The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-11-19

and Cincinnatus, the farmer oligarch,
after Pompey, after Scipio, after
Caasius, after Constantine, after
| Caesar, dead. The war eagle OF
Rome few so high it was blinded by the
sun and came whirling down through
the heavens, andthe owl of desolation
and darkness built its nest in the for
saken eyrie. Mexican empire, dead.
French empire, dead.
You see, my frienis, it is no unusual
thing fer q government to perish, and
in the same neurology ofdead nations,
and in the same graveyard of expired
governments will go the United States
of America unless there be some po-
tent voice to call a halt, and unless
God in his mercy inter feres, and
through a purified ballot box and q
widespread public Christian sentiment
the ca, catastrophe be averted. I pro-
pose to set before you the evils that
threaten to destroy tn. Americangov-
eminent, and to annihilate American
institutions, and
If GOD WILL HELP Me
will show you before l get through
th- wrode IN which each and every one
May do something to arrest that APP
palting calamity. And l shall p.ough
up the whole field.
The first evil that threatens the an.
nihilation of our American institu-
tons is the fact that political bribery,
which o CO vas considered q crime,
has hy many come to be considered O
siderable virtue.
Unless this diabolism ceases in this
county, Bartholdi's statue on Bed
loe's islan'i, with upl'tted torch to
light o her nation into the harbor,
had better be changed and the torch
dropped as a symbol OF universal in
cenuiarism.
Unless this purchase and sale of suf-
frage shall cease, the American govern
ment will expire, and you mi ght as
well ba getting ready the monument
for another dead nation, and let my
text inscribe upon it these words:
"Alas! alas! for Babylon, that great
city, that mighty city, for in one hour
is Thy Judgment CO me-" My friends.
if you have not noticed that political
bribery is one OF the CHASTITY crimes OF
this da you have not kept your eyes
open.
Another evil threatening the des-
truction ofAmerican institutions is he
solidifying OF the sections against each
other. Asolid North. A solid South
If this goes on weshall, alters while,
have q solid East against solid West,
We shall have solid Middle States
ecainst solid Northern States, " shall
have solid New York state against
a solid Pennsylvania, and a solid
Ohio against q solid Kentucky. 1t is
81 years since the war cloud, and yet
at every presidential election the old
a%ntaeonism ia aroused. When Gar
field died, and all the states gathered
around his casket in sympathy and
in "ea g, and AL hearty telegrams of
coincidence came from New Orleans
and Charleston as from Boston and
Chicago, | said to myself: II think
sertionalism is dead" But alas! no.
The difficulty will n. ver BIZ ended un-
til each state of the nation is split up
into.
TWO OR THREE GREAT POLITICAL PAR
TIES.
This country cannot exist unless it
exists as n body, the national capi-
tai the heart, sending out through all
the arteries accommodation warmth
ant. life to the very extremities.
Another evil threatening the de-
%struction of.our American institution
is the low state of public morals.
What kille,i Babylon of my text?
What killed Phenica? What killed
Rome? Their own depravity; and the
fraud and The drunkenness and the
whic have destroyed other
nations will destroy ours unless q mer.
ciful God prevent. TO show you the
low .tate OF pubic morals, I have to
call your attention to the fact that
men nominated for Offices in
different states at different times are
entirely unfit for the positions for
shlch they have been nominated.
They have no more qualification
them than q wolf has quaIifica-.
lion to b. professor DR. pastorialt heo-
logy ia y flock Of sheep, or q blind
mole has quail cation to lecture q
:lasa OF eagles on optics. or than q
culture has qualifications to chap-r-
On. q .dove. The mere pronunciation
II some Of their names makes q de-
nmnd for |
cARBoLEc ACID AND FUMloAT10Ni
Yet Christian men vi ! follow right on
,nder the political standards.
My friends. We have in this country
,eople who say tnat the marriage IN.
til ution amounts to nothing. They
cot At it. We haYe people walking
u polite parlor. in our day who are
lot good enough to be scavangers in
! went over to San francisco
% or Is years aeo-that beautiful
ity. that gu en- of the Pacific. May
lie blessing of God come down upon
Ter grent churches and her noble men
md women! When l got into tn. city
San francisco, the mayor of the
and the president of the Board of
health called on me and insisted that
90 and see the Chinese quarter, no
'oubt so that on my return to the
atlantic coast Knight tell whatdread.
VI people tho Chinese are. But on the
ast night OF my etay in San Fran.
isco, before thousands of people in
heir great opera house, said: :