Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-09
J year they 1et tne people 40 q tnev plengs

year they let the people 90 as they pfeass
ana say what they please, and the place is
iuil OF uproar, mjsrule and wickedness and
they call 1t the devils day." The nearest
approximation to that in this country has
peen the first Tuesday in November The
| community at such times seems to saw $50
| 70, now, let us have good time at living. y
Prominent candidates for office are de-
nounced as iinprincipled and renegade.
smart lie will start in the corner of a country
| newspaper, and keep on running until it has
capturedthe printing presses of the whole
continent. What garbling of speeches What
| nnsinterpretation of motives What mis-
representation Of individual antecedents
| Inc trouble is that we have in this country
| TWO great Observation-Disclosures OF
nes-the Republican mandatory OF lies and
the Democratic mandatory Of lies-and
they are run day and night, and they turn
out half dozen a day all equipped and
ready for full sailing. Large lies and small
hes. Lies private and lies public and lies
prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal
Long limbed lies and lies with double back
action. Lies complimentary and lies de-
iamatory. Lies that some people believe,
and lies that all the people believe. and lies
that nobody believes. Lies with humps like
eamels, and scales like crocodiles and necbs
| as long as storks, and feet as swift as an an
eeIopes, and stings like adders. Lies raw
and scalloped and PANIED and stewed.
Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring
hes Lies with attachment screws and
rafiiers and braiders and ready wound bob
pins. Lies BY Christian people. who never
he except during elections and lies by peo-
| pie who always lie. but beat themselves in a
| political campaign.
confess am ashamed to have foreigner
visit this country in these times. l should
thlnk ne would stand dazed and dare not go
OUT at nights What will the hundreds of
thousands OF foreigners who come here to
I'VE think OF us? What q disgust they must
have for the land OF their adoption! The
only good thing about it is that many of them
cannot understand the English language
But suppose the German and italian and
Swedish and French papers translate it all.
and peddle out the internal stuff to their sub
scribers
Nothing but Christianity viii ever stop such
| a Hood OF indecency. The Christian religion
will speak after awhile The billingsgate and
low scandal through which we wade almost
every autumn must be rebuked by that re-
ligion which speaks from its two great noun
tains, from the one mountain intoning the
command, Thou shalt not bear false wit
ness against thy neighbor," and from the
other mount making plea for kindness and
love and blessing rather than cursing.
OChristian men, frown upon political false,
aood Remember that political lie Is as
black as any other kind of a lie. God has re-
corded all the falsehoods that have been told
at the city, State or National elections since
the foundation of this Government, and
though the perpetrators and their victims
may have gone into the dust, in the last day
judgment will be awarded.
The falsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed
into the ear of Blennerhassett. the ISLANDERS
that Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed
about George Washington, the misrepresen-
tations in regard to James Monroe, are as
fresh in Gods book to-day as the lies that
were printed last week about our local can
didates. And all liars shall have their part
| in the lake which purneth with fire and brim,
| stone. which is the second deatn.''
| Again. counsel you as Christian men to
| set yourselves against the misuse of money
| in political campaigns. OF the thousands of
| dollars already spent this autumn. how much
| OF tue amount do you suppose has been prop
| erly usedY You have a right to spend money
| for the publishing of political tracts, for the
| establishment of organizations for the carry
ng out OF what you consider to be the best /,
| you have right to appeal to the reason of
| men by argument and statistics and by facts
| Printing and renting OF public halls and po-
ilticai meetings cost money, but he who puts
| orioe INTO the hand OF Il voter or plies weak
| men With mercenary and corrupt motives
commits Il sin against God and the Nation.
Bribery is one OF the most appalling sins
OF this country. God says. Fire shall con-
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nothing to do With such sin, o Christian
man! Fling it from the ballot box. Hand
| over to the police the man wac attempts to
| Jumper with your vote, ana remember that
| elections that cannot be carried without
| brides ought never to be carried at all.
| AGAIN ask you us Christirn men to set your
| serves against the dissipatons that hover over
| tha ballot oox. Let me say that no man can
ahord 10 80 into political life VINO is not D
teetotaier. Hotpolitical discussion somehow
| creates an unnatural thirst and hundreds oil
thousands OF men have gone down into
drunkenness through political life.
| \ Alter an exciting canvass through the
evening you must stake something" and
rising in the morning with less animation
than usual you must take something" and
| gong OF among your comrades through the
| forenoon you meet political friends, and you
| must take something, and in the afternoon
| you meet other political friends. aud YOU
must take something" and being night has
! come something has taken you There are
buf Few cases where men have been able to
stand up against the designations of political
| life
Joseph was politician, but he maintained
his integrity. Daniel was a politician but
| ne was teetotaler to the las- Abraham
was politician. but he was always charac-
terized as the father of the faithful. Moses
| was politician, the grandest of them but
| he honored God more than he did the Phar-
aohs, and there are hundreds of Christian
men now in the political parties maintaining
their integrity, even when they are Obliged
| TO stand amid the blasted iecherous and
loathsome crew that sometimes surround the
ballot box-these Christian men doing their
political duty and then coming back TO the
| prayer meetings and Christian circles as pure
as when they went out But that is not the
ordinary circumstance-that is the excep-
ton.
How often you see men coming back from
the political conflict and thereyeis glazed,
and their cheek has an unnatural flush, and
they talk louder than they usually do and al
the least provocation they will bet and you