New-York tribune., 1882-03-12
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION

young Euglishman Of some shrewdDess and
rather good for sonOFous quotation has recently
pocketed considerable American cash hy setting
himself up the apostle of new movement IN arc
and literature What Oscar W lde may say or wear
Is. 1t should seem matter ot lnlIhGrenre 10 any
people who have wits or tastes OF their own; bat
the interest in him and N the school be claims TO
represent is an Indication of certain notions. now
vaguely current, which are Dy no means 10 DO
lacked mon with Indifference There Is no sursr
index Of the moral health OF any society than the
imaginative literature 1t Graves and produces. lt
must. therefore be, It seems TO rs. only narrowed
pub ic Judgment and diseased sentiment that can
give assent To certain doctrines as 70 the nature aEd
province of poetry that are cxemplilied ~ the
school Of young English poets--Siorrs. SwiDburnc,
the RossetIs and their lmitatOri-nOw perhaps most
prominently before the publc.--l The Christian Ad-
yOcate.
If il shall do no good except TO tree Us from COM
picity with what we believe to be "A great meanness
and a qrievous wrong, desire 70 protest with all
earnestness against the passage OF the AntiCh
Till now before Congress. For great nation 10
BEGIN at this late date and 10 all the penltnde OF
its strength TO 20 back on lis 0wn hrst principles
and at the call Of the iniiamed and misguided
public sentiment Of a section OF its own people,
which never Itself had patriotism enough In the
,r'at struggle of the Rebellion to forego IFS own
petty profit by submitting TO the financial stress
under which the other states bowed themselves TO
trample under foot at cnce the foundation princi-
pie. OF he repubcanism of our fathers, ard the
fundamental te1ets OF Christianity, Is step down
aud back FOR which I'VE had not looked. We thank
God and congratulate Massachusetts,. that ene of
her sons bad the manliness, aud the Christianity, 20
characerze the bill a. deserved the floor or the
senate We have no doubt Mr.. Dawes also will 10
heard from III due time.iT The Congregationalist.
The Hoodlam bill 10 arrest Chinese INN grafton
was shown ND in the deformty OF It's principle and
the baseies-ness of tile pretexts on which 10 II
founded by the able speech OF Senator Hoar on
Wednesday Of last week. That 10 II ia iagrant op-
position to the " seli-evident truth /" that all
ncr endowed by their Creator with an inalicn.
able right TO the pursuit OF happiness is too plain
tor denial Or question. Mr.. llOar showed that the
number of Chinese immigrants ~ lncousiierable aud
is declining and that the alleged unfavorable in-
fuence upon the interests OF American labor i I'M
aginary. One feels like blushing for his country
incn when such complaints are made tae ground
for such ndeiensiblc action The Governor Of Cali
fotnia stirred mp the pcopie TO the holding of
mass meetings IN support OF the bill with the RISK OF
causing an unhealthy popular excitement and en-
dangcriag the public peace. We trust there Is no
danger OF the passage of the bill and wish thero
were any good hope that local legislation nuilifl Ing
" the supreme law of the land could be made AS
futile as IL is illegal. aud inoiiensye Chinese iiml-
grants assured IN the endowment OF rights which
even Callforpians are bound TO rospeet.-lihe bos-
ton Wateh,san.