Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-11-11

please anu say what They please, and th
place is full of uproar, misrule and wick
edness, and they cali 1t the devil
day." The nearest approximation b
that In this country has been the frs
Tuesday In November. The oornmunit,
at such times seems to say, "Go to, now
let US have good time at lying" Prom
inent candidates for Office IRE denounced
as unprincipled and renegade. A smar
lie will start in the corner Of countr!
newspaper and keep on running until i
has captured the printing presses of thu
whole continent. What garbling O.
speeohesl What misinterpretation O
motivesI What Misrepresentation Of in
dividual antecedents!-
The trouble is that we have IN THU
country two great Observation-Disclosures
ufactories of hes-the Republican man
ufactory of lies and the Democratic
mandatory of Hes-and they are rur
day and night, and they turn out half 6
dozen day, all equipped and ready fol
full sailing. Large lies and small lies
Lies private and lies public and liei
prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut
diagonal. Long limbed lies and lief
with double back action. Lies com
plimentary and lies defamatory. Lies
that some people believe, and lies
that oil the people believe, and
lies that nobody believes. Lies with
humps liko camels and scales like
crocodiles and necks as long as storks
and feet as swift as an antelope's and
stings like addcrs. Lies raw and seal
loped and PANIED and stewed. Crawl
ing lies and jumping lies and soaring
lies. Lies with attachment screws and
rufaers 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
themselves in q political campaign.
I confess 1 am ashamed to have for
eigner visit this country In these times.
I should think he would stand dazed,
and dare not go out nights2 What will
the hundreds of thousands of foreigners
who come here to live think of us2 What
disgust they must have for the land of
their adoptionl The only good thing
about it is that many Of them cannot I'M
dcrstand the English language. But ]
suppose the German and Italian and
Swedish and French papers translate 1t
all and peddle out the internal stuff to
their subscribers.
BALLOT BOX DISSIPATION.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such flood of indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after awhile.
The billingsgate and low scandal through
which we wade almost every autumn
must be rebuked 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 neighbor," and from the
other mount making plea for kindness
and love and blessing rather than ours
ing.
o Christian men, frown upon pont-
ical falsehoodl Remember that polit-
ical lie is as black as any other kind of a
lie. God has recorded all the falsehoods
that have been told at the city, state or
national elections since the foundation
of this government, and, though the per-
petrators and their victims may have
gone into the dust, in the last day judg-
~ file 14fS fa1S Sc ai1deq that Aaron BUR-
breathed into the ear of Blennerhassett,
the SANDERS that Lieutenant General
Gage proclaimed about George Wash
ington, the misrepresentation In regard
to James Monroe, are as fresh on 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
birthstone, which is the second DEATH
Again, I counsel you as Christian men |
10 set yourselves against the misuse of
money in political campaigns. Of the
thousands of dollars already spent this
how much of the amount do
you suppose has been properly usedi
You have right to spend money for the
of political tracts. for the es
of organizations for the
arrying out Of what you consider to be
he best; you have right to appeal to
he reason of men by argument and sta
istics and by facts. Printing and renting
# public halls and political meetings
ost money, but he who puts bride into
he hand of voter, or plies weak men
With mercenary and corrupt motives,
ommits sin against God and the
alton.
Bribery is one of the most appalling
ms Of this country. God says, "Fire
nall consume the tabernacles of brib-
ry." Have nothing to do with ouch
II, 0 Christian mani Fling it from the
allot box. Hand over to the police the
ian who attempts to tanper with your
ote, and remember that elections that
lnnot be carried without brides ought
ever to be carried at all. Again I ask ,
ou as Christian men to set yourselves |
sainst the designations that hover over 6
lie ballot box. Let me say that no man s
N afford to so into political life who is
1T teetotaler. Hot political discus c
On somehow creates On unnatural Y
irst, and hundreds Of thousands Of 4
en- have gone down into drunkenness 8
rough political life. +
After an exciting canvass through the 81
ening you must "take something" II
d rising in the morning with less ami Il
alton than usual you must take some +,
lng," and going off among your. COM N
des through the forenoon you meet a
litical friends and you must take
and In the afternoon you u
'et other political friends and you W
lst "take something" and before 4,
,ht has come something has taken II
i. There are but few cases where &c
n have been able to stand up against y,
!, designations of political life. - u
osanh vpos a. no1ftician b,;t he ,noiy