Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-12-13

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Milwaukee. Crash What is that?
That is bank in Chicago Crashi
What is that? That is ant Their bank in
New York City. Crash What is that?
fnst Is factory shut down and a
thousand men thrown out of employ
ment. Our feet is going to pieces up-
on the rocks, because we are out of the
CHI mel of Gods truth.
This country as a whole has been
like David Is Hill, moving toward IL
obj cts. seeking its ends. by princi Dles
and policies that are utterly opposed TO
the divine law. and it has received q
rebuff at the hands of the A mighty
God, which will cause it TO stop snd
ref. CT. | thank God for the re-
buff and that it is only rebuff; that he
has not vet seen fit 10 cut US off.
David Hill rode into position and pow
er by the most corrupt political meth
DDS ever practiced, and his apparent
success might have wrung from the
heart of psalmist or Job, the bitter
complaint that the wicked flourish.
But when he reached the climax of his
power. he was standing on rum aud
perjury and bribery aud falsehood. a
rotten and dangerous foundation.
Like Saul of old, he fell upon his own
sword and be is now breathing out his
political life. When Senator Ingalls,
said. 1.-The publication of politics is an
ridescent dream. Government is
force. Politics is battle for suprem
acy, Parties are armies. The Deca
logue aud Golden Rule have no place
in political campaign" be fell upon
bis own sword. No success is perma
nent which is founded upon falsehood.
This country has been advancing
toward its ends by means of force and
oppression and exploitation in its in
dustrial life, by the sword of COMPETE
ton in its commercial life, by means of
fraud and perjury and bribery in its
political lite; it has gloried in its pros
perity, and has boosted itself over the
nations of the world. but its support is
beginning 10 give way and it will ulti-
mately fall upon its own sword unless
it changes; the way of wickedness leads
to destruction.
Two years ago said was thankful
for the election; can say the same
thing to-day with even more zest than
| said it then, for see now an unmis
taxable confirmation that the signs
which | saw two years ago we're not
misintsrpreted. God Is abroad in the
land and there is now no mistake about
it. The results of this election mean
that God is stirring IN the consoiences
of men.
Some one was offended two years
q nj at-tr IL H.
IT was, but he certainly could not have
understood my meaning. / want it
understood, nv friends, that | am
free lance so far as parties are con-
cerned. do not belong to any of
them; no party owns me; | cannot be
called party property or posse ssion. l
look upon a marty as look upon
jack knife. When | want to trim my
finger nails | want knife with file
blade and sharp edge at the end of it,
30 that | can both cut and file. Ii
have one and somebody offers me
better one, / will throw my own aside
without any compunctions OF con-
science and use the better one. A par
ty is but an instrument; its function is
10 work out the purposes of God, and
when It cannot be used for that, it is
time 10 throw it aside And yet there
are men who will cling to an old bar
low knife aud bruise their finger nails
off with it, because it is theirs and has
bet n for a long time. rather than to
throw it away and take a good knife
that is offered. | think more of God
and my fellowmsn than | do of my par
ty. The first great commandment is.
Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God; and
the second is, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor. A party is an artificial
being, INVISIBLE and Intangible, without
soul. There is no commandment to
love any such being. | cannot find it
in the Bible. We haye had remarkable
fluctuations of opinion IN the last five
or six years The pendulum began to
SWING ten years ago, In '88, it had &C.
quired considerable movement; in go |
It was swinging with more force; in
'92 the arce was increased; in "a 1t had |
swung back with violence. What does |
it mean? 1t means that Gods spirit is |
STIRRING in the thoughts and consciences
of men and that public opinion is begin
ming to animate American citizenship |
instead of party prejudice. There is 8
large contingent of voters that have I
swung loose from their old moorinos,
they have broken the tie OF party allie.
glance. They are the independent vo-
ters. They hold the balance of power.
They are ready to IRISH into any party,
to espouse any righteous cause, or TO
any rebuKe for unrighteouS-
ness and they are going to SWING so
hard as to break thousands of others
loose. There are more independent !,
voters in this year of "a than any of
you have ever known IN your life time
before. But there are still thousands
that will cling to their respective par
ties like barnacles to the bottom of a
ship and they will continue TO cling
even when the ship is wrecked and its
old hulk is cast upon the sandbar to
rot. Iventure TO believe that the great
body OF independent voters are young
men. 40 wears old and under. May |
God speed the time when no man of |
corrupt character will be able to ride |
into power ON top of party prejudice or |