Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-12-23


and child of the same name-Babylon.
But is it possible this is all that remains
OF Babylon? n city once five times larger
than London and IL times larger than New
York;
Great capitol of the ages. But one night,
while honest citizens were sleep, but all
the saloons of saturDalla were in full blast,
and at the Kings castle they had filled the
tankards for the tenth time, and Keeling and
gufiawing and hiccoughing around the state
table were the rulers of the land, General
Cyrus ordered his bcsiegng army to take
shcvels and spades, and they diverted the
river from its usual channel into another
direction SO that the forsaken bed of the
river became the path on which the besieg
ing army entered. When the morning
dawned the conQuernrs were inside the out
side trenches. Babylon had fallen.
But do nations die? Oh YES there is great
mortality among monarchies and republics.
They are like individuals in the fact that
they are born, they have middle life, they
nave decrease, they have Il cradle. and n
grave. Some of them are assassinated some
destroyed by their own hand
IL Is no unusual thing for government to
perish, and in the same neurology of dead
nations and in the graveyard of expired
America unless there be some potent voice
to call halt and unless God in his mercy
iEterlcres aud through purified ballo. box
ana a widespread public Christian senti
ton is about to so to the ballot box to exer-
clse the right of suffrage, and propose TO
set before you the evils that threaten TO
destroy the American Government.
The fist evil that threatens the annihila
ton of our American institutions is the fact
tina, political bril- cry which once was con-
sldered crime has by many come to be
considered tolcrable virtue. There is n
leSi Innate use of money i'll elections, but is
there any homunculus who suppose that
a me- nf hn,t
by the political parties is going in 4 legiti
mate direction? The vast majority of itlwiil
go to buy votes. Hundreds and thousands
oil men will have set before them so much
money for Republican vote, and SO much
money for Democratic vote. and the
superior financial Involvement will decide
the action. You want to know which party
Will carry the doubtful States day after to-
morrow? | will tell you. The party that
spends the most money. This moment
while ! speak, the peddlers carrying gold
from Wall street, gold from Third street,
gold from State street and gold from the
Brewers Association are in all the political
headquarters OF the doubtful States dealing
out the infamous inducement.
There used 10 be bribery, but it held its
head III shame. Now, political bribery de-
hes you, dares you, is arrogant and will
probably decide the election next Tuesday.
Another evil threatening the destruction
of American institutions is the solidifying
OF the sections against each other. 4 solid
North. A solid South II this goes OH we
shall. after a while. have n solid East against
a solid West, we shall have solid Middle
States against solid Northern States, and we
shall have solid New York against solid
Pennsylvania. The difficulty will never be
ended until each state of the nation is split
up into two or three great political parties.
This country cannot exist unless it exists
as one body, the national capital the
heart.
Another evil threatening the destruction
OF our American institutions is the low state
of public morals. What killed Babylon of
my text? What killed Phoenicia? What
killed Rome2 Their own depravity and
the fraul and the drunkenness which have
dies royed other nations will destroy ours
unless mercful God prevents. To show
You the low state of public morals have 10
call your attention to the fact that many
men nominated for Offices in different States
Mt different times are entirely unit for the
positions for which they have been pomi-
mated. The mere pronun citation of their
names makes demand for carbolic acid
will follow right on under the political
standards.
have to tell you what you know already,
that American politics have sunken to such
n low depth that there is nothing beneath
What we seein some directions we see in
nearly all directions When the heaven-de.
scended Democratic party enacted the
Tweed rascality ii seemed to eclipse every
thing. but after while the heaven. descend.
ed Republican outwitted Pandemonium
with the Star Route infumy.
My friends, We have in this country
people who say the marriage institution
amounts to n..ning. They scott at il. We
have people walking in polite parlors in our
day who are not good enough to be scayen-
gers in Sodom.
went over to San Francisco 10 or 10
years ago-that beautiful city, that queen
of the Pacific. May the blessing of God
come down upon her great churches and
her noble III II and women. When got in
to the city of San Francisco. the mayor Of
the city and the President Of the Board of
Health called on me and insisted that 90
and see the Chinese quarter. no doubt so
that on my return to the Atlantic coast
might tell what dreadful people the Chinese
are. But on the last night Of my stay i'll San
.,,.ancisco, before thousands of people in
their great Opera House. said: Would
you like me to tell you Just what tbint
plainly and honestly" They said: YES
yes, yes" "rhen" said, my .rinion I.
that the curse IF San Francisco is not your
Chinese quarter but your millionaire liber.
lines."
There is enough ont-and-out licentious.
ness in American cities to-day to brinp
dAwn upon them the wrath OF that God
yio. OH the the 2ith of August 49, buried
Herculaneum and Pompeii SO deep in
gaes that the 1878 subsequent years have
10y been able to complete the erhuma.
'g want to put all of the matter before Won
so that every honest man and woman will
low Just how matters stand, and what
they ought 10 do If they vote, and what
they ought to do do if they pray This ma.
tion is not going to perish
Hope thou in God. He will set back tbesa
oceanic tides of moral devastation. Do Won
know what is the prize for which contention
is made to-day? 1t is the prize of this con.
tinent. Never since. according to John
Milton, when Satan was hurled headlone
flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous
ruin and combustion down, have the
powers of darkness been so determiped 10
win this continent as they are now. What
a Jewel It is-a jewel carved in relief, the
On one side of us the Atlantic Ocean. di.
viding US from the WORKOUT governments of
Europe. On the other side the Pacific Ocean,
dividing us from the superstitions of Asia
On the north of us the Arctic Sea, which is
the gymnasium in which the explorers and
navigators deve,op their courage a CONT
nent 10000 miles long, 1900. COO sonore