Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-30

forth clothed in their right mind. No,
need | tell you of the asylums for tn,
blind, the deaf and the dumb, and tn
orphans, the widows, the outcast.
/ THANK GOD FOR II PLACE OF OIL
RESIDENCE,
and while there are n thousand thing
that ought to be corrected, and man,
wrongs that ought to be overthrown
while | thank God for the past, | lool
forward this morning to Il glorious fu
ture. l think we ought-and | take i
for granted You are all interested il
this great work of cvangelizing TIN
cities and saving the world-we ough
10 toll with the sunlight in our faces
We are not fighting IN miserable Bul
Run Of defeat. We are on our way t
final victory. We are not followin.
the rider on the block horse, leading
us down TO death and darkness ant
doom, but the rider on the white horse
with the o. under his feet and the
stars of heaven for its tiara. Hail
~conqueror, hail!
| want you TO understand, al yot
who are toiling for Christ. hat the
castles of sin are all going to be cap.
tured. The victory for Christ in these
great towns is going to be SO complete
that not a man on earth. or an angel
in heaven. or a devil in hell will dis
pute it. How DO | knowP | know
just as certainly as God lives and that
this is holy truth. The old Bible sfull
of il. If the nation is to be saved. of
course, all the cities are to be saved. II
makes a great difference with you and
with me whether we are toiling on to-
ward a defeat or toiling on toward a
victory.
Now in this municipal elevation OF
which | speak | have to remark there
will be greater financial prosperity
than our cities have ever seen. Some
people seem TO have II morbid idea of
the millennium. and they think when
the better time comes to our cities and
the world, people will give their time
up to psalm singing and the relating OF
their religious experience. and as all
social life will be purified there will be
no hilarity, and as all business will be
purified there will be no enterprises
There is no ground for such IN absurd
anticipation. In the time of which
speak,
WHERE n FORTUNE is MADE, THERE
Will BE HUNDRED FORTUNES MADE.
We all know business prosperity de-
ponds upon confidence between mar
and man. Now when that time comes
Of which speak, and all double deal.
ing, all dishonesty, and all fraud
are gone out Of commercial circles.
thorough confidence will be estab
lished, ard there will be better bust,
ness done, and larger fortunes gath
cred, and mightier successes achieved
The great business disasters of thi,
country have come from the work o
goddess spectators and infamou.
stock gamblers. The great foe to bust
ness in Now York aud Brooklyn il
crime. When the right shall hav,
hurled back the wrong and shall hav,
purified the commercial code, and shall
have Numbered down fraudulent es
t.blishments. and shall have put int,
the hands of honest men the KEYS o
business, blessed time for the bargain
makers. ann not talking an abstrac
ton; ! am not making a guess. an
telling you Gods eternal truth.
In that day of which / speak take
will be a mere nothing. Now, on
business men are taxed for everything
City taxes, county taxes, state taxes
United State taxes, stamp taxes. Il
taxes, manufacturing taxes
taxes, taxes, taxes! Our bushes
men have to make a small fortune CIV
cry year to pay their taxes. What fas
tens on our great industries this aw
full loadp Crime, individual and off
cial. We have to pay the board of tn
villains who are incarcerated in on
prisons. We have to take care of tn
orphans Of those who plunged into thei
graves through beastly indulgence
We have to support the municipal GOV
ernments, which are vast and eXpen
sive just in proportion as the crimina
proclivities are vast and tremendous
Who supports the almshouses and pc
lice stations and all the machinery q
municipal government The taxpay
ers.
And tell you Republicans and yo'
Democrats, that if you do not let dow
the taxes and let the people up, w
will form
A NEW PARTY,
anti-eXcessive taxation, anti-rum, anti
monopoly, characterization, am
you who have been fattenin!
on the public spoils and reckless Of til
public virtue shall not have so much a
the wages of a street sweeper.
But in the glorious time Of which
speak, grievous taxation will all hav,
ceased. There will be no need of sup
porting criminals; there will be nc
criminals. Virtue will have taken til,
place of vice. There y i'll be no orphan
asylums, for parents will be able tc
leave Il competency to their children,
There will be no voting of large sums
of money for some municipal improve.
ment, which moneys, before they gcl
10 the Improvement. drop into th,
pockets of those who voted them. NJ
oyer and terminer kept up at vast ex.
pense to the people. No empanneiine
of iuries to try theft, and arson, anc
murder, and SANDER, and blackmaiI