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constitutional structure of coming genera- 
tions; for what right has this age to 
damn the forces of the unborn by this 
mad mortgaging of human forces? The 
rights of the sweater, the laboring lord 
of creation, for his share in the unpre- 
cedented accumulation of wealth, ‘The 
obligation of predatory wealth to make 
restitution not as a benevolence but as a 
stern duty, if not willingly then legally, 
until it has been taxed to a safe and sane 
figure on the financial wheel of fortune. 
---The eternal obilgation of the strong 
toward the weak, founded in moral in- 
tuitions as eternal as the Almighty. 
*“No higher and holier creeds than 
these were ever embodied in_ political 
creeds. And where, let me ask the 
skeptic and atheist, did these ideals orig- 
inate? Inthe spirit of the Divine Christ, 
the ever vital inspiration in the struggle 
for emancipation from oppression and 
tyranny whatever form it may assume. 
‘For these Christ ideals millions in 
all ages have bled and died and millions 
are ready today to lay themselves a liv- 
ing sacrifice on the alter. 
‘* Political creeds are secularized re- 
ligious ideals. “They are religious truths 
woven into the fabric of the state and 
cannot be separated therefrom without 
destroying the fabric. Eternal truth is 
the dictator of the world, the state is the 
servant. 
‘* The nations of the earth are falling 
in behind the redeemed flag of the Amer- 
ican Republic, until autocracies like Jap- 
an, Russia, and now even Turkey, keep 
step with the leadership of the world’s 
great Arbiter of Human Fate. This 
dominant christian democracy of the 
world means human salvation, or let this 
earth again float in space, chaotic with- 
out form and void.”’ 
Shakespearean Recitals. 
Attention is called to a course of three 
Shakespeare recitals, which will be given 
by Marshall Darrach, in Ames Memorial 
hall, Salem, on Wednesday evenings in 
November at 8.15 p. m, under the 
auspices of The Thought and Work 
club as follows: 
November 11, 
Errors.’’ 
November 18, “* Julius Czesar.”’ 
November 25, “‘ The Tempest.’’ 
The course tickets, admitting one 
person to three recitals, are for sale at 
$1.00, and may be obtained by address- 
ing Mrs. Emma A. Missud, 176 Federal 
street, or Mrs. Walter C. Harris 366 
Essex street, Salem. 
HC PAs 
A special meeting of the Essex 
County Poultry association will be held 
at 152 Cabot street, Beverly, “Tuesday 
evening, Nov. 3, at 8 o'clock in the 
evening, 
“The Comedy of. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE E!GHT- 
EENTH CENTURY 
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his relations to the Stella of his Journals 
and correspondence, to whom he is sup- 
posed to have been secretly married 
though it seems almost certain that she 
was never anything more than a nominal 
wife. It mav perhaps te suid that he was 
incapable of true love, and yet women 
seem to have been drawn to him> by 
some irre istible attraction. That they 
were perfectly virtuous, however unwise, 
and that he never used his power for any 
base purpose, is perhaps beyond a doubt; 
but the whole matter is involved in so 
much obscurity that a satisfactory ex- 
planation can hardly be hoped for. “The 
darkest feature of the case is the fact 
that two faithful hearts were undoubtedly 
crushed; of Vanessa’s tragical experience 
we know less, but he was heard to szy 
to Stella on her dying bed, ‘* Well, my 
dear, if yo1 ws} it, it sha'l he owned;”’ 
she answered, ““it is too I:te.’’ \Wbile 
there is no evidence of betraval, there is 
evidence and to spare of duplicity, of 
evasion, of insincerity, of trifling to the 
very last, with two devoted, loving 
hearts. 
Swift is chiefly known as a_ humorist, 
wit, and master of satire. Perhaps as 
the latter he is without a peer. Of a 
nature gloomy, harsh and cynical, he 
often dipped his pen in gall, and wielded 
the lash with an unsparing hand; his sar- 
casm and irony were weapons that he 
used without mercy upon political oppo- 
nents; his bitter diatribes were some- 
times, however, so exaggerated that they 
failed of their purpose and only recoiled 
upon their author. In his lighter and 
more humorous vein, as notably in his 
Gulliver's Travels, a production entirely 
unique in English literature, he held up 
to ridicule the follies of his time and the 
imperfectisns of human nature. Al- 
though its references to men and _ parties 
and opinions are now mostly unintel- 
ligible, it is still read for its wit; like 
most of his writings itis not free from 
coarsenes: and its Yahoos are a repul- 
sive libel upon civil decency. 
On the whole, Swiit’s influence upon 
letters cannot be said to be wholesome. 
A man of great parts, and a friend of 
Steele, Addison and Pope, he used _ his 
powers to small purpose. His works 
cannot be omitted from any general col- 
lection of literatu-e, but he was a man 
who cannot be personally respected; he 
_ was lacking in all the finer elements of 
character, and was capable of great rude- 
ness. He resembled a comet. rather 
than a fixed star, filling the sky for a 
time with a brilliant but baleful | ght. 
Swift was an unhappy man, the victim 
no doubt of physical infirmities, of a 
morbid and ill regulated mird, and of a 
morcse, haughty and ungovernable tem- 
per. His days darkened more and more 
into a pitiable condition of physical and 
mental suffering, passing at last into com- 
plete idiocy, in which after three years 
he died. His life may be summed up as 
a brilliant failure, a life of great but 
wasted abilities. ‘‘ To think of him,”’’ 
says Thackeray, “is like thinking of the 
ruin of a great empire.’’ He was born 
in Dublin in 1667, and died in 1745, 
and was buried in his own cathedral. 
It was the generous liment of a kingly 
soul over the tragic end of a man of 
great powers and unprincipled ambition, 
** Died Abner as the fool dieth?’’ 
——— = Ft ale: by 
GHAS. HOOPER, 
Manchester 
Location of Fire Alarm Boxes 
Manchester, Mass. 
31. Electric Light Station. 
33. Telephone Exchange Office. 
$4. Summer Street, P. H. Boyle’s Stable. 
41. Corner Bridge and Pine Sts. 
43. Corner Tlarbor and Bridge Sis. 
52. Fire Engine IHouse, School St. 
44. Corner School and Lincoln Sts. 
56. School St., opp. the grounds of the 
Hssex County Club. 
61. Sea St., HW. S. Chase’s House. 
2. Corner Beach and Masconomo, 
64. Lobster Cove.” 
Two Blasts, all out or under coutrol. 
Three Blasts, extra call. 
Directions for giving an alarm: Break the 
glass, turn the key and open the door, pull 
the hook down once and let go 
JAMES HOARE, Chief, 
GEORGES SINNICKS, 
CLARENCE W. MORGAN, 
Engineers of Fire Department 
EDWARD CROWELL 
PAINTER 
And Decorator 
Personal attention given to all work 
Shop: 17 School St., 
Manchester 
