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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - , ATLANTA, GA- TUESDAY JUNE 8 1886.
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TALMAGE’S SERMON
The Doctor DoUrtn tho Fourth of Eli Sirin of
Ssrmons oa "Tkt Libor Question." Eli Subject
Being Monopoly and Co m mu ala m Strug
gling for FooMooloa of tho
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jane 6.—[Special.]—Bov.
T. DoWltt Talmage, D. D. preached today to
tho Brooklny tabernacle, the fourth of his ee
rie* of sermons on "the labor question." Hii
•object was,"Monopoly and Communism strug
gling for the possession of this country." Be
fore beginning his sermon he announced that
the congregation would make a trip to the
Thousand Isles on the 26th lust.
The text was Isaiah, chap, ixll, T. 4. “The
laird delighted in thee, and thy land shall be
married." Following is the sermon in falls
As the greater includes the lees, to does the
circle of fUtureJoy|aroond our entire world
include the epicycle of our own repnblic.
Bold, exhllarant, unique, divine imagery of
the text! So many are depressed by the la-
timo when the Prince ofPcace and the Heir of
universal dominion shall take possession of
this nation and “Thy land shall be married."
In discussing the dual destiny of this na
tion it makes all the difference in the world
whether we are on the way to a funeral ora
wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this
subject. In pulpits and on platforms and in
S laces of public concourse, I hear so many of
io muffled drums of evil prophecy sounded,
as though ws were on the way to national
interment, and beside Thebes and Babylon
and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations
our republic was to be entombed, that I wish
yon to understand it is not to be obsequies,
but nuptials; not mausoleum but carpetoa al
tar; not cypress but orange blossoms: not re
quiem but wedding march for “Thy land
eball be married.”
I propose to nsme some of the suitors who
are claiming the hand of this republic. This
land is so fair, so beautiful, so affluent, that it
has many suitors, and it will depend much up
on your advice whether thla or that shall he
accepted or rejected.
In the drst place, I remark; There is a
greedy, all-grasping monster who comes in as
suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and
that monster is known by the name of Monop
oly. His sceptre la made out of the iron of the
rail track and the wire of telegraphy. Ho does
everything for his own advantage and for the
robbery of the people. Things have gone on
from bad to worse until in the three legisla
tures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania, for the most part, Monopoly decides
everything. If Monopoly favor a law it passes.
If Monopoly oppose a law it is rejected.
Monopoly stands In this railroad depot
putting into his pockets in one year two hun
dred millions of dollars in excess of all rea
sonable charges for service. Monopoly holds
in his one hand the steam power or locomo
tives, and in the other, tho electricity of swift
communication.- Monopoly decides nomina
tions and elections—city elections, state elec
tions. national elections. With bribes ha se
cures the votes of legislators—giving them
bee passes, giving appointment to needy rein*
merchants; and if ha finds a case very stub
born, as well as very important, puts down be
fore him the hard cash of bribery.
But Monopoly is not so easily caught now
as when, during the term of Mr. Buchanan,
the legislative oommlttee in one of our states
expressed and exposed the manner in which a
certain railway company procured a donation
of public land, It was found out that thirteen
of the senators of that state received $175,000
among them; sixty members of the lower house
of that state received live thousand and ten
thousand dollars each; the governor of the
state received fifty thousand dollars: his clerk
received five thousand dollars; the lleutensat-
S vcrnor received ten thousand dollars; all
e clerks of the legislature received five
thousand dollars eaeh, while fifty thousand
dollars were divided amid the lobby agents.
That thing on a larger or smaller scale, is
•lithe time going on in some of the states of
the union, but it it not so blundering as It
used to bo, and therefore not as easily exposed
or arrested. -
I tell you that the overshadowing curse of
the United States to-day is! Monopoly. He
puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat,
upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of
coel; and every man, woman and child in the
United States feels the touch of that monoyed
despotlim.
I rejoice that in twenty-four states of the
union already anti-monopoly leagues have
been established. God speed them in the
work of liberation! I wish that this question
might be the question of our presidential elec
tions, and that we compel the political parties
to recognise it on their platforms.
I have nothing to say against capitalists. A
man has a right to all the money ha can make
honestly. There Is not a laborer In the laud
that would not be worth a million dollars If he
could. I have nothing to say against corpora
tions as such—without them no great enter-
S risc would be possible; but what I do say is
tat the same principles are to be applied to
capitalists and to corporations that are applied
to tho poorest man aud the plainest laborer.
What la wrong for me is wrong for great cor
porations. If I take from you your property
without adequate compensation I am a thiet,
and if a railway damage the property of the
peoplo without any adequate compensation
that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong on a
small sealers wrong on a large scale. Monop
oly in England hss ground hundreds and
thourandsorher best people into semi-starva
tion, and in Ireland hat driven multitudinous
tenants almost to madness.
Five hundred acres in this country make an
immense farm. When you read that in Da
kota territory Mr. Cass has a farm of fifteen
thouiand acres, and Ur. Grandon twenty-five
thousand acres, and Ur. Dalrymple forty thou
sand acres, your eyes dilate, even though
these Arms are in great regions
thinly inhabited. But what do you think of
this which I take from the Doomsday Book,
shewing what monopoly ia on the outer side
theses? Iglva it as a warning of what it
Would do on this side the saa if Tn some law
ful way the tendency is not resisted. In
Scotland, J. G. M. Ueddle owns fifty thousand
end four hundred acres; Earl ol Wemyaa,
fifty-two thousand acres; Sir J. Uiddell, fifty-
four thousand and five hundred acres; Sir C.
W. A. Boas, fifty-five tbouaand|acres; £. H.
Scott, fifty-nine thousand and seven hun
dred acres; Mr. 8. Baird, sixty thous
and acres: earl of Dunmore,
00,000 scret; Duka of Eoxburgh,fl0,000, acres;
Earl of Moray, 61,700 acres; Countess of Home,
02,COO acres; Ford Middleton, 63,000 acres; Mr.
J. H. Johnston, 64,000 acres; Earl of Aberdem
03,500 acres; Mtckcnxle, of Dundonell, 04,000
acres; Earl of Airlle, 65,000 acres; Sir J. Colqu-
hops, 67,000 acres; C. Morrison, 07,000 acres:
Duke of Montrose, 08,000 acres;
Mcyrick Bankes, seventy thousand acres;
Grant, of Glenmorriston, sevsnty.fonr thous-
atd six hundred seres; Marquis of Alisa,
seventy-six thousand acres; Baroness Will
oughby d’Eretby, seventy-six thousand acres;
Mr. J. Malcolm, eighty thousand acres; Mar
quis of HunUey, eighty thousand acres; Bal
four, of Wbittingbame, eighty-one thousand
acres; Sir J. O. Orde, eighty-one thoustnd
acres; Marquis of Bote, ninety-three thousand
acres; The Chisholm. 04.500 acres; Mr. E.
Ellice. 00,500 acres; Mir G. M. Grant, 103,000
acre>; Duke or Portland, 106,000 acres; Came
ron. of Lochiel, 100,500 acres; Sir C. W. Boat
110,-lCO acres: Earl of Fife, one hundred
and thirteen thousand acres; The Mack
intosh, one bunded and twenty-four thousand
acres; Lord McDonald, one hundred and
thirty thousand acres; earl of Dalhousis, 136,-
000 seres; Maeteod, of Maeleod, 141,700 acres;
Sir K. Mackenxie, of Gairlock, 161,680 acres;
duke of Argyle, 175.000 acres; duke of Hamil
ton, 1:5,000 acres; dike of Athols, 101.000
acres, duke of Richmond, 255,000 acres; earl
cfStair.STtMlOO acres; Mr. Evan Bailie three
hundred thousand scree: earl of Seatsld, 3)1,-
C09 seres; duke of Buccleugh, 432,183 acres,
esrl or Breads!bans, 437,686 seres; Mr. A.
Mstheson 220,433 acres, and Sir J. Matheson,
406,070 acres; duchess of Sutherland, 149,889
acres; and duke of Sutherland, 1,176,343 acres.
Such monopolies imply an infinite acreage
or wretchedness. There is no poverty in the
United States like that in England, Ireland
and Scotland, for the simple reason that in
those lands monopoly has bod longer and
'"** r ***7; Last summer, in Edinburgh,
Scotland, after preaching in Synod Hall, I
stood on a chair in front of the hall and
preached to an audience of twenty thousand
people, standing in one of the most prosper
ous parts of the city, and reaching out toward
the castle; as fine an array of strength
and health and beauty as one ever
sees. Three hours after I preached In the Grass
market and to the wretched Inhabitants of
the Cowgate and conongate, the audience ex
hibiting the squallor and sickliness and de
spair that remains in one’s mind .like one of
the visions of Dante’s Inferno.
Great monopolies in any land imply great
privation. The time will come when our gov
ernment will hare to limit the amount of ac
cumulation of property. Unconstitutional,
you say? Then constitutions will have to be
changed until they allow such limitation. Oth
erwise tho work of absorption will go on, and
the large fishes will eat up the small fishes,
and the shad will swallow the minnows, and
the porpoise swallow the shad, and the whale
swallow the porpoise, and a thousand greedy
men will own aft the world, and five hundred
of these will eat up the other five hundred,
and one hundred eat up the other four hun
dred, and finally there will be only fifty left,
and then forty, and then thirty, and then
twenty, and then ten, and then two, and then
one.
But would a law of limitation of wealth be
unrighteous? If I dig so Jnear my neighbor’s
foundations in order to build my house that I
endanger his, the law grabs me. If I hare a
tannery or a chemical factory the malodort of
yrhich injure residents in the
neighborhood, the law says; “Stop
that.” If I drain off a river from its bed ana
divert it to turn my mill wheel, leaving the
bed of the river a breeding place for malaria,
the law says: “Quit that outrage!” Aud has
not a good government a right to say theta
few men shall not gorxe themselves on the
comfort and health and life of generations?
“Your rights end where my rights begin."
Monopoly, braxen-foeed, and iron-fingered,
vnlture-nearted monopoly offers his
hand to this republic. He stretches
it out over the lakes, and up
the Pennsylvania and the Erie and the New
York Central railroads and over the telegraph
poles of the continent, and says: “Here Is my
heart and hand; be mine forever.” Let the
millions of the people, north, south, esst and
west, forbid tho Dans of that marriage—forbid
them at the ballot-box, forbid them on tho
* rm, forbid them by great organisations,
them by the overwhelming sentiments
of an outraged nation, forbid them by the pro
test of the church of God, forbid them by
—sjot to high heaven. That Herod shall not
ive this Abigail. It shall not be to all de
vouring Monopoly that this land is to be mar
ried.
Another suitor claiming the hand of this
republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but a
knife for universal blood-letting, and a nitro
glycerine bomb for universal explosion. He
believes inbo God, no government, no heaven,
and no hell except what he can mako on this
earth! He slew the rear of Busssia, keeps
Emperor William, of Germany, practically
imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln, would
put to death every king and president on
earth, and if he had the power would climb
up until he could drive the God of heaven
from His throne and take it himself—tho
universal butcher. In Franco It Is called
communism; in the United States it is
called socialism; in Basils it is
celled nihilism. That last is the most graphic
and descriptive term. It means complete and
eternal smaahup. It would make the holding
of property a crime, audit would drlvo a dag
ger through your heart and apply a torch to
your dwelling; and turn over this whole land
into the possession of theft and lust and rap
ine and murder.
Where does thla monster live? In 8t. Louis,
in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New York, and in
all the villages and dtios of this land. The
devil of destruction is an old devil, and he is to
be seen at every great fire where there is any
thing to steal, ana at every shipwreck where
there is anything floating ashore, and at every
railroad accident where there are overcoats
and witches to be purloined. On a small scale
I saw it in my college days, when In our liter
ary society in New York University, we had
an exquisite and costly bust of Shakespeare,
and one morning we found a hole bored into
the lips of the marble and a cigtq inserted.
There has not for the last century been a fine
picture in your art gallery, or a grace
ful statue In your parks, or a fine
fresco on your wall, or a richly
bound volume in your library, but would have
i despoiled if the band or ruffianism could
have got at it without peril or lnoaroeration.
8omeumes the evil spirit shows ltsolt by
throwing vitriol into a beautiful face, some-
timrs by wilfolly scaring a horse with a ve
locipede t sometimes by crashing the cart
wheel against acarriago.
The philosophy of the whole business Is,
that there is a large number of people who
either through their laslnesa or their crime
own nothing and are mad at those who
through industry and wit of their own, or of
their ancestors, are in possession of
large resources. Tho honest labor
ing classes never had anything to do with such
murderous enterprises. It is the villainous
dastes-wbo would not work if they had plonty
of work ofl'ered them at large wages. Many
of these suppose that by the demolition of law
and order they would be advantaged, and the
parting of the ship of state would allow them,
as wreckers, to carry off the cargo. It offers
it’s hand to this fair republic. It proposes to
tear to pieces the ballot box, the legislative
ball, the congressional assembly. It would
take this land and divide it up, or, rather
divide it down. It would give as
much to the idler ss to the worker, to the
tad as to the good. Nihilism 1 This pantbor,
laving prowled across other lands, has set Its
paws on our soil, and it ia only waiting for the
timo in which to spring upon its prey. It was
nihilism that massacred the heroic policemen
of Chicago and St. Lapis a few days ago, and
that burned the railroad property at Pitts
burg during the great riots; it was nihilism
that slew black people in our northern cities
during the war, it was nihilism that again
and again in San Francisco and in New York
mauled to death the Chinese; it is nihilism
that glares out of the windows of the drun-
kcriee upon sober people as they go by. Ah!
Its power has never yet been tested. It would
if it had the power, leave every church chapel,
cathedral, schoolhouse, college and home in
ashis.
Let me say, It Is the worst enemy of the la
beling classes in any country. The honest cry
for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is
drowned out by the vociferations for Anarchy.
The criminals and the vagabonds who range
through our cities talking about their rights,
when their first right is the penitentiary—if
they could be hushed up, and the down
trodden laboring men of this
country could be heard, there would be more
bread for hungry children. In this land riot
bread for hungry children, in this laud riot
and bloodshed never gained any wages for the
people, or gathered up any prosperity. In this
land tbs best weapon is not tho club, not the
sbillaleh, not fire-arms, but the ballot. Let,
not our oppressed laboring men be begoiled to
coming under the bloody banner of Nihilism.
It will make your taxes heavier, your wages
smaller,'your table scantier, your children
hungrier, your suffering greater.
Yet this Nihilism, with feet red of slaugh
ter, comes forth and offers its hand for the
republic. Shall the banns be proclaimed? If
so where shall the marriage altar be? And who
will be the officiating priest? And what will
be the music? That altar will have to be white
with bleached skulls, the officiating priest
must be a dripping asmssin, the music must be
the unotherea groan of multitsdinous vic
tims, the garlands must bo twisted of night
shade, tho fruit must be apples of Sodom, the
wine must be the blood of St. Bartholome w's
massacre. No! It is not to Nihilism, the aan- t
guinital monster, that this land it to be mar
ried.
Another suitor for the band of this nation
1s Infidelity. Mark you that all saarebiats
are infidels. Not one of them believes la the
Bible, and very rarely any of them believe in
a God. Their most eonspioous leader was the
other day pulled by the leg from under a bed
in a house of Infhmy, cursing and blaiphom-
ing. The police or Chicago, exploring the
dens of the anarchists, found dynamite and
vitriol and Tom Paine's “Age of Beeson," and
obscene pictures, and complimentaryjbiogre-
phles of thugs and nmamine; butnot one Testa-
ament, not one of Wesley’s hymn books, not
one Boman Catholic breviary. There are two
wings to Infidelity—the one calls itself liberal
ism and appears In highly literary magaxtnes
and is for the educated and refined; the other
wing is in the form of anarchy and Is for the
vulgar. But both wings belong to the same
old filthy vulture,^infidelity! Elegant infi
delity proposes to conquer this land to itself
by the pen; anarchy proposes to conquer it by
bludgeon and torch.
When the midnight ruffian despoiled the
grave of A. T. Stewart in Si. Mark’s
churchyard, everybody was shocked;
but Infidelity propcees something worse
than that—the robbing of all tbe
graves of Christendom of the hope of a resur
rection. Itpropoeee to chisel out from the
tombstone of your Christian dead the wards,
“Asleep in Jesus,” andtosubatitute tho words,
“Obliteration—annihilation.” Infidelity pro
poses to take the letter from the world’s Fath
er, inviting the nations to Virtue and happi
ness, and tear It up into fragments so small
thatyou cannot read sword of it. It proposes
to take the consolation from the broken
hearted, and the soothing pillow from the
dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the
president of the United States and the su
preme court and the governors of states and tho
witnesses in the court room, with their right
band on Paine’s “AgoofBeaaen,” or Voltaire’s
“Philosophy of History.” It proposes to take
away from this country the book that makes
the difference between the United States and
tho United Kingdom of Dahomey, between
American civilisation and Bomeelan cannibal
ism. If Infidelity could destroy the8eriptam
it would in two hundred years turn the civil
ised nations back to semi-barbarism, and then
from semi-barbarism into midnight savagery,
until the morals of a menagerie of tigers, rat
tlesnakes aud eblmpanxees would bo better
than the morals of the shipwrecked human
race.
The only Impulse In the right direction
that this world has ever had, has come from
the Bible. It was the mother of Boman law
and of healtbfol Jurisprudence. That bsok
baa been the mother of all reforms and all
charities—mother of English -magna charts
and American declaration of independence.
Beniamin Franklin holding that holy book in
his hand, stood before an infidel dub at Paris
and read to them out of the prophecies of
Habakuk, and the infidels, not knowing what
book It was, declared it was the best poetry
they had ever heard. That book brought
George Washington down on bis knees in the
snow at Valley Forge, and led the dying prince
consort to ask eomo one to sing “Bock of
Ages.”
I tell you that the worst attempted crime of
the century ia the attempt to destroy this
book; yet mflddity, loathsome, stenchfui, lep
rous, pestiferous, rotten monster, stretches ont
its hand, ichorous with the second death, to
take the hand of this republic. It stretches
it out through seductive magaxtnes and
through caricatures of religion. It asks for
all that part of the continent already fully
settled, and the two-thirds not yet occupied.
It says: “Give mo all east of the Mississippi
with the keys of the church and the Christian
printing presses; then give me Wyoming, give
me Alaska, give me Montana, give me Color
ado—give me all tbe states and territories
west of the Mississippi, and I wilt take those
f ilsces and keep them by right of possession,
ong before the gospel can be fully en
trenched.”
And this suitor presses his esse appallingly.
Shall the banns of that marriage be pro-
si aimed? “Not" say the home missionaries
of the west—a martyr band of whom the
world is not worthy, tolling amid fatigues
and malaria and starvation. “No 1 not if we
can help it. By what we and our children
have suffered we forbid the banns of that mar
riage 1" “No I” say all patriotic voices, “our
institutions were bought at too dear a price,
and were defended at too great a sacrifice, to
be so cheaply surrendered.” “No I” says the
God of Bunker Bill and Independence hall
and Gettysburg, *T did not start this nation
for such a farce.” “No,” cry ten thousand
voices, “to Infidelity this land shall not be mar-
But there is another suitor that presents his
band for the band of this republie. He is
mentioned in the verse following my text
when it says: “As the bridegroom rqjoiceth
over the bride, to shall thy God rejoice over
thee." It is not my figure, it Is the figure of
the Bible. Christ u so desirous to have this
world love him that he stops at no humilia
tion of almllle. Hs compares his grace to
■plttle'on the eyes of the blind man. He com
pares himself to a hen gathering the ohlck-
ens, and in my text He compares Himself to
a suiter begging a hand in marriage.
Does this Christ, the King,
deserve this land? Behold Pilate's
ball and the Insulting expectoration on the
free of Christ. Behold the Calvarean mas
sacre and the awful hemorrhage of five
wounds Jacob served fourteen years for
Baebel, but Christ, my Lord, the King, suf
fered in torture tblrty-three years to win the
love of this world. As often princesses, at
their very birth, are pledged in treaty ofjmar-
rlsge to princes or kings of aarth, so this na
tion at its birth was pledged to Christ for
Divine marriage. Before Columbus and his
hundred and twenty men embarked on the
Santa Marla, the Pints and the Nina, for their
wonderful voyage, what was the lost thing
they did? They kneeled down and
took tbe holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus
Chilst. After they caught the first glimpse of
this country and the gun of one ship had an
nounced it to the other vessels that land had
been discovered, what sras the song that went
up from all tbe three decks? “Gloria in
Excelsls.” After Columbus and his hundred
and twenty men had stepped from the ship's
deck to the solid ground, what did they do?
They all knelt and consecrated the new
world to God. What did the Huguenots, do
after they landed in the Carolinas? What did
the Holland refugees do after they had land
ed in New York? What did the
Pilgrim Farthers do after they
landed in New England? With bended
knee and uplifted foce and heaven-besslging
rrayer they took possession of this country
for God. How was thefimt American congress
opened? By prayer In the name of Jesus Christ.
From its birth this nation was pledged for
holy marriage with Christ.
And then see how good God has been to us.
Just open the map of the continent and eee
bow it is shaped for immeaaureable prosperi
ties. Navigable rivers, more In number and
greater than of any other land, roiling down
on all sides into the tea prophesy
ing large manufactures and easy com
merce. Look at the great ranges of moun
tains timbered with wealth on tho top and
sides, metalled with wealth underneath. Ooe
hundred and eighty thousand square miles of
cool, 480,000 square miles of Iren. Tbe land
so contoured that extreme weather hardly
lasts mors than three days—extreme heat or
extreme cold. Climate for the most part brac
ing and favorable for brawn and brain. All
fruits, all minerals, all harvests. Scenery dis
playing an autumnal pageantry that no land
on eailh pretends to rival. No South Ameri
can earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No Lon
don fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Germanic
divisions. Tbe people oftbe United States are
happier thon any people on earth. It is the
testimony of every man that has traveled
abroad. For the poor, more sympathy; for tbe
industrious, mors opportunity. Oh, bow good
God was to our fatherm and how good he has
been to us and our children. To Him'—bles
sed be bis mighty name!—to Him of cross aud
tiiumpb. to Him who still remembers the
prayer of the Huguenots and Holland rsfu-
gees and the Pilgrim Fathers—to Him Shalt
this land be married. 0, you Christian pa
triots! by your contributions and your prayers
hasten on the fulfillment of the text.
We have during the pas* six or seven years
turned a new leaf in our national history by
tbe sudden addition of mill loos of foreigners.
At Kansas City, I was told by a gentleman
who bad opportunity for large investigation,
that a great multitude had gone throagh
there avenging in worldly estate eight hun
dred dollars. I was toldln the dty of Wash
ington by an officer of the government, who
had opportunity for authentic investigation,
that thousands and thousands had gone, aver
aging one thousand dollars in possession each.
I was told by the commissioner of emigration
that twenty families that had arrived at Castle
Garden brought eighty-five thousand dollars
with them. Mark you, families, not tramps—
additions to the national wealth, not subtrac
tions therefrom. I saw some of them reading
their Bibles and their hymn books, thanking
God for his kindness in helping them across
the sea. Some of them had Christ in the
steerage all aorosa the waves, and they will
have Christ in the rail trains' which every af-
ternoon start forthe great west. They are being
taken by the commission of emigration In New
York, taken from the vessels, protected from the
Sbylocks and the sharpers, and In the name of
God and humanity passed on to their destina
tion, and there they will turn your territories
into states and your wildernesses into gar
dens if yon will build for them churoncs and
establish for them schools, and send to them
Christian missionaries
Are you afraid this continent is going to be
overcrowded with this population? Ah, that
shows you have not been to California, that
shows you have not been to Oregon, that
shows that you have not been to Texas
A fishing smack today on Lake Ontario
might as well be atraid of being crowd
ed by other shipping before night, as for
any one of the next ten generatlone of Ameri
cans to be afraid of being overcrowded by for
eign populations In this country. The one
state of Texas is far forger than all the Aus
trian empire, yet the Austrian empire supports
thirty-five million people. The one state of
Texas is larger than all F’ranoe, and France
supports thirty-six million people. The one
state of Texas far surpasses in also the
Germanic empire, yet the Germanle empire
supports forty-one million people. I tell you
tho great want of territories and of the western
states is more population.
While some may stand at the gates of the
city laying, “Stand book 1” to foreign popula
tions, I press out as far beyond those gates as
I can press out beyond them, and beckon to
foreign nations, saying: “Come, come!”
“But,” say you, “I am so afraid that they will
bring their prejudices for foreign governments
and plant them here." Absurd I They are
sick of the governments that have oppressed
them, and they want free America. Give
them tbe great gospel of welcome. Throw
around them all Christian hospitalities. They
will add their Industry and hard-earned
wages to this country, and then are will dedi
cate all to Christ, “and thy land shall be
nuriedi"
But where shall the marriage altar be? Let
it be the Bocky Mountains, when through ar
tificial and mighty Irrigation, all their tops
shall be covered”** they will be, with vine
yards end orchards and grain fields. Then let
the Bostons and theNew Yorks and theJCharlea-
tons of theFacifio coast .come to the mar
riage altar on the one side, and then let the
Boetons and the Now Yorks and the Charlestons
of the Atlantle Coast come to the marriage al
tar ou the other side, and then between them
let this bride of nations kneel; and then if the
organ of the loudest thunders that ever shook
the 81cm Nevadaa on one side, or moved the
foundations of the Alleghenies on the other
aide, should open frill diapason of wodding
march, that organ of thunders eould not drown
the voice of Him who should take the hand of
the bride of nations, saying: “As a bridegroom
rejoiceth over a bride, so thy God rqjoiceth
over thee.” At that marriage banquet the
platters shall be of Nevada silver, and the
chalices of California gold, and the fruits of
noitbern orchards, and tbe sploca of southern
grovts. and tbe tapestry of American manufac
ture, and the congratulations from ail the
free nations of earth and from all the trium
phant armies of heaven. “And so thy land
shall be married.”
MONEY rOB SOLDIERS.
Important Opinion Affecting Maimed Mx-
Confederates.
Attorney General Clifford Andetson has Just
rendered an opinion of much Importance to
maimed ex-confoderate soldiers.
Attordey General Anderson's opinion is as
follows:
i vna onmox.
Attobkxt Osnsiul's omcs, Atlanta, Oa,
June l.lsse,—His Excellency Ilcnrr D. McDaniel—
81r: In response to your Inquiry as to the present
status of the law making provision for soldiers
who lost a limb In tbe mUiury service of tbe oon-
federate states,!! furnish tbe following synopsis of
such legislation on the subject as bears on the par
ticular point on which you desire Information,
vis: now often the payments provided by law are
to be made.
* " approved Sep
„ u,
state, who
military service
' '"Is state, shall be
, i;Yor tbs loss of
a leg extending above the knee, 1100; tor the tom
of a leg not extending above tbe knee, 170; for the
loss of an arm extending above the elbow, ISO; for
the lore of an arm not extending above tbe elbow,
M It lafurthsrtrovlded that these allowances
hall be duplicated every five years.
lly the act of September 22,1H1, It Is enacted that
"-at the time of his enlistment,
la atalo and who has, slnco the
a bona fids dtlsen of this state,
the allowances mads, although
a .non-resident when the act of
1S7I was passed.
lly the actor September 2ilth, Iris, every person
entitled to either of the sums specified in the act of
INTO, la allowed to apply for and recslvs the tamo
at lbs expiration of erory three yean, instead of
five.
lly the act or December 2tth, 1UI, the act of 1*72
was further amended so aa to provide that persons
who received wounds whilst In the military tor-
vice of lbs confederate states, or or this state,
which afterwards caused the loss of a limb
or Ifmba should be equally enti
tled lo tbe benefit of said
set with those who lost a limb or limbs while actu
ally in service.
And, by the act of October IS, ISM, It Is provided
that where persons entitled to tho benefit of any ol
Ibe above mentioned acta had failed to apply for
the amount or amounts duo them, the governor
should on proper proof being furnished him, draw
his warrant on the treasury for the sum or sums so
It will be seen from the foregoing summary that
the first allowance was due Immediately after the
passage of the act > of September
X 1*79; the second Immediately
alter the passage of lire act of September 9S, ih«:
and that the third will be due on and after tbe
20th day of September next.
Although a person entitled may hare failed to
draw his firat allowance until Just before, or oven
after the second became due, he is not required to
wait three years before bacon apply for and re
ceive the second a!iowance,?>ut maysunder the last
set above mentioned, demand the same now, If he
bas'not been paid, and may, equally with others
entitled, claim and receive his third allowance on,
or at any time after, tbs 2Gth day of September
next, very respectfully,
Curroap andcsson, Attorney-General.
Day Forer,
This malady is an index of a condition o
tho system which should bs thoroughly
changed. That this is possibla Is shown by
many letters from patients. The following is
an example:
From Bov; T. J. Taylor, Wsrrenton, N, C.,
Oct. 21,1885.—“Some timo in August I ordered
a Treatment of Oxygan for my aunt She htd
suffered with bay rarer regularly every year
for fifteen years. When I ordered the Com
pound Oxygen, her annual attack of hsy fe
ver bad already commenced, and as you did
not promise relief after the commencement of
the attack, we were not very hopeful. But, to
our astonishment and Joy. tb* Oxygen re
lieved her at once, and only on one evening
after she commenced the Treatment, and then
only for a few hours, did she have any consid
erable trouble with her bay fever. Though
she really had bay ferar, It was so slight after
tbe commenced using tbe Oxygen, that she
was scarcely conscious of It. I do not know
what Compound Oxygen will do for bay fever
in general, but this ease of fifteen years
standing was mastered by it. You are at lib
erty to use this in any way you may see proper
for tbe good of bay fever victims. I believe It
will cure bay foyer. It did it In this esse, at
'"SmcSTAnxgvAPal*w, 1529 Arch street,
Philadelphia, I>a„ publish a monograph on
bay fever, which la sent free to all Interested.
Numerous cures are repotted.
The announcement1 that ooe oftbe combatants
In ibe recent prise fight was almostkilled will be
received with genuine regret.-Detroit Free Press.
squad Tidings Fortfothers."
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footing, and man/ other diltroosing tjrmp-
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?! enfetbMorncitened condition of tho
blood. ROLL S SARSAPARILLA by cleansing
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