The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-12


the latter "a party OF Bohemians) for Mis-
souri,.
The outgoing train from Beleville on
the |. & st. L. road Monday night Z o'clock
met with ali accident very similar to the
one that occurred to No. 81 on tho Louis
vile & Nashville road. While it was
rounding curve at high rate of speed
near Pana, Ill.,, the engineer saw COW
sleeping on the track short distance ahead
OF him. He blew the whistle and en-
deavored to check up suddenly, but his
engine struck the animal with great force,
Notwithstanding his efforts to evade the
calamity. The engine jumped the track
and went over the embankment carrying
with it two baggage cars. Seeing his peril
the fireman attempted to jump but fell
under the engine and was crushed to death
in an Instant. The name Of the fireman
killed was Charley Leiburn. The accident
caused great excitment among the passen-
gers and delayed all the trains ON the road,
but the passengers escaped very luckily,
considering that a portion of the train went
over an embankment on the road at a very
dangerous point
One of the tendencies, and very
naturalone, of the Prohibition agitation has
been to mix religion with politics, induce
religious organizations to forget one of the
cardinal principles of our government,
| which is the complete separation of church
| and state. Church councils and ministers
of different denominations have substituted
the stumps for the pulpit, politics for moral
teachings, have ceased to tell people show
to live" and are delivering themselves of re.
solutions and harangues upon show to vote"
The Methodist conferences in different
parts Of this and other states have passed
resolutions pledging themselves to vote
only for men of certain opinions upon
certain branch of industry and interstate
commerce. And prompted by this action
of Methodists, Catholic councils in several
parts of the country have resolved to sup.
port only such men for public Office, who
will favor the establishment of Catholic
schools for Catholic children, with the
public school taxes collected from Catholic
parents. And who will say that
the latter are not right if the
former are. This direct interference Of the
church with politics and government is
dangerous, for there is no telling where it
may end. When we are told that this agita-
ton has not only for its object the suppress
sion ola certain article of commerce, but
that it involves moral principle and has
for its real, ultimate object the eradication
OF certain bad habits of life aud the control
of mans appetite, we may say that Catho-
lies have at least an equally coed reason
for their agitation. They also believe that
agreat moral principle is involved in their
agitation, and their ultimate object is to
eradicate certain religious heresies and to
gain control of the moral training of their
children. To both these excuses it must
be said that the objects sought are beyond
thc1egihmate purposes of government gen
orally, beyond the power Of government
like ours even to undertake to accomplish.
When government attempts to regulate
the habits of its citizens with respect to the
effects such habits have upon the physical
and moral being of the individual, it
violates the object for which it exists and
usurps the authority OF the church. Gov.
eminent has no right to invade either di
rectly or indirectly, the homes Of its citizens
to prescribe rules for the government of the
appetites Of their inmates. There was a
time in Prussia, before the empire, under
"Unser Fritz" when the importation and
use Of coffee was prohibited in that state.
And the officers of the government, in
GLIDING Old Fritz" himself, disguised,
would make it a rule to enter the homes Of
citizens, and conddentially ask for a cup of
coffee and piece Of schwartz brodt, only
for the purpose of informing against them.
The poor but hosptabe tenants
would lower the curtains, lock the
doors, take small key from
a secret pocket in their neither garments,
sneak cauciously to some secluded corner
Of the house, open secret door in the wall
and bring for the prohibited" article, only
to be themselves taken into custody and
imprisoned. If we admit the right of
government to tell the many that they
shall not drink liquors, because the abuse
thereof has made the few drunkards, then
we admit the right of government to pre-
vent the many from eating pie, because the