The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1870-11-05
Prentice sEuiferd ON tbcrCail- II niietin and
ShnmS Generally.



| CRIriouE cRIrrcIsEp--A MoDEL EDITOR.
Prentice Mulford lectured last night at
Dashaway Hall upon the following topics
'Rulletia and Cats Criticism Of our Camp
Meeting Lectures-Philosophy Of Religious
Excitement-The Calls Future State oroph-
esied-The Aristocratic Prince of Darkness
Contrasted with the Common Prince of
lackness--Journalistic Non-ccmmittalism.
or How to Paint q Man Black and Never
Touch him with the Brush-The Heightened
Church Of Two per Cent. Minute-With q
variety Of other entertaining and instructive
mstter. The audience was larger than at
either of the two preceding lectures
Mr. Mulfard began his lecture by explain
ing that two weeks ago he had promised to
continue his dissection of the Slow and Fast
| Coach Revival Preachers, but he intended,
for that night at least, to give them a respite
and concentrate his forces upon their defend
ers,
THE SAN FRANCISCO HcALL' AND "BuLLErIN.n
The latter had attempted to chastise him edi-
torially for being wanting in respect for Re-
vival Ministers, camp meeting and REVEALS.
This, in business point OF view, was all
right enough. The Call, of course, followed
suit, and called him edisrepItable.' That
was to be expected; when the Bulletin took
snuff the Call sneezed. Should the BallettR
happen to see cloud in the sky having the
appearance of a whale, the Call also would
see something very like whale there. and
cry 'tThere she blows |" If the Bulletin saw
cloud like camel, the Cali also saw it.
Rig INJuN AND LITTLE INJuN.
Into town where he once lived, big
'Iniunn squaw was 10 the habit of coming,
for the purpose of peddling various articles
of Indian manufacture. These she used to
cry through the streets in stentorian voice,
that could be heard almost from one end cf
| the town to the other. At times a verv little
"Iniun" squaw used to be about town at the
same time, selling the same things. She,
however, did not trouble herself to cry out her
wares as did the other, for the very good rea-
son that she could not. So she contented
herself with walking behind the big ssIniun"
/ all the time and after each stentorian shout
she would cry 81 too tool" The But
letin was the big Injun, the Call the little In
| jun. The fate of these papers will be that
of an eternal straddling of the fence dividing
the heaven of the slow-coach preacher and
the hell to which, sink of said heaven, its ce-
lestial inhabitants will adjourn in the despe-
ration of ennui.
| 4BULLETIN" EDITORIAL CRITICISED.
| Mr.. Milford then proceeded to review the
editorial in which the Bulletin had clumsily
attempted to reprove ard crush him for his
alleged irreverent treatment of orthodox re-
ligion. He thoroughly pulled to pieces the
article in question, taking it sentence by
sentence, and exposing its clumsiness, weak
ness, fallacy and hypocrisy, provoking there
by frequent applause. In tho course of bis
demolishing replies to the clumsy attack, he
explained that he ridiculed not religion, but
only the shams which often went by that
name. He believed in God, but he didn't
believe in glorious Deity and then believe
that He employed q slow coach revival
preacher as a sort. OF pettifogging attorney to
| explain His laws. He believed camp meet
| ing enthusiasm to be neither more nor less
| than psychological and mesmeric excitement.
He said he had not come forward to "show
his wit, as the Bulletin had insinuated, but
| to wage a war-a war to the knife-against
all shams.
PER CENT. PER MINUTE
Then came in FOR share of the lecturers sar-
casm--the difference between the uncompro-
missing rawbone religion CT the "Slow Coach
church, and the fashionable easy-going reli-
| gion OF the High Ioned, being SHOWN IN
an amusing manner. A junior member of
'sSignor Devilo Chesterfield Faust" family
(the fashionable devil) the lecturer said, is
| the
| EDITOR WHO WRITES FOR FAY,
Who can write a wicked squib with one hand
and three column article ON the dogma of
the immaculate Conception with the other.
The most amusing part of the lecture con-
cluded it, viz: an illustrated description of
an editor engaged in writing his fortnight
ly Religious Review" The lecturer, after
describing the editorial apartment, SIT down
to table which was upon the platform.
Upon this table were Bakers Saints Rest,
| The DAYS Doings, 'sDon Juan, "The Song
of Solomon, i"Cotton Mather on infant Dam
nation" The Nes York Clipper, ink, scis-
sors and a bottle of whisky. "The Fort
nightly Religious Review" was then written
mp amid roars of laughter on the part of the
audience, editor refreshing himself at inter-
walls with copious draugtts of whisky and q
choice cigar.
/ NEXT LECTURE.
| Mr.. Mulford announced that his next lee
ture would be upon "The Decisions, Vaga-
ries and Humbugs of Modern Spiritualism. !"
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