Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-07


dove The mere pronunciation of some of
their names makes demand for carbolic
acid and fumigationl Yet Christian men
1 will follow fright on under the political
! standards.
| j have to tell you what you know al
ready, that American politics have sunken
| to such low depth that there is nothing
| beneath. What we see in some directions
| we see in nearly all directions The pecu-
| lation and the knavery hurled to the sur
| face by the explosion of banks and bust
uess firms are only specimens of great Co
| topaxs and Strombolis of wickedness that
boil and roar and surge beneath bat have
| not yet regurgitdted to the surface. When
| the heaven descended Democratic party
| enacted the Tweed rascality it seemed to
eclipse everything, but after awhile the
heaven descended Republican party out
witted pandemonium with the star route
| infamy.
Ny friends, we have in this country people
| who say the marriage institution amounts
| to nothing. They scott at it. We have
| people walking in polite parlors in our day
| who are not good enough to be scavengers
| In Sodom / went over to San Francisco ten
or fifteen years ago-that beautiful city,
| that queen Of the Pacific. May the bless
| ing of God come down upon her great
| churches and her noble men and womeni
When got into the city of San Francisco
the mayor Of the city and the president of
the board of health called on me and in
sisted that go and see the Chinese quar-
ter, no doabt 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 in San
francisco, before thousands OF people In
their great opera house, | said, "Would
you like me TO tell you just what / think,
plainly and h onestly?" They said, eyes,
yes, yesp' / said, "Do you think you can
stand it all2" They said, eyes, yes, yes"
"Then," | said, my opinion is that the
curse of San Francisco is not your Chinese
quarter, but your millionaire lbertines"
LIBERTINEs IN HIGH PLACES,
And two of them sat right before me
Felix and Drusila. And so it Is in all the
cities. l never swear, but when ! see a
man go unwhipped of justice, laughing over
his shame and calling his damnable deeds
gallantry and peccadillo, am tempted to
hurl redhot anathema and to conclude that
II, according to some peoples theology,
there Is no hell, there ought TO bel
There Is enough out and out licentious-
ness in American cities today to bring
down upon them the,wrath of that God
who, on the Gath of AUGUST TO-. buried
herculaneum and Pompeii so deep in
ashes that the eighteen hundred and thir-
teen subsequent years have not been able
to complete the eXhumation. There are
| in some of the American cities today Whole
| blocks of houses which the authorities
know to be Infamous, and yet by purchase
they are silenced by hush money, so that
such places are as much under the defense
OF government as public HbraI5aS and
sSytusas " mercy
These ulcers on the body polite bleed and
gangrene away the life of the nation, and
| public authority in many of the cities looks
the other way. You cannot cure such
wounds as these with a slken bandagc.
| You will have to cure them by putting
deep In the lancet of moral surgery, and
| burning them ont with the caustic of holy
wrath, and with most decisive amputation
cutting off the scabrous and putrefying
| abominatons As the Romans were after
| the Celts and as the Normans were after
the Britons, so there are evils after this
nation which will attend its obscquies un-
less we first attend theirs.
NATIONAL ROT THREATENING.
Superstition tells of u marine reptile, the
eephaloptcra, which embodied and crushed
| a shipof war; but it is no superstition when
| tell you that the history of many of the
dead nations proclainas to us the fact that
cur ship Of state is in danger Of being
crushed by the cephaloptera OF national
depTavity. Where is the Hercules to STAY
this hydra? Is it not time to speak by pen,
by tongue by ballot box, by the rolling of
| l., l,,,,, ,'g I,,lf NV
earnest prayer, by Sinaitic detonationP
A son of King Crmsus is said to have
been dumb and to have never uttered
word until he saw his father being put to
death. Then he broke the shackles Of
silence and cried out, kill not my father,
| Crcnsus" When / see the chcatery and
the wantonness and the manifold crime of
! this country attempting to commit patIi-
cide-yea, matTicide-upon our institu-
lions, it seems to me that lips that here
tefore have been dumb ought to break the
silence with canorous tones of fiery protest.
want to put all of the matter before
you, so that every honest man and woman
will know just how matters stand, and
what they ought to do if they vote and
what they ought to do if they pray. This
nation is not going to perish. Alexander
when he heard of the wealth of the Indies,
| divided Macedonia among his soldiers.
Some one asked him what he had kept for
himself, and he replied, 81 am keeping
hopel" And that jewel keep bright and
shining in my soul, whatever else shall
surreuder Hope thou in God. He will
! set back these oceanic tides Of moral dey-
astation Do you know what is the prize
Tor which contention is made today 1t is
| Aha nriZp of this continent
Never since, according to John Milton,
when satan was hurled headloug flaming
| from the ethereal skies in hideOus ruin and
combustion down. have the powers Of
darkness been 50 determined to win this
continent as they now are. What jewel
It is-a Jewel carved in relief, the cameo OF
this planetl On one sideof us the Atlantic
ocean. dividing us from the woruout gov
ernments of Europe. On the other side the
Pacific ocean, dividing US from the super
stitiens Of Asia On the north OF us the
Arctic sea. which is the gymnasium in
! which the Explorers and navigatOrs develop
their courage A continent lO,500 mile
4 long. I7,O0O, 003 square miles, and all of il
but about one-seveuth capable Of rich cul-
tivation.
THE GREAT NATION.
One hundred millions of population on
this continent of North and South America
| one hundred millions, and room for many
hundred millions more. All fora, and q.
fauna, all metals, ans al precious wood.
and an grains. aud all fruits. Tbe Appa-