The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-12-20

80 Please the Cabinet, may It please the
senate and House of Representatives, may 1t
Please the printing presses and the churches
and the people who lift up and put down our
To them / make this timely and sol
emn and Christian appeal Do you
rot think people die fast enough with
ont this wholesale butchery Of war? Do
you not think that we can trust to pneu-
monias and consumptions and apoplexles
and palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatlc
choleras the work of killing them fast
enough? Do you not think that the
oreedv. wide open Jaws of the grave ought
to be satisfied if filed by natural causes
with hundreds of thousands Of corpses
vsarg Do YOU not think we can do something
better with men than 10 dash their lie
ont against easements OF blow them INTO
fragments by torpedoes or send them out
into the world where they need all their
faculties footless, armless, eyeless? Do you
not think that women might be appointed to
an easier place than the edge Of grave
trench to wiring their pale hands and weep
ont their evesight in widOwh0Od and child
Iessnesss Why, the last glory has gone out
Of war.
There was a time when it demanded that
ouaIitv which we all admire-namely. cour-
age-for a man had to stand at the hilt oil
his sword when the point pierced the foe and
while he was Staying another the other
might slay him; or it was bayonet charge.
Rut now It Is cool and deliberate murder,
and clear out at sea bombshell can De
| hurled miles away into a city, or While thou-
sands of private soldiers, who have no inter
est in the contest. for they were con
scripted. are losing their lives, their
I General may sit smoking one OF the
1 hest Havana cigars after a dinner OF guam
/ on toast. 1t may be well enough for gradu-
sting students Of colleges on commencement
/ day 10 crate about the poetry OF war, but DO
/ NOT talk about the poetry of war TO the men
n the Federal or Confederate armies who
were at the 'front.' or TO some OF us VINO, as
members of the Christian commission, sa"
| fire chastity hospitals at Antietam and Hagers-
! town Ali YOU may worship the Lord OF
/ Hosts. I worship the God of Peace WHO
I thought again from the dead our Lord Jesus
| Christ, that great Shepherd OF the sheep
! War is an accursed monster ana u was
horn in the lowest cavern of perdition and
| prsy that it may speedily descend to the
/ Mace from which It arose, its last sword and
/ Shield and musket rafting on the bottom OF
/ he red hot mari of he'll Let there be called
! a peace convention for 1892, with delegates
| sent by all the desent Governments OF
Christendom and while they are IN session. ,l
| n Won should some night go out and iooh
| INTO the sky above the exposition build
ir0s You NAV find that the Old gallery OF
| crystal that was taken down after the Detn-
! lei,5,r, anthem of eighteen centuries ago va
SUNG out. is rebuilt again in the clouds, ana
the same angelic singers are returned wiz. IN
the same Ibrettos of light to chant ''5iory 70
God in the highest, anu OF e@rth Pe''oe' 49,
, Will to men, - ,.-.,.,,1,.
AGAIN suggest in regard to the w ORD 5
| Fair that. while appropriate places are pre-
pared for all foreign exhibits We MAKE no
room for the importation OF foreigh vices;
America has enough OF its own ana we W. n es-.
] ind a worlds Ialr
will bring all kinds of people. gOod anu u t,a
| The good we must prepare 10 welcome lne
bad we must prepare to shun- The attempt
will again be made in 1892, as IN 1910,
10 break up our American Saba ms
That attempt was made at the inii5-
1elphia Centennial, but was ue4e1 i.eat
The American Sabbath Is the best kePt
Sabbath on earth. We do not want II
broken down. and substituted IN the place
thereof the Brussels Sabbath the Nleilha
Sabbath. the St. Petersburg Sabbath or any
Of the foreign Sabbaths, which are no SAP
baths at all. l think the Lord IS more ihan
generous in asking only fifty-two days out OF
Tho Ss5 for His service You let the Sabbath
20 and with twill go your Bible ana aIteI
that your liberties, and your chlldreh OF y9uI
grandchildren will be here in America under
adespotism as bad as in those lands where
thew turn the Lords day into wassail ana
frolic. -. -,,, no &C a,
Among those WHO GUILE tAlAS Wa =
other eSpositions, lordIy people. who vii
bring their vices with them. Among tht
D1kes and Duchesses and Princes ano
Princesses Of other lands are some OF the
pest men and women of all the earth. Re
member Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
Lord SALISBURY. But there is snobbery
and funkeyism in American society ina
runs after grandee, a Duke, Lord or
Prince, though he may be walking laza
retto and his breath u plague. IL MAKE,
society TO dance one cotillion with one o
these princely lepers. Some people cannoI
get their hat off quick enough when they se
such a foreign Lord approaching, and they az
NOT care for the lnire into which they dr2l
their knees as they bow to worship Let .
splendor of pedigree or any pomp and para
phelnAlia of circumstance make hun az, 4. aS
live. There is only one set 81 Ten Com