The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-02

of the state house overlooking 1.-The
Commons?''
What is true of individuals is true of
nations. Was it a mild spring morn
ing when the pilgrim fathers landed
on Plymouth Rock, and did they come
in gilded yacht, gay streamers flying?
No 1t was in cold December, and
from a ship in which one would not
want to cross the Hudson or the Po-
tomac river. Scalping knives all ready
to receive them, they landed. their
only welcome the Indian warwhOop.
Red men on the beach. Red men in
the forest. Red men on the mountains.
Red men in the valleys. Living gates
of red men. Gates of carbuncle!
Aboriginal hostility pushed back,
s9rs ) now our forefathers will have
nothing to do but to take easy posses
sion of the fairest continent unGer the
sun. The skies so genial, the soil 81
fertile, the rivers so populous with
fnny life, the acreage so immense,
there will be nothing to do but eat.
drink, and be merry. No. The must
powerful nation, by army and navy,
sounded its protest across 5000 miles
of water. Then came Lexington,
and Bunker Hill, and Monmouth.
and Long Island battles, and
Valley Forge, and Yorktown. and
starvation, and widowhoOd, and or
phanage. and the IS colonies went
through sufferings which the historian
has attempted to put upon paper, and
the artist to put upon canvas, but ali
in vain. Engraver's knife, and re-
porter's skill, and Geographic wire,
and daily press, which have
made us acquainted with the
horrors of modern battle field,
had not vet begun their vigilance,
and the story of the American revolu-
tion has never been told. and never
will be told. 1t did not take much ink
TO sign the declaration of independence.
but it took terrific amount of blood to
maintain it. 1t was an awful gate of
opposition that the men and women
and the women as much as the men
pushed back. 1t was a gate of self-sac-
rifice. 1t was a gate of blood. 1t was
gate of carbuncle.
This country has been for the most
part of it's history passing through
crisis, and af err each crisis was better
off than before it entered it, and now
we are at another crisis We are told
on one hand that if gold is kent as
standard and silver is not elevated,
| confidence will be restored and this ma
| ton will rise triumphant from ell the
financial misfortunes that have been
affecting us On the other hand, we
are told that if the free coinage OF
silver is allowed, all the wheels of bust
ness will revolve, the poor man will
| have better chance, and all our indus
tries will begin to hum and roar. Dur
| ing the last six presidential elections l
have been urged to enter the political
arena, but l never have and never will
turn the pulpit in which l preach into
a political stump. Every minister
must do as he feels called to do, and
will not criticise him for doing what
| he considers his duty; but all the po
litical harangues from pulpits from
now until the 3rd of November will
not in all the United States change
one vote, but will leave many ears
! stopped against anything that such
clerpvmen may utter the rest of their
lives. As a general rule the laymen OF
! churches understand politics better
than the clergy, because they the
laymen) study politics more than the
clergy and have better opportunity
of being intelligent on those sub
jects. But good morals, honesty,
loyalty, Christian patriot SIN and the
| Ten COMMUNICATIVE we must
preach. God saws distinctly in the
! Bible, "The silver and the gold are
mine" AMI He will settle the contro-
versy between those two metals. If
ever this country needed the divine
rescue it needs it now. Never within
my memory have so many people liter
| ally starved to death as in the past few
months. Have you noticed in the
newspapers how many men and women
here and there have been found dad,
the post mortem examination stating
that the cause of death was hunger?
There is not a day that we do not
hear the crash of some great CONNER
cial esta blishment, and as a conse-
| Quence many pSOplS dIO OhIOHh OuO VI
employment Among what we consid-
cred comfortable homes have come
privations and close calculations and
an economy that kills. Millions of
people who say nothing about it are
at this moment at their wits end.
| There are millions of people VINO
do not want charity but want
work. The CRY has gone up
to the ears of the Lord of
Sabaoth," and the prayer will be heard
and relief will come. If we have moth
ing better to depend on than American
politics, relief will never come. Who
ever is elected to the presidency, the
wheels of government turn so slowly,
and caucus in yonder white building
on the hill may tie the hands of any
president Now, though we who live
| in the District of Columbia cannot
vote, we can pray, and my
prayer day and night shall be:
so, God, hear the cry of the
souls from under the altar! Thou
who hast brought the wheat and corn
of this season to such magnitude of