The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-03-29
GORDON e. COLE c1IrIcxzED.

GORDON e. COLE cRITIckzED.
We published recently Hon. Gordon
E. Cols's speech against Prohibition
and commented freely Upon it. we
are under many obligations IL NJ.
Cole for coming itp to the help of the
ADVANCE against the mighty, or ratlt.
er against organized Bigotry and Fs-
naticism. Mr.. Cole, for once, has spo-
ken plainly what thousands Of others
think, and what the ADVANCE has
spoken plainly for years. lie uses just
the terms which the ADVANCE has
been so much seeded for using, ''bigot"
fanatic" ''hypocrit," etc. lie ais"
does just what we have done continual
ly, and generally to the disgust of sim.
pie minded people who think that the
clergy and the churches are all right,
viz: he sounds the note Of alarm and
warning against the encroachments ef
the clergy aud the church upon liberty:
Give the clsfRt what they demand ana
American liberty would he church or
religious slavery. They demand
That the law shall compel people to.
observe Sunday in i certain orthodox
way.
That the law shall forbid the publish.
ing Of books or newspapers opposed to
the orthodox view cf the Bible, Of Ged,
and of Christ, and shall punish It rs
''blasphemy."
That the law shall forbid the publi-
cation of social tl,esiii les, or of works on
sex, ETC., which do not agree with the
orthodox view aud shall punish such
publication rs "obscene."
That ti:s law shall exempt all churcl,
property, parsonages, etc, from taxa
ton and that the clergy shall he n
-. ivil:s q. 'class under constitution
which turbids the creation Of such 4
| class.
Chat the manufacture lind sale of al
col,o!ic beverages shall be fo' biddrn.
The gre;., ma lority of the Protestant
! clergy demand I'LL these and mucn more.
But we set ont to mention one Of Mr..
Coles critics, some one who sig"ed
himself ''Prohibitiomist" in a st. Paul
paper. This critic says:
Mr.. Cole thinks he discovers Il grave
danger in Il, prohibition movement,
because it is ''largrly il clerical meve-
ment, and the clergy are its principal
adv."atcs.' And then lie rrocetds t.
sound the following note Of alarm:
'N"N, no man more respects thu
ministers Ut the GOSPEL eft our redcn,p-
ti"n. when lab"ring in their proper
sphere, than myself; bit We should Tor
ga, all tle lrssn,s Of history were ~. to
b. um onscio, s d: t:,e evils vl,ic:, t II
union Ut eau ch and state have in all
ages Inflicted upon our race tile inhu-
man burning of old. aud young women
ven. us witches; tl'' judicial murder "f
Quakers nu'' Baptists; which disgrac+s
| li,e annals of the stern old Puritan mag
is:r::trs. but was only theirs. secails+
| they We're urged ~, l,y the, furious out
| c:y nf Il hyntt'l miniStry.n
| submit that it. requires Il peculiarly
| constructed mind ami an usual skill IT,
Il 'tt-,iny hidden forces, I" see What
| conu cti ion xists bet wrcn tie union, ri
| cl,ur:l, and stat" and III advocacy Of
| prohibition Nv the clergy If tkis c"un
Try. 10 say nothing If tr burning nt
witches and the murder # Quaks.rs aud
| Hapti$tS. Mr.. Cole uyht tu know. and
| doubtless does know, that the Protest
ant clergy "f this country are, and Ill.
| ways have been. the most OutSl,okpn
| foes nf the union Of church and state
AID that in Great Britain the large
| 'rrly of dissenting "lergymen ha!'; the
| same vi-wS.
Now. this critic ought to know, ard
doubtless does know, that K movement
to unite churcl, and state in this c"u,I-
| try has been going on for some years
and that it is gaining l,eadway enough
to he alarming t" all friends "f rclig.
i"uS liberty. 1t is heartily favored and
urged on ty the majority "f the Protes-
tant clergy.
y convention was i,Gll in Iowa not
'ong :g ami tie inter st was really en-
tlusiastic and earnest. 1t was Osten.
sihly t" d-mard tie "rec"gniti"m OF
Gni in the Constitution" but every
speech and every letter read showed
that the whole demand was that the or
t!'odox view of Christ and of the Christ
| ian l.. liHiOn should be put iutO the Con
| StitutiOn Of the u. ). One pig .lle!9sGetl
Ju,lge wrote Il letter to the Convention
benoaning t''e fact tflat what lie called
''hlaSp'rmy" could be punished only
by common law" He demanded tia.
''bIasphemy'' should be forbiddeI. by
'he constitution. The notorious Pro-
hibitiom st. John, of Kansas. wrote Il
letter heartily endorsing the objects Of
the Convention.
NJ. G "tlon T.. Cole, is right. thou
sand TINES right. The Church, has had
the upper hand Of the State twice in A.
,nerica, once in New England and once
III Utah. In botl, cases. the rule of the
cliurc', was int"lsrable and bloody and
utterly 1T variance with any thing like
religious liberty. Torture and death
were the pnnisl,ments inflicted upon
the poor victims Of the "holy'' clergy.
So it will bo again, If they e3ef get the
upper hand. They are sending men to
prison now for publishing liberal pa
prrs and they will soon be sending them
there for ''l'eresy," for speaking diars
spectfulIy of the clergy, ETC., If the
foolish lawmakers continue to throw
sops to this '..much- respected, >" but i'm
practical and bigoted class:
T7S:IS@=zz7@n.%=-S
HEjiARKABLE ESCAPE.
Mrs. Geo. G. Clarke, of Port Dal-
housie. Ontario, states that she had
been confined to her room for long
time with that dreadful disease, con-
sumption. The doctors said she could
not escape an early grave, but FORUM
ately she began taking DR.. Kings New
| Discovery for Consumption, and in a