The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-14

successful candidate has voted then be-
lieve, not before. Let us all remember
we cannot afford TO relax one prayerfui,
honest, earnest effort TO omit one sigma
ture, to keep silent one protest until the
" treacheryn OF 1894 has been atoned for;
until the "abomination of 1894 has
been annihilatcd. And for this reason
Opposed to the repeal OF this act stand
powerful foes, such as the gambling fra
iernity of the country, the railroads and
electric roads, the Narragansett Park
Racing Association, all our legis-
lators in favor of the scheme,
oil legislators who can be in
fiuenced, cajoled, bribed or otherwise in
duced 10 vote in favor; the influence OF
party bosses, probably purchaseable; tine
certainty OF deals, pairs, lobbying, subtle
amendments, substitutes, and every other
possible force which professional politi-
clans and lobbyists generally use with
too much success. In the face OF our
enemies, who fear neither God nor man
and have no regard for anything except
the success OF their schemes and the fill
ing of their own pockets, we cannot az
ford 10 be off guard. The purchase OF
legislative votes Is not "lost art" nor
are all legislators dead whose
votes arc known TO be in the market; TO
be sure OF having the wrong OF 1894 made
right in 1898 we must keep awake until
undoubted loyalty, honor, courage,
honesty and manhood stand in the place
of the treachery and the abomination OF
1894.
This question is not one OF party poll
ties; IL Is aoove creed, above party, above
politics, above any possible personal in
terost; IL is simply the eternnl question
OF Right over Wrong or of Wrong over
Right. 1t Is simply this question-Wiu
our Legislators decide TO serve the hollest
and highest interests OF the people or
mi a hof, ~ arQataY WIFI
they be true to loyalty, to truth, to virtue,
to honor, to Christ, or Will they grover
and cringc before things low. base, dis
honest, mean and treacherous?
For months THE NEWS has waged, and
alone, a holy war against those whJ, not
slow to take advantage OF the law framed
at their dictation and for their proht,
esta blished upon Rhode Island soil this
degradation and dishonor; the child OF
the Evil One; brought 10 It's birth by the
hands OF bribery, fraud, deceit and false-
hood; born in the deepest darkness OF the
vilest shame; nourished upon injustice,
greed, lust, lawlessness and inhumanity;
set up on our soil in one territory-a foul,
loathsome, God defying, man hating,
love- de basing, soul-destroying Moloch
that into its red hot arms
might be cast the honesty, the virtue, the
purity, the patriotism. the loyalty, the re-
ligious faith OF our citizens, In order TO
enable its lecherous priests TO revei in the
destruction of their victims; in the de-
struction OF home, manhood, woman
hood, prosperity, honor, body and soul.
The hurch Tin which lwould tonight
include ell, OF whatever name, who have
tho least respect for Christ, purity, truth
and decency) has, as part OF its mizsion,
the command TO wage war, incessant,
eternal, against every manner OF
vice, treachery, abomination and sin
which is discovered or discoverabie.
Christ cannot be enthroned until the
Church has much more thoroughly ac-
been done. Without the least doubt two
forces are in the world today,
tho church and the press, through
which the world could be, would be, re-
generated were both these forces true to
Christ. The preacher. the teacher, the
voice, effort to abolish any discover
this evil of race track gambling,
is untrue 10 God, TO the Christian religion
and to every noble instinct OF manhood.
The wrong which Is being now opposed
must be crushed with blow so crushing
that even a muscular twitch In the whole
length and breadth of its hideous carcass
shall be forever impossible.
The aroused, aggressive, right-demand-
ing Christian sentiment of any State in
the Union can, II 1t wills to pray, to act,
carry any measure, mucH more Brhnuiy
can this be done when IL is in alliance
with the best and purest manhood and
womanhood OF the State as Is the case
today in Rhode Island ;under such circum-
stances all moral and religious forces--all
the force of God, all the force OF man-are
united TO secure any desired triumph, any
desired overthrow of evil, with the GER
tainty that the overwhelming mass OF
our citizens are one with US IN this crusade.
Our Legislators do the final voting-you
and did our voting when we elected
these men, but you, as men and women,
can bring some measure OF influence to
bear upon them; and you as Christians
can touch the heart ana mind
and hand of the Worlds Re-
deemer who can SO touch the mind and
heart and conscience and human natures
of our legislators as to bring them to see
that the interests OF Christianity, morality,
honor, virtue and truth--yes, their own
interests, demand a solid, earnest, salts
factory, overwhelming victory over the
gambling alliance which so easily and SO
successfully degraded us last year; but
which we trust and pray God will be so an
initiated this year that its greatest defeat
may prove to be its seeming triumph Of
last May.