The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-11-17


of speechesl What rnisinterpretation
of motivesl What MISREPRESENTATION
Of individual antacsdeats. Tie tFUti-
bic Is that we have I'm this coun-
try two great manufactories-ma
factories ef lies-the republican
of lies and tie
democratic mandatory of lies-and
they are run day and night, and
they turn out half a dozen day all
equipped and ready for fun 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 complimentary and lies
defamatory Lies that some people be-
lieve, hid lies that ali people believe,
and lies that nobody believes. Lies
with humps like camels, and scales
like crocodiles, and feet as swift as an
and stings like addetS.
Lies raw, and scalloped, and panne5,
and stewed. Crawling lies, and jump
ing lies, and soaring lies. Lies with
screws, and ruffiers, 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 them
selves in a political campaign.
confess / am ashamed to have a
foreigner visit this country in these
times / should think he would stand
dazed, and 1dare not go out nights?
What will 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 obout it is that
many of them can not understand the
language. But / suppose the
German, and Italian, and Swedish, and
French papers translate it all, and
peddle out the 4nferna1 stuff to their
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low scan
dial through which we wade almost
svery autumn must he rebuked by that
religion which speaks from its two
great mountains, from the one noun
tain intoning the command: "Thou
shalt not bear false witness against
thy neighbour" and from the other
mount making plea. for kindness and
love and blessing rather than cursing.
o, Christian men! frown upon polite
al falsehcod!. Remember that a po-
litical lie is as black as any
other kind of lie. God has re-
corded all the falsehoods that have
been told at the city, state or national
elections since the 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 false
hoods that Aaron Burr breathed into
the ear of Blennerhassett, the ISLANDERS
that Lieut.. Gen. Gage proclaimed
about George Washington, the misrep-
reservations in regard to James Mon
roe, are as fresh in 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 burneth with fire and brim-
stone; which is the second DEATH"
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 prop
erly used? You have a right to spend
money for the publishing of political
tracts, for the esta blishment of organ
izations for the carrying out of what
you consider to be the best; you have q
right to appeal to the reason of men
by argument and statistics and by
facts. Printing and renting of public
halls and political meetings cost
out he who puts bride into
the hands OF a voter, or plies weak men
a sin against God and the ma
ton. Bribery is one of the most APP
palling sins of this country. God
says: Fire shall consume the ia ber-
nacles of bribery" Have nothing to
do with such a sin, 0 Christian man!
Fling it from the ballot-box Hand
over to the police the man who at
tempts to tamper with your vote, and
that elections that can not
be carried without brides ought never
to be carried at all.
Again, ask you as Christian men to
set yourselves against the dissipation
that hover over the ballot-box. Let
me say that no man can afford to go
into political life who is not teetatol-
er. Hot political discussion somehow
creates an unnatural thirst, and hun
dreds of thousands of men have gone
down into drunkenness through politi-
cal life. After an exciting canvass
the evening you must'' take
and rising in the morning
with less animation than usual
you must ''take something, and
going off among your COM
rades through the forenoon you
meet political friends and You must
'talze 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 but few cases
where men have been able to stand up
against the designations of political
life. Joseph was a politician, but he
his integrity. Daniel was
a politician, but he was a teetotaler to
the last. Abraham was q politician,
but he was always characterized as the
father of the faithful. Moses was
politician-the grandest of them; but
he honored God more than he did the
pharaohs. And there are hundre DIS of
Christian men now in the political par
ties, maintaining their integrity. even
when they are obliged to stand amidst
the blasted, lecherous. and loathsome
crew that sometimes surround the bal
lot-box, these Christian men doing
their political duty and then coming