The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-30

paper, and keep on running until IL
has captured the printing presses of
the whole continent. What garbling
of speeches. What misinterpretation
of motives! What misrepresentation
of individual antecedents The trou-
BILE is that we have in this coun-
try two great manufactures
factories of lies--the republican
mandatory of lies and the
democratic manufactorv of lies-and
they are run day and night, and
they turn out half dozen a 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 complimentary and lies
defamatory. Lies that some people be-
1ieve, and lies that all people believe,
and lies that nobody believes. Lies
with humps like camel Is, and scales
like crocodiles, and feet as swift as an
antelope's, and stings like adders
Lies raw, and scalloped, and panned,
and stewed. Crawling lies, and jump
ing 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
foreigner visit this country in these
times / should think he would stand
dazed, and udare 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 adoption?
The only good thing obout it is that
many of them can not understand the
English language. But 1 suppose the
German, and Italian, and Swedish, and
French papers translate it all, and
peddle out the internal stuff to their
subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such flood of indecency The
Christian religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low scan
dial through which we wade almost
every autumn must be rebuked by that
religion which speaks from its two
great mountains, from the one noun
tain 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 polite
al falsehood! Remember that a po-
litical lie is as black as any
other kind of lie. God has re-
corded all the falsehoods that have
been told at the city, state or national
elections since the foundation of this
government; and, though the perpe-
traitors and their victims may have
gone into the dust, in the last day
Judgment will be awarded. The false
hoods that Aaron Burr breathed into
the ear of Blennerhassett, the ISLANDERS
that Lieut.. Gen. Gage proclaimed
about George Washington, the misrep-
reservations in regard to James Mon
roe, are as fresh in Gods book to-day
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 brim-
stone; which is the second DEATH"
Again, l 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 prop
erly used? You have right to spend
money for the publishing of political
tracts, for the establishment of organ
izations for the carrying out of what
you consider to be the best; you have a
right to appeal to the reason of men
| by argument and statistics and by
facts. Printing and renting of public
halls and political meetings cost
money, but he who puts bride into
| the hands of a voter, or plies weak men
with mercenary and corrupt motives,
commits a sin against God and the ma
ton. Bribery is one of the most ap-
palling sins of this country. God
says: Fire shall consume the taber-
nacles of bribery" Have nothing to
/ do with such a sin, o Christian man!
Fling it from the ballot-box. Hand
over to the police the man who at
tempts to tamper with your vote, and
remember that elections that can not
be carried without brides ought never
to be carried at all.
Again, 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 teetatol-
err. Hot political discussion somehow
creates an unnatural thirst, and hun
dreds of thousands of men have gone
down into drunkenness through politi-
cal life. After an exciting canvass
through the evening you must" take
something's" and rising in the morning
with less animation than usual
you must take something, and
going off among your COM
rades through the forenoon you
meet political friends and you must
take something" and in the after
noon 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 designations of political
life. Joseph was politician, but he
maintained his integrity. Daniel was
q politician, but he was teetotaler to
the last. Abraham was politician,
but he was always characterized as the
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