The Burke County news., 1899-06-16
xe.,,n O, GO oco coo or 70 ooo. .ooo Of people

uonopoIy. brazen faced, iron fingered.
vul,ure hearted monopoly offers his hand
% this republic. He stretches 1t out owe!
the lakes and up the great railroads ana
over the telegraph poles OF the continent
and saws. Here is my hear. and hand: be
mire forever" Let the millions OK the
people North, South. Eas: and West forbid
The banns OF that marriage. forbid them at
The ballot box, forbid them on the P!a,-
form. forbid them by great organizations.
,orbid them by the overwhelming senti-
uent Of an outraged nation, forbid them
by the protest OF the church OF God, forbid
hem by prayer to high heaven. That
Herod shall not have his Abigail. 1t shall
oot be to all devouring monopoly that this
and is to be married.
Another suitor claiming the hand OF this
republic is nihiiism.
He owns nothing but knile Tor uni
versal cutthroatery and nftrogiycerll
bomb for universal explosion. He believes
Ia no God no government, no heaven ana
40 hell except what he can make on earth.
He slew the ear OF Russia. keeps many q
king practically imprisoned. killed Abra-
ham Lincoln would put to death every
king and president on earth, and il he had
the power would climb up until he could
drive the God of heaven from His throne
and take il himself the universal butcher.
In France it is called communism: in the
United States i. is called anarchism: in
Ru ssia II is called nihiiisn, but that last Is
the most graphic and descriptive term. 1t
means complete and eternal smash up. II
would make tie holding Of property a
arin,a and If yrnnid drive da0Cer thr oUCH
your heart and put torch to your dwell
ING and turn over this whole land into tho
possession Of theft and lust and rapine and
murder.
Where does this monster live? In all the
towns and cities Of this land. 1t offers its
hand TO this fair republic. 1t proposes to
tear 20 pieces the ballot box the legislative
ball, the congressional assembly. 1t would
take this land and divide it up, or rather
divide it down. 1t would give rs much to
the idler as to the worker, to the bad as to
the good. Nihilism. This panther, having
prowled across other lands, has set its paw
on our soil. and il is only waiting for the
time in which to spring upon its prey. 1t
was nihilism that burned the railroad prop
erty at PittsburS during the great riots: it
was nihiiism that siev black people in our
Northern cities during the war: it was nj
hilism that mauled TO death the Chinese
immigrants years ago; il is nihilism N that
Slares out Of the windows of the drunken
les upon sobe- people as they go by. All.
Its power has never Vet been tested J
pray God its power may never be fully
tested. II would. If it had tire power leave
every church chapel. cathedral, school
house and college in ashes.
Another suitor for the hand Of this ma
tion is intideltv. When the midnight rUt.
fans despoiied the grave OF A. I. stewart
in st. Marks churchyard. everybody WAS
shocked. but intideiity proposes sometbia: :
worse than that-:he robbinc Of all the
graves Of Christendom of the hope Of re-
surrection. Il proposes 10 chisel out from,
the tomb-stones OF your Christian dead the
words. Asleep in Jesus" and Su bstitute
the words "Obitera.ion-annib
1nhdelfty proposes 20 rake the letter from
the worlds Father. inviting the nations to
virtue and happiness and tear il up into
fragments so small that you cannot read a
word OK it. Il proposes TO take the conso-
lation from the broken hearted and the
soothing pillow from the dying. IufdeIitv
proposes 10 swear IN The President Of the
United States and the supreme court and
the Governors of States and the witne>se,
in the courtroom with their right hand o.,
PaiLe's Age Of Reason or Voltaire' .
| PHILOSOPHY Of History. II proposes to
take away from this country the book that
makes the difference between the Unite:
states and the Kingdom OF Dahoney. be
tween American civilization and Bornesiaa
csnnibali>In. Il inlde,itv could destroy
the Scriptures. It wouid in 200 years tUr,
the civilized nations Nackto senibarbarisn n,
and then from seuiharbarisn into mid
night savagerv vuntilthe morals OF a meoas-
erie ot tigers. rattles makes and chin pan
zees would te better than the morals Q. tLe
shipwreckej human race.
The only impulse in the rgus direc tioR
that this world has ever had has come
from the Bible. II was the mother Q.
Roman law and Ct healshful juri> prudence.
THat book has been the mother Of al re-
forms anu all charitieS-nother q Eng
iiSl magma cha-ta ard American Deciara-
ton II Independence. BENJAMIN TraukiiA.
holding that Holy Book in his hand. stood
before an lnfdel clUb in Paris and read TO
them CT, q the prophs scies q Habakkuk
and the irfdel>, not knowing what book
X was, declared tha, J, was the best poetry
hey had ever heard Tha, book brought
q gorge Washington Gown on his knees il
the SucV - Valley EcrSe and led the iy-
inS Prince Albert 10 ask some ere 70 sins
'Eock Of Ages