New-York tribune., 1878-06-22

nature and extent OK tho Natlohs oviiha""''' y" -
bond which is plainly written, and which expresses
on its face from the beginning before the eyes ..
its holders, it's precise signidcance-remoylns an
ground for inference, or implication, or duDie| Ds
substituting an explicit promise.
"Business stimulated to excess by high protective
duties, and by an inflated currency consequent
upon the war;, at last eollapsos," says this rsver-
end but airy politician.
Then skipping gaiy across tho ocean TO make ms
sums prove he drags our war trailing aong with
him TO PROSTATE England and Germany in the same
ruin. but adds France alone. which did not share
in this artificial and sudden initiation, is IN the most
healthy condition. But does OF does not Mr..
Clarke know that France is the country Of the
world which has protective tariff 50 hgh as 20 be
almost prohiDitory and that she has paper car
rency like our not yet recovered ifom the ihha'lou
of the war; aud is 4 bi-metalst into the bargain! II
is the high tariff which has destroyed our
industries. reasons Nr. Clarke, but France. Win
higher tariff than ours be singles cut for ts pros
perity and free-trale England for ~ business de-
preston Il is the reconciliation Of silver when
Iscredits and mi lrcs us says Mr. Clarke, ana shows
us Germany, v hich hls domOnUuzed silver, as de-
pressed as We, and France, with her hands iuii oi
silver. coming up ka "a AOwor! i do not pretend
10 be any better authority on these subjects than
br. Clarke, but one need not read anything but
ms sermon to see that h,s reasons are fatal to his
facts, or his facts 10 hs roasous. They cannot hunt
in couples. DO no. say that protection or silver is
the caue Of French prosperity or silver demone'iz-
alton tho cause cf Gsrnan distress or free trade
the cause Of Engiish depression, bat do say that
Mr. Clarke shall not bring these nations forward to
prove that protection md silver are tho cause oil
business depression m ihe United States.
Terrible corruptiols IN the Civil Service cries
Mr.. Clarke just lancng his spear into that abomi-
nation Of desoi on as BE- glllops past" terrible
deve0pm.nts In the ClUi Service during the ad-
miuisirafou % General Grant revealed the cOrUp-
tion i'm the boIy police" Hurry slowly, bold rider.
"Tarible o1rmpliou revealed are words that may
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pronounced WITH proper hush and mystery. bu' do
the tbirg3 tbei insclyes shock your peop,el httlc
boy terrified a whole Croup of bis schOol-fellows
once by decaugtha' D. had seen adteadiul creature
behind the hedge with eyes rs bright as the sum-
but 1t turned ont 70 be only the cat One can almost
feel the dread in Mr. Clarkc's upturned eyes and
awe-strucl voice as he refers thus 70 the terrible
revelations Of hidden nqui.y in the fostering Ciyh
Service Bat II Mr.. Clarke would eliminate ifom
the Civil Service tne element Of mystery, the eie-
mcnt of the unknown ne might be relieved at find
n that the Civil service is no worse, for instance.
than tile r'li tli F-1tIDits At -4hs NhH+iAN WIZ
take the number OF church members in New
ENGLAND who have been charged with fdu-
ciary trusts since Grants first iuaugura-
ration and compare them with the officers a. the
Civil Service. he viii find that The number Of emf
brzzlrlneuts, defalca ions and various breaches Of
trust among tho la,ter arc infinitely smaller than
those among tho former. 8lr. Clarke might Ear
more insIly look around upon the pious cashiers,
legislators. insurance men, and others who are cX-
iatng crin.e in the States prisons and saw terri
bic developments among dcyout men re-
veal the corruption in our churches.' The
church does not BERN 20 keep the rcius Of
honesty SO hght as does the Government.
II is pure Phari,di5m for the chgrch 70 look over
into the Treasury, and say u am holier than
thou!7 PeauuiarT honesty II no, the hnal, is the
test of holiness and this test the Civil
Service of the United States meets more uufliuch-
indy than The church in the United States.
coincidence" says Mr. Clarke making the regu-
lation shy at Burke, "'Couhdence' says Burke, Is
a plant Of slow growth.'' dances and common
politicians "indecorons, vulgar and malignant
Senators" have hitherto supposed it was Pitt
who make the remark and have not blumed
themselves on their cruditon by that
token; but since the elegant accuracy Of Mr..
Clarke's superior scholarship has transferred It TO
Mr. Burke palsied be the baud that would claim it
for any Pitt! Confidence In ceryymeu Is plant Of
Impossible growth, so long they tganplo 1t down,
roUgl-shod n Is but another battle-a mere 5kir-
,uish indeed i'm the old war Of authority against
reason Tmer to his cloth than 10 his creed the
Rev. James Freeman Clarke rises in his pulpit to
illuminate anathemas against Opinions. With snap
he makes up his clerical mind on iinan-
cial and political questions which have dlyi led
the wise and the good m financial and political
circles the world oyer-I might almost say the
world through-drags them instantly into the
domain Of morals. and denounces as dishonest,
cow ardly, malignant indecorous and vulgar, all
those who do not agree with him. IL is such utter
ances as these of Mr. Clarkes-Pharisaical, arro-
CANT ignorant yet self-satlsfcd-that mako MaSsa-
chusetts with all her beneyolence and beni6cence,
her intellectual power and her ancient honor hated
and hateful Il is because there is another Massa-
chusetts than this; 1t is because her hillsdes and
her valleys noursh another blood, that we look
without shame for the present at her past without
foreboding TO her future.
Is there any of this red blood in the pulpit-red
and real leaping and warm. true to truth and brave
for truth Why then do the clergy present to the
world the astonishing spectacle of a band of watch
men on the walls ofZion occupying themselves with
sending spent balls into the political camp, while
vigilant and powerful enemy is under ninng their
ownf Is time for false feeble, futile diatribes
against Congressman, when that Pbilistine
of Phistines, that Goliah Of Gath, the in
idel Ingersoll, looms up on Boston Heights
at his own sweet WILL with his horrible
stature of SIX cubits and a span, with his
greaves of brass and his staff like weaver's beam,
walking up and down in open day. deridng and
defying the armies Of Israel, drawing after him
deserters by the hundred and by the thousand
while David and all the striplings and all the men
of war chatter along the brooks, and fill their bags
with smooth stones and sling them around at ran
dom with much harm to each other, and scowl
savagely over at Goliath, but never so much as
move in his direction, let alone hitting him in the