The Washington bee., 1907-12-28

Men whom the lust OF Office does not
kill,
Men whom the spoils of office cannot
buy;
Me who have opinions and a will,
Men who have honor; men who will
not lie.
Men who can stand before the dema-
gogue
And damn his treacherous fattery
without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above
the pettifog
In public duty and private thinking.
For when the rabble with their thumb
worn creeds,
Their large professions and their lit
tie deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, 10! Freedom
weeps;
Wrong rules the land, and weeping
Justice sleeps
The age in which we live reeks with
injustice, greed, hypocrisy, and corrup-
ton. The giant forces of evil are every
where silently at work, slowly but sure
ly, undermining this great republic, and
when we note the inactivity on the part
of the Christian Church to expose and
check the onward march of these evils,
and when we know that the path of sin
in which the nation treads will only
lead to destruction when We COntem-
plate all of these things we feel like the
great Prophet Jeremiah, who, standing
on the mountain top of antiquity, and
! observing the idolatry and sins of his
people, cried out in the anguish of his
soul, saying, "Oh, that my head were
waters and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night
for the slain of the daughters of my
people"
assert before high Heaven that this
nation is in copartnership and living in
open adultery with many Of the giant
forces of evils that are training their
guns against the destiny of the repub-
lie, and which are doing much to poison
the minds of the young people of the
land against the sacred dogmas ofChris-
tianity in the hope of gripping and de-
stroying the influence Of the Christian
| Church
This government harbors in its bos-
ON the same poisonous reptiles which
cut the throats of ancient governments
and consigned them to the tomb of
oblivion, leaving not even a sign or in
scriptjon to commemorate their exist
ence among the sons Of men. Fellow
citizens, let ME remind YOU that no
government or people can have any per
manent endurance where God Is not the
foundation stone upon which the super
structure Of their civilization is reared,
and where liberty and justice are not
the common heritage of all.
A nation that forgets God and builds
upon any other foundation may be lik-
ened unto the man who built his house
upon the sand. For the forgetfulness
; of God fosters crime, crime breeds an
archy, anarchy begets revolution, revolu
ton despotism, despositism injustice, and
injustice and these combined is death to
any nation. This fact is graphically pic
tured in the history and governments
of Assyria, Nineveh, Babylon, Persia
Greece, and the great Roman Empire
which in the zenith of their glory drove
the ploughshare Of destruction through
their sister States, erected thrones ov-
er the graves Of slaughtered citizensded'
icated palaces with trophies dyed ii
blood, and made the whole earth tC
resound with groans and shrieks Of
dying victims, while Rachel was weep
ing for her children because they were
not.
|, Walk with me by way of imagination
my friends. back through the dusky cen
turtles, to the grayeyards OF these deat
j nations and amidst the awful shadow
Of their departed glory let us learn
! lesson from their tombs. Stand up
Assyria with that Ninevitish Dove up
on thy emerald brow, and tell us TIT
awful story Of your downfall. Leaning
against the tombstone with eyeless sock
cts and feshIess limbs,she staggers torti
and says: 1t was the forgetfulness .
God that laid me low; | fell by m.
: own acts OF injustice and Nineveh ant
Babylon slumber with me here
Oh, queenly Persia, who bridged tn
HeIlespont with ships and fed upon tn
life's blood of the people, why are yoI
here? With quivering lips and an aw
ful mind, grasping at her once lmag
mary power, she says: Il fell by m
own misdeeds" Oh, thou Muse-lik
Greece, fairest Of all thy sisterhOOd o
States. Greece which once enchanted tn
: world with its witchery OF art and mos