The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-09
soon to shake the land from center to the
RABBI BROWN TO Mr.. BEEcHER.
He Asks How it is He Has condoned So Many
Republican Frauds and Now Objects
TO Wire-Pulline.
From the n. Y. World.

From the n. Y. World
The Rev. Dr. E. b. M. Browne, Rabbi
of Temple Coates of Hope, yesterday de-
livered an address at Parpa Hall, at Eighty
sixth street and Third avenue, in answer
to Mr.. Beechers sermon of last Sunday on
the republican party. Mr.. Browne said
that week ago, at the beginning of the feast
Talermacles, he had pointed out the great
importance of the three great feast agents
in the political welfare of the Jews nation
ally. and said that it would be very advan-
tageous if congress should enact that every
adult male should go to Washington three
times year and study the condition of
national affairs; that, owing to a sermon
preached in Plymouth church last Sunday
he was obliged to continue his remarks. Mr.
Beecher, DR.. Browne said, dragged politics
into the sanctuary, dehevered a stump
speech against the candidate for Governor
of the republican party. He would
have passed it by as the peculiar
freak of a gentleman in his political
decline, but for the fact that Mr.. Beecher
had based his remarks upon the politics of
Israel, justifying his political sermon on
the statement that the Jews combined re-
ligion and politics, and that he deemed it
his duty to draw a line of demarkat;on be-
tween the healthy body polite and the
the Jews, beginning with Moses, whether
Judge, priest or king, always surrendered
his individuality with the assumption of
his office, standing before his constituents
only as the representative of Jehovah.
DR.. Browne then took up the history of
Israel politically, pointing out the great
system of discipline that whatsoever dare
to disobey the existing priest or Judge
will be put to death. He said: There
were no parties in Israel in Moses time,
and yet the discipline was rigidly enforc-
ed to prevent boilers and traitors to the
party. Obedience is the first law of the
honest citizen. There is only one instance
on record in the Bible of bolt from the
general order by the three priests. Korah,
Datham and Abiram, with $50 princes and
their following; not inspired by principle,
but a pack of office-seekers, they went
down to Hell as a warning to all boilers in
coming generations
Mr.. Beecher," said DR. Browne, tells
Folger that he is the noblest man TO be
found in the party, but that he wants to
rebuke the party, and no one would imag
inc his personal purity was questioned,
though the whole ticket be elected and he
left out, Mr.. Beecher is very indignant
at Governor CornelPs rejection, because
he opposed stock jobbing. The papers
for four weeks have filled their columns
with the 'blind-pool swindle, and repre-
sent Governor Cornell as a man without
principle, ready and willing to betray his
best friends.
Which is to be believed, Mr.. Beecher
or the papers? Why did not Mr.. Beecher
blaze out when Democratic President
duly elected, was displaced by Mr.. Hayes?
Why did he then sanction the theory of
not going behind the returns and why
does he vilify Mr.. Folger, calling him
Pharisee for taking his election as honest
and far upon the facts? Why did he not
flash out as meteor when the Credit
Mobilier disgraced his party? Why did
he not rise when the river and harbor bill
was passed? Why did he not thunder
when Dorsey and Brady left the court
house triumphant with the Star-route
millions of stolen money in their pockets?
Why does he so easily swallow camels, not
only camels but jumbos by the dozen, and
is nearly checked at a gnat of a wire pull
Ter? Shall Folger refuse to accept and
allow his party to go to ruin? He is the
only Elijah the party can have for this
election; the nomination is the food
brought to him. He throws aside selfish
ness and risks, even defeat
to save his party-his party right or wrong.