The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-03-09

has gone by when II is possible for this
nation to reach its true greatness with
out concentration of its powers, con-
solidation Of its laws and making those
laws uniform Mt common center, where
Justice shall be dealt out north, south,
east, west. The day has come when we
are one, and our nation must recognize
that fact.
A TRUTHFUL NATION.
Third-Then the prophet says it shall
keep truth. In the history of this world
there never has been born nation that
failed to keep its honor and integrity as a
nation that lived long. You made solemn
treaty with China and called Almighty
God to witness It with the flag Of your
freedom, and then your politicians of both
stripes and all stripes-and they must
have been striped-got down in the dirt at
Washington and crawled before the scum
boat of San Francisco for the sake Of
pandering to the lowest and meanest and
narrowest and most devilish spirit in the
American nation and took the treaty
that they had sworn to before Almighty
God and tore it in shreds. tell you, IL
you do not repent, God, being God Of
honor and justice and righteousness,
will call you to account for it. It is inev-
has annulled at least a part of that in
famous bill. Talk about the heathen-
we are the heather when it comes to a
question like that.
What are we cherishing today? We
cherish schools in some places, know.
In New York we cherish our saloon as
the apple Of our eye. They are the hand
soonest institutions we have. We turn
people away from the church doors, but
they always have room for them at the
saloons every day in the year, and Sun
day too. We are not much on public
baths and establishments for the people
like that, but we have got whisky enough
to float the navy. AS city we are not
much on a circulating library, though
we have 100000 people, but we have
got BEER. AS you walk along the streets
you won't see many signs that read,
"This way to the library or the gymna-
sum-" but BEER, beer ice cool beer;
beer on draft; st. Louis beer; Milwau-
kee beer; Staten Island beer-beer, bierl
We have got BEER. We are a mighty
people when it comes to beer. We are
the people who can furnish the world.
We once sent men to congress--magnif-
cent men. You have beer keg in the
senate now, but there is infinite har-
mony in it. 1t is a poem in politics.
When you have 50 much beer, it ought
to be represented at Washington.
What is tho matter with Mr.. Murphy
You have so many industries and SO
much at stake-why, Of course you
should have a man to represent you in
the senate chamber at Washington. We
cherish our saloons instead of truth and
light and life. II a man wants to make
progress in politics, he first keeps one
saloon, then buys another, and after he
has got half 4 dozen and runs two or
three dives he Is rally then for the judi
ciary or higher hmDora. If q nation is to
endure, it won't cllurc by that process.
Thank God. the whole nation is not as
mean as New To... The only salvation
of the nation is ti..t you have got Amer
ican manhood en- HGh back in the rural
districts to hold .Uur great, steaming,
filthy, devilish city by the throat and
say, If you ddrn / viii strangle you'll"
That is why we have today a nation that
is solid and on which we can depend.
Fourth-If a nation is to endure in the
future, her walls ant bulwarks must be
ighteousness-that is. her defense. This
defense really is magnificent men, right
eous men. Thank God for righteous men!
One righteous man is bulwark for q
nation. What was Henry Ward Beecher
to this nation as man? He did not go
into the war or fight your battles in that
sense, but he was man of power-a
man who could incarnate the nation,
and stand in England, in London, when
a bowling, cursing mob out of work
kicked out of their factories because of
your civil war-were clamoring for his
blood, and yet by his inherent power,
born Of righteous mother, standing in
the integrity of his God and pleading for
righteousness in nations, he calmed the
surging crowd and held England in his
hand at bay while you fought your own
battles and settled your own questions.
A man of righteousness! Why, God
said to Sodom, IF you will find for me
so many righteous men, will spare you"
They are bulwarks against even the
wrath of God himself. Thank God for
a few righteous men who are bulwarks
in this city today! What can one man,
as DR.. Parkhurst, do when he says he
will standr l thank God for Just few
men who are willing TO stand and let the
world howl and curse and hiss. 1t
will get tired by and by, and then above
the din and roar Of curses and misses
will emerge the new city, with its new
life. in peace and righteousness. and clean
streets and homes, and possible life to
your men of commerce. Righteous men
are the only real bulwarks of a people.
When say righteous men, do not
mean women will have nothing to do with
it. George Washington, being born, must
have had mother. That is an incon-
trovertible proposition. Righteous moth
erhood, patriotic motherhood, was the
real foundation Of this mans greatness.
1t was the mother that George Wash
ington had that gave to him character,
that stamped him with power and made
him the matchless man he was in the
history of his country and the world.
In estimating the life Of a nation you
must understand that righteous mother
hood is the power that forms and fash
ions righteous manhood and makes it
possible thus to have your bulwarks of
nations. The power that made Carthage
put mp such wonderful war was that