Connecticut western news., 1893-11-09

day and night, and they turn out half dozen 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 com plimentary 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 crocodiles and necks as long as storks' and feet as swift as an antelope's and stings like adders. Lies raw and seal loped and banned and stewed. Crawl ing lies and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with attachment screws and rufhers 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 political campaign.
 confess I am ashamed to have for eigner visit this country in these times. should think he would stand dazed, and dare 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 adoptionl The only good thing about it is that many of them cannot un- derstand 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.
 BALLOT BOX DISSIPATION.
 Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after awhile. The billingsgate and low scandal through which we wade almost every autumn must be rebuked by that religion which speaks from it's two great mountains, from the one mountain intoning the com mand, "Thou shalt not bear false wit ness against thy neighbor," and from the other mount making plea for kindness and love and blessing rather than CUTS ing.
 o Christian men, frown upon polit- ical falsehoodl Remember that polit-. ical 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 elections since the foundation of this government, and, though the per petrators and their victims may have gone into the dust, in the last day judg- ment will be awarded.
 The falsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed into the ear of Blennerhassett, the islanders that Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed about George Wash ington, the misrepresentations in regard to James Monroe, are as fresh on 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."
 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 usedi You have right to spend money for the publishing of political tracts. for the es tablishment of organizations for the carrying out of what you consider to be the best: you have right to appeal to the reason of men by argument and sta tistics and by facts. Printing and renting of public halls and political meetings cost money, but he who puts bribe into the hand of voter. or plies weak men with mcrcenary and corrupt motives, commits sin against God and the nation.
 Bribery is one of the most appalling sins of this country. God says. Fire shall consume the tabernacles of brib- cry" Have nothing to do with such a 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 l ask you as Christian men to set yourselves against the dissipations 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 discus sion somehow creates an unnatural 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 ami nation than usual you must take some thing" and going off among your con- rades through the forenoon you meet | political friends and you must .ttake something" and in the afternoon 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 l Of
 Joseph was politician, but he main- tained his integrity. Daniel was poli- | tician, but he was teetotaler to the last | Abraham was politician, but he was always characterized as the father of the faithful. Moses was a politician, the grandest of them, but he hon. ored God more than he did the pharaohs. And there are hundreds of Christian men now in the political parties, main taining their integrity, even when they are obliged to stand amid the blasted, lecherous and loathsome crew that some times surround the ballotbox; these Christian men doing their political duty, | and then coming back to the prayer | meetings and Christian circles as pure as when they went out. But that is not the ordinary circumstance, that is the exception.
 l How often you see men coming back from the political conflict. and their eye is glazed, and their cheek has an un- natural flush, and they talk louder than they usually do, and at the least provo. cation they will bet. and you say they are convivial, or they are exceedingly vivacious, or you apply some other sweet naIne to them; but God knows they are drunk! Some of you month or six weeks ago had no more religion than you ought to have, and after the elections are over, to calculate how much religion you have left will be sum in vulga, fractions. Oh, the pressure is tremen. dousl
 l POLITICAL NOMINATIONS.