The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-01-31
GUITEAU MUST GO.
So Mr.. Van Wagner Thinks, And
So He Said Last Night.

f. tlOBal church last nlSht, ana tEt tdlHcv
Was crowded to repetition. abuut tive hun
/ dred people succ, eding in stuiiing them
selves inIu the building. IL is sale Ia say
/ ,hst since Mr.. Van Wagner has been
| preaching sermons he never 80 thoroughly
( Imburd himself with what lac had to say
a. he did on last night touching the crime
T ui the national criminal. and the lessons
+ To be drawn from his lie. lie could
I hardly have had 4 better subject iur Illus
. traliun than that al last night, which
! bristl,-s all over with moral lss,on-. The
usual number of Young men were there,
( the yUung lawyer, doctor, merchant. clerk,
! book -Lesprr, maChini>t, railroad man,
/ printer. barkeepcr; snd the marked aiIen-
lions paid bv all {" the rr,ach,r Was
mot iceablc feature "i the occasion.
I The latter portion 81 the rwculy-f fist
verse oi the fourteenth chapter al - Mark
! Was selected - ia. text: '',inod were IL Tor
that mao ii ne had never b,vn born. This
wss the sentence pronounced lay Christ on
: j Judas lsrariur, only lew hour, before
/ Jesus WAS ciucilied upon a.: cross, ana
only lew hour, before Judas committed
( suicide 'fiUud were IL Ter that man ii hc
. had never been born" Gi"ud were II f0r
/ Guiieau ii hc had never hecn born. ti"uf
. were IL ior hin Al he had died ia infancy
! bui bc liyei, until he IA, akCd upon ilic
. pr, sid,nt al .he nation with hi revolver
cooked, AMI fired. aud the best and tru,st
+ IN the land tell.
Tie eloquent preacher went On Ia draw
manv lc>suIis ani warnings iIum Ii, Lille 81
I the assassin The l,->>"H oi the IMPORTANCE
( ul home training was mO>t ably AMI say
I .,siiycIv Illustrate GGiIrIu had never
! had a home. lie hai hcgn allowed bv hi>
parents unrysITaIn-G liberty, hIt nut Ic-
rcIvcd the tender care ai'd attention which
parents usually ir>I"w up"n their children
/ hc had been allowed {" - un an au uUrc-
strained cou:~,. until Ia wJs a compound
al every iiIll,n, -, "a, annV>>, swII.d!IH:.
! fraud AMI petty Iii,vciy, AL 81
which cuImiuat,u in hiS killing Gar icll.
The l.->un al the cultivation 81 moral
n hit, NI> also drawn ir"in the career 81
Gaiieau, hS utter ii~r, gard of every
moral obligation from cl.Ildh"Od up tU the
lime al the commission al his crime.
fraud ami Il cneaI, AMI finally a muir
Cercr.
The danger "f IN overwcaning c.oti>m.
VANITY ami cDnccit formed a solemn wLrn-
in. Io the cil>~ 81 men who begin life with
. the idea that there are nu smart men but
themselves. Tie preacher believed IN
every man having certain decree al self
RESPECT Ii man does not r,spec, him
>eil nobody will respect him. He must
hight has WAY, must tax" las chances, with
courage AMI discrimination. But of all
men whom the world had stem. Guiieau
Was the worst Tor rgoIi>m, vanity AMI con-
I ceit He MAS the great AMI only Guit-au
| Ii Webster should enter the court II
Washington, Gnit.au would regard him ~
! mere pignv compared 1" him. WIAyI j.
Grant COMPARED with Guit-au Whsa l.
T Arthur TO him? What il C"nkling To- him ?
/ Behold the great Guiieau, hero, snd II
patriot whose lame - IO sound in history
Tor ages The country and the world
have expressed their delesiaIion oi
( his act, and their condemnation oi
the manner oi his trial. But
/ il WIS perhaps just 10 Judge Cox To say
he was an ablc Judge and had done what
/ in his Judgment was best To- 10 Guiteau
had been given tree rein IN order that his
meanne>,, his maligniiy, his wickedne>s
and vanity might be apparent to the jury.
! Webster was put forth rs an illustration
of what NAH with roal abilities, but
with modesiy and industry, might accom-
plish, and was sharply contrasted with
Guiteau. one who through inordinate self
conceit, vanity and esotism WAS bound tn
become notorious, make his name sound
through the world even NJ he had 10 muir
der to do IL. The laughing stock man
makes of himself by indulging a superla-
| tive degree of vanity and self-conceit, was
aptly illustrated by MIR. Van Wagner, who
said that we had another man now who
was almost as bad as Guiteau, and who
ought TO have pair OF asses ears put upon
1 him, and that was Oscar Wilde. A jackass
ought To be killed and his ears taken from
him and put upon Wilde. who would
probably go back home I'm course of time,
leaving thousands of fools behind him.
The evils of an unrrstrained ambition
next received the attentions of the preacher
/ Ii had made bloody the fields of France,
| had made Napoleon, and had made Gui-
teau. All the ills flowing from the sin OF
too strong sn ambition were fully iilustra-
ted and enlarged upon. and IL was shown
that the only way IN which to resch per-
msnent success IN this lie was by right
courses, and that, sooner or later q man
passes for WHIST he L. worth I'm this world.
Mr.. Van Wagner declared that Guiteau
must die for his crime, that he must go,
and his guilty soul swung off into eternity.
| He said that II the jury dared To scquit
him, their names would descend with in
fanny TO those who rome after us, and
would tie black in ages to come.
He drew a mental picture of ten
scenes In the life of Garfield. tracing the
career oi the great msn from birth To- boy
hood, thence TO youth and young manhood
and finally to the death bed scene. Then
he drew the ideal -emblancc OF scafold,
surrounded 10y the people oi the
country, the gsllows made OF good tim
her the rope new and the knot lied
firmly. Guiteau mounts the scaffold,
and at signal. the trap is sprung, and the
murderer of Garfield drops through the
trap. Then nameiess grave, and all is