News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-15

| His public life and his private life are scruti-
niZed, and all the electric lights are turned
on. How often it is that men have gone
down under such things. In every autumnal
scouting carcasses. Cawl Cav! Cav! There
are newspapers in the United States that in
the great autumnal elections take wild
license for liberty. They are filled with
calumy. The editorial columns of such
papers reek with it; their columns are
stuffed with it. There are newspapers in
the United States which in the great popu-
lar elections breakfast and dine and sup on
indscency. They wallow in it. Swine like
the mire. They give more for one quill full
of it than whole hogshead of decent pro-
duct. There are IN these great autumnal
elections men sitting in editorial chairs who
write with quill, not plucked from the stu
pid g,'oSe or the sublime eagle, but from a
turkey buZzapd! Ghoulsi Ghoulsl They
tip the city sewer into their editorial ink.
stands. defamation OF character is one of
the curses of the American ballot box to-day.
In your great presidential elections who csn
tell from what he reads who is the man he
ought to vote fora Bad men sometimes ap-
plaudeG', good men denounced.
AnotE er powerful foe of the sacred chest,
the ark of the American covenant the bal
lot box. rs the rowdy and drunken caucus
The ballot box does not give any choice to
a man whtn the no ninations are made in the
back part of a gro sgery. When the elector
comes up he has to choose between two evils
In some of the cities men have come to the
ballot box to vote, and have found both
names SUCH scaly, greasy and stenchful
crew they had no choice, You say vote for
somebody outside Then they throw away
their vote. Christian men of New York and
Brooklyn honorable men, patriotic men, go
and take possession of the caucuses. First
having SIS turated your pocket handkerchief
with cologne or some other disinfectant, go
down to the caucus and take posses
sion of it in the name of the Lord God
a nd fhn 4
after YOU come back you should have to
hang your hat and coat on line in the back
yard for ventilation.
Now, how are these things to be remedied2
Some say by property qualification. They
say that after man gets certain amount
of property-a certain amount of real estate
he is financially interested in good govern
ment, and he becomes cautious and conserI
tive. l reply, property qualification woult.
shut off from the ballot box great many of
the best men in the land. Literary men are
almost always poor. A pen is a good imple
ment to make the world better, but it is a
very poor implement to get livelihood Ordi-
uarily. have known scores OF 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, teachers of
sch Ools, editors of newspapers, ministers of
religion, qualified in every possible way to
vote, yet no worldly success. There has been
many a man who has not had house on
earth vino will have a mansion in heaven.
There are many who through accidents of
fortune have come to great success while
they are profound in their stupidity, as pro-
found in their stupidity as a man of large
fortune with whom was crossing the ocean,
who told me he was going to see the dykes of
Scotland. When Il member of my family
asked lady on her return from Europe if
she had seen Mont Blanc, she replied: We'll,
really, l don't know; is that in Europem
Ignorance by the square foot. Property
qualification will not do. The only way
these evils will be eradicated will be by
m IRE thorough legal defense of the ballot
box and a more thorough moralization
and Contamination of the people. That
ark of the covenant was carried
into captivity to Kirjath 3earim, but one
day the people hooked oxen to n cart, and
thew put this ark on the cart, and the
cart was taken to Jerusaiem-the ark of
the covenant coming with the shouting and
than zsgiving of the people And though
the American ballot box, the ark of the
American covenant, our sacred chest, has
bean carried again and again into captivity
by fraud and iniouity and spurious voting,
believe it will be brought back yet by prayer
and by Christian conservation, and will be
set down in the uidst of the temple of
Christian patriotism. Whose responsibility?
Yours and mine.
You have not only vote, you have q
prayer. The prayer may be mlghtier 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 M this country. The |
stars on our flag not the sts rs of q thick |
en3ug night but the stars SprlD kled amid the |
bars OF morning cloud We are goiug to |
Lavo one government on this entire conti- |
nent Let the despotIsms of Asia keep |
their feet of the Pacific coast and let the |
tyrannies of Europe keep their feet off |
the Atlantic coast. We ave going to have |
one government. Mexico will hollow Texas |
into the Union. and Chris tianity and civili- |
cation will stand side by side in the halls of |
the Montezumas. And if not in our day, |
then in the day of children, Yucca !
tan and Central America will come in do
minion, while on the north Canada will DO
ours, not by conquesb-oh, no. American and
English swords may never c. ash blades-but
we win woo our fair 1seighbor of the North,
and then England vii say to Canada: You
are old enough for the marriage day" AMI
tLen, turning, Will say: Giant of the West, |
20 take your bribe-" AMI then from J5affin's
under one flag, with one des 5nny-ai
rec, undisputed, Christianized AJnericanl
continent. God save the city of BreeklvnH
iod save the commonwealth of New ork
J cd save the Union!