The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-08-25


banns Of that marriage forbid them q
the ballot box. forbid them on the plat
form, forbid them by great organiga
tions, forbid them by the overwhelminl
sentiment OF an outraged nation, forbi
them by the protest Of the church o
God, forbid them by prayer TO hicI
Heaven. That Herod shall not hav
This Abigail II shall not be 10 au-de
vouring monopoly that this land is II
be married.
Another suitor claiming the hand o
this republic is nihi'ism
He owns nothing but knife for uni
vcrsal cutthroatery and "a uitroglyceriI
bomb for universal explosion. He be
lieves in no God, no government. u,
Henven and no hell except what he car
make on earth. lie slew the car OF
Russia. keeps many king practically
imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln
would put 20 death every king and pres
idcnt on earth. and. if he had the power
would climb up until be could drive
the God Of Heaven from His throne and
take il himself. the universal butcher
In France il is called communism In
the United States IL is called anarchism;
in Russia it is called nihiIsm. but that
last is the most graphic and descriptive
term. II means complete and eternal
smash-up. IL would make the holding
Of property o crime. and it would drive
a dagger through your heart and put
torch 20 yosr dwelling and turn over
this whole land into the possession Of
theft and lust and rapine and murder.
Where does this monster live2 In all
the towns and cities of this land. II Of
fers its hand 10 this fair republic. II
proposes 20 tear 10 pieces the ballot
box. the legislative hall, the congress
sional assembly. IL would take this
land and divide IL up. or rather, di-
vide IL down. II would give as much 20
the idler as 10 the worker. 20 the bad
as 10 the good. Nihilism This pam
ther, having prowled across other
lands. has set IT'S paw on our soil, and it
is only waiting for the time in which
20 spring upon It's prey. ltwas nihilism
that burned the railroad property az
Pittsburgh during the great riots; II
was nihilism that slew black people
in our northern cities during the war
n was nihilism that mauled TO death the
Chinese immigrants years ago; IL Is MI
hilism that glares ont Of the windows
Of the drunkeries upon sober people
as they 90 by. All, Us power has never
yet been tested. ! pray God its power
may never be fully tested. IL would, II
il had the power. leave every church,
chapel cathedral, schoolhouse and col
lege in ashes
Let me say Il IS the worst enemy of
the laboriug 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 ~
this 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 shillalah, not firearms. but the
ballot. Let not our oppressed laboring
men be beguiled to coming under the
bloody banner of nihilism. 1t will make
your taxes heavier. your wages
smaller, your table scantier, your chill
dren hungricr, your suffering greater
Yet this nihilsm, with feet red of
slaughter, comes forth and offers its
hand for this republic. Shall the banrr,
be proclaimed? II so. where shall the
marriage altar be. and who will be the
priest, and what will be the
music? That altar will have 10 be
white with blcached skulls, the ofliciat-
ing priest must be a 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 81. Bartholo-
news massacre. Nol II is not 70 nj f
hilism. the sanguinary monster, that T
this land is 10 be married.
Another suitor for tho hand Of this
nation Is infdelity. When the midnight F.
rufians despoiled the grave of A. T. .
Stewart in St. Marks churchyard ev- .
erybodv was shocked; but infdelity .
something worse than that +
the robbing Of an the graves of Chris .
tendon in the hope 81 O resurrection. 4
II proposes 10 chissl ont from the tomb
stones of your Christian dead the words
ASLEEP in Jesus and substitute the
words "Obliteration - annihilation."
lnfdelity proposes TO take the letter
rom the worlds Father. inviting the
nations to virtue and happiness, and
ear il up into fragments so small that
you cannot read a word OF it. II pro-
poses TO take the consolation from the
and the soothing pillow
rom the dying. lnfdelity proposes TO
swear in the president of the United
states, and the supreme court, aud the
governors of states, and the witnesses
n the courtroom with their right hand
IN Paine's Age OF Reason" OF Vol
aires PHILOSOPHY Of History" Itpro-
,oses 10 take away from this country
he book that makes the difference be-
ween the United States and the king
Iom Of Dahomey, between American
civilization and Bornesan cannibaiism
( inhdelity could destroy the Scrip
ures it would in 200 years turn the