Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-12
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Special TO the Register.
BRooKLYN. December 11.-During the past
week DR.. Talmage has been attending the
Guiteau trial, in Washington, and this
morning delivered another of his series OF
sermons on the Ten Plaques, taking "Gui-
teauism" for his subject. The opening
hymn was
"Joy to the world, the Lord is come,
Let earth receive her King
The text was i Samuel, xxl:l5. "Haye need
of madmen that We have brought this fellow
to play the madman in my preSence'"
After reading which the Doctor said:
In David's history there are three dark
passages which we must not hide because
God does not hide them. They must have
been reported for warning. They are buoyS
showing where are the sunken rocks. David
had broken up the family of Uriah and then
murdered him, and at the same time acted
out what in this day would be called the
principles of the Oneida Community. Then
again, for the purpose OF escaping capital
punishment ut the hands of the govern
ment he simulated insanity. In other
words, to keep from losing his head he
played crazy. But he was never less insane
than that day when he impersonated de-
mentia. The fact that he ran his hand up
ana DOWN tne uOOI ike du lulot am i"u
an uncleanly beard did not keep Aohishn,
the King of Gath, from jerking off his
mask, crying out: "Have 1 need of mad
men that We have brought this fellow to
play the mailman in my presence There
is something sublime and sad in the aber-
ration of a King Lear frenzied by his daugh-
ters Kegan and Goneril in their attempt to
have their sister Cordelia disinherited.
The re is something thrilling in the be-
witchment of a Meg Merrilles as she goes
O' AwiId Horror,
through Walter Scott's Guy Mannering.
There is something tremendous in the in
sanity of Cambyces and the insanity of
Lycurgus, hewing down his son under the
Trojan wall for..they were genuine calam-
ity, and there is something sublime even
in a shipwrack. But the only emotion eI-
cited by, this famed idiocy OF the text M is dis
being enacted at Washington, where the
| fiendish assassin of our former President
sits and stands dramatizing the stark fool,
| hoping under that cloud to escape the in
| fanny of Christendom. The whole world
NAV we'll cry out with Achish in my text
| Have need of madmen that ye haye
| brought this fellow to play the madman IN
| my presence
l had, last week, an opportunity by OBJ
| SeTYdtlOu " tLOOAt Va W. N''N
| of
Gigantic Crime.
There is no mystery about it, 1t is a
| plain case of a man allowing his evil ma
| ture to run loose in every direction. In
stead of putting on the curb he has put on
| the whip. This Mazeppa volunteered to
| be fastened to a wild cOurser, car
| ing not into what deep morass, or across
| what dark desert the unbridled fury dashed
| with him. He is nothing new under the
sun. All our young men need to do IN or
der TO become just like him is to let the
| evil of their nature develop and trample
| out the good. They can find plenty of OPP
portunities. There may not be enoug h
presidents to allow them a separate target,
but there are plenty of illustrious victims.
| 1t is not, as some say, the work of the devil.
| II is ONLY the evolution of this mans own
nature. He planted nightshade, nuX von-
lea and coloauentida, and has raised q fun
crop of nightshadc, nuS yOmica and colo
uuentida There is philosophy of crime,
a science Of sin, which is very old, but has
not yet had graphic and picturesque name
given it, For purposes OF warning and
elucidation shall call it
Guiteauism.
First, by Guiteaulsm mean able-bodied
beggary. There is large class ofmen who
spend their life begging although it is Of
ten under the pretense of borrowing. God
has given them hands, and feet, and brain
enough to earn an honest living, but they
are too lazy to earn their own living, and
hence they appropriate the result of the
industry of others. The assassin now or
trial could have achieved an honorable
livelihood by saving wood, or ditchins
farms, or pounding a shoe last; but he
turns his back upon what he can do, and
attempts that for which he has no qualif
cation. There are, in this country, as neal
as can tell, about 100000 of what are com
monty styled
They have little smattering of learning
and forthwith feel themselves called t
write books, or edit newspapers, or take in
the lecturing platforms After five or ten
or twenty years of dead failure, one would
suppose they wOuld take the hint and no
being able to win their bread by toll o
brain, go back to that which is "a
spectable-the toll Of hand and foot. No; they
go.to borrowing. They borrow in eacl
neighborhoOd until the patience OF the ca
pacity Of the neighborhood is exhausted
and then they turn themselves to pasture
new. The assassin borrowed all he coulC
in Freeport, then borrowed all he could IL
Boston, then borrowed all he could in Chi
|
York. and then borrowed all he conld IL
Washington. He borrowed the money fO
the purchase of the renowned pistol. III
borrowed the apparel in which he now sits
He is borrowing the time OF learned coun
sci. He is borrowing hundreds OF thou
sands of dollars of the United States gov
eminent in this trial. You and are help
ing pay his board at the prison. NJ friend
il Is high time that we men and vomeT
who toll in our occupations and professions
until We cannot draw another ounce shoul'
stop paying taxes for the support OF the
Lazy Seoundrels OF America
For the sake of the crippled and the un
fortunate, let US always be willing TO ienC
q shoulder, but this wandering vagabond
ism, these leeches put on the arm OF homes
industry till they suck out the blood, thes'
vermin, crawling through court rooms anc
churches, and lecture halls, first OF all
need extirpation. The vast majority o
people who live by borrowing could ge
good, useful and respectable work If thel
were not too proud 10 do it man will
ten children wanted to borrow of me FL
teen dollars because he said he could no
get work. l said to him: 81 will not loal
YOU that amount, but / will give you fit
teen dollars provided you will spend it II
buying that amount of newspapers, ant
set up q news stand. will get you per
mission for place on the street corner ant
see YOU fairly started" He said he woulc
take till the next day 30 think about ii
The next day he declined the offer. because
he said, he did not think il Was a respectl
bic business. Then said to him; "Iol
evidently think ii more respectable 70 haI
II -. tk., 40 xxor&r Nnu if vaI. Win nieA