Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-01-03

'"'o '""h he hlauC the gambler,
lhe barkeerer, and other sinners
they are simply pcrversions of hu
manity. (Applause.)
have seen the social life from
the White House to the cabin, and
say TO you that the society of the
pam country house in which live 9
pain, religious, Industrious father. q
number of ruddy- -compIexioned
glriS, and several strapping boys
that nome where nightly, after sup.
per, the old, worn Bible is taken
from It's shelf and the father, with
ms family around him, reads by the
light OF burning lamp a chapter Ia
those he loves, and repeats the same
thlng each morning before an earIv
breaktast-I tell you, that is the so.
clety crave. 1t is out of such
MONIES That have come all of our
great men, men who have had their
names heralded abroad, men who
nave reached the topmOst rings of
the ladder of fame, and it is out of
just such homes that the great and
famous men of the future will come.
II Is this genuine home, where true
manhood stands above everything
that produces the true type of man
hood.
THE FINANCIAL ASPECT.
Again, | might tell YOU how TO get
there financially. Money is very
much like a cane to IA lame man-one
will help him along, bat fifty piled
on his back will paralyze him. /
never saw one Of those old fellows
who had accumulated as much
money as they could spend and were
still trying to get more but what |
was forcibly reminded of fly i'm q
barrel of molasses. He was there
all right, but there was so much mo-
lasses around him that he was a
mere insignificance. Genuine man
mood, tell you, is scarce. There is
an oVer-production of everything
else in this country but man. God
never made but one man and one
woman, and the crop is just about as
scare now as it was then. The
greed of the age is the nations
curse. America has centralized and
VocaliZed her whole life into the sill
yer dollar, and one of these days YOU
will lie with your toes turned up
and tied together, and beneath moth
ing but silver dollar, worth 50
cents. This spirit of get all you can
and keep all you get is the curse of
this age. Money makes everything
go that has hair, and makes many a
bald-headed one go too. laugh
ter.) You see an old man who has
got plenty of money and refuses to
give anything for charity or relig-
ion, saying that he is saving it for
Sallie and the children. That's all
mighty nice, hut the old fool won't
be dead and in hell two years before
somebody else will come along,
marry Sailie, and enjoy what he has
made. Oh, I've seen 'em lots of
times. You needn't pin your faith
to a woman after you are dead.
They'll marry again. (Laughter.)
l might tell you how to get there
politically. If / was mad with a
man and wanted to ruin him for
this world and the next I'd get him
a political office. You say that
many an honest man goes into poll
tics. or course they do, but how
do they come out? You may take
a hog and wash him clean, then let
him wallow IN mud-puddle and
he'll be just as dirty if not dirtier
than he was before. Politics is a
dirty cesspool, and it has gotten so
now that you don't know who's
elected.
IS FOR WOMAN's RIGHTS.
This morbid desire for office is
awful. Right here in Richmond
everybody has got some Office
Mayor, councilman, Sunday.school
superintendent and all SUCH -and
the ladies, God bless 'em, are Just as
bad. They are either president or
secretary or manager of some elee-
mosy nary institution. I'll wager
that everybody in town wanted your
post-office. / don't mind the wo.
men holding office, though. Pm a
woman's rights woman myself, and
| believe that woman has got q
right to hold any Office or be any.
thing except father of family OF
children. l draw the line there
Look at Washington, the city of of
ficeholders. 1t is the DEVILS head.
quarters. ] was in Washington just
after Cleveland's first Inauguration
and when he was turning the rascals
out. Many of them had been ir
the public cowpen sucking for thirty
years and had no teeth. When they
were turned out to hunt grass they
starved. The Democrats were jus
as bad, however. When the gate:
to the cowpen were thrown open il
rushed the little Democratic calves
They were hungry, but they haC
been there for some time and have
grown fat.
DEBAUCHED BY THE SALOONS.
The saloons, distilleries, and brew
cries have debauched politics, anC
politics have debauched the country
until feeling of unrest prevail
which means revolution or reforma
ton. 1t is not now how many vote
a fellow gets, but how many h,
needs. A man who would help stea
an Office for a friend would stea
anything else, and man who woult
stuff ballot-box would steal horse
(Great applause.) The man VIII,
boasts that he never scratched tn
straight ticket is puppy. He /
too small to be called dog.
wouldn't vote for a whiskey-drink
ing, saloon-frequenting, wire-pullinI
politician for anything under Cod
sun. / don't have to. Don't yO
wish you didn't have to? l don
have to frequent gambling-hOuse
and bar-rOOmS, Don't YOU wis