, 1892-09-06
Ar THE PARK.
A sPeeoh, Dancing, ana variety

Speech, Dancing, and "A Variety
OF Athletic Exhibitions.
The moment the parade broke there was
general rush for the old fair grounds. A
veritable throng had possession of the am
phitheatre by this time and many were
compelled to stand in order to hear the
speaker of the day. President Blanken-
ship introduced Mr.. Reid, who dwelt at
considerable length upon the great issues
before the voters of the county, state and
nation.
"The hour has at last struck - he de-
clared "When God demands to know
of us whether we are in truth, what our
modern science prOclaims, the descendants
of monkeys, OF whether we are His chill
dren, and worthy TO inherit the awful boon
of immortal life" He spoke Of this age
as one in which little children were sold by
their parents to mill owners and mine own
ers, and put to tending iron machines,
while the young of the beats were enioy-
ing freedom out in the meadows aud
woods; as one in which 60 per cent. of the
married and unmarried females OF Great
Britain and this country had been forced
into industrial pursuits 10 compete for
food with their brothers, and thus TO cut
down the rate Of wages, with the result
that great numbers of them are driven
into the path that leads to corruption
and eternal death. He spoke Of the age
as one in which hundreds of thousands
of weary and heaYy-laden children of
toll stagger, like beasts Of burden, under a
load too heavy to be borne that stunts
and deforms them and crushes them
down. before their time, into their only
bed Of rest-the grave. He then exclaimed:
80, that vast army Of overworked men and
women and childTen-haye they no part in
the beauty, in the glory, of this star-domed
earth They bear the heat and the burden
of the battle, and are wounded and killed
that Others may enjoy the fruits Of the
victory. And those others-the children
Of diYes-spend their lives either in la
giddy round of selfish pleasures, friYolities
and dissipation, retailing empty gossip or
unclean scandal; or worship at the shrine
Of that body and soul-destroying enchant-
ress fashion; or else, and worse, devote
their days TO the coYetous pursuit Of that
wealth they do not need, , and which in their
hands is 50 much bread taken from the
mouths of the starving" He stated that
cities of so-called Christendom were re-
moved such scenes of human misery
would be exposed as could only be paral-
leled in the Malebolge Pool of He'll such
scenes that If the angels of God we're per
mitted to look down on them, heaven
would be filled with lamentation and
mourning. This age in which he described
as a rum-selling, railroad corporation, ma
tional bank stock, mortgage enforcing,
church going plutOcracy, or mOney-bag
aristocracy-"th basest sort of aristOc-
racy that has yet shown itself upon the
earth"-is erecting itself on the one hand
greedier the more it gets to feed upon
and increasing in selhshness, in unscru-
pulousness, in arrogance and power each
day that rolls by, cOrrupting legislatures
and courts and the people at the ballot-boX,
hiring armed bands Of professional muir
derers TO spit In the face of the govern
ment, and to shoot down its citizens as II
they we're no more account than mad dogs;
while on the other hand an ever swelling
army Of outcasts, and tramps, and crimi.
nails and red reVOlutiOnists, growing more
and more desperate and wolfsh are APP
pearing, like the advance guard Of an inn
mense army of Huns and Vandals, threat
ening the land with bloodshed and un-
speakable horrors. In what horrors of
tumult, aud struggle, and bloodshed II
will 90 down, God only can know, he said;
but the signs of the times are ominOus and
pretentious. He then read an editorial in
the Nashville American of recent date
calling attention TO the extraordinary
number of calamities Of all kinds that so
far has characterized the present year, and
said: "To my mind there is nothing mys-
/ terious, as this staid. conservative journal
seems to think, in the laws which have
provoked this food Of disorders Of all
kinds TO break upon our heads. ! believe
with Mr.. Ruskin that the powers Of
nature are depressed or perverted
/ together with the spirit of man
and therefore, that conditions Of storm
and Of physical darkness, such as
never were before in Christian times, are
developing themselves. Strange as il may
seem TO some, to my mind it Is certain that
all manifestations on the physical plane
of this world are due TO the spiritual or
mental condition of its inhabitants. Be
lieving this, and seeing how the entire
system of modern life is so corrupted with
the ghastliest forms of injustice and un-
truth, carried to the point Of not recogniz-
ing themselves as either, when everybody
steals, cheats and goes TO church compla-
Gently, and the light Of their whole body
is darkness, how great is that darkness.
am not surprised, 1 repeat, that the physi-
cal result Of all that mental vileness is the
food Of disorders and calamities spoken of
by the American. We have soWed the
storm and are about to reap the whirlwind,
We have long been living in a state Of
quiet anarchy, and now the poison fruits
Of it are beginning to show themselves. To
decree injustice by a law; inspired proph-
cts have long since seen, what every clear
soul may still see, that Of all anarchies and
devil Worships, there is none like this.
Quiet anarchy Yes, quiet anarchy, which
the longer 1t sits quiet will have the
frightfuller account TO settle at last. Fol
every unit Of the account will have TO be
settled one day, as sure as God lives. The
terrible anarchists Of these years are
brought upon US, not by the crime Of one
class, but by the all but obiteration Of the