Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-13

multiplied to Polythism undreamed
of in Pagan Rome. Thus we are
obliged to turn to secular journals to
learn of the wrongs that need right
ing, the sufferings to alleviate, the
crimes to punish or condone. The
Times gives more of these than any
other journal of our acquaintance.
If it gives them, as approved and
rejoiced over editorially, we have
yet to learn it. They seem to be
reported as mere matters of news,
and it has not occurred to us that
the paper displays more enterprise
in reporting these than it does in its
fashion, sermon or commercial de-
partments. What is meant by term
ing it an S'emissary Of the devil"
we do not understand; unless it be
that Evil, being devil without the d,
has employed this journal as its par
ticular agent.
Mrs. Griswold asks edo not the
of evil, which every
days columns of this paper contain,
bear fruit IN idle or unhealthy
minds?" Doubtless; but there is
space for discrimination, between
suggestions Of evil and REPORTS of
evil. To suggest, by way of coun-
tenancing Or sanctioning evil is
crime. Is the Times particularly
culpable in this respect? To report
or suggest the existence of evil is
quite another matter, and if it works
mischief in ssidle and unhealthy
minds,' such minds must be sacri-
feed for the good of humanity.
The wise and the sincere will only
find in such reports, the necessity
for work, the urgency for investiga-
ton.
We were not aware that the pa
per was particularly sneering Or sar-
donic toward Woman. Indeed we
have often been surprised at observ-
ing what we thought was spirit
of justice toward prosecuted and
wronged women in its columns.
A times when multitudes of pa
pers had only jeers and coarse filings
at some woman, with never a word
of that woman's utterances, the
Times has refrained from comment
and given the words of the woman
to speak for themselves. This is
simple Justice, not to be commend
ed in the Times, on the contrary
every other journal that does not SO,
deserves denunciation. Mans faith
IN womanhood can never be under
mined; neither can woman's in
manhood. Such faith is a funda-
mental instinct of nature. But all
men are not heroes and few women
are angels, and the sooner any sem
timental faith of this kind is under
mined the better, as the illusion UNI
fits both parties for a rational COM
prehension of the stern duties and
real beauties of life. Both man.
hood and Womanhood are diviner
and nobler than has yet been con-
ceived, but great many men and
women need to have their sins discov-
cred rather than concealed, because
their hypocracy and false exterior
deludes the innocent and retards the
growth of humanity.
Our friend says: sWhere one
person reads sermon a hundred
read only the columns devoted to
the devil" Surely, if ninety nine
out of every hundred prefer the lit
erature of his Satanic Majesty,
there is small hope for the race.
Such an estimate speaks i'll for the
sermons or else it is formidable
argument for sstotal depravity."
Our faith in human nature is such
as to lead us to distrust this estimate,
but if it must be accepted, we shall
steadily insist that the sermons are
deficient ii that quality which the
salvation of the age demands or it
would never thus reject them.
Not as an apologist for or devotee
of the Chicago Times do we write.
Our chief desire in opening this sub
ject. was to call attention to the cry
ing want of the day-religious