The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-25
The Pirates of Society.

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l3pnglass, president of the Wesleyan
Methodist College.
y was the most sweeping arraign
''Aent of social leaders and public
;neials ever heard in Canada. There
were many ladies in the audience.
Tie said:
~ impeach the moral sense of our
Shy for its criminal Indifference to
tAe character of its public men. Look
kthe men that have been elected to
'ekf council and civic chairs. This
WV has elected men from whose
Esme1 virtue has fled-men whose
'Nes We're perpetual defiance of the
Se>enth canon Of the decalngue.
Fhen men, whose immortality was
f1arei in the very face Of heaven,
havec0me forward again and again,
and hive hePn elected and reelected
until ) would seem as if vice itself
IN thiscity of Montreal We're one OF
the CREDENTIALS for high standing.
IAN look at the men that our
City Cuncil have appointed to off
clal posti0ns-cOmpani0nS of the fast
the duiOus, tie fiashy; poker
players ct to catch gamblers; men
in who's Office il the underground
telegraph to signHlize resorts when
raids are to he made. | impedch
some of the constituencies If the
Domini0n0f an abnpgation of moral
discrimination in the representatives
hey have $nt to Parliament. There
are men ut eyery mention of whose
names virtue bushes and m0desty
hides her heal--men whose charac-
ters have been kicked around the
hotels and the corridors of 0ul House
Of Parliament and then over the
land.
II tell those men who have won
some little political success as mem,
berS or ministers, but who bear on
their f0reheads the Ap0calyptic mark
If the beast tell those highly
honorable members whom it may
concern, yes, and all rough handed
! hit them square between the eyes,
when | tell them their example and
record is pesllential. The time is at
hand when the Sir Charlrs Dlkes
t@l 4ae HuglseS q. Halletts of Cana
finn politics must retire before the
corn and aroused conscience of the
electors OF this land. We strike the
lOcsn and sound the knell of their
political damnation.
81 imppach the so called society
men as at war with the sancity Of
the family, the wasted scion3 Of
wealth, the degraded sons of niggard
fathers young men that arie at II,
pay morning calls at Sand dine it and
wine it and cigar it and gamble it
and diSsipatp. and then at the mid
night hour march out of their club
house those hPHrtbrpakerS of homes
i say, out of their clubhouse or
elsewhere, and drive into darkness.
The society man will lie. he will
swndIp, he will cheat at cards, he
will forge, he will defalcate, he will
smile in the face of Il man AS a frieun
while he is Wreckihg his domestic
honor, and, as have known, he will
drink the very wine that charity has
donated for his dying wife and ELL
the bottle with water.
"Tell me If the buccaneers of the
Spanish main, tell me of the very
men that gambled for the seamless
coat of the crucfied Son of God |
would sooner trust innocence in the
hands of any or all of these than
with Your sleek, oleaginous and pol
ished scOundrels that float about in
society. one of whom, on Beaver
Hall Hill, under Gods sunlight, in
response to the inquiry for registry
rvsce, conducted poor country girl
to place where she was only saved
by the warning and compassion of
the keeper, who had more mercy
than the gilded fiend. There was
never pirate who sailed on the high
seas whose uItimatum was to walk
plank that could equal the cruelty of
some of these gentry that infest our
streets.
"And where ia the evil son who
has wrought this Neutrality-suspicious.?
Welcomed into the salons of st.
Dennis and SherbrOOke streets, whiS-
king around the daughters of wealth
in the indeIi ,acies of the waltz and
polka. fascinating the feminine heart
like as the insect is fascinated by the
devouring flame. Fascinating Yes,
all the more because of the dark rO-
nance that is whispered about that
Charlie Is a little fast. you know.
Fast .? Yes. By oaths CT eternal
fealty, by protestations and perjury,
ne has wrought out the ruin of
humble innocence. This is the ro-