Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-03

tRry and lies defamatory. Lies tnaV some
people believe, and lies that all the people
believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies
with humps like camels, and scales Ike
crocodiles, and necks as long as storks, and
feet as swift as an antelope's. and stings
like adders, Lies raw and scalloped and
manned and stewed. Crawling lies aud
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with
attachment screws and rufiiers and braid
ers and ready wound bobbins. Lies by
Christian people. who never lie except dur
ing elections. and lies by people who always
lie, but beat themselves In II political cam
paign.
I confess l am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country in these times. /
should think he would stand dazed and
dare not 20 out nightsl What will the
hundreds OF thousands Of foreigners who
come here to live think Of US? What a dis
gust they must have for the land Of their
adoptionl The only good thing about it is
that many Of them cannot understand the
English language, But suppose the Ger
man and Italian and Swedish and French
papers translate IL all, aud peddle out the
internal stuff to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such a flood OF indecency. The Christian
religion will speak after awhile. The bill
| llugsgate and low scandal through which
we wade almost every autumn must be re-
| buked BY that religion which speaks from
its two great mountains, from the one
mountain intoning the command, Thou
| shalt not bear false witness against thy
| neighbour" and from the other mount max
| ing plea for kindness and love and blessing
rather than curslng,
o Christian men, frown upon political
falsehood Remember chat political lis
Is as black a. any other kind Of lie. God
has recorded all the falsehoods that have
been told ut the city, state or national cleo
tions since the foundation OF this govern
nent, and though tho perpetrators and
their victims may have gone into the dust,
in the last day judgment will he awarded.
The falsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed
into the ear OF Blennerhasset. the ISLANDERS
that Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed
about George Washington, the misrepre-
sensations in regard to James Monroe, are
as fresh in dds book today US 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 birthstone which Is the second death. F"
The CRIME OF BRIBERY.
Again, l counsel you rs 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 properly usedf You have a right to
spend money for the publishing Of political
tracts, for the establishment of organiER-
tious for the carrying out of what you con.
slider to DO the best you have right 20
appeal to the reason of men by argument
aud statistics and by facts. Printing and
renting OF dublic halls and political meet
ings cost money, but he who puts bride
into the hand OF voter or plies weak men
with mercenary and corrupt motives com
mits sin against God and the nation.
Bribery Is one OF the most appalling sins
of this country. God says, Fire shall con
sumo the tsbenGcles OF bribery" Hav,
nothing to do with such sin, o Christian
mani Fling it from the ballot box. Hand
over to the police the man who attempts t.
tamper with your vote, and remember that
elections that cannot be carried without
brides ought never to be carried at all
Again ask you as Christian men TO rel
yourselves against the designations tina
hover over the bSllot box. Let me say tina
no man can afford to 80 into political If
who Is not a teetotaler. Hot political dis
cussion somehow creates an unnatura
thirst, and hundreds Of thousands OF meI
have gone down into drunkenness through
political life.
After IN exciting canvass through th
evening you must take something" ant
rising In the morning with less animation
than usual you must take something,
: and going OH among your oomrade
through the forenoon YOU meet politica
friends, and you must take something,
and in the afternoon you meet other polil
} ioal friends and you must take some
. thing" and before night has come some
thing has taken you. There arc but fey
cases where men have been able to stan,
7 up against the designations OF political life
Joseph was politician, but he mai
} tanned his integrity. Daniel was n polit,
E clan, but he was u teetotaler to the last
{ Abraham WIS politician, but he was al
ways characterized as the father Of III
faithful. Moses was politician, tho grand
. est Of them, but he honored God more thai
D he did the Pharaohs, and there are hun
8 dreds OF Christian men now in the politca
| parties mali taining their integrity, eve
when they are obliged TO stand amid H.
blasted, lecherous and loathesome GREY
= that sometimes surrounds the ballot box.
, these Christian men doing their politica
: duty and then coming back to the praye
meetings and Christian circles as pure a
r when they went out But that ia not tn
0 ordinary circumstanoe-thRt is the exceu
r ton.
0 How often you see men coming back fron
: the political conflict, and theireye is glazed
and their cheek has an unnatural flush, an,
thOy talk louder than they usually do, an,
( at the least provocstion they will bet, an,
& you say they are oonvivial. or they are eN
d eeedingly yiyaoious, or you apply som
Q other sweet name to them, but God know
( they are drunk Some Of you, a month @
5 six weeks ago, had no more religion thal
y You ought TO here, and after the election
y are over to calculate how much religio
e you have left will be sum in vulgar fras
4 tons. oh, the pressure Is tremendousl
!, POLITE pIssIPArloYs.
e How many mighty intellects have non
o down under the dissipation of politics,
think OF one who came from the west. II
4 was able to stand out against the Who'll
r American senate. God had given him fnC
: ulties enough to govern kingdom, or /
Q frame a constitution. His voice was terri
; BILE TO his country's enemies and a might
a inspiration in the day Of national peri
r But 20 glasses OF strong drink day wer
r hisusual allowance. and he went down int
b the habits of n conhrmed inebriate.
I Alas for hinl Though costly monumer