The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-11-08

are very careful in their speech oeconie
peddlers Of scandal.
In the far east there is place where
once a year they let the people 90 do
they please, and the place is full OF up
roar, misrule and wiclIedness, and they !
call It the Devils day" The nearess
approximation to that in this country .
has been the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der. The community ut such times
seems to say, go to, now; let us nave
a good time atlying" Prominent can
didates for office are denounced as un-
principled and renegade. A smart he
will start In the corner OF o country
newspaper, and keep on running untii
It has captured the printing presses u
the whole continent. What garphng
of speeches! What misrepresenta-
ton of individual antecedents' ihe
tarouble is that we have in this coun-
trv 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 nan
dozen a day all equipped and reaoy
for full sailing Large lies ana smal
lies. Lies private and lies public ana
lies prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut
diagonal. Long-limbed lies and lies
with double-bacls action. Lies oompii-
mentary and lies defamatory Lies tnaS
some people believe, and lies that al
the people believe, and lies that no
body believes. Lies, with humps like
camels and scales like crocodiles and
necks as long ag storlSs, and feet as swirl
/ ms an antelope's, and stings like an al,
/ der Lies raw and scoiloped and panneo
3 and stewed Crawling lies and jumping
l lies and soaring lies. Lies with attacn'
S mcnt screws and rufliers and praluera
t and roady-woanl bobbins. Lies oy
r Christian people who never lie eHcep'
o DURING elections, and lies by people
o who always lie, but beat themselves II
t a political campaign.
Il confess am ashamed to have for
/? eipner visit this country in these times
" I should think that he would stan'
u dazcd, and dare not go out nlghts
l. What will the hundreds OF thousand
70 of foreigners who come here to- ilV
e think OF us? What a disgust they mus
:, have for the land of their adoption
y The only good thing about 1t is tina
" many of them cannot understand IN
n Eugiish language. But l suppose Tn
le German, and Italian, and Swedish, an
lc French papers translate it all, and pc.
nc dle ont the Internal stuff TO their sui
70 scribers. -,
Mt Nothing but Christianity will ey'
to stop such flood of indecency. III
m Christian religion will speak after
es while. The billingsgate and low sea
to dal through which we wade almo
eY every autumn must be rebuked by Tn
ce religion which speaks from its "
ng great mountains, from the one mou
OF tain intoning the command, IN.
he shalt not bear false witness against u
neighbor," and from the other mou
OF making plea for kindness and love a
,ry blessing rather than cursing. U, Chr
lat tian men! frown upon political fal
RS hood. Remember that a political lie
lst' as black as any other kind OF
P n God has recorded all the falsehoC
all that have been told at the city, state
is national elections since the foundati
su- of this government; and though
TO perpetrators and their victims m
ess have gone into the dust, in the last q
Is Judgment will be awarded. Inc tal
an hoods that Aaron Burr breathed u
the ear Of fBlennerhasset, the sland
rue that Lieut.. Gen. Gage proclaimed ao'
oth George Washington, the misrepresen
mo tions in regard TO James Monroe, arr
W fresh on Gods book to-day as the
the that were printed last week about
ave local candidates. 'And all liars ST
rs . have their part in the lake which ou
tnc 9th with fire and birthstone; whici
- - the second death"
~ Again, I counsel you as Christ
t VIZ men TO set yourselves against the
S co. use of money in political campaigns
% the thousands OF dollars already So
this autumn, how much OF the amo
10. do YOU suppose has been properly us
You have a right to spend money
tom the publishing of political tracts
~ the establishment Of organizations
and the carrying out Of what you cons
aso, 70 he the best; you have right To
I'll neal 10 the reason Of men by argum
mon and statistics and by facts. Prin'
Is ~ and renting OF public halls and pc
no- cal meetings cost money out nc
ware nuts bribe into the hand OF vC
q in or plies weak men with mercenary
,a, corrunt motives, commits sin aga
Tin. God and the nation. Bribery is OF
''the the most appalling sins Of this cour
.boso God saws: "Fire shall consume
hono tabernacles of bribery" Have Il
riate ing to do with such sin, o Chris
", at mani Fling it from the ballot
. he Hand over to the police the
, the who attempts TO tamper with
assa- vote. and remember that elections
e., cannot he carried without bribes o
,ncv never 10 be carried at all. Again
m. in you as Christian men to set you
,cbed AGAINST the designations that hover
act the ballot-box. Let me say tina
rs OF man can afford to go into politica
Taira who is not teetotaler. Hot pol
Oh to discussion somehow creates an III
God ur.l thirst, and hundreds OF thoui
Z the Of men have gone down into drur
'oclrs, ness through poiiticai me M. nv
h his exciting canvass througn s,e 1''
oman you must take something" and
g the In the morning with less amin
aven. than usual, you must take
d his thing" and going off among your
I the rades through the forenoon you
-, nolitical friends and you must