Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-11-09

ing lies and soaring lies. Lies with
attachment screws and rufflers and
braiders and ready wound bobbins
Lies by 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 a
foreigner visit this country in these
times. | should think he would stand
dazed, and dare not go out nights
What win the hundreds of thousands
of foreigners who come here TO live
think of us? What disgust they must
have for the land OF their adoption
The only good thing about it is that
many of them can not 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
subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of indccency. The
Christi N religion will speak after a
while. The billingsgate and low
scandal through which we wade al
most every autumn must be rebulied
by that religion which speaks from its
two great mountains, from the one
mountain informing the command,
Thou shalt not bear false wit
ne S against Thy neighbor," and
from the other mount making plea
for kindness and love and blessing
rather than cursing. @, Christian men!
frown upon political falsehood. Re-
member that political lie is as black
rs any other kind of lie. God has
recorded all the falsehoods that have
been told at the city, ate or national
| elections since tee foundation of this
government; and, though the perpe.
traitors and their victims may have
/ gone into the dust, in the last day
/ judgment will be awarded The
! ialsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed
/ into the ear of Blennerhasset, the
ISLANDERS that Lieutenant.General
Gage proclaimed about George Wash
lngton, the Misrepresentation in re-
gard to James Monroe, are as fresh on
Gods book to day as the lies that were
printed last week about our local
clnd dates. "And all liars shall have
their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone which is the
secord 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 prop
erly used? You have right to spend
money for the publishing OF pc itical
tracts, for the establishment of organ
izations for the carrying ont of what
you consider to be the best you have
right to appeal to the reason of men
by arguments and statistics and by
facts. Printing and renting of public
halls and political meetings cost
money, but he who puts bride into
the hand OF voter, or plies weak men
with mercenary and corrupt motives,
commits q sin against God and the ma
ton. bribery is one of the most ap-
palling sins of this country. God says,
Fire shall consume the tabernacles of
bribery" Have nothing to do with
such n sin, o Christian man, Fling il
from the ba lot box Hand over to the
police the man who attempts to tam
per with your vote, and remember that
elections that can not be carried with
out brides ought never to be carried at
all. Again / ask yor as Christian
men to set yourselves against the dis
sipations that hover over the ballot
box Let me say that no man can
afford to go into political life who is
not a teetotaler. Io5 political discus
sion somehow creates an unnatural
thirst, and hundreds of thousands of
men have gone down into drunken
ness through political life. After an
exciting canvass through the evening
you must take something and ris-
/ ing in the morning with less anima-
ton than usual, you must take some
. things" and going off among your
! comrades through the forenoon, you
meet political friends, and you must
J take something and in the after
noon you meet other political friends,
and you must take something" and
before night has come something has
taken you, There are b few cases
where men have been able to stand up
against the designations of political
life. Joseph was u politician, but he
maintained his integrity. Daniel was
I a politician, but he was teetotaler to
the last. Abraham was a politician,
but he was always charactcril ed as
the father Of the faithful Moses was
q p litician, the grandest of them: but
he honorcd God more than he did the
PharaOhs And there are hundreds of
Christian men now in the political
parties, maintaining their integrity,
amidst the asted lcchcrous, and
loathsome crew that sometimes
surround the bal OF box; these
Christian men doing their political
duty, and then com ng back to the
pray ger meetings and Christian circles
as ure ms when they went out. But
that is not the ordinary circumstances
that is the exception. How often you
see men coming back from the polii-
cal conflict, and their eye is glazed
and their check has an unnatural
flush, and they talk louder than they
usually do and at the least provoca-
tion they wi bet, and you say they
are conVivlal, or they are exceedingly
vivacious, or you apply some other
sweet name to them; but God knows
they are drunk! Some of Won month
or SIX weeks ago had no more religion
I an you ought to have and after the
elections are over to calculate how
much religion you have left will be
sum in vulgar fractions Oh, the
pressure is trem andous
I How many mighty intellects have
gone down under the dissipation of
pol ties / think of one who came
from the west lie was able to stand
ont against the VIII lie American
/ senate. God had given him faculties
enough to govern kingdom, or to
frame q constitution. His voice was
terrible to his country's enemies and
mighty inspiration in the day of ma
! tional peril But twenty glasses OF
strong drink day were his usual al
/ lowance, and he went down into the
habits of confirmed inebriate. Alas
for him! Though costly monument
has been reared over his resting place
/ the young men of this country shall
/ not be denied the awful lesson that
/ the agency by which the world was
/ robbed of one of its mightiest intel
lects, and our country of one of its
I ablest constitutional defenders, was
the dissipation of political life You
want to know who ! m an? Young
man, ask your father when you get
home. The adverse tide is fearful,
and warn you against it,
You need not 60 ar off to find the
. . Wa r~1ifinio,