The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-16

indecency. They wallow in il. Swine
like the mirs- They give more for one
quill Of it than q whole hOgshead Of de-
cent product.
There are in these great autumnal cleo.
tions men sitting in editorial chairs who
write with a quill not plucked from the
stupid goose, or the sublime eagle. but
from q turkey buzzards Ghouls! Ghouls!
They tip the city sewer into their editorial
inkstands. Defamation Of character is
one Of the curses OF the American ballot
box to-day. In your great Presidential
elections who can tell from what he reads
who is the man he ought to vote for. Bad
men sometimes applauded, good men de.
nouncad.
Another powerful foe of the sacred
chest, the ark of the American covenant,
the ballot box, is the rowdy and drunken
caucus.
The ballot box does not give any choice
to a man when the nominations are made
in the back part Of a groggery. When the
elector comes up he has to choose betw cen
two evils. In some of the cities men have
come to the ballot box to vote, and have
found both names such q scaley, greasy
and stenchful crew they had no choice.
they throw away their vote. Christian
men of New York and Brooklyn, honor
able men, patriotic men, 60 and take pos
session of the caucuses. First having
saturated your handkerchief with cologne
or some other disinfectant, go down to the
caucus and take possession Of it in the
name of the Lord God Almighty and
the American people. though after you
har 70 hal
hat and coat on line in the back
yard for ventilation. In some CT the
States politics have got SO low that the
nominees no more need good morals then
they do bathtub. Snatch the ballot box
from such men. Where is the David who
will go forth and bring the ark Of the
covenant back from Kirjath- jearin: Do
you not think politics have got to pretty
low ebb in our day when q Tweed could
be sent to the Legislature Of New York
and a John Morrissey, the prince Of gam
blers could be sent to the American Con.
gress
Now, how are these things to be rsme-
died? Some say by q property qualifica-
ton. They say that after . man gets .
certain amount of property certain
amount Of real estate-he il financially in
terested in good government and he be-
comes cautious and conservative. reply
property qualification would shut Of
from the ballot box q great many Of the
best men in this land Literary men are
almost always poor. A pen is . good
implement to make the world better,
but it is q very poor implement
to get q livelihood ordinarily. I
have known scores of literary men who
never owned a foot of ground and never
will own foot of ground until they get
under it. Professors Of colleges, teachers
Of schools, editors Of newspapers, minis
tiers Of religion, qualified in every possi-
bic way to vote, yet no worldly success.
There has been many a man who has not
had house on earth who will have Q
mansion in Heaven.
There are many who through accidents
of fortune have come to great success,
while they are profound in their stupidity,
as profound in their stupidity as a man Of
large fortune with whom I was crossing
the ocean who told me he was going to
see the dykes Of Scotland. When MEM
Der of my family asked q lady on her re-
turn from Europe IL she had seen Mont
Blanc she replied: ''Well. really, don't
know. Is that in Europe." Ignorance BY
the square foot. Property qualifications
will not do. The only way these evils will |
be eradicated will be by more thorough |
legal defense OF the ballot box and . more |
moralization and Christianixa- |
ton Of the people.
That ark of the covenant was carried |
into captivity to Kirjath- jearin, but one |
day the people hooked oxen to . cart and |
they put this ark on the cart and the cart |
was taken to Jerusalem-the ark Of the |
coming with the shouting and |
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 captiv-
ity by fraud and iniquity and spurious vo-
ting, 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
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 furlough, and
be wanted some help to get back in quick
transit The money was given to the poor
soldier, who said to the man who had Of
Tered the kindness: II have nothing to
recipe for making backing" He gave it,
not thinking there was any value in it
and the man who took it did
1ot suppose there was any special value
N it, but it yielded the man who took it
=. 500, 900, and was the foundation Of one
If the greatest estates in England. And
hat little vote, that Insignificant vote
which you take out of your pocket-iusig-
,v,x airht Nd ;rs q j. |
he sight of others-may start an influence
hat will last all through the progress of
his government
charge you, then, as American citizens
% remember your responsibility on the
irst Tuesday Of November. 1t will begin
.arly, the snow storm Of SURFACES. 1t will
now all day-snow on until noon, snow
m until night. The flakes will fall in
very town and village and neighborhood,
he white flakes. The octogenarian will
,ome up, his hand trembling, and with
pectacled eye he will scrutinized the vote
md drop it and pass on. The young man
Who has been waiting for his time will
ome up, and proudly and blushingly de-
'osit his first vote and pass on. The capi-
alist will come up with bediamond finger
md the laborer with hard fist, and the
ne vote will be as good as the other.
snow storm Of SURFACES, and then these
white fakes can be gathered together and
into an avalanche that will
Tide down in expression of the will of the
'eople. Stand out of the way Of it,. In the
wful sweep of this white avalanche let
'olitical fraud go down a thousand feet
nder. You have not only q vote, you
ave q prayer. The prayer may be
nightier than the vots. o, as citizens of
his beautiful city and Of this State and
( this Nation, let US do our whole
uty. We can not live under any
Their form Of government than that