The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-21


of moral discretion in the represen-
tatives they have sent TO parliament.
There are men at The very mention of
whose names virtue bushes and mod
esty hides her head-men whose char
acters have been kicked around the
hotels and corridors of our houses of
parliament and then over the land.
| tell those men who have won some
little political success as members or
ministers, but who wear on their
forekeads the mark of beast-I tell
those highly honorable members whom
it may concern, yes, and rough-handed
! hit them squarely between the eyes
when tell them that their example
and record is pestilential. The time
is at hand when the Sir Charles bikes
and the Hughes Hslletts of Canadian
politics must retire before the scorD
and aroused conscience of the electors
of this land. We strike the tone and
sound the knell Of their political dam.
Hation.
81 impesch the class of so-called 30
ciety men as at war with the sanctity
of the family-the wasted scions of
wealth, the degraded sons of niggard
fathers, your men that arise at Ii, pay
morning calls at 8 and dine it and
wine it and cigar it and gamble it and
dissipate it and then at midnight hour
march out of their club houses-those
heart-breakers of homes-I say, out
of their club houses or elsewhere and
drive east into darkness. The society
roue will lie,he will swindle, he will
cheat at cards, he will forget. he will
defalcate, he will smile in the face of
a man as a friend while he is wreck.
ing his domestic home, and,
as / have known he will drink
the very wine that char
ity has donated for his dying
wife and fill the bottle with water.
TELL me of the buccaneers of the
Spanish main : tell me Of the very
men that gambIed for the seamless
coat of the crucified son of God : [
would sooner trust innocence in the |
hands of any Of all these men than
with you sleek, olesginous and poi-
ished seoundrels that float about in |
society.
There was never a pirate who
sailed on the high seas, whose ultima
tum was to walk the plank, that
could equal the crue lty of those gen.
try that infest our streets
"What is the life of every city pas.
tor? [ do not speak of your ollie
tante gentry that crate about clerical
dignity and aesthetic society. What
is the life of every true pastor but q
prolonged and sgonized conflict with
ever--evealing vice? There are men
in our midst CARRIED with rsspectss!hdiEEi;;
IN the demi-monde halls of New York
in the Alhambras and casinos of Lon
don, In the midst of the can-can re.
sorts of Paris; if were to reveal how
heir DISCUSSES and sham were pierced
through and through, they would
tand blanched with the psllor of {
3elshazzar when he saw the hand
writing on the wall, while their dis. {
IGNORED heads would be crowned with Z
eproach and Kissing.
81 have thought of the great poets .
immortal dream-the dream of Clar- !
nee crossing the Styx. As he en- =
cred the abode of the damned, among
be first that there did greet bis strang.
soul was pale youth with brigh, y
air dabbled in blood, who shrieked q
loud: Clarence is come! False, !"
Getting, perjured Clarence that e.
abbed me on the field of Tewksbury.
eize on him, furies, and take him to II
our tormentsp in
II think of many lost and ruined tt
ne going down to death deeper than b,
e grave, waiting for her destroyer. pl
8 he enters the realms of the inferno
think OF her as crying out my be- B
eyer has come, peJured, cruel de- ri
roger, who worse than blood has B
ed /! Seize on him, furies, and the fic
epest depths of hell shall be his des. &c