West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-21
USES OF MONEY.
BLACK oHAprGn or BRIBERY
Talmage Tells the Temptations of
Those Who Would Be Rich.

tcnPt9tfon and a snare, dad into tuuy1l
rooVsh and hurfuu tusts, iohfch droVn men
vi, o.
That Is the Niagara Falls over which rush
a multitpde OF souls, namely tho determine.
lion 70 nave money anyhow, right or wrong.
teli me pQw man gets hts money and what
he does With Il, and ] will tell you his char
eYter anq what will be his destiny In this
world aud the next propose to speak this
m9yping about somo of the ruinous modes OF
getung money.
We recently passed through a national
election IN which IL has been estimated that
thirty million dollars were expended Think
ABOUT twenty million Of it were spent in out
and out bribery. Both parties raised ali
they COULD for this purpose But that was
only on large scale what has been done on
smaller scale for fifty years and in all do.
Politics from being the science OF good
government has often been bedraggled into
ene synonym for trucuency and turpitude.
"a msnster sin, plausible, potent pestiferous,
has gone forth TO do its dreadful work i'm
ali ages. Its two hands are rotten with
sseprosy. 1t keeps its right hand hidden in a
oSeP pocket The left hand is clenched, and
with its ichorous knuckls IL taps at the door
OF the court room. the legislative hall, the
congress and the parliament The
ooor swings open and the monster
enters ana glides through the aisle OF the
council chamber as softly as a slippered page.
ana then 1t takes its right hand from its
deep pocket and offers IL in salutation 10
Jnuge or legislator If that hand be taken,
ana the palm OF the intruder cross the palm
OF the official, the leprosy crosses from palm
70 palm I'm round blotch, round as a gold
eagle, ana tho virus spreads and the doom is
nxso, and the victim perishes. Lot bribery,
hccursed OF God and man, stand up for trial
:. The Bible arraigns IL again and again
pamuel says OF his two sons who became
Judges; They took brides and perverted
Juogmentn David says OF some of his pur.
AIR rff -, 4. q. 81
Amos says Of some men i'm his day: "They
take a bribe and turn aside tho poor I'm the
gate" Elphaz fortells the crushing blows
o. oods indignation; declaring: Fire shall
consume tho tabernab,es of bribery
IL is no light temptation The mightiest
nave fallen under it. Sir Francis Bacon.
Lor! Chancellor Of England, founder of our
wodern philosophy, author of "Novum
the leading thinker of his century, so
preoocious that when n little child he was
asked by Queen Elizabeth: How old
are your he responded, IL am two years
reign OF whose oratory Ben. Johnson
wrote; 1.-THE fear OF every man that heard
him was lest be should make an end:n hav-
ing an income which you would suppose
OF bribery =thirty-six thousand dollars a
year, and Twickonham court a Gift. and
prlncely estates in Hertfordshire and Cor
q. = yet under this temptation
H0L into rum.
and on his confession Of taking
ortbes, giving as excuse that ali
his predecessors took them; he was fined
two hundred thousand dollars. or what cor
responds with orr two hundred thousand
dollars, and imprisoned in London tower
30 also Lord Chancellor Maccleslield fell. so
also Lord Chancellor Waterbury persisted. The
black chapter in English, Irish, French and
american politics is the chapter of bribery.
some OF you remember the Pacific Mail
SUBSIDIES. Most OF you remember the awful
tragedy of the Credit Mobilier Under
the temptation to bribery Benedict Arnold
sold the fort in the Highlands for
eSl,575. For this sin Gorgoy BETRAYED
hungary, Ahithbphel forsook David and
Judas kissed Christ. When | see so many
OF the illustrious going down under this
sSsmpsatlon 10 makes me think of the red
dragon spoken Of in Revelation, with seven
heads and ten horns and seven crowns
drawing third part of the stars of heaven
Gown after him The Hobbies of the legisla-
lures OF this country control the country
The land is drunk with bribery
oh" says some one, there's no need OF
taxing against bribery by promise or by
5 40 because every man has his price" I
40 noe DeheVe IL Even heathenism and the
dark ages have furnished specimens of in
Sorruptibility. A cadi of Smyrna had a case
brought before him on trial man
gave him five hundred ducats I'm
briber had many witnesses. The moor
man on the other side had no witnesses AT
the close OF the case the cadi said This
poor man has no witnesses, he thinks: I shall
produce 10 his behalf five hundred witnesses
against the other side And then pulling
out the bag Of ducats from under the otto
man, he dashed it down at the feet
OF the briber, saying: AZ give NV
lnondas, offered bride, sail: "I viii 40
TINS thing II 1t be right aud il &c be wrong
al your goods cannot persuade me y
sabrlcius OF the Roman senate was offered a
DIloe oy fyrrhus Of Macedon. Fabricius
answered: what an example this wouId Ia
70 the Roman people: you keep your riches
ana VIII Keep my poverty and reputation y
The President o. the American Congress
curing the American Revolution, General
heed was offered ten thousand euineas bv,
foreign commissioners II he would betrov
TN country He piled: "Gentlen1en I on
very poor man, but tell ycur KIM ne Ia
not rlcn enough to buy me" But why GO
g Tar; when. you and I, II we move in
nonorable society, know men and women who
~ an the concentrated force Of earth and
nell could not be bribed. They would 70
more be bribed than YOU would tbink -
zen tempting an angel Of light to exchange heaven
tsof the pit To offer bride is viliainv INIT
y a very poor compliment to the man "a
whom IL Is offered. -
have not much faith in those people VIII,
ABOUT Dragging how much they could get
~ 49, sy. ~Oulo ony sell out Thoss women
Nno complain that they are very often In.
~ ~ led need to understand that there h some.
WlnG IN their carria % to invite in4uif
There are men in Albany and ne Uor.
flspurg and az Washington who would no
more be approached by a bribe than n rir,to
boat with a few cutlasses woufd dorei - -
49, british man-Of-war with two banks -
Guns on each side loaded - he toucb hoo
.a,hsy are incorruptible men, and tbov arc
siis~,eT men who are % save the 80 81
s s9go tl9 .-iand. Meanwhile. my al.
slSe y % al people 20 keep out Of 1olitica
.lie.s you are invulnerabls to this stvle ~
~ patton. Indeed, III you are notnrallv
elVHsi you need religious buttreesiu,S
s.o'hihf 1us the grace Of God can sustain
y1I pubic men and make them what We
VIZ wish that there might come an
bdfashioned revival Of religion that
y might break out IN Congress ami IN
ne Legislatures and bring many Of the lead-
lne republican, snd Democrats down on the
anxious seat u repentance That day will
come, Of something better, for the Bib'o H.
clerfs that Kings and Queens shall feooroa
nursing fathers and mothers % fho cbnrcb
200 " ths greater in authority, shsn certain,
NJ charge alss % parents r. remember
sues tnla ovl of bribery often bezihs In tn
lo.1e cfOle and In the nurserY Do moi
uiipg your children. Teach them 20 A. tbaf
winch - right. and not becauso Of fbs ten
49, or me orange you will givo them.
lsfe ~ great difference between revvardina
lI.os AMI making tho profits thereof tbS