Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-19

PERILs WHICH BEsET THE COM.
MER0IAL WORLD.
This Pulpit IN Poiisics--Hruisers vs.. Brains
Fast Young Mcp--n rsviiies
and lettings.

Special CORRESPONDENCE OF the Gazette.
Chicago. August l5.--The CONNER
cial world shows signs Of uneasincss,
aud while there Is not much trouble at
Chicago Il h. feared that the shock Of
the commercial earthquake In the
East may have widespread cxten.
sion. There Is too much sail being
carried by our American ship Of com
nerce. She has more canvass up than
her weight In solid tons will Justify.
she - not very we'll prepared for q
squat, except that disaster need bc
feared on account of unsOund money.
There ~ too much speculation, too
much false show In business, TOO
many houses are doing u $50 .00o bnsl-
ness on a 5000 capital. Too much
rent Is being paid for handsome stores
In leading localities. There Is certain
~ danger ahead ut the rate we are go-
ing. Economy and sounder business
policy will tend 10 wa"d of mn I'M
pending disaster. II merchants do not
try TO see how near they can 90 to the
edge of the precipicc without going
over. This Is what they have been
trying to do however and too many
apparently staunch concerns have
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nercial disaster.
TuE PULPIT IN CONGRESS.
Recently the editor Of the GNzErrE
took occasion to call attention TO the
fact that Chicago clergymen frequent
liz 90 out OF their way, so To speak, to
discourse upon politics and other sub
iects which they are not expected to
handle; and referred particularly to n
case In point where u clergyman took
the side of the strikers In the present
telegraph muddle, taking his stand
from "A wholly Irrelevant and inappli-
cable text. This Is n too common Gus
tom among ministers OF To day they
have some hing TO say, and If a suitn-
DIE text cannot be found they have a
habit of detaching words from their
context to fit their case, 10 matter
how the words may bc modified 10y
being torn from their original setting
ON this mode OF procedure n text
might be found In the Holy Writ for
any shade of meaning. All this Is nd
mtted, but 1t ~ not fair to classify all
of the Chicago clergy by the gentle
man whose sermon called forth the
merited ceusure OF the GAZETTE, fol-
such would bo injustice to the major.
ity; but II Is not so much to that
which I wish to refer. as the allusion
to Il g clerical opposition last spring To
our present dcmagoguicai mayor. The
assertion that Harrison was elected by
A HANDSOME MAJORITY
mainly as rebuke to the
clergymen who united IN
taking the pulpit against him,
IL probab correct, though the rebuke
must have been divided between the
pulpit and the press, for not paper
was there I'm Chicago to champion his
cause, which Is remarkable, to say the
least, inasmuch rs there were some
among them that champion true Dem
ocratic principles. But our good edi-
tor IN mistaken when he says TINT the
Chicago clergy denounced Harrison
and his thug administration because
he was n Democrat. 1t grievesme to
think that he should have SO poor AN
opinion of the Judgment and amount
OF common "horse sense, If | may not
say. of the politics Of the Chicago cler-
gyinen. Did the papers, embracing
all shades Of political color, denounce
him because Of his politics. No, In
deed. Nobody ever thought of max
ing such charge No more did the
clergy turn against him for that rea-
son. No. Mr.. Editor, IL good aver
aye Democratic candidate had been
put up, he would have received d
vastly larger majority than did oui
seli,stNlad "hest Mayor DO not b'
theyar not III, RrpuU,,reu. Ny n Ion
shot Could you be here and sec f.
yourself how the municipal affairs ,
the Garden City are run, ! candidl
do not think you would be proud
say, or to hear anybody else say, tn,
the administration Is Democratic.
would blush to make any such admi
sion. think had the GAZETTE bee
IN Chicago, IL would have taken qui
as decided Il stand against Carter
did the other papers hut With moi
fruitful results.
BRAINS AT A DISCOUNT.
According TO the reports, the coun
try will soon be- treated to anoth,
prize humping match this time nea
Kansas City, between Slade an
Mitchell. Then again, there Is To be
''milp' in which Sullivan and Rya
viii be the principal grinders. II
few OF these disgraceful affairs woul
terminate like that Arkansas duel, |
which two negroes, the duellists, wei
Killed, they would lose something
their popularity. Why Is 1t that law
rous bouts As matters now stan,
shout all the pugilists have to do Ia
dodge the local authorities. pri
fighting and the like, should he d
clared Illegal in all parts of the Unit,
States, aud then there should bc
severe penalty, and then somebody
enforce 1t, and-~then--but hold ol
this Is only lSS3,
IL Il u little disooumging To see hC
much more admiration muscle a,tra,
than brains; but after all, Ii l. not
NIL wonderful when one considers he
great Is the majority OF the people vi
can appreciate and admire brute for
over those who appreciate and adni
intellec,uality Perhaps "the pen
mightler than the sword, y but muse
seems 20 get away with brains, so
speak, in these days. But intellect
allty Is on the increase.
said an old man to methe other da,
"lf Chester 4. Arthur and,John
Sullivan We're 20 come 10 Chicago, an
parade the streets AT the same tim
Sullivan would attract the bigge
crowd Aud HE old man shock h
head seriously aud henioaned the q
generacy Of thp times, II truuhl,
nae no little as | reflected upon III
apparently aNful state of affairs, an
II almost made me sorry for n tin
that | was born away back
IN THE tft1uu ORD TIMES