The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-10-07
JASPER INDIANA. FRIDAY. UCTOBER7, 1892.
And. dear uncle Samuel, there is at

lests Of this country, and you, its author
lied guardian and defender, refuse "a
Iprotect your loyal subjects from its op'
pression and cruelty DO you remem.
lber that you demeaped yourself In much
the same manner forty years, or more
ago when The best men in this nation
and the best women in the world be.
sought you to tweed out slavery" before
liz should 'drive you to the WALTZ And
one Of those old abolition saints, when
the call to arms came. said. my son has
gone from college into the armv. The
government spurned our petitions, now
liz calls for our boys and 90 they must,
for when God rises in judgement
against natiopul sins the innocent must
suffer with the guilty."
And they went. The beauty OF youth
from schoolroom and college, the prime
of manhood from the labor departments
the scholar. The poet, the author, the man
high in authority,-such massing OF
brain and muscle was never before mus
tered into any army under heaven as
the North sent ont to be slaughtered by
that foe which on had so long nnrturcd
and protected. You came near losing
yonr lite st that time Uncle. but those
you had snnrnsd came nobly to your
defense. Yon had almost forgotten that
the Puritan Fathers were commissioned
OF God TO possess this land TOR liberty
the Day Star in the West toward which
all the natione Of the earth should look
hopefully. You hai forgotten that the
deed OF this continent IL recorded in
Heaven that the battles of the Revolu-
,ion were fought in the name Of the
r.rI. o stnt -
"a. though an infidel. compelled the sur
render OF the Fort with the "name o.
the Great Jehovah prefxed 10 the
''Continenial Congress" upon his lips.
You restricted slavery and kept II
sectional. but the enemy that now seeks
70 destroy you Is national, il invades
every section OF your domain. There
Jig not hamlet so small that its ennis
l-aries are not there to lure the youth TO
ruin, aud there are few large cities
where its grip is not firm upon munich
pal authority, Its cohorts fly the flag oi
anarchy and call. ''ah, ha! ali. ha! we
will dethrone God in this government
we will dip beer from watts upon the
street corners, and make whiskey as free
as lake water-aud we will rule Ameri-
lea forever.
All. it is rich, this your enemy-it has
the key to the money safes of million.
aires, il buvs your statesmen W ith bribes
and offers liberty tor sale in the market
places as though IL were thing instead
ola heritage from God.
1t Is sapping your life by destroying
the virtue, integrity aud patriotism o.
your citizens, and like a sharpshoo i
picks off your most valuable servants
Ask. or think, for Yourself, how many
Of your 5ravest soldiers, statesmen. gov
ernors il has sent 10 untimely grave,
during thirty years past And the crime
1t has brought forth oh, we cannot stoT
to talk Of crime! with all its train o
woe-bnt the children-ah, yes, the
children! The poor little half.naked
starved children 10 whose faces we may
read. candidates for the pauper house
the brothei. the prison." On. this Of
fense ia rank. il smells TO Heaven" and
yon offer no protection and no protec,
tion when the father sells the betrotha
ring from the dead wife's finger and
prostitutes their child-daughter for mon.
icy TO slake the burning thirst begotter
from your unrestricted foe. One oi
your reliable secretaries has estimated
-
per annum TO foster this potential sne
my. but finance weighs nothing beside
the fact that this fend victimizcs its
slaves with its subtle poison. and infect.
them with disease, which, considered
as regards its effects, morally, mentally
and ph, sically, has never been equaled
As a torture.
Oh and the wife goes out washing
and the daughter works In the sew ing
shop TO earn the money 10 pay for 1.-THE
shots All this is the most uDkind OF
all Why 10 you not protect your citi-
zens from this disease as you do from
other pestilence? !? When yellow fever
smiies the South, who comes north with
lout being quarsntined? When typhus
breeds clsndestihely how alert is every
health officer! Who dares cross the
Idsnger line OF smallpox pest-house
I"What! endsnger the public health
ltwould be monstrous!'
A few months ago you troonced poor
little Chilli till sho trembled all over be.
soldiers-.United States soldiers have
got TO be protected. 'All right"
Bot why did you not set up some u.
). A. authority concerning those wives
three thousand of them az shown BY
the record-"that were killed by their
drunken husbands in the United States
Of America during tie year 1891 2"
Were not ;hcir lives worth as much as
few sailors? Was il because there were
no votes killed with the women? With
your kesn instinct for foreign aflronts.
why don't you throttle the invader that
claims 10 have . warrantee deed OF lis
life from the creation OF this world to
the end OF eternity?
And now, dear Uncle Sam, with all
your default YOU are the best "Uncle
Sam" in all the world--yonr dear odd
Flag is the grandest emblem that ever
waved beneath the sun. Every star en-
wrapped by i,s folds il more beautiful
than q coronet OF diamonds. Won't
you say United States" to THE mighty
enemy Of yours. and thereby make a.