Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-19
THE MARRIED NATION.
The Monster Of Monopoly Seeking to Wed
the Nation.
The Demon Of Anarchy Offers his Hand
in Marriage.
Vhs Fiend of ~Inidelity Sues for the
Nations Hand.
AL these will be Rejected by the Fair
Republic.
Aud a more Suitable Bridegroom will be
Chosen.
The Reign Of Law, Order and Peace
Predicted.
Aud a more Suitable Bridegroom will be
Chosen.
The Reign Of Law, Order and Peace
Predicted.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, ID. d.,
preached on Sunday, the 9Th, in the
Brooklyn tabernacle, the fourth of his
series of ermons on 1.-The Labor Cues
ton" His subject was. monopoly
and Communism Struggling for the
Possession OF this Country"
The text was Isaiah, CHI. xii, v. A.:
''The Lord delighteth in thee, and thy
land shall be married" Following is
the sermon ir full:
AS the greater includes the less, so
does the circle OF future Joy around our
entire world include the epicycle of our
own republic. Bold, exhilarant, unique,
divine imagery of the text! So many
are depressed by the labor agitation
and think everything in this country is
going to pieces, l preach this morning.
a sermon of good cheer and anticipate
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 a
funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves
no doubt on this subject. In pulpits
and on platforms and in places of pub
lilo concOurse, l hear so many of the
muffled drums of evil prophecy sound
ed. AZ though we were on the way to
national interment, and beside Thebes,
and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetery
Of dead nations our republic was to be
entombed, that l wish you 20 under
stand it is not TO be ~obsequies, bat Eup-
tials: not mausolcm but carpeted altar;
not cypress but orange blossoms mot re-
QUEEN but wedding march for ''Thy
land shall be married"
propose TO name some of the suit
ors who are claiming the hand of this
republic. This land is so fair, so beau
tiful. afiuent, that it has many ~suitors,
and it viii depend much upon your add
vice whether this or that shall be &C
-cepted or rejected.
In the first place, l remark: There
S a greedy. ~all-grasping monster who
comes in as sutton seeking the hand of
this republic, and the monster is known
by the name of Monopoly. His sceptre
is made ont Of the iron of the rail track
and the wire of t~elegraphy. 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,
Now Jersey and Pennsylvania, for the
most part, monopoly decides every
thing. If monopoly favor n law it
passes. If monopoly oppose a law it
is rejected. Monopoly stands im this
railroad depot putting into its pockets
i'm one year two hundred millions of
dollars in excess of all reasonable
charges for service. Monopoly holds
in his one hand the steam power of To-
comotives, and in the other, the cleo
tricity Of swift communication. Mon
opoly decides nominations and cleo
tions-city elections, state elections,
national elections. With brides he Sc
cures the votes of legislators-giving
them free passes, giving appointments TO
needy relatives to lucrative positions,
employing them as attorneys il they
are lawyers, carrying their goods
fifteen per cent. less if they are mer-
chants; and il he finds a case very stub
born. rs well as very important, puts
berry.
But monopoly is not so easily caught
now as when during the term of Mr..
Buchanan, the Legislative committee in
n of our states expressed and ex-
posed the manner in which a certain
railway company procured a donation
of public land. Ii was found out that
thirteen of the senators of that state re-
ceiyed $l75,00 among them, six
members Of tho lower house of that
state received five thousand and ten
thousand dollars each, the governor of
the state received fifty thousand dol
lars. his clerk received five thousand
dollars. the lieutenant governor re-
ceived ten thousand dollars, all the
clerks of the Legislature received five
thousand dollars each, while fifty thons-
and dollars were divided among the
lobby agents.
That thing on a larger or smaller
scale. is all the time going on in some
OF the states of The Union, but it is not
30 laundering as it used TO be, and
therefore not q easily exposed or ar
rested.