Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-11-18

| Thirteen members OF the Senate received
| N15 600 among them in bonds. Sixty
| members of the other house received from
5000 to $40 600 each. The Lieutsnaut-Goy
srnor received $4,000. The clerks of the
| house received from $500 TO $1,000 each.
The bank comptroller received 5000
Two hundred AMI fifty thousand dollars
were divide anor~ - 'l1OYIstA You see
| the railroad company was very generous.
But all that was hidden, an only through
the severest scrutiny on the part Of legis-
! lative CO nmitte, was this iniquity displayed.
| Now political bribery deies YOU dares you,
is arrogant, AM will probably decide the
election next tuesday.
Unless this iiab1lism cAasas in this coun-
Try bartho!iis sJttue on BE lloSs Island,
with upiitte torcl 10 light other Nations
into the hlrho. ha better be changed an
the torch ufoppst rs sy nbol OF universal
incen larisin.
Un.eSs THIS purcIlsa an sale OF slffrags
shall cease tle American Government will
expire, an1 You might rs we'll be getting
really the mDnu nent foc another dead Ma.
ton an I le. my text ilscribs upon Il these
words "A'as, alas, Tor Babylon, that great
city, that mighty city, for in one hour il
thy judgment cJmen Ny friends, IL you
have not noticed tnat political bribery is
one of the chastity crimes OF this day. you
have not kept your eyes open.
AuDlltT tNll threatening L0A OBSTRUCTION
OF American Institutions is the solidifying
o. the sections against eacd other. A solid
nortl. A solid South. IL this goes on we
shall after n while have a solid East against
solid West; wa shall have solid Middle
States against solid Northern States; W,
shall have solid New York against a
solid Pennsylvania, and a solid Ohio against
solid Kentucky. 1t is twenty seven
years since the warclou !, and yet at every
Presidential election the old anita gonisn Il
aroused. When Garfield died and all the
States gathered around his casket In sym
pathy and III tears, and as hearty kilograms
of confdencl came from New Orleans and
Charleston as from Boston and Chicago, l
said to myself II think sectionalism Ia
dead" But, alas, mol The difficulty will
never be ended until each State Of the Ma
ton IS split up into two or three great po-
itlcal parties.
This country cannot exist unless it exists
as one body, the National Capital, the
heart, sending out through all the ar teries OF
communication warmth and life to the very
extrem ties. This Nation cannot exist un
less 1t exists as one family, and you might
as we'll have solid brothers against solid
sisters, and a solid bread tray against a
solid cradle, aud a solid nursery against a
solid dining room. and you might as well
have solid ears against solid eyes, ami solid
head against solid foot. What is the int .r-
est OF Georgia is the interest of Mas1icnu.
sets; what is the interest of New YORK il
the interest OF South Carolina. Does the
Ohio River Change its politics when it gets
below Louisville? Its not possible for these
sectl NAL anita yontsns to continue for
great many years wit1 permanent COM
pound fracture
Another evil threatening the destruction
OF our American institutions is the low state
OF puolic morals
What killed Blbylon Of my text, What
killed Phpncia? What killed Ro ne' Their
own depravity, AMI the fraud, aud the
drunkenness, an1 tue lecaerY which have
destroyed other Nations will destroy ours
unless a mercitul Col prevent To show
you the low st4ts OF public morals have
20 call your attention ID the fact that many
men nominated for ofices in different
States at different times are entirely unit
for the positions for which they have bs.n
1omlnatel.
They have no more qualification for them
than wolf has qualification to be professor
If pastoral theology in a hoc OF sheep, or a
blind mole has Qualification to lecture a class
)r eagles on OPTICS or than a vuture has
qualification u chaperon dove. The mere
pronunciation OF some of their names ma'ies
= demand for caroolic acid and funigati jnl
Yet Christian men will follow right under
;he political standards.
have TO tell you what you know already
that American politics have sunken to such
q low depth that there is nothing be.
1eath. WHAT we sc, in some directions wo
ea in nearly all directions The pecula-
lion and thu knavery hurled to the sur
lace by the explosion OF banks and buSi-
ness firms are only specimens OF great Co
| topaxis aud Stron3olIs OF wicSe1neSS that
DOLL and roar AMI surge beneath, but have
: 1nt r.rtf 70 70 flaa ,rF hnp he
heaven descended Democratic Party enacted
the Tweei l rasc Atty 1t seemed to eclipse
everything but after awhile the heaven
escended Republican Party outwittei pam
lemonium with the star route infamy
Ny friends we have in this country people
who say the marriage institution amounts
TO nothing. They scof at IT. We have
people walking in polite parlors in our day
who are not good enough to be scavengers
in Sodoml | went over to San Francisco ten
or fifteen years ago-that beautiful city,
that queen Of the Pnc fic. May the blessing
OF Col come down upon her great churches
and her noble men and women When | got
into the city OF San Francisco the Mayor Of
the city and the Presi lent OF the Board OF
Health called on me and insisted that go
and see the Chinese quarter, no doubt so
that ON my return to the Atlantic coast
might tell what dreadful people the Chinese
are,
But on the last night OF my stay in San
Francisco, before thousands OF people in
their great opera house, said Would you
like me to tell you just what think, plainly
and honestIyr' They said, Yes, yes
yesr' said, ''Do you think you
can stand 1t clip They said, "Yes, yes.
yesF Then" said, "my opinion is that
the curse OF San Francisco is not your
Chinese quarter, but your millionaire liber-
| tinesw
And two Of them sat right before mo
| Felix and Drusilla. Aud 50 it is in all the
cities never swear, but when l see man
| go uuwhipped OF justice, laughing over his
| shame ant calling his damnab!e deeds gal
lantry and peccadillo, l am tempted to hurI
red hot anathema aud to conclude that II,
according to some peoples theology, there Ia
no hell, there ought to bel
There is enou ii out an out licentousness
In American cities to-day to bring down
| upon them the wrath Of that God who, on
the oath of August, 10, buried Herculaneum
and Pompeii so deep in as eS that the eight
| cen hundred and thirteen subsequent years
| have not been able to complete exhumation.
| There are in some OF the American cities to-
| day whole blocks OF houses which the au'
| thorities know to be infamous and vet by
| purchase they are slenc I'd by hush money,
| so that such places are as much under the
defense Of government as pubic libraries
and asylums OF mercy.
These ulcers on the body polite bleed and
gaugrene away tho life OF the Nation. and
public authority in many Of the cities looks
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 caustic OF holy
wrath, and with most decisive amputation
cutting off the scabrous and putrefying
nbominations 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 un-
less we first attend theirs
Superstition tells Of a marine reptile, the
cephaloptera which embodied an | crushed q
ship of war; but it is no superstition when
tell you that the history of many Of the