Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-11-11


people, though after you come back you
should have to hang your hat and coat
on a line in the back yard for ventila-
ton.
In some of the states politics have got
20 low that the nominees no more need
good morals than they do a bath tub.
Snatch the ballot box from such men.
Where is the David who will 60 forth
and bring the ark Of the covenant back
from Kirjath- jeariml Do you not think
politics have got to a pretty low ebb in
our day when q Tweed could lie sent to
the legislature of New York, and a John
Morrissey, the prince of gamblers, could
be sent to the American compress?
Now, how are these things to be
remediedi Some say by a property
qualification. They say that after a man
gets a certain amount o. property
certain amount of real estlte-hc is fin
ancially interested in cool government,
and he becomes caution and cOnserva-
tive. / reply, a propeITy qualification
great many Of. the btst men in this land.
Literary men are almo always poor, a
pen is a good nipple Mcnt 10 make the
world better, but it lS 4 very POOR imple-
ment TO get n livelihood ordinarily. |
have known scores %. literary men who
never owned a foot Of ground and never
will own a foot OF ground until they get
under it. Professors of colleges, teach
ers Of schools, editors of newspapers,
ministers of religion, qualified in every
possible way to vote, yet no worldly sue
less. There has been many 4 man who
has not had a house Oh earth VITO viii
have Il mansion IN heaven.
There are many who through accidents
Of fortune have come to great success
while they are profound in their stu
pidity, as profound in their stupidity as a
man of large fortune with whom | was
crossing the ocean. who told me he was
going 10 see the dykes of Scotland! When
n member of my family asked a lady on
her return from Europe il she had seen
Mont Blanc, she replied: ''Well, really, /
don't know; is that in Europe(' Ignor-
Ance by the square foot. Property quail
cation will u do. The only way these
evils will be eradicated will be by more
thorough legal defense of the ballot box
and a more thorough moralization and
Christianization Of the people. That ark
of the covenant was carried into cap.
tvity TO Kirjath- jearim. but N day
the people hooked oxen to a cart, and
thev put tins ark on the cart, and the
cart was taken TO JeruEalem-the ark Of
the covenant coming with the shouting
and thanksgiving Of the people. And
though the American ballot box, the ark
Of the American covenant, our sacred
chest. has been carried again and again
into captivity by fraud and iniquity, and
spurious voting, / believe it will be
brought back yet by prayer and by
Christian conservation, and Will be set
down in the midst Of the temple of
Christian patriotism. Whose resspon-
sibilityI Yours and mine.
A poor soldier went to a hair dresser
In London. He wanted to get back to
the army. He had Overrun his Through,
and he wanted some help to get back in
quick transit. The money was given 20
the poor soldier, who said to the man
who had offered the kindness: IL have
nothing to give you in return but this
little worn out receipt for making black
ing" He gave il not thinking there was
any value in 1t especially, and the man
who took il did not suppose there was
any special value in it, but il yielded the
man who took il $4,000, 600. and wal
the foundation Of one Of the greatest es-
tates in England. And that little vote.
that insignificant vote which YOU take
out Of your pocket-insignificant IN your
sight and Insignificant in tine sight 81
others-may start an influence that
will last al through the progress Of this
government.
SOME CONCLUSIONS ~ REGARD TO VOTING.
| charge you then as American citizens
10 remember your responsibility on the
first Tuesday Of November. Il viii
begin early, the snow storm Of sur
frages. IL will snow all dny-snow on
until noon, snow ON until night. The
fakes will fall in every town and village
and neighborhood, the white flakes. The
octogenarian will come up, his hand
trembling, and with spectacled eye he
will scrutinize the vote and drop It and
pass on. The young man who has been
waiting for his time will come up and
proudly and b~lushingly deposit his first
vote and pass on. The capitalist will
come up with bediamonded finger and
the laborer with hard fist, and the
one vote will he as good as the
other. Snow storm Of sufTrages, and
then these white fakes will be gathered
together and compacted into an ava
kncbe that will slide down in expression
Of the will Of the people. Stand out Of
the way Of i'll In the awful sweep Of
this white avalanche let political fraud
20 down a thousand feet under.
You have not only q vote, you have a
prayer The prayer may 'e mightier
Than the vote. Oh, as citizens OF this
beautiful city, and Of this state, and Of
this nation, let us do our whole duty.
We cannot live under any other form Of
government than that which God has
given us In this country. The stars on
our flag are not the stars Of a thickening
aIght but the stan gpipkled sm1