. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . is such that if people in tins country attempt a cut-throat expedition, they will land in Sing Sing, or from thegallows go up on tight rope. I do not believe the people ofthis country will ever commit outrages and riot and murderfor the sake of getting bread. But all this lugubrosity oftone and face keeps people down. Now I will make a con-tract. If the people of the United States for one week willtalk cheerfully, I will open all the manufactories; I will giveemployment to all the unoccupied men and
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . is such that if people in tins country attempt a cut-throat expedition, they will land in Sing Sing, or from thegallows go up on tight rope. I do not believe the people ofthis country will ever commit outrages and riot and murderfor the sake of getting bread. But all this lugubrosity oftone and face keeps people down. Now I will make a con-tract. If the people of the United States for one week willtalk cheerfully, I will open all the manufactories; I will giveemployment to all the unoccupied men and women; I willmake a lively market for your real estate that is eating youup with taxes; I will stop the long processions on the wayto the poor-house and the penitentiary, and I will spread aplentiful table from Maine to California and from Oregon toSandy Hook, and the whole land shall carol and thunder CUKE OF FINANCES. 415 with national jubilee. But says some one: I will takethat contract; but we cant affect the whole nation. Myreaders, representing as you do all professions, all trades,. WENDELL PHILLIPS. and all occupations, if you should resolve never again toutter a dolorous word about the money markets, but bymanner and by voice and by wit and caricature, and above 416 CURE OF FINANCES. all by faith in God, to try to scatter this national .gloom, doyou not believe the influence would be instantaneous andwide-spread? The effect would be felt around the Gods sake, and for the sake of the poor and for thesake of the unemployed, quit growling. Depend upon it, ifyou men in comfortable circumstances do not stop complain-ing, God will blast your harvests, and see how you will getalong without a corn crop; and He will sweep you with floodsas he did Galveston; and He will devour you with grasshop-pers as He did Minnesota; and He will burn your city as Hedid Chicago. If you men in comfortable circumstances keepon complaining, God will give you something to complainabout.
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