Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-11
DISCOURSE ON BRIBERY.
IL is Wicked Monster That Stalks
Throughout the Land.
g BOLDLY Invades Legislative Halls and
Even Seeks to Corrupt the budic AIRY
The Crime for which Judas
Incurred Calumny n
sun Rampant.

That is the Niagara Falls over which
rush a multitude of souls namely the
deter mination to have the money any
how, right or wrong. Tell me how a
| man gets his money and what he does
with it. and will tell You his charac-
ter and what will 3c his destiny in
this world and the next | Iroro>c to
speak to-day about the rulnous modes
Of getting money.
In all oar city, state ANA national
elections large sums Of money ar"
used in bribery. Politics, from being
the science of good government, has
often been bcdragglcd into the syno-
nyn for truculcncy and turpitudo. 4
monster sin, plausible, potent, pcstifer-
GUS, has gone forth to do it, dreadful
work in all ages. Its two hands are
rotten with lcpro>y. likccps it's right
hand hidden In adccp pocket. The left
hand is clinchcd. and with its ichnrouS
knucklc ii taps at the door of III"
courtroom, the legislative hall, the con
grcsS ami the parliament. The door
swings open and the monster enters,
and glidcs through the aisle of the
council chamber as softly as slipper
ed page, and then it fakes its right
hand from its deep pocket and offers
IL in salutatinn To judge or legislator.
IL that hand be taken, and the palm
of the intruder cross the palm of the
official, the lcprosy crosses from palm to
palm in round blotch, found as
gold eagle, and the virus spreads, and
the doom is fixed, and the victim per-
ishes. Let bribery, accurscd of God
and man, stand up tor trial.
The Bible arraigns it again and
again. samuel says of his two sons,
who became Judges, They took brides
and perverted Judgment" David says
of some of his pursucrS, Their right
hand is full of judgment" David says
of some of his day, They take a brihc
and turn aside the poor in the gate. ="
Eliphaz foretclls the crushing blows
of Gods indignation, declaring, Fire
shall consume the tabernacle OF bril-
berry"
1t is no light temptation. The
mightiest have fallen under it, Lord
Bacon, lord chancellor of England.
founder of our modern science, author
of 'Novum Organum,' and a whole liz
brary of books, the leading thinker OF
his century, SO prccocious that when
a little child he was asked by Queen
Elizabeth, "IIow old are you?" he re-
sponded, Il am two years younger
than your ma icsty's happy reign"
of whose oratory Ben Jonson wrote,
The fear of every man that heard
him was lest he should make an
end" having an income which you
wonld suppose would put him beyond
the temptation of bribery-S36, 600 a
year, and Twickenham Court, gift,
and princely estates in lIertfordshire-
yet under this temptation to bribery
falling flat into ruin, and on his con-
fession of taking brides giving as an
excuse that all his predecessors took
them; he was fined 500, 900, or what
corresponds with our $500, OO0, and i'm
prisoned in London tower.
The black chapter in English, Irish,
French and American politics Is the
chapter of bribery. Some of you re-
member the Pacific Mail subsidies
Most of You remember the awful trag-
edy of the Credit Mobilier. Under the
temptation to bribery Benedict Ar
mold sold the fort in the Highlands for
sSl,j7 For this sin Gorgey betrayed
Hungary, Ahithophcl forsoolS David
and Judas kissed Christ When ] see
so many of the illustrious going down
under this temptation it makes me
think of the red dragon spoken of in
Revelation. with seven .cads and ten
horns and seven crowns, drawing a
third part of the stars of Heaven down
after him
The lobbies of the legislatures of
this country control the country. The
land is drunk with bribery! "Oh,"
talking against bribery by promise or
by dollars, because every man has his
price" / do not believe it Even
heathenism and the Dark Ages have
furnished specimens of incorruptibil-
ity. A cadi of smyrna had a case
brought before him on trial. A man
gave him 500 ducats in bribery. The
case came on. The briber had many
witnesses. The roor man on the other
side had no witnesses. At the close of
the case the cadi said: This poor
L
shall produce in his behalf 500 wit
nesses against the other side" Then
pulling out the bag of ducats from
under the ottoman, he dashed IT down
at the feet of the briber, saying: Il
give my decision against you"
Epaminondas offered n bride. said:
Il will do this thing if it be right, and
if h be wrong, all your goods can not
persuade me-"
The president of the American con-
gress during the American revolution,
Gen. Reed. was offered 10000 guineas
by foreign commissioners if he would
betray this country lie replied: Cen
tiemen, l am a very poor man, but tell
yosr king he is not rich enough to buy
me-" But why go so far, when you and
j, if w move in honorable society,
know men and women who by all the
forces of earth and hell could not be
bribed. They would no more be bribed
than you would think of tempting an
angel of light to exchange Heaven
for the pit. To offer a bride is vii
lainy, but it is a very poor compliment
TO tho man to whom it is offered.
1havo not much faith in those peo-
pie who 60 about Dragging how much
they could get il they would only sell
out Those women who complain that
they are very often insulted, need to
understand that there is something in
their carriage to invite insult. There
are men at Albany, and at Harrisburg,
and Mt Washington, who would no
more be approached by a bribe than "a