Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-06

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per of q country newspaper, and keep
on running until it has captured the
prlptipR presses OF the whole continent.
What earbling speechesl What misin-
depreciation of motives! What mlsrep-
ressutation Of individual antteedents'
The trouble is that We have in this coun-
try two great acknowledgements
tories-of lies-the Republican manuIac-
tory OF lies and the Democratic manu-
factory OF lies-snd they are
RUN DAY AND NIGHT,
and they turn out half dozen day
all equipped and ready for full sailing
Large lies and small lies. Lies private
private aud lies public and lies prurl-
emit. Lies cut bliss aud lies cut olago-
nat. Long-limbed lies aud lies Win
double-back action. Lies comphm men
tary and lies deiamatory. Lies that
some DeoDle believe, and lies that no
BODY believes. Lies with humps Ike
camels aud scales like crocodiles ana
necks as long as st0rks, and feet as
swift as an antelope's, and stlnds IKE
addsrs, Lies raw and Scalloped ana
banned and stewed, Crawling lies ana
Jumping lies aud soaring lies. Lies
with attachment screws and rutilers
and braiderS and rsady-wOund oooOinS.
Lies by Christian people who never ile
except during elections, and lies by peo-
pie who always lie, but beat themselves
in political campaign.
I confess l AN ashamed 10 have Ior-
elgner visit this country In these times
should think he would stand daZed,
and dare not 90 out nights! What Will
the hundreds OF thousands OF foreigners
who come here to live think OF US?
What q disgust they must have for the
land OF their adoption. The only good
thing about u is that many or them
cannot understand the English IAN
guage. But 1 suppose the German and
the Italian and the Swedish and the
French papers translate 1t all, and
peddle cut the internal stuff TO their
subscribers.
NOTHING BUT CHRISTIANITY
will ever stop such a food Of indecency.
The Christian religion will speak AFTER
while. The billingsgate and low
scandal through which we wade almost
every autumn must be re6uEed oy
that religion which speaks from its two
great mountains, from the one noun
tain intoning the command, "Ihou
shalt not bear false witness against tiny
neighbor," and from the other mount
making plea for kindness and love and
blessing rather than cuESing. Q, Chris
tan mem irown upon political false
hood! 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 elections since the foundation
OF this Government; and, though the
perpetrators aud their victims may
have gone into the dust in the last
day judgement will be awarded. The
falsenoods that Aaron Burr breathed
into the ear OF Blennerhasset, the SIAN
ders that Lieutenant General Gage
proclaimed about George Washington,
the MISREPRESENTATION in regard TO
James Monroe, are as fresh on God )
hook to-day as the lies that were
printed last week about our local can
didates. "And all liars shall have
their part in the lake which
burnett with fire and brim-
stone: which is the second death"
Again, I 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 autaumn how much Of the
amount do you suppose has been prop
erly used? You have right TO spend
money for the publishing o! political
tracts, for the establishment OF organl'
cations for the carrying out what you
consider 10 be- the best; YOU have right
TO appeal to the reason Of men by argu-
ment and statistics aud by facts. Print
ing and renting OF public halls and po-
litical meetings cost money, but ne who
puts a bride into the hand Of voter, or
plies weak men with mercenary and cor
ruut motives, commits sin against GOD
and the nation. Bribery is one OF the
most appalling sins OF this country.
God saws, Fire shall consume the tab
erpacles OF bribery" Have nothing to
do with such sin, o Christian man!
Fling 10 from the ballot box. Hand
over to the police the man who attempts
10 tamDer with your vote, and remem-
Der that elections that cannot be car
ried without brides ought never to be
carried at all. Again l ask you as
Christian men to set yourselves against
the dissiDations that hover over the
ballot box. Let me say that no man
can afford to go into political life who
is not a teetotaler.
HOT POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
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's" and rising in the moIning
with less animation than usual you
must take something's" and going oil
among your comrades through the
forenoon, you meet political friends,
and you must take something's; and
in the afternoon you meet other politi-
cal friends, aud you must take some
thing" and before night has come
something has taken you. There are
but few cases where men have been
able TO stand up against the dissipa-
tions OF political life. Joseph was
politician, but he maintained
ais integrity. Daniel was poll
ticiau, bat ne was a teetotaler to
the last. Abraham was politician,
but he has always characterized as the
father Of the faithful Noses was a
politician, the grandsst of them; but he
honored God more than ne did the Phar-
aohS. Aud there are hundreds OF Chris
tian men now in the political parties
maintaining their integrity, even when
they are Obliged to stand amidst the
blasted, lecherous, and lOathsOme crew
that sometimes surround the ballot-box;
these Christian man doing their poiitiCal