Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-30
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6e-s;ood. TIE iendsr,v q the DIVINE
iniurctiou wa.ch. II al human prob
ability savtd TIE life of Peter Tex
Tide a. has been the euln nAtlon q
the KAllooh-DeYogng affair, the
dsnouneut Is h: the nsiurAl and
legitimate result Of violated and out
raced moral lsw. That deliberate
murder should he the end Of long
cherished hatred, such hatred as
could only lie conceived in the breast
uf one already abaudoued to deprav-
iiy and eoaded TO desperation by the
Aings OF foulest contumely, is just as
natural q sequence as that briers
should grow tborns or that an i'm
pure fountain should give forth
poisonous waters. To enter ones
place of business and shoot him,
without word of announcement, is
. cowardly act; but since Cain slew
his brother, was there ever q more
arrant cowardice displayed than for
. would-be murderer to shelter him
self in a carriage, decoy his victim,
under pretense of meeting friend,
to almost within Misunderstanding dis
lance, and then with deadly aim,
discharge a pistol at his heart?
Thus, it will be seen, that two bad
elements have encountered each
other and one of them is not. Scene
second, of act first, il an extended
tragedy, has been presented to our
unwilling gaze, and for a season, the
curtain falls. That there will be
some startling presentations when
the curtain rises again, no one can
doubt, and we impatiently bide the
time.
But there are other considerations
connected with this matter which
are worthy Of comment and from
which some wholesome lessons can
be CLEANED. 1t has gotten to be one
OF the accursed necessities of Ameri.
can politics that, when man comes
before the people as a subject of
elective franchise, whatever may
have been his antecedents, his CHAR
.acter must be disemboweled and pa
saded, piecemeal, before the morbid
gaze of iemoralized populace for
their approval or condemnation.
Now, in the full light and knowl-
edge of all thie, when a preacher of
the gospel of Jesus Christ lays aside
his sanity robes TO become the can
didate of communists for a petty
office, he is on the eve of perilous
adventure, and it may we'll be ques-
toned whether he is serving God or
4he prince of all evil. From high
calling, Rev. I. NJ. Kalloch has
stopped ito become the mayor of a
mob-ridden city; but instead Of
Plucking a golden pippin, he has
crushed in his insane grasp one of
the apples of Sodom. By his volun-
4ary act he has made bis son a MUIR
derer aud subjected the sanctity of
bis household to impending violence.
l. N. Kalloch junior, as be looks
through the iron grating of q fell
Ions cell, to-day. is none other than
the express handiwork of l. NJ. Kal.
3och senior. In mind, body and
soul. the one is the exact prototype
OF the other. There is q staid, old
fashioned text, seldom preached from
nowadays; it being considered by
many as obsolete aud of no force in
ahis age Of progression. We can
assure the elder kaIloch, however.
that bad be practiced the virtue
which the text inculcates as he has
do ubtless preached from it in the
better days Of his ministry, it were
Q certainty that be bad never seen
his present tnbula ton. The pre-
cept Is a rare one, and fUr fear that
the majority ~ nFr ,..a.s -.