The Penn's Grove record., 1899-06-02
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

Subject: "The Path of safety'-Me nnce,
to Our National Existence-The Dan
gers of Monopoly, Nihilisin and In
fidelity Pointed Out.
copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1s991
WASHINGTON, d. Gin this discourse 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 Ian 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 ewh re,
public. Bold, exhiiarant, hhiaue, DIVINE
imagery of the text. At the close of 3
week in which for three days our n~ationa
capital was a pageant, and all that grand
review and hammered procession and M
tional anthems could do celebrated peace
it may not be inapt to anticipate the time
when tho Prince OF Peace and the Heir oil
Universal Dominion shall take possession
OF this nation and ''thy land shall be mar.
ried."
In discussing the 1nal destiny of this
nation, 1t makes all the difference In the
world whether We are on the why to q
funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves nc
doubt on this subject. In pulpl:s and OF
platforms and In places of public %concourse
L hear so many of the muffled drums of evil
hpRhSNJ HOubdpht u5 luOuBn We Mt'c II
the way to national intertneht, and beside
Thebes aud Babylon and Tyre in the ceme'
terry OF e nations our republic was tt
be entombed, that | wish you to nndef'
stand 1t is not to be ~pbseqhies, but hup'
tialsi not mahsoleum, but carpeted altar.
not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re.
QUEEN, but wedding march, for 'thy land
shall be married.
l propose to name Soma of the suitors
who are claiming the hand of this repub-
lie This land is SO fair, so beautiful, SC
u that 1t has many suitors, and ii
will depend much upon your advice
whether this or that shall be accepted OF
rejected. In the first place, / remark
There is h greedy, all grasping monster
who comes in as sutton seeking the hand
of this republic, and that monsteri is known
by the name Of monopoly. His scepter ts
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 q long time
monopoly decided everything. If mynop-
oily favors q law, 1t passes; if monopoly OPP
poses a law 1t is rejected. Monopoly stands
in the railroad depot putting into his
pockets in one year 5000, 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. Mo-
nopoly has the Republican party In one
pocket and the Democratic party in the
other pocket. Monopoly decides nomina-
lions and electtons-city elections, state
elections, national elections. With brides
he secures the votes OF legislators, giving
them free passes, giving appointments to
needy relatives to lucrative position, EN-.
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yers, carrying their goods 10 per cent. less
II they are merchants, and If lie find d case
very stubborn as well us very important
puts down before him the hnrd cash oil
bribery. .~
But monopoly Is not so easily caught
o as when during the term Of Mr.. Blu
hanan the Legislative Committee in one
of our States explored and exposed the
name in which q certain railway COM
pany had obtained u donation OF public
land. II was found out that thirteen OF the
Senators OF that State received Sl75,000
among them, sixty members of the lower
house OF that State received between 5000
and $40, 900 each, the Governor Of that
State received S50, 900, his clerk received
$4,000, the Lieutenant-Governor received
SIC, 600, all the clerks of tine Legislature
received $4,000 each, while $50, 900 were d.
vlded among the lobby agents. That thing
on o larger or smaller scale is all the time
going on in some of the States In the Union,
but 1t is not so laundering us it used to be,
and therefore not so easily exposed or ar
rested. Itell you that the o~vershadowing
curse of the United States to-day is mo-
nopoly. He puts his hand upon every
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 depotism. l re-
iolce that in twenty-four States of the
Union already anti-monopoiy leagues have
been established. God speed them in the
works Of liberation.
1 have nothing to say against capital
lists. A man has a right to all the money
he can make honestly--I have nothing to
say against corporations as such; without
them no great enterprise would be possible,
but what 1 do say is that the same prin-
ciples are to be applied to capitalists and
to corporations that are applied to the
poorest man and tho plainest laborer.
What is wrong for me is wrong for great
corporations. II l take from you your
property without any adequate compensa-
tion, 1 am a thief, and II n railway
damages the property of the people with
out making any adequate compensation,
that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong on
a small scale Is wrong on a large scale.
Monopoly in England has ground hundreds
Of thousands of her bestqpeople into semi
starvation anu III lttluuu nus uLiNuA muir
tudinous tenants almost to madness and
In the United States proposes to take the
wealth Of 60, 600, 900 or 10000, 900 OF people
and put it in a few silken wallets.
Monopoly, brazen faced, iron fingered,
"vulture hearted monopoly offers his hand
to this republic. He stretches 1t 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 plat
form, forbid them by great organizations,
forbid them by the overwhelming senti-
ment of an outraged nation, forbid them
them by prayer to high heaven. That
| Herod shall not have this Abigail. 1t shall
not be to all devouring monopoly that this
land is to be married.
Another sutton claiming the hand OF this
republic is nihilism.
He owns nothing but a knife for uni,
versal eutthroatery and d nitroglycerin
bomb for universal explosion. he pelleVes
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 a
king practically imprisoned, Killed Abra-
hmm lincoln, would put to death every
king and president on earth, and II he had
the power would climb up until ne could
! drive the God OF heaven from His throne
and take 1t himself, the universal butcher.
In France it Is called communism; in the
United States it is called nnarchism; In
Russia it is called nihilism, but that last Is
the most graphic and descriptive term. II
means conplete and eternal smash up. 1t
would make the holding of property a
crime, and it would drive a dagger through
your heart and put a torch to your dwell
ing and turn over this whole land into the
possession Of theft and lust and rapine and
murder.
Where does this monster live? In all The
towns and cities OF this lana. IL ohers 1T
hand to this fair republic. 1t proposes tC