Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1891 — Page 2

KILLING AN INDUSTRY. EFFECT OF TIT M'KIXLEY LAW Old MOLASSES BOILING. •• . ■ ■—r'.ic ' Philadelphia Alolasries rollers in Danger— Chartering a Line of Steamers—A Loss Which XX ill l.’ethi' Country's Gain. ThO'eJs one American industry which says it will be killed by the McKinley itiw. * This is molasses boilers ure located principally 'in Philadelphia, have capital of ' $3,00 V ?".-o > invested. Their method of op i a on has been 'tv import a low grade pt' inolasses from Cuba, on which the duty xvas six ce:i*s a callon. From eacli sail >n six pounds of raw sugar is prodtic.' l. the duty on which, if imported direct y, would be-sixteen cents and a fraction. This .gave a saving of fell ' cents a gallon in tariff taxes to the builders and enabled them =to do lousiness at. a profit. The residue left fronq boiling was a' ■ .-old to the manufacturers of rum. thus still further enhancing the „ profit. . ' \ Now, however, sugar goes on the fro.' list, and the rhi'adelpiiia toilers will be placed in a very bad position. The cheap raw sugar of Cuba will come into the country free, provided President Harrison will permit it, and the boib rs will b- pit to their trumps’ to compete with it. Furthermore: it is stated that next year the importers in Cuba, who - , have been buying largely of American machinery, will do their o.wn work by boiling on the plantations, and thus save not only transportatipn to the shipboard but stevedoring, and leave the plants in Philadelphia without, any work at all to do.. . i V infer these eireumstanees the butlers shy that when ihe hew law goes into effect their profits are gi me. and that their 83,000.000 • plants are also gone. However, they im an to die game. They have chartered a whole line of steame’s and sailing vessels to transport molasses from .Cuba .to Philadelphia by the tank system? thus laying it down in Philadelphia at a freight cost of ’two cents a gallon. lint if the McKinley law kills the nio'asses boiling industry, that fact will not necessarily add anything to the bad Tecord of that bad measure.' On the contrary, by showing that we can.got. along without boiling 'Cuban moia-so, it will prove that we may even' gain bi losing an industry. If the Philadelphia 'boiler*! are eomoell d to retire from business it will be beeau-eof the “flood ” of elicap sugar the country; but this cheap shgdr is precisely the thing we want. It i< not the production ■“of cheap sugar that, is necessary .for us, it is the cheap sugar itself tliabwe want. Ti.e possession and’enjoy :m L nt of eotunioditu s- is the end and- aim of all labor. Why, theh. shtmld we Jament the loss of ati industry when the product of that industry is to be put down to. us at ' a low i co.-t? Lower eo-t lyans less labor.’ But wiry not get commodities from foreign countries at le-s .iabofyci.lst • when-.ipaking thes" commodities at K ittle j involves greater labor? This is the prob- i lem pr< -ented in every artieie of'.th -, tar- ! iff k w which is protective. The- filial; cost o’ commodity t > the country is ! the ec-si to the consumer, Ifexv nnv'h labor must, a farmer on the plains per- I iorin in order to. get a . barrel of. sugar? , Tlmt is a greater oiies.tion than the.in- | terests.ofcthej’hiladylch'a boilers ortho ' -Louisia ,a sugar farmers, for there are a th<c-and CQiisifiui-rs .of sugar.to. b;ne producer If-theMcKinley law. therefore. clOSt s out cvl ’ y molasses-' oiiiiig establishment in I’l.i a ielphia. by giving us free sugar, •it will do a good service-to the country'-: by showing that it is sometimes cheaper to kill off a home industry in order to get & cheaper and Better product in a foreign country. It is a violent remedy, but it is worth trying, in order to show the people conclusively that the tariff is a tax, ahd that there are some industries which exist by drawing this tariff from the pockets of the consumers. If the McKinley law does this it will perform at least one excellent se.rvicfc. V. ouiaif* Work in Pittsburg-. Ore o' the piteous, tales that protected manufacturers often tell before the committees of Congress is that -in Europe' women are often employed to do the work of men. They are quife sure that free-b’ . Ahmrlean workingmen cannot com. etc with. Europe's pauper v. im.en. Bi?; it appears that Europe is. not the omy i; -r of the xv. rd whefe, in the sharp struggle, for' exh-tome, the manu-factuL-.rs put wonjoii to doing: men's work. !»nr own i’ittsburg, where. ; erhaps. more protected industries to the Bqtta!e : milc are concentrat' d than any-... wh' r else in America, has a littfe tai" of its own. which can, match those, which our manufacturers can tell about Europe. Aecor hug to a recent report to the Workingmans 'Society in New York, about hundred, wo.nmA are employed in the gr-'at iron foundrie-Xln Pittsburg in bolts and uaik For this work 'h' in -n have .!>•■•-r. . receiving from ?I4 to - I 1 ’ a week. Tile women gre paid from -■ :o >5 a week, and are glad to get it This is dm- of th" features of prob- "Inn to American industry,- in driving a.' n out of employment for which their -trength tits Hmm and substituting: the cheap. la'w of .weak and idelieato : women . - 1 i tsb :rg has m >re milli.onaire manufacti'r ns than a iy other .city of its size in the epi.utry: but that fact dbek-not pro-e i’ "lie very, thrng which tti>? protect; .'.t-'s claim as the speei'ai achieves ■■J.mer t. protection. To prevent degrada-, tint, A’-m.-ri' an mbor. Art eri' ati-man-hoM anil '. linanh-iod.Js the worthy ,objeet. -thev say. they have- in vicvi'l Does protec mu aceom:.! -1 - r-at. object in hig4i<- protect'-d Flttsim/g? —,, - — ... »■ ■ ■■ ■ > I. ,— — -- . - * I Cumula's' I’p.’iper Ice. €o:u v. either is n;u h niore abundant and cheap in Canada thin in the Inited ' Stales. In fact, that country isisuch a ' “dum. ii _■ ground’ for the pauper ice - prodm-vof old winter, that ar. Ohio ice comp any has taken it into its head that there must be a protective duty put on Canadian ice'. A petition to that effect . was r-.- entiyjsenit to Ma;.McKinley by > theSpritig Kake Ice t'oiupSuy, df Toledo, I Ohio. But McKinley did not act. Perhaps the poor man is confused in nis I mind as to the actual effects of his fam- j ous tariff law, so many of his party ' organs are trying to prove that his high tariff has reduced the price of manufac- i tures, but has raised the price of agricul- ' tural products. Ice being neither a ’ farm product nor a manufactur d article, , It would doubtless be difficult for Me- ■ Kinley to tell what effect a duty oh ice would have. Perhaps, too, he concluded j that if he had put a duty on ice, the I wicked Canadians would have paid it, ' and then the Toledo company would have got no good from it. At any rate Me- I Kinley did not act, and now Congress has gone home, and McKinley has passed off the stage. There will never be a duty on ice. The time has come for the tariff wall to “melt, thaw and resolve Itself into a dew ’ - "i ?- —M--- —-— f- -. Blowing Hot and Gold. The McKinleyites are it their old trick 1 of trying to persuade the farmers that a duty on manufactured products reduces prices, but that a duty on anything which the farmers have to sell raises prices. 4 The Indianapolis Jowmul has recently ' •• said: “We challenge free-traders to name a Single article or commodity of general use that has advanced in price since the passage of the McKinley bill. In fact, ! prices of almost everything are lower •

' now than they were four months ago. ■ ’ Still more recently this organ has conl tained the following: “Word comes from ' lowa that Eastern buyers are in that . State paying §ls or §2O more for horses • than they did when Canada furnished I them—all of which is due to the McKin- - I ley law.” ' ; Like whisky—in winter it is drank to keep warm, aha in summer to keep cool. i : --——I— —-——- THE HAND-TO-HAND CLUB. - It Will Issue a Half Million Copies of “Protection or Free Trad The Hand-to-Hand Club is the name of a unique organization’ the President, of which is Mr. Logan Carlisle, son of '. Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, anil Hie i Secretary Air. W, T. Atkinson,M? I'nil versitylplaee. New York. i The object of this club is to get out a i cheap edition of “Protection or free ■ Trade ” It is proposed to is-ue an edition of 500,qt‘Q copies, the first 100,ta>0 of : whictNbeing already in press. ■ It is proposed to sell the book to ad- : vaneo subscribers at the remarkably low price of 10 cents per copy. As the work covers more .than 20 > pages, it will be ■ seen that it is a remarkable triumph of ' the book-maker's art to proil.uce it at > this extremely low price. , - No work is better’calculated to teach ; sound ideas than “Protection or Free ■ Trade ” It is written in a simple style, its, arguments are such' as the average i reading public will readily grasp, and its refutation of the protectionist heresy is so complete as to carry conviction to to all open minds.

SHOWS HIS METAL. HMkJPt MruZnot-afraid-of-his-horses-or-anything-els takes a little turn in the arena. withCo'd-time vigor, vitit ami courage.

Now is The time ti> give the widest possible eir<-ulati»p to Henry George's ’book. As Mr. ‘Logan Carlisle says; "It is certainly the duty of every Democrat ' who is in accord with his party so assist in this educational wore of the Hand-to- . hand Club. since it is in a line with what must be done by Democrats to achieve success in 1892. The idea that the; people can be educated in ninety days has ■ been demonstrated to be an erroneous ' one.’ As a matter of economy, also, the : work must be done now. One-half the money that is spent foolishly anti feverishly in the heat of a campaign can now be spent for 1891 to better and more lasting effect in edu ating the people in sound economic principles ” The favor with which the plan of the Hand-to-lland Club has been received may be seen Lorn the fact that the | ■ Democrats and tariff reformers of Michi- ; gan have pledged themselves to subscribe for and distribute at least 50.009 copips of "Protection or Free Trade?" Mr. A R Farquhar, a great manufacturer of agricultural implements at York. Fa., has subscribed for ?..'>oo for distribution in his State, and one gentleman in Boston has taken .’>.009 copies. /“ Earnest'tariff reformers throughout the country cannot do a better service to the; cause of tariff reduction and abolition than to get up clubs of subscribers for “Brorectibh or Free Trade?” The book wil: b“ sent to advance subscribers at ten- cents a copy, postage paid. Let everybody lend a hand. An English Opinion of McKinleyi-m. AV. S. Lilly, the eminent English essayist, has an ftr.ticle in the March F»rmn. in which lie expresses his opinion of th M Kinley law in very forcible terms, Mr. Lilly is e.vidently no believer in the Eobden type of free trade, to which he Refers contemptuously as "L’obden's freetrade nostrum and calico millennium. ” Indeed the writer goes to the length of saying: “That weighty political considerations may be urged on behalf of a protectionist p< licy in America, and, indeed, in most other countries. I am far from denying.” This sounds very much like an indorsement of one of the familiar positions of the prorectioiiists. Mr. Lilly, however, does not believe that any such ; "weighty political considerations!’ Vad ■ anv part' in the passing of the McKiulev : bill. This is his opinion of the MeKinl y j> law: “Here is a measure which impoverishes the largest industry in the Republic.which sensibly increases the cost of living, which confers upon the- President the power of imposing or remitting taxes . to the amount of fifty or sixty mill.on , dollars annua ly: a power certainly exi ercised by no European monarch. And what is the explanation of this singular I measure? As lam informed, the explai nation is simply this; that it has been ; devised in order to put money into the already overflowing purses of a gang of ! monopolists, and driven through the two houses by the most .nefarious means. * • * * * * There seems to be irrefragai ble evidence that Rhe American people : is in hopeless bondage to corrupt wirepullers, and is sold by them, with hardly j the pretense of concealment, to wealthy : robbers—the financiers of speculative ' trusts and rings, which are really ' nothing else but organized and state-pro- , tected swindling.” A Tariff Dictionary. Messrs. R. F. Downing & Co. of New York, have issued a handbook of the tariff, which gives in alphabetical order , almost every possible article falling un- ’ del? the tariff law. Even articles not ■ enumerated in the tariff law, and falling under such general provisions as manufactures of iron and steel, of cotton, wool, etc.. are here given at their proper places, and with the McKinley duty on them. Opposite on the margin of the page is ! given the number of the section in the ’ law under which each article falls. The volume includes also the complete text of the McKinley tariff law and the customs administrative law. There is nothing like this little work to give one a quick • and accurate answer to questions as to

the duties in the new tariff law. The > book bears the title “Downing’s United States’ Customs Tariff.” and is sent to 1 part of the country by mad for §1.50. I Increase o;‘ FanninsThe preposterous claim is made by the protectionists that our farmers eet greater advantages out of our high protective tariff than anbody else. Let us see. If they get a greater advantage than the manufacturers agriculture ought certainly to show a morq rapid growth than manufacturing industries. If farming has the chief advantage from the tariff, and if protection be the most excellent thing that the McKinleyites claim that it is. then it must Jfollow as a natural consequence that ’many people Avill b.> attracted to agriculture. The farmers’ sons will stick to the farm, other people’s sons will take up farming: and thus the more favored industry must inevitably show the greater relative growth Ar» al advantage is bound to attract people who want to make money: and a greater growth is necessarily the result, if this result does not follow, the advantage claimed is thereby proved to be purely imaginary. Two years ago Miohae' G. Mulhall, the famous statistician, propared a paper showing th.' relative growth of American industries. The paper contained a computation a< to the relative increase in population, commerce, manufactures, agriculture. rai roads, shipping, bankhig, and steam power in the United States from ISSO to ISSS. Mr. Mulhall adopted the returns of the Federal cen-

sus for IS.-.0, 1860. 1870. and 1880, and supplemented them by figures collected from official and other sources down to tiie close of 1888, and which were doubtless quite a> accurate as the census re- - turns. The showing ipade by these computations gave the following percentages of increase in thirty-eight years in the different lines; * I’ercentas° of I , ' Increase,? . Railroads 1,600 I Banking . SA.O Steam power 685 Manufactures .»... 40S Commerce 315 Agricu It ure....... t « ’ 252 Shipping , 74 Population....,. 17C AVhile manufactures increased 408 per cent agriculture increased only 252 .er I cent And . yet say the protectionists, , ">h“ farmer gets the chief benefit ..from : the protective tariff.” McKiyley Protecting ’Englishmen. The protectionists are rejoicing that tiie McKinley duty of four cents a pound on pig iron, which does not go into effect till .Inly 1, 189?,. is already bearing fruit. This is4he tin mine at Ternescal. Cal., of which they give glowing descriptions. They quote Congressman W. W. Bowers, of their State, as saying: “There is- no doubt that there are millions of tons of the richest tin ore in the world at Ternescal.” , The organ's give the result of .the analysis of the ore which has been made, in England. The ore. we are told, average- 2tr ter cent, of tin. some as high as 70. and none lower than 10 per cent: and that the average in Cornwall is only IL P‘-r cent.—to which assertion the organ puts an exclamation point of pity. But the last piece of information they give us is significant—these Ternescal mines have been gobbled up by a 827,ooikooo English syndicate. What a rare sight! McKinley “protecting” the English owners of “millions of tons of the richest tin ore in the world” against heir own’ pauper tin in Cornwall! -s . Protection's I'romise to Labor. The brilliant promises which protection is.always holding out to labor are being -trangely fulfilled in these days. Twenty-eight thousand men are now idle in Western 1 Pennsylvania, all of whom, except one thousand, are in conflict with their employers. Most of these men were employed in the protected iron, e ia . and coke industries, and the loss already in these industriesjby the present strides and lockouts is estimated at 54.t;00.ik»0.. Nevertheless protection > s said to insure to the laboring man steady employment at good wages! As we have ■ now waited thirty years to see protection fulfill its promise to labor, must it not be that this promise rests on a false notion? By the sure test of experience, protection is proving over and over again that it does not raise wages and does not secure steady employment. With more than thirty cases in the first two months of this year where wages have been reduced, or where laborers have struck because of low wages, it is seen that our high tariff McKinleyism succeeds no better in satisfying labor than any other protective tariff. When Dr. Koch’s lymph was first brought into this country it was admitted without the payment of duty. Recently, however, the New York custom house officers have seized a package containing less than a tablespoonful of the lymph. The customs appraisers put their heads together, set a value of 86 on it, an I made the doctor turn over 31.50 duty. AVhich means that a tariff is a device to prevent us from getting the things we need. Here is a case showing how tightly the tariff wall is built. A German steamer recently broke its steel shaft and put into Baltimore for repairs. A new shaft was cabled for from Bremen, and when it came, although intended for a foreign vessel, Uncle Sam took the . usual amount of duty. Not only must we protect our own sacred home market, but we must give the foreigner a slap in the face when we can.

I PLAGUE OF BAD BOOKS. i TALMAGE’S THIRD SERMON ON THE EVILS OF CITIES. He Makes a Strong Point Against Those Parents Who Take Thought as to What Their Children Shalt Bead—An Attentive Audience Present. The plague of pernicious literature formed the subject of Dr. Talmage’s sermon, which was the third of the series ■ he is preaching on the “Ten Plagues of the Cities.*’ The text of the preacher’s discourse was' taken from Ex. viii, 6,7: “And the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.” There is almost a universal aversion to frogs, and yet with the Egyptian they ! wore honored, they were sacred, aaiil they were objects of worship while aljve, i and after death they were embalmed, I and to-day their remains may be found ■ among the sepulchres of Thebes. These I creatures, so attractive onpe to the I Egyptians, at divine behest became ob- I noxious and loathsome, and they went ; croaking and hopping and ieapinglnto I the palace of the King, and into the' bread trays and the couches of the’ people, and even the ovens, which now i are uplifted above the earth and on the side of chimneys, but then were small holes in the earth, with sunken pottery, wero tilled with frogs when the housekeepers came to look at them. If a man sat down to eat a frog alighted on his plate. If he attempted to put on a shoe it was preoccuoii dby a frog. If he attempted to put his head upon a pillow it had been taken jnissession of by a frog. Frogs high and low and everywhere: loathsome frogs, slimy frogs, besieging frogs, innumerable, frogs great plague of frogs. What made the matter worse the. magicians said there was no inirae'e inahis and they could by slight-of-hand produce the same thing, and they seemed to succeed, for by slight-of-hand wonders may be wrought. After Moses had thrown down his staff and by miracle it became a semmt. and then he took hold of it and bylniracle it again became a staff, the serpent charmers imitated the same thing, and knowing that there were ■ serpents in Egypt which by a peculiar ’pressure on the neck would become as rigid as a stick of wood, they seemed to chansre the serpent into the’ staff, and then, throwing it down, the staff became the serpent. So likewise these magicians tried to imitate’the plague of frogs, and perhaps ; tty smell of food attracting a groat num- I ber of them to a certain j>oint, or by | shaking them out from a hidden plac«>, i the magicians sometimes seemed to accomplish the sain" miracle. While these magicians made the plague worse, none of them tried to make it better. “Frogs came up and covered the laud of Egypt, I and the magicians did so with their enchantment, and brought up frogs upon the laud of Egypt" "Now that the plague of frogs has come back upon the earth. It is abroad today. It is smiting this nation. It comes in the shape of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into the store, the <hop. the office, the banking house, the factory—into the home, into the cellar, into the garret, on the drawing ri»m table, on i the shelf of the library. While the lad ) is reading the bad bpok the teacher’s 0 face is turned the other way. One of these frogs hops upon the page. While the young woman is readimi thb forbidden novelette after retiring at night, reading by gaslight, one of these frogs leaps upon the page. Indeed they have hopped upon the news stands of the country and the mails at the postoflice shake out in the letter trough hundreds of them. The plague has taken at diffrent times possession of this country. It is one of the most loathsome, one of the most frightful, one of the most ghastly of the ten plagues of our modern cities. There is a vast number of btyiks and newspapers printed and published which ought never to se«' tiff* light. They- are filled with a pestilence that makes the I land swelter with unmoral epidemic. The j greatest blessing that ever came to this nation is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of unclean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to till insane asylums and penitentiaries and almshouses and deus of shame. The bodies of this infection lie in the hospitals and in the graves, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity, an avalanche of hbrror and despair. The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions into the charnel house of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the Erie or I Hudson tracks was not long enough nor ' large enough to carry the beastliness ] and putrefaction which have been gath-; erod up in bad books and newspapers of ' this land in the last twenty years. The i literature of a nation decides the fate of a nation. Good, books, good morals. Bad books, bad morals. I begin with the lowest of all the literature, that which does not even protend to be respectable—from cover to j cover a blotch ot leprosy. There are I many whose entire business is to dispose j of this kind of literature. They display ' it before the schoolboy on his way home. ; They get the catalogues of schools and : colleges,take the namesand postoffice ad-1 dresses, and send, their advertisements, | and their circulars, and their pamplets, I and their books to every one of them. j In the possession of these dealers in I Tad literature were found 900,000 names i and postoflice addresses, to whom it was thought it might be profitable to send these corrupt things. In the year 1873 i there were 165 establishments engaged j in publishing cheap. corrupt liter-1 ature. From one publishing house | there went out twenty different styles of j corrupt books. Although over thirty | tons of vile literature have been de- j stroyed by the Society for the Suppres- j sion of Vice, still there is enough of it j left in this country to bring- down upon I us the thunderbolts of an incensed God. | In the year 1868 the evil had become j sn great in this country that the Congress | of the United States passed a law for-j bidding the transmission of bad litera- ‘ ture through the mails, but there were I large loops in the, law through which criminals might era <vl out, and the law was a dead failure—that law of 1868. But in 1873 another law was passed by the Congress of the United States against the transmission of corrupt literature through the mails—a grand law, a potent law, a Christian law —and under that law multitudes of these scoundrels have been arrested, their property confiscated and they themselves thrown ! into the penitentiaries where they be- i longed. Now, my friends, how are Oye to war | against this corrupt literature, \pd how are the frogs of this Egyptian pl&gue to ; be slain? First of all by the prompt and j inexorable execution of the law; Let all! good postmasters and United State* dis- j trict attorneys, and detectives and re-1 formers concert in their action to stop . this plague. When Sir Kowland Hill spent his life in trying to secure cheap postage, not only for England, but for all the world, and to open the blessings ’of the postoffice to all honest business, and to all messages of charity and kindness and affection, for all healthful intercommunication, he aid not mean to make i Tice easy or to fill the mail bags of the

United States with the scabs of such a leprosy. It ought not to be in the power of every bad man who can raise a one cent stamp for a circular or a two cent stamp for a • letter to blast a man or destroy a home. The postal service of this country must be clean, must be kept clean, and we I must all understand that the swift retrib- I utions of the United Stales Government ■ hover over every violation of the letter ‘ box. Many of the cities have successfully i prohibited the most of that literature ! 1 even from going on the news stands. ! Terror has seized upon the publishers I and the dealers in impure literature, ' from the fact that over a thousand ar- ' rests have been made, and the aggregate ' time for which the convicted have been I sentenced to prison is over one hundred , and ninety years, and from the fact that i about two million oirtheir circulars have i I byen destroyed, and the business is not ; LKs profitable as it used to be. j How have so many of the news stands I of our great cities been puritieil? How has i !so much of this iniquity been balked? j ! By moral suason? Oh. no. You might as ■ ‘ well go into a jungle of the. East Indies : : and cobra on the neck, and with pro- ! ■ found argument try to persuade it that I i it is morally wrong to bite and to sting j ‘ and to poison anything. The .only I ! answer to your argument would be an | uplifted head and a hiss and a i ■ sharp, reeking tooth struck into your’ arteries. Thv only argument fora cobra I is a shotgun', and the only argument for ' these dealers in impure literature is the clutch of the police and bean soup in a penitentiary. The law! The law! I invoke to consumate the work so grandly begun! ! Another way in which we are to drive back this plague of Egyptian frogs is by tilling the minds of our young people with a healthful literature. I do not I mean to say that all the Looks and news- [ papers in our families ought to be religious books and newspapers, or that I every song ought to be sung to the tune ! of “Old Hundred.” I have no sympathy witll the attempt to make the young old. I would rather join in a crusade to keep the young young. Boyhood and girlhood must not be abbreviated.' But there are good books, good histories, good biographies, good works of fiexion, good books of all styles with which we are to till the minds of the young, so that there will be ■ no more room for the useless and the 1 vicious than there is room for chaff in a ' bushel measure which is already filled j with Michigan wheat. Why are ’fifty per cent, of the criminals in the jails and penitentiaries | ■of the United States to-day under | | twenty-one years of age? Many of them 1 , under seventeen? under sixteen, 'under! i fifteen, under fourteen, under' thirteen” | Walk along one of the corridors of the [ Tombs prisoii in New York and look for yourselves. Bad books, bad newspapers ! bewitched them as soon as they got out : i of the cradle. Bewaro of all those stories j which end wrong. Beware of all those books which make the road that ends in perdition seem to end in Paradise. Do not glorify the dirk and the pistol. Do not call the desperado brave or the libertine gallant. Teach' our young people that if they go down into the swamps : and marshes to watch the jaek-o'-lan- ■ terns dance on the decay and rottenness | they will catch the malaria and death. > “Oh.” says some one, “I am a business I man, and I have no time to examine ; what my children read. 1 have no time I to inspect the books that come into my ■ household.” If your children were ! threatened with typhoid fever, would ! you have time to go for the doctor?! W ould you have time to watch the pro- ■ gross of the disease? Would you have i time for the funeral? In the presence of i tpy God I warn you o£lhe fact that your ! children are threatened\ with moral and spiritual typhoid, and 'that unless the | thing be stopped it will be to them, j funeral Os body, funeral of mind, funeral of soul. Three funerals in one day. Alj word is to this vast multitude of •young people: Do not touch, do not borrow, do not buy a corrupt book or a corrupt picture. A book will decide a man's I destiny for good or for evil. The book ‘ you read yesterday may have decided i you for time and for eternity, or it may be a book that may come into your possession to-morrow. A good book—who can exaggerate its poxver? Benjamin Franklin said that his reading of Cotton Mather's “Essays to Do Good” in childhood gave him holy aspirations for all the rest of his life, j George Law declared that a biography i hq read in childhood gave him all his. j subsequent prosperities. A clergyman, many years ago, passing to the far West, ; stopped at a hotel. He saw a woman j copying something from ■ Doddridge’s “Rise and Progress.” It seemed that she had borrowed the book, and there were some things she wanted especially to remember. The clergyman had in his satchel a copy of Doddrige’s “Rise and Progress,” ■ and so he made her a present of it. Thirty years passed on. The clergyman : ' came that way, and be asked where the woman was whom he had seen so long J ago. “She lives yonder in that beautiful I house.” He went there and said to her, “Do you remember me?” She said, “No, I do not.” He said.“Do vou remember a man gave you a Doddridge's -Rise and Progress' thirty years ago?” “Ob. yes; ! I remember. That book saved my soul. I loaned the book to all my neighbors, ! and they read it and they were con-J verted to G«hl. and we had a revival of religion which swept through the whole community. We built a church and called a pastor. Yon see that spire yonder, don't you? That church was built as a result of that book you gave me thirty years ago.” Oh. the power of a good book! But alas! for the influence of a bad book. Another way iu whiUh we shall tight back this corrupt literature and kill the frogs of Egypt is by rolling over them the Christian printing press, which shall give plenty of healthful reading to all adults. All these men and women are reading men and women. What are you reading? Abstain from ail those books which, while they had some good things about them, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them—the good and the bad. Which stock to you? The bad! The heart of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in a while there is a mind like a loadstone, which, plunged amid steel and brass filings gathers up the steel and repels the brass! But it is generally the opposite. If you attempt tec plunge through a fence of burrs to get one blackberry you will get more burrs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good you are. You say: “The influence is iusignifleant.” I tell you j that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lockjaw. Alas, if through curiosity, as %iany do, you pry into an evil book your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it would reaMy blow up or not. In a menagerie a man put his arm through the bars a black leopard’s cage. The animal’s hide looked so sleek and bright and beautiful. He just stroked it once. The monster seized him, and be drew forth a hand torn and mangled and bleeding. • Ob, touch not evil even with the faintest stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch it not lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under the clutch of the black leopard. “But,” you say, “how can I find out whether a

book is good or bad without reading it?* There is always something suspicion* about a bad book. 1 never knew an exception—something snspicio'is in the inE ■ dex or style of illustration. This venomous reptile almost carries a warning rattle. . ' The clock strikes at midnight. A fail i form bends over a romance. The eyes j flash tire. The breath is quick and ir- ■ regular. Occasionally the color dashes ito the cheek and then dies out. The I hand shakes as though some guardian j spirit were trying to shake the book out of tiie grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs j with a shrill voice that drops dead at its ; own sound. The sweat on the brow is ' the spray dashed up from the river of : death. The clock strikes four, and the I rosy dawn soon after begins to look ’ through the lattice at the pale form that i looks like a detained s->octer of the nlcht. | Soon in a madhouse she will mistake her i riimlets sot - curling serpents, and thrust I her white hand through the bars of the [ prison, and smite her head, - rubbing it i b-a.-k as though to push the -ealp fromj the skull. _a<hriek!n": “Mx brain! my ; brain!” Oh. stand off from that! Win ■ xx ill you go sounding your wax amid the : reefs and warning bi;oy<. when there is I such a vast ocean In which vou mux voyi age. all sail set? 4 I We see so many books xve do not ttnI derstand what'a book is. Stand it on end. I Measure it —the height of it. the deptii I of it. the length of it. th" breath of it. I Yen cannot doit. Examine rhe paper ! and estimate theprogn -s made from the time of the impressions on elay. and then on the bark of trees, and from the bark of trees to papyrus, and from papyrus to the hide of wild beasts, and from the hide of wild beasts on down until the miracles of our modern paper manufactories, and theii see the paf>er, xvhite and pure as an infant's soul waiting for God’s ; inscription. A book! Examine the type of it. Examine the printing of it. and see the I progress from the .time when Solon's I laws were xvritUyx, on oak planks, and Hesiod's poems were xvritien on tables of lead, and the Siniatic commands xyere xvrilten bn tables of -.tone, on doxvn to Hoe's perfecting printing press. A book! It took all the universities of the past, all the martyr tires, all the civilizations, all the battles, all the victories. all the defeats, all the <_'looms, all ■ the briirhtness, all the centuries to make I it possible. A book! It is the ehbrus of the ages; j it is the drawing room it; which kintxs and i queens and orators and poets and histoI rians cOme out to' erect you. If I xvor- | shined anything on earth 1 would wori ship that. if I burned incense to | any idol I xvould build an altar to : that. Thank God for s.good books, i healthful books, inspirin': books, Chris’Jtian books, books of men. books of xvo- ! mi-n. Book of God. It is with these, good ! books that xve are to overcome corruptliterature. L'pon tiie frogs swoop with j these eagles. I depend much for the overthroxv of iniquitous literature upon the mortality of book-. Even good books have a hard struimle to live. Against every bad pamphlet send 5 good patWphl.et: against every unclean picture send an innocent picture; against :' every scurrilous song, send a Christian | song: against every baifbook send j book; and then it will be as it xvas in ancient Toledo, xvhere the Toletum missals were kept by the saints is six churches, : and the sacrilegious Romans demanded : that those missals be destroyed, and that < the Roman missals be substituted; and i the war came on and I am glad to say ! that the whole matter having been rei ferred to champions, the champion of the ■ Toletum missals with one bloxv brought i down the champion of the Roman misI ! So"it will be in our day. The good I literature, the Christian literature, in its championship for God and the truth, will bring down the evil literature in its championship for the devil. I feel tingling to the tips of my fingers and through all the nerves of my body, and all the depths of my soul, the certainty of our ' triumph. Cheer up, oh, men and women j who are toiling for the purification ol society! Toil with your faces in the sunlight. “If God be for us, who, who can i be against us?” Lady Hester Stanhope xvas the daughter of the third Earl of Stanhope, and after her nearest friends had died she went to the far East,took possession of a deserted convent, threw up fortresses among the mountains 'Of Lebanon, I opened the castle to the poor, and the I wretched, and the sick xvho won Id t come • in. She made her castle a home for the I unforfunate. She xvas a devout Christ ' ian woman. She was waiting for the i coming of the Lord. She expected that the Lord would descend in person, and ,she thought upon it until it was tco much for her reason. In the magnificent stables of ber palace she had two horses groomed and bridled and saddled and caparisoned and all ready for the day in which her Lord should decend. and he on one of them and she on the other should ; start for Jerusalem, the city of the Great I (King.' It xvas a fanaticism and a delusion: but there was romance, and there was splendor, and there xvas thrilling expectation in the dream! Ah. my friends, we need no'earthly palfreys groomed and saddled and dridled and caparisoned for our Lord when He I shall come. The horse is ready in the equerry of Heaven, and the imperial ' rider is ready to mount. “And I saw, * and beheld a white horse.and He that sat on him had a boxv: and a crown was given unto Him: and lie went forth conquering and to conquer. And the armies which xvi'ro in Ht-avcn followed Him on white hoKcs, and on His vesture and on His thigh xvere written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.'’ Horsemen of Heaven, mount! Cavalry of God, ride onl Change! charge! until they shall be hurled back on their haunces—the black horse of famine, and the red horse of carnage, and the pale horse of death. Jesus forever! Such Luck. A young man of Cape Ann, who occasionally drinks more liquor than is good for him, but is otherwise respectable, failed to return home one day at his usual hour, and his wife, knowing his weakness, went to look for him. On the railroad track not far from her house she saw a man lying across the rails; but the danger of his position i did not immediately occur to her and she was alxmt to pass by at a distance when she heard the whistle of an approaching train. Then, instantly realizing that he must inevitably be run over unless she saved him, for the train was coming around a curve, and no one else was in sight, she ran to where he lay and succeeded in rolling him into the ditch almost from under the wheels jof the locomotive. It was not until the danger was past that she discovered that she had saved her husband. The Bones ol Fioneera. Rev. Li. W. Ferland, in charge of the Catholic parish at Kaskaskia, has urged upon the Illinois Legislature the removal of the remains of the early pioneers of Illinois from the cemeteries at Kaskaskia. The encroachments of the Mississippi River have been so great that it is only a question of a short time when the cemeteries will be wholly washed away and the bones of many of the illustrious men who helped io build up the State will be loot in the father of waters. A xithno sir—The one the mosquito ii»r before he bitea

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