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


fraud, and the drunkenness, and the lech-
cry which have destroyed other nations
will destroy ours unless a merclful God
prevent To show you the low state OF
public morals, have to call your atten-
ton to the fact that many men nom1-
mated for offices in different states at diff
ferent times are entirely unfit for the
positions for which they have been NOM
mated.
DEGRADATIONs OF POLITICS.
They have no more qualification for
them than a wolf has qualification to be
professor of pastoral theology in flock
of sheep, or !, blind mole has qualifica-
tion 10 lecture Il class of eagles on optics,
OF than Il vulture has qualification to
chaperon dove. The mere pronuncia-
ton of some Of their names makes a de-
mand for carholic acid and fumigation!
Yet Chris il; Il men will follow right on
under the political standards.
l have to tell you what you know
already, that American politics have
sunken to Sue. a low depth that there is
nothing be1!eath. What we see in some
directions we see in nearly all directions.
The Dcc1lation and the knavery hurled
to the surface by the explosion OF banks
AMI business firms are only specimens OF
great CotOpaxis and StrOmbollS of wick
edness that boil and roar and surge be-
meath, but have not yet regurgitated to
the surface When the heaven descended
Democratic party enacted the Tweed ras-
cality it seemed to eclipse everything;
but after awhile the heaven descended
Republican party outwitted pandemoni-
II 1nf1nV.
NV friends, we have in this country
people who say the marriage institution
amounts to nothing. They scott at it.
We have people walking IN polite par
lors in our day who are not good enough
% be scavengers in Sodom! went over
to San Francisco ten OF fifteen years ago
that beautiful city, that queen OF the
Pacific. May the blessings of God come
down upon her great churches and her
noble men and women! When got1nto
the city of San Francisco the mayor OF
the city and the president 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 At
lantic coast [ might tell what dreadful
people the Chinese are.
But on the last night of my stay in
San Francisco, before thousands OF peo-
pie i'll their great opera house, SAID,
sWould You like me to tell you just
what I think, plainly and honestly!
They said, Eyes, yes, yes" l said, 'Do
YOU think YOU can stand it all!' They
said. Eyes, yes, yesr' ''Then," l said,
.smv opinion is that the curse of San
Francisco is not your Chinese quarter,
but your millionaire libertinesT
And two Of them sat right before me
Felix and Drusilla. And SO it is IN all
the cities. Inever swear, but when | see
a man go upwhipped of justice, laugh
ing over his shame and calling his damna-
BILE deeds gallantry and peccadillo, am
tempted to hurl redhot anathema and
to conclude that if, according to some
PEOPLES theology, there is no hell, there
ought to be.
THE WICKED, vOLUPTUOUS CITY.
There is enough out and out llcentlous-
ness in American cities today to BRING
down upon them the wrath of that God
who on the oath of August, 10, buried
Herculaneum and Pompeii so deep in
the ashes that the eighteen hundred ana
thirteen subsequent years have not been
able to complete the elimination. There
are in some of the American cities to-
dav whole blocks of houses which the
authorities know to be Infamous, and
vet bv purchase they are silenced-by
hush noney-so that such places are as
much under the defense of government
as nublic libraries and asylulns Of mercy.
These ulcers on the body polite bleed
and gangrene away the life of the lla-
ton. and public authority in many of
the cities looks the other way. You
cannot cure such wounds as the e
with silken bandage. You will
have to cure them by putting deep in
the lancet of moral surgery and burn
ing them out with the caustic of hoy
wrath. and with most decisive amputa-
ton cutting off the scabrous and putre
fving denominations. AS the Romans
were after the Celts, and as the Nor.
mans were after the Britons, SO tht {
are evils after this nation which will at
tend its obsequies unless we first attend
theirs.
Superstition tells Of a marine reptile
the cephaloptera-which EMBODIED an6
crushed ship of war; but it is no super
stition when tell you that the history
of many Of the dead nations proclain'
to us the fact that our ship of state is il
danger of being crushed by the cepha
loptera of national depravity. Wher,
is the Hercules to Stay this hydra? Is i
, not time to speak by pen, by tongue, b,
ballot box, by the rolling of the prison
5 door, by hangmans halter, by earnes
prayer, by Sinaitic defamation?
/ A son Of King Croesus is said to hav
7 been dumb, and to have never uttered
' word until he saw his father being pu
l to death Then he broke the shackle
of his silence and cried out, Kill no
!. nv father, Crusus!" When l see til
l cheatery, and the wantonness, and tn