The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-18

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opera house, I said: would you like me
TO tell you Just what I think plainly and
hoLestlyp" They said: 'Yes, yes, yesv
/ said: DO you think you can stand 10
alp" They said: "Ycs, yes, ycsV'
Then" I said, my opinion Is that the
curse of san Francisco is not your Chi
nese quarter, but your millionaire liber.
tines!"
And two Of them sat right before ma
Felix and Drusilla. And so II Is In
all the cities. I never swear, but when
/ see n man go unwhipt OF justice,
laughing over his shame and calling
his damnable deeds g~allantry and pee
cadillo. I am tempted to hurl red hot
anathema and to conclude that II, &C
cordinp' to some peoples theology, there
Is no hell, there ought to be!
There Is enough o~ut-and-out liccn-
tiousness in American cities to-day TO
bring down upon them the wrath OF
thnt God who, on the cath OF August,
70, buried He~rculaneum and Pompcii 30
deep in ashes hat the eighteen hum
dred and thirteen subsequent years
have not been able to complete the ex-
humation. There are In some OF the
American cities to-day whole blocks OF
houses which the authorities kn"w 70
be Infamous, and yet by purchase they
are silenced, by hush money, so that
such places are as much under the de-
fcnse of government us public Libraries
and asylums of mercy. These ulcers
on the body polite bleed and %gangrenc
away the life of the nation, and
public authority in many of the cities
look the other way. You cannot
| cure such wounds as these with n silken
bandage. You will have 20 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 of tho
scabrous and putrefying denominations
| As the Romans were after the Celts,
and as the .Normons were after the
| Britons, SO there are evils after this mo-
ton which will attend its obsequies
unless we first attend theirs.
Superstition tells of a marine reptile.
the cephaloptera, which EMBODIED and
crushed q ship Of war, but IL Is no STU
perstition when I tell you that the his
tory of many Of the dead nations pro-
claims 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 Stay this
hydra? 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 Sinaitie
detonation?
want to put all Of the matter before
you, SO hat 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 II
they pray. This nation Is not going tc
perish. Alexander. when he heard Of
the wealth Of the Indies, divided Mscs
donia among his soldiers. Some one
asked him what he had kept for himsel.
and he replied: II am keeping hopeg
And that jewel I keep bright and shin
ing in my soul whatever else
shall surrender. Hope thou In God
He will set back these oceanic
tides of moral devastation. Ok
YOU know what Is the prize To-
which contention is made to-day? It II
the prize of this continent. Never
since, according to John Milton, wheI
Satan was hurled headlong flaming
|, from the ETHEREAL skies In hideous ruiz
and combustion down." have the pow
ers of darkness been SO determined Il
/ win this continent rs they are now
, What q jewel it is-a jewel carved II
relief, the cameo Of this plar = o.
: one side of us the Atlantic ocean, divid
l ing us from the worn out government
~ IvrrD,~a IN Hhn Athnp StAn thn DnntA
, ocean, dividing us from the superstition
. of Asia. On the north of us the Arcti
sea, which Is the gymnasium in which tn
/. explorers and navigators develop thci
q courage. A continent 10, 500 miles lors
II, 600. 900 square miles, and all Of 1t bu
{ about one-seventh capable OF rich cult
walton. One hundred millions Of popu
lation on this continent of North an
E South America-l00, O00, 600, and roor
!, for many hundred millions more. Al
I fora and all fauna, all metals, and al
e precious woods, and all grains and o.
t fruits The Appalachian range tn
backbone and the rivers the ganglia cal
rying life all through and ont to tn
Q extremities- Isthmus of Darien, tn
narrow waist Of q giant continent
/? all to be under n government
and all free and all Christian
Q and the scene Of Christ's personal reig
e on earth, IT, according to the expects
: tion of many good people, He shan q
last set up His throne In this world
v Who shall have this hemisphere? Chris
| or Satan? Who shall have the shore
y her inland seas, the silver of her New,
das, the gold of her Colorados, the to
escapes of her ~obscrvatories. the brai
OF her universities, the wheat Of hi
prairies, the rice of her savannahs, N
two great ocean beaches-the on
e reaching from Bafin's bay to Terra d.
Fuego. and the other from Behrin
. straits to Cape Horn-and all the mora
and temporal, and spiritual, and eve
lasting interests Of q population val
e beyond all computation saved by Hi
with whom a thousand years are as on
IS day? Who shall have the hemisphere
1 You and ! will decide that or help I
g decide 1t, by conscientious vote, by ca
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