Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-29

east and west forbid the banns of that
marriage, forbid them at the ballot
box forbid them on the platform, for
bid them by great organizations, for
bid them by the overwhelming senti-
ment of an outraged nation, forbid
them by the protest of the church Of
God, forbid them by prayer to high
heaven That Herod shall not have this
Abigail 1t shall not be to all devour-
ing monopoly that this land is to be
married.
Another sutton claiming the hand Of
this republic is nihilism.
The Menace of NihiIfsm.
He owns nothing but knife for uni
versal cutthroatery and nitroglycerin
bomb for universal explosion. He be-
lieves in no God, no government, no
heaven and no hell except what he can
make on earthl He slew the czar of
Russia, keeps many king practically
imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln,
would put to death every king and
president on earth, and if he had the
power would climb up until he could
drive the God of heaven from his throne
and take it himself, the universal
butcher. In France it is called COM
munism; in the United States it lie
called anarchism; in Russia it is called
nihilism, but that last is the most
graphic and descriptive term. 1t means
complete and eternal smash up. It
would make the holding of property
crime, and it would drive a dagger
through your heart and put torch to
to your dwelling and turn over this
whole land into the possession Of theft
and lust and rapdne and murder.
Where does this moster live? In all
the towns and cities of this land. 1t
offers it's hand to this fair republic. It
proposes to tear to pieces the ballot
box, the legislative hall, the congress
sional assembly. It would take this
land and divide it up, or rather divide
it down. It would give as much to the
idler as to the worker, to the bad as to
the good. Nihilisml This panther, hav-
ing prowled across other lands, has set
it's paw on our soil, and it is only wait
ing for the time in which to spring
upon it's prey. It was nihilism that
burned the railroad property at Pitts
burg during the great riots; it was nj
hilism that slew black people in our
northern cities during the war; it was
nihilism that mauled to death the Chi
nese immigrants years ago; it is nihil-
ism that glares out of the windows Of
the drrnkerics upon sober people as
they go by. All It's power has never
yet been tested. I pray God its power
may never be fully tested. 1t would, If
it had the power, leave every church,
chapel cathedral, schoolhouse and col
lege in ashes
Let me say it is the worst enemy of
the laboring classes in any country.
The honest cry for reform lifted by OPP
pressed laboring men is drowned out by
the vociferation for anarchy. The
criminals and the vagabonds who range
through our cities talking about their
rights, when their first right is the
penitentiary-if they could be hushed
/ up and the downtrodden laboring men
of this country could be heard there
| would be more bread for hungry chill
dren Ia this land riot and bloodshed
never gained any wages for the people
! or gathered up any prosperity. In this
! land the best weapon is not the club,
not the shillalah, not firearms, but the
| ballot Let not our oppressed laborlng
men be beguiled to coming under the
! DlOOuy DdAu6I VI ululllSlIl IL Will AIdhO
| your taxes heavier, your wages smaller,
! your table scantier, your children hun
! grier, your suffering greater. Yet this
nihilism, with feet red of slaughter,
| comes forth and offers its hand for this
republic. Shall the banns be proclaimed?
/ II so, where shall the marriage altar
| be? And who will be the officiating
priest? And what will be the music?
! That altar will have to be white with
/ bleached skulls, the officiating priest
must be a dripping assassin, the music
must be the smothered groan Of multi
tudinous victims, the garlands must be
| twisted of nightshade, the fruits must
be apples of Sodom, the wine must be
the blood CT st. Bartholomew s massacre.
MOI 1t is not to nihilism, the sanguin
airy monster. that this land is to be
married.
Danger From InfdeIity.
Another sutton for the hand of this
nation is infidelity. When the midnight
ruffians despoiled the grave of A. T.
! Stewart in st. Marks churchyard,
everybody was shocked, but infdelity
proposes something worse than that
the robbing of all the graves of Chris
tendon of the hope of a resurrection.
1t proposes to chisel out from the tomb
stones of your Christian dead the
words, "Asleep In Jesus and substi-
tute the words, "Obliteration-annihi
lation. " Infdelity proposes to take the
letter from the worlds Father, inviting
the nations to virtue and happiness and
tear it up into fragments so small that
you cannot read word Of it. It pro-
poses to take the consolation from the
broken hearted and the soothing pillow
from the dying. Infdelity proposes to
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