Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-11-14

he hastes to protect his Organ
Perhaps there are other organs be.
side tho paper that Onght to have
been protected.
The author says, "By occupying
u portion of the OPINION with u love
story and the remainder with good
wholesome, historical, scientific and
moral reading, we believe that ten
persons peruse the page where one
would il 1t was devoted specially to
Iany one Of the above subJects."-
Surely this is a candid confession.
His ''love" story is neither "gO0d,"
"whOlesOme," nor ''mOral reading"
Then what kind Ofreading isitf And
now for u compliment to the good
taste aud morality of the people of
Bradford: "Ten persons persue the
page" for the "love' story which is
neither "gOOd," "wh0leSume." nor
"moral reading" to one that would
lit were filed with what was "g0od,
wholesome and ,nOral.' Then when
the pulpit lifts its voice and declares
that horse racing. rope dancing and
newspaper sen sati0ns have II de-
mOralizing tendency, according to
the editorial, it is not 80 far astray.
But stih more complimentary to
the OPINION readers, he informs us
that If he had not printed the
Bcecher scandal, he would have lost
half of his subscribers in week
aud that such is the condition of the
public morals that all the preachers
in ChristendOm cannot change pub
lie opinion, (,erhaps not BRADFORD
OPINIoN) in this matter. This GER
tainly sounds Oracular. We might
as we'll shut up our churches at
once, and commence printing Glove"
stories and adultery. Why every
news vender in the land thought he
had the right to introduce the
Beecher. TiltOn adultery, as matter
of general conversation, into our
parlOrs, among our young men and
ladies' and our children, we could
not divine. except on the ground of
the editorial--the public morals de-
mdnded it.
And now for a confession that
covers the whole ground and adj
mits every point we have taken. re-
garding the press, ''The only way
for the controllers of the press TO do
is to print this sensation news as
Mr.. Fulton styles it, in as brief q
space as possible, and fill the re-
mainder Of the paper with good,
wholesome reading, which will coun-
teract, in 4 great measure, the evils,
if any, which may possibly grow
out Of such publications." Why
print in n corner what it takes the
rest of four to eight or more pages
to counterfeit 3? Is he public ben
efactor who will send out as much
bad as good in newspaper is
this the great problem of the press,
to try to counterfeit it's evils by it's
good :? We claimed that it was the
province of the press, as of the pull
pit, to destroy the evil, not merely
to try to counterfeit. Is it not la
inevitable, that the paper is sent in.
to our homes to educate, in part at
least, our children, bearing the same
weight of evil as of goodi Let the
press stop its issues, and then see
if the intelligence and moral senti-
ment of the country will not start
it Oh proper basis.
And now the writer having "done"
the fair and the press to his salts
faction, has resources to spare and
he will devote them to the public
good, as a theological professor in
a divinity school. The expositor
spe axis: sit seems to us that Mr..
Fulton was unfortunate in his text.
The Saviour intended to teach that
money spent in such way as to af-
ford comfort and pleasure to man
kind was not only proper but com
mendable." Did the Saviour teach
that money spent in affording to the
people what was neither "gOod,
wholesome nor morap was CON-
mendable, however much pleasure
it might gives Again, "There are
other purposes to which riches may
he put besides aiding the poor and
destitute, whether people or church
es." Are horse racing. printing
Glove" stories which are granted to
be neither "good, wholesome or NOR
ap and the dissemination Of the
full text of adultery through all
classes of the land, some of these
''purposes"?
Perhaps we have no need to in
form the editorial divine, that other
schools teach us to treat portions OF
the Scripture either textually or
topically. Textually, by dwelling
upon the members Of the text i'll
relation to its immediate contexts.
Topically, by lifting it out of its
place among its cOntexts when it
contains a perfect theme or topic,
and discussing it indepdently. We
first noticed it in relation to it's con-
texts, and after that, for our then
present purpose, treated it top'calty.
Then as poser in this mastery
defense, we have, ''NOw then, if the
men, women and children who
wasted their money to 60 to the
fair, received pleasure as well as
profit from the Investment, we do
not see anything reprehensible in the
act OF so spending it." If pleasure
irrespe ctive Of it's character, be a
purpose for spending our