Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-30

nlaRazines aud papers arr IN, ,,o,.,.,
d n Inv nny excuse for reading low
uelnoralizing, stuff. ofcourse : NOV, nov
sou Oh weii'balanced mind can ta,,
almost anything without beinr ,Va'
n.minated perhaps. but ID is the 5nt,
VI we people 10 uphold and sunnor,
Surn literature as is wholly pure and
wiz not ne dcmorlizing To anvhnd,,
very likely, from what | haye IL
ready said, there are many raaas,. W
ready TO set me down for n fanati,
one OF The "goody, goody'' kind won
leau aoout in nice little Sunday.sc6ooI
hooks and papers. However I shaji
say what think and allow them the
privilege OF doing the same thing As
lor the average "wishy-washyb Sun
uay-school story, even though II NAV
point very good moral, il i nearly ss
oad as the Observation-Disclosures nonsense
1nl,ureh are not naturally fools, and
parents should not allow their minds
10 oe warped by foolish stories, whetb.
er they be about the conventional little
BOY that dies young, or the Milwaukee
iittle boy who makes light OF every
thing, and most of all his father
why Is there such a flood of alleged
humorous literature? Simply because
the people want 1t and pay more for II
than they do for anything else. No
class of publications pay so well ~
blood aud thunder and coarse wit. The
people are responsible for the cbarac.
Ter OF the literature scattered over the
country, for the simple reason that
book makers are after the mighty
dollar.
GOOD CITIZENS
Should not neglect their duty In keen
ing the rascais out of power, no matter
now much they hate to NEEDLE In po-
iltlcai nastiness. IL good ~ citizens
OF Chicago did not leave all political
affairs to the low, professional gam
blers and politicians, the interests Of
the city might be better cared for. AS
it Is the very polls are at saloons in
most eases, and affairs are left chiefly
in the hands of the slloonists and their
constituents. The great defect of our
repuol ican systems is the fact that
the most vital affairs of government
are everybody's business, and hence
the business of few but the interested
ringsters. The only way in which our
politics can be kept out of the dirt is
FOR each and every citizen who has the
welfare OF his country at heart 10 de
mean himself exactly as if the whole
country was his estate; in n sense it is:
Ihe general veal or woe Is certainly
for the individual. Many good people
are neglectful of their duty AT the polls
because they argue that their little
mite would amonDt to nothing either
way. So it goes. One good man stay
ing away from the polls does not make
much difference. ii is true, but il II
the principle that is wrong; we are
very much alike, after all, and too
many mites are liable to be wanting in
times Of need. The passage of big
railway grab ordinance in The Chicago
council over the second veto of Mayor
Harrison has brought to mind the fact
that too many good mea neglected the
polls at the last election.
BEEuHER's MoRMoNIsM.
Mr.. ii w. Beecher wants the Nor
mons left alone. That is Just what
they want themselves IL should not
he forgotten that the Brooklyn divine
is but human; that he accepted the
the Mormons when in their city, and
that when an American citizen places
under obligations 10 strangers
he is somewhat in duty bound to re-
turn the compliment. This Is doubt
less what Mr.. Beecher has done. He
went to Salt Lake, was taken in by
the big guns of the polygamous faith,
shown the sights and highly enter
tanned free of cost, and in that way
sold his judgment. Some people were
at his Thanksgiving sermon,
in which he advised the people of this |
country to allow the fostering sore in
Utah to remain undisturbed, but many |
others, perhaps the majority. We're not |
in the least. He has nearly |
always been on the wrong side of great |
mt the start. He may change |
from his false position, but ii will |
probably make but little differences
with the country ut large whether he |
does or not. He can kill two birds AT
one throw by taking the stand he has: |
He pleases the Mormons who were
good To him and mt the same time gets |
Ip n little more notOriety. If he |
,hould denounce the MormoDs he |
would be doing nothing more than or
linary people are doing.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
m Utah Is what Senator Edmunds
avs makes the Mormons so hard to
handle. He thinks they could be
managed but for the women voting in
hat territory.
BY the way, is not this AN argument
N favor of woman suffrage? Can we
not learn something from the Nor
1t is clear that the female
,ote gives them more strength or they
would not tolerate ii. Now, If Senator
Edmunds should move TO enfranchise
m of the good women of the United
States, the Mormon and other great
Problems would be sooner settled than
would the Utah affair by disenfran-
.hising the Mormon women.
The women of the Union ought to
,ote for multitudinous reasons. III u
aid politics is too low and degraded
or our wives and mothers and sisters
) take a hand in. Politics ought not
D be so. and would not II the refining
influence of the best half OF human
azure was introduced. Nothing
hould be nearer the hearts OF the
eople than the welfare and purity oil
heir government. Politics IL hlthy
a L. 4 I'm Iafi y.