The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-08

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and lies that all the people believe, and
lies that nobody believes. Lies with
| humps like camels, and scales like croco-
| dies, and necks as long as stOrks, and
| feet as swift as an antelope S, and stings
| like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and
PANIED and stewed. Crawling lies and
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with
/ attachment screws and rlIffiers 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 a DO
| litical campaign.
L confess am ashamed to have a for
| eigner visit this country in these times.
| i should think ne would stand dazed and
! dare not go out nights What will the
/ hundreds of thousands of foreigners who
/ come here to live think of us? What a
disgust they must have for the land Of
! their adoptionl The only good thing
| about IL is that many of them cannot
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 flood Of indecency. The Christian
/ religion will speak after awhile. The bill
| lingsgate and low scandal through which
| we wade almost every autumn must be
| rebuked by that religion which speaks
\ one mountain 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 ours
| ing
o Christian men, frOwn upon political
falsehood! Remember that a political 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 ma
/ tiOnal elections since the foundation Of
| this government, and though the perpe-
/ traitors and their victims may have gone
/ into the dust i'm the last day Judgment
/ will be awarded.
The falsehoods that Aaron Burr
/ breathed into the ear Of Blennerhasset
/ the ISLANDERS that Lieut-Gen. Gage pro-
| claimed about George Washington, the
Misrepresentation in regard to James
/ Monroe. 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 i'm the lake
| which burneth with fire and birthstone,
/ which is the second death"
The Crime of Bribery.
Again. 1 counsel you as Christian men
| to set yourselves against the misuse OF
money i'm 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 10 spend money for
| the publishing OF political tracts. for
/ the establishment Of organizations for
the carrying out of what YOU consider
| to be best; you have "a right 10 appeal
To the reason OF men by argument and
| statistics and by facts. Printing and
| renting Of public halls and political
/ meetings cost money. but ne who puts
/ a bride into the hand Of a voter or plies
weak men with mercenary and corrupt
/ motives commits sin against God and
/ the nation.
! Bribery is one Of the most appalling
i sins Of this country God says. Fire
/ shall consume the tabernacles of bribe-
! ry." Have nothing TO do with such sin.
| 0 Christian man. Fling 1t from the
/ ballot box. Hand over TO the police
/ the man who attempts 10 tamper with
] your vote and remember that elections
/ that cannot be carried without brides
/ ought never be carried az all Again ]
/ ask you as Christian men TO set your
| selves against the designations that
| hover over the ballot box. Let me say
! that no man can afford To go into politi-
/ cal life who is not a teetotaler. Hot po-
/ litical discussion somehow creates an
| unnatural thirst. and hundreds of thou
| sands Of men have gone down into
| drunkenness through political life.
After an exciting canvass through the
! evening you must take something" and
| rising i'm the morning with less animation
than usual you must take something"
and going off among your comrades
| through the forenoon you meet political
| friends, and you must take something"
| and I'm the afternoon you meet ItEcr
political friends and you must take
| something" and before night has come
| something has taken you. There are but
/ fatns WI aV To
stand up against the designations Of
/ political life.
Joseph was a politician, bur he main
| tanned his integrity. Daniel was a poll
| tician, but ne was a taetotdler 20 the
| last. Abraham was a politician, but
he was always characterized as the
/ father OF the faithful. Moses was a
/ politician, the grandest IF them ALL but
/ he honored God more than he did the
| PharaOhs, and there are hundreds Of
/ Christian men now In the political par
| ties, maintaining their integrity, even
where they are obliged to stand amid
1 the blasted, lecherous and lOathesome
| crew that sometimes surrounds the ballot
/ box-these Christian men now doing
| their political duty and then coming
| back TO the prayer meetings and Chris
i tan circles ss pure as when they went
/ out. But that Is not the ordinary cir
| cumstance-that Is the exception.
How often you see men coming back
| from the political conflict. and their eye
| is glazed, and their check has an I'M
/ natural flush. and they talk louder than
| they usually do. and at the least
1 provocation they will bet, and you say
| they are convivial, or they are exceed
| ing vivacious, or you apply some other
/ sweet name to them, but God knows
/ they are drunk Some Of you. a month
| or six weeks ago. had no more religion
/ than you ought TO have, and after the
| elections are over to calculate how much
| religion you have left will be a sum in
| vulgar fractions. oh, the pressure is
| tremendous
Polite Designations.
How many mighty intellects have
gone under the dissipation Of politics
| / think Of one who came from the West.
He was able TO stand out against the
| whole American senate God had given
| him faculties enough to govern "A king
dom, or 10 frame a constitution. His
| voice was terrible 10 his country's enc
mics and a mighty inspiration in the
day Of national peril But twenty glass
es of strong drink day were his usual
allowance and he went down into the
habits Of a confirmed inebriate
Alas for him. Though a costly monu-
ment has been reared over his resting
place, the young men Of this country
shall not be denied the awful lesson
that the agency by which the world
| was robbed Of one OF it's mightiest in
| tellects, and our country Of one Of its
| ablest constitutional defenders, was the