Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-06-01

is that to thee follow thou me-"
The naked truth is awesome thing if one is un-
accustomed to it, OF of prudish turn and there is
somethlng IN our political atmosphere that makes
any excellent people so skittish that it is well-ngh
npossloe 10 get them to stand while it passes and
others get used to it easily that they seem scarcely
to see it at ALL On this account am constrained to
be as plain poverty, but as bipartisan as alcohol
and as unsectarian sin.
There is great confusion as to what is Dartisan
Doubtless if one were to speak in Tammanv Hall
from the text, "Thou shalt not STEAL" he would be
thought extensively partisan-and perhaps it would
be so.
good Christian woman said to me the other
day: You life is a very sad story to me-" And 1
SAID: Yes, but it ends well, and that is great
thing about story. But, she went on ''the sad
dest part is yet to Gomez 1 asked her what she
meant, and she answered: "You are pouring YOUR
life into vain hope. The church will break your
heart. The preachers hate you and many laymen
nope for you to fall and you will, if you don't give
up THIS hopeless fight to win the church. Let the
church alone and to the people outside with the
same energy and truth and faith, and you will win
the day.
She is wrong. The upright gody, honorable
ministry that understands me does not hate me- No
The church will not break my heart. shall not
leave her. God has appointed her to save this world
land she WILL but not until she spews her lying
prophets and her toad-eatng ministers.
would not ask you to accept this red-hot lash
ing fever of my blood any argument I have eaten
helashes until my mind is alkaline and cuts up the
unctuous lubricants of calm and decorous debate and
spoils the play of thought
In the perplexing movements of patriotic service
| will keep faith with Jesus Christ though it cost
peace, pride, prestige pulpit or party. 1 will con-
fess him before people, and election day, which
in this land of equal rights is mans day will show
myself Christian voter, fit to represent unfran-
chised Womanhood at the polls. will go to Him.
hear His Words and whatsoever He says unto me-
I will do it. Upon that rock will build my politics
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
In national affairs 1 will belong to a party and be
true to it. so true that when it goes wrong I will
leave it and 60 straight ahead until it catches up 1
will scratch the wickedness out of it's ticket and
then throw the ticket away unless can stand with
it upon clean brave open platform. A man who
is false to himself cannot be true to anything and
a party that asks man to belle himself and speak
easy his convictions, will in time betray both him
and the country.
Although the commercial theory of piety went
down at Aceldama, yet it today that in poll
TICS the purse of the disciple is carried by Judas
Iscariot redvivus for the saloon keeper, fifty repre-
sentng the whole spawn of crime is not afraid say
to the Christian citizenry, "You have virtue. what
will you take for it for year? And we have hawked
principles so long, that put tag upon
the public conscience every year and expose it in the
city hall for sale before are asked to SELL and
the orthodox for the baseness u.s. that to de-
cline to sell would tempt the potential ravsher to use
force; to prevent that we advised to yield and
compound the felony in advance for money
We do and civic virtue dons the scarlet and
walks the streets, saying, Commit no rape am