The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-12-13

, organized ncighborhood, every voter
, 10 watched with severest scrutiny. II
] AM in regioh where am allowed q
vote. must tell the registrar name,
and how old am. and how long have
resided in the state, and how long ]
have resided in the ward or township.
and if I misrepresent, fifty witnesses
will rise and shut me out from the bal
lot-box. Is not that great advance?
And then notice the law that pro-
hibits man voting If he has bet on
the election. A step further needs to
be taken, and that man forbidden
vote who has offered or taken a
bride, whether it be in the shape Of a
free drink, or cash paid down, the sus-
picious cases obliged to put their
hand on the Bible and swear their vote
in If they vote at all. So, through the
sacred chest of our nations suffrage,
redemption will come.
| God will save this nation through n
aroused moral sentiment. There has
never been SO much discussion of NOR
not they acknowledge what is right,
have to think what is right. We have
men who have had their hands in the
public treasury the most of their life
time, stealing all they could lay their
hands on, discoursing eloquently about
dishonesty in public servants; and
men with two or three families OF
their own preaching eloquently about
the beauties of the seventh command
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drunkenness is thrust in the face Of
this nation as never before, and takes
part in our political contests.
The question of national sobriety
is going to be respectfully and
deferentially heard at the bar of
every legislature, and every house of
representatives, and every state sem
ate; and an omnipotent voice will ring
down the sky and across this land and |
back again saying to these rising tides
of drunkenness which threaten to
whelm home and church and nation: |
"Thus far shalt thou come, but no far
Their, and here shall thy proud waves
be stayed"
When the army of Antig onus went
much discouraged, and they rushed
up to the general and said to him:
Don't you see we have a few forces,
and they have SO many more?" and
the soldiers were affrighted at the
smallness OF their number and the
greatness OF the enemy. Anti
genus, their commander, enlightened
himself up, and said, with indigna-
ton and vehemence: "How many do
you reckon me to be?" And when we
see the vast armies arrayed against
the cause Of sobriety, it may some-
times be very discouraging, but ask
you in making up your estimate Of
the forces of righteousness-I ask you
how many do you reckon the Lord
God Almighty to be? He is our COM
The Lord of Hosts is His
name. have the best authority for
saying that the chariots of God are
twenty thousand, and the mountains
Ire full Of them.
Have you any doubt about the need
If the Christian religion to purify and
make decent American politics? At
every yearly or quadrennial election
We have in this country great manu-
Observation-Disclosures of lies; and
hey are run day and night. and they
urn out half a dozen day, all
'quipped and ready for full sailing.
large lies and small lies. Lies
private and lies public and lies
'rurient. Lies cut bias, and lies cut
liagonal. Long-limbed lies, and lies
With doubled back action. Lies COM
and lies defamatory. Lies
hat some people believe, and lies that
IL the people believe, and lies that
lobody believes. Lies with humps
ike camels and scales like croco-
lies, and necks as long as
forks, and feet as swift as an 9
elopes, and stings like adders Lies
aw and scalloped and panned and !
tewed. Crawling lies, and jumping I
les, and soaring lies. Lies with at. !
achment screws and ruffiers anG
raiders and ready-wound bobbins. t
'ies by Christian people who never lie v
kept during elections, and lies by o
eople who always lie, but beat them 5
elves in presidential campaign.
By the mightiest of all agencies, the a
otency OF prayer. beg you seek our :
ational welfare. Some time ago there Q
'ere four million six hundred thou p
and letters in the dead-ietter post II
flee in this city-letters that lost 9
heir way--but not one prayer ever u
irected to the heart of God mis-. a
arried. The way is all clear for the y
scent of your supplications heaven II
ard in behalf of this nation. Before
ne postal communication was so easy.
nd long ago. on q rock one hundred.l n