Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 June 1894 — Page 6

HEAVY WEIGHTS. Or. Talmage Preaches a Powerful Sermon in San Francisco, tag tfor HW» Text l'nalms It. 28: “Cast Tbjr Harden Upon the T.ord, and He M ill Sustain Thee.”

Rr iltilmage preached Sunday in San Francisco to a large and deeply in- j. tcrested audience on the subject of “Heavy Weights,” the text being taken | from Fsalms lv, 22, “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.” David was here taking his own medicine. if anybody had on him heavy weights, David had them, and yet out j of hisjiw«"€xperienoe he -advises you and mo as to the best way of getting rid of burdens. This is a world of burden bearing. During the past few daystid- j ings came from across the sea of a mighty and good-man fallen. A man, full of the Holy Ghost was He, his j name the snyonyin of all that is good j and kind aiul gracious and beneficent. Word comes to us of a scourge sweep- ; ing off hundreds and thousands of peo- j phi, and there is a burden of sorrow, j {Sorrow on the sea and sorrow on the j land. Coming into the house of prayer ! then; may be no sign of sadness or sorrow, but where is the man who has not a conflict? Where is the soul that has j not a struggle? And there is not a j day of all the year when my text is not ; gloriously appropriate, and there is | never an audience assembled on the j planet where the text is not gloriously j & appropriate, “Cast thou burden upon the Lord, and he^shall sustain thee.” In the far east Wells of water are so i *> infrequent that when a man owns a j well he has a property of very great j value, and sometimes battles have been fought for the possession of one well of { water, but there is one well that every j man owns, a deep well, a perennial well, a well of tears. If a man has not a burden on this shoulder, he has a bunion on the other shoulder. The day after I left home to look after myself and for myself, in the wagon my father sat driving, and he sakl that day something which has kept with me all my life: “De Witt, it is always safe to trust God. I have many a time come to a crisis of diffienl- j ty. You may know that, having been 1 j' sick for fifteen years, it was no easy J thing foi* me to support a family, but j always God came to the rescue. I remember the time,” he said, “when I didn't know what to do. and I saw a j man on horseback riding up the farm lane, and he announced to me that I had keen nominated for the most lu- j crative office in all the gift of the peo- , pie of the county, and to that office I was elected, and God in that way mete all my wants, and I tell you it is al- * ways safe to trust Him.” Oh, ray friends, what we want is a practical religion! The religion people have is so high up you can not reach it. i I had a friend who entered the life of j an evangelist. He gave up a lucrative position in Chicago, and he and his wife J finally came to severe want. f He told me that in the morning at jJrayers he said: , “O, Lord: thou knowest we have ■ not a mouth fill of food in the house! Help me; help us!l And he started out on the street. aniQU gentleman met him and said: “I havebeen thinking' of you lor a good while. You know 1 am a flour merchant. If you won't be offended. 1 should like to send you a barrel of flour.” lie cast his burden omthe Lord, and the Lord sustained him. Now, that Is the kind of religion we want. In the strait of Magellan, I have been told, there is a place where, whichever way a ship captain- put his ship, lie finds the wind against him. and there are men who all their lives have been running in the teeth of the wind, and which way to turn thpy do not know. Some of them may be in this , assemblage, and I address them face to face,not perfunctorily, but as one broth•cr talks to another brother, “Cast tinburden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.” There are a great many men who have business burdens. When we see a ’ man worried and perplexed and annoyed in business life we are apt to say: “He oug'ht not to have attempted to carry so much!” Ah, that man may not be to blame at all. When a man plants a business he does not know what will be its outgrowths, what will be its roots, what will be its branches. There Is many a man with keen foresight and large business faculty who has been flung into the dust by unforeseen circumstances springing upon him from ambush. When to buy, when to sell, when to trust and to what amount to -credit, what will be the effect of this new invention of machinery, what will be the effect of that loss of crop and-a thousand other questions perplex business men until the hair js silvered and deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek, and th^ stocks go up by mountains and go down by valleys, and they are at their wits’ ends and stagger like drunken men.

There never has been a time when therejtave been such rivalries in business as now. It is hardware against hardrvare, books against books, chandlery against chandlery, imported article against imported article. A thousand stores in combat with an- ; • other thousand stores. Never such ad- j vantage of light, never such variety of ! assortment, never so much splendor of , show window, never so much adroit- j ness of salesmen, never so much acute- \ ness of advertising, and amid all these j severities of rivalry in business how ! •many men break down! Oh, the burden on the shoulder! Oh, the burden on the heart! You hear that it is avarice which drives these men of business through the street, and that is the commonly accepted idea. Iitf&ot believe a word i ■ of it. The vast mfJopude of these busi- j ness men are toiling on for others. Tp •educate their children, to put wing of protection over their households, to have something left so when they pass out of this life their wives and children nU not have to go to the poor-ho-3J—that is the way I translate this efkergy in the street and store—the vast authority of that energy, Grip, Ucuge &

Co. do not do all the business. Some of us remember when the Central America was coming home from California it was wrecked. President Arthur’s father-in-law was the heroic captain of that ship and went down with most of the passengers. Some of them got off into the lifeboats, but there was a young man returning from California who had a bag of gold in his hand, and as the last Ix^atahoved off from the ship that was to go down that young man shouted to a comrade in the boat: ‘'Here, John, catch this gold. There are $3,000. Take it home to my old mother; it will make her comfortable in her IscA days,” Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the business of the

Ah, my friend, do you say that God does not care ahything about your | worldly business? I tell you God knows more about it than you do. He knows all your perplexities; he knows what mortgage is about to foreclose; he knows what note you cdn not pay; he knows what unsalable goods you have on your j shelves; he knows all your trials, from j the day j'ou took hold of the first yard- ; stick down to the sale of the last yard of ribbon, and the God who helped David to be king, and who helped Daniel to be prime minister, and who helped Havelock to be a soldier will help you to discharge all your duties. He is going to see you through. When loss comes, and you find your property going, just take this book and put it down by your ledger and read of the eternal possessions that will come to you through our Lord Jesus Christ. And when your business partner betrays you, and your friends turn against you, just take that insulting letter, put it down on the table, put your Bible beside the insulting letter, and then read of the friendship of Him who “sticketh closer than a brother.” A young accountant in New York city got his accounts entangled. He knew he was honest, and yet he could not make his accounts come out right, and he toiled at them day and night until he was nearly frenzied. It seemed by those books th ' t something had been misappropriated, and he knew before God he was honest. The l^st day came. He knew if he could not that day make his accounts come out right he would go into disgrace and go into banishment from the business establishment. He went over there very early —before there was anybody in the place—and he knelt down at the desk snd said. **0. Lord, thou knowst I have tried to be honest, but I can not make these things come out right! Help me to-day—help me this morning!” The young man arose, and hardly knowing why he did so, opened a book that la}' on the desk, and there was a leaf containing a line of figures which explained everything. In other words, life cast his burden upon the Lord, and the Lord sustained him. Young man, do you hear that? Oh, yes, God has « sympathy with anybody that is in any kind of toil! He knows how heavy is the hod of bricks that the workman carries up the ladder on the wall. He hears the pickax of the miner down in the coal shaft. He knows how strong the tempest strikes the sailor at masthead. He sees the factory girl among the spindles and knows how her arms ache. He sees the sewing woman in the fourth story and knows how few. pence she gets for making a garment, and louder than all the din and roar of the city comes the voice of a sympathetic God: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and $e shall sustain thee.” ’ " j_ Then there are a great many who Have a weight of persecution and abuse upon them. Sometimes society gets a grudge against a man. All his motives are misinterpreted,' and all his good deeds are depreciated. With more virtue than some of the honored and applauded, he .runs only against raillery and sharp criticism. When a man begins to go down, he has not only the force of natural gravitation, but a hundred hands to help him in the precipitation. Men are persecuted for their virtues and their successes. Germanicus said he had just as many bitter antagonists as he had adornments. The character sometimes is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and jealousy can not bear to look at it. It was their integrity that put Joseph in the pit. and Daniel in the den, and Shadraeh in the fire, and sent John the Evangelist to ’de&ojpte Patinos, Calvin to the castle of persecution, and John IIuss to the stake, and Korah after Moses, and Saul after' Dr.vid, and Herod after Christ. Be sfjnre f you have anjr thing to do for ch&rch or state, and you attempt it with ad your soul, the lightning will strike you. The world always has had a cross between two thieves lor the one who comes to save it. High and holy enterprise has always been followed by abuse. The most sublime^trugedy of self sacrifice has come to burlesque. The graceful gait of virtue is always followed by scoff and grimace .and travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has come to ridiculous parody, and as long as there are virtue and righteousness in the world there will be something for inquiry to grin at. All along the line of the ages and in all lands the cry has been: “Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber.”

Ana wnat manes xne persecutions ox life worse is that they come from people whom you have helped, from those to whom you loaned money or have started in business, or whom you rescued in some great crisis. 11 link it has been the history of all our lives—the most acrimonious Assault has, come from those whom we have benefited, whom we have helped, and that makes it all the harder to bear. A man is in danger of becoming cynical. A clergyman of the Univcrsalist church went into a neighborhood for the establishment of a church of his denomination, and he was anxious to find some one of that denomination, and he was pointed to a certain house and went there. He said to the man of the house: “I understand you are a Universalist, I wafit you to help me in the enterprise.” ‘‘Well,” said the man, “I am a Universalist, but I have

a peculiar kind of Unirersaksm.1* ‘•What is that?” asked the minister. “Well,” replied the other, “I have been ont in the world, and I hare been cheated and slandered and outraged and abused until I believe in universal damnation!” The great danger is that men will become cynical and given to believe, aa David was tempted to say, that all men are liars. Oh, my friends, do not let that be the effect upon your souls! If you can not endure a little®»ersecution, how do you think our fathers endured great persecutions? Motley, in his “Dutch Republic,” tells us of Egmontt the martyr, who, condemned to be beheaded, unfastened his collar on the way to the scaffold, and when they asked him why he did that he said: “So they will not be detained in their work. I want to be ready.” Oh, how little we have to endure compared with those who have gone before us! Now, if you have come across ill treatment, let me tell you, you are in excellent company—Christ and Luther and Galilei and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah Quincy and thousands of men and women, the best spirits of earth and Heaven.

Hudge not one men, tnougn ail neii wreak upon you its vengeance, and you be made a target for devils to shoot at. Do you not think Christ knew alf about persecution? Was he not hissed at? Was He not struck on the cheek? Was He not pursued all the days of His life? Did they not expectorate upon him? Or, to put it in Bible language, “They spit upon Him.” And can not He understand what persecution is? “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.” Then there are others who carry great burdens of physical ailments. When sudden sickness has come, and fierce choleras and malignant fevers take the castles of life by storm,we appeal to God, but in these chronic ailments which wear out the strength day after day, and week after week, and year after year, how little resorting to God for solace! Then people depend upon their tonics, and their plasters, and their cordials, rather than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh. how few people there are completely well! Some of you, by dint of perseverance and care, have kept living to this time, but how you have had to war against physical ailments! Antediluvians, without medical college and infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by hundreds^ but ho who has gone through the gauntlet of disease in our time and has come to 70 years of age is a hero worthy of a palm. The world seems to be a great hospital, and j’ou run against rheumatisms and eomsiimptions and scrofulas and neuralgias and scores of old diseases baptized by new nomenclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sickness is! It takes the color out of the sky, and the sparkle out of the wave, and the sweetness out of the fruit, and the luster out of the night. When the limbs ache, when the respiration is painful, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy obstructions, how hard it is to be patient and cheerful and assiduous! “Cast thy burden upon the Lord.” Does your head ache? His wore the tnorn. Do your feet hurt? His were crushed of the spikes. a Is your side painful? His was struck by the spear. Do you feel like giving way under the burden? His weakness gave way under the cross. While you are in every possible way to try to restore your physical vigor, you are to remember that more soothing than any anodyne, more vitalizing than any stimulant and more strengthening than any tonic is the prescription of the text, “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee.” We hear a great deal of talk now About faith cure, and some people say it can mot be done and it is a failure. I do not know but that the chief advance of the church is to be in that direction. Marvelous things come to me day by day which make me think that if the age of miracles is past it is because the faith of miracles is past. A prominent merchant of New York said to a member of my family, “My mother wants her- case mentioned to Mr. Talmage.” • * This was the case. He said: “My mother had a dreadful abscess, from which she had suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had been exhausted upon her, and worse and worse she grew until we called in a few Christian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We commended her case to God, and the abscess began immediatelyf to be cured. She is entirely well now, and without knife and without any surgery.” So that case has come to me, and there are a score of other cases coming to our ears from all parts of the earth. Oh, aye who are sick, go to Christ! Oh, ye who are w«$*n out with agonies of body, “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he " shall sustain thee!”

Now, the grave is brighter chan the ancient tomb where the lights were perpetually kept burning. The scarred feet of Him who was “the resurrection and the life” are on the broken grate hillock, while the voices of angels ring down the sky at the coronation tf another soul come home to glory. Why will prodigals live on swines’ husks when the robe, and the ring, and the father’s welcome are ready? Why go wandering over the great Sahara desert of your sin when you are invited to the gardens of God, the tree of life and the fountain of living water. Why be houseless and homeless forever when you may become the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty? —“How was it discovered that the prisoner was a woman disguised as a man?” “She was placed in a chair with a tidy on the back and sat for fifteen minutes without disturbing it.” —Inter Ocean. —As early as 1618 Denmark established colonies on the Coromandel coast and in Malabar and Bengal. All these colonies a*+erward passed, by quiet purchase, into the hands of Great Britain. . a s'.

PROTECTION EXPENSES. Trusts and Monopolists Fattened by the McKinley Tariff. How much may be collected by the protected tariff ring of manufacturers, and how much actually is collected, are two different questions. One trust will collect all its protection, another trust will colloct only one-half, or perhaps only one-quarter. The amount collected depends upon the number of people in the trust, and how thoroughly they hang together. Very often a member, to make a fortune at once, will break all his agreements, sell under the trust price and the trust will be broken and have to reorganize. For example, the sugar trust collects the whole amount of its protection. The salt trust collected the whole amount until it broke. Then it reformed, and now it is collecting about 60 per cent. The woolen men have altogether about twenty private selling agreements, or trusts. In some of these trusts, they collect all their protection, and in others only 10 per cent The collection of the protection is a matter of organization.

In all the L nited States there are about 15,000 protected mill-owners, who are organized into 450 to 460 private trusts. The par value of their protection before the McKinley bill went into effect was $1,320,000,000 yearly. That was the amount that these trusts were authorized by law to collect from the people in taxes annually —if they could. The amount that they did collect from the people in the year 1890 was very carefully estimated. The inquiry took many months, and the j lowest possible figure that represented their actual collection of taxes was $680,000,000. The McKinley bill raised the par value of their protection, in other words, the amount of taxes that they were authorized to levy upon the people and compel them to pay yearly, from $1,320,000,000 to $1,060,000,000. How much they collect, how much they pocket and how much the people pay is, as Mr. Frick says, the business of nobody but those who collect the money. In 1890 the people paid at the custom house $229,000,000 in taxes that went into the federal treasury at Washington, and was returned to them in the form of services rendered. That same year they paid to 450 trusts SOSO,000,000 taxes, not one cent of which was returned to them in the form of any service whatever. The tariff taxes paid by the people for 1S90 exceeded $909,000,000, of which one-quarter was for the public good, and three-quarters of which was. bald and naked robbery. That the treasury got $229,000,000 was fortunate, for the McKinley bill put a stop to such a large proportion coming into the treasury. While it increased the potential tax on the people, it decreased the amount they paid to the government, and increased the amount the}' paid to the trusts. For the benefit of four men alone, for example, the McKinley bill added S6 to the previous duties on every gun costing S12. Not a cent of this duty would go into the treasury, for this made the duty on foreign guns 100 per cent., and barred them out. A man who wanted a $12 shotgun had to buy from one of the four American makers and pay $1S—$6 more than it was worth. Protection gave him more work. He had to work overtime to earn this extra $0. But he was working for the gun,- and he had to pay nine days’ wages for it under protection, against six days’ wages without. The four gunmakers took from him three days’ labor, or gave him three days’ extra labor, as you like. The object of the McKinley bill was to increase the tariff taxes levied upon the people, but decrease the amount they paid to the treasury, and increase the amount- they paid to the trusts. All this was done by the manner in which theT taxes were levied. It was not done through the amount or the percentage. The McKinley tariff was lower than that which it succeeded. It might have been the lowest of low tariffs; it might not have turned any rnionej' into the treasury, and yet it might) have been of even more benefit than it w^s to the trusts, imposing harder burdens of taxation upon the people. Under the McKinley bill the public taxes paid into the treasury fell from $229,000,000 in 1890, to $177,000,000 in 1892, and for 1894 will probably go lower yet. At the same time, the amount of taxes paid to the trusts has risen from $680,000,000 to $860,000,000, as near as can be estimated.— N. Y. World.

The Ex-Czar Grows Calm. Another null of the protectionists all together and Tom Reed’s alarm at the “omnivorous west” will be calmed. The trusts will be able to command the home market and hurl their power against the building of new manufactories nearer the markets and sources of supply. «Shut out iron ores and Duluth’s hopes of becoming a manufacturing center are chilled. Shut out woolen goods and New England can by underselling cut down investments of manufacturing capital in one section of the west and make up its profits in another section. Every time the Wilson bill is McKinleyized the omnivorousness of the west is kept nearer to pea soup and corn bread.—St. Louis Republic. -If the American laborer has approximately received his share of the product of his labor through the operation of the tariff, why have we these exhibitions of organized vagabondage under Coxey, Kelly and others, while the country as a whole has grown richer? What is the meaning of the presence in this country of thousands of Hungarians, Italians, Poles and other foreign laborers of the cheapest class? Why this constant succession of strikes and labor riots, caused by reductions of wages, or efforts to substitute foreign contract labor for American labor; disturbances that have been most frequent and most troublesome while the party of protection was in the full flush of power? Why have wages been so steadily reduced in industries most highly protected?— j Louisville Courier-Journal

A POLICY OF DISASTER. LtCtalatln Treason Perpetrated bj Republican Senators. Republican senators have assumed an attitude that cannot but bring upon them the strongest condemnation of the country. It is their determination to insist upon a reasonable discussion <of the pending tarill measure. Dad they not stopped tc construe this announcement it might have been accepted as asserting ar: honest desire to still further enlighten themselves and the nation on the subject under consideration. They would ^have at least avoided confession of a purpose involving the direst disaster that legislative treason could at this time inflict upon the people of the United States. They boldly avow the adoption of dilatory tactics as a mcac^ of killing the measure for which every material interest of the country is appealing as the one means of averting impending ruin.

xu uiia wuiu-uivjuucu a«uvi ui tucru 13 a depth of treachery, a contempt for; popular rights,3 a cruelty toward suffering humanity, a wanton sacrifice of the means to restore prosperity, such as has no parallel in the annals of civilized government. The shallow pretense of “reasonable debate” is worthy' of men who thus hold party superior to country, and for the attainment of political ends will go to a length that imperils our national existence. There is not a ray of light that they can throw upon the question under consideration. There is no point of view from which ite has not been approached, no argument which has not been advanced times without number and for its full weight. Yet these men who hold in trust the highest interests of the people deliberately propose to extend the dreary waste of talk- and drivel until the bill is killed, though the country share the same fate. If they caq prevent it there will be no longer sessions nor will they discommode themselves by meeting at night. Their policy is not to hasten legislation, but to prevent it. With the demands of the people in their ears and a scene of universal disaster about them, from which there is no escape, save through the deliverance of remedial legislation, they assume the part of Nero, as he watched the conflagration of Rome. Wedded to the idols of protection, intrenched behind the wealth of combines, trusts and monopolies, they are deaf to the popular appeal and sacrifice patriotism to the same monstrous iniquity which has brought calamity upon a free people. Their mendacity1 is that of the system they represent. Their cruelty is that which has legalized robbery and exacted tribute from masses to fatten the coffers of favored beneficiaries. It is difficult for a free people, vested with the sacred right of self-govern-ment, to tolerate such a conspiracy' as this. In times of general prosperity, with the people employed^ and comfortable, a line of policy inspired by political consideration, might be acquiesced in, though not approved of. Conditions do not permit jQf such an acceptance of the situation at this time. Business is stagnant. Thousands are out of employment. Capital wants to know the legal restrictions under which it must operate before it will come out of retirement. There is a spirit of unrest that should be soothed, not aggravated. There is a just and reasonable appeal made by the people to their representatives, which should be speedily granted, not scorned. The republican senators have assumed a responsibility that only the insolence of protection would dare to suggest.—Detroit Free Press. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -Republicans are so elated over the fact that hard times came during the democratic administration.—Louisville Courier-Journal. -President Harrison declares that he is not a candidate for the presidency. If he were nominated we are inclined to think that he would continue to be of that opinion after the votes were counted.—Buff alb Commercial (Rep.). -The republican press is felicitating itself on the fact that the United States supreme court has reversed six of Mr. Gresham’s judicial decisions. But perhaps the fact is harder on the supreme court than on Gresham.—St. Louis Republic. -If ex-President Harrison is so violently opposed to gerrymanders he should give a little attention and advice to the republican members of the Ohio legislature. These statesmen are now considering a bill to gerrymander the judicial districts of Ohio so that it will take thirty-one thousand seven hundred democratic votes to elect a democratic judge, while sixty-five hundred votes will elevate a republican to the bench.—N, Y. World. -If trusts and combines are able to hang out one hundred thousand dollars for a senatorial vote they can generally get a few takers. Here appears the moral side of a tariff for protection. A nation cannot afford to subject its public men to such temptations. There should be in public life no opportunities for amassing fortunes in exchange for votes. Clean out the tariff robbery by making revenue the rule of all tax laws.—St. Louis Republic. -Tariff reform will come forward again and will keep on coming forward until the people force their senators and representatives to obey their wiU and dissociate this government forever from the idea that it is a part of a government’s functions to “protect” one set of Americans at the expense of another set of Americans. Our government is founded upon the idea that all men are equal before the laws, and that the laws shaU bear equally upon all. To legislate so that one set of Americans must pay another set of Americans two prices for all that they buy in order that the latter set of Americans may make fortunes is a total negation of this idea, and is tyranny pure and simple. We repeat that the corrupt senators may beat tariff reform in this congress, but it will come back and will never cease its I cry until that cry is heeded.—Rich- I mond Times- ■

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