Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 August 1897 — Page 3

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Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in the following eennou. shows how splendid men ore lured to their ruin. It it based on the text: Woe unto them that sin as it were with a cart rop;.—Isaiah T-. IS There ore some iniquities that only nibble at the heart. After a lifetime -of tlieir work, the man still stands upright. respected and honored. These vermin hare not streugth enough to gnaw through a man’s character. Hat there are otuer transgressions that lift themselves up to g.gantic proportions, and seize hold of a man and bind him with throngs forever. There are some iniquities that hare each great emphasis of evil that be who commits them may be said to sin as with * cart rope. I suppose yoa know how they make a great rope. The stuff out of which it is fasuioned is nothing bnt tow which you pull apart without any exertion of your fingers. This is spun iuto threads, any of which you could easily snap, but a great many of these threads are interwound—then you have a rope strong enough to biud an ox or hold a snip iu tempest. I speak to you of the sfu of gambliug. A cart rope in streugth is that situ and yet 1 wish more especially to draw your attention to the small thread-, of influeuce out of which that mighty iniquity is twisted. This crime is ou the advauoe, so that it is well not only that fathers, aad brothers, and sons, be interested iu such a discussion, bnt that wires, aud mothers, and aist^rs. aud daughters look out lest their present home be sacrificed, or their imeuded home be blaited. No man, no-woman, can stand aloof from auch a subject as this and say: “It has no practical bearing upon my life;” for there may be for a short time iu yonr history au experience in which you will find that tae discussion in vat rad three worlds—earth. Heaven. helL There are gambling establishments by the thousands. There are about 5 5)J profes&i mal gam »lers. Out of all the gtmblnig establishments, how tnv.iy of them do you suppo-e pro.es> to be honest? Ten. Then ten professing to be honest because they are merely the aute-chamber to loose that are acknowledged fraudulent. There are first-class, establishments. You step a little way out of Broadway. New Y'ork. You go up the marble stairs. Yon ring tae bell. Toe liveried servant introduces you. The wails arc lavender tinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are “Jepblhah’x Daughter.” and Dore’s “Haute's aud Virgil's. Frozen Region of Hell." a most appropriate selection, this last, for the place. There is the roulette table, the finest, costliest. most exquisite p.ece of furniture in the United States. There is the banqueting room, where, free of charge to the guests, you may find the plate, and viand*, and w.noa, and cigars, sumptou* beyond parallel. Tuen you come to the sec-ond-class gambling establishment. To it you are introduced by a card through some “roper iu.” Having entered, you must either gamble or tight. Sanded cards, dice loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks mixed with more poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid of all your mouey to a tune in short meter witu staccato passages. You wanted to see. Yon saw. 'the low villains of that place watch you as you come in. I Does uot the panther, squat in the gras*, know a calf when he sees it? YYVaugle not for your rights in that place, or your body will be thrown bloody into the street, or dead iuto the river. Yougoaloug a little farther and fiud the policy establishment. In that place yon bet on numbers. Betting on / two uumoers is called a “saddle;” betting ou three u umber* is called a “gig;" betting on four numoers is called a “horse;” and there are thousanes of young men leaping into that “saddle,” au 1 mounting that “gig,” and behind that "horse"’ riding to perditiou. There is alrnays one kind of sign on the door —“Exchange;" a most appropriate title for the door, for 111 *re, in that room, a man exchanges health, peace and Heaven for loss cf health, !o>s of home, loss of family, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure enough and infinite enough.

'( J?o»v, you acknowledge that is a cart rope of e.ii. but you w int to kauvr wuat are the small tureads out of winch it is made. There U. iu many, a disposition to hazard. They feel a delight iu walking near the precipice because of the wane of danger. There are people who go upou Jungfrau, not for the largeness of the prospect, but for the feeling that they hare of thinking, -What would happen if I should fall offT* There are persons wuo hare their blood filliped and accelerated by skating eery near an airhole. There are men who fiud a puaitire delight in driring within two Inches of the edge of a bridge. It is this disposition to hazard hat finds development in . gaming practices. Here are *400. 1 may alaue tuem. If 1 stake them i may lose them; but 1 may win *4,0JO. Whlcherer it turns 1 hare the excitement Shuffle the cards Lost! Heart thump*. Head dixay. At it again—just to gratify this desire for hasard. Then there are others who go into this sin through sheer desire for gain. It is especially so with profeasiouai gamblers. They always keep cool/ 1 bey nerer drink enough to uubalauce their judgment They do not see the dice so mnch as they sea the dollar beyond the dice, and for that they watch as the spider ia the web, looking as if dead uutil the fly passes. Thousands of young men in the hope of gain go into these practices. They say: -Weil, my salary ia not enough to allow tku luxury, i (han’t get enough from mj

I —... 1 .. store, office or shop. I ought to have floor apartments. I ought to hare hotter wines. 1 ought to hare more rich-lv-flavored cigars. I ought to he able to entertain my friends more expensively. 1 won’t stand this any longer. 1 can, with one brilliant stroke, make a fortune. Now, here goes, principle or no principle. Heaven or hell. Who cares?” When a young man makes op his mind to live beyond his income. Satan has bought him ont and out. and it is only a question of time when the goods are to he delivered. The thing is done. Ton may plant in the way all the batteries of truth and righteousness—that man is bound to goon. When a man makes 91,000 a year and spends 91,300; when a young man makes 91.500 and spends 91,700. all the harpies of darkness cry out: “Ha! ha! we have him!” and they have. This sin works very insidiously. Other sins sound the drum, and flaunt the flag, aud gather their recruita with wild huzza, but this marches its procession of pale victims in dead of night, in silence, and when they drop into the grave there is not so much sound as the click of dice. Oh! how many have I gone down under it Look at those men who were once highly prospered. Now their forehead is licked by a tongue of flame that will never go out lu their souls are pluaged the beaks which will never be lifted. Swing open the door of that man's heart and yon see a coil of adders wriggling their indescribable horror nutil you turn away and hide your face and ask God to help you to forget it The most of this evil is uuadveruscd. The community does not hoar of it Men defrauded ip gaming establishments are not 'fools i enough to tell of it Uuce in awhile, however, there is an exposure, as when in Boston me police swooped upou a gaming estaolishment and found in it the representatives of »ll classes of citizens, from the tirst merchants of State street to the low Auu street gambler; as when Bullock, the cashier j of the Central Railroad of Georgia, was j fouud to have stolen 9103.0JJ for the j purpose of carrying ou gaming prac- ' tiecs; as when a young mau in one of tiie savings' banks of Brooklyn, many years ago. was found to have stolen 94J.0JO to carry on gaming practices; as | when a man connected with a Wall ! street insurance company was found to have stolen SltkMMM) to carry on his j gaming practices. But that is excep- j

li<>n a 1. lienerally the money leaks silently I frouLlhe merchant's till into the gamester's wallet, 1 believe that one of the main pipes lcadiug to this sewer of iniquity is the excitement of business life, is it not a siguitlcaut fact that the majority of the day gambling1 houses of 2Sew York are in proximity to Wall street? Men go into the exoitemeut of stock gambling, and from that they pluuge into the gumbiiug houses, as, when men are excited, they s go into a liquor saloon to get more drink. The ugitatiou that is witnessed in the stoek market when the chair announces the word “Northwestern.” or “Port Wayne,” or “Rock Island,*’ or "New \ ora Central,” and the rat! tat! tat! of the auctioueer’s hammer, and the excitement of making “corners” and getting np “pools,” and “eariyiug stock,” and a “break" from SO to TO, t and the excitement of rushing around in curb-stime brokerage, and the sudden cries of “Buyer three!” “Buyer teu!” “Take ’em!” “How many?” and the making or losing of $10,000 by one operation unfits a man to go home, so he goes up the flight of stairs, amid business offices, to the darkly-curtained, wooden-shuttered room, gaily furnished inside, and takes his place at the roulclt * or faro table. But I cannot.tell all the process by which men get into this evil. A man went to New York, lie was a western merchant. He went into a gaping house on Park place. Before morning he had lost all his money, save $1, and he moved around about with that $1 in his hand, and after awhile, caught still more powerfully under the infernal infatuation. he came up and put down the dollar and cried out until they heard him through the saioou: “One thousand miles from home, and my last dollar on the gawiug table.” Many years ago for sermnnic purposes. and in company with the chief . of police of New York I visited one of the most brilliant gambliug houses in that city. It was night, and as we came up in front all seemed dark. The blinds were down; the door was guarded, but after a whispering of the officer with the guard at the door we were admitted into the hall, and thence into the parlors, around one table finding eight to teu men in midlife, well dressed—all the work going

on in sileuci*. stre the noise of the rattling' ’Vuips” on the gauiiug table iu one parlor, and the revolriug ball of the roulette table in the other parlor, borne of these men. we were told, had served terms in prison; some were shipwrecked bankers and brokers and money-dealers, and some were goiug their first rounds of rice—bat all intent upon the table, as large or small fortunes moved up and down before them! Oh! there was something awfully aolemu in the silence — the intense gaze, the suppressed emotions of the player. No one looked up. They all had m«ney in the rapids, and I hare no doaht some saw, aa they sat therei horses and carriages, and horses and lands, and home and family rushitfg down into the ' vortex, j A maifs life would not hare been worth a farthing in that presence had be not been accompanied by the police. , if he had been supposed to be on a j Christian errand of obacrratioo. Some ; of these m.n went by private key, j some went in by careful introduction, | some were taken in by the patrons of the establishment. The officer of the law to.d me: **None get in here except by police mandate, or by some letter of a patron.” Wuiie we were there a young man came in. pat his money down on the roulette table, and lost; pot more money down on the roulette table, and lost, put more mouey down on tile ronlette table, and tost; then feeling in his pockets for more money, finding none, in sere re aiience he tamed bin back upon the scene and

. passed out While we stood there me* 1 (oat their property sad lost their souls. Oh, merciless place! Not once la all the history of that gaming* | house has there been one word of sympathy uttered for the losers at the game. Sir Horace Walpole said that a mau dropped dead in one of the club houses of London; his body was carried into the clnt> house, and the members of the club began immediately to bet as to whether he were dead or alive, and when it was proposed to test the matter by bleeding him, it was only hindered by the suggestion that it would be unfair to some of the players! In these earning houses of oar cities, men hare their property wrung away from them, aud then they go out, some of them to drown their grief in stroug drink, son^e to ply the counterfeiter’s pen, and so restore their fortunes, some resort to the suicide’s revolver, but all going down, and that work proceeds day by. day, and night by night. “That cart rope,” says some yonug man, “has never been wound around my soul.” But have not some threads of that cart rope been twisted? 1 arraigr before God the gift enterprises of oar elites, which have a tendency to make tnis a nation of gamblers. Whatever,)oh get. Young man, in such a place as that, without giving a proper equivalent, is a robbery of your own soul aud a robbery of the community. Vet. how we are appalled to see utcu who have failed in other enterprises go into gift cduceris, where

tne ouiei auruciiou is not music, but Ule prizes distributed among the audience; or to sell Looks where the chief attraction is not the book, but the package that goes with the book. Tobacco dcaters advertise tuaton a certain day they will put money into tucir papers, so that the purchaser of tuts tobacco iu Cincinnati or New Voi'K inay unexpectedly come upon a uiaguihceut gratuity, iioys hawaiug through the cam packages. contaiumg nooody knows what uulii you open them, and hud they couuiiu aotuiiig. Christian u^m with pictures ou their wail gotten iu a lottery, aud the brain of' the community taxed to had out some new way ol getting things without paying tor tneni. Oh. young men, these are the threads that mane the cart rope, and when a young mau consents to these practices, lie-is being boun i uand and loot by a uab.t watch has atreaJy destroyed ‘ a great muitunde that no man can number.” Sometimes tuese gilt euterprises are carried ou in the uauie of charity; and some of you re* meiuoer at t.ie ciose of our civil war how many gift euterprises were on loot, tue proceeds to go to lue orphans and widows of tne soidrcrs aud sudors. VVuat did the men wnc had charge of those gilt enterprises care for the brpnaus aud widows? ^Vny, they would nave allowed them to ireeze to deatu upou their steps, i have uo faith iu charity wuicu, lor the opens a gaping jaw that has swallowed Uowu so mucli oi tue virtue aud good principle of tue couimuuily. Young mau, have nothing to do with these luiugs. They omy sharpen your appetite for games oi chance. « Do oue of two things—be hbuest or die. i hare accomplished my object if ] put you ou tue tooaout. It is a great deal easier to fall thau it is to get up again. Tue trouble is that wheii meu begiu to go astray from the patu of duty, they are apt to say: “There’s no use of my tryiug to get baca. I've sacrificed my respectability, i cau’t return,v aud they go on until they are utterly destroyed. 1 tell you, my friends*, that God this ' moment, by ills Holy Spirit, can cuauge your entire nature, so tout you will be a diuerent man iu a minute. Your great waut—what is it? More salary? Higher social position? Iso; no. 1 will tell you tue great want ol every man. if he has not a.ready obtained it. it is the grace of God. Are tuey any' who have fatlcu nctuns to the sin that 1 have becu reprehending? You are iu a prison, aud try to get oat. and you fait; aud you turn around and dash agaiust the other wall uutil there is blood ou tue grates,aud wood on your soul. You will never get out in this way. There is ouly oue way. of getting out. There is a Key tnat cau uuiock uie prison house, it is the key that Const wears at tits girdle, if you will a.low Him to put tual key to tue lock, tile bolt will shoot back aud the door will swing open, and you will be a free mau iu Cnrist Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a busines this is for you, feediug swine, wueh your bather stands in tne front door, siraiuing His eyesight to catch the first glimpse of your return; and the calf is as fat as it will be, aud the harp* of Heaven are all strung and tue feet free. There are converted gamblers in Heaven. Tne ligut of eternity Hashed upon the green baize of tueir billiard saloon. In the laver of God's forgiveness they washed off all their sin. They qait trying for earthly stakes. They tried for Heaven aud won it. There awelehes a haui from Heaven toward the head of the worst offender. It is a hand, not clenched as if to smite, but

ouUtprettu as if to drop a benediction. Other seas hare a shore au«l may be fathomed, but the sea of God’s lore— eternity has not plummet to strike the bottom, and immensity no iron-bound shore to confine it. Its tides are lifted by the heart of infinite compassion. Its wares are the hosannahs of the redeemed. The argostes that sail on it drop anchor at last amid the thuuderiqg salro of eternal rictorj. But alas for that man who aits down to the final game of life and pata his immortal soul on the ace. while the angels of God keep the tally-board; and after kings and queens, and knarea. aud spades are "ahuffl^l” and “cut,” and the game is ended, horering and impending worlds discorer that he has lost it, the faro-bank of eternal darkness eintchiug down into its wallet all the blood-stained wagers. As Time Chancre*. When crecrstion becomes more general, instead of it being: “Sec that tnr g nee • kept green,” it will be: "On, keep ntf mam bottled, k»ve.“—Tammany Tunes

' ■— I I —■ THE HIGHEST TARIFF. Urn Sew Tariff la Worse Th«a the HcKialey' Tax. The new tariff law registers the highwater mark in tariff legislation. The protection afforded by it is greater in important instances than Chat of the UcKinley law itself, which was condemned by the voters of this country as an odious measure. It is not improbable that the Dingley bill, if it may be so called- after its thorough revision, will go down in history as worse than the McEiniey law. There can be no justification at this day for the excessively high rates of duty which it imposes. Tt is a continuation of war taxes in time of peace for the benefit, not

of the government, but of private individuate. The duties in many cases being so high as to be prohibitive, there will be no imfports from w^ich the government can derive revenue, but the taxes in such cases will go to private individuals in the form of higher prices for products and greater profits. The moderate protectionists of this country cannot approve such a tariff. It cannot be justified by reason and business sense. The Dingley tariff, like the McKinley *tariff of 1890, is based on the Morrill tariff of the early ’6Cs, confessedly a war measure, hastily drawn and not intended to serve as the permanent model for a system of taxation. The duties under the Morrill tariff were made high in part as a compensation for the internal revenue taxes the® imposed. But when the internal revenue taxes were removed the rate of duty on imports was left unchanged, so that in reality the protection afforded by these dirties was greater than !n wartimes. This condition of things was so obviously unjustifiable that for a decade or so after the close of the war little attempt was mode to justify it. A reduction of .duties was promised, not at the demand of the free traders alone, but to satisfy'protectionists as well. Efforts to reduce duties were ton slight degree successful. Then came McKinley, who put in force the war rates again. His act was called an act to reduce the re' 'uue. and- in order to acco«rtnlish this object rates were made so high as to prove practically prohibitive in many cases. Tbeavowed object of the Dingley bill is to increase the revenue and to encourage industry in the United. States. But the high protective duties are sonear’y prohibitive of revenue to the government that it was found necessary to resort to nonprotective duties and to internal taxes In orde* to raise sufficient revenue. The dut}* on hides furnishesoneillustratio#of the way the Dingley bill is likely to “encourage industry in the United States.” For many years there has been no duty on hides. There has been growing up in this country a considerable export business in leather. The duty on hides will lend to prohibit the leather merchant of this country from going into the foreign market with his goods. The duty in question was placed in the bill at the demand- of representatives of a very few cattlegrowing states, the electoral votes of which were for the most part cast for Bryan. Hides imported come mostly from South American countries, with which hitherto it has been the policy to encourage trade, but which will be offended and repulsed by the duty on hides.—Chicago Record (Ind.). PROSPERITY OF THE TRUST& The Only Beneficiaries of Repablfcan Legislation. The McKinleyism of 1897. that outdoes almost two to one the McKinleyism of 1890. is fraught with prosperity. The evidence is complete and convincing. It has brought that prosperity to the sugar trust. The opening price of •hares yesterday morning was 143. Nearly every other standard except the sugar poat was deserted that brokers might operate iu the trust so highly favored by congress by the McKinleyism that is to bring prosperity to the country and has brought it to the sugar trust. McKinleyism has done much for the trusts, all of them are in high feather, they are the particular objects of regard of the government as administered by the republican party, but above and beyond them all is the sugar trust, now appropriately passed into the clutch of theStandardOil trust, the all-devouring devil-fish of this country, whose chief proprietor throws a penny for a sop at a college and rises in public places to thank the Lord that he is not like sther men. a publican and a sinner. The republican party is the party now, as always, of great moral ideas. It makes broad its phylacteries and takes uncommonly good care of all those industrial interests that pay big money into a campaign fund, cry patriotically, down with democracy l been use democracy is opposed to favoritism to a class at the expense of the whole republic, and unctuously pockets the profits which a republican congress freely placed at their disposal. — Chicago Chronicle.

-President McKinley, in bis “currency message," discriminates sadly between Assemblages of business men. While be refers approvingly and with some emphasis to the convention of bankers, brokers and stock gamblers at Indianapolis, and declares it expressed the sentiment of the country, he notably refrains from mentioning the Trans-Mississippi convention which met at Salt Lake City, presided over so ably and satisfactorily by William Jennings Bryan, and which almost unanimously declared in flavor of the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen to one. Is the eyesight of McKinley affected with the eame disease as that of Cleveland—which prevented him from seeing across the Mississippi river?—Illinois State Register. -No doubt a majority of the tariff dnkerers would have been perfectly willing to make a fair division of the plunder if the sugar trust had been less rapacious. Bnt that insatiate octopus wanted the whole thing, and all other claims had to give wav.—Kansaa City i Star

BIMETALLISM ABANDONED. |

La important Car» t*a The expected has happened. It came soon and in plain shape. President Me* Kin ley has completely abandoned hi* metallism. His currency message to congress was not the makeshift and shuffling affair that the country had looked for. It is a straight-out declaration for the maintenance of the single gold standard, without any canting palaver about international agreement or the coinage of the home product. The president’s frankness is as refreshing as it is startling. Heretofore he has obscured his intention and wish with regard to currency reform in a haze of ambiguity and pretense. To the weak-kidneyed bimetallist his talk and promises meant bimetallism and to the bigoted monometallist they meant monometallism. The only importance attached to his currency message is contained in its political effect. The document merely commits the president’s party to open and avowed hostility to an independent American monetary system and promises the full strength of the organization to the support of a financial policy through which old world creditor nations have grown rich at the expense of new countries with new civilizationsand new requirements. The message merely asks for executive authority for the appointment of a commission .'‘whose duty it shall be to make recora- | mendations of whatever changes in our present banking and currency laws may be found necessary and expedient, and to report their conclusions on or before the first- day of November next, in order that the same may be transmitted by me to congress for its consideration at its first regular session.*’ The president also tactitly indorses the action taken by the national monetary conference held at Indianapolis last January, and attempts to advise in advance the commissioners he will appoint that they should declare allegiance to the doctrine enunciated by the Indianapolis conference. lie thus discounts th.e work of the proposed commission by prescribing conditions and restrictions. But the details of the message are of l secondary importance only. The chief point of interest is the president’s desertion of bimetallism. This makes the issue between democracy and republicanism clear cut. It leaves the democratic organization the party of bimetallism and the republican organij za 'ion the party of gold monometallism. ! There can no longer be any shuffling and evasion in the republican party. Republicans who are bimetallists must now come to the democratic party. There is no longer the faintest glimmer of hope for them or the triumph of their cause outside of the democratic I party. The democracy can accept the j issue with renewed hope and courage. Republican defeat, if not complete annihilation, and democratic victory are now assured in 1900.—St. Louis Republic. THE WORST YET. The DlBglejr Bill Is Bad In Principle and Detail. It is not a “free trader" but an oldtime republican protectionist whocharaeterizes the senate tariff bill as “the I most outrageous one ever given to the people of this country.” Senator Teller, I who voted for the bill because he believed in giving to the republican party the full responsibility which should accompany power, says this. He declares that “it is a travesty upon the principle of protection.” a measure of “designed exclusively for t&£ benefit of corporations, with little regard for revenue and none for the people.” The list of 130 articles enumerated by Senator Vest on which the duty has been increased in order to strengthen the monopoly that coutrols them bears out this statement. Well might Senator White exclaim as the measure passed: “I hope that the trusts in the United States will now give the chairman of the republican national committee a receipt in full!” The bill is bad in principle and bad in derail. It*puts the highest duties on the common* >t necessaries of the people and essentials of manufacturing. It will not meet the deficiency in the revenue, which was the only excise for legislation at this time. If the McKinley bill was a blunder and tke Wtlson-Gorman bill a betrayal, the senate bill is a crime.—N. Y. World.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -The nation is now in a position to begin another agitation for a revision of the tariff system.—Chicago Jteeord (Ind.). -Hurrah for high tariff and prosperity! Trust stocks have advanced in value $200,030.000since the Dingley rates were agreed upon. The barons knew their business when they backed Hanna and McKinley.—St. Louis Republic. -Everybody seems to have got “protection” in some form, save the fanner. The farmer has been left out in the cold long enough in all countries, but in this country he is not so exhausted by rents that he will not in time shake off his burdens and take care of himself.—Boston Globe. -Republican clap-trap politicians talk about the new tariff protecting the farmers. This is cheap talk in new of the fact that the farmers bav* grain and other farm products to sell. They do not want protection; they want unrestricted markets.aad" trade with the whole world.—Dayton (O.) Tiroes. -It is the want of confidence chiefly that has maintained the business paralysis during the last six months, and the lack of faith was imputed to the delay in inaugurating a high protective policy. That policy has now been made the law of the nation. It is not only protective far in excess of anything ever claimed by protectipnists in the infancy of our industries, but it exceeds in many respects the highest protective policy of the past ever inaugurated in time of peace.--Philadel-phia Times.

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