The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-11-18
NAV the blessing of God come down I'D.

men and women 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
go and see the Chinese quarter, no
doubt so that on my return TO the At
lantic coast might tell what dreadful
people the Chinese are. But on the last
night of my stay in Fan Francisco be-
fore thousands of people in their great
opera house, 1 said: Would you like me
to tell you just what think plainly and
honestly?' They said: YES, yes, yes!"
said: do you think you can stand it
alp" They said: Yes, yes. yes.'
Then, l said, my opinion is that the
curse of san Francisco is not your Chi
nese 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
see man go unwhipt of justice,
laughing over his shame and calling
his damnable deeds gallantry and pee
cadillo, l am tempted to hurl red hot
anathema and 70 conclude that if, ac-
cording tosome peoples theology, there
is no hell, there ought to be!
There is enough Out-and-out hcen-
tiousness in American cities to-day TO
bring down upon them the wrath Of
that God who, on the cath OF August,
79, buried Herculaneum and POmpeii SO
deep in ashes that the eighteen hun
dred and thirteen subsequent years
have not been able to complete the ex-
humation- There are in some Of the
American cities to-day 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 de-
Tense of government as public libraries
and asylums of mercy. These ulcers
on the body polite bleed and gangrene
away the life of the nation, and
public authority in many of the cities
look the other way. You cannot
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 mos:
decisive amputation cutting OF the
scabrous and putrefying denominations
As the Romans were after the Celts,
and as the Normons were after the
Britons, so there are evils after this ma
ton which will attend its Obsequies
unless we first attend theirs
Superstition tells of marine reptile,
the cephaloptera, which EMBODIED and
crushed ship of war, but it is no su-
perstition when tell you that the his
tory of many of the dead nations pro-
claims 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 STAY this
hydra? IS it not time to speak by pen,
by tongue, by ballot box, by the rolling
Of the prison door, by hangman's
halter, by earnest prayer, by Sinaitic
defamation?
Iwant 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 Mace
donia among his soldiers Some one
asked him what he had kept for himself
and ne replied: II am keeping hope."
And that jewel keep bright and shin
ing in my soul whatever else
shall surrender. Hope thou in God
He will set back these oceanic
tides of moral devastation Do
you know what is the prize fox
which contention is made to-day? 1t Is
the prize OF this continent Never
since, according to John Milton, when
Satan was hurled headlOng flaming
from the ETHEREAL skies in hideous ruin
and combustion down." have the pow
ers of darkness been so determined to
win this continent as they are now.
What a jewel it is-a jewel carved in
relief, the cameo OF this planet On
one side of US the Atlantic ocean, divid-
ing US from the worn out 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 develop their
courage. y continent 10, 500 miles long,
Il, 900. 600 square miles, and all Of IL but
about one-seventh capable Of rich culti-
walton. One hundred millions Of POpu-
lation on this continent of North and
South America-1OO, 900, 600, and room
for many hundred millions more. All
fora and all fauna, all metals, and all
precious woods. and all grains and all
fruits The Appalachian range the
backbone and the rivers the ganglia car
rying life all through and out to the
extremities- Isthmus OF Darien, the
narrow waist OF a giant continent,
all TO be under one government,
and all free and all Christians
and the scene of Christ's personal reign
on earth, If, according 70 the expecta-
ton of many good people, He shall 1T
last set Up His throne in this world
Who shall have this hemisphere? Christ
or Satan? Who shall have the shore Of
her inland seas, the silver OF her Neva-
das, the gold OF her ColoradOs. the tel
escapes Of her observatOrieS, the brain
of her universities, the wheat of her
prairies, the rice of her savannahs, the
two great ocean beaches-the one
reaching from Baffin's bay TO Terra del
Fuego. and the other from Behring
straits to Cape Horn-and all the moral,
and temporal, and spiritual, and ever
lasting interests of a population vast
beyond all computation saved by Him
with whom thousand years are as one
day? Who shall have the hemisphere?
You and I viii decide that or help 70
decide It, by conscientious vote, by ear
nest prayer, by maintenance Of Chris
tian institutions, By support Of great
philanthropies, by putting body, mind
and soul on the right side OF all moral,