The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-25
PURIFY POLITICS.
Rev. Mr.. Raboteau breaches
to the Junior Order
Of A. Mechanics.
EVIL MENACING THE REPUBLIC
Bribery and Corruption, BE Said.
Are Spread Everywhere
Remedies Suggested.
EVIL MENACING THE REPUBLIC

Remedies Suggested.
Industry Council, Junior Order of Ann
erican Mechanics, attended service in a
body last night at the Parmly Memorial
Church. The church was packed to the
doors.
The Rev. Claude Rabotteau delivered a
lively lecture. His subject was, THE
Citizen of the Twentieth Century"
Among other things he said
A no time since the world began
have mems notions about the universe
present century. Scientific achievements
no longer occur periodically but follow
one another like a restless army. In
ve e ! multiply; labor Is ess ;i per- per-
and finer. The Columbian Exposition
displayed the progress of America and
brought TO a reality the fondest dreams
of our ancestors. We have gathered the
products of a nineteenth century civiliza-
ton and maSsed them together 60 the
bewilderment of an old world. In the
the stimulus of a mighty effort, epiI-
omized the wonderful achievements of
man over nature. We lave gloritied our
age.
LEGACY TO THE TMErsTIETH CEN
TURY.
I'VE will turn over to the twentieth
c6uluIy d great GOQIllTy. lHG way ido
been pioneered; the wilderness has been
cleared, the barren prairies cultivated.
and when the twentieth century snail
dawn It Will break upon a nation where
the path of human progress has opened
and widened till all the achievements
of the past ages have been crowded into
the fairest, richest, mightiest country
that history shall ever describe. No bar
barrie, half civilized land do we bequeathe.
III no otner Ian can 1T be so truly said
that man has absolutely triumphed over
nature. We have harnessed the wild
forces OF nature and trained them into
doolle, obedient servants. We give also
national liberty and free Institutions. We
have no antique heraldry blazened on
our Shields, and no royal ancestry to
give us pomp. But we have a few old
colonial relics in the shape of a battered
musket or an old cooked hat and a faded
nag TO remind us that our birthright
was won by ardent patriots, who shook
OF the letters OF royal oppression to
build US up a free and enlightened ma
ton.
mo greater blessing ever came to the
ensaaved masses than when our nation
broke the chains of feudal despotism
n morarchical authority and put the
flower OF liberty upon every freeman 5
lance and the sword of education in his
hand. Our free institutions, particularly
world. We have solved the mystery of
crime and vice We see that the best
way to ~depopulate our jails and peniten-
tiarieS is to populate our schools.
THE Suresr method of purifying the
politics of cur land is to raise the stand
ard OF popular education; the simplest
is to purge society with the streams
Of national purity moving from our tree
POWER OF THE VOTE.
mo hereditary right will place a
ruler over the people of the twentieth
e &c n,. y y;.St With tn a nI rrge ballot tn it nr1 nseom mes
with the sword or mIsKet, but with a
vote. all the inimical forces at work TO
sulIy tn the ? purity Wifi qf national fSaf sim Ilte. slim Of
vote into a tongue of justice, a voice of
order. a force Of imperial law, securing
new institutions for higher expressions
of truth. !,
and request that ere another cen
tury shall close, the ~stupendous prob
of political corruption and social purity,
and of temperance, shall be forever set
tied. and in such a way that the result
our government. The citizens of the
twentieth century stand forth as the de-
tenders and upholders of those principles
stitutions. We are confronted today. by
imminent perils which threaten to ,des-
troy them. Alien forces are at work 70
pull down the props of our liberties,
self-sacrifice. Old world fallacies which
| the light. OF democratc IDerty udS ldhSu
to eradicate, un-Ameriean lhnuenceS
| which agitate our social and political
life. We have been unable to cope with
this destructive torrent, and we find our
| selves, closing this century, whirled along
in a resistless tide of Destructive power,
threatening the very safety of our Amer
lean freedom. First of all, the citizens
| of the twentieth century must uphold
the dignity and power of the ballot. we
are confronted with a form of poi1tdcal
%ruptio that we have not had courage
or ability to stamp out. This lnsI1tu-
ton must be preserved and freed from
its unholy alliance with crime. The
nineteenth century has failed to do 1t,
and to the twentieth century belongs the
Pf1RsfEvAIENcE OF. BRIBERY.
"Whatever strikes a blow at the bal
lot corrupts the life of the Republic and
~vitiates its divine principle. Befoui and
pollute the ballot and the. subiimest
truths of the Gospel are attacked. mans
him and the Nation is guilty of a grew
Gus sin before its God.
This institution is in danger in two
| WAYS. Danger and evil menace it. The
extent of bribery corruption is wide
spread. 1t prevails everywhere, and brib-
cry is a malignant sin against God, and
vet our politics today is honeycombed
with bribery. We need not leave our
own city to see it. Votes are bought and
sold as so much merchandise, while of
fees are put up at public auction and
sold under the political hammer. The
LIQUOR dealers bride for their license,
and the politician bribes for his office,
n corruption prevails on a gigantic