Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-11-10

Atlantic coast might tel "hau uies''AiN
people the Chinese are.
But Oh the last night of my stay in Sai
/ Francisco. before thousands Of people i
their great opera house, | said, Noul'
you like me to tsll yon just what think
I plainly and honestly" They said, : Is
1 YES. yes!'' | said, do you think you eal
stand it allf" They said, Yes, yes, yes
''Then,o | said, my opinion is that tn
curse of San Francisco is not your Chimes
quarter, but your millionaire libertinesi
! LIBERTINEs IL HIGH PLACES.
And two of them sat right before me-
4 Felix and Drusilla And so it is in all tn
cities. | never swear, but when ] see
man gounwhipped OF justice, laughing oFei
his shame and calling his damnable deeds
gallantry and peccadillo am tempted t
| hurl redhot anathema and 10 conclude thal
If. according 10 some peoples theology
there is no hell, there ought to be!
There is enough out and out licentious
ness in American cities today TO brlh-
down upon them the wrath Of that boH
who, on the oath of August, ~, buried
Herculaneum and Pompeii so deep II
ashes that the eighteen hundred and thir
teen subsequent years have not been able
TO complete the exhumation. There are
in some of the American cities today 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 defense
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
ma IF
the other way. You cannot cure such
wounds as these with a silken bandage.
You will have TO cure them by putting
deep in the lancet of moral surgery, and
burning them out with the caustie 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 its obsequies I'M
less we first attend theirs.
NATIONAL ROT THREATENING.
Superstition tells Of marine reptile, the
cephaloptera which embodied and crushed
a shipof war; but it is no superstition when
| tell you that the history of many Of the
dead nations proclaims 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 hydrai 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 detonations
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,
Cruasustp When | see the cheatery and
the wantonness and the manifold crime OF
this country attempting to commit patri-
cde-yea, matricide-upon our institu-
tions, it seems to me that lips that here
tofore have been dumb ought to break the
silence with canorous tones of fiery protest.
want 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 II 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 Macedonia among his soldiers.
Some one asked him what he had kept for
and he replied, II am keeping
hope!" And that jewel keep bright and
shining in my soul, whatever else | shall
surrender. Hope thou in God. He will
set back these oceanic tides Of moral dew
astation. Doyou know what is the prize
for which contention is made today, 1t is
I he prize of this continent.
Never since, according TO John Milton,
when satan was hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hideous ruinand
combustion down." have the powers OF
darkness been so determined 10 win this
continent as they now are What a jewel
it i>-a jewel carved ia relief the cameo 81
this planet On one sideof us the Atlantic
ocean, dividing us from the wornout gov
Of Europe. Onthe other side the
Pacific ocean, dividing Us from the super
stitious Of Asia. On the north OF us the
Arctic sea, which is the gymnasium in
which the explorers and navigators develop
their courage A continent 1880 miles
long, lio00,000 square miles, and an OF Il
but about oue-seventh capable Of rich oul-
tivatioH.
TuE cnEA1 A noN.