Democratic messenger., 1893-11-04

ure the thunlcrbolts of the Almighty,
saying this has less blaze. this has less
momentum. Better not handle the guns,
better not experiment much with the di-
vine ammunition.
Cicero said he saw the .Iliad" written
on n nutshell. and you and have seen
the Lords Prayer written on a ; cent
piece, but the whole tendency of these
times is to write the Ten Commandments
so small nobody can see them. / protest
this day against the attempt to revise
the Decalogue which was given on Mount
Sinai amid the blast of trumpets, and
the cracking of the rocks. and the par
oxysm of the mountain of Arabia Petr;ea.
bring up the candidates for ward
and township and city and state office.
l bring them up. and try them by this
decalogue. Of course they are imper-
feet. We are all imperfect. We say
things we ought not to say; we do things
we ought not to do. We have all been
wrong; we have all done wrong. But
shall find out one of the candidates who
comes, in my estimation. nearest to obe-
dience of the Ten Commandments, and
will vote for him. and you will vote for
him unless you love God less than your
party-then you will not
Hcrodotus said that Nitocris, the
daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was SO fis-
cinated with her beautiful village Of
Ardericca that she had the river above
Babylon changed SO it wound this way
and wound that, and curved this way
and curved that, and though you sailed
on it for three days every day you would
be in sight of that exquisite village.
Now. l do not care which way you sail
in morals. or which way yon sail in life,
if you only sail within sight of this beau
tiful group of divine commandments.
Although they may sometimes seem to
be little angular. do not care which
way you sail. if you sail in sight Of them.
you will never run aground. and you will
never be shipwrecked. Society needs
toning up ON all these subjects.
tell you there is nothing worse to
fight than the 10 regiments, with bay
onets and sabers of fire, marching down
the side of Mount Sinai. They always
gain the victory, and those who fight
against them go under. There are thou
sands and tens of thousands of men be-
ing slain by the Decalogue. What is
the matter with that young man of
whom read. dying in his dissipations?
In his dying delirium he said: Now
fetch on the dice. 1t is minel No, mol
It is gone; all is gone! Bring on more
wine! Bring on more wine! Oh. how
they rattle their chains! Fiends, fiends,
fiends! say you cheat! The cards are
marked! Oh, death! oh. death! oh, death!
Fiends. fiends. fiends!' And he gasped
his last and was gone. The Ten Com
mandments slew him.
Let not ladies' and gentlemen in this
nineteenth century revise the Ten Com
inandments. but let them i'll society and
at the polls put to the front those who
come the nearest to this God lifted stand
ard. On the first Tuesday morning in
November read the twentieth chapter of
Exodus at family prayers. The moral
or immoral character Of the officers elect
ed will add 75 per cent unto or subtract
as per cent from the public morals.
You and cannot afford to have had
officials. The young men of this country
cannot afford to have bad officials. The
commercial. the moral. the artistic. the
agricultural. the manufacturing. the re-
ligious interests of this country cannot
afford to have bad officials. and if you,
on looking over tn whole field. cannot
find men who. in your estimation, come
within reasonable distance of obedience
of the Decalogue. stay at home and do
not vote at all.
GOOD CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT.
suppose when in the city of Sodom
there were four candidates put up for
office, and Lot did not believe in any of
them, he did not register. suppose if
there came crisis in the politics of
Babylon. where Daniel did not believe
in any of the candidates. he staid at
home ON election day. praying with his
face toward Jerusalem. But we have
no such crisis. we have no such exi-
gency, thank God. But have to say to
you today that the moral character of
rulers always affects the ruled, and ap-
peal to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the
moral tone of all the nation of Judah
and threw them into idolatry. Good
King Josiah lifted up the whole nation
by his excellent example. Why is it to-
day England is higher up in morals than
at any point in her national history? 1t
is because she has the best ruler in all
Europe-all the attempts to scandalize
her name failure. The political power
Of Talleyrand brooded all the political
tricksters of the last 30 years. The dis
honest vice presidency of Aaron Burr
blasted this nation until important let
ters were written in cipher. because the
people could not trust the United States
mail. And let the court circles of Louis
XIV and Henry VIII march out, followed
by the debauched nations.
The higher up you put bad man the
worse is his power for evil. The great
fabulist says that the pigeons were in
fright at kite flying in the air. and so
these pigeons lowered near the dOvecot.
But one day the kite said: why are you
so afraid? Why do you pass your life in
terror? Make me king. and I'll destroy
all your enemies" so the pigeons made
the kite king. and as soon as he got the
throne his regular diet was pigeon day.
And while one of the victims was wait
ing for its turn to come it said, Served
us rightr' The malaria Of swamps rises
from the plain to the height. but moral
malaria descends from the mountain to
the plain. BE careful therefore how you
elevate into any style of authority men
who are in any wise antagonistic to the
Ten Commandments.
As near as can tell the most impor-
tant thing now to be done is to have
about 100000 copies of the Sinaitic
Decalogue printed and scattered through
out the land. II was u terrible waste
when the Alexandrian library was de-
srroyed, and the books We're taken to
heat 1900 baths for the citizens of Alex
an,lria. 1t was very expensive heat.
But without any harm to the Decalogue,
you could with it heat hundred thou