Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-25
THE PULPIT AND THE SILVER
QUESTION.

Afos04 ..
gold ring. Beecher, rockingham and
other gentlemen of the cloth have
been telling Congress and the peo-
pie what ought to be done in the mat
ter. II these distinguished divines
know no more about the holy Scrip
lures than they do about national
finance, they do not deserve to be
classed as altogether safe spiritual
guides. 1t takes Representative
Price, of Iowa, however, to shake
them up and give them 10 understand
just what they amount to. On the 10th
inst. while the House was in Com
mittee of the Whole on the state of the
Union, Mr.. Price took occasion to de-
liver a most forcible speech in favor Of
the reconciliation of silver. The
speech was one of the ablest we have
read on the subject. and we only re-
greet that we have not space for its re.
production entire. That portion al
luding to the efforts of the clergy will
be perused with interest. 1t is as fol-
lows:
But, Mr.. Speaker, there is another
mode of warfare which these gold
men have resorted to that / am sorry
to be compelled to notice. Not salts
fed with controlling the press in these
money cen,ers. they have by some
means been able to enlist the services
of certain gentlemen of the sa-
cred calling. This l think they will
find has been unfortunate for their
cause, for these gentlemen of the cloth
have exhibited so much bad temper
and such utter Ignorance OF b ques-
ton that in place OF assisting they nave
injured their cause. A gentleman IN
Brooklyn, by the name OF Beecher,
with the prefix of reverned to his
name, has taken up the cudgels for the
jewellers in Wall street, and has exhib-
tied about as much ignorance upon
this question as can we'll be crowded
into one sermon, for it must be remem
bered that he is a preacher. He talks
finance from the pulpit, and publishes
1t in a book, this book, sir, which
l now hold in my hand and sends it
I o us benighted heathens to admonish
and warn us, so that we go not astray.
But. sir, from the reckless character OF
his talk We are led to conclude that he
is lust the kind of man that Burns had
in his mind when he said:
Some books are lies frae end to end,
A7d some great lies were never pened;
Zen ministers they haze been kened
In holy rapture
A rousing Wild at times to BEND
And nairt WI Scripture.
The reverend gentleman has GER
tainly succeeded in all except the nail
Ing, although he look for his text the
sixth and seventh verses of the twelfth
chapter of I, Samuel, which, II II
one will look at, / think he will con-
clude a different sermon might be
preached from. Mr.. Beecher informs
us that |" gold is the standard in Asia,
Africa. Europe and America, north,
south, east and west - and that III is
a universal, ~unehanging standard"
thus including The whole known world,
when the facts are that 76S, 944 ,456 Of
the population of the world use ex-
clusiveiy and entirely silver as their
standard. and 49, SOC, 900 use both gold
and silver. and only about 100 600 900
use a single gold standard. In this
statement l have not included the
United States.
Now, am / not justified in saying
that this reverend gentleman, in max
ing the sweeping statement above re-
ferred to, either wickedly stated what
he knew TO be false or else advertised
himself to the world as a consummate
i%gnora,nus upon this question that en-
titles him to the contempt of every
man who has ever given the subject
any thought? Then, having settled
that question I suppose to his entire
satisfaction, he proceeds to tell us what
kind of men these are who wish to re-
monetize silver. He describes them,
in his own chaste and classic language,
as "bull- headed, without eyes, endeav-
oring to undermine the integrity OF the
nation :" and SAYS "they deserve an
infamy as deep as the lowest depths Of
hell.n He further says that we are
smiscreants," and that this attempt to
renonetize silver "is a high crime and
misdemeanor, and If men in Congress
do not know it, what are they there for?"
Yes, sir; what are we here for? Why
not vacate our seats, and give place to
such men as this reverned gentleman,
whose record Is so clean, whose repu-
tation so unblemished, who has never
baan before the church and the world
In apy euuivocal positions. He would
be the man to fix all this, for he GER
tainly has an experience in a certain
direction that l presume no man who
supports this Silver bill can boast Of.
But it is q little surprising, l think.
that his reverence should consign us to
hell, for, if the papers report him cor
rectly, he has abolished that institu-
ton. 1t is possible. however. that upon
this subject the wish is farther to the
thought. produced by personal consid-
er atoms.
Another reverend gentleman, by the
name of rockingham. took occasion
on Sunday, the 10th of last month, to
nav the advocates of the silver dollar
some left handed compliments. He
compares MS to those people spoken OF
in the Scriptures and Of whom 1t Is
said. I'VE are OF your father the devil.
for he is a liar and the father of lies.o
Again, he says zone thing IS sure;
the passage Of the bill will shake the
foundations Of the Republic. A deeper
danger is in it than in the first shot
fired against Fort Sumter" These
words. sir, are samples Of Mr.. Froth.
fngham's sermon, preached In the city
or Buffalo on Sunday, the 10th OF De.