Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-22

thought that this world in which we live il
not half so bad world as folks sometimes
dream it is.-Middletown (Del) Tran
script
l Talmage Exeoriates the Politicians.
Il The announcement of political sermon
from the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage drew
an enormous crowd to the Tabernacle in
the morning. The preacher created a stir
in the congregation just before his sermon
by reading the notice of st. John meet
ing to take place this week in Brooklyn.
Many expected him to come out for the Pro-
hibition candidate in the course of his SER
mon, but they were disappointed. The
Doctor reserved the declaration Of his DO
litical views for future occasion
s8Revelation, xviii, 10 to 13, contained the
text. On cis-Atlantic shores, said DR.. Tai
mage, company of scientists are now on
their way to find the tomb of a dead city
Babylon. The ancient mounds will invite
the spades and crow-bars, while unwashed
natives will stand by in wonder. Our sci
entific friends will find few yellow bricks
/ perhaps inscribed with the names of kings
who lived 2,000'years ago. But is it possible
that these are the only remains of Baby
Ion, city five times as great as London
and twelve times as great as New York?
One night while the saloons of Saturnalia
were open and the tankards were filed for
the tenth time, King Cyrus commanded
his army to take shovels, and they diverted
the river from its path, and in the morning
Babylon was lost
But with Babylon two nations died. Oh
yes, there is a great mortality among mon
arches and republics. Some of them are
assassinated and some die by their own
hands. The Assyrian, Egyptian, Israel
itish, Ph@nician, Athenian, and Spartan
monarchies are dead-dead as the Roman
Empire, the Mexican Empire, and the
French Empire. 1t is no uncommon thing
for nation to die, and the United States
of America will be added to the neurology
of the world unless through purified pub
lie sentiment and a purified ballot-box,
God, in His infinite mercy, arrests it's pro-
gress toward destruction.
Several things threaten the annihilation
of our institutions, and first would men,
tion political bribery, which, once vice,
is now virtue. Half million dollars
was sent to Ohio this autumn,by one politi-
cal organization, and as much more, if it
can be raised, will go by another. There
is a legitimate use for money in canvass,
but none for such vast sums as this Do
you want to know what political party
will carry Ohio on Tuesday? I'll tell you.
The party which spends the most money.
At this moment, while I speak, missiona-
ries with gold from Broad street and Wall
street and State street are in Cincinnati
dealing out money to bribe voters in the
State election. Not only that, but success
in Ohio will be largely used as all induce
ment for the national election to those who
are on the fence and waiting to jump down
one side or the other into one of the hun
dred thousand political Offices The election
in Ohio will not let us know what candidate
Ohio wants for President. There has been
a great change in public sentiment in the
past fifteen years. Bribery was then a Sc
cret thing; it is now open.
Another evil is the solidifying of the
different sections of the country. If this
thing goes on we shall soon have a solid
East and solid West, solid New York
and solid Pennsylvania We might as
well talk about solid brothers and solid
sisters. The different sections of the U Uniop
are merely different members of a common
family.
THE STATE OF PUBLIC MORALS.
Another danger is the low state of public
| ihoidio. uldily AhOA IOIuludtCu
offices by their corrupt and dishonest char
acter are utterly unfit for Office. Out of
the ten candidates for President and Vice
President two are women. They are good.
But some of the men have no more quail
ficatiOns for high Office than wolf has to
be pastor of a flock of sheep OF mole has
to teach optics to flock of eagles. The
mere pronunciation of some of their names
makes a command for carbolic acid. l
sometimes think that American politics
have sunk so low that there is nothing un-
derneath When the Democratic party
gave birth to the Tweed Ring we thought
we had reached the limit of corruption,
but it was surpassed when the Republican
party fathered the Starroute infamy.
| DR.. Talmage will continue the subject
next Sunday morning. FORK Herald.
| Mr.. TUCKER AND THE LABoRINe MAN.
In his speech at Lexington, October 9th,
Mr.. Tucker said
| 1t is said that am not the friend of the
laboring man.
| wish and have striven to cheaper the
things be buys with his wages-by reducing
the taxes on them.
would cheaper the price he pays for his
tobacco and his whiskey By repeating the
tax upon it.
I would cheaper his sugar by reducing
the tax upon it.
would cheaper his flannel by reducing,
Sc.
would cheaper his wool hat by reducing,
&c.
would cheaper his knit wooden shirt, his
cloth clothing, and his cotton goods by re-
ducing the tax upon them.
| l would cheaper the tools of his trade,
his sledge hammer, his anvil, his drawknfe,
| &c, by reducing the tax on them.
would cheaper the window glass which
lights bis humble home by reducing the tax
on God S sunlight which he is forced to pay.
would cheaper the salt which savours
his food and cures his meat, by reducing
the tax upon it.
would cheaper the cost of his house.
hold, table and kitchen ware, by reducing
the tax on them.
The laboring man out of his wages of two
or three-hundred dollars pays not less than
one tenth of all he earns in taxes to the
Federal Government, or in bounty to the
wealthy manufacturer. These / would re-
duce, and thus give him more money with
which to fitl his home with comforts for
himself and his family. Am his enemy?
Am not his friend ?-Lecington Gazette.
WHAT BLAINE THINKS OF MAHoNE.-
Gen. Roger A. Pryor of New York, was on
visit to Luray, Page county, Va, a few
weeks ago, on which occasion, he was inter-
viewed by the editor of the Page Ne,cs, who
reports him as saying
"The defeat of Malone in Virginia is
foregene conclusion. Now, in the event of
victory for Blaine, the situation of Ma
hone would be as desperate as can we'll be
conceived of, for knoao, said the General,
that Mr.. Blaine would never make him his
instrument for diSpensine the Federal