St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-07
Dr. Talmage Says Monopoly and Oommun-
ism are Struggling for the Possession
of This Country.
How the Former Does Everything for It's
Own Advantage and for the Robbery
of the People,
N1hilism, Believer in no God, no
Government, a Suitor for the
Hand of the Republic.
Criminals and Dolts Who Own Moth
ing Angry at Those Who Pos
Sess Resources.
DIR. TalnaEe,s Sermon.

Witt Talmage, ID. D., preached to-day in
Brooklyn tabernacle, the fourth of his
series of sermons on The Labor Question.
His subject was Monopoly and Communism
Struggling for the Possession of This
Country. Before beginning his sermon. he
announced that the congregation would
make trip to the Thousand Isles on the
Goth inst. The text was Isaiah xii, 4:
1.-The Lord delighteth in thee, and thy
land shall be married." He said: As the
greater includes the less, so does the circle
OF future joy around our entire world in
clude the epicycle of our own republic.
Bold, eXhilerant, unique, divine imagery of
the text! SO many are depressed by the
labor agitation and think everything in this
country is going to pieces, preach this
morning sermon of good cheer, and an
ticipate the time when the prince of peace
and the heir of universal dominion shall
take possession of this nation and ''thy
land shall be married." In discussing the
final destiny of this nation, it makes all the
difference in the world whether we are on
the way to funeral or a wedding The
Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In
pulpits and on platforms and in places of
public concourse, hear so many of the
muffied drums of evil prophecy sounded as
though we were on the way to national in
terment, and beside Thebes and Babylon
and Tyre in the
CEMETERY OF DEAD NATIONS
our republic was to be entombed that I
wish you to understand it is not to be obse-
quies, but nlfptials; not mauSoleum, but
carpeted altar; not cypress, but orange
blossoms; not requiem, but wedding march,
for thy land shall be married." l propose
To IF fbo la,
ing the hand of this republic. This land is
SO fair, so beautiful, so atfiuent that it has
many suitors, and it will depend much upon
your advice whether this or that shall be
accepted or rejected. In the first place. l
remark: There is greedy, all-grasping
monster who comes in as sutton, seeking
the hand Of this republic and that monster
is known by the name of Monopoly. His
scepter is made out of the iron of the rail
track and the wire of telegraphy. He does
everything for his own advantage and for
the robbery of the people. Things have
gone on from bad to worse, until in the
three legislatures of New York, New Jer-
Sey and Pennsylvania, for the most part,
monopoly decides everything. If monop-
oily favors law it passes. If monopoly
oppose a law, it is rejected. Monopoly
stands in this railroad depot, putting into
his pockets two hundred millions of dollars
in excess of all reasonable charges for
service. Monopoly holds in his one hand
the steam power of locomotives, and in the
other the electricity of swift communica-
ton. Monopoly decides
NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS
city elections. state elections, national
elections. With brides he secures the
votes of legislators giving them free
passes. giving appointments to needy rela-
tives to lucrative positions, employing them
as attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying
their goods 10 per cent. less if they are
merchants, and if he finds case very
Stubborn as well as very important, puts
down before him the hard cash of bribery.
But monopoly is not so easily caught now
as during the term of Buchanan, the legis-
lative committee in one of our states ex-
| pressed and exposed the manner in which a
l. certain railway company procured dona-
ton of public land. 1t was found out that
| thirteen of the senators of the states re-
ceived S175,0 coo among them, sixty men,
beers of the lower house of that state
received $4,000 and So, 1000 each. the gov
| ernor of the state received $50, 900. his
| clerk received SIS, 900, the lieutenant gov
ernor received $4,000, all the clerks of
| the legislature received S., 900 each. while
| $50 900 was divided amid the lobby agents.
| That thing, on larger or smaller scale, is
all the time going on in some Of the states
of the Union, but it is not so laundering as
it used to be, and therefore not as easily
exposed or arrested. tell you that
THE ovERsHADowING CURSE
of the United States to-day is monopoly
He puts his hand upon every bushel of
wheat, upon every sack of salt, and upon
very ton of coal; and every man, woman
nd child in the United States feels the
ouch of that moneyed despotism. rejoice
| hat in twenty-four states of the Union
already auti-monopoly leagues have been
established. God speed them in the work
of liberation! [ wish that this question
might be the question of our presidential
elections, and that we compel the political
parties to recognize it in their platforms
| have nothing to say against capitalists
A man has right to all the money he can
make honestly. There is not labornr in
the land that would not be worth million
dollars if he could. | have nothing to say
against corporations as such-without
them no great enterprise would be possible;
but what l do say is that the same princ-
pies are to be applied TO capitalists and to
corporations that are applied to the poorest
man and the plainest laborer What is
wrong for me is wrong for great corpora
| lions. If l take from you your property
| without adequate compensation L am a
thief, and if a railway damage the property
of the people without any adequate COM
| pensation that is gigantic theft What is
| wrong on a small scale is wrong on large
scale. Monopoly in England has ground
| hundreds and thousands Of her best people
| into
SEMI-STARvATIoN,
and in Ireland has driven multitudinous
| tenants almost to madness. Another sutton
claiming the hand of this republic is Mill
ism. He owns nothing but knife for uni
versal blood-letting, and nitro-glycerine
| bomb for universal explosion. He believes
in no God, DO government, no heaven, and
| no hell, except what he can make on earth!
He slew the czar of Russia keeps Emperor
| William of Germany practically impris-
oned, killed Abraham Lincoln, would put
to death every king and president on earth,
and if he h4i the power would climb up
until he could drive the God of heaven
from his throne and take it himself-the
universal butcher. In France it is called
| Communism: in the United States it is
called Socialism; in Russia it is called
| Nihilism. That last is the most graphic
and descriptive term. 1t means complete
and eternal smashup. 1t would make the
holding of property crime. and it would
drive dagger through your heart and apply
a torch to your dwelling, and turn over this
whole land into the possession of theft and
lust and rapine and murder Where does
this monster live? In st. Louis, in Chicago,
in Brooklyn, in New York. and in all the
villages and cities of this land. The devil
of destruction is an old devil, and he is to
be seen at every great fire where there is
anything to steal, and at every shipwreck
where there is anything valuable
FLOATING ASHORE.
and at every railroad accident where there
are Overcoats and watches to be purloined.
! On small scale saw it in my college days,
when in our literary society in New Y ork
university; we had an exquisite and costly
bust of Shakespeare, and one morning we
found hole bored in the lips of the marble
and cigar inserted. There has not for the
last century been a fine picture in your art
| orallary nr q graceful Statua in voi,r no RIG