Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-14

it'4'ts o4dstcu. HOW ultHA
ed out on the world. accurscd with stigma
Of debauchcd ancestry? Until the worm
of the iistillery becomes the worm that
never dies, and the smoke of the heated
wine watts becomes the smoke of the tor
ment that ascendeth up for ever and ever.
Alcoholism swcaring-not with hand up
lifted toward heaven for from that direc-
tion il can get no help but with right
hand stretched down toward the perditon
from which it came up-swearing that il
VIII not cease as long rs there are any
homesteads to despoil. any magnificent
men and women to destroy. any immortal
souls 10 damn. any more nations to balk,
any more civilizations to extinguish.
Wicked and Lazy.
Then there is what in America we call
socialism. in France communism. and in
Russia nihilism-the three names for one
and the same thing-and having but two
doctrines in its creed: First. there is
no God: second. there shall be no rights
Of property. One of their chief journals
printed this sentiment. Dynamite can he
made out of the dead bodies of capitalists
is we'll as out of hogs" One of the lead
cr> OF communism left inscribed on his
prison wall, where he had been justly in
carceratcd. these words: when once you
are dead. there is an end of everything.
Therefore, We scoundrels. grab whatever
you can, only don't let yourselves be
grabbed. Amen" There are in this
country hundreds of thousands of these
lazy scoundrels. Honest men deplore it
when they cannot get work, but those of
whom | speak will not do work when they
can get it. | tried TO employ one who
asked me for money. | said, Down in
my cellar have some wood To saw, and |
viii pay You for it, For little while l
heard the saw going. and then | heard it
no more. | went down stairs and found
the wood, but the workman had disap
peared taking for company both buck and
saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean too wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy to earn q living" and among
the mishtiest obstacles to be overcome are
those organized elements of domestic, So
cal and political ruin.
There also are the Businesses of infdel-
ity, and atheism, and fraud. and political
corruption, and multiform hydra headed,
million armed denominations all over the
land. While the mghtiest agencies for
healthful newspapers and good and
healthful books, and our chief dependence
for intelligence and Christian achieve
ment is upon them, what word among the
more than 100000 words in our vocabu-
larry can describe the work of that arch
angel of mischief, a corrupt literature?
What man, attempting anything for God
and humanity, has escaped stroke of its
filthy wing: What good cause has es-
capped its Underwent? What other OBJ
stacle in all the land so appalling? But
cannot name more than One-hef the bat
Elements, the bastions, the intrcnchments,
the redou5ts, the Notifications, to be
stormed and overcome if this country is
ever taken for God. The statistics are SO
awful that il we had nothing but the null
tiplication able and the arithmetic. the at
tempt t0 eyan,elZe America would be an
absurlity higher than the tower of Babel
before it dropped on the plain Of Shinar.
Where are the drilled troops to march
against these fortifcatiOns as long as the
continent: Where are the batteries that
can be unlimbered against these walls?
Where are the guns of large enough cali
Der 10 storm these gates: Well, let us
look around and see. the first of all, who
is our leader and viii be our leader until
the work is done.
a Great Leader.
Garibaldi, with 1 ZOO Italians. could do
more than another commander with TO-
900 Italians. Gen. Sherman, on one side.
and Stonewall Jackson on the other each
with 10000 troops. could do more than
some other generals with 20,00s troops.
The rough boat in which Washington
crossed the icy Delaware with few half
frozen troops was mightier than the ship
of war that. during the American revolu-
ton. came through the Narrows, n gun at
each portfolio, and sank in Hell Gate Our
| leader, Ike most great leaders, was born
in an obscure place. and it was humble
home. about five miles from Jerusalem.
! Those who were out of doors that night
! said that there was stellar commotiOn and
music that came out Of the clouds, as
/ though the front door of heaven had been
set open, and that the camelS heard his
first infanti.e cry. Then he came to the,
/ fairest bOyhood that mother was ever
proud of. and from II to 30 years of age
was off in India, if traditions there are ac-
/ curate, and then returned To his native
, land, and for three years had his pathway
| surrounded by blind eyes that he llumin-
ed. and epileptic patients to whom he
gave rubicund health, and tongues that
he lOosed from silence into song, and those
whose funerals he stopped that he might
! give back to bereaved mothers their only
boys, and those whose fevered pulses he
had restored into rhythmic throb, and
whose paralytic limbs he had warmed into
| hcalthful circulation-pastor at Caperna
nm, but flaming evangelist everywhere
| hushing crying tcmpests and turning roll
ing seas into solid sapphire, and for the
rescue Of 4 race submitted to court room
! filled with bowling miscreants, and to n
| martyrdom at the sight of which the sun
tainted and fell back in the heavens, and
! then freading the clouds homeward, like
SNOWY mountain peaks, till heaven took
! him back again. more favoritc than he
had ever been; but, coming again. he is
on earth now. and the nations are gather
| Ing To his standard.
Following him were the Scotch cove
aanters. the Theban legion. the victims Of
the London Haymarket, the Piedmontese
sufferers. the pilgrim fathers. the HUI
| guelots and uncOunted multitudes of the