The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-18

business men are taxed for everything.
City taxes, county taxes. state taxes,
/ United States taxes. stamp taxes, Ii
cense taxes, manufacturing taxes
taxes, taxes, taxesl Our business men
have to make small fortune every year
to pay their taxes. What fastens on
our great industries this awful load?
Crime, individual and official We have
TO pay the board of the villains who
are incarcerated in our prisons We
have to take care of the orphans of
those who plunged into their graves
through sensual indulyences We
have to support the municipal govern
ments, which are vast and expensive
just in proportion as the criminal pro-
elivities are vast and tremendous Who
supports the almshouses and police sta
tions, and the machinery of municipal
government? The taxpayers
But in the glorious time Of which l
speak grievous taxation will all have
ceased. There will be no need of sup
porting criminals; there will be no
criminals Virtue will have taken the
place of vice There will be no orphan
asylums, for parents will be able to
leave competency TO their children.
There will be no voting of large sums
Of money for some municipal improve
ments, which moneys, before they
get TO the improvements, drop into the
pockets of those who voted them. No
oyer and terminer kept mp at vast ex-
pense to the people. No impaneling of
juries to try theft and arson and muir
der and SANDER and blackmail. Better
factories; grahder architecture; finer
equipage; larger fortune; richer opu-
lence; better churches.
In that better time also, coming to
those cities. Christ's churches will be
more numerous, and they will be
larger, aud they will be more devoted
to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they
will accomplish greater influence for
good Now. it is often the case that
churches are envious of each other,
and denominations collide with each
other, and even ministers of Christ
sometimes forget the bond of brother
speak. while there will be just as many
differences of opinion as there are now,
there will be no acerbity, no hyper
criticism. no exclusivenesS
In that time also of which / speak,
all the haunts of iniquity and crime
and squalor will be cleansed and will
be illuminated. How is it to be done?
You say, perhaps, by one influence
Perhaps say by another. / will tell
you what is my idea, aud know am
right an it: The gospel of the Son of
God is the only agency that will ever
accomplish this.
In that day of which speak, do you
believe there will he any midnight
caroussl? viii there be any kicking
of from the marble steps of shivering
mendicants? Will there be any I'M
washed, unfed, uncombed children
Will there be any blasphemies in
the streets2 Will there be any
iuebriates staggering past? No.
No wine stores No lager beer
saloons No distilleries, where they
make the three KS. No bloodshot
eye. No bloated cheek. No instru-
ments of ruin and destruction. No fist
pounded forehead The grandchildren
of that woman who goes down the
street with a curse, stoned by the boys
that follow her, will be the reformers
and philanthrophists and the Christian
men and the honest merchants of our
cities
Then, what municipal governments.
too, we will have in all the cities.
-
in many of our cities you just walk
by the city halls and look in at some
of the rooms occupied by politicians,
and see to what a sensual, loathsome
ignorant, besotted crew city politics is
often abandoned. Or they stand
around the city hall picking their
teeth, waiting for some emoluments of
crumbs to fall TO their feet, waiting all
day long, and waiting all night long.
Who are those wretched women
taken up for drunkenness, and carried
up TO the courts, aud put in prison of
course? What will you do with the
Rrogsbops that make them drink?
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in
Jail? One of them stole pair of shoes.
That boy stole a dollar. This girl
snatched purse. All Of them crimes
damaging society less than $40 or $50.
But what will you do with the gam
bier who last night robbed the
young man of q thousand dollars?
Nothing. What shall be done with
that one who breaks through and de-
stroys the purity of Christian home.
and with an adroitness and perfdy
that beats the strategy of hell, filings a
shrinking, shrieking soul into ruin?
Nothing. What will you do with
those who feeced that young man, get
ting him to purloiu large sums of
money from his employer-the young
man who came to an officer of my
church and told the story, and fran
tically asked what he should do? Moth
ing.
All! we do well to punish small
crimes; but have sometimes thought
il would be better in some of our cities
if the officials would only turn ont
from the jai-s the petty criminals, the
little offenders, SO cesperadoes,
and put in their places some of the
monsters of iniquity who drive their
roam span through the streets so