Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-27

Cleveland from high place, would
have prevented Washington, Frank
lin, jefferson, Hamilton, not to 60
any farther from taking any promin-
ent part in the foundation Of the
American Republic. 1t would have
excluded from Office in England near
ly every great statesman or ref0rmer
Of the last hundred years, except, per-
haps (perhaps, observe), Romily.
WilberfOrce, and Gladstone. Itwould
have visited nearly every prominent
politician in the Republican party
since 1860 with popular odium."
These sentences ought to wither
the hand that wrote them. We must
thank this inspiring instructor of our
sons and daughters for new version
of an old proverb. 1t is not ambition
but greed for pollution which sis the
last infirmity of public minds"
English statesmen and reformers of
of men like Erskine, Macintosh, Cam
ming, Buxton, Clarkson, Howard, the
Macaulays, John Bright, Lord Shafts
bury. The filthy tattle as to our own
Washington, formerly current in the
Capital, has never dared, like the sad
the lapses of Charles James Fox, for
instance, to show its face in history.
1t is the congenial
BUSINESS OF A GHOUL
to exhume il now for the purpose the
Nation would make it subserve.
Nearly every prominent politician in
the Republican party since 10 so" sug-
gests such names as Sumner, Bucking-
ham, Chase, Andrews, Ferry, Hawley,
Hoar and others like them. We believe
that if even 80 radiant q paragon of
virtue as the Nations hero, is to be
gained at the expense of such men as
these, the American people will count
him a costlier delicacy than they can
afford.
eve are not defending incontinu-
ance," says this preacher of the new
gospel of righteousness. Chastity is
a great virtue, but every man knows
in his heart that it is not the greatest
of virtues. The offenses against it
have often been consistent with the
possession of all the qualities which
cnnoble human NATURE" etc. He Is
defending iLcOntinuance. If he can
not see it, we may excuse his
heart only at ruinous expense to
his intellect. No man knows anything
of human nature is ignorant that the
most plausible and insinuating of all
methods or defending vice is the old
cry, at is the way of the world. Ev-
erybody does it, YOU know. The no.
blest men have been given to it." If
the Nation is not teaching precisely
THAT DAMNABLE DOCTRINE
to the youth among its readers, then
words have no meaning.
Iu exquisite harmony with the gen.
eral tenor of the article, it closes with
lordly rebuke of whoever dares, at
so inconvenient time for its candi-
date, to denounce the pollution it ex-
cuses:
preaching Of this sort at this time
is cant, aud cant in its most lOaths0me
form, for it fills every household in
the land with filthy suggestions and
insinuations turns them into common
sewer, and converts scores Of its ed
itOrs hypocrites who must blush in
secret over the their own rcdulous
sermons and their simulated righte-
Ousncss."
The very sort of super-sublima-
ted phariseeism that is shocked by
the honest Saxon four English Bible
denouncing the practices on which the
Nation smiles SO tenderly. Ii any vile
suggestions are set atlOat who is ac-
countable? Who is telling us that the
iniquities to which they poiut are
among the unfortunate irregularities
of the best OF men? Whoever would
trace home the responsibility has only
to calculate The latitude of the nili ce Of
the Nation.