The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-02-01

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the DecalOgue. These men, whose
immortality was farcd in the very face
OF heaven, have come forward again
and ag lin. and have been elected and
reelected, until it would seem that
vice Itself, in this oity of Montreal,
were one Of the credentials for high
Office. And look at the men that our
city council has appointed to official
neutrality-suspicious. OF the fast, the
dubious, the flashy; poker PLAYERS seI
To catch gamblers: men in whose office
is the underground telegraph to signal
ize the bagniO when raids are TO be
made.
II impeach some of the constituents
of the dominion OF an abnegatiOn of u
moral discretion in the represent atiyes
they have sent TO parliament. There
are men at the very mention of whose
names virtue bushes and mOdesty
hides her head-men whose characters
have been kicked around the hotels and
corridors of our houses OF parliament
aud then over the land. | tell those
men who have won SINE little political
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who wear on their fore eads the mark
of beast-l tell those highly honorable
members whom il NAV concern, yes,
aud rough handed hit them squarely
bet cen the eyes when | tell them that
| their example and record is pestilential.
The time is at hand when the Sir
Charles Dilkes and the Hughes Halletts
of Canadian politics must retire before
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electors of this land. We strike the
tone and sound the knell of their poll
tiCal damnation.
HIGH soCIETY's TAINT.
81 impeach the class of so-called
society 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 5 and dine II and wine
1t and cigar it and gamble il aud dissi-
pate it and then at the midnight hour
march out OF their club houses-those
heart breakers of hom6s-l 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 friend while he is wreckin9
his domestic home, and as l haye
known, he will drink the very wine
that charity has donated for his dying
wife and tiIl the bottle with water.
"Tell me of the buccaneers of the
Spanish main; tell me of the very men
that gambled for the seamless coat OF
the crucifled son OF God; | would
sooner trust Innocence in the hands OF
any or all these men THAI with your
sleek, olesginous and polished scoun-
drels that float about in society, one OF
whom, on Beaver Hall Hill, under
Gods sunlight, IN response TO the
inquiry for q registry Office, conducted
II poor country girl to portals internal +,
where she was only saved by the warn.
ing and compassion OF the keeper, who
bad more mercy than the gilded fiend.
There was never a pirate who sailed
ou the high seas, whose ultimatum was
to walk the plank, that could equal the
cruelty OF those gentry that intest our
.trees Some time ago had in my
employ comely and devout girl. Re-
turning from q visit to friend one
evening she was accosted by what
proved to be one of your mustached
French advocates, who, with satanly
gallantry sought to decoy her into one
OF your down town restaurants from
which, thank heavensl che was saved,
as the poor bird from the snare OF the
fowler.
THE BETRAYER IN SOCIETY.
"And where is the villain who has
wrought this ruination? Where2 Wei
coined into the salons of St. Denis and
Sherbrook street, whisking around the
daughters of wealth in the revolving
proximities and the semi.nude indeli.
cacies of the waltz and polka, fasciuat-
ing the feminine heart like as the insect
is fascinated by the devouring flame
Fascina,iug2 Yes; all the more because
OF the dark romance that ia whispered
about that 'Cuarlie is a little fast, yor
know Fast? By oath of eterna
fealty, by protestations and perjury, hi
has wrought out the ruin OF humble
innocence, and then cast the victim
aside like the trampled rind of al
orange out OF which the sweetness ha.
been pressed. This ia the romance tina
floats about in the balls and social par
, lies of society, concerning a man, ,
creature, a loathsome reptile, to b,
scorned, despised and ostracized But
then, ye goddess OF society, the reptile
is eligible aud has money.
"What is the lie of every city pastor
, do not speak of your dilletante gen
) try that crate about clerical dignity
and aesthetic society. What is the If
of every true pastor but a prolonged
and agOnized conflict with ever.reveal
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garbed with respectsbility-if wer
to declare their dongs in the demi
monde halls of New York, In tn
Alhambras and Casinos of London, il
The midst OF the can.can resorts o
Paris; if were to reveal how their dis
yuises and shame were pierced throug
aud through, they would stand blanch
ed with the pallor of Belshazzar whei
he saw the hand writing on the wall
: while their dishonored heads oIld b
Gro " ned with reproach and Kissing
81 have thoug, of the great poet
immortal dream-the dream of Clar
: ence crossing the Styx As he entere
e the abode of the damned, among tn
first that there did greet his strange
soul was pale youth with bright hal
dabbled in blood, who shrieked aloud
. Clarence is comel False, hee,iDg, pei
B. iured Clarence that stabbed me ON th
. field OF Tewksbury. Seize on him
j furies, and take him to your torments
: 81 think of many lost and ruine
. one going down to death deeper tha
the grave, waiting for her destroyer
AS he enters the realms of the intern
| think of her rs crying out: IN
betrayer has come, perjured, crue
h destroyer, who worse than blood ha
shedl Seize on him, turies, and th
a deepest depths of hell shall be hi
n desiny'"
The utmost sensation was caused II
; the audience by the denunciation, an
il is now the talk OF the citv. DI
| Douglass ia one of the most influeHtis
clergymen I'm Canada.
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