The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23

nat ihst II INC must graphic anu ues
Dcriptive term. 1t means complete and |
sternal smash-up. It would make the |
holding Of property crime, and it would
drive . dagger through your heart and
apply torch to your dwelling, and turn
over this whole land into the possession
Of theft and lust and rapine and murder.
The philosophy of the whole business 10
that there Is a larger number Of people
who either through their laziness or their
crime own nothing, and are mad at those
who, through industry and wit Of their
own, or Of their ancestors, are In possess.
ion of large resources. The honest labor.
ing classes never had anything to do with
such murderous enterprises. 1t Is the vii
famous classes, who would not work II
they had plenty Of work offered them at
large wages. Many of these suppose that
by the demolition of law and order they
would be advantaged, and the parting Of
the ship Of state would allow them,
as wreckers, to carry Of the
cargo. 1t offers it, hand to this
fair republic. 1t proposes to
tear to pieces the ballot box, the legis-
lative hall, the Congressional assembly. 1t
would take this land and divide 1t up, or,
rather, divide it down. It would give a.
much to the idler as to the worker, to the
bad a. to the good. Nihilism! This
panther having prowled across other
lands has set its paws on our soil, and 1t 10
only waiting for the time In which to
spring upon its prey. It was Nihilism
that massacred the heroic policemen
Of Chicago . few days ago, and
that burned the railroad property at
Pittsburgh during the great riots; It was
Nihilism that shot black people in our
Northern cities during the war; it was
Nihilism that again and again in San
Francisco and in New York mauled to
death the Chinese; 1t 10 Nihilism that
glares out of the windows Of the drunk
cries upon sober people - they go by.
All! its power has never yet been tested.
1t would, il 1t had the power, leave every
church, chapel, cathedral, school house,
college and home in ashes.
Yet this Nihilism, with feet red with
slaughter, comes forth and offers its
hand for the republic. Shall the banns be
proclaimed? II 80, where shall the mar.
riage altar be? and who will be the off,
ciating priest? And what will be the
musici That altar will have to be white
with bleached skulls, the officiating priest
must be a dripping assassin, the music
be the smothered groan Of multitudin-
GUS victims, the garlands must be twisted
Of nightshade, the fruit must be apples
Of Sodom, the wine must be the blood Of
st. Bartholomew's massacre. No! It IL
not to Nihilism, the sanguinital monster,
that this land IL to be married.
Another sutton for the hand Of this Ma
ton is Infidelity. Mark you that all An
archists are infdels. Not one of them be-.
lieves in the Bible, and very rarely any Of
them believe in God. Their most con-
spicuous leader was the other day pulled
by the leg from under bed in house of In.
fanny, cursing and disappearing. The pc.
lice of Chicago, exploring the dens Of the
Anarchists, found dynamite and vitriol
and Tom Paine's Gage of Reason" and
obscene pictures, and complimentary biog.
raphies of thugs and assassins, but not
one Testament, not one Of Wesley's hymn
books, not one Roman Catholic breviary
There are two wings 10 infidelity-the one
calls itself liberalism, and appears in
highly literary magazines, and is for the
educated and refined; the other wing Is in
the form Of anarchy and is for the vulgar.
But both wings belong to the same old
filthy vulture, inndelityl Elegant in.
fidelity proposes to conquer this land to
itself by the pen; Anarchy proposes &c
conquer 1t by bludgeon and torch.
The only impulse in the right direction
that this world has ever had has com,
from the Bible. It was the mother of Ro
man law and Of healthful jurisprudence
That book has been the mother Of all re-
forms and all charities-mother Of English
Magma Charta and American Declaration
of Independence. Benjamin Franklin
holding that holy book in his hand, stoot
before an infidel club at Paris and read Il
them out of the prophecies Of Habakkuk
and the infidels, not knowing what book
was, declared 1t was the best poetry the,
had ever heard. That book brough
George Washin gton down ON his knees il
the snow at Valley Forge, and led tn
dying Prince Consort to ask some one +
sing "Rock of Ages" ....
tell you that the worst attempted Grim
Of the century is the attempt to destro,
this book; yet infidelity, loathsome
stenchful, leprous, pestiferous, rotte
monster, stretches out its hand, ichorou
with the second death, to take the hand Q
this republic. 1t stretches it out throug
seductive magazines and through carica
lures of religion. 1t asks for all that par
of the continent already fully settle
and the two.thirds not yet occupied
1t says: "Give me all east of tn
Mississippi with the keys of the Churc
and the Christian printing presses; the
give me Wyoming, give me Alaska, Civ
me Montana, give me Colorado-give m
all the States and Territories west of til
Mississippi, and l will take those place
and keep them by right Of possession lon
before the gospel can be fully intrenched.
And this sutton presses his case appalling
ly. Shall the banns of that marriage +
proclaimeds
"NoW say the home missionaries of til
: West--a martyr band of whom the worl
Is not worthy, toiling amid fatigues AN
malaria and starvation.
: mo! not II we can help it. By what "
and our children have suffered We forbi
the banns Of that marriageW
: mol" say all patriotic voices, cot
t institutions were bought at too dear
, price, and were defended at too great
t sacrifice, to be 90 cheaply surrendered.
4, "No" says the God of Bunker Hill an
, Independence Hall and Gettysburg; 90
: did not start this Nation for such farce.
: NO." cry ten thousand voices; ITO In
t fidelity this land shall not be married 20