Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-11-09

they turn out halI Dozen q Gay All equip
ped and ready for full sailing. Large lies
and small lies Lies private and lies pub
lie and lies prnrient Lies cut bias and lies
cut diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies
with double back action. Lies compliment
tary and lies defamatory. Lies that some
people believe, and lies that all the people
believe, and lies that nobody believes Lies
with humps like camels, and scales like
erocodilea. and necks as long as storks, and
feet as swift as an antelope's, and stings
like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and
panned and stewed. Crawling lies and
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with
attachment screws and rufhers and braid
ers and ready wound bobbins. Lies by
Christian people, who never lie except dur
ing elections, and lies by people who always
lie, but beat themselves in political cam
paign.
I confess I am ashamed to have a for
eigner visit this country in these times. /
should think he would stand dazed and
dare not go out nightsl What will the
hundreds Of thousands Of foreigners who
come here to live think Of usf What dis
gust they must have for the land Of their
adoptionl The only good thing about it is
that many of them cannot understand the
English language. But / suppose the Ger
man 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 flood of indecency. The Christian
religion will speak after awhile. The bill
hngsgate and low scandal through which
we wade almost every autumn must be re-
buked by that religion which speaks from
its two great mountains, from the one
mountain intoning the command, Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor," and from the other mount max
ing plea for kindness and love and blessing
rather than cursing.
o Christian men, frown upon political
falsehoodl Remember that political lie
is as black as any other kind of lie. God
has recorded all the falsehoods that have
been told at the city, state or national elec-
tions 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 falsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed
into the ear of Blennerhasset, the ISLANDERS
that Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed
about George Washington, the misrepre-
sentations in regard to James Monroe, are
as fresh in Gods book today as the lies
that were printed last week about our local
candidates. "And all liars shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire
and birthstone, which is the second death. !"
THE CRIME OF BRIBERY.
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 the amount do you suppose has
been properly used' You have right to
spend money for the publishing of political
tracts, for the establishment of organiza-
tions for the carrying out Of what you con-
slider 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 political meet
| ings cost money, but he who puts bribe
into the hand of q voter or plies weak men
with mercenary and corrupt motives COM
mits 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 to do with such sin, o Christian
mani Fling it from the ballot box. Hand
over to the police the man who attempts to
tamper with your vote, and remember that
elections that cannot be carried without
bribes 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 go into political life
! who Is not teetotaler. Hot political dis
L
thirst, and hundreds of thousands of men
have gone down into drunkenness through
| political life.
After an exciting canvass through the
evening you must take something" and
rising in the morning with less animation
than usual you must take something, u
and going off among your comrades
through the forenoon you meet political
friends, and you must take something
and in the afternoon you meet other polit-
ical friends and you must take some
thing" and before night has come some
thing has taken you. There are but few
cases where men have been able to stand
up against the dissipations of political life
Joseph was politician, but he main
tanned his integrity. Daniel was politi
clan, but he was teetotaler to the last
Abraham was politician, but he was al
ways characterized as the father of tbs
faithful Moses was politician, the grand
est of them, but he honored God more thar
he did the Pharaohs, and there are hun
dreds of Christian men now in the politica
parties, maintaining their integrity, ever
when they are obliged to stand amid tn,
blasted, lecherous and loathesome crew
| kI.rk, Il tho hol1
these Christian men doing their politica
duty and then coming back to the prayel
meetings and Christian circles as pure a.
when they went out But that is not tn,
ordinary circumstance-thati is the excep
tion.
How often you see men coming back from
the political conflict, and theireye is glazed
and their cheek has an unnatural flush, ant
they talk louder than they usually do, ant
at the least provocation they will bet, ant
you say they are convivial, or they are ex
ceedingly vivacious, or you apply SOM
other sweet name to them, but God know
they are drunk Some of you, month O
six weeks ago, had no more religion thai
you ought to have, and after the election
are over to calculate how much religion
you have left will be sum in vulgar frae
tions. Oh, the pressure is tremendousl
POLITE DIssIPATIoNs.
How many mighty intellects have gon
down under the dissipation of politicsl
think Of one who came from the west. Fl
was able to stand out against the Who'll
. American senate God had given him fac
ulties enough to govern a kingdom, or t
frame constitution. His voice was terri
| BILE to his country's enemies and might
inspiration in the day of national peril
/ But 20 glasses Of strong drink day wer
his usual allowance. and he went down int
the habits of confirmed inebriate.
Alas for himl Though costly monumen
; has been reared over his resting place, th
) young men of this country shall not be ds
! MED the awful lesson that the agency
III which the world was robbed of one of it
! mightiest intellects, and our country of on
a of its ablest constitutional defenders, wa
the dissipation of political life. You want