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TILLMAN IS WROTH.
cahoeixa's governor steaks his
Jliyi) ON EASTERN DEMOCRATS.
Denies That He Is a Populist, but Says
That the Southern and Western
Democrats Should Combine-
Columbia, S. C„ April B.—Governor Till
man today gave a surprising interview to
the press.
An extract from a letter from a popu
list, in which the writer said that the only
thing he did not admire about the govern
or’s political course so far was that he did
not have the moral courage to come out
squarely and call himself a populist, was
read to Governor Tillman. Then he was
asked if he had seen all the references made
to him by the northern press as the popu
list governor.
Governor Tillman rose and walked up and
down. His eye Hashed lire, and in the most
determined manner he said:
“Yes, they call me a populist. I will tell
them that I am the truest representative
of Jeffersonian democracy in the lead in
American politics today. Let me tell you,
1 don’t see anything ahead now but for the
southern democrats to combine their forces
with the western populists and go into the
next national campaign on new party lines.
•The northeastern democrats and repub
licans are now together. 1. is, a combina
tion of the moneyed interests."
PexpiM-H fl ii - " ii “• 1»«-
The governor then turning, suddenly and
in a. somewhat excited and very forcible
niauni r salts:
.b"-qW- Cleveland and his mugwumps.
11.• is no better than the rankest repub
lican. He has destroyed the democratic
patty. The south and west will be toned
now to unite and have a complete reor
ganization of parly lines. 3he people vno
tire af:;cd of the i eero and oilier questions
will hav. to east aside their fears on those
scores and come together on the one hue ot
lighting th money combination. * lew I.mu
lets bo. n waning under the dictation ol
the New York bankers and bargaining
with them in the matter of the issue of
bonus, lb- promised the bankers that it
tj . . would take the bonds there would be
no ‘more legislation on the silver question
bv this < -':;ress. Congress pass’d the seign
iorage m t and he vetoed the bill, indicating
plainly the nature of his bargain with the
bankers.
V Scheme «>f Robbery.
“The whole thing is such a scheme of
r. that In ought to bo impeached for
it. It is a shame and a disgrace. Ihe idea
of this great government having to beg a.
]«>t <>f bhylocks for assistance is so outra
geons that there is not any language too
strong in which to elmracferiz'' it. < leve
lled J and soul, by these
sc iiiibLtii- s» ■ or- • : liis nomination at
Chicago through the influence of a subsi
dized press, and what votes he lacked there,
•■tier exhausting such means. he bought
with , ~ ..... s of patronag . which prom
ise- have been since redeemed the goods
have iHo n delivned. Hi’ attempt to brow
|, . and <!■■! .auch th.- senators and r. piv-
s, tally-s 'vas outrageous in the extreme,
jf .y, itdiv eongressmen up there
had any a| pre.-iation of their duty to their
< .'sill ueliev .it home they would impeach
“Consider the farce and treason to the in-
ti e messes in issuing bonds nn-
■ ■ . of in Teasing the gold re-
y n,.. that same gold is paid m at
. v .1,,., and drawn out at another with
. .. . And the same process
can on till the silver certificates are cx
hau.-te I and the people have to pay the in
terest.”
Get Together.
“Well, governor, what is your idea of what
ought to I-.- done?” was asked.
The : nor thought for an instant and
1 “Well. 1 I’ll teli you. 1 think that the silver
m ■’ of this country ought to meet in < on
at Memphis or St. Louis and org n
izc a tight to control the next congress.
Let th< west and the south cast aside al!
iniestions upon which they now have any
..iff,.,-, n ,.,. s ..,,,1 cet together. It is a. fight
1 owe. n gold and silver or poverty and pros
perity. One more word as to Mr. Cleveland.
T t’-.nk that it is most damnable and ont
,u Ins being d’etatod to and bought
un by those bondholders. It is debasing to
b high office, lie is abusing his power to
•Poker V. th such people and barter .-.way
the people’s blood even upon the pretext
of financial relief.
Ybnseil by Pahl Hirelings.
“The m wspapers which are snarling and
snapping at my heels as b mg. a populist
are the paid hirelings of his bosses. I am a
, ... • . I- ■■ is epnse. that I uni for the peo
ple’s rights, but there -ire many planks in
the pomif-r pliiiform which I do not en
dorse. If the silver congressmen will is
sue i call lor a silver convention and car
• y the war into Africa, we will teach those
blood- ueking gold thieves a lesson in pol
ities sm-h as they have not had since Jack-
. linst the banks. The
nd west will move
on Washington in a. solid hotly and demand
legislation that will give them relief from
the grin-ling poverty produced by 6-cent
cotton and 30-eent wheat.”
BENCH XI ES THE HILL.
Watterson Denounces the V ilson Hill
as the Product of Ignorance.
From The Louisville Courier-Journal.
\\ ii, a Th-? Courier-Journal sp- -itied the
d< !ici--i - and inconsistencies of the Wil
son bill as it came out of committee, pre
dicting more a- I worse to come, first in
the house and then in the senate, the drum
■majors of tariff reform exclaimed. “We
cannot got ali we want at once. This will
do for a beginning. Better things here
after.” It is safe to say that whatever
act is finally passed will be infinitely more
objectionable than was contemplated by the
clai k, st forebodings -if the friends of real
r form; and yet, already, we hear it on
every hand that, with this measure of
democratic stultification, this finished pro
duct of ignorance, cowardice and corrup
tion, this iniquitous offspring of the black
mailing manufacturer and the political liar
lot. the wh -le question must go to the rear.
11... king way- r other and more urgent and
: I tes!
Th-Te is reason to concede only too much
fore, i this plea. No one will deny, no
revenue reformer has ever denied that un
certainty as to the tariff is a source of
business disquiet. The need of a fixed
tariff policy is obvious. Better a high pro
tective policy, better a free trade policy,
th , i a shifting, even-hanging policy. Hence
t ie irrei resMble conflict between the pro
tective policy an<l the revenue only policy
Os the last ten years.
Can any democrat, see this battle end.
with protectionism in complete possession
of the field, without amazement an'' dis
gust'.’ Can any democrat fail to visit upon
the authors of this infamous surrender of
a great cause his everlasting contempt?
When the incmables and the rascals whom
wo sent to Washington, charged with a
duty as specific as words could make it.
have yielded all that the people won; when,
partly through a lack of sense and courage
r-.nl partly through venality, they have
given up to monopoly what was meant for
the masses; when they have fled inglorious
ly from a victorious field, leaving guns
that were shotted with the bill cartridges
nf truth to be spiked by an enemy we h id
<!■ v-n b-fore us; -ind when, bringing with
them only the white feathers of the cow
ard. or the black plumes of the mercenary,
they eonte h- me for their reward, what
shall they encounter, what have they a
right to 1 . ik for, except political damna
tion and d-ath?
The people should accept no evasions or
excuses from any one of them. The man
who puts up a p , ( > r mouth and says he did
th.- lest he could is a fraud. He could
nt least protest. The man who equivocates
1s e ! ther a mer-a-iary or a delinquent, and
likelier both, with protectionist money in
his pocket, protectionist promises in bis
ear. Tn a wor-1 if th- people do not mean
to abandon their right to govern, and
their po ■ ■ to make Themselves felt bv the
m<-n they put in office, they will sweep
away t. ie whole ship's crew, visiting upon
the silent equal condemnation with the
guilty.
If we have a government of the people, it
Is time the fact was made manifest. If
we have merely a government of shams,
honeycombed with special privileges which
we are unable to dislodge, let us know it.
If the people are slaves and vassals: if
the democratic party Is the sport of a few
little lordlines who have managed to sneak
Into office on false pretenses, let us know
that. But, for God’s sake, let us have
done with cowardice and lying!
*n Ferlv irr-rt...- v *csired.
Raleigh, N. C.. April 7. -(Special.)—Gover
nor Carr Jays the question of the length of
terms of .judges appointed to fill vacancies
before the superior as well as the supreme
court judges.
Rev. Dr. C. F. McConnell, editor of The
Home - -Field, accepts the invitation to de
liver the annual address at the Wa.k*» For-
est college. Rev. Dr. E. M. Poteat, of
New Hanven, Conn., will preach the bacca
laureate sermon.
Governor Carr today appointed Congress
man Alfred M. Waddell solicitor of the
New Hanover criminal court.
Great pressure is being brought to bear
on the state democratic executive commit
tee to meet at once and confer and con
sider whether an early or late convention
will be held. _
JMAKCIIEIJ THIIOI GH I’ITTSHI HG.
Coxey’a Army EM-erli-il by ilie I’olicc.
Resumes Ils Marell.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 5. -Luder the super
vision of lofty police officers and the heads
of the police bureau of Allegheny < tty, the
i commonweal army, about 207 strong, left
their euarded enclosure at Exposition park
at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The num were
glad to get off after their virtual imprison
i inent. As the men drew out ot the park
| on time at South avenue they were met by
the citizens’ escort, 500 strong, uu<lcr < . A.
■ Burrows. The streets were a seething mass
i of humanity, but the people were very or
i derly. The column inarched through the
crowd to the union bridge, then up Du
: quesne way to Sixtli street. Market’ street,
i Fifth avenue, Smithfield street to the south
I side. Frequent cheers greeted the army
and General I'oxcy from the crowd on all
! sides. The Pittsburg police made no extra
i preparations, only the day force being or
. dered on duty. They handled the crowd
l easily and without trouble.
Before leaving the ball park the army
gave three rousing cheers for the good
people of Allegheny and Pittsburg, ami a
groan for the police. The procession
through both cities was led by a one-time
many-millionaii e. .1. I>. Karns, once the
most prominent figure in the Pennsylvania
■ oil region, and for ■whom Kansas City was
1 named. The exit from Pittsburg was unat
tended by special incident. At the city line
the Pittsburg escort dropp“d out of the
i line. Homestead workmen, 50D strong, with
a brass band, took the position occupied by
the Pittsburg escort and escorted the army
, to the camp. The entire route was thronged
with enthusiastic people.
Gaining Heer nits.
t'oxey’s army gained 20!) recruits here
| today, most es them Hungarians and Sla
| vorians and densely ignorant, with no
knowledge whatever of (Toxey's purpose.
Some ot Coxey's supporters tear that this
element will make the army a. disorderly
body. As it now stands the entire force
numbers about 5tX); consequently the ques
tion of feeding and caring for the men has
become a very serious one. The commissary
wagons are loaded down on then- way out
; of Pittsburg. About 300 pairs of shoes, 500
| pairs of socks. 300 vests ami an immense
i quantity of provisions were distributed
I among them this evening.
i A sensation was sprung in this town this
evening by the announcemet of the appoint-
• menl of Alexander Childs to the position
I of the chief of commissary of the emnmon
j weal. Young Childs is highly connected.
■ H. C. Frick, the famous president of the
■ Carnegie Steel Company, is an uncle of
j the young man, as is also Judge Marcus
I Acheson, of the United States circuit court.
McKeesport. Pa.., Apr.! 6.—Coxey’s army
is camped tonight in a suburb of McKees
port. It numbers tonight a little more
than -100 men.
S-. Louis. April 6.—General Frye’s in
, dustrial army started east today on foot.
Tin- railroads refused to transport them
: free and no means was found to pay fares.
• Tile army is on very short, commons. It
j was practically driven out of East St. Louis
j this morning. There is a great deal of feel
i ing agiinst the army from the fact that
I the East St. Louis water board offered to
employ 2in» of them at $1.50 a day to lay
I water pipes and but one of Frye’s meii
I would accept the offer.
Sacramento. Cal., April (I.—The San
Francisco regiment of the industrial army,
SUU strong, arrived on a train from Oakland
shortly after noon today. The train was
run to Agricultural park, but a mile from
town, where the men d.sembarked and were
given a substantial dinner, consisting of
soup, b<. I, bread ami coffee, by the city
authorities. An arrangement was made with
the ra.lroad eomp.inv to take the regiment,
together with the Sacramento contingent of
200, this evening on a special freight train.
< OXEY’S HEX LOCKED IP.
The Advance Guard Taken in Clitirge
by Hie Washington Police.
Washington, April 7. The advance guard
of Coxey's army, forty-one in number, got
within two miles of Washington this after
noon and were, taken in charge by the po
lice and locked up. They came in on the
Baltimore and (lino railroad in freight ears
and v. hen they reached Eckington, a suburb
of the city, a. squad of police took them
from the ears and marched them to the
ninth precinct station house, where they
will lie held until Monday for examination.
After the men had been treated to a sup
per of beef steak and bread put together
in the form of sandwiches and washed
down with coffee, luey were willing to talk,
which most of them were able to do with
a fair degree of intelligi nee. They have no
ill will against the authorities and rather
seemed pleased at being supplied with
longing and food. 'J'hey disclaimed being
in any way connected with Coxey or his
army, claiming to be merely a body of
workmen out of work, whose homes were
mostly in the east.
They said tile? banded together for the
sake of getting east, near then homes, ’they
had started, as a body, at St. I uis and
spoke witli pride of the fact Hilt they bad
come till the wax by rail. They had mere
ly asked for transportation from i.e tail
toads and had been given it.
Had It Easy.
They had been fed bv sympathisers
along the route, na I seldom gem hungry
and had a fairly easy time. They left
Cincinnati Wednesday night in the box car
from which they diseinlmeked into tlie aims
of the police this evening. eariy half
of the men claimed to have start ;1 fiom
Texas, banding tog. ;h<‘i' at San ntonio
about March 2'ith. Captain Primrose, wno
was tlie lei'i.r. had ' . i imz.-d the band
there. They disclaimed any connection with
General Coxey’s industrial oil-
Despite ilv statements of the men ar
rest e I tonight, the band is. look' d upon by
the poli“e as at least b.’-loi'.qmg in :i gen
eral way. .to the “On to \Vasti!r:gti>a” move
ment, and unie i the »mm ' ..h < i.- tmm
selves of this charge, they pi -'i.tl.lv w'll be
dealt with under the visr-tn-iy .aw, which
is very strict m Hie District ol <’oli mbia,
and provides a workhouse ju. c.-huant for
tramps.
Kick on t hr Gru b.
McKeesport, f’.-i., April, 7.—Coxey's army
did not get started on its eigh t een-tnile
tramp to Monongahela Ci'y until H o’clock
today. The delay was caused by extensive
kicking about the quantity and quality of
th- rations. As a result, 115 were discharg
ed. All of the uiMiaturalized Hungarians
from Homestead were a Iso dismissed. None
ol' them could speak English. The army
was reduced by these causes to less than
three hundred men.
WILL ELECT THREE SENATORS.
I.oii isiti ua's Legislature AN ill He (be
First to Enjoy That I’rivilege.
New Orleans, April 8. —The session of the
Louisiana legislature, which meets next
month, will elect three United States sena
tors. This is the first lime such tin event
has occurred in the United States.
The term of Senator White, who resigned
to accept a position on the supreme court
bench, expires in March, IS.‘JS, anil to till
this vacancy Representative N. C. Blanch
ard was appointed senator by the governor.
The legislature will, of course, elect a
senator for this term. Just.ee White had
also been elected for a Second t< rm, to be
gin in 1895 and expire tn 1901. This term
will also have to be filled.
I: is not improbable that the same man
will be elected to both of these vacancies,
bat it is by no means cerr.-un, and the
legislature may take it into its head to
honor two men by electing one of them
to fill out Mr. White’s long term and the
other the short term.
Finally th-re is the senatorship made va
cant by the death of Senator Gibson, whose
term would hav. expired in ixu7 i and is
now tilled by Mr. Caffery, both of the
present senators from Louisiana being ap
pointees by the governor and both can
didates for re-election.
A lively quadrangular fight has already
begun. So far it is only certain that Mr.
Blanchard will be elected to one of the
senatorships, with the chances about equal
between Senator Caffery, ex-Senator Jonas
and Representative Boatner for tlie other
senatorships.
Husitiexs Disasters .
New York, April s.—Paddock & Fowler,
fruit brokers and general commission mer
chants, made an assignment today. The
liabilities are estimated at over SIOO,OOO.
Lynchburg, Va., April 5.--N. H. Marshall,
i a boot, shoe and hat dealer, assigned today;
liabilities $4,600.
Riots in the Mining- Region.
Pittsburg, Pa.. April I.—Four men were
killed in the coke regions this afternoon
during the riots between the strikers ami
workmen. One of the killed is H. C. pad
dock, one of Frick’s managers at Scottdale.
More fatalities will be likel.* to occur be
fore order is restored.
The cost of the world’s railroads is esti
at £5,736,000,000.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. APUTL 10, 1894.
DR, TALMAGE’S SERMON
AT THE nitOOKEYN TABEENACLE
EAST SUN.DAY.
“ Strangers in Town” Formed the Subject of
an J.loqiiont Discourse—A Sermon Es
pecially to Visitors in the City.
Brooklyn, April 8. —(Special.)—Before no
audience in the world could such a sermon
as Rev. Dr. Talmage preached today be
so appropriate as in tlie Brooklyn 'Taberna
cle, where it is estimated that 150,000 stran
gers attend every year. It was a sermon
that had for them a special interest. The
text selected was Matthew xxv, 35: “I was
a stranger and ye took me in.”
It is a moral disaster that jocosity has
despoiled so many passages of scripture, and
my text is one that lias suffered from ir
reverent and misapplied quotation. It shows
great poverty of wit and humor when peo
ple take the sword of divine truth for a
game at fencing, or chip off from the
Kohinoor diamond of inspiration a sparkle
to decorate a fool’s cap. My text is me
salutation in the last juugment to be given
to those who have shown hospitality and
kindness, and Christian helptulness to
strangers. By railroad and steamboat the
population of tne earth is all the time
in motion and from one year’s end to anoth
er our cities are crowued wiili visitors, i-.v
--ery morn.ng on the tracks of the Hudson
rover, tne 1 ennsylvania, the Erie, the Long
Island railroaus there come passenger trains
more titan 1 can numoer; so that all the
depots and the wharves are a-rtnnble and
a-elang with tlie coming in of a great immi
grauun oi strangers, dome of them come
lor purposes oi Oacier, some for mecnanistn,
some tor artistic graiilieation, some lor
signt-seemg. A great, many ot them go out
on the eyelting trams, and consequently'
tne city tnuiies but utile impression upon
them; but there are inuliituucs wno, in
tne hotels and boarumg Houses, make tem
porary residence. 'They tarry here for
ilirei or tour day's, or as many' weeks.
'J’hey spend tlie days in the stores amt tne
i venings in sigiit-seeing. Their temporary
stay will make or break them, not omy
financially, but morally, for this world and
the world that is to colne. Multitudes of
them come into our morning and evening
services. J am conscious that 1 stand in
tite presence of many this moment. L de
sire more especially to sptaK to them.
May God give me tne right word and help
me to utter it in the rignt way.
Tl.ere have glided into mis house those un
known to otners, whose history, if told
would be mere thrilling than tne deepest
tragedy, more exciting than i’atti’s song,
more bright than a spring morning, more
awful than a wintry midnight. If they'
eouid stand up here and tell the story of
their escapes, amt their temptations, and
their bereavements, and their disasters, and
their victories, and their defeats, there
would be jn this house sm-h a commingling
of groans and acclamations as would make
the place unendurable.
There is a. man, who, in infancy, lay in
a cradle satin-iined. out yonder is a man
who was fiieked up, a foundling', on Boston
common. Here is a man who is coolly ob
serving this religious service, expecting no
advantage, and earing for no advantage
for himself; while yonder is a man who
has been for ten years in tin awful confla
gration of evil habits, and he is a mere cin
der of a destroyed nature, and he is won
dering if there shall be in this service any
escape or help for his immortal soul.
Meeting you only once, perhaps, face to
face, I strike hands with you in an earnest
talk about your present condition and your
eternal well-being. St. Haul’s ship at Me
lita went to pieces where two seas meet;
but we stand today at a point where a
thousand seas converge and eternity alone
can tell the issue of the hour.
The hotels of this country, for beauty
and elegance, are not surpassed by the
hotels in any other land; but those that
arc most celebrated for brilliancy of tapes
try and mirror cannot give to the guest any
costly' apartment, unless he can afford a
parlor in addition to his lodging. The
stranger, therefore, will generally' find as
signed him a room without any pictures,
and perhaps any rocking chair! He will
find a box of matches on a bureau, and
an old newspaper left by' the previous occu
pant, and that will be about all the orna
mentation. At 7 o’clock in the evening,
after having taken his rep ist, he will I.
over his memorandum book of the day’s
work; he yviil write a letter to his home,
and then a, desperation will seftie upon him
to get out. You hear the great city thun
dering under your windows, and you say:
"I must join the procession.” and in ten
minutes you have joined it. Where ar
you going? “Oh.” you say, "1 haven't
made up my mind yet.” Better make up
your mind before you start. Perhaps the
very way' you go now you will always go.
Tw. nty ’y.-ars ago. there were two young
men who came down the Astor house
steps and started out in a wrong direction,
wiicr- they have been going ever since.
“Well, where are you going?” says one
man. "1 am going to the Ae idemy' to hear
some music.” Good. I would like to join
vou at the door. At tlie tap of the orches
tra baton ah the gate! of harmony and
beauty will open before your soul. 1 con
gratuiate you. 'Where tire you going?
"Wi 11." you say. "I nn going up to see
seme advertised pictures.” Good. I should
like to go along with you and look over the
same catalogue and study with you Kensett
and Bierstadt, and Church and Moran.
Nothing more elevating tli-)ii good pictures.
Where are you going? “Well," you say,
”1 am going up ti' the Young Men s Chris
tian Association rooms.’ Good. You will
find there gymnastics to strengthen the
muscles and books to improve the mind,
and Christian influence to save the sold. I
wish every city’ in the United States had as
fine a palace for its Young Men’s Christian
Association as New 1 <>rk has. Where
are you going? "Well,” up Broadway,
and so turn round into the Bowery.
I am going to study human life.”
Good. A walk through Broadway at S
o’clock at night is Interesting, educating,
fascinating, appaling, exhilarating to the
last degree. Stop in front of that theater
and see yvho goes in. Stop at that saloon
and see who come out. See the great tides
of life surging backward and forward, and
beating against tlie marble of the curb
stone, and eddying down into the saloons.
What is that mark on the face of that de
bauchee: It is the hoetie flush of eternal
death. What is that woman’s laughter?
it is the shriek of a lost soul. Who is that
Christum m.n going along with a vial of
anodyne to the dying pauper on Elm street?
Who is that belated man on the way to a
prayer meeting? Who is that city mission
ary going to take a box in which to bury
a child? Who are all these clusters of
bright and beautiful faces’? They' are going
to some interesting place of amusement.
Who is that man going into the drug store?
That is the man who yesterday lost all his
fortune on Wall street, lie is going in for
a dos’e of belladonna, and before morning
it will make no difference to him whether
stocks are up or down. I tell you that
Broadway', between 7 and 12 o’clock at
night, between the battery and Central
park, is an Austerlitz, a Gettysburg, a
Waterloo, where kingdoms are lost or won,
and three worlds mingle in the strife.
1 meet another coming down off the hotel
steps, and 1 say : "Where are you going?”
You say: “I am going with a merchant of
Nnv York who lias promised to show me
the underground life of the city. I am his
customer, and he is going to oblige me
very' much.” Stop! A business house that
tries to get-or keep your custom through
such a process as that is not worthy of
yon. There are business establishments in
our cities which have for years been send
ing to destruction hundreds and thousands
o.' merchants. They have a secret drawer
in Lie counter, whore money js kept, and
the clerk goes and gets it when he wants to
ta!-;e these vis.tors to tin city through the
low slums of the place. Shall 1 mention the
names of some of these great commercial
establishments? I have them on my lips.
Shall 1? Perhaps I had better leave it to
the young men who, in that process, have
been destroyed themselves while they have
been destroying others. I care not how
high-sounding the name of a commercial
establishment if it proposes to get cus
tomers <>r io keep them bv such a process
as tiiat; drop their acquaintance. They
■will cheat you before you get through.
They yviil send you a style of
goods different from Ihat which
you bought by' sample. They' will
eive you underweight. They' will be
in the package half a dozen less pairs of
suspenders than you paid for. 'J’hey will
rob you. Crh, you feel in your pockets and
sav: "Is mv money gone?” They have rob
bed you of’ something which dollars and
cents can never give you comjyensation.
When one of these western merchants has
been dragged by one of those commercial
agents through the slums of the city, he
is not fit to go home. The mere memory
of what in- has seen will bo moral pollu
tion. I think you had better let the city’
missionary' ami the police attend to the
exploration of New York and underground
life. You do not go to a smallpox hospital
for tlie purpose of exploration. You do not
go there, because you are afraid of conta
gion. And yet. you go into the presence
of a moral leprosy' that is as much more
dangerous to you as the death of the soul
is worse than the death of the body. I
will undertake to say that nine-tenths of
the men who have been ruined in our
cities have been ruined by simply going to
observe without any idea of participating.
The fact, is that underground city life is a
filthy, fuming, reeking, pestiferous depth
which blasts the eye that looks at it. In
the reign of terror, in 1792, in I aris, peo
ple, escaping from the officers ot the Jaw,
got into the sewers of the city, and craw -
ed and walked through miles ot that aw fill
labyrinth, stifled with the atmosphere and
almost dead, some of them, when •they
came out to the river Seine, where thuv
washed themselves and again breathe 1
Ihe fresh air. But I have to tell you that
a great many of tlie men who go on the
work of exploration through the under
ground gutters of New York lite never
come out at Seine river where they can
wash off the’pollution of the moral sewage.
Stranger, if one of the representatives ot a
commercial establishment proposes to take
you and show you the “sights” of the town
ami underground New York, say to him:
“Please, sir, what part do you propose to
show me?” . . ,
About sixteen years ago as a minister
of religion I felt 1 had a divine commission
to explore the iniquities of our cities. I
did not ask counsel of my session, or my
presbytery, oi’ of tlie newspapers, but
asking the companionship of three promi
nent police officials and two of the elders
of my church, I unrolled my commission
and it said: “Son of man, dig into the wail;
and when I had digged into the wall, be
hold a door; and he said,’go in and see
the wicked abominations that are done
here; and 1 wont in, and saw, and behold!’’
Brought un in the country, and surrounded
by much parental care. I had not until
that time seen the haunts of iniquity. By
the grace of God defended, I had never
sewed my “wild oats.” I had somehow
been able to tell from various, sources
something about the iniquities of the great
cities, and to preach agains them; but I
saw. in the destruction of a great multitude
of the people, that there must be an in
fatuation and a. temptation that had never
been spoken about, and I said: “I will
explore.” I saw thousands of men going
down, and if there had been a spiritual
percussion answering to tlie physical per
cussion, the whole air would have been
full of th<* rumble, and roar, and crack,
and thunder of tlie demolition, and this mo
ment. if we should pause in our service, we
should hear the crash, crash! .lust as in
the sickly season you sometimes hear the
bell at the gate of the cemetery ringing al
most incessantly, so 1 found that, the bell at
the gate of the cemetery where ruined souls
tire buried was lolling by day and tolling
by night. I said, "I will explore.” I went
as a. physician goes into a fever lazaretto,
to see what practical and useful Information
I might get. That, would be a foolish doctor
who would stand outside the door of an
invalid writing a Latin prescription. When
the. lecturer in a medical college is done
witli his lecture, he takes the students into
the dissecting room and he shows them the
reality. 1 went and saw, and came forth to
my pulpit to report a jdague. and to tell
how sin dissects the body, and dissects the
mind, and disseids the soul. “Oh!” say you,
“are yon not afraid that in consequence of
such exploration of the iniquities of the city
other persons might nitike exploration and
do themselves damage?” 1 reply: "If. in
company with the commissioner of police,
and tlie captain of police, and the company
of two Christian gentlemen, and not witli
the spirit of curiosity, but that you may see
in order the better to combat it, then, in
the name of the eternal God. go! But, if
not, then stay away.” Wellington, stand
ing in the battle of Waterloo, when the bul
lets wore buzzing around liis head, saw a
civilian on the field. He said to him: “Sir,
what are you doing here? Be off!” "Why,
replied tlie civilian, “there is no more dan
ge.r here for me than there is for you.”
Then Wellington flushed up and said, “God
and my country demand that 1 be here.”
Now, 1, as an officer in the army of Jesus
Christ, went on that exploration, and on
to that battlefield. If you bear a like com
mission go; if not, stay away. But you say,
"Don’t you think that somehow the descrip
tion of those places induces people to go
ai.'l see for themselves?” I answer. “Yes;
just as much as the decription of yellow fe
ver in some scourged city would induce peo
ple to go down there and get the pestilence.
Hut I may be addressing some stranger al
ready destroyed. Where is he, that I may
pointedly yet kindly addre.-s him'’ Come
back, and wash in the deep fountain of a
Savior's mercy. I do not give you a cup or
a chai* or a pitcher with a limited supply
to eix your ablutions. I point you to tlie
five oi ns of God’s mercy. Oh! that the
Atlantic and Pacific surges of divine for
giveness might roll over your soul! As the
glorious sun of Gcd's forgiveness rides o,i
toward the mid-heavens, ready to submerge
you in warmth, and light, and love, I. bid
you good morning! Morning of peace for
all your troubles. Morning of liberation for
all your incarcerations. Morning of resurrec
tion for your soul buried in sin. Good morn
ing! Morning for tlie resits.'itated household
that has been waiting for your return.
Morning for the cradle and the crib already
disgraced with being that of a drunkard's
child. Morning' for the daughter that has
trudged off to hard work because you
did not take care of home. Morn
ing for the wife who at forty or liftv t, n"
shoulder and th" white hair. Morning for
one. Morning for all. Good morning! In
God’s name, good morning!
In our last dreadful war the federals and
the confederates were encamped on oppo
site sides of the Rappahannock, and one
morning the brass band of the northern
troops played the national air. and ail the
northern troops cheered and cheered. Then
on the opposite side of the Rappahannock
the brass band of the confederates played
"My Maryland” ami “Dixie,” and then all
the southern troops cheered and cheered.
But after awhile one of the bands struck up
“Home, Sweet Home.” and the band on
the opposite side of the river took up the
strain, and when the tune was done the
confederates and the federals all together
united, as the tears rolled down their
cheeks, in one great huzza! huzza! Well,
my friends, heaven comes very m ar today.
It is only a stream that divides up the nar
row stream of death—and the voices there
and the voices here seem to commingle,
and we join trumpets, and hosannahs, ami
hallelujahs, and the chorus of the united
song ol earth and heaven is, "Home, Sweet
Home.” Home of bright domestic circle
on earth. Home of forgiveness in tne great
In-art of God. Home of eternal rest in
heaven. Home! Home! Home!
But, suppose you are standing on a crag
of the mountain, and on the edge of a pre
cipice, .and all unguarded, ami some one
either in joke or hate shall run up b hind
you and push you off. It is easy enough
to push you off. But who would do so das
tardly a. deed? Why, that is done every
liour of every day ami every hour of every
night. Men come to the verge of city life
i nd say. "Now we will just look off. Come
young man, do not be afraid. Come near,
lei us look off.” He comes to the edge and
looks, and looks until, after awhile, satan
sneaks up behind him, and puts a hand on
each of his should rs, ami pushes him off.
Society says it is evil proclivity on the part
of that ?. ottng man. Oh, no! He was sim
ply an explorer and sacrificed nis life in
utscovery. A young man comes in from the
country bragging that nothing can do him
any harm. He knows about all the tricks
of city life. "Why,” he says, “did not 1
receive a circular in the country telling me
that somehow they found out I was a sharp
business man. and it' I would only send a
certain amount ofamoney by mail or ex
press, charges prepaid, they ’ would send a
package with which t could make a fortune
in two months; but I did not believe it. My
neighbers did, but I did not. Why, no mail
could ' 'ke my money. I curry it in a pock
et inside my vest. No man could take it.
no rnan eouid cheat me at the faro table.
Don’t I know all about the ’cue-box.’ and
the dealer’s box, and the cards stuck to
gether as though they were one, and when
to hamiMLiny checks? Oh, they can’t cheat
me. I know what lam about. While at the
same time, that very moment, such men are
succumbing to the worst satanic influences,
in the simple fact that they are going to ob
serve. Now. if a man or woman shall go
down into a haunt of iniquity for tlie pur
pose of reforming men and women, or for
the sake of being able intelligently to warn
people against such perils, if as did John
Howard oi - Elizabeth Fry or Thomas J’hal
mers. they go down among the abandoned
for the sake of saving them, then such ex
plorers shall be God-protected and they
will come out better than when they
went in. But if you go on this work of
exploration merely for the purpose of sat
isfying a morbid curiosity, 1 will take
20 per cent off your moral character.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake un
in the he,tel. Yon have had a longer sleep
than usual. You say: "Where am 1? a
thousand miles from heme? I have no
family to take to church today. My pastoi'
will not expect my presence. I think f
shall look over my accounts and study my
memorandum book. Then f will write a
few business letters, and talk to that mer
chant who came in on the same train with
me.” Stop! you cannot afford to do it.
“But.” you say. “I am worth $5011,000.”
You cannot afford to do it. You say: "I
am worth a million dollars.” You cannot
afford to do it. All yon gain by breaking
the Sabbath you will lose. You will lose
one of three things: your intellect, your
morals, or your property, and you cannot
point, in the whole earth to a single
exception to this rule. God gives us six
days and keeps one for Himself. Now, if
w<> trv to get the seventh. He will upset
the work of all the other six.
I remember going up Mount Washington,
before the railroad had been built, to the
Tip-Top house, and the guide would come
around to ouj' horses and stop ns when we
w re crossing a verv steep ami dangerous
place, and he would tighten the girth of
tlie horse -ind straighten the saddle. And f
have to tell you that this road of life is so
steep and full of peril we must, at least
one day in seven, stop and have the har
ness of life readjusted, and our souls re
equipped. The seven days of the week
arc like seven business partners, and you
must, give to each one ills share, or the .
business will be broken up. God is so
generous with us; He has given you six j
days to His one. Now, here is a father who
has seven aiiples, and he gives six to ms
greedy boy. proposing to keep one lor 1
himself. The greedy boy grabs for me I
other one and loses all tlie six. I*
How few men there are who know how
to keep the Lord's day away from home.
A great many who are consistent on tne
batiks of the St. Lawrence, or the Ala
bama, or the Mississippi, are not con
sistent when they get so lar on as the East
river. 1 repeat though it is put
ting it on a low ground—you can
not financially afford to break the
Lord's day. It is only another way of tearing
up your government securities, and putting
down the price of goods, ami blowing up
your store. J have friends who ate all the
time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath. They
cut. a little of the Sabbath off that end, and
a little of tlie Sabbath off this end. 'They
do not. keep the twenty-four hours. The
Bible says: “Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy.” I have good triends x.ho
are quite accustomed to leaving Albany by
th" midnight train on Saturday night, and
getting home before church. No, tm-re may
be occasions when it is right, tint generally
it is wrong. How, if the train should run
off the track into the North river? i 1i pe
your friends will not send to ni“ io preach
youi’ funeral sermon. It would be an awk
ward thing for me to stand up by jour
side and preach—you. a 'lhristlan man,
killed on a rail train traveling on a Sunday
morning. "Remember the Sabbath day. to
keep it holy.” What does that mean? It
means twenty-four hours. A man owes you
a dollar. You don’t want him t > pay you
90 cents; you want the dollar. If God de
mands of us twenty-four hours out of the
week, he tm ans twenty-four I: mr.t and not
nineteen. Oh, we want to keep vigdai'tly
in this country the American Saliiiith, mid
not have transplanted here the European
Sabbath, which for the most part is no Sab
bath at all. If any of you h i .••• been in
Paris, you know that on Sabbath moil ing
the vast population rush out reward the
country with baskets and bundles, mid to
ward night they con l '- back fagged out,
cross and intoxicated. .May God preserve to
us our glorious, quiet Armorican Sabbaihs.
O, strangers, welcome to the great < Ry.
May you find Christ h ie, and not any-phy
sical or moral damage. Men coining trom
inland, from distant cities, have here found
God and found him in our s rvice. May
that lie your ease today. * r ou thought you
were brought to this place merely for the
purpose of sightseeing. i’erh-tps God
brought you to this roaring eiiy for the
purpose of working out your eternal salva
tion. Go back Io vour homes and tell them
how you met Christ here—the loving, pa
tient, pardoning and sympathetic < brist. i
Who knows but the city which has been
the destruction of so many nay l.e your
eternal redemption ?
good many years ago Edward Star’ey,
the English commander, with nis ret in < nt,
took a fort. Th" fort was manned I y some
360 Spaniards. Edward Stanley eame elose
up to the fort leading Ills men whi n a Span
iard thrust at him with a spear ii'to’cling
to destroy his life; but Stanley emigbt hold
of the spear and -the Spa.niard in attempt
ing to jerk the spear awav i -m Stanley,
lifted him u;> into the batt! "P ‘tits. No
sooner had Stanley taken his position on the
battlements. Ilian he swung his sword and
his whole regiment leaped after him and
the fort was taken. So it may be with
you, stranger. The city influences which
have destroyed so many and dashed them
down forever, shall be the means of lifting
you up into the tower of God’s mercy and
strength, your soul more than conqueror
through th<- ’trace of ITni who has promised |
an especial benediction to those who shall ■
treat yon well, saying: “I was a stranger !
and ye took me in.”
( nder the Nlagiioliii.
Tn Rose Hill cemetery, Macon. Ga., last
Wednesday afternoon, the remains of Sen
ator Alfred H. Colquitt were interred on the
banks of the Ocmu’gee river, in the shad
ow of a green magnolia. From the circum
stance the following lines are drawn:
Whore the sweet Ocmulgee flowing
Chants a requjem to the dead.
And the soft skies, faintly glowing.
Sift the splendor which they shed;
’Neath a green magnolia sleeping ,
In the rest he well has won,
Lies a. prince in Georgia’s keeping.
Buried with his armor on.
At the nation’s front he perished.
There his noble heart was stilled;
Fighting for the hope he cherished.
Falling in the place he filled.
Like his fame-ennobled father,
In the stale’s historic past.
Thus he died a stainless martyr,
Loving Georgia to the last.
On no blood-washed field of battle,
Colored by war's crimson rain,
Where the dismal low death-rattle
Marks the passing of the slain;
But while tender butts were breathing
On the velvet edge of spring
Ready for her Easter-wreathing
Passed away our hero-king.
Colquitt! Still in fondness for thee
Georgia folds thee to her breast, —
Loved as when in life she saw theee
When thy banner led the rest!
Roses, from thy ashes, blooming
Here, in after years, shall tell
How, thy country's in pe illuming, j
Thou didst in her praises dwell.
Sleep in Rose Hill’s sacred bosom, ;
By the sweet Ocmulgee’s flow,
Where the proud magnolia blossom.
Prouder o'er thy dust shall grow.
Fit that laurel leaves should crown thee,
Thou, who in thy glory-bed.
Need no marble to renown thee,
In the dream-land ot' the dead!
But, while friends for thee are sighing
For the love-clasp of thy hand.
And thy ashes, lowly lying,
Mingle with their native land,
Garlands, in the'r glory greener.
Now thy serai’ii brow enfold,
In the spirit land’s arena,
in the senate of the soul. KNIQHT>
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