Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-09-10
DIR. KALLOCHS SHOOTING
THE RELIGIOUS PRESS on THE CALI
FORNIA RIOT.

tional papers, but the Presbyterian,
Methodist and Roman Catholic COM
ment upon the recent shooting Of Dr.
l. S. Kalloch in San Francisco. The
Baptist Weekly characterizes De
Young as a cowardly assassin, but at
the same time condemns, both on poll
teal and religious grounds, the style
of DR.. Kalloeh's reply. Vicious re-
taliation," it says, ill becomes one
who processes to preach the Gospel Of
Christ. 1t would have been wiser for
him to have defended himself and to
have avoided the severe and offensive
personalities by which his adversary
was enraged"
The ErdmiRer and Chronicle re-
grets that Incorporate and disgraceful
words had been said on both sides,
and says it was in every way unfor-
tunatc that the pastor of the leading
Baptist church in San Francisco should
have been identified with the bad
party that gave him the nomination
which caused the trouble. But De
Young's deed and the way of it the
Examiner thinks were utterly infa-
nous.
The National Baptist has nothing
favorable to say of DR.. Kalloch does
not believe him to be a good man.
His recent teaching has been disor-
ganizing and demoralizing, but there
can be no doubt concerning the extent
of his abilities and his power Of lead
ership. He had right to say his say,
offensive as his say was. If he did
not violate the law he ought to have
been protected in his right of free
speech. But in a review of his life,
which is suggested by this affair, the
National Baptist thinks there ought
to be some way in which the denomi-
nation can relieve itself from all re-
sponsibility for a man who brings
reproach on the ministerial profession
and on the Christian character.
The Independent characterizcs the
shooting Of Kalloch as "a barbarous
rcprisal against one who, in policical
can vass, had used the vilest language
which can be applied to the mother
and son Of unwed maternity" On
both sides, the Independent says, the
language was unchristian and disgrace
ful most disgraceful, perhaps, to the
one who occupied the position of a
preacher of Christianity, which he had
already dishonored by his abusive pro-
scriptivcness of the Chinese. On the
whole, there will be deservcdly little
sympathy felt with Kalloch.
A FOUL AND UNJUsTIFIABLE MURDER.
The Christian Union calls the
shooting of DIR. Kalloch "a foul and
utterly unjustiliablc murder" and
thinks it matches the murder of Mr..
Dixon in Yazoo, Mississippi. DIR.
Kalloch enjoyed greater popularity
than good repute, and was not above
the suspicion of using his oratorical
powers for personal advancement. 1t
is strange commentary, the Union
adds, on the condition OF society in
San Francisco that the disciple Of a
Master "who, when he was rcviled,
rcviled not again" should have
answered scurrility with scurrility, as
Mr. KaIloch did. A natural fruitage
of the scattered seeds Of scandal and
abuse in the American press is seen in
such IL murderous affray as this
The Euangelist thinks the shooting
was cowardly and wicked act, nnd
deserves the scverest punishment under
the law. But it does not excuse the
course Of Mr. Kalloch in rcsorting to
violent and bitter personalities, which
naturally provoke violence, he, too,
being the pastor Of the largest Baptist
Church in San Francisco.
The McLodist thinks the Mississippi
murder and the San Francisco attempt
at murder closely resemble each other
in their main features, but that the
latter uproar is on larger scale. But
both rest upon the labor line in politics
But in view Of our circumstances the
Methodit thinks we are entitled, as Il
people, to much credit, because these
cases are so rare.
The Christian Ledder looks upon
the shooting Of Kalloch as the natural
sequel to the Lcchmere House { BOSTON,
scandal Of years ago, which furnished
De Young with abundant and pertinent
material But Kalloch, says the Leader,
thus attacked, like n true 'pothousc"
politician, paid back "in kind, y aud the
belligcrent journalist was made to
vince under family disclosures for the
iniquity Of which he was in no respect
to blame. But no antcccdcnts OF Mr..
Kalloch can justify or even palliatc
the attempt upon his life. His nssnil-
ant is an assassin, and the Leader trusts
that legal justice will be rendered.
But the moral cannot be forgotten, nor
should the salutary lesson be lost
The attempted murder Of Kalloch, like
the real murder Of Fisk, is but the
remote fruitagc Of career that is
worse than disroputablc, in that it is
brazcn in its defiance Of the best public
sentiment.
KALLoCH's ANTECEDENTs.
The Catholic Standnrd says the
murdcrous act Of De Young wns sim
ply the legitimate .fnaic Of most out
ragcous proceedings on both sides
Mr. Kalloch's anteccdcnts will not well
bear publicity. He started out, says
the Standard, as n Bnptist minister,
and soon made n more than doubtful
reputation for himself in Boston, hav-
ing been once tried for adultery and
escaping conviction through disagree
ment of the jury, and then becoming
lawyer, school teacher, horse jockey,
itincrant preacher, hotel keeper, and
finally turning up in San Francisco as
Baptist minister and politician com
bincd. But the act Of shooting was
lawless and murdcrous in the Stand
ard's view, and deserves punishment,
though individually one mAn proved