Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-31

lers. The great foe to business is crime.
When the right shall have hurled back
the wrong, and shall have purified the
commercial code, and shall have thun-
dered down fraudulent establishments,
and shall have put into the hands OF hon.
est men the keys. OF business, blessed
time for the bargain h.akers. l am not
talking an abstraction; am not making
guess; l am telling you COOS eternal
truth.
In that day of which speak taxes will
be mere nothing Now our business men
are taxed for everything; city taxes, coun-
ty taxes, State taxes, United States taxes,
stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing
taxes-taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business
men have to make small fortune every
year to pay their taxes. What fastens on
our great industries this awful load!
Crime, individual and official. We have
to pay the board of the villains who are
incarcerated IN our prisons; we have TO
take care OF the orphans OF those who
plunged into their graves through beastiy
indulgence; we have to support the NUM-
cipal governments, which are expensive
just in proportion as the criminal procilvi-
ties are vast and tremendous; who sup
ports the almshouses ana pohce STATIONS
and all the machinery OF municipal gov
ernment? The taxpayers.
But in the glorious time OF which l
speak grievous taxation will all have
ceased. There Will be no need OF support
ing criminals; there Will be no CRIMINALS.
Virtue will have taken the place OF vice.
There will be no orphan asylums, for pa
rents will be able to leave competency
to their children; there will be no voting
of large sums of moneys for some municl-
they get to the Improvement, drop into
the pockets of those who voted them; no
oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense
to the people, no impanellng OF Juries to
try theft and arson and murder ana sian
der and blackmall; better factories; grand-
er architecture; finer equlpage; larger for-
tunes; richer opulence. a morning wltn-
out clouds"
In that better time also coming to these
cities the churches of Christ will be more
numerous, and they will be larger, and
they will be more devoted to the service
of Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish
greater influences for good. Now it is
often the case that churches are envious
of each other, and denominations collide
with each other, and even ministers OF
Christ sometimes forget the bond OF
brotherhood. But in the time of which /
speak, while there will be just as many
there will be no acerbity, no hypercriti-
cism, no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are not
to-day large enough to hold more than
fourth of the population. The churches
that are uit-comparatively few of them
are fully occupied. The average attend
ance in the churches of the United States
to-day is not 400. Now, in the glorious
time of which I speak there are going to
be vast churches, and they are going to be
all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preach Oh,
what fervent prayers they will offer! Now,
in our time what is called fashionable
church is place where few people, hav-
ing attended very carefully to their toilet,
come and sit down-they do not want to
be crowded they like a whole seat to
themselves-and then, if they have any
time left from thinking of their store, and
from examining the style of the hat in
front of them, they sit and listen to the
sermon warranted to hit no mans sins,
and listen to music which is rendered by
a choir warranted to sing tunes that no.
body knows! And then, after an hour
and half of indolent yawning, they go
home refreshed: Every man feels better