Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — Page 2

CURRENT COMMENT.

POINTS FOR PROTECTIONIBTB. Foreign Markets, and How They An As footed by she McKinley Bill. It was, however, after the passage of the McKinley bill that the real animus of the English free-traders was manifested, and in commenting upon the English criticisms President Harrison said: “The criticisms of the bill that have oome to us from foreign sources may well be rejected for repugnancy. If these critics really believe that the adoption by uo of a free-trade policy or of tariff rates having reference solely to revenue would diminish the participation of their own countries in the commerce of the world, their advocacy and promotion by speech and other forms of organized effort of this movement among our people is a rare exhibition of unselfishness in trade. And on the other hand, if they sincerely believe that the adopt ion of a protective tariff policy by this country inures to their profit and our hurt, it is noticeably strange that they should lead the outcry against the authors of a policy no helpful to their countrymen, and crown with their favor those who would snatch from them a substantial share of a trade with other lands already inadequate to their necessities!’' —President's Message. Now, as to foreign markets! The difficulties encountered in seeking admission to foreign markets is not entirely a question of the amount of protective tariff imposed in the countries where the products are manufactured, as it is the amount of pro-a tection imposed upon foreign-made goods by the country into which admission is sought for the sale of those goods. Every civilized country in the world, excepting England, has enacted protective tariffs for the protection of their own labor or producers, and the effects of those tariffs upon England is set forth by the highest authority in England. Lord Salisbury, her Prime Minister, said at Manchester, the birthplace of English free trade, April 16, 1884: ‘You know the industry of this town is being cramped and fettered and confused by the growing wall of hostle tariffs, which shuts you out from most of the civilized markets of the world. [Here, hear, and cheers.] * * # I fear that most of the advantages which we might have offered to the other nations of the world in return for more favorable tariffs have been thrown away by the want of foresight of former legislatures. * * * At all events, you must consider this: That if you are being shutout by tariffs from the civilized markets or the world the uncivilized markets are becoming more and more {ireoious to you.” Three months ater the Prime Minister said to an immense gathering of laborers to whom he pictured the depressed condition of English industries and the inability of the working classes to gain a livelihood: “Look around. Where will you find men who count upon a secure and certain future. [Cheers.] Everywhere you will hear of industry languishing, of commerce unable to find prolitable employment of the hearts of men of business failing them for fear of banks refusing to take money on deposit because they do not know where to invest it —every sign of the presence over the community of a great apprehension of a disappearance of that security [Cheers] which made property in England seem as solid as the rocks upon which England herself is founded. [Cheers.] That time has passed away; men are not employe! as they formerly were; capitali. ts do not gain profit; the working masses are ceasing in many places to gain a livelihood. ”

fA voice—“ They are starving. Lord Salisbury told the wbi-kirig men in the Town Hall in Birmingham: “Free trade does not gain ground among the nations of the world; on the contrary, it is what a gentleman behind me calls no trade. ■ . * * At all events, tsie matter is one that requires grave and careful investigation to see whether no remedy, by diplomacy or otherwise, can be applied to a state of things which is acting with fatal effect upon the comerce of this country. * * * “It is a matter which seriously concerns the life of trade. It seriously concerns, therefore, the emoioyment and wages of the working classes.” On auother occasion the Prime Minister of England said of free trade in England: ‘ The result has been great misery and ruin.” Mr, Medill, of the Tribune, knows these facts; the advocacy of free trade by that-paper caw only be acoounted for upon one hypothesis, that expressed by the Cobden Club member at the National Agricultural Association: “Joseph can't help hissel': we’ve got him under our thumbs." The aiin of the Chicago Tribune is the destruction of the Republican party, Every clipping that can be be made from free trade and mugwump papers for that purpose Ts published .in the Chicago Tribune with zest and often eulogistic comments. As the Interocean said some time ago: The Chicago Tribune is a democratic spy' in the Republican ceap, 1 know of no more pertinent enquiry ever made in Congress than that of the Hon. Seth L. Milliken, of Maine, in the House of Representatives, April 40, 1884. | <* “Who is demanding a modification of the tariff in the direction of free trade? Is it the mechanic, the manufacturer, the miner, the farmer? Mo. Where are the petitions asking this *egi station? Do they appear before this House from say great industry in tins country? No. Who is pushing this Measure? The Cob

den Club, the theorists in out* col | leges and those Democrats who in | herit the doctrines which were an nounoed in the days when slavery, which despised American labor anc free American workingmen, desirec through “free trade" to obtain cheaj food and clothing for the slaves. Does any one know of any working man who belongs to the Cobdet Club? Does ho know of any practi j cal American farmer or mechanic 01 manufacturer who has not a large) British than American interest that is a itnsnber of that club? How dom it happen that that, British iastitu tion is taking so much interest in bui affairs and is reaching its fingeri over here so eagerly and industrious ly to manipulate our politics? Whi is it distributing its ‘free trade an{ tariff reform’ tracts all o v er oui country? Why is every member o j Congress deluded with \hem? Is i' a disinterested spirit of beneficent* which causes it to take so great paim and provide the groat amount o money which all this costs?” T. P., Elmwood, Ill.: Yonrrcques is best answered by-quoting substantially what Sir Waiter Scott puts in the mouth of the fish-woman, who, knowing the dangers and hardships her husband and sons faced to procure the fish, when told it was not “cheap enough," said: “It’s no KISH you’re BUYING, IT’S MEN’S LIVES.’ Cheapness resulting from cheap labor is an unmitigated curse; cheapness of products through the healthy competition of well-paid labor, through tariff, as in this oountry, is a bless ing: It was the cheapness of poOrlypaid labor that the Mills bill and its author sought to inaugurate here, as expressed by Mr. Mills in his speech at East St. Louis: “If Grover Cleveland is re-elected President of the United States, as he will be; if another Democratic House of Representatives is chosen, and It we can get our Republican friends Out of the other end of the Gapito! and get Democrats hi the place of them, we will pas 9 a tariff bill that Euts raw materials all on the free st, and then we will put our owe intelligent and skilful and productive labor in this country upon a plane o i equality with the laborers of ail countries,”

That the aim of Mr. Mills and his* friend Cleveland was to reduce the pay of the American laborer, and to bring him down ‘‘upon a plane of equality with the laborers of all other countries,” admits of no doubt. Both knew that our protective tariff ensured to our laboring classes higher wages than were paid in any other oountry. Mills blurted it out at East St. Louis. Cleveland was cunning enough to evade it. That Mr. Mills knew how well paid our laborers were is proved by his speech to his constituents at Coricaua, Texas, May 21, 1887, when he said: “We produce and exchange among ourselves, and consume in the satisfaction of our wants, more of the products of our own labor than the 200,000,000 on the continent of Europe. We have invented, and have now in operation, more labor-saving machinery than all other people. We are turning out over six thousand millions of dollars’ worth of products of manufactures every year, and producing them at lower cost of production, and at the same time paying higher wages to our workmen than any other people. ” “Buckeye,” Columbus, Ohio. Mr Hurd claimed to the farmers that a reduction of the tariff on wool would raise the price of wool; and to the manufacturers of woolens that the reduction of the wool tariff would give them cheaper raw material. He however never explained the contradiction. John W. Hinton.

PRATHERS’B PLAN*

State Lecturer Prather, of the Kansas Alliance, has issued an address setting forth a plan of organization and campaign in which he lays great stress on the importance of co-operation. “We,” he says, “have been working upon the competitive plan until we are nearly a nation of wealth-producing paupers. Others have been working upon the co-operative plan aud are wealthy. Show the difference to our people. We are the masters of the situation, not only politically, but from a business standpoint, both in buying and selling, if we only learn the great lesson of co-operation. ” State Lecturer Prather evidently has very vague ideas in regard to cooperative labor, and knows just e uough of the subject to lead him into error. His statement that “we have been working upon the competitive plan until we are nearly a nation ol wealth-producing paupers" is a sur prising contrast to the repeated admissions of intelligent foreigners that we arc the best housed, the best clothed, the best fed and the most generally educated people in the world. It is amazing how any self respecting American can talk about our being “a nation of wealth producing paupers” in view of the overwhelming evidence that wealth is more generally distributed in this country than any other, and that the American possess and enjoy the com forte of life in a larger degree and wider diffusion than any other peo pie on the face of the earth. Whoever says otherwise either does not know what he is talking about oi willfully misrepresents the facta..

The amphibious woman U looking tht way again. Miss Agmss Back with, tu« female champion swimmer of England, b preparing Vs make another visit to Amaric* Suing the spring. She is determined this than to aoeomplish tan (eat es swimming trass a— is Monk to Bidtatwag hnsah-

HARRISON’S TRIP WEST.

He T«lk« About Hts Recent Journey and Its Benefits. The New York World prints an interview with President Harrison relative to bis recent journey through the South and West. The President is quoted as follows: ‘*My journey was, of course, an important event in my life. \ As a working lawyer whose face has been, so to speak, held closely to the grindstone of active practice, I have not had the time I would have liked to spend in travel. My visit to the South and the Pacific country, therefore, was a series of daily surprises, and I experienced a keen sense of personal enjoyment and gratification from the beginning to the end,' The mountain regions of the Carolinas, of Tennessee and Georgia, with the new industrial communities which have sprung into existence cannot fail to interest the visitor from other sections of the country. The importance of these manufacturing towns should not be underestimated. They afford a vision of the great South to come—a South of increased industry, prosperity and material 'wealth." Places like Chattanooga and Birmingham will become greater and greater as time passes, and there are those alive to-day who may behold another Pittsburg in either of them. “The reception was a tribute of respect to the presidential office and of hospitality and courtesy toward the individual. I can say, without reservation, that from first to last I was received with kindness by everybody. As I strain my memory and review everything there was nothing that occurred that was unpleasant or annoying during my tour in the portion of the country that is politically' opposed to me. “I remember on Several occasions that small street boys ran out beside the carriage and r.houted ‘How are you, Ben?’ with knowing looks on their eager, childish faces. I refer to this to illustrate how observant I tried to be of all that occurrred, no matter how trifling.

“When I decided to go South I resolved to speak just as freely as I would in Indiana. J did not propose to enter into controversial discussions, but if in the course of remarks made to me in public I saw anything that I thought it was my duty to answer I would do so without hesitation. Permit me to say that the regard for the national emblem, the flag of the common country, which I everywhere beheld, was very agreeable. The men of the South realize to-day as they never did before that we have in the United States a great and powerful Nation, of which they are proud. It is no longer, as formerly. ‘I am a Carolinian,’ ‘I am a Georgian,’ or T am an Alabamian.’ It is, instead, ‘I am a citizen of the United States.’ Not that those who say this regard their native State a whit less, for love of commonwealth remains fixed in Southern minds, as we all know. The changes are a step in the universal progress which we, as Americans, are experiencing, and I was glad and proud to recognize this tendency. “The old-time Southerner generally led an agricultural life in his land, surrounded by deferential followers. He rode about, viewed his possessions. and, being thrown largely upon his otra resources, thought much. His mental vision sought not to cross boundaries of his State. Now the Southern man is inclined to look beyond, and, beholding the grandeur of the collected States, is influenced thereby. All of which augurs well for the future.

“Nearly all the States I have visited appeared extremely prosperous. As I approached nearer and nearer la.Texaa„Lbeo4me, more and mare impressed with the opportunities which are enjoyed and are becoming appreciated by the people. The ag ricultural richness of the upper portion Of the Lone Star State and the commercial future of the regions near the coast were carefully noted.,. With a rapidly increasing population and growing understanding of the possibilities that time will realize L see unlimited prosperity for those within her borders. “I was received with warm hospitality by the Texans, and my trip down through the midland comities to G iveston was attended by a general welcome from all. At Houston I was received by a committee from Galvestou. and was somewhat prepared by them for the flattering demonstrations of my reception. My remarks upon reciprocity and on the deve opment of the trade of Galveston which ought to follow, among other things, proper and much-needed harbor improvements, were the result of my earnest convictions. If words have* any meaning the responsible c tizens of this Southern metropolis understand as well as any others the advantages for themselves and to their State of progress in trade facilities. I uttered some strong words concerning the need of improvement of water-ways for Galveston, which subsequent reflection has intensified. “I held interesting conversations with many prominent citizens, one, for instance, with Governor Hogg, .thorn I found to be a progressive aud an enlightened man. I have wesn the Governor since, and he gave me information wich will, I think, result well for the future of his State. Ills earnestness in repressing lawlessness in certain sections would result favorably to immigration in Toy as. An empire of itself, it has a gr-at hereafter. “‘California, like Texas, was a new oo*.»r try to me. I had previously visited the Northern Pacific slope—the Oregon and Puget Sound districts.

Tbs characteristic exuberance of California hOipitafity poured on me*until I felt there was ns Omit. In the infrequent intervals when not occupied by the attentions of the people I feasted my eyes upon therien fruits, the gorgeous flowers and the peculiar and varied natural attractions the climate develops. I spoke when it was fitting that I should do so, and the sense of pleasure which was engendered at * the commencement of the trip attended me. throughout California and continued until I returned to Washington, “If all men were permitted to derive as ,much personal satisfaction from a tour throughout their oountry as myself, I think the span of human existence would be increased.

IT PAYS TO KEEP POSTED.

Old Games that Are Being Worked Every Ray In the Week. \ * . New York World. “People would save money by reading the papers,” said a Broadway policeman, commenting on the bogus check game, the fom-flam game, the overcoat and umbrella game, the bunco game, the green-goods game, the get-me-out-of-the-station-house game, the send-the-goods-home game and other common methods of swindling prevalent in New York. He had dropped into “The Owl” cigar store to notify the proprietor that a tall young man with a blond moustache was operating in that and to request that if the aforesaid young man should order a few boxe4 of cigars as Christmas presents fori his friends, delivered at his residence in a swell part of town, to do up th*j goods slowly enough to consume timtj enough to notify the headquarters o J the “Tenderloin” precinct. Thd name which would be given, he said, would be that of the real resident afl the address named, but the swindler would meet the delivery boy on- the front steps and get possession of the goods under some pretext or other. It was a game that had been worked somewhat extensively of late, and had been duly exposed, but as long as people didn’t read the newspapers they were liable to be caught. They wanted to catch the swindler. “You see,” he continued, in a philosophic mood, “no matter how thoroughly these tricks are exposed by the newspapers there are plenty of people to work ’em on. You’d think nobody of any sense could be buncoed, now wouldn’t you?* And yet there are lots more* being caught* that way than you ever hear of. A good many smart men and lots more smart women never read the newspapers—at least the police reports, Yhercnmes record. They think the papers shouldn’t print it, maybe,and yet the printing of such things saves many from being swindled. These swindlers are more afraid of the newspapers than they are of us, for if their games weren't made public, you know, they’d be swarms of ’em where there’s only one now. Yet it seems like nobody reads the newspapers when a chap like this can work such a racket, now don’t it? And all the other games, too—l tell yov if everybody would read the newspa pers it would save us a good deal o trouble and drive these swindlio games out of the market—yes would.” And with this bit of sount philosophy the big man in swung out and tacking down upon the Thirty-third street corner into 4 gang of toughs caused a sudden movement in all directions.

A Pioneer Palace Car.

Century for July. Our wagons, or the Reed wagons, as they were called, were all made tc order, and I can say without fCar of contradiction that nothing like our family -wagow ever .started across the plains. , It was what might be called S two-story wagon or “Pioneer palace car” attached to a regular immi- ! grant train. The entrance was on | the side, like that of an old fashioned j stage coach, and one stepped into a small room, as it were, in the center of the wagon. At the right and left were spring seats with comfortable high backs, where one could sit and ride with as much ease ai on a Con coach. In this little room was placed a. tiny sheet-iron stove, whose pipe, running—through the top of tiie wagon, was prevented by a circle of tin from setting tire to the canvas cover. A board about a foot wide extended over the wheels on either side the full length of the wagon thus forming the foundation for r large and roomy second story, ir which were placed our beds. Under the spring seats were compartment in which were stored many articles useful for the journey, such as a wellrilled work basket and a full assort ment of medicines, with lint anc bandages for dressing wounds. Our clothing was packed—not in Sara toga trunks —but in strong canvas bags plainly marked. Some o: mamma's young friends added a look ing glass, hung directly opposite thr door, in order, as they said, that my mother might not forget to keep her good looks, and, strangeto say, when we had to leave the wagon standing like a moument on the Salt Lake desert, the glass was still unbroken. I have often thought how pleasec. the Indians must have been wher they found this mirror which gav< them back the picture of their owe dusky faces.

Signs of the Times.

“Montgomery Linkum, you raskeL go out and bring me a passelof chipi outen de woodpile.” “Dassen’tdo it,mammy; deminisser he done tell me it orful wicked U touch chips.” ,* “Lawsa-massy.do de chile tink ht be Prinoe ob Wales?"

FORTY LIVES LOST.

Disastrous Results of a Laud* slide. Nta« Hoom with Oemputi Swept AwayOm Whit* Woman and About Forty Indian* Killed. The steamer Princess Louise, from Skeena, B. C., brings news of a terrible landslide pn the banks of the Skeena river, resulting in the death < ifFbne women and about forty Indians. On the 7th inst., at Pam, those residing near the Northern Pacific cannery at Skeena river heard a great rushing noise in the region of the high, steep mountain at the back of the cannery. In a moment an avalanche of rocks and earth and trees was thrown upon the settlemnt, carrying everything before it into the slough close to the cannery. The occupants of the bouses had time to get outside of the building, but before they could escape from the advancing torrent of debris they were caught and carried along with fearful velocity. In all nine houses with their occupants were destroyed, Including the mess-houseand residence of the form&n of the cannery. In the mess-room was the young Swed- 1 ish wife of the forman. She was carried along In the mad and deadly current and dashed^to death hundreds of feet below. Indians claim that among those destroyed were about forty Indians of the Port Simpson, Sitka, Metalkatian and Kitimat tribes. Two days after this slide thirteen bodies of the Indians had been recovered. The body of the foreman’s wife has not yet been found, but there is not the slightest hope for any living thing within the range of the terrible slide of boulders, trees and earth. The slide just missed the cannery building about two feet. Had the slide struck the cannery or occurred half an hour earlier, the death rate would have reached Info the hundreds. It had been raining in the mountains for the previous four days and it is thought that the accumulation of water on the mountain side broke away, carrying death and destruction before It. The Indians are greatly excited over the disaster.

A HARVEST OF DEATH.

Happy Excursionists Scalded Alive by a Colliding Engine. Savon Killed and Six More Ms y Follow From Injuries in an Aooident on the Colorado Midland. —i A horrible catastrophe occurred at Aspen Junction, Col., on the Colorado Midland railroad, at 12 o’clock on the 12th. A collision occurred between a Midland locomotive and the rear coach of the Saturday night excursion train between Aspen and Glenwocd Springs. The coach load of people returning from the Springs, was suddenly plunged Into all the horrors of a frightful railroad accident, resulting in the instant killing of two persons, inflicting fatal injuries upon five more, and severely scalding and burning six others. Engineer Switzer, of the excursion train, had run his train up to the water tank at the junction for water. When backing down to get on the main track line, alight engine shot out from the coal chutes, which are located in such a way- as to he concealed from the view of the tracks leading to the water tank. The engineer on the light, thinking he could get out before the excursion train took the main track, made the attempt, but struck the rear coach of the excursion train at the switch. The force of the collisjon tore the check valve from the engine and poured scalding steam and water into the wrecked coach load of people. Then ensued a scene of terror impossible to describe. The passengers were at the mercy of the roaring, screeching monster at their side. Through the brokeu valve a torrent of scalding steam And water poured out upon the helpless victims. Of the twenty-five passengers in the car, throe colored mer, who were in the for-u ward compartment, wero the only ones uninjured. Conductor Miller, with the train crew and uninjured passengers, immediately began the work of rescue.

TO DEAL WITH MONEY-LENDERS.

Farmers’ Alliance Sub-Commlltee Not Yet Decided on the Flail for Making I.ouns. A sub-committee of the Farmers’ Alliance, consisting of President McGrath, C. S. Hiatt, J. M. McNevills and A. P. Collins, met at Topeka on the 12th to formulate a plan by which the farmers who will be compelled to meet tholr mortgages next autumn may be loaned funds. The committee was appointed at the last annual meeting of the Alliance, with instructions to organize, so that the Alliance could operate directly with the moneylenders in the East and not be placed at the mercy of the agents. The organization will protect itself against irresponsible farmers by a close examination into their past methods of doing business and their present responsibility. The committee adjourned without having settled upon any plan. The meeting will be continued. The commutes is undecided as yet whether it shall attempt to negotiate the loans In the name of the Alliance, and pledging the entire organization to the pay ment of the note and interest, Of make each application stand upon Its own footing. f George D. Barnett, prominent citizen of Newman, 111., entered the uress-mak-Ingshopof Mrs. Emma Goodwin Saturday evening and threw his arms 'round her The lnsulted T omau-selied a hatchet and dealt him a fatal biow on the head. Hundreds of Mormons are settling Is the Mexican State* Sonora and Chihuahua, and more are expected from vm.

How the Lepers Live.

At the !ep n r settlement of Molokai,, frri—s Sisteq Rose Gertrude to The Ladies’ Home Journal, the time hangs 1 Very heavily on the hands of even these ease-loving children of the} tropics. Some few, in the first staget of the disease, build cottages, somecultivate taro, tobacco, sugar-cane.: or other plants in small inclosedpatches. In the olden -times theydistilled strong and harmful liquors,] but this is now, happily, forbidden, by law. The sea around abounds) with all kinds of fish, and the strongs j or ones pass hours in this favorite! pursuit. There are a number of! noi-ses at the settlement, too, and! .sometimes there are horse races, the 1 training for which is an amusement! to them for weeks beforehand. The ! women fish and ride, too. As a rule they are not much given to domestic: pursuits, though some still maker hats, and gorgeous quilts with birds) and flowers cut out of colored rags,j stitched onto the white calico. But) those who can work are almost dis- 1 inclined to do so, by the utter use- 1 lessness of their industry. “We are. dying,” say they; “why should we! waste our time in working to leave! good things behind for those who do* not care for us?” The Chinese bear; off the palm for industry. They plant! taro and rice, and * establish* bread! md cake stores, and even make can-j dy for those who have the good for-! tune to receive money from their! friends on the other islands. Of) course there are many who from loss) of hands or feet are unable to work,f and theirs is the saddest lot. They, have literally nothing to do but sleepj and smoke, and their lives are unut-j feerably dreary. .-

Hardships at Donner Lake.

The July Century. The misery endured, during those! four mouths at Donner Lake in our little dark cabins under the snow would fill pages and make the coldest heart ache. Christmas was near,, but to the starving its memory gave) no comfort. It came and passed) without observance, but my mother; had determined weeks before that) her children should have a treat on; this one day. She had laid away a; few dried apples, some beans ana a 1 bit of tripe and a small piece of ba-‘ con. When this hoarded store was; brought out the delight of the little! ones knew no bounds. The cooking was watched carefully t and when we sat down to our Christmas dinner j mother said, ‘ ‘Children eat slowly,! for this one day you can have all you wish." So bitter was the misery re lieved by that one bright day that I have never since sat down to a Christmas dinner without my thoughts going back to Donner Lake. The storms often would last ten! days at a time and we would have toi cut chips from the logs inside which 1 formed our cabins in order to start a fire. We could scan el y walk, and. the men had hardly strength enough 1 to procure wood. We would drag! ourselves through the snow from one cabin to another, and some mornings' snow would have to be shoveled out, of the fireplace before a fire could be : made. Poor little children wereerying with hunger and mothers were! crying because they had so little to 1 .give their children. We seldom /thought of bread, we had been without it so long. Pour months of such 1 suffering would fill the bravest hearts [with despair.

Josh Billing’s Philosophy.

New York WeeklyTrew generosity konsist in giving! what yu kan afford to those who deserve it. \ Mi yung friend, look out for the men who shut up one eye, and talk to yu with the other. t .... Happiness seems to consist in—* nothing. Health wiir "bring* fnunny, but? munny won’t bring health. j We may gro wizer az we gro* older, but we never gro better. j Thare iz this difference between) honesty and honor—honesty support?, 1 a man's karacter, honor supports his reputashun. i When hope dies in a man he iz az dark inside az an old tin lanter whose kandel has gone out. A fop iz a konseited ass, impudent and brainless. . _ . Idleness is one of sin’s brothers, aud both are the devil’s children. Death iz the only sure cure for laziness, apd it takes a good deal ov that. I hav been hunting for the last seven years tew find out when mankind were comparatively virteuo’is, and i find that it was just after the* flood. 1 I think a mand should hav a lee tie vinegar in his disposishun, ju3t enough to keep the flies off. A phool iz like a hornet; he iz jist az liko tew sttng a friend az a pho.

Figs and Thistles.

Indianapolis Ram's Horn. , The devil is never far away when friends trade horses. , Man is always blind on the side where he thinks it pays him to sin. ; The man who can So a little vhing well is not honest if he doesn’t do it. The most dangerous meanness is that which goes under the name of religion. The devil doesn't care who does the preaching whore he can run the music. The devil puts in a good deal ol time in persuading one-Ulent people that they can’t do anything. The devil gets hU hands on a good many preachers by making thorn be-' lievo that the, » we to preeoh great sermons.