Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-11-09


lies and the Democratic mandatory OF
lies-and they are run day and night, and
they turn ont half dozen day all equip
ped and ready for full sailing Large lies
and small lies. Lies private and lies pub
lie and lies pruricnt. Lies cut bias and lies
cut diagonal Long limhca lies and lies
with double back action. Lies compliment
taly and lies dcfamatory. Lies that some
people believe, and lies that all the people
believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies
with humps like calnels, and scales like
crocodics. and necks as long az storks. and
feet as swift rs an autclopc's and stings
like addcrS. Lies raw and scallopcd and
PANIED and stewed. Crawling lies and
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lios with
attachment crews and ruflers and braid
tr- and ready wound bobbius. Iies by
christian people. who never lie except dur
Ing elections, and lies bypeoplc who always
ic but beat themselves in q political cam
pagu.
] confess 7 am ashamed to have for
tigner visit this country in these times. |
khotlG think he would stand daaed and
dare not go out nights What will the
hundreds Of thousands Of foreigners who
como here 20 live think of us. What a dis
gus, they mus, have for the land Of their
aduptiou' The only good thing about is is
TINT many Of them Canno5 understand the
English language But | suppose the Ger
man and ltaliau and swedish and French
papers translate it all, aud poddie out the
internal stuff TO their subscribers.
Nothing but Chri-tianit: viii ever stop
such flood Of iudecency. The Christian
religion will speak after awhile. The bill
ling,eatc and low scandal through which
we wade almost every autumn must be re-
bul>cd by that religion which speaks from
it, two great mountains, from the one
mountain informing the command, "Tnou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour and from the other mount max
iug plea for kindness and love and blessing
rather Than culsng.
. Christian men, .rown upon political
falschood Remember that II political lie
is as black as any other kind Of a lie. God
has recorded all the falselloods that have
been told at the city. state or national ecc-
tiuns since the foundation of this govern
ment, and though the perpetrators and
their victims may have gone into the dust,
in the last day Judgment will be awarded.
The falsch0ods that Aaron Burr hreathed
into the ear of Blcnnerhasset, the ISLANDERS
than Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed
about GEORGE Washington, the misrepre-
sensations in regard to James Monroe, are
~ fresh in Gods book today as the lies
that were printed last week about our local
candidates. And ali liars shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire
and birthstone. which i the second death. 5"
TIE CRIME OF BRIBERY.
Again counsel you rs Christian men to
set yourselves against the misuse OF money
in political campaigns. OF the thousands
oil dollars already spent TINS autumn, how
much of the amount do you suppose has
been properly used: Nou have right to
spend money for he publishing of political
tracts, for the establishment OF organlZa-
lions for the carrying out OF what you CON
slider to be the best; You have Il right to
appeal to the reason OF men by argument
and statistics and by facts. Printing and
renting OF public halls and political meet
ing' cost money, but he who puts bride
into the hand of Il voter or plies weak men
with merccnary ard corrupt motives com
lnits sin against God and the nation.
Bribery is one of the most appalling sins
Of this country. God says, Fire shall con
sumo the tabernacles of bribery Have
nothing 10 do with such a sin, Christian
man! Fling 1t from the ballot box. Hand
over TO the police the man who attempts 70
tamper with your vote, and remember that
NlttNlHu7 lltb AeNliIlOu ~ tttA lltJ NllIbIti
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 me say that
no man can afford TO 90 into political life
who is not IL tcetotaler Hot political dis
cusson somehow creates an unnatural
thirst, and hundreds Of thousands Of men
have gone down into drunkenness through
pOliti cul life.
After an exciting canvass through the
evening You must take somethingn and
ri-in! in the morning with less animation
than usual YOU must take something. "
aud going oil among your comrade,
through the forenoon You meet political
friends. aud you must take sometimes -
and in the afternoon you meet other poiit-
zeal friends and YOU must take some
thing " and before night has come some
thing has taken you. There are but few
case. where men have been able to stand
up against the dissipations of political life
Joseph was Il politician. but he main