The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02

speak out all the more freely and never
give up till the church party is Destroy
ed and the liberal party triumphs.
WILL THEY INVESTIGATE:
There is pretty general demand for
an investigation into the st. Peter asy-
lum fire. People want to know wheth'
or or not there will be an investigation
There will not. We can tell them that.
There will be white washing. Barrels
Of white wash will be used. The Re-
publican papers of st. Paul, Minne.po-
lis and elsewhere will white wash the
management. Gov. Pilisbury will
white wasl, the whole building oyer,
inside and out, and chalk the hats of
all the officials and retain them in of
flee, and say well done, good and
faithful servants,' as he did before,
when it WAS shown that the manage
ment was bad and that two murders
had been committed hy brutal under
lings. The churches Of st. Peter will
white wash the management rs 'Cl,ris-
tian gcntlemeno who attend church and
build churches out Of asylum stone.
The poor lunaticS will cry out and
tell their story, but who will believe 4
maltreated lunatic? \ few honest men
at St. Peter will write to the Globe and
tel the truth about Bartlett and James,
but who viii! believe one or two honest
men? \ few papers like the Globe will
open their columns to publishing the
other side and bcsmirching the beauti-
full white washed garments Of the man.
agement, but who will believe a few st.
Paul Globes and such papers? The thir-
ty-two ltinent*d hun;;.n beings who
were roasted alive, o: died from the eff
fects of the fire, may come back and try
to tell their story and shake their ghost
~ fingers 1T the pouS management, but
who will listen to Ghosts in these de-
generate days:
No, depend upon it, there will be no
Investigation. There Will be Il one-sid-
ell committee gotten up to white wash
the men who are guilty Of criminal
negligence, and AS mncI, guilty Of muir
der as the steamboat captain who was
arrested ut Minrrtouka last Summer.
THE CLER(iI is SEL'hETSOCIETIES
The Secretary OF the Minnesota
Christian Association sends us IL circr-
lar, with Il request to publish, announce
ing their second Annual meeting ut
Red Wing, Dee. and 8. The subject
to be discussed is thus stated: "Secret
Societies the Zoe Of the Family, Church
and st;yte.''
Now, as We have frequently announ-
ced, We are opposed to secret societies,
on principle. or us rule. But there is
one fact which forever stares us in the
face, and which even the clergy who
are fighting secret societies must adj
nit, that the Masons, Odd Fellows,
Workmen, etc., are tru-r and more
helpful to each other, take care of an
unfortunate brothers family better,
and come nearer forming a Brother
hood of men, twice over, than any &C.
called Christian Church on earth. We
have had over twenty years of church
life," as it is called, and know that
most Of it is Il humbug. The meanest,
proudest. littlest, most selfish, narrow
est. unbrotheriy men we have known
are church members. We do not say
that as q rule, the members Of secret
societies. are purer in morals than
Church members, but we do say that
they are more humane, brotherly and
devoted to each other.
Moreover, we are satisfied that this
movement against secret societies is a
selfish one on the part of the priests. It
is prestcraft fighting to maintain it's
old aScendency over the human mind
The priests want control. They want
to put out Of the way everything which
tends to deprive them Of the scepter.
They want God in the Constitution, >
80 that inlidels and I'LL who do not be-
lleve as they do shall be compelled to
pay taxes to support prizes and
churches. They want Sabbath laws. so
that one day out of seven Shall he de-
voted to maintaining the power of the
church and giving the priests an exclu-
sive hearing. They want secret socie.
ties out Of the way so that the 'socie.
ty" which they control shall have full
sway. They demand the control or the
human conscience. the right to invade
and dominate the family; to force their
theology upon the National and State
Governme is. and haye their 'dark
cold shadows" fall like blight upon
the ''family, church a I'd State" as the
circular mentioned above expresses it.
Haislett, of the Heron Lake Guar]i
AL. last week issued IL slip ANNOUNCING
that his forms had been pied. Just rs
he was ready to go to press, and while
the forms were leaning against IL chat,
drying by the stove, Il young man came
IN, Jerked chairAWay and let the Guar
dian to the floor ''all of heap.' W.
regret that we didn't have shorthand
reporter there to take down IIaislett:s
remarks. Perhaps, however, he con
cluded that ''words were Inadequate. ,
as the man said when he got to the tor
of the hill and discovered that the end
board OF the wagon had come out and
the potatoes were playing leap frog al
along the hillside.
Hon w. G. Ward has resumed the
editorship of the Waseca Radical. Mr.
Ward drives ono Of the most yigoroli: