Daily Republican., 1879-06-16

the business of that same hotel keeper
is made public We are perfectly salts
fed that Mr.. Mann should 60 to any ex-
treme he desires but he cannot afford
to be unjust by singing out and anath-
ematizing newspapers because in the
line of their legitimate business they
sell space for hotel advertisement,
while quite large number Of the mem
bers of his church are engaged in traf-
6c every day in their particular line Of
business with the same hotel proprie-
tors who advertise their business
: through the columns of the local secu-
lar papers. To our own certain knOwl-
edge there are over a dozer Of the lead
ing and substantial members of Mr..
Mann's own church who are engaged in
merchandising either in groceries, dry
goods, shoes and provisions, who are
glad 10 have the trade of hotel keepers.
The grocer and butcher are as obsequi-
ors and polite as French dancing mas
ter when the landlord OF a hotel or OF
liquor saloon calls in to purchase
sugar to sweeten up gin cock tails. We
know that the sentiment Of "c0me
ye out from amongst them and be ye
separate from tlem," has been favor
ite one with Mr.. Mann, but should he
not sit first in Judgment upon those
of his own church, before making an
indiscriminate attack upon proprie-
ties of newspapers who make no preten'
tions of carrying an extra load of piety,
for any and all emergencies ! 1t would
require longer article than we feel
like writing to day in which to show
up all the inconsistencies of the posi-
tion assumed by temperance men, but
We will lust refer to one. Here is the
law of the State which licenses the sale
Of Intoxicating liquors, and requires
the publication of the intended appli-
cation fer license under that law, in
two newspapers in the county in which
such application is made. These appli-
cations are amongst the advertisements
to which Mr.. Mann most objects, and
yet he is continually urging the chris
tian people to enforce those license laws.
| If these license laws are to be
enforced why should newspa-
per be condemned for publishing an
application for license that those who
wish to engage in what is made law
full business by the State, may get a
| license in lawful manner. There are
those of Mr.. Manns congregation who
believe that no license can make the
sale of Intoxicating liquors as a bever-
age right. They believe the whole
thing to be wrong in theory, wrong in
principle and wrong in practice, and
therefore refuse to crook finger to aid
in the enforcement of such laws, but
Mr.. Mann while saying that the traffic
is iniquitous and cannot be regulated
by law, favors the enforcement Of the
law, and he at the same time knows
that the publication of applications for
license is part of that law, and he
calls the papers that publishes them
venal and corrupt. This is one of the
inconsistencies of Mr.. Manns position
50 far as the press is concerned. As
the REPUBLICAN is the paper that goes
into more families and is more read
than any other paper published in
Wilmington and it publishes the OBJ
jectionable advertisements to which Mr..
Mann refers, it is the one no doubt at
which his shafts are mostly leveled. In
our own defence we have but to say, that
we publish not temperance paper
specially, or religious paper, but a
newspaper, one in which may be found
all the local news of the day, and be
cause a local event either of social or
any other kind of character happens
in hotel, we conceive that to be no
reason why We should exclude it from
our columns. Our advertising columns
always have, and judging from our
present feelings always will be,open to
the advertisement of any legitimate
business especially when such business
is authorized by a special law of the
State, a law which Mr.. Mann believes
is inconsistent with every principle OF
right and justice and yet is in favor OF
enforcing. Our editorial columns are
reserved exclusively for the publication
of our own thoughts upon all questions
our advertising columns for the
thoughts of others, and our local col
umns for the recording of local news.