Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-11-17

not yet regurgIt4ted 70 the surface When
the heaven descended Democratic party
enacted the Tweed rascality IL seemed TO
eclipse egerything, but after awhile the
heaven descended Republican party out
witted pandemonium with the star route
infamy
Ny friends, we have In this country people
who say the marriage institution amounts
TO nothing. They scof at ii. We have
people walking in polite parlors in our day
who are not good enough to be scavengers
in Sodom. Invent over TO San Francisco ten
or fifteen years ago-that beautiful city,
that queen OF the Pacific. May the bless
ing Of God 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 president Of
the board Of health called on me and in.
sisted that 20 and see the Chinese quar-
ter, no doubt - 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, I said, Would
you like me TO tell you just what think,
plainly and honestlyp They said, Eyes,
yes, yes" said, 'Do You think you can
stand 1t allS" They said, Eyes, yes, yesp'
''Then," 1 said, my opinion is that the
curse Of San Francisco is not your Chinese
quarter, but your millionaire libertinesp
LIBERTINEs IN HIGH PLACES
And two of them sat right before me
Felix and Drusilla. Aud so it is in all the
cities. never swear, but when l see "A
man go unwhipped of justice, laughing over
his shame and calling his damnablc deeds
gallantry and peccadillo, am tempted to
hurl redhot anathema and to conclude that
II, according to some peoples theology,
there is no he'll, there ought to bel
There is enough out and out ,licentious-
ness in American cities today to bring
down upon them the wrath of that God
who on the oath of August, 70, buried
Herculaneum and Pompeii so deep in
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 OH the body polite bleed and
gangrene away the life Of the nation, and
public authority in many of the cities looks
the other way. You cannot cure such
wounds us these with 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 anputation
off hn nd nlI rafv
denominations. AS the Romans were after
the Celts, and as the Normans were after
the Britons, so there arc evils after this
nation which will attend its obscquies un-
less we first attend theirs.
NATIONAL ROT THREATENING.
Superstition tells of u marine reptile, the
cephaloptera, which cnfolded 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 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 Siraitic detonationf
A son of King Croesus is said to have
been dumb and to have never uttered
word until he saw his father being put to
DEATH Then he broke the shackles of
silence and cried out, "Kill not my father,
Cresus" When l see the cheatery and
the wantonness and the manifold crime of
this country attempting to commit patri-
| cide-yea, matricde-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 aud woman
will know Just how matters stand, and
what they ought to do If 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
himself, and he replied, II am keeping
hopep' And that jewel keep bright and
shining in my soul, whatever else l shall
surrender Hope thou in God. He will
set back these oceanic tides of moral dew
astation. Do you know what is the prize
for which contention is made today? 1t is
the prize of this continent.
Never since, according to John Milton,
when satan was hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and
combustion down." have the powers of
darkness been so determined to win this
continent as they now are. What jewel
it is-a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of
this planet! On one side of us the Atlantic
ocean, dividing US from the wornout gov
ernments of Europe. On the other side the
Pacific ocean, dividing us from the super
stitions of Asia. On the north of lis the
Arctic sea, which is the gymnasium in
which the explorers and navigators develop
their courage. A continent 10,500 miles
long, 100000 square miles, and all of it
but about one-seventh capable of rich cul
tivation.
THE GREAT NATION.
One hundred millions of population on
this continentof North and South America
--one hundred millions, and room for many
hundred millions more. All flora, and all
fauna, all metals, and all precious woods,
and all grains, and oil fruits. The Appa-
lachian range the backbone and the rivers
the ganglia, carrying life all through and
out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien
the narrow waist of q giant continent, all
to be under one government, and all free,
and all Christian, and the scene of Christ's
personal reign on earth II, according to the
expectation of many people, he shall at last
set up his throne In this world.
Who shall have this hemisphere Christ
or satan? Who shall have the shore of
her inland seas, the silver of her Nevadas,
the gold of her Colorados, the telescopes
of her obseryatorieS, the brain of her uni
versities, the wheat of her prairies, the
| a 80 tI,at
beaehes-the one reaching from Baffin's
bay to Terra del Fhego, and the other
from Behring straits to Cape Horn -and
all the moral and temporal and spiritual
and everlasting interests of population
vast beyond all computation save by him
with whom a Thousand years are as one
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