in Which
the G. O. P. Finds Itself.
Complications are arising in the Re
publican party. Since the defeat of
Blaine in 1884 the almost unanimous
sentiment of the party seemed to favor
his renomination iu 1888. Sherman
booms were launched, Allison was
placed in training, Hawley’s availabil
ity was suggested, Gresham and Ben
Harrison were reviewed, but in the
end all working Republicans turned to
Blaine as the natural leader of the
party. There is no doubt still that
Blaine is the choice for President of an
overwhelming majority of the Repub
licans. But is he available? This is
the question that the big minds of the
party aro now asking, and the re
sponses are not suggestive of hope for
the future. In fine, the Blaine senti
ment is not so unanimous as it was a
year or two ago. It is taken for
granted that the independent Re
publicans wl.o bolted the nomination
of Blaine in 1884 are ready to repeat
this performance next year. No effort
has been made by the Blaine people to
conciliate the Mugwumps, and many
conservative voters who supported
Blaine iu 1884 because of a general in
disposition to unsettle tilings by a rad
ical change in the administration of
the Government, will support Cleve
land next year for precisely the same
reason.
VOL. IV.—NO. 37.
The long-headed leaders of the Re
publican party see these things plain
ly, and while they are friendly to
Blaine they foresee that his nomina
tion would mean inevitable defeat. It
is a game of party expediency against
personal choice. Blaine’s immediate
followers say that tho great popular
leader must be Y-indicated by another
nomination. The men who are for the
party first and Blaine afterwards as
sert that the party can not survive
another defeat, and that the conditions
of the public mind are no more favor
able to Blaine now than they were
three years ago.
This does not present a pleasant stole
of affairs for the contemplation of
ardent Republicans. It is a case of
“you’re cursed if you do and you’re
cursed if you don’t” If Blaine is nom
inated the far-seeing politicians predict
inevitable defeat If Blaine is not
nominated are the chances of Repub
lican success any better? It is not
likely that Mr. Blaine and his immedi
ate friends would tolerate tho election
of any other Republican. The election
of a Republican candidate other time
Blaine in 1888 would be a condemna
tion of Blaine so pronounced that n«
amount of party fealty could excuse it
It would be a clear demonstration to
the world that Blaine was solely re
sponsible for the defeat of the Repub
licans in 1884. This is something that
Blaine and his friends will hardly per
mit. What will be the resultP The
Republicans will either have to nomi
nate Blaino and campaign in
which the wisest leaders of the party
see nothing but inevitable defeat, or
nominate Lincoln, Sherman or Allison,
either of whom Blaine, in self-defense,
will have to assist tho Democrats in
defeating.
It is an uncomfortable dilemma for
the Republicans, but it is the logic of
the situation. — St. Louis Republican.
A BRAND NEW SOUTH.
Wonderful Development of tha Former
Hlave-Hoidliiff States.
It is pretty clear that tho South has
no time to wrangle over battle flags
and none to waste in mourning over a
“lost cause. ” She has “a new found
cause” worth a dozen of that sho
dropped on the field of Appomatox—
the cause of industry, which is giving
her health, plenty and happiness.
It used to be said in the old days be
fore tho war that the South looked
down on the North. However that
may be, if she goes on in mining and
manufacturing enterprises for twenty
years more as she has been going on
during the last half decade the North
will have to strike a new gait or lh«
South will be looking back at her in
the race.
Her progress during the last eight
months makes the seven-league boots
of Jack the Giant Killer quite unneces
sary. The capital she has invested
during that time is considerably ovor
two hundred millions of dollars. In
seven years she has established fifteen
thousand new industries, and her iron
mining increase has jumped from three
hundred and ninety-seven thousand
tons to nearly nine hundred thousand
tons, with machine shops, flour mills,
cotton mills, lumber mills, and in fact
every thing else in proportion.
The South is not putting on any airs,
but she is making barrels of money.
All right. She has a magnificent sec
tion of tho country and is working il
for all it is worth. — N. T. Herald.
PUBLIC OPINION.
A modest-looking man with
brown whiskers turns up now and
again at public festivals in the East,
and, by one chance or another, is
recognized as R. B. Kayos, of Ohio.
Mr. Hayes was at one time in the Fed
eral service.— N. Y. Star.
Tho New York Sun remarks
that, “ after all, the majority of ths
American people are not fools.” Well,
we should surmise not This fact was
settled when nineteen-twentieths of the
voters refused to vote for Ben Butler
for President— Atlanta Constitution.
The burden of tho anti-Adminis
tration editor’s present song is that
the President of the United States is
imbecile, a rebel, unclean, a falsa
friend, a liar, a thief—and so on
through the whole gamut of vitupera
tion. Truly, this is a free country. —
Chicago Herald.
Tho Democratic Administration
is redeeming Democratic pledges. The
people’s land is being rescued from
the hungry maw of monopolists, and
held in sacred trust for the homeless.
The giant corporations that controlled
the servants of the people during Re
publican rule are no longer in a posi
tion to bleed the people by corrupting
their servants. — Pittsburgh Post.
There is nothing in any fair con
struction of the Civil-Service law, or
of the orders of the President issued
thereupon that prevents any citizen in
office or out of office from belonging
to an association, even if that as
sociation be political in its scope.
The aim of the law and of the Presi
dent is to prevent the using of official
authority and influence to unduly con
trol political conventions and
tious. — Troy Press.