Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-11-07


after Tacitus. after Cicero. dead. After
Horatius on the bridge, aid Cincinnatus,
the farmer oligarch, after Pompey, after
Scipio, after Cassius, after Constantine,
after Caesar. dead The war eagle of
Rome flew so h.gh it was blinded by the
sun and came whirling down through
the heavens, and the owl OF desoiatlon
and darkness built its nest in the for
saken eyrie. Mexican empire. dead.
French empire, dead.
WHY NATIONS DIE.
You see, my friends, it is no unusual
thing for government to perish, and III
the same neurology of dead nations and
in the same graveyard of expired gov
ernments will go the United States OF
America unless there be some potent
voice to call halt, and unless God IN
his mercy interferes, and through pur1-
fed ballot box and a widespread pubic
Christian sentiment the catastrophe be
ayerted. This nation is about to go to
the ballot box to exercise the r1ghU OF
suffrage, and propose to set before you
the evils that threaten to destroy the
American government, and to annihilate
American institutions, and if God will
help me | will show you before L get
through the mode in which each and
every one may do something to arrest
that appalling calamity. And L shall
pillow up the whole field.
The first evil that threatens the ami
hilation of our American institutions is
the fact that political bribery, which
once was considered a crime, has by
many come to be considered a tolerable
virtue. There is legitimate use OF
money in elections, in the printing of Pc
litical tracts, and in the hiring of public
halls. and in the obtaining Of campaign
oratorv, but is there any homunculus
who supposes that this vast amount of
money now being raised by the political
parties is going in a legitimate directlonF
| The vast majority of it will go to buy
votes
Hundreds and thousands of men will
| have set before them so much money
for a Republican vote, and so much
money for a Democratic vote, and the
superior financial inducement will de-
eide the aoaion You want to know
which party will carry the doubtful
states day after tomorrow. Will tell
you The party that spends the most
money. This moment while l speak
the peddlers carrying gold from Wall
street, gold from Third street, gold from
State street and gold from the Brewers
association, are in all the political head
quarters Of the doubtful states, dealing
out the infamous inducement.
There used to be bribery; but 1t held
its head in shame. 1t was under the
utmost secrecy that many years ago a
railroad company bought up the Wis
consin legislature and many other pub
lie officials in that state. The governor
of that state at that time received $780,
600 for his signature. His private sec
rotary received 81, 900. Thirteen mem
bers Of the senate received $175,OOO
among them in bonds. Sixty mem bers
of the other house received from 50. OOO
to $40. 900 each. The lieutenant govern
or received 100000 The clerks Of the
house received from $4,000 to $4,000
each. The bank comptroller received
$4,000. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars were divided among the
LOBBYISTS. You see the railroad compa-
nv was very generous But all that
was hidden. and only through the Sc
verest scrutiny on the part of a legisla
tive committee was this iniquity dis
YOU. dares you, is arrogant. and vii
probably decide the election next Tues
day.
Unless this diabolisn ceases in thi
country Bartholdi's statue on Bedloe'
island, with uplifted torch to light othe.
nations into the harbor, had better b.
changed and the torch dropped as
symbol of universal incendiarlsm.
REFORM OR PERISH!
Unless this purchase and sale of sui
fraoe shall cease the American govern
ment will expire, and you might as wei
| be getting ready the monument for an
other dead nation and let my text III
scribe upon it these words, ''Alas, alas
? for Babylon, that great city, that might
f city, for in one hour is thy judgmen
l conner Ny friends, if you have not nc
g ticed that political bribery is one OF tn
S CHASTITY crimes of this day, you have nc
e kept your eyes open.
Another evil threatening the destrue
ton of American institutions is the soho
k flying of the sections against each Other
S 4 solid north. A solid south. If thi
S goes on we shall, after awhile, have
/" solid east against solid west; we sha
:. have solid middle states against soil
/ northern states; we shall have a soil
: New York against a solid Pennsylvani;
b and solid Ohio against solid Ke1
d lucky. 1t is twenty-seven years sine
/, the warcloud, and yet at every pres
: Dental election the old antagonism
:, aroused When Garfield died, and a
r. the states gathered around his casket
d sympathy and in tears, and as heart
l. kilograms of coincidence came from Ne
n Orleans and from Charleston as frol
d Boston and Chicago, I said to myself.
t. think sectionalism is dead" But, ala
/. no! The difficulty will never be ende