The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-17

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and renegade. A smart lie will star
in the corner of a country newspaper
and keep on running until it has capt
ured the printing presses of the Who'll
continent What garbling of speeches
What misintepretation of motives
What Misrepresentation of individual
antecedents. The trouble is that W,
have in this country two great manu-
factories Observation-Disclosures of lies-th,
republican mandatory of lies anc
the democratic mandatory of lie
and they are run day ant
night, and they turn out half +;
dozen day all equipped and ready fol
full sailing. Large lies and small lies
Lies private and lies public and lie'
prurient Lies cut bias and lies cut
diagonal Long-limbed lies and lie:
with double-back action. Lies com
plimentary and lies defamatory Lies
that some people believe, and lies thai
all the people believe, and lies that no
body 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 scalloped and
| panned and stewed. Crawling lies and
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies
with attachment 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 political campaign.
confess | 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 foreign
ers who come here to live think of us?
What disgust they must have for the
land of their adoption. The only good
thing about it is that many of them
cannot understand the English Ian
guage- But | suppose the German, and
Italian, and Swedish, and French pa
pers translate it all. and peddle out the
Internal stuff to their subscribers
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of indecency. The
Christion religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low
scandal through which we wade almost
every autumn must be rebul1ed by that
religion which speaks from its two
great mountains, from the one mount
ain 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
political falsehood. 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 and their
victims may have gone into the dust,
awarded. The falsehoods that Aaron
Burr breathed into the ear of Blenner-
hasset, the ISLANDERS that Lieut. Gen.
Gage proclaimed about George Wash
ington, the Misrepresentation in re-
gard to James Monroe, are as fresh in
Gods book 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 burneth with
fire and birthstone; which is the second
death"
Again, 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 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 establishment of organi-
cations 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 statistics and facts.
Printing and renting of public halls
and political meetings cost money; but
he who puts bride into the hands of
voter, or plies weak men with mer-
cenary and corrupt motives, commits
sin against God and the nation. Bride
ry is one of the most appalling sins of
consume the tabernacles of bribery"
Have nothing to do with such sin, o
Christian man! Fling it from the bal
lot-boX. Hand over to the police the
man who attempts to tamper with
your vote, and remember that elections
that cannot be carried without brides
ought never to be carried at all.
Again l 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 a teeto-
taller. Hot political discussion some
how creates an unnatural thirst, and
hundreds of thousands of men have
gone down into drunkenness through
political life. After an exciting cam
vass through the evening you must |
take something" and rising in the
with less animation than us
ual you must take something" 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 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 |
of political life. Joseph
was politician, but he maintained his
Daniel was a politician. but |
be was teetotaler to the last Abra-
ham was politician, but he was al
ways characterized as the father of the
faithful Moses was a politician-the
grandest of them; but he honored God
more than he did the Pharaohs. And
there are hundreds of Christian men
now in the political parties maintain
ing their integrity, even when obliged
70 stand amidst the blasted, lecherous
and loathsome crew that sometimes
the ballot hoy. 'TbaOa rl,r;. |