The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 28, 1886 Page: 4 of 5
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SUNDAY MORNING
HURRAY’S STEAM PRINTING HOUSE.
M. P. BEARING. M»xaqkk.
I PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A LAY 8ERM0M.
F. D. MARSHALL, M. D.,
OENISON, TEXAS,
Has Permanently Located Of-
fice In Euper Building.
Office Hour*J to 5 p. m.
ResidenceCorner Amintrun* Avenoe end T«
>, street. Office nod Reei,ienc« with Telephone
A. IIASSINGER, M. D.,
S M ilter e Specialty of
DISEASE OP THE EYE.
iso Main street, up stairs and at the
Store.
D will’s____
W. M. NAGLE,
Physician and Sukgkox,
Office over T. LieHrtcht's Drug Store.
OF KICK HOURS:—n to « and j to jp. m.
!>EN|»ON TEXAS.
Telephone Communication, rT
DR. A. B. GARDNER,
No, j»5 Main Street, • DENISON, TEXAS.
Special Attention Given to Diseases of Women.
a. m. and i to 5 p. m.
Office on Mstn St.,
nearly opposite the
Colonnade Hotel.
JAMES RHEA,
DR. I). A. COOK, '
plIYSIClAN AND 3UB^EON»
Office at Oulteau A Waldron'* Drug Store,
TIEN ISON, TEXAS.
Telephone Communication.
ID**7x7»- Fliik IBS,
DENTIST,
fl Id DENISON, TEXAS.
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RESIDENT DKNT1HT,
KSTAI1L1SHKO IN 18^.
DENISON. - > rEAAS.
Office Room. No. j, Weel Entrance
Muller Block.
Teeth extracted without pain by the uee of Laugh-
Htg Ga».
Office Hour*—7 to la a. in. and t to 6 p. m.
1>ECKER & HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT I~A.W,
No. so6 Main Street,
DKNISON, : : : j : TKXAS.
Prompt, Effioiont A Thorough Action.
DAVID M. RHEA,
ATTOBNEY-AT-IjAW ,
Office Coffin*. Insurance Building,
Koome 4 and 5,
DENISON,
TKXAS.
I. M. STANIHKKR. A. U. MOSKLBY.
Standifkk & Moseley,
ATTORNEYS-AT - LAW.
Xul Stairway, Muller Block,
D UNISON. •__-_•__•_ TEXAS
S. A. OILRKRT. s. H. RUSSELL.
GILBERT & RUSSELL,
ATTOB VEYN AT LAW
DENISON, - - TEXAS.
Will practice In tfte District and Inferior Courts
of (iruykon and surrounding Counties, and in the
Supreme and Federal Court* of the State.
dp^ftice Nagle Building, second floor, front.
fp. o. no*
H. FEARS,
and Counselor at Law,
Office in the Haven Building,
DENISON. : : : TEXAS.
Attorney
Offi
A. B. PERSON,
ATTORNEY A.T LrVW
Office over the City Bank,
DENISON. - - - TEXAS.
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D. O. IIAUSE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
West Stairway, Muller Bloch,
DENISON. : : TEXAS.
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NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Only Reliable
A8STRACT OF DENISON PROPERTY
Office In Muller Block.
DfcNISON, TEXAS.
MUNSON & BRO.,
ITotery 3E*vh'tellc.
Farm ami Frmi Land a Specialty.
Office No. too, Lebrecht building, Cornor
Main Street and Hooatnn Aw,
DENISON, - - - TEXAS.
Iake loudonT
Contractor .r- builder.
Shop on Woodard Street and Ruah An.
--JOB.-.WORK-
NEATLY AND QUICKLY DONK.
Door had Window Soreona a 8peoalt>.
* WILLIAM WALTZ,
Contractor itntl Ilulldcr.
IN WOOD, STONK AND BRICK.
Katimatoa Purniahed on Application.
Shop on Woodard atreet. Between Au.tin and
>iou*ton Avenues.
DENISON, TEXAS.
AUGUST UllLIG,
Manufacturer of
FINE BOOTS AND SHOES.
Shop on Austin Avenue,
DP NI SON,
TKXAS.
Real Estate, Insurance aud Broker’s OfTiee of
Coffin & Zintgraff,
HoUry PuUio % Qu’l Csavsyaassr*
No. *iS Main Stwt, up Main,
DENISON. • • - TEXAS.
Stephen French,
-INSURANCEAGENT-
OFFICK I*. MAIN STREET,
DENISON. : : TEXAS.
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nd Sign Pain”
House and Sign 1'aintkr,
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BURNKT AVKNUK, DKNISON, TKXAS.
Dklmonico Rkstuarant.
m. CXiA-KS;. Prop’r.
Dijiuon, Tax \a.
Table supplied with the best ol everythin*
in the market.
CHARGES REASONABLE.
JOSEPH SCHOTT,
ARCHITECT m SUPERINTENDENT
OF BUILDINGS.
Office with A. R. COLLINS,
ITo. Xi/T Thfral-n Stx««t.
DKNISON......TEXAS.
Plana, Specification* and Estimate* mad* with
Bond. ,
Charges reasonable. Correspondence solicited.
DAN WEBSTER,
INSURANCE AGENT,
A Shat* of the Local Botlaam Selicited.
Hipristzts Yea# But First-CUis Comptaiui.
OfYtco 184 Main St.. Denison.
J. L. DUNCAN,
(Successor to Lvctiuvs Paicm.)
—DRUGGIST—
Headquarters for Kverylhing iu the Drug Lioe.
Palate, Oila, Slut k Patty, Specialtiaa.
No. aa, Male Street.
DENISON, • - TEXAS.
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ini State Secnlarizatioi.
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/*td/« and dcntlfmem:
In the greatest tragedy that has ever
been written by man—in the fourth scene
of the third act—is the beat prayer that I
have ever read; and when 1 aav “the
greatest tragedy,” everybody tamiliar with
Shakspcre will know that I refer to “King
Lear.” After he has been on the heath,
touched with Insanity, coming suddenly
to the place of shelter, he says:
I will pray first, aud then I will sleep.
And this prayer is my text:
Poor naked wretches, wbereroe'er you arc.
That bide the pelting ol this pititem Worm,
Haw shall year unhoused head., your unfed
sldw£.
Your looped aad windowed mopredaesa, defend
From seasons such as this? Oh, I haw ta'en
Too little cam of thm. Take physic, pomp;
Kspouo Ihyai If to iael what Welch*, tael.
That thoa maytet akaka thcaaperflux to them,
Aad show the heaverj* more fu.t
That la one of the noMeet prayer* that
ever fell from human lips. If nobodV
has too much, everybody will have
enough!
I propose to say a few words upon .ob-
jects that are near to us all, and in which
every human being ought to be interested
—and if he is not, it may be that hi. wife
will be, it may be that hi. orphans will
be; and I would like to kc this world, at
last, so that a man could die and not feel
that he left his wife and children a prey
to the greed, the avarice, or the necessi-
ties of mankind. There is something
wrong in our government where they
who do the moat have the least. There is
something wrong, when honesty wear. *
rag, and rascality a robe; when the lot
Ing, the tender, eat a crust, while the in-
famous sit at the banquets. I cannot do
much, l>ut I can at least sympathize with
those who suffer. There Is one thing
that we should remember at the start, and
I can only teach you that, to-night —
unless you know It already—I shall con-
sider the tew words I may have to aay a
wonderful success.
1 want you to remember that everybody
Is as he must be. I want you to get out
of your minds the old nonsense of “free
moral agency;” then you will have charity
fur the whole human race. When you
know that they are not responsible for
their dispositions, any more than for their
bight; not responsible for their acts, any-
more than they are for their dreams;
when you finally understand the philoso-
phy that everything exists as an efficien t
cause, and that the lightest fancy that
ever fluttered its painted wings in the
horizon of hope was as necessarily pro-
duced as the planet that In its orbit wheel*
about the sun—when you get to under-
stand this, I believe you will have charity
for all mankind.
Wealth is not a crime; poverty is not a
virtue—although the virtuous have gen-
erally been poor There is only one good,
and that is human happiness; and he
only is a wise man who makes himself
happy.
I have heard all my lile about self-
denial There never was anything more
idiotic than that. No man who does
right practices self-denial. To do right is
the bud and blossom and fruit of wisdom.
To do right should always be dictated by
the highest possible selfishness. No man
practices self-denial unless he does wrong.
To inflict an* injury upon yourself is an
act ot selt-denial. To plant seeds that
will forever bear the fruit of joy, is not
an act of selt-denial. So this idea of do-
ing good to others only for their sake is
absurd. You want to do it, not simply
for their sake, but tor your own; because
perfectly civilized man can never be
perfectly happy while there is one un-
happy being in this univeise.
Let us take another step. The barbaric
world was rewarded for acting sensibly.
They were promised rewards in another
world, if they would only have self-denial
enough to be virtuous in this. If they
would forego the pleasures of larceny and
murder; if they would forego the thrill
and bliss of meanness here, they would
be rewarded hereafter for that self-denial.
I have exactly the opposite idea. Do
right, not to deny yourself, but because
you love yourself and because you love
others. Be generous, because it is better
for you. Be just, because any other
course is the suicide of the soul. Who-
ever does wrong plagues himself, and
when he reaps that harvest, he will find
that he was not practicing self-denial
when he did right.
Now, then, as I say, if you want to be
happy yourself, It you are truly civilized,
you want others to be happy. Every man
-ought, to the extent of his ability, to in-
crease the happiness of mankind, for the
reason that that will increase his own.
No one can be really prosperous unless
those with whom he lives share the sun*
shine and the joy.
The first thing a man wants to know
and be sure of is when he has got enough.
Most people imagine that the rich are in
heaven, but, as a rule, it is gilded hell.
There is not a man in the city of New
York wtlh genius enough, with brains
enough, to own five millions ot dollars.
Why? The money will own him. He
becomes the key to a safe. That monsa
will get him up at daylight; that money
will separate him from his friends; that
money will hll his heart with fear; that
money will rob his davs of sunshine and
his uights of pleasant dreams. He can-
not own it. He becomes the property of
thatYfioncy. Ar.d he goes right On mak-
ing more. What tor? He does not know.
It becomes a kind Of insanity. No one
is happier in a palace than in a cabin. I
love to see a log house. It is associated
in my mind always with pure, unalloyed
happiness. It is the only house in the
world that looks as though it had no
mortgage on it. It looks as if you could
spend there long, tranquil autumn days;
the air filled with serenity; no trouble,
no thoughts about notes, about interest—
nothing of the kind; just breathing free
air, watching the hollyhocks, listening to
the birds and to the music of the spring
that comes like a poem from the earth.
It is an insanity to get more than you
want. Imagine a man in this city, an in-
telligent man, sav with two or three mil-
lions of coats, eight or ten millions of
hats, vast warehouses full of shoes, bil-
lions of neckties, and imagine that man
getting up at four o’clock in the morning,
in the rain and snow and steet, working
like a dog all day to get another necktie!
Is not that exactly what the man of twen-
ty or thirty millions, of of five millions,
does to-day? Wearing his life out that
somebody may say, “How rich he is!”
What can he do with the surplus? Noth-
ing. Can he eat it? No. Make triends?
No. Purchase flattery and lies? Yes.
Make all his poor relations hate him?
Yes. And then, what worry! Annoyed,
his poor little brain inflamed, you see in
the morning paper, “Died of apoplexy.”
This man finally began to worry for fear
he would not have enough to live clear
through.
Bo we ought to teach our children that
great wealth is a curse. Great wealth is
the mother also of crime. On the other
hand are the poor. And let me ask, to-
night, Is the world lorever to remain as it
was when Lear made his prayer? Is it
ever to remain as it is now? I hope not.
Are there always to be millions whose
lips are white with famine? Is the with-
ered palm to be always extended, implor-
ing trora the stony heart of respectable
charity, alma? Must every man who sits
down to a decent dinner always think of
the starving? Must everyone sitting by
he fire*idOjdhink|
with a chil« strained
ing in the storm ?.
rich always to
—not only Si fact,
that division is growing more and more
every day. The gull between Laxarus
and Dives widens year by year, only their
positions are changed—Lazarus is in hell,
Dives is in the bosom .ot Abraham.
And there is one thing th|t helps to
widen this gulf. In
the United States yo
ionable part, and t
poor know nothing
part, except the outside splendor; and as i
they go by the palaces, that poison plant ,
Tffilnd ewvy springs and grows in their ;
poer hearts. The rich know nothing of
the
wretc
Pol
Gdd
T*ir
VVr'-ti*1 p', and the hearts
wigh envy and hatred
thousands or millions. I have owned a
of the others
There must be
some way devised for the rich and poor
to get acquainted. The poor do not
know how many- well-dressed people sym-
pathize with them, and
know how many nobii
neath rags. If we can etler get ike
poor acquainted with life kVIR^itJlijhi^
rich, this question will be nearly solved.
In a hundred other ways they are divid-
ed. If anything should bring mankind
together it ought to lie a common belief.
In Catholic|^:ounMies thatgydoes^av
softening influence ipou th<* rich Sid up-
on the poor. They .IMRcve the w-ifte. So
in Mohammedan :i£ountlfie|g they can
kneel in the same mosque, and prav to the
same God But how is it with us? The
church i« not free. There is no welcome
in the velvet tor the rags Poverty does
not feel at home there, and the conse-
quence is, the rich and Door are kept
apart, even by their religion. I am not
saying anything against religion. I am
noton that question; but I would think
more of any religion, provided that even
for one day in the week, or for one hour
in the day, it allowed wealth to clasp the
hand of poverty and to have, tor one mo-
ment even, the thrill of genuine triend-
ship.
In the olden times, in barbaric life, it
was a simple thing to get a living. A little
hunting, a little fishing, pulling a little
fruit, and digging for roots—all simple;
and they were nearly all on an equality,
and comparatively there were fewer .fail-
ures. Living has at last become complex.
All the avenues are filled with men snug-
gling for the accomplishment ot the same
thing.
Emulation hath s thousand sons that
One bv one pursue; end it vou hedge from
The direct forthright, they, like an entered tide.
All sweep by and leave you hindmost. Or. like
A gallant horse, fallen iu the front rank.
You become pavement for the abiectrcar.
The struggle is so hard. And just ex-
actly as we have risen in the scale of be-
ing, the per cent, of failures has increas-
ed. It is so that all men are not capable
ot getting a living. They have not cun-
ning enough, intellect enough, muscle
enough—they are not strong enough.
They are too generous or they are too
negligent; and then some people seem to
have what is called “bad luck”—that is to
say, when anything falls, they are under
it; when anything bad happens, it hap-
pens to them.
And now there is another trouble. Just
as life becomes complex and ax everyone
is trying to accomplish certain objects, all
the ingenuity of the brain is at work to
get there by a shorter way, and, in con-
sequence, thi- has become an age of in-
vention. Myriads of machines have been
invented—every one ot them to save labor.
these machines helped the laborer,
what a blessing they would be! But the
laborer does notown the machine; the
machine owns him. Thut is the trouble.
In the olden time, when I was a boy,
even, you know how it was in the little
towns. There was a shoemaker—two of
them—a tailor or two, a blacksmith, a
wheelwright. I remember just how the
shops used to look. I used to go to the
blacksmith shop at night, get up on the
forge, and hear them talk about turning
horse-shoes. Many a night have I seen
the sparks fly and heard the stories that
were told. There was a great deal of
human nature in those days! Everybody
was known. If times got hard, the poor
little shoemakers made a living mending,
half-soling, straightening up the heels.
The same with the blacksmith; the same
with the tailor. They could get credit—
they did not have to pay till the next
january, and it they could not pay then,
they took another year, and they were
happy enough. Now, one man is not a
shoemaker. There is a great building—
several hundred thousand dollars’ worth
ot machinery, three or four thous-
and people—not a single mechanic in the
whole building. One sews on straps, an-
other greases the machines, cuts out
soles, waxes threads. And what is the
result? When the machines stop, three
thousand men are out of employment.
Credit goes. Then come want and
famine, and if they happen to have a little
child die, it would take them years to
save enough of their earnings to pay the
expense of putting away that little sacred
piece of flesh. And yet, by this machin-
ery we can produce enough to flood the
world. By the inventions in agricultural
machinery the United States can feed ail
the mouths upon the earth. There is not
a thing that man uses that can not in-
stantly be-over-proiftseecl to such an ex-
tent as to become almost worthless; and
yet, with all this production, with all this
power to create, there are millions and
millions in abject want. Graneries burst-
ing, and famine looking into the doors of
the poor! Millions of everything, and
yet millions wanting everything and hav-
ing substantially nothing!
Now, there is something wrong there.
We have got into that contest between
machines and men, and if extravagance
does not keep pace with ingenuity, it is
going to be the most terrible question that
man has ever settled. I tell you, to-night,
that these things are worth thinking
about. Nothing that touches the future
ot our race, nothing that touches the
happiness of ourselves or our children,
should be beneath our notice. We should
think of these things—must think of
tiiem—and we should endeavor to see
that justice is finally done between man
and man.
- My sympathies are with the poor. My
sympathies are with the workingmen of
the United States Understand me dis-
tinctly I am not an Anarchist. Anarchy |
is the reaction from tyranny. I am qot a ,
Socialist. I am not a Communist I am |
an Individualist. I do not believe in I
tyranny of government, but I do believe
in justice as between man and man.
What is the remedy? Or, wiiat we think
ot—for do not imagine that I think I
know. It is an immense, an almost in-
finite, question, and all we can do is to
guess. You have heard a great deal lately
upon the land subject. Let me say a
word or two upon that. |n the first place
I do not want to take, and I would not
take, an inch of land from any human
being that belonged to him. If we ever
that there would be an American Air-
bottling Association? And don’t you
know that they would allow thousands
and millions to die for want ot breath, it
they could not pay for air? 1 am not
|Haiq|pg anybody. I am just telling how
land belongs to the chil-
Naturc invites every
1 into this world. And
what would you think ot me, for instance,
to-night, it I had invited you here—no-
body had charged you anything, but you
had been invited—and when you got
here you had found one man pretending
hundred seats, another fitly,
seventy-five, and thereupon
pelied to stand up—what
Ink of the invitation? It
t every child of nature is
entitled to his share ot the land, and that
he should not be compelled to beg the
privilege to work the soil, of a babe that
happened to be born before him. And
why do I say this? Because it is not to
^ur interest tuyhave a tew landlords and
the enemy of
the enemy
of patriotism. Home is where the vir-
tues grow. I would like to see the law so
that every home, to a small amount,
should be tree not only from sale for debts,
from tax-
could i|pve a
nation of
|Friot^S
Now suppose that nueiy man were to
have all the land he is able to buy. The
Vanderbilts could bny to-day all the land
that is in farms in the state ol Ohio—ev-
ery foot of it. Would It be tor the best
interests of that state to have a few land-
lords and four or five millions of serfs ? So
I am in favor of a law finally to be carried
out—not by robbery, bnt by compensa-
tion, under the right, as the lawyers call
it, of eminent domain—so that no person
would be allowed to own more land than
he uses. I am not blaming these rich
men for being rich. I pity the most of
them. I had rather be poor, with a little
sympathy in my heart than to be rich as
all the mines of earth and not have that
little flower of pity in my breast. I do
not see how a man can have hundreds ot
millions and pass every day people that
have not enough to eat. I do not under-
stand it. I presume I would be just the
same wav mvself. There is something in
money that dries up the source of affec-
tion, and the probability is, it is this: the
moment a man gets money, so many
men are living to get it away from him
that in a little while he regards the whole
human race as his enemy, and he gener-
ally thinks they could be rich too, if they
would onlv attend to their business as he
has. Understand, l am not blaming these
people. There is a good deal of human
nature in us ail. You remember the
story ot the man who made a speech at a
Socialist inerting, and closed it by say-
ing, “Thank God, I am no monopolist,”
but as he sank to his seat said, “Bitf I
wish to the Lord I was!” We must re-
member that these rich men are naturally
produced. Do not- blame them. Blaine
the svstein’
Certain privileges have been granted to
the tew by the government, ostensibly
for the benefit of the many; and whenev-
er that grant is not for the good of the
many, it should be taken from the few—
not by force, not by robbery, but by esti-
mating fairly the value ot that property,
and paying to them its value; because
everything should be done according to
law, and in order.
What remedy, then, is there? First,
the great weapon in tms country is the
ballot. Each voter is a sovereign. There
the poorest are in the majority in this
country. If there is any law that oppress-
es them, it is their fault. They have
followed the fite and drum of some party.
They have been misled by others. No
man should go an inch with a party—no
matter if that party is half the world and
has in it the greatest intellects of the
earth—unless that party is going his way.
No honest man should ever turn round
and join anything. If it overtakes him,
good. But do not go with anything that
is not going your way; no matter wheth-
er they call it Republican, or Democrat,
or Progressive Pemocracy—do not go
with it unless it goes your way.
The ballot is the power. The law
should settle these questions—between
capital and labor—many of them; but I
expect the greatest good to come trom
civilization, from the growth of a sense
of justice: for I tell you, to-night, a civ-
ilized man will never want anything tor
less than It Is worth—a civilized man,
when he sells a thing, will never want
more than it is worth—a really and truly
civilized man would rather be cheat-
ed than to cheat. And yet, in the
United States, good as we are, nearly
"everybody wants to get everything for a
little less than it is worth, and the man
that sells it to him wants to get a little
more than it is worth, and this breeds
rascality on both sides. That ought to
be done away with. There is one step
toward it'ffiat we will take: we will finally
sav that human flesh, human labor, shall
not depend entirely on “supply and de-
mand.’’ That is infinitely cruel. Every
man should give to another according to
his ability to give—and enough that he
may make his living and lay something
by for the winter of old age
Go to England. Civilized corntry they
pall it. It is not. It never was. 1 am
atraid i; never will be, Go to London,
the greatest city of this world, where there
is the most wealth—the greatest glittering
piles ot gold. And, yet, one out of every
six in that city dies in a hospital, a work-
house, or a prison. Is that the best that
we are ever to know? Is that the last
word that civilization has to say? Look
at the women in this town sewing for a
living, making cloaks that sell for $45,
tor less than forty-five cents? Right
here—-here, amid ah the palaces, amid
the thousands of millions of proper-
ty—here! Is that ail that civilisation can
do? Must a poor woman support herself
or her child, or her children, by that kind
of labor, and do we call ourselves civil-
ized? Did you ever read that wonderful
poem about the sewing woman? Let me
tell you the last verse:
Winds that have sainted her, tell ye the story
Ot the young life by the needle that bled.
Making s bridge aver death’s soundless water*
Oat of a swaying, soul-catting thread—
Ovsr it going, all the world knowing
That thousands have trod it, loot-bleeding,
before:
Gag protect all a* as, should she look back
From the opposite shore!
I cannot call this civilization.^ There
must be something nearer a fairer division
in this world.
You can never get it by strikes- Never.
The first strike that is a g-ieat success
will be the last strike, because the people
who believe in law and order will put it
down when they think it approaches suc-
cess. It is no remedy- Boycotting is no
remedy. Brute force is no remedy. This
has got to be settled by reason, by can-
dor, by intelligence, by kindness; and
lap
fcg-lhat (WMwW'Wt air
and take it—do not rob anybody. When-
ever any man advocates justice, and rob-
bery a* tf;e means, I sqspept hiip.
No man should be allowed to own any
land that he does not use. Everybody
knows that—I do not care whether he has
take It, we must pay tor it—condemn it j nothing is permanently settled in this
world that has not for its corner stone
justice, and is not protected by the pro-
found conviction of the human mind.
This is no eountry tor Anarchy, no
country for Communism, no country for
the Socialist. Why? Because the polit-
ical power Is equally divided. What other
reason? Speech is free. What other?
The press is untrainmeied. Aud that is
all that the right should ever ask—a free
press, tree speech, and the protection of
person. That i* enough. That is ail I
ask. la a country like Russia, where
every mouth is a bastiie and every tongue
a convict, there fur be some excuse
Where the noblest and the best are driven
to Siberia, there may be a reason for
the Nihilist. In a country where no man
is allowed to petition for redress, there is
a reason, but not here.,~ This—say what
you will against it—thu ja the best gov-
ernment ever founded ify the human
Tswrattl ot parties, **y
tv*, The holiest
air is oursi*
Only a few years ago morally we were
a low people—before we abolished slave-
ry—but now, when there is «*c- chain
except that of custom, when every man
has an apportunitr, this is the grandest
government of the eaath. There is
hardly a man in the United States to-day
of any importance, whos/voice anybody
cares to hear, who was not nursed at the
loving breast at poverty. Look at the
children of the ricq. My God, what a
punishment for being rich! So, what-
ever happen*, let every man say that this
government aad this form of government,
shall stand.
“But,”4 sav some, “these workingmen
are dangerous.” I deny it. We are all
in ffieir flower. They run all the cars.
Our lives are in their hands almost every
day. They are working in all our homes.
They do the labor of this world. We are
all at their mercy, and yet they do not
commit more crimes, according to nura- ■
ber, than the rich. Remember that. I
am not afraid of tnem. Neither am I
afraid ot the monopolist, because, under?
our institutions, when they become hurt-
ful to the genera! good, the people will
stand it }ust to a certain point, and then
conies the end—not in anger, not in hate,
but from a love of liberty and justice.
Now, we have in this country another
cla>s. We call them “criminals.” Let
me take another step. It is not enough
to raise the teeble up. We must support
them after. Recollect what I said in the
first place—that every man is as he must
be. Every crime is a necessary product.
The seeds were all sown, the land
thoroughly plowed, the crop well attended
to, and carefully harvested. Every crime
is borne of necessity. If you want less
ertnie, you must change the conditions.
Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts,
failure, misfortune—all these awake the
wild beast in man, and tinalh he takes,
and takes contrary to law, and becomes a
criminal. And what do you do with
him? You punish him. Why not punish
a man for having the consumption? The
time will come when you will see that
this is jqst Us, logical. What do you do
with the criminal? You send him to the
penitentiary. Is he made better? Worse.
The first thing you do is to try to tram-
ple out his manhood, by putting an
indignity upon him. You mark him.
You put him in stripes. At night you
put him in darkness His feeling for re-
venge grows You make a wild beast ot
him, and he comes out of that place
btanded in body and soul, and then you
won’t let him reform it he wants to.
You put on airs above him, because he
has been in the penitentiary. The next
time you try to put on airs over a con-
vict, let roe beg of vou to do one thing.
Maybe you are not as bad as I am, but do
Orte thing, think of all the crimes you
have wanted to commit; think of all the
crimes you would have committed if you
had had an opportunity; think of all the
temptations to which you wonld have
yielded had nobody been looking; and
then put your hand on your heart and
say whether yon can justly look with
scorn and contempt even upon a convict.
None but the noblest should inflict pun-
ishment, even on the basest. Society
has no right to punish any man in
revenge—no right to punish any man
except for two objects—one the preven-
tion of crime; the other, the reformption
ot the criminal, flow can yqu reform
him? Kindness is the sunshine in whic
virtue grows. Let it be understood by
these men that there is no revenge: let it
be understood, too, that they can reform.
Only a little while ago I read ot a case
of a vouug man who had been in a pen-
itentiary and came out. He kept it a
secret- and went to work for a farmer,
tie got in love-with the daughter, and
wanted to meriy her. He had nobility-
enough to tell the truth—he told the
father he had been in the penitentiary.
The father said, “You cannot have my
daughter, because it would stain her
life.” The young man said, “Yes, it
would stain her llte, therefore I will not
marry her.” He went out. In a few
moments afterward they heard the report
of a pistol, and he was dead. He left
ust a little note, saying; “I am through.
There is no need of my living longer,
when I stain with my life the ones I
love.” And vet we call our society civil-
ized. There is a mistake.
I want that question thought of. I
want all tn-v fellow-citizens to think of tt.
I want you to do what you can to do away
with all unnecessary crueltv. There are,
of course, some cases that have to be
treated with what might be called almost
cruelty; but if there is the smallest seed
ot good in any human heart, let kind-
ness fall upon it until It grows, and in
that way I know, and so do you, that the 1
world will get better and better day by j
lav
Let us, above all things, get acquaint-
ed with each other. Let every man teach
his son, teach his daughter, that labor is
honorable. Let us teach our children:
it is your business to see that you never
become a burden on others. Your first
duty is to take care of yourself, and if
there is a surplus, with that surplus help
your teliow-man; that you owe It to
yourself above all things not to be a bur-
den upon others. Teach your son that it
is his duty not pnlv, but his highest joy,
to become a hotise-builder, a home-owner.
Teach your children that bv the fire-side
is the real and true happiness of this
world. Teach them that whoever is an
idler, whoever lives upon the labor of
others, whether he is a pifate or a king,
is a dishonorable person. Teach them
that no civilized man wants anything tor
nothing, or for less than it is worth; that
he wants to go through this world paying
his way as he goes, and if he gets a little
ahead, an extra joy, it should be divided
with another, if that other is doing some-
thing for himself. Help others help
themselves.
And let us teach that great wealth is
not great happiness; that money will not
purchase love: it never did and never can
purchase respect; it never did and never
can purchase the highest happiness. I
believe with Robert Burns:
If happiness have not her seat
And center in the breast,
■We msv be wise, or rich, or great.
But never can be blest.
We must teach this, and let our fellow-
citizens know that we give them every
right that we claim for ourselves. We
must discuss these questions and have
charity, and we wilt have it whenever we
have the philosophy that all men are as
they must be, and that intelligence and
kindness are the only levers capable of
• raising mankind
’ Then there is another thing. Let each
one be trne to himself. No matter what
his class, no matter what his circnm-
starices, let him tell his thought. Don’t
let his class bribe him. Don’t let him
talk like a banker because he is a banker.
Don't let him talk like the rest of the
merchants because he is a merchant.
Let him be true to the human race in-
stead of to his little business—be true to
the, ideal in his heart and brain, instead
of to his little present and apparent sel-
fishness, not a narrow and ignozant
one.
go far as I am concerned, I have made
up my mind that no organization, secular
or religious, shall own me. I have made
up my mind that no necessity of bread,
or roof, or raiment shall ever put a pad-
lock on my tips. I have made up my
mind that no hope, no preferment, no
honor, no wealth, shall ever make me tor
one moment swerve from what I really
believe, no matter whether it is to rav
immediate interest, as one would think
or not. And while I live, I am going to
do what little I can help to my fellow-
men who have not been as fortunate as I
have been. I shall talk on their side, I
shall vote on their side, and do what little
I can to convince men that happiness
does not lie in the direction of great
wealth, but in the direction ot achieve-
ment for the good of themsel es and
for the good of their fellow-men. I shall
tjo what little I can to hasten the
day when this earth shall be covered with
homes, and when by the fire side of the
world shall sit happv fathers and mothers
and children.
18301I SWTITS SPECIFIC. 11 !1886\
sjsjs
SB'S
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s,s,s
A REMEDY HOT FOR A DAY, BUT FOR
M- HALF A CEHTDRY
RELEEYEHG SUFFERIHG HT7KAMITYI
S.S.S.
AN INTCRCSTINa TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT
TO ALL APPLICANTS. IT SHOULD DC SCAD DT EVCNYDODV.
ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. SA.
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
PAUL VERKIN S
■AJE2T STCTPXO.
to xe. a., esmsw.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Of All Styles aud Sizes Made.
Give Me a Trial When You Want Good Pictures.
ATERtGAS
TEE FUTURE FUEL.
No Wick. No Smoke. No Odor. No Ashes.
No Wood. No Kindling. No Noise. No Soot,
No Soot. No Labor. No Danger.
f hi Walt? Sai lirni?
Is a simple device for using any grade of Petroleum and Kerosene Oil, combined with superheated
ste’tm to make and burn Water Gas. Thev are made in nine different sues, from a to jo inches
end can be placed in anv Range, Heating or Cook Stove, Furnace, Grate or Boiler, and by
decomposing water and oil, a perfect combustion is obtained and a cheaper aad better
Are is made than can be obtained trom anv other fuel. IT IS A GREAT
SAVING WJOMB ANPJLABOB
And so simple that a child can run it The fire is under perfect control, the same as illuminating
gas, is lighted and extinguished as easily. These is no smoke or odor as from Coal Gas, Kero-
sene or Gasoline stoves. There are no ashes, soot or noise, and a more even temperature
be obtained than trom any other fuel. You can have as much or little fire as desired sim-
ply turning the valve. We use no wick or kindling. For broiling it la far superior
to either coal or wood and will cook ia one half the time. The Board of Under-
writers of the principal cities have examined our device and pronounce it the
safest way ot burning Kerosene and make no extra charge for insurance.
County Rights for Sale in Texas!
Machine** furnished dealer, direct from our tectory, in any quantity deal red. Addresa all
communications to
O. Sox @30,
Tens Wits 61$ Heating and Mfg. Go.,
3DX32^risoar.
No. lli% Main 8tr<i«t, -
G L. GIERSA’S
Grocery Store
Every Tuesday and Friday.
Leave Your Orders.
ALSO TEX BEST ASSOBTHENT OF STAPLE
AND FANCY OBOCEB1XS IN THE
CITY TO SELECT PEON. ,
FRESH OYSTERS IN SEPTEMBER.
AOrBEXXlfBSS 9EIBSA,8'Wl
- - DKNISON, TKXAS.
. CUB6EST STOCK 1 LOWEST PRICES
bestassobtweut i
Dinted rasir<s;5
a
UNDER THE OPERA BOOSE
NO, 223 MAIN ST„ DENISON, TEXAS
Utmimm
Is prepared solely for tbs CURB of
Complaints which afflict nearly «v*cy
Woman in all classes of society.
By giving tone and strength to tbs
Uterine functions It correct*
ALL DISPLACEMENTS AND KttDHANmCS,
amoRzouilds amo Renews th* •versa*
It Is of greet Talus in Change of Life.
Its use, during Pregnancy, grossly
relieves the pains of labor, Insuring a
speedy recovery. Pleasant to taste it
maybe taken at all times with safety.
DOCTORS PRESCRIBE IT FM ALL DISEASES
PECULIAR TO WOMEN.
W. J. Lemp’s Agency.
-THIS—
Favorite Draught and Bottled Beer
ALWAYS OUST THJLN1D.
-Northern : Lake : Ice-
Depot on Woodard St.. Near Houston Are.
SAM’L. HANNA.
A. F. FLATTER.
K. E. WAPLKS
UMk PLATTER i WAPLES,
ESTABLISHED, 1878,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
NOS. 86,88, 90, 92, MAIN RESIT,
BBiliftl, ■ TBIAS.
A. B. JOHNSON,
t ' r
MERCHANT TAILOR
No. 114 Main
Goods and Patterns of the Very Latest
Special Attention Giykn to Cutting of Garments.
A. PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED.
Tlxe IDenison 2u£ea.t Ibdlebxlcet,
I*. «T. QUINN, Proprietor.
THE PIONEER BUTCHER OF DENISON,
FIRST ESTABLISHED IN iS7>.
Keep Constantly an Hand a Cbatoe Lot at "Mm
Etc., and all kinds at Game in l
QUINN ha* a mas ia hi* employ who.....
• Oud ulfauStm
ON FLU!
DEALERS IN
-jPlumbers’. •.
/ Gas, Water and
-A. INI
STEAM ENGINE
Valves, Lead Pipes, Circulating
W atei^Cloffiefcv Hydrums,
suituy
Office it
Street
8UK A.R. COLUNS. Ai
D«iito JaffMW
Otter far tale.
FRUIT AND CARDEN
TM* tract he. bam aabdfoHad iato Mock. ,,f <. ,0. «, aad^o m-r.., I
adjoining a Uva «
r of l.^no people, with heat of
1 will he shown the 1
A. M. COLLINS, Amt.
BROWN & Hi
-PROPRIETOR* 1
m —
_ KEEP THE BEST QUALITY OP
FINE WINES AND
-ALSO A CHOICE LINK Ol
Foreign and Domestic Cigars
B. N. CAR'
Anheuser - Busch
ASSOCIATION,
' Aad WkolMsl* aad 1*UU Bate la
NORTHERN LANK
Oflo* aad WhAnm Earth of X*. FaeUU ]
a. IIA K RIM AN.
Harriman &
-TTNDERTj
Eeep on hand
Telegraph order, promptly .tended to. Order, from T.rritery w
Iciephone Connection at Mr. Harriman’. Hevidence. Alao at the
Rennie Building, Hu.k Ave., Between J
‘ * end Main Streets,
Woodard 1
DENIS
S. 33. morb:
(8uooe*aor to WELSH BROS.)
Dealer in Coffins and Burial
Metallic Coffins,
*rir~Embalming a
xsrjtessc?®';
attention.
, Telephone Cl ______
place of Beninese or la
Stable.
*0.821 Mala M., 0y». I
MEN’S Ac LADIES’ ROBES A BURIAL
Wkotonl* and 1*UU Loaior la
Liquors, Brandies and Wines,
No. 817 Main Street. DKNISON.
m
* W. A. HALLENBECK *
PKOPHIKTOB 07 THE
-HcGATE CITY BAKER]
Alao Dealer in FINE CONFECTION^
ERY, FRUITS, NUTS, NOTIONS
AND CAKE ORNAMENTS.
309 2k*ffi.laa St..
McDOUGALL HOTE1
J. B. McDOUGALL & CO.. Proprietors,
IDenieon.,
This Hotel, just opened, is located at the Junction of the Mo. P. and H. S T.
C. Railroad., but n step trom the Depot, and it supplied with all the modem im-
provement. of a Ant-cliu hotel. All the rooms are Well furnished and carp ’ted,
and have perfect ventilation; water i* elevated by Hearn to every floor, and tie
tables are acknowledged to he the best supplied ol any house in the
fk* Ftm Hittnnl Ink,
DENISON, TEXAS.
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO COLLECTIONS.
W. B. MUNSON,
J. T. MUNSON,
EDWARD PERRY,
Vloe
W. B. MUNSON,
JOHN SCULLTN,
J. T. MUNSON, V. V.
JOHN R. CARR.
HOWARD PERRY.
J. K JOHNSON, Pres.
SAM HANNA. Viee-Pres.
WILMOT I
llftti laKsasl Bask,
Authorised Capti&l,
Paid Up Capital,
Surplus Fund,
OF DENISON.
ALEXANDER RENNIE, W. C. TIGNOR, A. W. ACHRSON,
A. R. COLLINS, SAMUEL HANNAy __WILMOT OAKOER,
Transact a General Banking
DEPOT * EXCHAlSTl
G. BRAUN, Proprietor.
Near Union Dspot, Main Street, - - DENISON, TEXAS.
Everything New and First-Class. Bar Supplied'
Finest Winks, Liquors, Etc., to be found
in the world.
Drop in and pass a few minutes while waiting for
~ GkT
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DENISON. t c
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