Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-29
THE PATH OF SAFETY
DR.. TALMAGE DISCUSSES OUR MA
TlONAL LIFE.

and InfdeIity Pointed Out-Chris-
tianity the Pillar of the Nations
Strength and Perpetuity.
TCopyright, Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-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. p"
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 hammered pro-
cession and national anthems could do
celebrated peace, it may not be inapt
to anticipate the time when the Prince
af Peace and the Heir of Universal Do
minion shall take possession Of this ma
zion and "thy land shall be married.
In discussing the final destiny of this
nation, ii 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 hear SO many Of the
muff1ed drums Of evil prophecy sounded.
as though we were on the way to ma
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-
fials; not mausoleum, but carpeted al
tar; not cypress, but orange blossoms;
not requiem, but wedding march, for
S'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, so aff1uent that it has many suitors,
and it will depend much upon your ad-
vice whether this or that shall be &C
copied or rejected. In the first place,
remark: There is greedy, all grasping
monster who comes in as sutton 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 a long time monopoly decided every
thing. If monopoly favor a law, it
passes; if monopoly opposes law it is
rejected. Monopoly stands in the rail
road depot putting into his pockets in
0f oil
reasonable charges fer 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 brides 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 1 3 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 Mr..
Buchanan the legislative committee in
one of our states explored and exposed
the manner in which certain railway
company had obtained a donation of
public land. It was found out that 13
of the senators of that state received
S175, 600 among them, so members of
the lower house Of that state received
between So, 600 and $10,0 each, the
governor Of that state received $50, 900,
his clerk received So, 600, the lieutenant
governor received SO, 600, all the clerks
of the Legislature received So, 600 each,
while $50, 900 were divided among the
lobby agents. That thing en- larger or
smaller scale is all the time going on in
some of the states in the union, but it
rs not SO laundering as it used to be,
and therefore not so easily exposed or
arrested. ] tell you that the overshad
owing curse of the United States today
rs monopoly. He puts his hand upon ev-
cry bushel CT 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. I rejoice that in "a states of
the union already antimonopoly leagues
have been established. God speed them
in the work of liberation.
have nothing to say against capital
lists. A man has right to all the mon
ey he can make honestly-I have moth
ing to say against corporations as such !;
without them no great enterprise would
be possible, but what I do say is that
Che 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