The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-06
LEIGH. N. c., DECEMBER 6, 1892.

cratic party enacted the Tweed ras-
cality it seemed to eclipse every thing; {;
but after awhile the heaven descended
Republican party outwitted Pandemo
MUM with the Star Route infamy.
Ny friends, we have in this country
people who say the marriage institu
tion amounts to nothing, They scott
at it. We have people walking in
polite parlors in our day who are not
good enough to be scavengersi in Sodoml
I went over to San Francisco ten or
fifteen years ago-that beautiful city,
that queen of the Pacific May the
blessings of God come down upon her
great churches and her noble men and
wOmenl 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 insisted that
I go and see the Chinese quarter, no
doubt so that on my return to the At
lantic coast I 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 1
think, plainly and honestly2" They
said: Eyes, yes, yesp 1 said: do
you think you can stand it all9 They
said: Eyes, yes, yes" "Then," I
said, my opinion is that the curse of
San Francisco is not your Chinese
quarter, but your millionaire liber
tines"
And two of them sat right before
me-Felix and Drusilla And so it is
in all the cities. 1 never swear but
when l see man go unwhipt of jus,
tice, laughing over his shame and call
ing his damnable deeds galantry and
piccadillo 1 am tempted to hurl red
hot anathemas and to conclude that if,
according to some peoples theology,
there is no hell, there ought to be.
There is enough out and out Iicen-
tiousness in American cities to day to
bring down upon them the wrath of
that G I'd who, on the oath of August,
70, buried Herculaneum and Pompeii
so deep in ashes that the 1913 subse-
quent years have not been able to com
plete the exhumation. There are in
some of the American cities to day
whole blocks OF houses which thu au-
thorities know to be Infamous, and yet
by purchase they are silen nsed, by
hush money, so that such places are as
much under the defense of government
as public libraries and asylums of
mercy. These ulcers on the body
polite bleed and gan creme away the
life of the nation, the pu )lic authority
in many of the cities looks the other
way. You cannot cure such wounds
as these with a s'lken 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
amputation cutting off the scabrous
and putrefying denominations. 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 it's obsequies unless
we first attend theirs.
Superstition tells of marine reptile,
the cephaloptera, which EMBODIED and
crushed a ship of war; but it is no
superstition when tell you that the
history of many of the dead nations
proclaim to us the fact that our ship of
state is in danger of being crushed by
the cephaloptera of national depravity.
Where is the Hercules to slay this
hydra2 Is it not time to speak by pen,
by tongue, by ballot-box, by the rolling
of the prison door, by the hangman's
halter, by earnest prayer, by Sinaitic
detonation?
A son of King Croesus is said to have
been dumb and to have never uttered
a word until he saw his father being
put to death. Then he broke the
shackles of silence and cried out:
kill not my father, CroesusI' When
l see the cheatery and the wantonness
and the manifold crime of this country
attempting to commit patricide-yea,
matricide upon our institutions, 1t
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 wo-
man will know just how matters stand,
and what they are 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
.l:.-:loI ALnon.