The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24

the prlnelples by whleh the tonstl'
 tuition of our commonwealth wal framed and established. For in many
 places througsout our fair land hell
 has been let loose, principles arc
 sacrificed, rights are infflnged upon
 anarchy is lifting its black hand
 business men, brokers, manufactur'
 CTS, accountants, exchanges, bankers
 trusts, m0n0polies, politicians, small
 and great, are running the way of all
 the earth and fast committing the unpardonable sin like the nations and empires and peoples which have gone before us. Furthermore we are
 living in days whena great many peo- pie have no time to so to church,
 Giving worse than heather people
 of the most benighted nations while living in the midst of the most en-
 llghtened.J Many religious people have no time for the old fashioned
 weekly prayer and social meeting. Some have hardly time to bury their dead or for a timely message to be
 reyerently delivered over the casket of the departing one as their message
 from God and the spirit world to their unsayed relatives and friends and q message of comfort to those who truly mourn and who are truly Gods. Again no time to get married in many cases anu places. And yet again, too many are over occupied in social clubs, social card parties, social games, social functions of var jed sorts, social night errands, not knight errants," but night er- rands" social evenings, and social mO0nshines and other shines, so that they have no time to bear domestic burdens, Christian burdens and state burdens, which would turn the battle to the gate and avert a crisis pending and stupenduous.
 Governor Hughes of New York has been featuring to Yale students during the past week and has said some very plain things of which we have noticed breyities in different places and would like to secure the whole. However, the editor of the Telegram has given prominence to few things advanced by the governor and the next possible candidate for president of the country. In refer ing to his opening lecture, "Condi- tions and progress of democratic government" and let me say that Democrats can be Republicans and Republicans can be Democrats in the deepest and truest sense when the nations highest and best interests are involved, true citizens can place country above party and the welfare of millions above prejudicial lines of demarkation and scant politics, as they will want to have done when they stand before the judge of the whole earth in the last great election and tribunal and De able to say, '1 have never sold a vote for friend, for ar office or for a dollar, but al- ways voted for Him who is the Lord of all the earth if Sometimes 1 have had to vote for a third or a fourth or forty-fourth party"
 His opening lecture, Conditions and progress of Democratic govern ment." The governor said that the real perils of the nation did not lie .in the existence of any foreign foe. TAe real danger lay in the people themselves" And the editor report ing him says, "He belives in resisting hose who strived to obtain special privileges from the government for their own selfish ends and in estab- fishing better means whereby public rights might be enforced" He at tributed many of the evil conditions which now prevail to the fear of per sonal loss, which keeps men from an open expression of opinion. He found in this widespread cowardice which is afraid to come out in the open and strike a blow for the right, the real obstacles to all reform move ments. He further reports "the re- public would be made over anew if the college graduates were removed from the lists of dishonest legislat- ors." From all reports there were none of the meaningless platitudes or usual sugar-coated flatteries or apol- )gies expressed by the governor. It is not the man who indulges in 1attery or speaks smooth words or honeyed utterances that is the friend of your towns interests of country's interest of the friend you want to! have in your backyard, say nothing about the parlor.
 Reproofs for correction are in the right ways of life, individual life and the life of the nation, and as we get back to first principles, Bible as individuals and as a commonwealth, the church by the and the schoolhouse by the church (not necessarily geo. but morally and spirit ually) and the Bible in the school house as in the church, we may eX- pect a continuation of old time honors, honesty, courtesy, truthful ness, social purity, marriage integ- rity, just legislation, true weights and measures, 36 inches to the yard, 16 ounces to the pound, 112 pounds to the hundred weight, 200 pounds to a ton, sack ofcorn and two-thirds or seven-eighths, milk unskimmed, butter without lard, dripping, beef fat, pig fat, hen grease, goose grease, of all grades, nauseating. We shall | be able to buy cotton for cotton, wool for wool, linen for linen and clothes without shoddy and gifts will 1 be given to the cause of Christ, for Christ sake and not for personal 1
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