Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-04
MOBoCRACY.
A PULPIT VIEW OF SATURDAYS
DIsGRACEFUL sCENE.
An Appeal to the Decent People of
Sacramento to Stand for
Law and Order.

Rev. Br. Merrill preached yesterday morning
in the Congregational Church from the text,
Would thou hadst known the things that be-
long unto thy peace p and Behold, your
house is left unto you desolate" In the prelude
to his sermon the speaker said:
The civilized world is travelling at a rate
of progress that is truly marvellous. The
forces that men employ to-day so skilliuily that
child, as II were, can move mountains, are so
enormous that we cannot begin to comprehend
their magnitude. The reality of to-day is more
remarkable than the mythology of yesterday. A
FACT HAS ouTsTRIPPED FABLE
In the race The myths of the ancients were
but hidden prophecies of what was then yet TO
be. We lie on our couch and travel with the
winds over sea and land with seven leagued
boots for our pillow. The past seems like
misty cloudland from the sublime heights of
the present. Sphynx and obelisk and pyra-
mid stand out as monuments of mere butte
force upon the background of the ages and
serve alone to give perspective to the triumphs
of to day. Travelling at such pace, it is not TO
De wondered at Il we have come far from the
strange if in our flying journey we have not lost
much of The simplicity of youth and of the trust
I and confidence and reverence that marked our
early years.
THE PAST DOES NOT INVITE Us,
While we feel that the fever of this flying pres
ent is burning its way into the very citadel of
our life This is true of our civil life; it is
equally true of individual experience. We are
taking such gigantic strides that we take along
with us all TOO little of the experience of the
past The greater the rapidly the greater the
risk-increase the velocity without adding to
the weight and you will fly the track at the first
impeachment or curve We need slower growth
and deeper experience. We become infants
and then men without the connecting link of
youth with its education. We should carry with
US the caution and conservatism of youth as
ballast for the future. We are rushing on to
the
UTTER DISREGARD OF THE CRIES OF WARNING
Going I'D from despairing hearts and wrecked
and wasted and ruined lives We set God S
laws at defiance while struggling only for the
things that perish wi h the using We make
mock at sin. and cherish few formal rules of
morality which serve merely to CLOAK the bar
repness OF heart astray from God and right
eousness- The time is come for us to cry halt to
the baSeness that has led men to live selfishly;
bend all their thoughts to business prosperity
and selfish promotion while they look with
apathy and Indifference upon the vampire suck
ing the best blood of our civil ana social life.
sAcRAMENTo's DISGRACE OF SATURDAY
Such scenes as this city witnessed on Saturday
are enough to wiring protestatioDs from the
frozen lips of the dead. Such public cursing
and fighting and brazen intimidation are enough
to I'LL respectable citizen with shame that ne
is an American citizen to be ruled by such
beasts and tends. Ii the majority of order
respecting, home-loying citizens of this city do
not rise at the next election and assert their
thority and power On the side of right, then
they are skulking towards. second only in guilt
to the human devils who perpetrated these
crimes upon humanity. If the business men of
this city are not miserable cravens, trembling
| under the lash of
a wHIsKY-GUZZLING MOB
They win throw politics to the winds close
their places of business on next election day,
and on every election day. until these emissa-
rles OF the devil have been put beneath our
feet. The man who will longer prize politics
above civil purity and the welfare of wife and
children is meanec than the bessts of earth.
The bear will die for her cubs, the lion for her
whelps. If such scenes as these are to be en-.
acted longer, then this is no land of liberty. If
mobocracy is 10 rule, then
TEAR THE EAGLE from YOUR STANDARDS,
Let freedom perish and chaos reign supreme
When people have become so eaten up with
greed that they will not build for law and
order, they are allowing traitors to dig mines
and lay trains that will serve one day to blow
both business and Government to atoms. Leave
God out OF the count in your affairs, and you are
| making a void that Satan will fill with dyna-
mite and anarchy. We have been studying too
| long mere business prosperity regardless of
those deeper principles without which prosper
| ity is Impossible. God grant we learn before it
is too late the things that belong unto our peace
| If we do not the hour will surely dawn when
the fiat that has passed Judgment upon every
nation that has forgotten God will go forth for u.s.
"BEHoLD YOUR HOUSE Is LEFT UNTO YOU pEs
oLATE"
! Mark the word cleft Gcd need not smite
nation. He leaves it to moral suicide. AMI ere
| long the wild fox digs his hole beneath the
| crumb:ing ruins of her mighty palaces and the
| jackal howls above her dreary wastes
| The speaker drew graphic picture of Christ
weeping over Jerusalem and then said: Our
| Lord looked down upon this wondrous sight
the magnificent structure of the temple; its pill
Jared cloisters; its outer COURT its central edi-
| fee, covered with gold, with its massive dome
| blazing like an earthly sun; the Son of David
| looked down upon the city of Solomon and
BURST INTO A FLOOD OF TEARS.
| Why did he weep? He never wept for himself
His native village had hustled him from her
borders, and with dry eyes he went his way
with a truism on his lips. Again and again he
had been wounded iu the house of his friends
and his cheeks were dry; his eyelids were
heavy and he had not where to lay his head
but his heart was light as thistledown. He
foretod to his disciples the terrible fate toward
which he travelled with voice calm as an Eastern
dawn. But when he stood above this mighty
city, royal with splendor that never met the
human eye before and hardly since, he wept
and cried +" oh, Jerusalem Jerusalem thou
that killest the prophets, how often would l
have gathered thee, and thou wouldst not be-
hold your house is left unto you desolate" Why
did Jesus weep? Because the Holy City was
dead in trespasses and sins and knew 1t not.
JEHOVAH IN THE TEMPLE AND THE DEVIL IN THE
STREETS.
Nay, Jehovah in one end of that sacred edifice
and temporizing, Matchmaking, time-serving
moralistic sanhedrin in the other; that was the
tiioukHt tbdb etbt Tic VAIN tears toufsilS COWH
his cheeks, fit prelude TO the hot drops that
would one day fall like molten lead upon her
golden dome and sculptnred towers and Marble
streets and sweep the queen of cities from the
earth.
In closing the speaker made au earnest appeal
to young men TO strive for the future of our
State.
Young men, listen; if not to my words, at
least TO the mutterings and rumbliDgs
PROPHETIC OF COMING STORMS.
Would you live to see this nation the greatest
and gran6est on which the sun looks down?
Would you have our own proud State the
greatest and grandest of them all? 1t may be
and II will be if you will to make it such. There
is no dream that visits you on your pillow so
with a sure reality if the Young men OF to-day
will do well their part. But that part is no
easy task 1t means fir-t OF all the conservation
of your life to Gods cause and Gods truth, for
in that Providence, as surely as the oak lies in
the acorn, rests the germ of all our pros perity.
Walk up to the polls and
VOTE AT THE BIDDING OF KING ALCOHOL
And you have ground the acorn beneath your
heel. Your own life and will and character are
being wrought into the fabric of our Govern
menr. and what that life and will and character
are that Government viii become. There is
nothing on all Gods green earth more certain
than that. Let the men of this State make
their lives pure and holy and noble and the
scenes of saturday will be as impossible of en-
actment as for the Sacramento river t. roll back
its flowing tides 10 the mountains whence il
comes"