Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-09
Categorical Lies.

and wickedness, and they call it TIL
''dcvil's day." The nearest approxima
ton to that in this country has beef
the first Tuesday in November. I'll,
community at such times seems to say
go to, now, let us have q good tim.
at lying" Prominent candidates TO
office are denounced as unprinciplct
and renegade. A smart lie will star
in the corner OF q country newspaper
and keep on running until it has cap
tured the printing presses of the whole
continent. What garbling of speeches
What neutrality-suspicious. OF motives
What misrepresentation Of individual
antecedents.
The trouble is that we have in thi.
country two great manufactures -
manufactures of lies the Republican
manufactory of lies and tho Democratic
mandatory of lies and they are run
day and night, and they turn out hall
q dozen day all equipped and ready
for full sailing. Large lies and small
lies. Lies private and lies public and
diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies
with double back action. Lies compli-
mentary and lies defamatory. Lies that
some people believe, and lies that all
! the people believe, and lies that no.
i body believes. Lies with humps like
| camels, and scales like crocOdiles. and
necks as long as storks, and feet as swift
as an antelope's, and stings like adders.
Lies raw and scalloped and panned and
stewed. Crawling lies and jumping
lies and soaring lies. Lies with at
tachment screws and rufflers and braid
ers and ready wound bobbins. Lies by
Christian people, who mover lie except
during elections, and lies by people
!, 1,,,A I.
political campaign.
[ confess am ashamed to have n for
eigner visit this country in these times.
| should think he would stand dazed
and dared not go out nights! What
will hundreds OF thousands of foreign
crs who have come here to live think
OF us: What disgust they must have
for tho land of their adOption! The
only good thing about it is that many
OF them cannot understand the English
language. But l suppose the German
and Italian and Swedish and French
papers translate it all, and peddle out
the internal stuff to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such flood of indecency. Tho
Christian religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low
scandal through which we wade almost
religion which speaks from it's two
great mountains, from the one noun
tains intonine tho command. ''Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour" and from the other mount
making plea for kindness and love and
blessing rather than cursing.
y Christian men, frown upon politi-
cal fa,sehood! Remember that politi-
Cal lie Is as black as ahy other kind of
a lie. God has recorded all the false
hoods that have been told at the city,
State, or National elections since the
foundation of this government, and
though the perpetrators and their Vie
Tins may have gone into tho dust, in
the last day Judgment will be awarded.
The falsehOods that Aaron Burr
breathed into the ear of Blennerhasset,
the ISLANDERS that Lieutenant Gage pro-
claimed about George Washington,
the MISREPRESENTATION in regard to
James Monroe, are as fresh in Gods
book today as the lies that were
printed last week about our local can
didates. "And all liars shall have
their part in the lake which burncth
with fire and birthstone, which is the
second DEATH"
The Crime of Bribery.
Again, l counsel you as Christian
men to set yourselves against the mis-
use OF money in political campaigns.
VI the thousands OF dollars already
spent this autumn, how much of the
amount do you suppose has been prop
erly used! You have Il right to spend
money for the publishing of political
tracts, for the establishment of organ
lzations for the carrryiny out OF what
you consider to be the best: you have a
right to appeal to the reason of men by
argument and statistics and by facts.
PRINTING. and renting of public halls
ana political meetings cost money, but
he who puts bride into the hand of a
voter or plies weak men with mercen-
airy and corrupt motives commits q sin
against God and the nation.
Bribery is ono of the most appalling
sins OF this country. God says, Fire
sinai! consume the tabcrnacles OF brib-
cry" Have nothing to do with such
SIN, y Christian man! Fling it from
the ballot box. Hand over to the DO.
lice the man who attempts to tamper
with your vote, and remember that
elections that cannot be carried without
brides ought never to be carried at all.
Again | ask you as Christian men to
set yourselves against the designations
that hover over the ballot box. Let
nv soy tlltit IiO man can llIOrU TO 90
into political life who is not a teeto-
taller. Hot political discussion some
how creates an unnatural thirst, and
hundreds of thousands of men have
gone down into drunkenness through
political lifc.ss
After an exciting canvass through
the evening you must stake some
thing" and rising in the morning with
less animation than usual you must
take something" and going off among
your comrades through the forenoon
you meet political friends, and YOU
must take something" and in the |
afternoon you meet other political |
friends and you must stake some
thing and before night has come |
something has taken you. There are
but few cases where men have been !
able to stand up against the dissipa-
ions of political life.
Joseph was politician, but he main
aimed his integrity. Daniel was q
but he was a teetotaler to
he last. Abraham was politician,
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