Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-29

| mere was ume-yOu and i remember II
very well-when drOves of vagabonds
wandered up and down on election day
and from poll 10 poll. and voted here, and
voted there, and voted everywhere, and
there was no challenge; or, if there were,
1t amounted to nothing, because nothing
could so suddenly be proved upon the
vagabonds. Now, in every we'll organized
neishborhOOd, every vOteris watched with
severesi scrutiny. l must tell the regis
trar my name and how old / am, and how
long have resided in the state, and how
long have resided in the ward or the
| township, and if misrepresent fifty wit
nesses will rise and shut me out from the
ballot box. Is not that great advance?
And then notice the law that prohibits a
man voting il he has bet on election. A
step further needs TO be taken, and that
man forbidden vote who has offered or
taken bride, whether it be in the shape
of free driak or cash paid down, the sus-
picious cases are obliged to pnt their hand
on the Bible and swear their vote in if they
vote at all. So through the sacred chest
Of our nations suffrage redemption will
come.
God also will save this nation through
an aroused moral sentiment. There has
never been so much discussion of morals
and minerals Men, whether or not they
acknowledge what is right, have to think
what is right. We have men who have
had their hands in the public treasury the
most of their lifetime, stealing all they
could lay their hands on, discouIsiDg elo-
Quently about dishonesty in public ser
wants, and men with two or three families
OF their OVID, preaching eloquently ont
the beauties ef the seventh commandment
The question Of sobriety and drunkenness
is thrust in the face OF the nation as never
before, and TO take a part in our political
contests. The question Of national So
briefly is going to be respectfully and
defersntisny heard at the bar Of
every legislature and every house
of representative and every United
States Senate, and an omnipOtent
voice will ring down the sky and acrosl
this land and back again, saying to the Sc
rising tides of drunkenness which threaten
to whelm home and church and nation:
THUS far shalt thou come, but no further,
and here shall thy proud waves be stayed -
/ have not in my mind shadow of dis
heartenment as large as the shadow Of
usetly's wing. My faith Is in the upper
foroSs. the "rPel aln'ies Vf tue text. "'u
is not dead. The chayiots are rot IN
wheeled II you would only pray more
and wash your ewes IT. the cool, bright wa
ter fresh from the we'll Of Christian re-
form, il would be said of you, as Of this
one of the text: THE Lord opened the
ewes of the young man; and he saw; and,
behold, the mountain was full of horses
and chaIiots of fire round about Elisha. )"
RELIGION IN POLITICS.
Have you any doubt about the need Of
the Christian religion to purify end make
decent American politics? At every year
" or Qusdrennial election we Rave IN this
country great manufactures, manutac.o-
ries of lies, and they are run day and night,
and they turn out half dozen day oil
equipped and ready for full sailing Large
lies and small lies. Lies private and lies
public and lies prurient. Lies cut bias
and lies cut Diagonal. Long llmbed lies
and lies with double back action. Lies
complimentary and lies d famatory. Lies
that some people believe, and lies that no.
body believes. Lies with humps like cam
ella and scales like crOcOdiles and necks as
lone IS stOrks and feet as swift as an an
telope's ard stings like ad6ers. Lies raw
and scallopod and PANIED and stewed.
Crawling lies and jumping lies and soar
ing lies. Lies with attachment screws
and rufilers and braiders and ready wound
bot bers. Lies by Christian people who
never lie except during elections, and lies
by people who always lie, but beat them
selves in a presidential campaign.
| COMES l am ashamed to have ior-
eiener visit this country in such times. l
should thiak he would stand dszad, his
hand on his pocket book, and dare not 90
ont nights. Whst will the hundreds OF
thousands of foreigners who came here to
Iva think of Us? What disgust they
must have for the land of their adoption
The only good thing about it is, many Of
them cannot understand the English Ian
eusge. But suppose the German ana
Italian and Swedish and French papers
translate it all and paddle out the Internal
stuff to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
sucb a flood of indecency. The Christian
religion will speak after n while. Inc
billingsgats and low scandal through
which we wade every year OF every fcur
wears. must he rebuked by that religion
which speaks from its two great noun
tains. from the one mountain intonlng the
command, Thou shalt not bear false wit
ness against thy neighbOr," and from the
other mount making plea for kindness ana
love and blessing rather than cursing'
Yes we are going to have national re-
ligion.
THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF NAIlONAl' hE'
LIGION.
The one ia supported by the state, aud
10 a matter OF human politics, and 1t has
gre,t patronsge, and under 1t men Will
strnoole for prominence without reference
- qualifications, aud It's archbishop Is
sDnnorted by a salary of $4,000 a year,
and there are great cathedrals, with all
tbe machinery of music and canoncals,
nd room for a thousand people, yet an
audience of fifty people, or twenty people,
or ten, or two. A..
We gant no such religion as that, no
srch national rel gion; but we want this
1
;o-;tv of the people converted and evan
gslized. and then they will manage the
sscnlar as well as the religious.
Do Won say that this Is imprsctlcable!
No The time is coming just as certain as
there is a God and that is his book and that
he has the strength snd the honesty to
Tnlfu his promises. One OF the ancient
amnsrors used to pride himself on per
(o1ming that which bis cOunselOrs said was
;mnosslble, and have 10 tell you to-day
that mans impOssibles are Gods easies'
"Hstb he said and shall he do it? Hath
no commanded, and will he not bring 1t to
nsssSn The Christian religion is coming
70 take uosst ssion of every ballot box, OF
ever school house, of every home, every
Galley of every mountain, Of every acre oil
orr rational domain. This nation, not
witbstandipg all the evil Influences that
are tr7ipg to destroy it, is going to live.
Ali II will not be long before 1t VIII
not make any difference to you or to me
What becomes of this continent so lar as
earthly comfort is concerned. All we
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