Democratic messenger., 1896-03-14

i Nations Morning.
You must remember II IS only about :
o'clock in the morning of cur nations
life. Great cities are 10 flash and roar
among what are called The bad Lands"
Of tho Dakutas anG tie great Columbia
Plains" uf Washington STATE, and that ON
which we put our schoullo! fingers on the
map. and spelled out as the Great Ancri-
can desert is Through systematic and
cunsummating irrigation, tn bloom like
Chatswor;h park and "a n:aGe more PR
ductiVo than those I, gions dependent upon
uncertain anu sra>L.udic rainfall. All
those regions ~ well as those regions al
ready cultivated to be inhabiied That
was sublime thing said by Henry Clay
while crossing the .hllcghany mountains
and H. was waiting for Tie stage horses to
bo rested, rs lo stcod un rock, arms
folded, looking on into the valley, and
sumo one said 10 him, Mr.. Clay, what
are you thinking ahaut:' He replied. II
am listening To the oncoming ramp of the
future generation Cf America. Have
you laid utr home missionary scheme on
such un iniinitudc Of st..lc; II the work
of bringing one soul To God j. - great,
can I.OO0.00O, 0GO lc captured: Ia this
country, ALREADY planted and 10 be over.
come, paganism has built its altar to
Brahma. and tie Chinese arc already burn
ing iacrrsc Ia their temples and Moham-
mechanism. drunk in other days with the
red wine of human blood At Lucknow
and CawupUr, and now fresh from tho
diabolism iA Armenia, is trying 10 get u
foothold l.cy,, and from the minarots Of
her mosques will yet mumhlo her bias
phcmirs. SAYING. God is great, and Mo-
hammrd j. lis prophet. Then there arc
the vaster muljilrC,s with nu religion ut
all They Worship no God, they live with
lao consolation. and H., : die with 40 hope.
No star of peace points down to the man
ger in which tney are born, and no prayer
j. uttered oy"r the grave into which they
sink Thrn thern is alcoholism. its piled
up dcmiluhn> and hcor barrels ana hogs
heads uf fiery death, "a harricadc high and
long Is tho Allcghani,, ana Rockies and
Sierra \cyada~, pouring forth day anu
night their ammunition Of wretchcdness
and wuc when u German wants TO take
drink he takes beer. When an English
man wants ia take u drink, ne takes ale.
when S,.otchman wants tu takra drink,
he takes whisky. Bur when an American
wants 10 tahy "a drink he takes anything
be can lay his hands un.
Plenty ii statistics 10 tell how much
money is spent in this country for rum
and how many drunkarls die But who
will give Us ihe statistics uf how many
hearts arc crushed under the heel If this
worst driru., of ihcconturic,: How many
i.aro- HIS, ls ilnw many children ;urn-
cG uui Oh The world. accurScd with stigma
uf drhauched ancestry. Until The worm
ot The distillrry becomes the worm that
mover dies and the smoke of the heated
wine watts becomes the smoke uf the tor
mont that ascendeth up forever and rvcri
Alcoholism. swearing with hand IIp-
lifttd toward heaven, for from that direc-
tinn II can gtt no help, hut with right
hand stretched down toward The pcrtiiiion
from which it came up swearing that il
will not cease ~ long as there are any
hnmc>tcads "a dcspoil. any magnificent
ncn and women 10 destroy. any immortal
souls Ia damn. any more nations To halk
any more Civilizations 10 cxiinguish
Wicked and Lazy.
Then there j. what In America we call
socialism. In France communism. and in
Russia nihilism-tho three names for ono
and the same thing and having hut two
doctrines IN its creed First. there is no
Gnh second, there shall he no rights ~
property. one uf their chief journals
printed this sentiment Dynamite can he
made ont of the dead bodies uf CAPITALISTS
rs well as uut of hogs One uf the lead.
crs of communism left inscribed on his
prison wall. where be- had h-.n Justly IN
carrrraicd these words Mhrn once Won
arr dead. there Is an end Of everything.
Therefore. W >cuundrcls grab whatever
you can. only don't lct yourselves hc
grabbed Nmcn," There ara in this
country hundreds ~ thousands ~ these
lazy scouudrri>. Honest mon dcplorc II
when they cannot get work Int those of
whom speak Will not do work when they
can grt i. | tried 10 employ one who
asked me for money | said Down IN
my cellar have some wood tn saw. and
will rhy yuil FOR it.. For "A little while
heard tic ,aw going and thcn heard il
no more went down stairs and found
thc wood, hui the workman hnd disnp-
prarcd. taking for company both buck and
saw
socialism. communism and mihilism
mcan too wicked % acLnuw ledge t,od
and too lazy 60 earn living ana among
th" iuirlti'~i Dh-tarle~ to he ott rromc are
ihoso organized element. of domestic. 50.
cial and political rain
There ALSO are the fn>tnesst,s Of iuilieb