The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-04-19

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his fortune On Wall street. He is goinv
in for dose of bslladona, auL before
morning it will make no difference to
him whether stocks are up or down. 1
ltl' you that Broadway. between and
IL O'Clock at night, between tho Battery
md Cen raj Park. ia an Austerlitz. a
Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where king
doms are lost or won, and three worlds
mingle lr the strife.
l meet another coming down off the
hotel e'ena. and I say, "Where are you
nolpg?" You say. Il am going with
merchant OF New York who has prom
ised TO show me the underground life of
tho city. am his customer, and he ia
going TO oblige me very much.n Stopl
a business house that tries to set or
keep y onr custom through such pro.
cees as that is not worthy of you. There
are business establishments in our cities
which have for years boon sending to
destruction hundreds and thousands of
merchants. They have q secret drawer
IN the counter, whero money Ia kept,
and the clerk gOea and gets 1t WHOM ne
wants to take these visitors to the city
through the low slums OF the place.
shall l mention tho names Of some of
these great commercial establishments
L nave them on my lips. Shall Ip Per
haps l had better leave it to the Young
men who, in that process, have boon
destroyed Themselves while they have
oeen destroying others. I care not how
hlgh sounding tao name Of a commercial
establishment if 1T proposes to get Gus
toners or to keep them by such a pro.
cess as that. Drop their acquaintance.
ihey will send you style of goods diff
lerent from that which you bought by
sample. They will give you under.
weight. There will be in the package
half dozen less pairs OF suspender,
than you paid for. They will rob you.
On, you feel IN your pockets and saw,
"1s my money gomez" They have
robbed you of something for which dol 4.
lars and cents can never give YOU com.
pensatlon.
When one of ttese Western merchants
have been dragged by ono OF those com.
merclal agents through the slums of the
city, be is not fit to 90 home. The nero
memory of what he has seen will be
moral pollution. l think you had better
let the city missionary aud the police at
tend TO the exploration of New York
and underground hfe. You do not 80
TO smallpox station for tho purpose of
exploration. You do not go thero be-
cause you are afraid of contagion.
Aud yet you 90 into the presence Of
moral leprOsY that is ae much more
dan"crous to YOU as the death OF the
fou' ls worse than the death of The BODY
L viii u,'der,ake to say tha nine tenths
II ne men who have been ruined in nu,
cit" have been ruined by simply going
l." observe without any idea OF partlc
patiDg.
The fact is that underground ciLv life
IA t1l'hp, fuDing, reekine. peslrernu.
1ep'h " 'ICh hHsls the eve that loDks al
I ln The rcig" IF terror in 1892 in PR.
: p oule raca,n"g tr.,m the utli ers of !
he law got in . the sewers of thec.tv and
daud walked hrC ugh miles of that |
"tul labyrinth sifled with the atmns. |
'htre and almost dead, some of them,
'hen thew ca'ue out to the river Ssue
'here tbev washed themselves and
gam brenthed the fresh air But I
ave TO tell you that great manv OF
he men who e on The work .f txplo
ION through tho underground gu ters |
N W York l'fe never come out al anl
lne river where they can wash fl the {
)lIutlon OF the moral sewage. Stranger 6
one OF the representativ es of q com. {
lerc'ol establishment proposes to take !
pu and show you the "sigbsO Of the
,wn and underground New YO.k. say :
him, "Please, sir what part do YOU .
ropose to show me?"
About l6 years ago as q minister et ,
llSlon felt l had a divine commission
0 exploe the iniquities of our cities. II
III not ask counsel OF my session, or
Nv presbytery. or of the newspapers but
skiing the compauionship of three prom
lent police officials and two of the ell.
ers OF M church l unrolled my COM
aud 1T eaids "Son of man die
nlo the wall and when had digeed into
ne wall behold door, and he aaid
40 IN and SEQ the wicked denominations
hat are zone here, and I went Ia and |
Brought up in the country and |
surrounded by much parental care, I |
had not until that time seen the haunts |
Of iniquity. BY the grace of God, de-
tended, | had never sowed my wild |
>ats.' had somehow been able 10 |
,ell from various sources something
about the iniquitIas of the great clt;es |
md to prench against them, but saw,
II the destruction of great multitude |
If tho people, that there must be an in
atuation and temptation that had
lever been spoken about, and said, 81
Vill explore" 1 saw thousands Of men
olng down, and If there had been O
p1rltual percussion answering to the
'hyslcal percussion the whole air would
ave been full of the rumble and ,oar
nd crack and thunder of the demolition
nd this moment, if we should pause in
ur service, we should hear the crash,
rash!
Just as in the sickly season you some.
mes hear The bell at the gate of tho
'metery ringing almost inceesantl7, 80
found the bell at the gate of the cen.
cry where ruined souls are buried was
bling by day and tolling by night. II
sid, II will explore" 1 went as
hysician goes into fever lazaretto. TO
20 what practical and useful lnforma.
on might get. That would be fool
n doctor who would stand outside tho
Dor of an invalid writing @ Latin pre-
,ription. When the lecturer Ill q med
al college Is done with his lecture, he
'kes the students Into the dissectinp