The Newtown bee., 1896-10-30

down whatever gets in the way 0f you
 arriving at 8 just conclusion. Clear the
 ground. Let your final conclusion be un
 trammelled by whatever you do not wisk
 to bring to bear.
 Yes, my friends, the ignorant vote i; always 8 dangerous vote. | Ou do not
 have tU fear the men who honestly differ with you on questions of finance anC
 statecraft. You could not expect all tC agree with you. You would not want all men to be in one party or on one side. FParties are to the machinery of this 1 government what balance-wheels are to 1 pOnderous engines-they keep Lremen- ENd0us power in check. You need not fear
 men who honestly differ with you, if the 1 opinions which they hold are the result
 of careful thought on their part. You may be wrong, and they may be right 1 wrong. Ou aIe both equally honest in l your conviction, you are both equally
 concerned for your country's good,
 THE ELECTION MAY GO
 against your party. The party that 1 wins may have convictions that are l "TOng. even dangerous. Fear not for 1 the country the rock on which it is l founded can stand the pull and strain. 1 Que mistake can in time be rectitied, one error made right; mistakes and errors
 have been made before. Do not fear 1 honest men who differ with you; but | fear the ignorant vote, fear the men who | vote blindIv. fear the men who vote as l the tools of other men, fear the men who cast ballots which they cannot read and who have to make their mark at the 1 polling places because they cannot write their names,
 The true patriot is an educated man and one who respects the law. One of | he great perils of our times is the in- creasing laWle8sness and disregard of our statutes. You cannot run anything without law and order; you cannot run
 the smallest business, and much less the greatest government. Dc you notice the universality of law? What would
 this earth be without it? Cycle moves into cycle, and age into age. They move
 with the regularity of clock work, be- cause the order has been given them at
 the hand of God The moons wax and
 ,Vane; the tides rise and fall: the old year draws to 8 close, and the new year comes on apace. Who would introduce disorder into the courses of nature? Who would cOnfOund summer with winter and spring with autumn 80 that the seasons would run helter-skelteT and the time of sowing and reapirg be matter of guess and chance? You cannot have anarchy
 in nature; why should men wish it in
 the governments which they makeY'
 Righteous law, administered wisely
 and for proper ends, represents the au-
 thOrity and righteousness of God him.
 sef. That is Biblical. 'sThe powers
 that be are ordained of God" Family, church and civil government is ''the min ister of God" "WhOsOever, therefore,
 resisteth' duly constituted government
 and enacted laws "resisteth the Ordi-
 nance of God" Obedience to law is
 therefore not optional; the transgressiOn
 of it is sin against the Supreme Law Giver as well as against society. Of course the anarchist is an atheist. He. cannot acknO Owledge God or he would cease to be an anarchist. An anarchist is law unto himself; he knows no high. CT power and DO higher law. He can do as he pleasea. He can follow his own incIinati0ns and passions, however beastly and depraved they may be. To think of Higher Power that rewarded the good and punished the evil would up- set all his notions, for he recognizes no authority anywhere beyond himself.
 My friends, anarchy is very old: it is not something that has come to us as a product of our times. It is as old as Cain and as widespread as sin. See how the apostle Peter draws the picture of 1 the anarchists: ''Phey walk after the flesh in the lusts of uncleanIiness, and despise governments. Presumptuous are they, self-willed they are not afraid | to speak evil of dignities.''
 1 look upon this tendency to lawIegs- ness as the great evil of times. It was said 8 few years ago that of the 5000 sa- looms in the city of Brooklyn every one If them carried on it's nefarious traffic in fragrant violation of the excise law and could not be punished, ,and I suppose this s true to-day. And this same state of ,hings can be DaTalleled in nearly every 3iGy and in nearly every chief town in 1, he Union. Tens of thousands of indict- nents lie to-day in the offices of district pigeon-holed. Who does not Enow that laws are placed upon our by the score, laws that rom the beginning there is no thought 'f enforcing? Who does not know how 1 almost every community it would be lext to impossible to get out a warrant ] IT establish conviction against certain aen? Our country has. been called the ! paradise of murderers. There have been Ir 10 truer words than those uttered by lon A. D. White for consideration of thoughtful men on the prevalence nf < omicide and the almost universal escane ( rom punishment. Who would expect i hat negro in the South, who, even on < < one good provoeation, had murdered a l [ 7hite man. would have the fainGest show or fair tFial Who would expect q fhite man in the South to be convicted murderi Aye, who now expects it h e he Northern States The death-penaltv [
 exceedingly rare; it is said that about Ii ns in q hundred meets the capital pun- hment which the law clearly allows 4 'r their crimes. The murderer is often q lrrounded withs 9 halo of glory. lowers are taken by sentimental women q } his cell. Courts put obstacles In the ISa ay of proper trial. The case ia banded bout from court to court until it Is for- 4 'tten and lost out of the public mind.