Show 66 MORALS KORAL AND MANHOOD they do ao not kot depend upon we alth there is a class of aspirants to geni tilita who refuse t to recognize any person SO not dressed in the style which they suppose fashio fashionable nab le among the higher classes A story Is told of a wealthy gla glasgow glagow gow brewers wife who attired in all the magnificence of ker her eat eagins 1 0 lace and jewelry was driving out in her carriage one day in the vicinity of balmoral A quiet lady clad claca in a plain ging gingham liam dress and gray shawl was g gathering a boquet of wild flowers in inthe the hedge and as the carriage passed by wished the occupant a pleasant good morning to which the brewers wife answered by a eon con afterwards learned to her great mortification that she had bad thus lost au opportunity of forming an acquaint atice with queer victoria vicioria so a large class assume to bo be tile the exponents of virtue integrity loyalty etc who refuse to recognize ma manhood il hood or morals unless they are decked in the glare and ana lin of wealth well it may be that we ha e not read history correctly but then we do remember some facts which all admit to be true for example croesus Cio Cic esus the rich king of lydia does not see seem in to nave bave had as much wisdom or manhood nanh as the humbler solon rome kome lad bad the spoils of nations the trophies of wars for or a thousand yeats years As lon long as she retained simplicity of man manners liers so long she prospered when her soldiers became pampered and ruined by the spoils of conquest and her citizens enervated by luxury then she lost her manhood and morals and frill fell an easy prey to the goths goehs and vandals in modern history we find other illustration spain at one time was a very rich nation Dation but she does dees not seem to have been at that tine preeminent pre eminent for either morals or manhood on the erhand oth the nations that spain despised des def for their poverty have shown a manhood which has enabled them to overcome great obstacles and aad far excel in moral force intellectual colure culture ure c commercial in erceal importance import aice and political power even the land of the haughty aughty castilian a we never read that toe he vast wealth which spain obtained from mexico and Peru through the inhuman hatcheries but cheries of corti corta zau zand d pizarro really increased tile the morality tv or the manhood of the span spaniards ads on the other hand band we find tha w wealth adivi corrupted her politics e enervated her citizens and brutalized her soldiery similar effects have been visible in our own land those sections where wealth has been produced with wit lithe the least exertion have been noted bior for the lowest morals morale the least mental a ac C and the fewest useful inventions while those regions where tile the so soil is rocky and sterile where the fierce winds blow and where the boys sometimes freeze their fingers getting the kindling wood are tile the very spots where have been cradled a large proportion of the great men of our land if we turn to individual cases this idea is still more strikingly illustrated whence e come the great lights of the moral world the philanthropists philanthropist the reformers the giants of progress not from the dwellings of the rich I 1 why all the philanthropists who were born wealthy whom the world has ever seen could be counted on oil the fingers shelby te Is us of certain poets that they I 1 are cradled into poetry by wro wrong ng they learn in suffering what they teach in song A similar sentiment might be expressed concerning reformers look at john B ao rough gh pleading with impassioned pass boned eloquence eloquent e a aganet ainest the demon alcohol that had well nigh ruined him see fred douglass the emancipated slave 1 spending hi in behalf of his easla enslaved veo race on the other band boss tweed corrupting tte the pol politics itice of tile the empire state james fisk demoralizing agizi the young ruen men of new york by the ii influence bence of his wealth and the examples of his debaucheries debau cheries are ill illustrations us trat ions of the evil tendencies of some isome of those who possess wealthy wealth allurements Allure ments are on every side ready to entice our konug men ambition Is one it points to the summit of power and men join with the struggling combatants tor for doral dominion luion 14 1 looks over bright fields and wide stretched continents tinen ts restless till it all victories give it strength the walls walla ol of acre increase its futy fury and the flames of moscow do not humble bumble it bends the ear to tile the siren voiced gales of applause and intoxicated intoxicates the mind with the martial notes of fame but the sea blasts that howl around the lonely rock of st helena are a funeral wall wail to warn us of its delusions and the voice of a cardinal woolsey echoes in ta tG under tones 1 I charge thee put away ambition 11 pleasure also alco lures and after each draught the tae thirst increases to a fiery rao rage g e the victim drinks draughts that common millions might have quenched then dies of thirst because there is no more to drink Is it necessary to add to these allure ments and tt 11 our young men that their morals and their manhood will be in proportion 0 the amount of money they possess why such a statement is an insala to the fathers of our country try the pilgrims reaping a scanty sustenance on the rocky soil boil of new england franklin an almanac and selling rags ink and soap for a livelihood Jac jackson kEon toilie in early days tor for the necessaries of life lincola in 18 fifee parly early TJ davson of iliad I 1 j anda and a th thoua known to th thea v not very morals depend epeldi 1 was it t the ae r rici I 1 I 1 4 an fort 11 in I 1 1861 86 le and I 1 pert perilea periled led nation S fashionable ildi ladice saratoga who f twi sanitary commit I 1 like ike angels of i of the wounded the case we have bavett do remember that the huard hud hundreds rd of th farms and work themselves tbt a living 3 nations defense f art endure wedora we do w women omen poor I 1 in a W wealth ive alth but rich iiii iii ig I ism sac rifled theire their eaf itself to assuage theat atie rounded and dying we know of no b better an ideal american stat pressed by sir willisa what constitutes a sta not high raised ib ba mound thick wall wal I 1 or 01 boated i N tot A cities proud crowned not bays and broad bi oad s where laughing at baries iia viB ride not stand and spangle W here hn e low browd bai furne fame to pride no nien men high min minded d acl nu with powers pott ers us as far A endued ensued in forest brake bi ake or den As beasts excel cold i rude lude men who their duties but know then their right maintain in all this we have nat t mation that mone money do with either ma manac 09 not the slightest a kalthof of the citi citizen greatness of the st staf wwilliam never lived IV slope he was only ill a did he know any |