The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-05-26
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REV. 7. DEWITT TALMAGE.
SWEET HOME."THY LAND SHALL
BE MARRIED."
But Whence Cometh the Bridegroom l--'One
Greedy and GrASpIng WOOer Is Monopoly
Other suitOrs for This National Bride
Are NlhIllsm and Inhdelity.


Text-Isaiah 62;4: "Thy land shall be
married"
As the greater includes the less, this
prophecy of future JOY, which encirCles
the earth, must include our own Repub-
lie. Bold, unique, startling, exhilarant,
Divine imagery of the text! At the close
ofa week, when the world has been full
of the sound of wedding. bells, and the
heir of the Austrian Empire takes home
his bride amid the congratulations Of
many nations, (may God preserve Ru'
dolph and Stephanie) it will not be in
apt to anticipate the time when the
Prince of Peace and the heir of univer'
sal dominion shall take possession oi
this nation, and "Thy land shall be mar
ried." In discussing the future OF this
naticn, it makes every difference in the
word whether we are on the way to a
funeral or a wedding, In pulpit and on
platform, and in places of public con-
course, l hear 80 many n uttled drums Of
evil prophecy sounded, as though we
were on the way to national interment
besides Thebes and Babylon end Tyre
and in the cemetery of dead nations our
Rel ublic would be entombed; that | wish
TO be distinctly understood that instead
of obse quies, it will be nuptials; instead
of mausoleum, it will be Carpeted altar
instead of cypress, it will be orange bios
soms; instead of requiem, it will be wed.
ding march, for "thY land shall be mar
ried." l shall tell you who are offering
their hands for this bethrothal. This
land is so fair and beautiful and aftluent
a bride that she has plenty of suitors,
and your advice will have much to do
with her acceptance or rejection in any
case.
One greedy and grasping wooer is ma
med Monopoly. His sCepter is made
out of the iron track of railroading and
the wire of telegraphy. He proposes to
have everything his own way, for his
own advantage and the peoples robbery.
This monster of Monopoly already con-
trolls the three states of New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is fast
gaining the supremacy Of all the nation.
He decides what laws shall be adopted
or hindered; he stands in the railroad de.
pot and puts into his pocket each year
$2OO,000,000 beyond the reasonable char
ges for service. He holds the stea N Of
locomotion in one hand, and the eleC-
tricity of swift communication in the
other He has put the Democratic party
into one pocket, the Republican party
into the other pocket. He controls nom.
nations and elections, city elections,
state elections, national elections. He
buys up Legislatures with free passes,
and the appointment of needy friends to
lucrative positions,and by retaining them
as attorneys if they are lawyers, and
carrying their goods at Is per cent less if
they are merchants; and, if he finds
stubborn case on which much depends,
puts down the hard cash of bribery. 1t
has come to this pass in many of our
Legislatures, that laws which monopo.
lists favor pass, and laws which monopo-
lists oppose are defeated. They have be-.
come 80 skilful in their manipulations
that there is no catching them now as
they were caught during Mr.. Buchanan's
Administration, when Legislative Com
mittee of Wisconsin exposed the manner
in which a railroad company got their
donation of public lands. Thirteen
members of the Senate received $l75
600 among them; sixty members of the
House received from SIS to $40 900, and
his private secretary S. 000 and the
Lieut. Governor $4,000, and the clerks
of the House S. 900 each, and $50 600 to
lobby agents. In many of the Legisla-
lures the monopolists are carrying on
similar schemes, but not in such blum.
dering way as to be detected. The over.
Bhadowing curse of America to-day is
Monopoly. He puts his hand upon ev.
cry bushel of wheat, and every sack Of
salt, and every ton of coal and not
man, woman or child in America but
feels the touch of this moneyed despot-
ism. l rejoice to hear that in twenty
four states of rhe Union, Monopoly
Leagues have been formed. God speed
them in the work of liberationl l hope
this will be the chief issue of the next
Presidential contest. Between now and
then we have time to compel the polit
iCal platforms recognize it. We say moth
ing against capitalists; man has right
to all the money he can make honestly.
We say nothing against corporations,
without them great enterprises would be
an impossbiity. But what we do sey
is, that capitalists and corporations ought
not to haYe rights not granted to the
plainest and poorest individual. What
is wrong for you is wrong for the Van.
derbilts and the Goulds. Monopoly in
England has ground millions of her best
people in semi-starvation, and in Ireland
1t has driven manv of the tenants to fren.
zy, and in the United ates is plotting
to put the wealth Of sixty millions of
population into a few silkAn wallets.
This brazen-faCed, iron fingered, vulture
hearted Monopoly offers his hand for
the acceptance of this nation. He STREET
Ches it across the lakes, and by the New
York Central, PennsylV ania and Erie
railroads, and over the poles If the
American Union Telegraph Co., and
says: "Here is my hand and heart. Be
mine forever" Let the millions of peo.
pie, North, South, East and West, rise up
Vehemently to forbid the bans of this
marriage. Forbid it at the ballot box;
forbid it by the free printing press; for
bid it by the platform; forbid it by the
great organization; forbid it by the over
whelming sentiment Of an outraged ma
tioD; forbid it by the protest of the Chris.
tian church; forbid it by prayer to high
heaven. Such Herod shall not have
such an Abigail. 1t is TO hard and clut.
ching and all devouriUg Monopoly this
land shall not be married. nl
Another suitor for this National bride
il Nihilism. He is worth nsthing and
owns nothing, only knife for universal
cut-throstery aud nitro-gly cerine bomb
for universal explosion, he believes in
n (AOd M uOuarnnnank mn hao Unn nd