The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-08
TALMAGE EULOGIzES HONESTY
IsAIR DEALING BOUND TO WIN AT
LAST.

" nlCh ku&n n hUAAANutAf ~ sumo
bribery in PoIiticS-Men Who Are
Not InvuInerabie to Bribery Adj
Vised to Keep out of Politics.
Death Can Not BE Hribed.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7-Dr. Talmage in
this discourse arraigus the various modes
by which some people get money that does
not belong TO them. and commends the
fair dealing that succeeds best at last.
Text. /. Timothy 60: They that wiA be
rich fau into a temptation and snare,
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and per-
dtiou.
That is the Niagara Falls over which
rush multitude Of souls, namely the de-
termination to have me money anyhow,
right or wrong. Tell me how man gets
his money and what he does with it, and
will tell you mis- character and what viii
be his destiny in this world and the next.
1 propose 60 speak to-day about The ruin
Gus modes of getting money.
In all our city. state and national cleo
ton large sums OF money are used in
bribery Politics. from being the science
of good government. has often been be-
Gragglcd into the synonym for truculency
and turpitude. A monster sin, plausible
potent. peetiferous, has gone forth TO do
its dreadful work in all ages Its two
hands are rotten with ieprosy. 1t keeps
its right hand hidden in a deep pocket
The left hand is clenched. and with lis
ichorous knucke it taps at the door OF
the court room, the legislative hail. the
The door
swings open and the monster enters, and
gIidee through the aisle of the council
chamber as softly as d slippered page and
then 1t takes its right hand from its deep
pocket, and offers 1t in salutation to judge
or legislator If that hand be taken, and
the palm of the intruder cross the palm,
of the official, the leprosy crosses from
palm to palm in a round blotch. round as
a gold eagle, and the virus spreads, and
the doom is fixed, and the victim perishes.
Let bribery, accursed of God and man,
stand up for trial
The Bible arraigns it again ana again
Samuel says of his two sons. who became
Judges. "They took brides and perverted
Judgment" David says of some Of ms
I,ursuers ''Their right hand is fun of
brlbes" Amos says Of some men in his
dav ''Thev take a bride and turn aside
the poor in the gate Itliphaz toreteilS
the crushing blows of Gods Indignation
declaring. Fire shall consume the taDer-
nacles Of bribery
have fallen under it. Lord Bacon, LORD
Chancellor of England, founder Of our
modern science, author of 'NoVum Ut
ganum," and a whole library OF books,
the leading thinker of his century, so pre-
coeious that when little child ne was
aftflfh i0NT ftll "a
you?" he responded, Il am two years
Younger than your majestys happy
reign" of whose oratory Ben johnson
wrote, THE fear of every man that
heard him was lest he should make an
end" having an income which you would
suppose would have put him beyond the
temptation of bribery-thirty-six thousand
dollars a year. and Twickenham Court,
gift and princely estates in Heruord-
shire-yet under this temptation to bribery
falling fiat into ruin, and on his confession
of taking brides, giving as excuse that all
his predecessors took them; he was fined
two hundred thousand dollars-or what
corresponds with our two hundred thou
sand dollars-and Imprisonment in London
Tower.
The black chapter in English, Irish,
French and American politics is the
chapter of bribery. Some of you remem-
Der the Pacific Mail subsidies. Most of
you remember the awful tragedy of the
Credit Mobilier. Under the temptation to
bribery Benedict Arnold sold the fort in
the Highlands for $3.50. For this sin
Goreey betrayed Hungary, AhithOphel
forsook David. and Judas kissed Christ.
When l see so many of the illustrious
going down under this temptation, il
makes me think of the red dragon spoken
of in Revelation, with seven heads and ten
horns and seven crowns, drawing third
part of the stars of heaven down after
him.
The Hobbies of the legislatures of this
country control the country. The land is
drunk with bribery! oh" says some
one, there's no need of talking against
bribery by promise or by dollars. because
every man has his price" DO not be-
lieve it, Even heatheuism and the Dark
Ages have furnished specimens of incor-
ruptbility. cadi OF Symrna had a case
brought before him on Crial. man gave
him five hundred ducats in bribery. The
case came on. TIE briber had many wit
nesses. The poor man on Che other side
had no witnesses. AT the close Of the
case the cadi said 'This poor man has
no witnesses, he thinks; I shah produce
in his behalf five hundred witnesses
against the other side Then pulling out
the bag of ducats from under the ottoman,
he dashed it down at the feet of the brib-
er saying: Il give my decision against
you" Epaminondas offered bribe, said
u viii do this thing il is be right and If
it be wrong all yom goods cannot per-
suade me-"
The president of the American Con-
gress during the American revolution,
Gen. Reed, was offered ten thousand
guineas by foreign commissioners if he
would betray this country. He replied:
Gentlemen, I am very poor man, but
tell your King he is not rich enough to
buy me" But why go so far, when you
and l. If we move in honorable society
know men and women who bV "a The
forces OF earth aud he'll could not be
bribed. They would no more be bribed
than you would think of tempting an an
gel of light TO exchange heaven for the
pit. To OFFER a bride is villainy, but it IS
very poor compliment TO the man to
whom il is offered.
I have not much faith in those people
who so about bragging how much they
could get if they would only sell out.
Those women who complain that they are