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rfwiiS***;* [I P^.s'S^i- i mm \MONOPOIY AND COMMUNISH S'A'RUGGMNG FOE THE POS- SESSION OF THIS• COCNTBY.\ Text: \The Lord delighteth in thee and *hy land shall be married,?'—Isaiah, lxii, 4. As the greater includes the less, so does the circle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own repub- lie, Bold, exhilarant, unique, divine im- agery of the text. So many are depressed by the labor agitation and think everything in this country is going to pieces, I preach this morning a sermon of good cheer and anticipate thotime when the Prince of Peace and the Heir of Universal Dominion shall take possession of this nation and \thy land shall De married,\ In discussing the final destiny of this na- tion it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on platforms and in places of public concourse, I hear so many of the muffled drums of evil prophesy sounded, as though we were on the way to national Interment, and beside\ Thebes, and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetaiy of dead nations our republic was to be entombed, that I wish you to understand it is nottobeobsequies,but nuptials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; notcypress, but orango blossoms; notre- quierii, but wedding march, for \thy land lihall be married.\ I propose to name some of the (Suitors who are claiming the hand of this republic. This land is so fair, so beauti- ful, so affluent, that it has many suitors, and It will depend much upon your advice whether this or that shall be accepted or re-' jected. In the first place I remark:.There is a greedy, all-grnsping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and that monster is known by the name of monopoly. His sceptre is made but of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He 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 legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, for the most part, monopoly decides everything, if monopoly favors a law it passes; if monopoly opposes a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put- ting into his pockets in one year two hundred millions of dollars in excess of all reasonable oharges for service. Monopoly holds- in this •one hand the steain power of locomotion, and in the other the electricity of swift commu- nication. Moncprly decides nominations acd>elections—city.elections,.State elections, fjSJei? 1 ' elections. With bribes he secures -thBKv6ta»^of loglolatan,, -girlxig«;th*m««t*i*,, passes, giving appointments to needy relist-: fives to lucidtive positions, employing them; as attorneys if they are lawyers,, carrying their goods fiftesn per cent, less if they are' merchants, and if he finds a ease very stub- bom, as well as very important, puts down before him the hard cash of bribery. Bdt monopoly is not so easily caught now as when,duringthe:term of Mr. Buchanan,' the Legislative Committee in one of our States explored and exposed the manner in whicha certain railway company procured a donation of public land. It was found out that thirteen of the Senators from that estate received $175,000 among them. Sixty mem- bers of the lower house of that State re- ceived *5;000 and S10,000 each. The Gov- ernor of the State received $50,000, his clerk received $5,000, the Lieutenant-Governor re- ceived *10,000, all the clerks of the Legisla- ture received §5,000 each, $50,000 were divided amid the lobby agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale is all the time going on in some of the States of the Union, but it isnot so bluhderingas it used to be, and therefore not so 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 coal, and every man, woman and child in the Uni- ted States feels tho touch of that moneyed despotism. 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. 1 wish that this ouestion might be the question of our • presidential elections, and that we compel the political parties to recognize it on their platforms. I have nothing to say ao-ainst capitalists. A man has aright to all the money he can make honestly. There is not a laborer in the land that would not be worth a million dol- larsif he could. I have nothingtosay against corporations as such; without them, no great enterprise would be possible. But what I do say is that the same principles should be ap- plied to-capitalists and to corporations that are applied to the poorest man and the plain- est laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong for great corporations. If I take from you your property without any adequate com- S ensation I am a thief, and if a railway amagesthe property of the people without making any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic thief. What is wrong on asmall scale is wrong on a largoscale. Monopoly in England has,ground hundreds of thousands of her best people into semi-starvation, and to Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness. Five hundred-acres in this country make an immense farm. When you read that in Dakota Territory Mr. Cass has a farm of 15,000 acres and .Mr. -Grandon 35,000 acres and Mr. Darymple 40,000 acres, your eyes dilate, even though these farms are i n great regions thinly inhabited. But what do you mink of this which I take from the Dooms- day Book, showing what monopoly is on rthe other side thesea. I give itas a warning of •what it would do on this side the sea & in some lawful way the tendency is not re- ; slsted. In Scotland J. G, M, Heddle owns i 60,40Q,abBS3; Ear} of Wemyss, 5:2,000 aeros; • Sir J. Etddoll, 54.5Q0 acres; Sir C W. A, Ross, 55,000 acres; K H. Scott, 60,700 acres; Mr. J. Baird, 00,000 acres; Sir J. Banisden, 00,000 aores: Earl of Dunmore, 60.000 acres: Dukeof Roxburghe, £0,000 acrei;Enrl of Moray, 01,700 acres; Countess of Home, 02,000 acres; LordMid- dleton, OSjOOOacres; Earlof Aberdeen, 03,- EQO acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnelk 03,000 acres; Mr. J. J. Hf'Jbhnston, (S8;000 acres; Earl of Airlie 63;000 acre3; Sir J. Colquhoun, 07,000:acres; C. Morrison, (17,000 acres; Duke of Montrose, f)8;000 acres; Meyriok Bankcs. 70,000 acres; Grant of Glenmorriston, 74,(100 aores; Marquis of Ailsa, 70,000 acres; Bar- oness Willbugby d'Eresby, 7(!.OQ0 acres; Mr. J. Malcolm, 8T>;000 aores; Marquis of Huntly, 80;000 acres; Balfour of Whittinghame, 81,- 000 acres; Sir J. O. Orde, 81,000 acres; Mar- a uisbfButo, OSjOOO aores The Chisholm, f,50O aores: Mr. E. Ellice, 89,500 acres; Sir G. M, Grant, I03;00d aores; Duke of Portland, lOOjOOO acres; Cameron of Lochiel, 109,500 acres: SirC. W. Ross, 110,400 acres; Earl of Fife; 113(000; The Mackintosh, 124,000 acres: Lord Macdonnld, 180;000 acres; Earl of Dalhousie, 130,000 acres; Macleod, of Macleod, 141,700 aores; SirK. Mackenzie, of Gairlock, 164,- (180 acres; Duke of Ar'gyle, '175;000 acres: Duke of Hamilton, 183,000 aores; Duke ol Athole, 194,000 acres: Duke of Richmond, 255,000 acres; Earl of Stair, 270,000 acres, Mr. Evan Baillio, 300,000 aores; Earl of Sea- field, 800,000 acres: Dukeof Buccleugh, 482,. 183 acres; Earl of Bfeadalbane, 437;6li(iacres Mr. A. Matheson, 220,433 acres,, and Sir J. Matheson, 400,070 acres; Duchess of Suther- land. 140,879 acres, and Duke of Sutherland yV,'6,aSS acres. Such monopolies imply an infinite acreage, of wretchedness. There is no poverty in th< United States like that in England,, Ireland and Scotland for the simple reason that ir those lands monopoly has had longer and la- ger sway. Last summer in Edinburgh Scotland, after preaching in Synod Hall, 1 stood on a chair in front of the hall anc preached to an audience of 20,000 people itanding in one ol the most prosperous parti of the city, and reaching out toward the cos tie, as fine an array of strength and healtK and beauty as one ever sees. Three noun after I preached to the wretched inhabitant! of the Cowgate and Cannongate.the audienci exhibiting the squalor and sickliness and de- spair that remains in one's mind like one o! the visions of Dante's Inferno. Great monopolies in any land imply great privation. The time will come when bur government will have to limit the amount of accumulation of property. Unconstitu- tional do you say? Then constitutions will have to be changed until they allow such limitation. Otherwise the work of absorption will go on and the large fishes will eat-up tho small fishes, and the shad will swallow the minnows and the porpoises swallow the shad and the whales swallow the porpoises, and a and-500 of these will eat up^KS otWef'BOOTiu/-\ one hundred eat up the^ther 400, and flhall there will be only 50 left, and then .40 ah then 30 and then 20'and then lOand then tw-. and then pne. But would a law of limitation of wealth be unrighteous? If I dig so near my neighbor's foundation, in order to build my house, that 1 endanger his, the law grabs me. It I have a tannery or chemical factory the malodors of which injure residents in the neighbor- hood, the law says:. \Stop that.\ If I drain oft a river from its bed and divert it to turn my mill-wheel, leaving the bed of the river a breeding place for malaria, the law says: \Quit that outrage!\ And has not a government a right to say that a few men shall not gorge themselves on the comfort and health and life of g nerations? Your rights end where my rights begin. Monopoly—-brazen-faced,iron-fingered, and vulture-hearted, monopoly—offers his hand to this Republic. He stretches it out over the lakes and up the Pennsylvania and the Erie and tho 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 peo- ple,. North, South, East and West forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them at the ballot box, forbid them on the platform, forbid-them by great organizations, forbid them by the overwhelmning sentiment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of God, forbid them by prayers to high heaven. That Herod shall not have this Abigail. It shall not be to all devouring monopoly that this land is to be married. 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 explo- sion. He believes in no God,no government,' no heaven, and no hell except what he can make on earth 1 He slew the Czar of Russia, keeps Emperor William, of Germany, prac- tically 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 himseif, the universal butcher. In France it is called Communism; in the United States it is called Socialism; in Russia it is called Nihilism, but that l'astj. is the most graphic and descriptive term. It means complete and eternal smash up. It would make the holding of property a crime and it would have a dagger through your heartahd a torch to your dwelling and turn oyer this whole land into the possession of theft and lust and rapine and murder. Where:dpes this monster live? In St. Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New York, and in all the cities and villages of this land. The devilof destruction is an old devil, and .ho is to be seen at every great fire where there is anything to steal, and at every shipwreck where there is anything valuable floating ashore, and at every railroad accident where there are overcoats and watches to be pur- loined. On a,small scale I saw it in my col- lege days, when, in our literary soci- ety 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 cigar inserted, There has not for the last century bsen a fine .picture in your art. gallery or a graceful statue in your parks or a fine fresco onypur wall or a richly bound album in your library but Would havebeen despoiled if the hand of riifflan'sih could have got at it withoutperil of incarceration. Some-: times the evil spirit shbws'-itself by thrb-yihg vitriol into a beautiful face, sometimes by wilfully scaring a horse with a velocipede, sometimes by crashing its cartwheel against acarriage. The philosophy of the whole business is that there is a large number of people who, either through their laziness or their crime, own nothings and thoco, who through industry and wit of their own or of their ancestors are in possessions of large re- sources; The honest laboring classes never had anything todo with such murderous en- terprises; It is the villainous classes who would not work if they had plenty of work offered them at large wag|s. Many of these suppose that by the demoli- tion of law and order they would be advantaged and the parting of the shipof state would allow them as wreckers to carry off some of the cargo: It offers its hand to this fair republic It proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box. the Legislative hall, 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-as to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Ni- hilism—this panther—having prowled across other lands has set its paws on our soil, and it is only waiting for the time in which t o spring upon its prey. It was Nihilism that massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago and St. Louis a few days ago and that burned the railroad property at Pittsburg during the great riots; it was Nihilism that slew black people in our Northern cities dur- ing the war; it, was Nihilism that again, and again in San Francisco and New York mauled to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism that glares out of the windows of the dronk- eries upon soberTpeople as they go by. Ah! its power has never yet been used. It would* if it had the power, have every church,, chapel, cathedral, school house; college and 1 home in ashes. Let me say it is the worst enemy of the laboring classes in any country. The honest ray for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is drowned out by the vociferations for anarchy. The criminals and the vagabdnds who range through our cities talking about their rights when their flrstiright is the peni- tentiary— At they could be hushed up, and the downtrodden laboring men of this country could be heard, there would be more bread for hungry children. In thisland riot and bloodshed never gained any wages for the people.orgathered up any prosperity. In this land the, best iveapoii w not the club, hot the shilleiah, not fire arms,, tout'the ballot. Let not bur. .bpprbssed.lnbor- your table scantier, your >; 61uTfFen? !0 nun? grieiyyour suffering,greater.,. Yet this Nihil-, ism, witlifeetred with slaughter, come3 forth and offers its hand for thiwfepublic. 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 music must be the smothered groans of multitudinous victimsj the garlands must be twisted of nightshade, the fruits must be apples of Sodom, the wine must be the blood of St. Bartholomew's mas- sacre. No'Kfc is. not, to Nihilism, the san- guinital monster, that this land is-to be mar- ried. Another suitor for the hand of this nation is infidelity, Mark you that all anarchists are infidels. Not one of them believes in the Bible,and very rarely any of them believe in a God. Theirmost conspicuous leader was the other day pulled by the leg from under a bed in a house of infamy, cursing and blas- pheming. The police of Chicago, exploring the dens of the Anarchists, found dynamite and vitriol and Tom Paine's Age of\ Reason and obscene pictures and complimentary biographies of thugs and assassins, but not. one testament, not one of Wesley's hymn books, not one Roman Catholic breviary. There are two wings to Infidelity. The one calls itself liberalism and appears in highly literary magazines 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 infidelity proposes to conquer this land to itself b y the pen. An- archy proposes to conquer it by bludgeon and torch. When the midnight ruffians despoiled the grave of A. T, Stewart in St. Mark's.church- yard everybody was shocked But infidelity E roposes something worse than that-^the rob- ing of all the graves of Christendom of the hope of a resurrection. It proposes t o chisel out from the tombstones of your Christian dead the words \Asleep in Jesus\ and to sub statute the words \Obliteration annihila tion.\ Infidelity proposes to take the lettei from the world's Father inviting the nations to virtue and happiness, and tear it uo intc fragments so small that you canhol read a word of it. It proposes to take the consolation from the broken hearted and the soothing pillow from the dying. Infidelity proposes to sweai in the President of the United States and the Supreme Courtandthe Governors of States and the witnesses in the courtroom with their right hand on Paine's '' Age of Rea- son\ or Voltaire's \Philosophy of History.\ It proposes to take away from this country the boblrthat makes the difference between the United States and the Kingdom -of Dahomey, between American civilization and Bornesian cannibalism. If Infidelity could destroy the Scriptures it would in 200 years turn the. civilized natibnsback tosemi-bar- barism and then from semfcbarbai'ism into midnight savagery, until the morals of a menagerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chim- panzees would be better than the morals of the shipwrecked, human race; iJ&^y impulse in the right direction that this world has overbad has eorho from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence. That hook has been the mother bf all reforms and all l oharltiesrrrinother of English Magna Chart* ! and American Declaration of Indendonce. Benlamta Franklin hold that holy book in his.nand;,8toqd beforean infidel club dt Paris anireadtothem out of the-prophecies of Habakkuk, and the infidels, not knOwink what book i t was, declared it was tho best poetry they had ever heard. That book brought-George Washington down on his knees Jn the snow at Valley Forge, and led the dying Brince<pf Wales to ask some one to sing \ Rook of Ages.\ * tell you that the worst attempted crime of the century is the attempt tp destroy this book; yet infidelity, loathesome, stenchful, leprous, pestiferous, rotten monsterjstretehes out »fa hand; icherdus with the second death, tp take the hand of this republic' It stretches it out through seductive magazines and through Jyceum lectures and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of tho continent already fully settled and the two-thirds not yet occupied, -It ^XJv.\?^ 6 ' neaU east of -the Mississippi, with the keys of the church arid the Christian printing presses—then give me Wyoming; give me Alaska, give me Montana, give me Colorado, give me all the States and Terri- tories westof the Mississippi, and 1 will take those places.and keep them b y right of poses- Bion long before the Gospel can be fully en- trenched,\ _, A S d Jb's suitor pre-ses his case appallingly. Shall- the banns of that marriage be. pro- claimed f \No!\ say the home missionaries of the westja-martyrbandof whom the world is 1 not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and malaria and starvation, \no! not if we can help it. By what wo and our children have suffered; we forbid the, banns of that mar- riage!\ _ \No!\say all.patriotlc voices, '-bur institutions were bought at too dear a price and were defended at too great a sacrifice to be socheaply surrendered;\ \No says the God of Bunker Hill and Independence Hall and Gettysburg,. \ I did not start th's nation for such a farce.\ \No cry ten thousand volGes, \to infidelity this land shall not be injarried.\ But there is another suitor that presents -his. claim for the hand of this republic. He is mentioned in the verse following my text, where it.says: \As the bridesroom rojoiceth over the-bride, so shall thy God'rejoice over thee.\ Itis.not my figure, it is the figure of: _..,.-» the Bible. -Christ is so-desirous to have-this- ^f: *•£. world loveLim that he stops at nohumilia\^ - i'N.., tion of simile. Hecnmpires His srrace to.-... t'„> * spittle on the eyes'of the blind. He com-\ \ l pare3 Himself to-a hen gathering the chick-'' ,yV- rK ; ens, .and in my text Ho compares Himself to„?'AS? \•«*** asuitor'b.eggmea handinim.wria<*6. Does' £-'4W- thisGhrlst, the King, deserve this.huid! Be- - - .'.y* • hold Pilate's Hall and: the3nsultlhe: e-xpecto- -• t/sstfv** ration on the-face of Christ. Behold the Gal- . svdreanrnassdero and thaawful.hemorrhage.^' v pf(- ^fi-ve woutidSi .Jaojjfrjeryed fbur^eaj^'J ; ., win^thelo-vb:bf-this world. \Often princess^ ~'\Mj^i' *.-. 1 ' at their..very birth are pledged intfeatyrA-',' ';*-.,..-v 1 of marriage to princes or kings bf-earth, .'so ~ ftii', \' .,'•';' this nation at its birth was pledsted to Clteisir- ?v '«., ~ ; for divine marriage. Before CJumbus and :%. *'••-., his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria,- '•''\-\ the Pinta and the Nina, for their wonderful voyage, what was the last thing they did,, They sat down and took the holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they-i'P???; caught, the Jlrst glimpse of this -country'fcg and the gun of one ship had announced * \ it to the other vessels that land had been discovered, what was the song: that went up from all the three decks? \Gloria in excelsis.\ After Columbus and his 120 men had stepped from the ship's deck t o 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 landed i n New York ? What did the Pilgrim Fathers db afterthey landed in New England ? With bended knee and uplifted face and heaven- besieging prayer they took possession of this continent for God. How was the first Amer- ican 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 iis I Just open the map bf the continent and see how it is shaped for immeasurable prosperi- ties; navigable rivers, more in number and greater than of anyother land, rolling on all sides into the sea, prophesying large manu- factures and easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains timbered with wealth on the t>p and sides,, metalled with wealth underneath. One hundred and-eightjr thousand square mllesof coal, 180,000<square miles.of iron; The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly ever last3 more than threbdays—extreme heat or,cold. Climate for the most part bracing arid favorable-for brawn and brain. All fruits, all min- erals, . -all harvests; -Scenery dis- playing an autumnal pageantry that-' •• no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquakes, No- Scotch mists. No London fogs; No Egypt>- ;ian plagues. No Germanic divisions. The people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has traveled abroad For the poor, more sympathy; f or the industrious, more opportunity. Oh, how good God was t o our father arid-how good He'has been to us and bur cnildreri. To Him—bles ed be Hi=- mighty hairibl—-to Him bf|cros3,arid triumph, to-Him who still remembers the p i oyer of the Huguenots,and Holland refugees and the PUgririi ! Fa'the'r&-rto'Him shall this land be married. Oh; you Christian patriots, by your\ contributions and your prayers hasten on the fulfilment of the text. We have during, the\ past six or seven years.turned a new leaf in\ our national his toryby the sudden addition of foreigners At Kansas City I was told by a gentierran \ who had opportunity for large investigation t that a great multitude had gone through
