The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-06-03

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 plat
form, forbid them by great organiza-
tons, forbid them by the overwhelming
sentiment 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 Aide
vouring monopoly that this land is to
be married.
Another sutton claiming the hand of
this republic is nihilism.
He owns nothing but knife for uni
versal cutthroatery and nitroglycerin
bomb for universal explosion. lie be-
lieves in no God, no government, no
Heaven and no hell except what he can
make on earth. He slew the cZar of
Russia, keeps many king practically
imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln,
would put to death every king and pres
ident on earth, and, if he had the power,
would climb up until he could drive
the God of Heaven from His throne and
llke IL HIHlSell, Inv uuiNti oul DutShSi'
In France it is called communism; in
the United States it is 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. 1t would make the holding
of property n crime, and il would drive
dagger through your heart and put
torch to yosir dwelling and turn over
this whole land into the possession OF
theft and lustand rapine and murder.
Where does(this monster live? In all
the towns and cities of this land. tof-
| fers it's hand to this fair republic. 1t
proposes to tear to pieces the ballot
box, the legislative hall. the congress
sional assembly. 1t would take this
land and divide it up. or, rather, di-
vide it down. 1t would give as much to
the idler as to the worker. to the bad
as to the good. Nihilism! This pan
ther, having prowled across other
lands, has set its paw on our soil, audit
is only waiting for the time in which
to spring upon its prey. j was nihilism
that burned the railroad property at
Pittsburgh during the great riots; it
was nihilism that slew black people
! in our northern cities during the war;
| il was nihilism that mauled to death the
| Chinese immigrants years ago; il is nj
hilism that glares out of the windows
Of the drunkeries upon sober people
as they 60 by. All, its power has never
| yet been tested. pray God its power
may never be fully tested. 1t would, If
| il 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 pen
| itentiary-if they could be hushed up.
aud the downtrodden laboring men Of
| his country could be heard, there
would be more bread for hungry chill
dren. In 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 slillalah, not firearms, but the
ballot. Let not our oppressed laboring
men be beguiled to coming under the
bloody banner of nihilism. twill make
your taxes heavier, your wages
smaller, your table scantier, your chill
dren hungrier, your suffering greater.
Yet this nihilism, with feet red OF
, slaughter, comes forth and offers its
hand for this republic. Shall the ban1fs
he 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 officiat-
ing priest must be dripping assassin,
the music must be the smothered groan
of multitudinous victims, the garlands
must be twisted of night shade, the
fruits must be the apples of Sodom, the
wine must be the blood of st. Bartholo-
news massacre. No! 1t is not to nj
hilsm, the sanguinary monster, that
this land is to be married.
Another sutton for the hand of this
nation is infidelity. When the midnight
ruffians despoiled the grave of A. 4.
Stewart in ST. Marks churchyard ev-
erybody was shocked; but inidelity
proposes something worse than that
the robbing Of all the graves of Chris
tendon in the hope Of resurrection.
1t proposes to chisel out from the tomb
stones of your Christian dead the words
asleep in Jesus" and substitute the
words collaboration humiliation"
Infidelity 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 a word of it. 1t pro-
poses to take the consolation from the
broken-hearted and the soothing pillow
from the dying. Infidelity proposes to
swear in the president of the United
States, and the supreme court, and the
governors of states, and the witnesses
in the courtroom with their right hand
on Paine's age of Reason" or Vol
taire's PHILOSOPHY of History" Itpro-
poses to take away from this country
the book that makes the difference be-
tween the United States and the king