The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-02
NEW SERIES---NO. s.

posed to it, Men have acted the hypocrite
in religion for the same purpose. Some of
the most disgusting hypocrisy has been
acted for such selfish purposes. Men
who have dared to act in ac-
ctrdance with the dictates OF their judg-
ment have, within few days, been de-
nounced as "drunkards," gamblers" "re-
formed drunkard, y etc. Such is the reply
of men who have usurped control of State
school, to courteous statement of facts
If the drunkards are reformed, it is more
than can be said of some who are assailing
them. If the charges were true, the per-
sons assailed would be no worse than some
who support the ring, and are members Of
it, They are better in this particular at
least: they do not desecrate the cause of
Christianity or profession of religion by a
hypocrtical pretense to be what they are
not Some Of their assailants are guilty of
all they charge on others, and add to this
a hypocritical pretense of religion, and use
| religion as cloak for misconduct, and the
church as tool to accomplish their selfish
| purposes.
But blow at the Normal is a blow at
the N. E. church" A blow NJ the present
management Of the Normal is rot blow
| at the NJ E. church unless the NJ. f.
church has usurped control of what it has
no night to control. If the Methodist
IS In its place an attempt to render the
Normal non-sectarion school will not hit
the church. Why do not the other churches
clamor and run around, and threaten, and
complaint Because the Methodist church
confesses that it has usurped control of
what belongs to all parties and now at
tempts to bulldoze men out of An ATTEMPT
to depose the usurper.
"a blow at the Methodist Church Is a
blow at the Republican party" Not I'M
less the Methodist Church has seized what
it has no right to control, and has become
political machine. If the Methodist
Church controls the Republican party, then
the party should sink out of sight, or it
should depose the usurper. Said proml-
nent Republican, "The Methodist Church
has maneuvered to secure nearly all the
general government appointments in South
ern Illinois; nearly all the places in the
Asylum at Anna; the Normal at Carbon
dale, and the Penitentiary at Chester 1t
has maneuvred to secure three or four times
as many general government and State ap-
pointments throughout the State in pro-
portion to numbers as any other church.
This must be changed, or the party will be
sink under the load" The assertions and
efforts made in Carbondale during the last
three months, justify the remark.
The time has come. when men should
cast off their necks this ring, which has
rode Carbondale, as the Old Man of the
Sea rode Sinbad. A rebuke should be ad-
mlnistered to this insolent dictation that
threatens men, and ostraczes them socially,
and in business and politically, unless they
vii! act the hypocrite and Join them, or act
at their beck and nod. This attempt to
contino business to a certain clique should
be broken up, and let each man stand on
his merits, and be free to act as his judy
ment dictates, without persecution or ostra-
clsm. Have not Taxpayers right to try
and change the management of an institu-
ton they are taxed TO support, whep they
think such management wrong and
| injurious' If they believe that
such management has perverted the school
and prevented its being benefit to them,
and made 1t burden that threatens to
bankrupt them, have not they right to at
tempt change! Or, are they only free to
pay taxes to support a ring that misman-
ages the school and ruins it, until they can
do so no longer, and then 90 into bank
ruptcy?
Said gentleman who signed the circular
~ feel as if was signing a Declaration of
Independence. Will the Republican party
of Carbondale and vicinity rebukc this in
solent dlctation' Will they labor to
bring about time when neither
ring, nor clique, nor one church, nor all
churches. will domineer over society, and
public efforts and movements9when all will
be free to act as conscience dictates, and
all will stand on their merits, and men no
longer play the hypocrite to curry favor
with a clique?"