Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-26
POLITICS AND RELIGION.
The Famous Gsoigls Evangelist Says The,
Are UnmIxed and UnmlxsbIe.
Journal, Sept. %.

They are unmixed and unmixable
Pure and undefiled religion is to visit
the widow and orphan in their aff1ic-
ton and keep yourself unspotted from
the world. Politics with it's whisky
domination, makes widows and or
phans and keeps its gang very spotted
before the world. The more religion a
man has got the less he can mix with
politics and political parties of the day:
the more politics a man has got the
less he will mix with religion and
righteousness. will never 60 to the
legislature or congress to hunt con-
science nor hunt among politicians for
an illustration Of what the ten COM
mandments cam do in elevating man.
kind. Religion purifies, politics putri-
fies; religion elevates, politics degene-
rates mankind.t have been In Georgia
ern dailies. It looks like Bryan Is 60
ing to get it. I do not blame the
Southern people and those who take
Democratic papers for their faith In
and enthusiasm for Bryan and his
election; but when a fellow gets up
North and reads only Republican pa
pers, he thinks Bryan has no more
chance for election than Georgia cot
ton has a chance Of going at cents
this winter. I am not Democrat nor
am a Republican. I keep saying It:
I am a Prohibitionist. care no more
as to who Is elected. Bryan or McKtn-
ley than care whether the liberal par
ty carries the day in England at their
next election; but I say 1t from q
knowledge Of this country which con-
stant travel only can give man, that
we are today enjoying the most solid,
substantial prosperity that I have
ever known. There is not nook nor
corner Of this country that Is not pros
pering. America as nation never
prospered and never came to the front
as she has in the last four years, not
only in all her manufacturing and COM
mercial interests and with the balance
of trade millions and millions In her
favor, and for the first time in our his
tory we are the money lenders to the
imperial countries beyond the waters.
Confidence Is the basis Of prosperity.
This Is true Of an individual. Business
Is done on confidence and confidence Is
not something that is manufactured to
order like shoes or moving machines;
but 1t grows out as condition OF
things. A man may have plenty OF
money, but If nobody has confidence In
him he has got hard job in this coun-
try. I care not what capital a man
may have, however small, II he has the
unbounded confidence Of the commu-
nifty and the banks he has got some
thing better than money. l have known
some rich fellows to "bust" because OF
the lack of confidence in them; I have
known some poor fellows to do big
business because they had the un-
bounded confidence Of all classes. There
In MT
capital stock may not be large, but
they are doing a large business. Capt.
tai has confidence in the status of
things as they are today. I don't
know whether or not with change Of
political parties this confidence will
abide. If it does Bryan and his ad-
ministration will be as good for the
country as Mckinley. I don't believe
that he has got any more backbone
than Mckinley, and this isn't saying
much for him. It does not take back
bone to clamor for free silver or
against imperialism; but it takes a
laundering sight more backbone than
Bryan or Mckinley either has got for
them to give us their dead square hon
est views on the whisky question. Nc
Kinley broke his neck with lots Of good
men in this country on the army cam
teen question, and Bryan knows 1t; but
Bryan will shoot at every exposed place
in McKinley's administrations; but he
Is not going to shoot in at that hole.
He had rather risk the chances Of say
ing nothing than to arouse the liquor
devil and the vote 1t controls against
him. 1t takes more courage In poll
tician to utter one sentence against
the liquor traffic than 1t does to cham
pion all the isms that Bryan champions
and denounce all the isms that he de-
nounces, and the same Is true of Nc
Kinley. I am hunting for a genuine,
first class Christian who Is whooping
for either Bryan or Mckinley. There
are losts of Methodists, Baptists and
Presbyterians, no doubt, who are do
ing so; but I have more confidence In
a plain, old-fashioned sinner getting to
heaven, who is an uncompromising
prohibitionist, than I have for any
member of the church in this country
getting to heaven who Is not prOhf-
bitionist. I am sure this sounds like
fanticism and reads like I was a fool:
but If whisky Is Gods worst enemy
and the devils best friend, and II there
are a hundred thousand drunken hus-
bands and fathers and sons toppling in
to drunkards graves, and twelve hum
dred millions of hard-earned money ex-
pended in this debauchery, then am a
fool and a fanatic on the right side,
and still believe that the man who
votes one way and prays another Is not
a Christian; but that he Is a fool or a
rascal one, and frequently both. I
have not studied up the phase and
cast of our next Georgia legislatures;