Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-09
THE THIRD PLAGUE.
Continued from FIRST Pdge.l

. Now, my friends, how are we 10 war
against this corrupt literature, and how
are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to
be slain? First of all, by the prompt
and ineXOrable execution Of the law
Let all good poStmaSters and United
States district attorneys, and detectives
and refOrmerS concert in their action
10 stop this plague. When Sir Rowland
Hill spent his life in trying to secure
, cheap postage not only for England, but
; for all the world and TO open the bless
ing of the postoffice TO all honest bus
mess and to all honest messages Of char
ity, and kindness, and affection, for all
healthful ntercOmmunication, he did
not mean TO make vice easy or to fill the
mail bags of the United States with the
ScabS Of such a leprosy.
WORSE THAN AsSASsINS.
1t ought not to be in the power of
every bad man who can raise one-cent
stamp for Il circular, or twO-cent
stamp for a letter, to blast a man or de-
Stroy home The postal service of
this country must be clean, must be
kept clean, and we must all understand
that the swift retributionS OF the United
States Government hover over every
violation of the letter-boX,
There are thousands of men and
women in this country, some for per-
Sona gain. some through innate de-
pravity, some through spirit OF re-
venge. who wish TO use this great ave-
nue. of convenience and intelligence for
purposes revengeful, SalaciouS, and
diabolic. Wake up the law. Wake up
lall It's penalties. Let every courtroom
on this subject be 4 Sinai thunderouS
aud aname. Let the convicted offenders
be sent for the full term To Sing Sing or
Harrisburg.
am not talking about what cannot
be- done am talking now about what
is being done. great many Of the
printing presses that gave themselves
entirely to the publication of vile liter
allure nave been stopped or have gone
into business less obnoxious. What has
thrown on what has kept of the rail-
trains of this country for some time
back nearly all the leprouS periodicals?
Those Of Us who have been on the rail-
trains have noticed great change in
| the last few months and the last year or
two. Why have nearly all those vile
| periodicals been kept of the rall-tralnS
| for some time back? Who effected it?
| These societies for the publication OF
railroad literature gave warning to the
publishers and warning to railroad com |
panieS. aud warning to conductors, and |
warning to ncwSbOyS, TO keep the inter |
nal stun of the trains.
AMany of the cities nave successfully |
prohibited the most OF that literature |
even from going ON the news stands. |
| Terror has seized upon the publishers |
and the dealers in impure literature, |
from the fact that over thousand ar
rests have been made, aud the agSrc- |
gate time for which the convicted have |
been sentenced TO the prison Is over
one hundred and ninety years, and from |
the fact that about two million Of their |
circulars have been destroyed, and the |
business is not as profitable a 1t used |
| % be.
How have 81 many of the news stands |
OF our great cities been purified? How |
has So much of this iniQuity been balk-
ed? BY moral suaSion? Oh, no. You |
might a well 20 into a Jungle of the |
East Indies aud pat cobra on the |
neck. and with profound argument try |
| To- persuade il that il is morally wrong !
| % bite and 10 sting and poison anything. |
| The only answer TO your argument |
would be an unified head and hiss,
| and sharp. reeking struck into your !
arteries The only argument for a cob /
"a is shotgun, and the only argument
for these dealers in impure literature Is
the clutch of the police and bean soup /
in the penitentiary. The law. The |
| law. invoke to conSummate the work |
so grandly begun.
TO DESTROY THE BAD INFLUENCES.
Against every bad pamphlet send
good pamphlet; against every unclean |
picture send an innocent picture; against
every ScurrilOus song send Christian
song: against every bad book send Il
good book: and then it will be a. II was
/ in ancient Toledo. where the Tottttn |
missals were kept by the saints III slX |
churches, and the sacrilegiOu> Romans |
demanded that those mSSalS be de- |
stroved. and that the Roman miSSalS be |
substituted: and the war came ON, and |
| am clad To say that the whole matter.
having been referred to champions
the champion Of the TOlctm misSalS |
with one blow brought down the !
champion of the Roman misSalS. 80 1t
will bee in our day. The good literature,
the Christian literature, in its cham
piouship for God and the truth VIII |
bring down the evil literature III It's
championship for the devil. feel
tingling 10 the tips Of my fingers and |
through all the nerves OF my body ana
| all the depths OF my soul the certainty
| Of our triumph. Cheer up, q, men and
women who are toiling for the purlica-
ZION of society. Toll with your faces
In the sunlight. III God be for Us, who
who can be against u.s.
Lady Hester StanhOpe was the daugh
ter of the third Earl of Stanhope, and
after her nearest friends had died she
went to the far east, took possession oil
a deserted convent, threw up iortresses
lamid the mountains of Lebanon, opened
the castle TO the poor and the wretched
land the sick who would come in. She
made her castle a home for the unfor-
tunate She was devout Christian
woman She was waiting for the com
ing of the Lord She expected that the
Lord would descend in person, and she
Thought upon it till it was too much Tor
lher reason. In the magnificent stables
Iof her palace She had two horses
lpr.om.d and briddlcd aud Saddled and
lcaparisonod. and all ready for the day
lin which her Lord should descend, ana
he ON one of them and She on the other
should start for Jerusalem, the city oil the
lGreat King. II was a ianatlciSm ana
ldeluSinu, but there was romance ana
th,re,was splcndor, and there was thrill
lling eypectation in the dream. All. my
friends We need no earthly paltrey
GRAINED and saddled and bridled and
lcapariSoned for our Lord when ne shaII
leone. The horse is ready in the equer-
nv of heaven. and the imperial rider Is
ready 10 mount. And saw, and be-
lbeld a white horse. and he that sat on
him had bow: and crown was given
lunto him: and he went forth conquer
line and to conquer. And the armies
which were i'm heaven followed him on
white horses. and on his veSture and on
lbis thigh were written, King of kings
and Lord of lords" HorSemcn OF heav-
on. mount Cavalrymen OF God. ride on
charge, Charge. until they shall be
hurled back on their hauncheS-the
black horse of famine, and the red horse
of carnage, and the pale horse OF DEATH
Jesus forever.
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