Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10


nearest approXimal ion to that in this
country has been the first I tuesday, in
November. The community at such
times seems to say, "Go to, now; let
us nave good time at lying" + om-
inent candidates for Office are de-
nounced as unprincipled and rene
gade. A smart lie will start
in the corner of coun-
try newspaper, and keep on
running until it has captured t
printing presses of the whole conti-
nent What garbling of speeches!
What misrepresentation of motives!
What misrepresentation of individual
antecedents The trouble is that wa
have in this country tw great manu-
actories-manufacto of lies-the
repu olican manutac DRY of lies and
the democratic mandatory of lies
and they are run day and night, and
they turn out half dozen a dav 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
mbed lies and lies with double back
action. Lies complimentary and lies
defamatory. Lies that some people
believe, and lies that nobody believeS.
Lies with humps like camels and
scales like crocodil 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 jump
ing lies and soaring lies. Lies with
attachment screws and ruffiers 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 political campaign.
| confess | am ashamed to have a
foreigner visit this country in these
times. | should think he 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 disgust they must
have for the land of their adoption!
The only good thing about it is that
many of them can not understand the
English language. But ] suppose the
German, and Italian, and Swedish,
and French papers translate it all, and
peddle out the internal stuff to their
su bscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after a
while. The billingsgate and low
scandal through which we wade al
most every autumn must be rebuked
by that relig on which speaks from its
two great mount inns, from the one
mountain intoning the command,
Thou shalt not bear false wit
ne aga INST thy neighbor," and
from the other mount making plea
for kindness and love and blessing
rather than cursing. q, Christian men!
frowu upon political falsehood! Re-
member that politicaI lie is as black
as any other kind of a lie. God has
recorded all the falsehoods that have
been told at the city, ate or national
elections since tue 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
talsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed
into the ear of Blennerhasset, the
ISLANDERS that ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Gage proclaimed about George w sh
lngton, the Misrepresentation in re-
gard to James Monroe, are "a fresh on
Gods book to. da as the lies that were
printed last week about our local
anu ali lliES Nlldll nave
their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and birthstone: which is the
secord death.
Again, | counsel you as Christian
men to set yourselves against the mis-
use of money in political campaigns
o. the thousands of dollars already
spent this autumn, how much of the
amount do you suppose has been prop
erly used? You have right to spend
money for the publishing OF po itical
tracts, for the establishment of organ
izations for the carrying out of what
you consider to be the best; YOU have
a right to appeal to the reason of men
by arguments and statistics and by
facts. Printing and renting of public
halls and political meetings cost
money. but he who puts a bride into
the hand OF vo,er, or plies weak men
w tn mercenary and corrupt motives,
commits sin against God and the ma
ton. Bribery is one of the most APP
palling sins of this country. God says,
"tire shall Consume the tabernacles of
bribery" Have nothing to do with
such a sin, o Christian man! Fling it
from the ba lot box. Hand over to the
police the man who attempts to tam
per WIFI YOUR NOJcs anu budb
elections that can not be carried with
out brides ought never to be carried at
all. Again l ask yor as Christian
men to set yourselves against the dis
sipations that hover over the ballot
box. Let me say that no man can
afford to go into political life who is
not teetotaler. Hot political discus
sion some ow creates an unnatural
thirst, and hundreds of thousands of
men have gone down into drunken
ness through political life. After an
exciting canvass through the evening
you must take somethiug;" and ris-
ing in the morning with less anima-
ton than usual, you must take some
thing" aud going off among your
comrades through the forenoon, you
meet political friends, and you must
take something's" and in the after
noon you meet other political friends,
and you must take something" and
befo night has come something has
taken you. There are b few eases
where men have been able to stand up
against the designations of political
fe. Joseph was politician, but he
maintained his integrity. Daniel was
"A nOlitipian Init hp vvas n faatot 1ar r,