The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-12-31

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T quarter, no donbt 20 that on my retur
z to the Atlantic coast might tell whs
7 dreadful people the Chinese are. BIZ
on the last night of my stay in Sa
! Francisco, before thousands of peopI
In their great opera house, / sait
would you like me to tell you jus
what ! think, plainly and honestly?
They said: Eyes, yes, yes!" l said. ID
you think you can stand it ALPS The
said: Yes, yes, Yesr' Then" said
: my opinion is that the curse of Sal
Francisco is not your Chinese quarter
but your millionaire libertinesr'
: There is enough out-and-out licen
J tiousness in American cities to-day Z
bring down upon them the wrath O
that God who, on the alth of August
20, buried Herculaneum and Pompei
so deep in ashes that the eighteen hun
dred and thirteen subsequent year
have not been able to complete tn,
exclamation. There are in some of til,
American cities to-day whole block,
OF houses which the authorities know
to be infamous, and yet by pur
chase they are silenced by
hush money, so that such places are a.
much under the defense of government,
rs public libraries and asylums OF
mercy. These ulcers on the body DO
lite bleed and gangrene away the life
OF the nation, and public authority in
many of the cities looks the other way.
You can not cure such wounds as these
with silken bandage. You will have
to cure them by putting deep in the
lancet of moral surgery. and burning
them out with the caustic of holy
wrath, and with most decisive amputa-
ton cutting off the scabrous and putre-
tying denominations As the Romans
were after the Celts, and as the Nor
| mans were after the Britons. so there
are evils after this nation which will
attend its obsequies unless we first at
tend theirs
Superstition tells of marine reptile.
the cephaloptera, which embodied and
crushed man of war, but it is no
superstition when l tell you that the
history OF many of the dead nations
proclaims to US the fact that our shin
OF state is in danger of being crushed
by the cephaloptera of national de-
pravity. Where is the Hercules to slay
this hydra? Is it not time to speak by
pen, by tongue, by ballot-box, by the
rolling of the prison door, by hang
mans halter, by earnest prayer, ty
Sinaitic defamation?
The SON of King Croesus is said to
have been dumb and to have never Mt
tered word until he saw his father be-
ing put to death. Then he broke the
shackies of silence and cried out:
XIII not my father, Cresusi' When I
see the cheatcry and the wantonness
and the manifold crime of this country
attempting to commit patricide-yea,
matricide upon our institute ons. il |
seems to me that lips that heretofore
have been dumb ought to break the |
silence with Generous 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
4 they pray. This nation is not going /
20 perish. Alexander, when he heard
II the wealth of the Indies, divided
Macedonia among the soldiers. Some
me asked him what he had kept for
himself, and he replied: 81 am keeping
lope." And that jewel / keep bright
md shining in my soul, whatever else
shall surrender. Hope thou in
iod. He will set back these oceanic
ides OF moral devastation. Do Won
now what is the prize for which con-
ention is made to-day. 1t is the
rize of this continent. Never since.
ccording to John Milton, when aSa-
an was hurled headlong flaming from
ne ethereal skies in hideous ruin and
down" have ths powers of
arkness been SO determined to win
his continent as they are now. What
jewel it is-a jewel carved in relief.
ne cameo of this planet! On one side
I us the Atlantic ocean, dividing us
ON the WORKOUT governments of Eu-
ope. On the other side the Pacific
,ean, dividing us from the supersti-
ons OF ASIA On the north of us the
rctic sea, which is the GYM
asium in which the explorers !
nd navigators develop their cour-
ge. A continent ten thousand and
We hundred miles long. seventeen mil
ons square miles, and all of it but
bout one-seventh capable of rich Guilt
ltion. One hundred millions of popu-
ton on this continent of North and {
'uth America-one hundred millions.
I'd room for many hundred millions
ore. All flora and all fauna. all
etals, and all precious woods, and all
aims and all fruits The Appalachian Il
nge the backbone and the rivers the Il
nglia carrying life all through and T
t to the extremities. Isthmus of n
lrien, the narrow waist of a al
ant continent. all to be under 81
Q government, and all free and cl
Christian, and the scene Of M
rist's personal reign on earth cl
according to the expectation of OF
my good people, He shall at last set 10
His throne in this world. Who w
all have this hemisphere? Christ or to
tan? Who shall have the shore of pa
inland seas, the silver of her Ne ne
las, the gold of her Colorados. the pc
Escapes OF her observatorics. the an
eat OF her prairies, the rice of her tn
'annas, the two great ocean beaches 10,
he one reaching from Bafin's so
to Terra del Eueoo 81 ha