The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-08

tne truth or the Bible and believe
God will suffer no nation to prosper
whose sins multiply as our sins multi
ply. This great nation In in league
with the liquor traffic. This great ma
ton Is In sympathy at headquarters
with monopolies that grind the life out
OF the people. This nation at head
quarters has either lost its voice or
lost its conscience. With sea per capita
we have money enough to do the bust
ness OF the country. If we had as
much confidence RS we have got money
things would move along in right chan
ncls and in right proportions.
Tho student Of history can sec his
tory repeating itself. Belshazzar had
MS 1east, with the handwriting on the
wall. Babylon is no more. Rome was
the brightest star of empire the world
ever saw when she ruled all the earth.
Now her glory has departed forever.
There are problems which threaten the
rum OF this country upon which poll
ticians do not touch at all. Mckinley
and Bryan know as well as any Cod
fearing men must know that the
S,2oo,ooo,ooo we spend for whisky
every year is equal in amount to all our
coined gold and silver, and that we can
better afford to dump all our coined
money into the Atlantic ocean and dis
solve copartncrship with and ohliterate
whisky than we can afford TO let mat
tiers go on as they are and yet these two
leading Christian men would no more
open their mouths on that issue than
they would deliberately retire from the
race for the presidency.
A free ballot and fair count IL an
other problem which stands at the very
basis Of all good governments. The
buying and selling of votes. the coer-
cion, the stufiing OF ballot boxes must
stop or the day will come In America
when there will be thousands OF men
killed at the polls. Every state In this
union should adopt the Australian bal
lot and afiix penalties and enforce the
law upon every man who buys or sells
vote. hampers with the ballot boxes,
or interiors with the election returns.
Another great problem which lies at
the very basis of America is this i'm
migration question. II we do not
close our ports against undesirable
immigration we will soon take on n
load we can't manage. In the assimi-
lation into American life of the mil
lions who have already come we have
got our stomachs out of fix, our blood
diseased. and we have broken on. here
and yonder with chill-blans and bois
and pimples. Keep affecting the blood
and yonder with chilblans and boils
Another great problem with this
country is to put official position out Of
the reach OF influences which have so
long dominated. Lobbying ought to
be felony. The legislator ought TO he
as unapproachable as the Judge on the
supreme bench of the United States.
A lobbyist ought to be as much out OF
place in the capitol at Washington as he
would be out of place in the United
States supreme court room. These are
some of the things which threaten the
overthrow our republic and the wreck
of our institutions. These questions
will remain unsettled after the issues
of this campaign have been settled. l
declare it to be the honest conviction of
my heart and mind. Mr.. Mckinley
will not bring prosperity. Mr.. Gryan
cannot bring prosperity TO this coun-
try. The conditions of prosperity
must be met and they are not and " i'll
not be metby the continuance of the gold
standard or by the weird wild, foolish va
porings and views of the free silver
tiles. Free silver and recommendation
will no more meet the conditions of pros
perity than vascl;ne will cure n cancer
or rain water will cauterize and take off
wart. We must grapple with the issues
that really threaten the ruin of our re-
public. The devil wants no bettcr joke
on this country than TO see us take off
at tangonts and run these side issues
and let the things that are really cut
ting the foundation away go on at their
work. The man who is looking for
cyclone Of prosperity the day after
the election of November is going 10
be woefully disappointed. There are
some other things to do. There are
many things we must not do again IL
we want prosperity to come to us.
am no free silver man and / am not
going TO vote for Bryan. | am no re-
publican and | am sure l won't vote
for Mckinley. l am prohibitlonist
and | will vote for lowering and John
son. ] may throw my ballot into the
air, but won't throw it into the mud.
/ am sure my candidate won't he
elected and as far as l am personally
concerned if my man is TO be left care
very little which other one OF the can
didatcs gets in. alwcys liked Tom
Watson. Personally, he is clever fell
low. admire him now After the
democrats in the Tenth district have
counted him two or three times out of
congress and treated him like deg, l
glory in Toms spunk. II was Tom l
would give the democrats all the trouble
l could They thought they had Tom
buried once. but Tom has turned out to
he the llveliest corpse that ever came
tumbling out of n graveyard. III was