Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-11-23

, once was considered crime, has by
, MANY come to be considered tolerable
virtue. There Is a legitimate use OF
money in elections, in the printing OF
political tracts, and in the hiring Of pub.
lie halls, and In the obtaining q cam.
palgn oratory; but is there any homnn-
culus who sdpposes that this vast a
mount of money now being raised by
parties IS going in legitimate direc-
ton? The vast r. ajority Of it will go
TO buy votes. Hundreds and thousands
of men viii have set before them so
much money for q repu blicau vote and
SO much money for democratic vote,
and the superior financial inducement
will decide tile action You want to
know which party will carry The Doubt
full states day after tomorrow? ! will
tell you. The party that speuds the
most money. This moment. while |
speak, the peddlerS carrying gold from
Wall street, gold from Third street,
gold from State S set and gold from
the Brewers asso ii on, are 10 all the
political headquarters of the douhtful
states, dealing out the infamous in
ducement.
There used to be bribery, but it held
its head In shame. 1t was under tue
utmost secrecy that many years ago a
railroad company bought up the Wis
cOnsin legislature and many officials in
that state. The governor OF the state
at that time received $50 0)0 for his sig
nature. His private secretary received
5000. Thirteen members of the sen
ate received $4,000 among them in
bonds. Sixty members Of the other
house received from $1,000 to $4,000
each. The lieutenant governor received
| $4,000. The clerks OF the house received
from $1,000 TO $4,000 each. The bank
comptroller received $4,000 Two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars were di-
vided among the lobbyists. You see the
railroad cOmany was very generous. But
that was hidden, and only through the
severest scrutiny on the part of legisla-
tive committee was this iniquity dis
played, Now. political bribery defies
you, dares you, is arrogant. and Will
probably decide tie election next Tues
day.
Unless this diabollsm ceases in this
country, Bartholdi's statute on Bed
loe's island, with uplIfted torch to
light other nations into the har-
Dor, had better be changed and the
torch dropped as a symbol of univer-
sal inceDdiarism.
Unless this purchase and sale OF stuff
rage shall cease, the American govern
mentwIll expire, and YOU might aswell be
getting ready the monument for anoth-
er dead nation, and let my text inscrIbe
upon 1t these words: Alas, alas, tor Bal
ylon, that great city, that mighty CIV
for in one hour is Thy Judgment CT me y
My friends, if you have not noticed
that political bribery is one of the
CHASTITY crimes of this day you have not
kept your eyes open.
Another ell threatening the aasf rue
.iol OF = ,merican institutions is the So
nun ing of the sections against each
yher. a solid north a solid south.
II this goes on we shall. after while.
have a solid east inst solid west.
we shall have solid middle states a.
galnst solid northern states. We shall
have solid New Y ork against solid
Pennsylvania, and solid OHIO against
a solid Kentucky. 1t is twenty-seveI
years since the war cloud. and ct at ev-
cry presidential election the old antag-
! onIsm is aroused. When Garfield died.
and all the states gathered around his
casket in sympathy and In tears, and as
| hearty kilograms of coincidence came
from New Orleans and from C4rleston
as from Boston a Chicago, l said to
| myself: Il think Sc >,Jnahsm is dead. -
But alas! no. The difficulty VIII never
be ended until each state OF the nation
Is split up into two or three great Do
| lItical parties. This country can not
exist unless it exists as one
| body, the national capital the heart.
sending out through all the arteries OF
communication warmth and life to the
very eXtremitieS. This nation cannot
| exist unless il exists as
one family. and you might as
well have solid brothers against solid
sisters, and solid bread RAY against
solid cradle, a solid nursery against
| solid dining room, ara YOU might as
well have soild eacs against solid ewes.
| and solid head against solid foot " nat
] is the interest OF Georgia is the inter
est of Massachusetts,; what the inter-
est of New \ DIRK is the interest of South
Carolina. Does the Ohio river change
| its politics when it gets below Louis
vile? 1t is not pOssitfe for these sec
tiOnal antagoniSmS to continue for a
great many years without permanent
compound fracture.
Another evil threatening the destruc
| ton of our Americans institutions is
the low state of public morals.
What killed Babylon of my text?
| What killed PhGnicia? What killed
| Rome? Their own depravity, and the
| fraud and drunkenness and the lechery
which have destroyed other nations
will destroy ours unless a merciful God
prevent. To show you the low state of
public morals have to call your atten-
ton to the fact that manv men nomin-
ated for offices in different states at diff
ferent times are entirely unfit for the
positions for which they have been
nominated. They have no more quail.
| ficatiOn for them than . wolf has quail
fication to be professor of pastoral the
| ology in flock of sheep, or a bind
mole has qualification to lecture class
of eagles on optics, or than vulture
has qualification to chaperon dove
| The mere pronunciation of some OF
their names makes demand for car
ho'ic acid and fumlgationi Yet Christ
ian men will follow right on under the
political standards.
have to tell yon what you know al
ready, that American politics have
Sunken to such low depth that there
! is nothing heneath What we see in
some directions we see in nearly AL
directions. The peculation fand the
| knaverv hurled TO the surface by The
explosions of banks and business Il ms
are only specimens of great Cotapaxis
Strombolis of wickedness that boil and