The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-16
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THE PIRATES Of SOCIETY

q IShouhSSu bStoEC AWSetluk VI vi
while Cross Association-Pnblic
Officials Denounced us Libcr.
ifs tincs..yv .yvooft,l state Of nairs.
MONTREAL, Jan. 8l5.- Society in til
city and at Ottawa has been great
stirred up by sensational speech, deli,
cred here before the White Cross Sc
ciety, By, Rev. DR.. Douglass, president {
the Wesleyan Methodist College.
1T was the most sweeping arraignmen
Of social leaders and public officials eve
heard in Canada. There were many lad
les In the audience. He said
II impeacA tho moral sense OF ou
city for its criminal Indifference to tn,
character Of It's public men. Look at tht
men that have been elected to our c0un
ell and civic chairs. This city has elect
ed men from whose homes virtue hal
led-men whose lives we're pefpetua
defiance Of the seventh canon Of tho de-
calogue. These men, whose immortality
was fared in the very face OF heaven,
have come forward again and again, and
have been elected and reelected until II
would seem as II vice itself in this city
Of Montreal were one OF tho credentials
for high standing.
CRY Y5orylotALs. "a IKE
"And look at the men that our City
Council have appointed to official posi-.
tious-compauions Of the fast, the du.
bious, the tlashy; poker.players set to
catch gamblers; men In whose office is
the underground telegraph to signalize
resorts when raids are to be made. ! in.
peach some OF the constituencies Of the
Dominion OF an $abnegation OF moral
discrimination in the representatives
they have sent to Parliament. There are
men at every mention OF whose names
virtue bushes and modesty hides her
head d-men whose characters have been
kicked around the hotels and the CORR.
dors OF our House Of Parliament and
then over the land. Nd y,j5355
II tell those men who have won some
little political success us members or
ministers, but who bear on their fore
heads tue Apoculyptic mark Of the beast
II tell those highly honorable members
whom it may concern, yes, and all rough
handed ! hit them Sc uare: between tho
eyes, when ! tell them their, example
and record is 20 .tilential. The time is at
hand when the Sir Charles Dilkes and
the Hughes G. Halletts OF Canadian
politics must retire before the scorn and
aroused conscience OF tue electors OF this
land. We strike the itocsin and sound
the knell Of their political damnation
II itnpeach the so.called society men
as at war with the sanclity OF the family,
the wasted scious OF wealth, the de-.
graded sons OF niggard fathers, your men
that arise at pay morning calls at 8,
and dine it and wine it and cigar it and
gamble it and dissipate, and then at the
midnight hour march out OF their club
houses-those heartbreakers Of homes
| say, out of their clubhouse or else
where, and drive into darkness. The
society, man will lie. he will swindle, he
will cheat at cards, he will forge, he will
defalcate, he will smile in the face, OF a
man as a friend while he is wreckipg his
domestic honor and, as / have known,
he will drink the very wine that charity
has donated tfor bis! dying vile and fill
the bottle with water. d, s
.,,i. THE rIRATEs, OF SOCIETY. "A Il;
"Tell me Of the buccaneers OF the
Spanish main, tell me of the very men
I ~ E- y q 2
that gambled for the seamless coat Of
the crucilied Son Of God; I would sooner
trust innocence in the hands of any or
all of these than with your sleek, oiea-
ginous aud polished Bcoundrels that
float about in society, one of whom, on
Beaver Hall Hill, under Gods sunlight,
In response. to the inquiry for a registry
office, conducted poor country girl to q
place where she was only saved by the
warning and compassion OF the keeper,
who had more mercy than the gilded
friend. There was never a! pirate who
sailed on the high seas whose ultimatum
was to walk the plank that could equal
the cruelty Of some Of these gentry that
infest our streets. Il, q
t"And where is the evil son who has
| wrought this ruination-where Z Wei.
coined into the salons OF st. Denis and
Sherbrooke streets, whisking around the
daughters OF wealth in the indelicacies ol
the waltz and polkn, fascinating the
feminine heart like as the insect is fas.
cinated d glby the n devouring 4 flame.
Fascinating7 Yes, all the more because
OF the dark romance that is whispered
about that Charlie is u little fast, you
know. Fast !? y Yes. BY oaths Of eternal
fealty, by protestations and perjury, be
has wrought out the, ruin Of humble in.
nocence. &tThis ia the romance that Aoata
about in the. balls aud social parties oi
society concerning a man, a creature, q
loathsome 4 reptile, TO be scorned, les.
pissed and--bnt, then, ye goddesses ol
society, the reptile is eligible and baa
money. /: q K NJ y;
i There are men in our midst garbed
with respectability, who, il l were to re:
veal how their disguise and sham were
pierced through and through, & would
stand %blanched with the pallor Of Bel.
shaxzar when; he saw the handwriting
on the wall, while their dishonored
heads would be crowned with reproach
and Missing. 4. 4;
81 have thought Of the great poets i'm
mortal dreams, the dream Of Clarence
crossing the Styx.$SAs he entered the
abode Of the damned, among . the first
that there did greet his stranger soul
was a pale youth, with bright hair dab.
bled sin:f blood, who shrieked aloud
Clarence is come; false heeting, per.
Jured Clarence, that tsstabbed me on the
field $of$ Tewksbury rs seize on "A him
iuries, and take him TO your ,tormen.s.
l / think 5of many a lost ) aud ruined one
going down to death deeper than tht
grave, waiting for; her destroyer. AS be
enters the realms Of the inferno I thinl
OF her as shrieking. out: MY betrayer il
come-false, perjured, cruel deceiver
i ho f,rorea thon h1onJ' Lot IL oI,od sico;,s