The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-15

you get down on your back with fever or
pneumonia, or under the hand Of a
would be assassin, and YOU know who
would be the best watcher, and who
would offer the brightest enCourak ement
and who for you would drop dead in her
work. thank God for this revelation
Of woman's courage and faith from the
White House.
Another use of this national calamity
is to disgust the nation with the free use
of fire arms: There is too much shoot
ing going on all over the land. Ifa man
differs from you, shoot him; if he does
not do as you want him to do, shoot him;
ifa man doubts your veraCity, shoot
him; ita man stand in the way OF your
interests, shoot him; and all over the
land it is bang bang bang Guiteaus
on small scale in every city and village.
Pistols are entirely too common, and hui
man life too cheap. Let this Washing
ton rufian, going about practiCing at
mark, and sitting in parks with the navy
revolver in his pocket, make the busi'
ness of carrying firearms disreputable.
Ifa man has to go out on the frontier
among savages, or as an officer OF the
law, be his work to arrest desperadoes,
let him 20 armed. Armed police officers
armed sheriffs, armed jail-keepers are
we'll enough, tut it is high time that pri-
vate citizens snapped their sword'Canes
in two and put up their deadly weapons.
No man that goes in reputable society in
Washington or Brooklyn or New York
or London, needs any other weapon than
those which God gave him-two honest
fists, and they are easily loaded. If
you feel the need Of a pistol in your
pocket, you are miserable coward. If
you are afraid to go down the street un-
armed, ask your grandmother with her
knitting>needle to go along with you. l
am glad to know that last week the Com
mon Council of this city made it unlaw-
full to carry deadly weapons, or gave
special emphasis to laws already enacted.
The meanest and most devilish weapon
ever constructed is pistol. 1t is COM
pact and portable murder carried around.
The sword may have some nobility, for
you must expose your own life ia order
to take the life of another, and it needs
some courage to use it, but pistol is the
weapon of a sneak. I had lathel carry
toad in my vest rocket. Those who
carry the deadly weapon are almost in
variably men with ungovernable temper.
Now, a man with a revengeful or explo-
sive temper ought never to carry any.
thing more dangerous than dull jack
knife. You know not what, under sud.
den impulse, you may be tempted to do.
Away with the pistol business Let Quit |
eau and John Wilkes Booth have all the |
honors Of assassination.
Another use Of this national calamity |
is the ordination Of suffering. II our
President gets we'll, and, after all his con-
quests of relapse and collapse, I shall ex'
peCt him to get we'll until I hear he is
buried-if he gets well he will have such
an ordination as no President ever had,
ordination not by human hands-which
may be good or bad, and may mean very
much or nothing-but ordination by
hands of pain, hands of fever, hands Of
midnight anguish, by hands Of mercy,
by hand of national solicitude, by both
hands of God he has, during these awful
weeks, looked over into the next world,
and feels his responsibility. Ifhe comes
back to US he comes from the immediate
presence Of God and though the whole
year, from March 4th to March 4th be
given up to ConvalesUence, he will have
three years left to sCourge the seven dev-
ills out Of American politics, and bury
the putrescent CARCASS of Mormonism
where it can no more poison the nations,
Most of our Presidents have been eleva-
ted men. No nation on earth ever had
such a long succession of honorable ru-
lers, but they were, for the most part, di.
vided into two classes, 80 far as needed
reforms were concerned. Some of them
had the moral disposition. but not the
courage, and others theCourage, but not
the disposition. Mr.. Garfield has dem
onstrated within the last eight weeks
that he has unbounded courage, for
man who is not afraid of death is not
afraid Of anything, and his moral disposi-
ton is just as evident. Now, getting up
from this sick bed with this ordinance
Of suffering upon him, look out Polit-
iCsl corruption, look out Polygamy,
look out Many who are now praying
for his lite will wish they had prayed |
for his death. With such an ordination,
once fully recovered, he will be thun.
derbolt from the right hand of God |
against the gigantic evils which have for
long time afflicted this nation. But |
have we not all won this ordination of
suffering and shall we not go forth to do |
better as patriots, as reformers, as phil.
anthropists, as Christians7 Yes, yes.
We must not let our suffering national,
or our suffering financial, or our suffer.
ing domestic be any thing else than ordi-
nation. It is not love, not gladness, not
propriety that qualities for special work,
but suffering, sharp suffering, long suf.
ferinR intense suffering. Fire of pain,
FIRE Of persecution, fire Of bereavement,
mean ordination. Not until Beethoven
had become so deaf that he could not
hear the tortissimo of full orchestra did
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