The Bossier banner., 1893-12-07
Who believes a tenth part of what he

L
In the far east there is a place where
they please and say what they please
and the place is full of uproar, mis-
rule and wickedness, and they call il
the Devils day." The nearest ap
Proclamation to that in this country ha.
been the first Tuesday in November
The community at such times seems tc
say: go to, now; let US have good
time at lying" Prominent candidates
for Office are denounced as unprinci
start in the corner of a country news.
paper, and keep on running until it
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 manufactories-manu
factories of lies-the republican
manufactory of lies and the
democratic manufactorv of lies-and
they are run day and night, and
they turn out half a 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-
lieve, and lies that all people believe,
and lies that nobody believes. Lies
with humps like camels, 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 ruff1ers, 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.
l confess l 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 a food of indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after
awhile. The billingsgate and low scan
dal through which we wade almost
every autumn must be rebulSed 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 neighbor," and from the other
mount making plea for kindness and
love and blessing rather than cursinp.
U, Christian men! frown upon polite
al falsehood! Remember that DO
litical lie is as black as any
other kind of a 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 SANDERS
that Lieut.. Gen. Gage proclaimed
about George Washington, the misrep-
resentations in regard to James Mon
roe, are as fresh in Gods book TODAY
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 ask you as Christian men to
set yourselves against the dissipations
that hover over the ballot-box. Let
me say that no man can afford to go
into political life who is not teetatol- |
er. 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
the evening you must" take
something;" 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 dissipations of political
life. Joseph was a politician, but he
maintained his integrity. Daniel was
a politician, but he was teetotaler to
the last. Abraham was a politician,
but he was always 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 hundre ds of
Christian men now in the political par
ties, maintaining their integrity, even
when they are obliged to stand amidst
the blasted, lecherous and loathsome
crew that sometimes surround the bal
lOt-bOX, these Christian man 5o;.