The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
PRICE, Is ON ALL CANS,
TO Be GIN UINE.

could tell you facts of my own personal
knowledge of the wrong done by these
men. / could tell you the story Of young
men brought to the doors of the States
fsmies are connived at by the powers that
be. | could tell you of mothers whose
hearts have been broken. and of sisters
whose spirits have been crushed by these
leeches. by these 1shmaelites who Stake their
THIRST for gold on human blood, by these
men who. too lazy to work and earn an
honest loaf. would rsther damn O human
soul and earn their bread at ease. And yet
by our apathy we permit these men TO defy
che law: we permit these men TO pooh-pooh
and sheer at the police; we permit these
men to detile the dignity and the fair fame.
and the good repute of the city of Indian
apolls by the touch Of their unclean. pol
luted hands.
OH We need an awakenment; we need an
awakenment of the best citizenship of In
dianapolis. Shame on it that these men
should rule! shame on &c that these men
should dare to defy the publio conscience
and the public law. Ny friends. let Indi-
annapolis arise TO q sense OF obligation!
Let the city or Indianapolis this coming
month assert its dignity at the polls, Let
it remember now, If never before, hat "be
only that keepeth the law can be happy"
that true greatness can only lie along the
line of goodness. and that the city OF Indl-
annapolis can only go forward TO n happy
future along the line OF right. and purity.
and truth.
STAND o RIGHT.
l wish to say no word about politics. I
wish TO advocate no partisan measures in
this pulpit. but 1 do say-beoause / have
the right to say-that the citizens of Indi.
annapolis have a moral duty; they have q
duty to the law, they have a
duty to the fathers and mothers,
they have q duty to the young men
they have a duty to the sisters and the
wives OF this city; they have q duty to
goodness and TO godliness: they have a
duty to righteousness and purity In this
community. and that duty they must exer-
else through the vote. How you shall vote,
/ cannOt and must not say; but this L do
say, If you believe q party is standing for
the gambler, vote it down; II you believe
that the interests!of any party are identified
with the saloon to the exclusion OF the
interests OF the best citizenship of this
CITY. then i say again. vote it down.. If
you believe that O party-Do matter
IL may have done In the way of physical
improvements submissive TO the ele-
ments of vice, to the elements of anarchy
and disorder, again. even though you be
sympathetic with that party in spirit. vote
that party down. You owe it to the party,
you owe It to Indianapolis. and you owe 10
yourself to vote that party down.. And If,
on the other hand. you lind q party that by
its promise. that by its pledge. hiss commit
ted itself to those things that make for
purity. to those things that make for better
citizenship. 70 those things that will tend
to bring sunshine and peace into our
homes. then vote for that party; no matter
what may be your politics. whether you be
Republican or Democrat. vote for that
party that stands for cleanliness: vote for
that party that stands for the home as
against the saloon; vote for that party that
stand for the father and mother as
against the gambler; vote for that
party that stands for the right
as against wrong, and that stands
without reservation or qualification for
temperance, sobriety and q better life. Vote
that way, and teach one party In this city.
with an emphasis it will not forgetf for years
people. Make it for once your duty to vote
down the loafer, to vote into subjectious
and submission the saloon. and to voteinto
innocuous desuetude the gambler. with his
faro bank snd his roulette. And teach this
lesson to all parties in this town forever
and forevermore the lesson EN- bodied in
the aDhorism that has found it's way to No
from the lips of Lincoln, who of all Ameri.
crns had q genius for brilliant and senten.
tious speech. lyon can perhaps fool all of
the people some of the time. and You can
perhaps fool some of the people all Of the
time. but you cannot fool all of the people
ell of the time"
Teach by your vote In October the bolis
ticians or this city that they cannot fool
all the people all the time.