Connecticut western news., 1899-06-01
THE PATH OF SAFETY
DR. TALMAaE DISCUSSES OUR MA
 TlONAl LIFE.


 and Inhdelity Pointed Out-Chris-
 tianity the Pillar of the Nations
 Strength and Perpetuity.
 ICopyright, Louis Klopsch, 1S99.l
 WASHINGTON, May 28.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage speaks of some of the perils that threaten our American institutions and points out the path of safety; text, Isaiah xii, 4. "Thy land shall be married"
 As the greater includes the less, so does the circle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own republic. Bold, exhilarant, unique, divine imagery of the text. At the close Of a week in which for three days our national capital was pageant. and all that grand review and bannered pro cession and national anthems could do celebrated peace, it may not be ipapt to anticipate the time when the Prince of Peace and the Heir of Universal Do minion shall take possession of this na- ton and "thy land shall be married. '
 In discussing the final destiny of this nation, it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pull pits and on platforms and in places of public concourse I hear so many of the mufied drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though we were on the way to na- tional interment and beside Thebes and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations our republic was to be entombed, that I wish you to under stand it is not to be obsequies, but nup- tials; not mausoleum, but carpeted al- tar; not cypress, but orange blossoms; not requiem, but wedding march, for "thy land shall be married.
 propose to name some of the suitors who are claiming the hand of this re- public. This land is so fair, so beauti- full, go afauentthat it has many suitors, and it will depend much upon your ad- vice whether this or that shall be ac- cepted or rejected. In the first place, I remark: There is greedy, all grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and that monster is known by the name of mo- nopoly. His scepter is made out of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He does everything for his own advantage and for the robbery of the people.
 Things went on from bad to worse until in the three legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for long time monopoly decided every thing. If monopoly favor law, it passes; if monopoly opposes law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the rail- road depot putting into his pockets in one year $20O, 900, 900 in excess of all reasonable charges for services Mo nopoly holds in his one hand the steam power of locomotion and in the other the electricity of swift communication. Monopoly has the Republican party in one pocket and the Democratic party in the other pocket. Monopoly decides nominations and elections-city cleo tions, state elections, national elections With bribes he secures the votes of legislators, giving them free passes, giving appointments to needy relatives to lucrative position, employing them as attorneys if they are lawyers, carry ing their goods 15 per cent less if they are merchants, and if he find a case very stubborn as we'll as very important puts down before him the hard cash of bribery.
 Not Easily Overthrown.
 But monopoly is not so easily caught now as when during the term of MT. Buchanan the legislative committee in one of our states explored and exposed tho voopuor ;x, xub;ob o corfo;p ro;Iruou company had obtained a donation of public land. It was found out that 13 of the senators of that state received $175,000 among them, 60 members of the lower house of that state received between $5, 600 and $10, 900 each, the governor of that state received $50, 900, his clerk received $5, 900, the lieutenant governor received $10, 900, all the clerks of the legislature received $5, 900 each, while $50, 900 were divided among the lobby agents. That thing on larger or smaller scale is all the time going on in some of the states in the union, but it is not so blundering as it used to be, and therefore not 90 easily exposed or arrested. tell you that the overshad- owing curse of the United States today is monopoly. He puts his hand upon ev- cry bushel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of coal, and every man, woman and child in the United States feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. rejoice that in 24 states of the union already antimonopoly leagues have been established. God speed them in the work of liberation.
 II have nothing to say against capital ists A man has right to all the mon- ey he can make honestly-I have noth- ing to Sey against corporations as such; without them no great enterprise would be possible, but what 1 do say is that the same principles are to be applied to capitalists and to corporations that are applied to the poorest man and the plainest laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong for great corporations. If take from you your property without any adequate compensation, I am a thief, and if railway damages the property of the people without making any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong on a small scale is wrong on large scale. Monopoly in England has ground hun dreds of thousands of her best people into semistarvation and in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness and in the United States pro- poses to take the wealth of 80,000, 900 or 70. 900. 900 of people and put it in few silken wallets.
 Monopoly, brazen faced, iron finger ed, vultufe hearted monopoly offers his hand to this republic. He stretches it out over the lakes and up the great railroads and over the telegraph poles of the continent and says, "here Is my heart and hand; be mine forever" Let the millions of the people north, south, 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