Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-23


peddlers of scandal
In the far east there is place where
once a year they let the people do as
they please. and the place is full of up
roar. misrule and wickedness, and they
call it the Devils day." The nearest
approximation to that in this country
has been the first Tuesday ir Novem-
Der. The community at such times
seems to say, go to, now; let us have
a good time at tying" Prominent can
didates for office are denounced as nm
principled and renegade A smart lie
will start in the corner of country
newspaper, and keep on running until
it has captured the printing presses of
the whole continent What garbling
of speeches, What misrepresenta-
ton of individual antecedents. The
tarouble is that we have in this coun-
try two great manufactories-manu
factories of lies-the republican manu-
factory 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
lies 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 compli-
mentary and lies defamatory Lies that
some people believe. and lies that all
the people believe, and lies that no.
body believes. Lies with humps like
camels and scales like crocodiles and
necl1s as long as storlfs, and feet as swift
as an antelope's. and stings like an adj
der. Lies raw ard scolloped and panned
and stewed. Crawling lies and jumping
lies and soaring lies Lies with attach
ment screws and ruffiers and braiders
and ready-wound bobbins Lies b.
Christian people who never lie except
during elections. and lies by people
who always lie. but beat themselves in
a political campaign.
! confess am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country in these times.
| should think that he would stand
lazed, and dare not go out nights,
What will the hundreds of thousands
of foreigners who come here to live
think of MS? What 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 ped !
die out the Internal stuff to their sub.
scribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such flood of indecency. The |
Christian religion win speak after a |
while. The billingsgate and low scan
DIAL through which we wade almost
every autumn must be rebuled by that |
religion which speaks from its two
great mountains. from the one noun
tain informing the command. Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor," and from the other mount
making plea for kindness and love and
blessing rather than cursing. o. Chris
tian men! frown upon political false
hood. Remember that a political lie is
as black as any other kind of a lie.
God has recorded 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 false
hoods that Aaron Burr breathed into
the ear of Blennerhasset, the ISLANDERS
that Lieut. Gen. Gage proclaimed about
George Washington, the misrepresenta-
tions in regard to James Monroe, are as
fresh on Gods book to-day as the lies
that were printed last week about our
local candidates "And all liars shall
have their part in the lake which burn
eth with fire and brimstone; which is
the second death"
Again, / counsel you as Christian
men to set yourselves against the mis-
use of money in political campaigns. OF
the thousands of dollars already spent
this autumn, how much of the amount
do you suppose has been properly used?
You have a right to spend money for
the publishing of political tracts, for
the establishment of organizations for
the carrying out of what you consider
to be the best; you have right to ap-
peal to the reason of men by argument
and statistics and by facts. Printing
and renting of public halls and politi-
cal meetings cost money, but he who
puts bride into the hand of a voter,
Or plies weak men with mercenary and
corrupt motives commits sin against
Tod and the nation. Bribery is one of
.he most appalling sins of this country
Tod saws: ''Fire shall consume the ,
of bribery" Have moth
ng to do with such sin, o Christian 5
nan. Fling it from the ballot box. |
Hand over to the police the man
Who attempts to tamper with your
'ote. and remember that elections that ..
annot be carried without brides ought :
lever to be carried at all Again ask
'ou as Christian men to set yourself t
gainst the designations that hover over v
he ballot-box. Let me say that no y
nan can afford to go into political life I
Who is not teetotaler. Hot political :
iscussion somehow creates an unnat- !.
raj thirst, and hundreds of thousands !,