A Question Of Morals

I am not the advocate of turning the pulpit into a politica] platform or degrading the minister of the Lord Jesus Christ into a violent partisan, but I lieve that the pulpit has as much right to speak out agamst dishonest monoy, repudiation of obligations, popular disorders and assaults on the tnbunals of law, and the spirit of anarchism as it has to preach against dram-selling or Sabbath-breaking or Armenian massacres. Certainly the clergymnn should not be prevented from preaching the grace of temperance because prohibition is made a partisan issue; and he was not censurable for preaching the gospel of human rights yhen negro slavery was a sharply-drawn issue in politics. Some of the questions submitted to the ballot box touch the very core of sound morality. One of these is under suoh daily and hourly discussion tbat 1 need only allude to it - viz.: The proposal to debase our currency, and for the benefit of silver-mine owners and money changers to scale down the value of every dollar in a servant girl's bank deposit, every dollar in a soldier's pension and every dollar contribuled to religious and benevotent societies! Does thia involve no question of sound nuorallty? Shall a prot'essedly Christiau country turn swindler? ïwo yeara ago Chicago was the scène of a terrible and long-continued riot. The President of the United States, ia the eourageous discharge of his simple duty, used the federal arm to quell the riot and give free way to the mails and to inter-state commerce. That oné noble act of the President did more to suppress the mob spirit and to insure public order than any single executive act since Lincoln deelared emancipation. But Mr. Bryan'è convention - Bt the instiga tioti of Altgeld - violently condeirined that rightciius act and inaulted the President who did it! Haa the Christian pulpit no right to protest against such reckless anareliisnif The Suprome court of the United States is the highest tribunal of justice in the land; it should be too sacred for the touch of partisan deiuagogues. The Chicago platform directly assails its integrity and threatens to pack the court in order to secure a reveraal of its juut decisions! President Harrison, in his recent New York speech, did not use too strong langujige in rebuking this aRNault oa the majeütjr f law ai tathroced in tliat august tribunal. Shall the Cliristian pulpit be padlocked from nttering a gyllablé of protest against the threats of Anarchists, Populists and Socialists to make the Bupreme court the creature of thi'ii1 willV We are a nation of free and independent citizens, with no class ' tious. Every one who has Btudied the utt'erancea of Mr. Bryan must have obaeryed that he aims to créate class distlnctions and arose class animosities. He makes his constant appeal to the ignorant, the unsuecessful, the dissatisfied and the discordó nt elements. Who WDild desire to be a passenger on an ocean steamer if the stokers and the stewards- for any financial grievance - should clap the captain and mates and chief cngineer in irons and should