The Washington times., 1894-07-09
UNTIL The JUDGES TREMBLE
The End to Which Rev. Dr.. Rice
Would Carry the Strike.
DEFENDS IT IN HIS PULPIT
The Theme Was on the Perils Of Our Rspublie
and the Pastor Carried His Brethren Into
Round Of Half Suppressed Applause.
Other National Dangers.

| A crowded congregation gathered at Trinit.
NJ. E. church yesterday morning to listen K
| Rev. NJ. F. B. Rice's exposition OF the peril
which menace the American republic. Tn
preacher was eloquent and denounced exist
| ing evils with more than ordinary fervor.
He chose as his text Solomon's aphorism
"Righteousness exaltcth a nation, but sin is .
reproach to any people" He also said ir
part: 1.-THE heart OF the nation beats low
Strife and dire omens OF intensified strif'
cross and recross the natural horizon. Fear
takes the place Of hope; doubt and uncer
tainty usnrp the place Of confidence and as
surance"
Here the preacher in picturesque language
recounted the blessings that God bestows or
this nation, and then proceeded:
From the manward side there is dark
ness and despair. A state of civil war exists
in eight states of this nion. There are dis
turbances that destroy the peace and utterly
subvert the social order Of many COM
munities. Local and state authorities find
themselves helpless in the presence Of multi
piled mobs. In six states troop are under
arms. The Federal army is again on the
march. Regulars fall into line and charge
the ranks Of civilians with fixed bayonets.
Storm centers exist at various points Of the
compass, all moving toward the capital OF
the nation.
Evil freighted movements, inspired by dis
content and directed by revenge, are massing
in different parts Of the country. The situa-
;ion is grave. A danger more significant than
the bombardment Of Sumpter threatens the
most sacred things OF our American institu-
tions. II that was a shot at the Constitution,
these are attacks upon the rights Of men
which undeilie the Constitution itself.
"This IL our nation. 1t is not a country
that belongs to that foreign horde Of human
offal dumped upon our shores through Castle
Garden year by year." Here the prea ,,er
said that the nation does not belong 10 thoss
people who come from foreign shores TO seek
an asylum from oppression and tyranny Nor
to the Italian with the stiletto, nor to the
Chinaman who makes . fortune and then
goes home to his heathenism and his degra-
dation.
There arc many dangers which menance
us. Capitalists are kings. The sugar trust
dominates Congress and determines the legis-
lation for sixty millions OF people. We pride
ourselves on our material prosperity, our in
creasing wealth, yet all history shows that
these are always the forerunners OF decay and
ruin.
lone Of our perils of our country Is parti-
san anu corrupt press. There is no mighter
agency for the moulding OF the public con-
science and public morals than the daily and
weekly newspapers. If this mighty force was
always on the side Of virtue against vice. OF
honesty against fraud, justice against op-
preston, We would not have anything to fear.
But the press, for the most part, is so partisan
that the Democratic editor can see no good in
whpt Republican may do, and vice versa
When you read party paper, you think
everything going to the devil unless you be-
long to that party. What candidate has any
guarantee that his good name will not be
ruthlessly tarnished by every newspaper of
the opposing party.
''0ur safeguard is to boycott every newspa-
per that deals out sensational representations
of crime and vice. There should also be strict
legal enactments against the publication and
CT all obscene literature.
another peril is the presence of ecclesias-
tical organization, the spirit of which is an
tagonistic to the principles Of the republic.
No peril is greater to our civil institutions
than that which comes from the pres
ence of this poltico ecciesiastic organization.
which has within its fold the largest number
of the uneducated voters in the land, and
which, by way of the confessional, can cast
that vote for the party that promises it the
largest gains. Every free institution il in peril
In the presence Of such foe, unless it is safe
guarded by an organization as secret as the
and as authoritative as the hier-
archv.
Then there is the contest; that between
capital and labor. Wages show tendency
70 reach the level of bare existence and this,
90, while employers are getting rich. Yet,
he poor, hungry, half-starved laborer must
lot strike.
"Yes. would strike until judges on the |
bench would feel the tremor of the strike; |
trike until capitalists fear and tremble strike |
Until statesmen think and heed the just claims |
If the laborer; strike until the tears of hun |
,ry wives and children rise as memorial TO |
heaven to scourge these taskmasters. Pro- |
,ibt immigration for twenty years and then |
We will have no more strikes"
The reverned gentleman wound up his ser |
non. an eloquent plea for woman's suffrage |
lis tones were so emphatic, his action so In |
ense, and his suffrage inclination SO pro-
bounced that when he had concluded sup |
PRESSED applause echoed through the build |
ne. Lifting high his arms, and with dra-
natic intensity. he said:
IF the ballot in the hands of women will |
estroy the rum traffic. subdue anarchy.
dust the difficulties between capital and |
abor, make fonder wives and better mothers, |
nd then give them the ballot quick"