Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 February 1887 — Page 4

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 12, 1887.

IN Pittsburgh, Pa., recently there were 58 applicants for the High School chair of chemistry at a salary of $1,400. This fact would Beem indicate that there is good deal of professional talent lying round loose.

THK new cruwer, Atlanta, is to be armed with nine-inch rifle guns having Jrange of five miles. A few boats of that kind would be convenient to have loafaround in Canadian waters when fishing season opens again.

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CONTRARY to what would naturally be expected, the national House had a less warlike temper than the Senate. The latter was in for a war over the fishery business at once, while the House is disposed to take things much more leisurely.

The Indianapolis Herald last week was an elegant double page number, pro fusely embellished with pictures of the prominent business and manufacturing houses of that city, altogether making an impressive showing, and reflecting credit on the Herald's enterprise.

IT is estimated that since Jan. 1st, 87,000 laborers in this country have been on strikes and 17,000 more have been out of work for want of coal to run the mills and factories with, the effect of tho strike in Xew York. This is a bad beginning for the year 1887. Let us hope the pace will not continue.

IK the pension bill repealing the limit for applications for arrears should becomo a law a hundred or two millions, (nobody can tell how much) would be taken out of the Treasury. It is idle to talk about any surplus if this pension business is be to keop up. But it has certainly gone far enough and should be dropped.

THK whole value of tho Canadian fish tako does not oxceed a million or two dollars a year,—not enough to go war about certainly, if there were no principle involved. But there is a principle and that is just whore tho trouble is liable to come in. Americans will not not tight for money but tlioy will fight for right every time.

CAMKORNIA mado 25,000,000 gallons of wine last your, as against 7,500,000 gallons iu 1885. At this rate of increase California will soon be making an important contribution to the world's wine rop. But France makes over a billion gallons of wine each year, so that after all tho California vintage is a more drop iu the bucket so far.

HAYS tho St. Louis Glebe-Democrat: "Jamos G. Blaine will be the oasiest man to nominate and the hardest man to olect in 1888. John Sherman will be the hardest man to nominato and the easiest man to olect in 1888." There is truth in this, but why tako oithor one of them? Why not tako tho man who can carry Indiana in 1888. The man who can do that can be elected.

THK Now York World figures that the next Presidential oleetion will, like the hist one, depond upon the voto of New York and that tho only hope of the Democrats lies in tho Prohibition vote. Tho World has forgotten that "it is the unexpected which happens." 1888 is not likely to repeat the history of 1884 to so tine a point as this. Something very dissimilar will probably happen in 1888.

IT appears that beforo his death General Logan had comploted a second book, "The Volunteer Soldier of America," which is now ready for publication and will be brought out by a Chicago house. It seems rather singular that the existence of this book was kept a secret»«o long, especially as numerous publishers have been fighting for the privilege of issuing It. It will no doubt have a large sale ami bring Mi's. IjOgan a handsome revenue. _____

EXTRAVAOANCK in national expenditures, and spending money for the mere sake of spending it, has attained dangerous projortions. There are men In Congress who seem to think of little else than devising new methods of bleeding the treasury. As both parties are pledged to economy some of these schemes will no doubt bo shut off, but if they are not the President should veto them aa a last resort.

NKXT year Ohio is to celebrate the centennial of her first'Settlement and there is likely to l»e a row over tho matter. Columbus, being the capital, was selected «s the proper place for the celebration but this did not suit Cincinnati, which proposes to run a centennial celebration in connection with her regular exposition. Columbus is mad and a first-class rumpus is likely to be the result.

Kven patriotism does not seem able to drown the spirit of selfishnese.

MR. UKSRY WATTKKSON has never be^n enthusiastic over the present administration and he bus been making some very free criticisms of late. He pictures the President as a sort of political! clam who shut* himself op within himself and doesn't wish to hear or see anything. Mr. Wattemm's notion is that the Democratic party is going to the IK»W-WOW*ata toboggan-slide pace under th» present rejiimo at tho White House. In this view he aerortla with the Republicans who believe it will be their turn Iu

THE CAR STOVE AGAIN. The terrible railway disaster in Vermont, in which near fifty lives were lost, furnishes, as usual, a powerful argument against the use of stoves in cars. It was the old story of the wrecked cars being set on fire and many passengers roasted to death. Wounded and imprisoned in the broken cars, they were helpless to resist or escape from the flames. :f-

The public have grown very familial with tfcii story for they have been reading it ever since railroad disasters began. The question is how long it is going to continue. It will continue just as long as stoves are used to heat the cars on railroads. It cannot be otherwise. When the cars are smashed up the fire will be thrown ont of the stoves and the splintered mass, aided perhaps by the inflammable clothes of the female passengers, will soon be amass of flame.

The public must and does demand the abandonment of the railway stoves. Certain railroads have already abandoned them and are warming their cars with steam. The system works well, though it is perhaps susceptible of further improvement. But as a method of warming cars its success has been demonstrated. Now let the railroads all adopt it, or something better, if there is anything better, and let the old, dangerous system of heating with stoves be abandoned. There should be no more roasting required to enforce the necessity of a change, and the managers of railroads should be prompt to introduce on their lines the newer and safer appliances for car-heating.

THE MORMON LOBBY. Not long ago tho public was congratulating itself on the passage of new and more stringent legislation which would probably effect the final downfall of polygamy. Both the Senate and House appeared to be very much in earnest about the matter and it was not doubted that the new bill would become a law.

It may yet, but the prospects are far from bright at present. A conference committee of the two houses of Congress have had the matter under consideration for days past and finally adjourned for a week without coming to any agreement. The Mormon lobbyists ask nothing better than delay, for fhe session is nearing its close and every day the matter is postponed multijplies the chances of its defeat.

There is a suspicious look about this delay of the conference committee to report on the bill. It may not be so but it looks as though some of the Mormon corruption fund may have found its way into the pockets of certain members of the committee, who are finding convenient reasons for keeping tho bill hanging fire. If the committee wish to clear themselves of such a suspicion they should come to a prompt agreement on tho essential points of the bill and report it for final action. The new law is urgently needed and its passage should not be endangered by unnecessary delaj'.

THE GIFTED HENRI. X--Mr. Henry Watterson has been kicking up quite a rumpus in his party by his severe criticisms of the President. Tho New York Herald reads him a lecture in which it inquires whether he has left tho Democratic party and suggests if he has done so and means to destroy tho party, he is pursuing the correct course. He is positivo that Mr. Cleveland's renomination is inevitable and yet he goes on writing what must plainly lower men's opinion of Mr. Cleveland capacity, sagacity and popularity.*'* %."

If Mr. Watterson's purpose' were to defeat Mr. Cleveland's nomination in order to secure the nomination of some one

satisfactory to him, the Herald

could understand his conduct. But declaring that the President will certainly be renominated, at the same time attacking him and trying to break him down, ubjects him to the charge of attacking his party. But Mr. Watterson always was a rather eccentric person, given to kicking up rows and not worrying about consistency. The gifted editor of the Courier Journal should not be field to too strict account for his foibles.

THK President has laid before the House the correspondence between the United States aud England on the subject of the fisheries dispute. From this it appears the trouble is as far from a settlement as ever and the prospects seem to be that Canada will pursue her old tactics when the next fishing season opens, unless in the meantime Congress shall pass a vigorous retaliatory law. This should and probably will be done. The Senate has already passed a bill giving the President power to suspend commercial intercourse with Canada if she continues her bulldozing policy and the House will no doubt either pass this bill or another of similar import. We don't care so much about the first "but our rights must be respected," and this they have not been for some time past.

THK great strike of the longshoremen and freight-handlers in New York City fell to pieces at last of its own weight. Hundreds of unemployed men from other parts of the country boarded the trains for the metropolis and although they were untrained they soon learned to do the work. Hie result is that many of the strikers who gave up fairly good places and wages are now out of work and are likely to be so for some time. The mistake was iu calling thousands of men out because a hundred or two could not agree with their employers. These should have been left to settle their quarrel themselves.

A ROOXKR of Gov. II IU for the Presidency has polled the Democrats in ihe New*York Legislature as to their preferences. There were 2ft for Hill to only 6 for Cleveland. But Mr. Cleveland wiU get the nomination all the same. That is a foregone conclusion.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING

FOREIGN travel is usually an expensive luxury, as indeed all kinds of travel are. But now and then a young man of exceptional strength and energy makes a continental tour on foot for a very small outlay. Bayard Taylor set the example years ago and he has had a number of imitators. Through the Harpers Mr. Lee Merriwether has just published a book in which he tells "How to see Europe on Fifty Cents a Day." Mr. Merriwether explains that, being desirous of seeing something of low life in

Europe, he donned the blouse and hob

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shoes of a workman and spent a year in a tramp from Gibraltar to the Bosphorus. In this way he managed to see much more of life in Europe at very

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expense than many travelers do who spend money like water, but steerage passage and living on twenty cents a day would not suit ihe majority of trav elers.

WE have been accustomed to boast of our freedom from the enormous military burdens of European nations. The pension appropriations aside, this would be true. But when we consider that our annual pension roll is now $75,000,000 and all the time climbing, we have little to boast of after all. The cost of the military establishment of Austria is $51,000,000 of Germany $91,000,000 of Great Britain $102,000,000, and of France $126,000,000. Add to our pension roll the cost of maiutauing our little army of 25,000 men, and our military expenses, direct and indirect, are discouragingly near those of the monarchy-ridden countries of the old world. It is time to call a halt in pension legislation.

THE Senate took wise action in appropriating $21,000,000 for the double purpose of coast defences and the manufacture of improved modern guns and armor. What the action of the House will be is yet to be seen, though there is talk that the Senate bills will not be passed in their present shape. But the present session should not expire without some suitable action being taken in the matter and some proper provision made for securing the safety of our exposed cities.

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and my wants but, with all its limitations, I would rather have the other six days of the week weeded out of my memory than the Sabbath of my childhood. And tills is right. Every child ought to be so brought up in the family that when he thinks of home, the first on which his thoughts rest shall be Sunday as the culminating joy of the household.

As to going on excursions and seeking amusements on the Sabbath, I am decidedly in favor of walking out on the Lord's Day, with moderation, for a hundred reasons. First, because health seems to require that one should have some exercise in the fresh air and second, because if one is trained aright, nature is itself a means of grace. The influences of the garden, the orchard and the field may co-operate with the direct moral instruction which children receive in the household, and powerfully corroborate it. But thi« is to be guarded. It is not to be a source of temptation. The children are not be sent by themselves to the fields where they will be tempted more than they are able to bear. If this is done, it is to bo done with discretion and on principle." It is to be done with the idea that every child is, in its own way, not to pull down Sunday, but to try to lift it up. Children are to understand that whatever they do is to make that day noble, beautiful, salient.

So far as the working classes are concerned, it may be occasionally true that the Lord's Day should be a day to take them out from the murky neighborhood where they live from the filth and unventilation and inconvenience of their surroundings from the shop, the attic, the cellar. It has been strongly urged that there should be excursions down tho bay, and up the river that there should be extra railroad trains that the lower population of the city should once a week be emptied into the country that it is a great deal better that they should seek recreation out of the city than that they should stay at home on Sunday. And if that were the only alternative, I should say so too. But it is not the only alternative. When men say that these excursions area substitute for religious instruction, I deny it. When it is said they occasionally may alternate with, or co-operate with other social means of enjoy iug the Sabbath day, I do not feel so much set against them as mapy are. I love the open air I love the country I see so much of God in it I have been' so much blessed myself by it that I find it hard to say to any poor workingman, "You shall never breathe the mountain air, nor see the stream, nor hear the singing of birds uncaged and flying free and wide abroad." I, that am put above necessities and wants I, that can control my time I, that can go out on Monday and hear all that God says, and see all that God does in the field—have I a right to turn to my brother, whojis less fortunate than I am, and use my liberty as a despotism, and say to him, "You shall not hear and see those things." If he says, "I am not my own on Monday, nor Tuesday, nor Wednesday, nor Thursday, nor Friday, nor Saturday my time is bought and paid for I am under wage Sunday is the only day which I have to myself and if I may not on thfct day go to the country and breathe the fresh air, and hear the birds, I never can," then I have nothing to say. I take the working man's side, to a certain extent. But then, stop! Seeing the country and hearing the birds is very well but a man must learn how to see and hear them. And that he does not learn by going out with a hundred others, who

are rough, uncouth, uninstructed. I take comfort in these things, because I have a Sabbath, a sanctuary and a closet for prayer. It is the spiritual element that has taught me to see nature in such a way that it is a pleasure and benefit to me. But little enjoyment do they have in taste who have not been educated in their moral sentiments. What they need is more, not less, open air in the country, but first they need the means of interpreting what they see there. And although their attics are bad, and their cellars are dark and unwholesome, you can do the laboring classes no other service half so great as when, on Sunday you inspire them with more desire to learn with more manliness with more spirituality.

I would rather a thousand times see rightly guarded and rightly placed read ing-rooms established for workinginen where, on Sunday, they would be brought into commerce with books and papers, and with people who could givi them instruction, than to send them by cars into the country on Sunday, good as that may be in many respects. What they ne d, first of all things, is spiritual religious instruction, manliness founded on the control of the passions and up petites, morality, virtue, true piety—that is the making of any man That is the making of communities. Let men have that. Do not sacrifice that for the sake of giving them fresh air in the country If the two could be blended, if they could have the opportunity of the day in the sanctuary and the opportunity of the day in the country, I think it would be better, though I do not know as that would be practicable.

I am very much opposed, however, to the attempts to maintain Sunday as against the poor. I set my face against the attempt to maintain it for rich folks and make it a bondage for poor folks When they wanted to run the cars on Sunday in the city I would not sign petition against it. It was urged as reason why they should not run that so many men—conductors and driverswere kept working. That might be regulated better. With some more instruction and some more impulse in the direction of humanity the managers of our roads could probably so order the time that every man should at least haveijevery other Sunday and a part of each|Sunday. And so a remedy could be lately effected.

Burwould you sign a petition that no manshould ride to church in his coach? How many of you would sign such petition? I have no doubt that I could take a petition that the running of cars, on Sunday should be stopped and get many of j'ou to sign it but if I were to take another petition that no man should ride to church in his coach, I do not bo lieve I could get a man to sign it unless he was a very poor man. The poor might sign against the rich man's coach, and the rich, not thinking, perhaps, would sign against the only coach that the poor man can ride in. A man Wants to come to Plymouth Church (a good place to come to) from out of town but he has no way to come except to ride in the common people's coach Another man wants to go out into the country to attend service at some village church, or to visit his father and mother, or uncle or aunt. I do not say that it is the best thing that could happen but with the fear of the Lord Jesus Christ before me, I never would put my pen on paper to restrict the privileges of the poor laboring classes while I did not place any restriction upon the privileges •f rich folks. When a man drives a car qi Sunday lie, for the sake of accommo dating perhaps a hundred or two hun d^ed other persons, loses half a day. W^iep a man drives a coach he loses half a day for the sake of accommodating five And nobody seems to think there is any hardship in the latter case, though a great many think there is great hardship in the former case. If a man is so rich bat he has horse and a coach, and a river to bring him to church, people hink it is all right but the moment a an is so poor that he cannot come to urch unless he rides on a car where a iver and a conductor carry two hundred people, they think it is a descration oft he Sabbath. They urg6 that it is the Lo*d's Day and ought not to be broken. I ike the poor man's side, and say that Siiday was not meant to be an oppressH day. It was not meant to be a yoke. It was meant to make the poor man frejr. And it is to be so zealously hedged in nd kept, that of all the days of the wek it shall be a humane, free day. \iiile I take sides with the poor, and whlb I seem to many to be lax, I appeal to, aery workingman who reads these won whether Sunday is not.needed. It is hunecessity. It is not mine, particularly! I can take care of myself, and otheiVien that are prospered in life can of themselves. All days of the them, and to me, are more or of leisure, and are Sundays in le. But the working people have n&eisure day except Snnday, and they arthe ones that must not put their foot upo it to destroy it. They are the ones tha must not let it run to carnal pleasure!They are the ones that must not let tlvel break over it needlessly. They muanot, for the sake of a misunderstood fcerty, pull it down. It is a bulwark bfareen them and oppression, and often tiles a bulwark between them and the Ch

A negatir Observance of the Sabbath is as imperf* a keeping of it as there can well be. And this is a household matter largely. Men and women having children growfe up around them want to keep Sundaun the family, but they do not know esfetly how to go about it. They simply that there area great many things thakhey must not do. The prevalent idea ofWping the Sabbath Is that it is a day awhich certain things must not be

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not, not, not, all the way through. To the majority of people Sunday is a day full of note. 5

I very well remember my own childhood. I say something funny and burst out laughing. "Henry, you must not laugh.". "Why must I not laugh?" "Because it is Sunday." I started to run. "Henry, you must not run, it is Sunday." Something attracted my attention, and, following a natural impulse, I pointed my finger towards it. "Henry, you must not do such a thing it is Sunday." There were a few books in the house that I might read. The Bible was one, the Catechism was another, and there were several other Sunday books. But if I picked up "Robinson Crusoe" it was, "Henry, Henry, you must not read that to-day." That eternal must not, must not, must not, followed me everywhere. I was jubilant, emotive, high-spirited and I was perpetually being pruned. I was cut down and there. This branch was cut off an that blossom was cut' off. They cut off my head, my feet and my hands. And I would fly sometimes like an insect without legs or wings and then I would wonder why they did not do something else to me. I was tied up. Now, I do not say that children ought not to be restricted. They ought to be. But when you are restraining children, you must look out that you do not lose the thing in them for which you are restraining them. You must see to it that thejr do not lose respect for the Sabbath through the feeling that it is a prison-house instead of a delight. "Take care, my child, grandpa will be disturbed." "Be careful, my son you knowr auntie cannot bear a noise." The child is all the time sacrificed for everybody else. He is sacrificed for "pa," for "ma," for "grandpa," and for the aunt that has a nervous headache. He is cuffed here and there, and told that he must not do this and that. He cannot go where he wants to go he cannot do what he wants to do he cannot see what he wants to see. He is like a punctuation point in a printer's case. He is merely put in to keep sentences and parts of sentences apart. He is neither a sentence, nor a word nor a letter. He is nothing for himself in all tho early part of his lifo. And he grows up with a dislike for the Sabbath. He is so peppered and salted with the feeling that it is a day of bondage, that he wishes it would not come more than once a month and tliat it would skip at that.

It may bo asked by some who read these words, "Is it not better that every daj' should be Sunday? Why attempt to set a special day apart from all the rest? Why would it not be better if all days were alike and all days wero high and noble?" That is n'ot tho question. The question is this: Is it possible for you to lift all the days of the week up so that they shall average as high as one day which is set apart for special observance? lean understand how persons of

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culture, of leisure and training may come into such a state of mind that all the days of the week shall be supremely blessed to them but I knew that most men are so circumstanced that it is simply impossible for them to do it. And to undertake to obliterate the Sabbath day by making all days Sundays is to substitute despotism for the few privileges that are secured to men through that day. You take away all the Sunday which men can observe if you give them only a distributive Sunday running through the whole week.

Nay, all days cannot be made alikecan they? Yes, they can, to me, if I am in the receipt of an independent income, and I can command my time, and I can take part of each day for meditation, and I can go where I please on any day and stay as long as I please but how about the apprentice boy who is waked up at 5 or 4 or 3 o'clock in the morning and to work aud has not a moment that he can call his own until 8 o'clock at night, when he tumbles into bed and sleeps till the next morning, when he again goes through the same experience, which is his experience the whole week? Go and talk to him about making every day a Sunday. It is these well-to-do, plump, round-faced, smiling people who talk about making every day a Sunday. But the great mass of people— the poorer orders of society—those who are under the control of others and on whom the hard tasks of life fall—they cannot afford to have all days made alike. Sunday is the poor man's tower. It is the refuge of tho man that is tasked and taxed by his employers. And it behooves him not to tread it under foot and destroy it, but to lift it up and preserve it, that at least on one day of the week ho may be God's free man.

There is nothing that I have more at heart than to rescue tho observrnee of the Lord's Day. It lies very near to me and is very dear to me. But I do not bcbieve you can rescue it by law. The Sabbath day, to be rightly maintained, must be made honorable. It must be made a delight. It must be so kept, and such views must be inculcated in respect to it, that men shall look upon it as a day of release from bondage and toil, and that it shall suggest to thom something higher than mere animal pleasure.

Let us make Sunday sweet and then men will take it. Bo happier yourself, be kinder yourself, be more social yourself, be more a man yourself, rub away animosities, give the unwelcome liand so long kept back by anger, make your heart burn towards the hearts of your fellow men, and let men see that Sunday is the altar at which you kindle your fire, and they will come to long for it and believe in it.

A community or nation, if kept at all in safety, will be kept by those who keep Sunday, but no community and no nation will long bo kept in safety in which Sunday is not kept. a

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