Democratic messenger., 1893-11-11

| the Republicans are liars. stop mt the
door of Republican meeting and listen
and hear that the Democrats are scoun-
drels. Our public men microscopize,i,
and the truth distorted. Who believes
n tenth part Of what ne reads or hears in
the autumnal elections? Men who ut
| full in their speech become peldlers Of
| scandal.
In the far east there is place where
once Il year they let the people do as they
please and say what they please. and the
place is full of uproar. misrnle and wick
edncss, and they call it the devils
day The nearest approximation to
that in this country has been the first
Tuesday in November. The community
mt such times seems to say. "Go to. now;
let us have IA good time mt lying" Prom
inent candidates for Office are denounced
as unprinciplcd and renegade. A smart
lie will start in the corner of n country
newspaper and keep on running until it
has captured the printing presses of the
whole continent. What garbling of
speechesi What misinterpretation Of
1 bhOeANNoA " Va HI
dividual antecedents!
Tho trouble is that we have in this
country two great manufactures
ufactories Of lies-the Republican man.
ufactory of lies and the Democratic
manufactory 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
diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies
with double back action. Lies com
plimentary and lies iefamatory. Lies
that some people believe. and lies
that all the people believe. and
lies that nobody believes. Lies with
humps like camels and scales like
crocodiles and necks as long as storks'
and feet as swift as an antelope's and
stings like adders. Lies raw and seal
loped and panned and stewed. Crawl
ing lies and jumping lies and soaring
lies Lies with attachment screws and
ruffiers and braides and ready wound
bobbins. Lies by Christian people who
never lie except during elections. and
lies by people who always lie. but beat
themselves in political campaign.
| confess I am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country i'm these times
l should think he would stand dazei,
and dare not go out nights? What will
the hundreds If thousands of foreigners
| who come here To live think of ns? What
a disgust they must have for the land Of
their adoption! The only good thing
about it is that many Of them cannot un-
derstand the English language. But
| suppose tho German and Italian and
Swedish and French papers translate it
all and pc,i.lle out the internal stuff to
their subscribers.
BALLOT BoX DISSIPATION.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of in,lecency. The
Christian religion will speak after awhile
The bilhngsgate and low scandal through
which We wade almost every autumn
must be rcbuked by that religion which
speaks from its two great mountains,
from the one mountain intoning the com
mand. ''Thou shalt not bear false wit
ness against thy ncighbor. and from the
other mount making plea for kindness
and love and blessing rather than ours
ing
y Christian men, frown upon polit-
ical falsehood. Remember that n polit-
ical liz is as black as any other kind If a
lie. God has recorded all the falsehoods
that have been told mt the city. state or
national elections since the foundation
of tins government, and. though the per-
petrators and their victims may have
gone into the dust, in the last day judg-
ment will I've akardcd.
The falschoods that Aaron Burr
brcathel into the ear of Blennerhassett,
the ISLANDERS that Lieutenant General
Gage proclaimed about George WASH
| ington, the misrepresentation in regard
to James Monroe. are as fresh on Gods
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 bnrneth with fire and
birthstone, which is the second death"
Again, counsel you as Christian men
Ia set yourselves against the misuse of
money III political campaigns. OF the
thousands of dollars already spent this
autumn. how much of the amount do
YOU suppose has been properly used?
You have a right to spend money for the
publishing of political tracts. for the es
tablishment Of organizations for the
carrying out of what you consider to be
the best; you have Il right tn appeal TO
the reason of men by argument and sta
tistics and hy facts. Printing and renting
of public halls and political meetings
cost money, but he who puts bribe into
the hand IL voter. or plies weak men
with mercenary and corrupt motives.
commits sin against God and the
nation.
Bribery is one Of the most appalling
sins of this country. God says. Fire
shall consume the tabernacles of brib-
cry" Have nothing to do with such a
sin. o Christian man! Fling il from the
ballot box Hand over to the police the
man who attempts to tamper with your
vote, and remember that elections that
cannot be carried without bribes ought
never to be carried at all. Again l ask
you as Christian men to set yourselves
against the dissipations that hover over
can afford to go into political life who is
not a teetotalcr. Hot political discus
sion somehow creates an unnatural
thirst, and hundreds Of thousands Of
men have gone down into drunkenness
through political life.
After AN exciting canvass through the
evening yor must take something"
end rising III the morning with less ami
nation than usual you must take some
thing" and going off among your com
rades through the forenoon you meet
political friends and You must take
something" and in the afternoon you
meet other political friends and you
must take something" and before
night has come something has taken
Won. There are but few eases where
men have oecn able To stand up against