Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-06
THE EAGLE CRITICISED.
We Feel Sorry But Can't Help II

THE EAGLE CRITICISED.
We Feel Sorry But Can't Help It,.
A correspondent writes the EAGLE
letter but insists il shall not be pub
lished. We take il, therefore, that il
Is intended as a modicuin of advice
personal to the editor. We have moi
yet learned how 10 sever the editor
and his paper. They are one, and, in
addressing either, writer must not
forget that he is liable to be address.
ing Observation-Disclosures the public
with all its complex views and inter-
mingling and diverse interests. If all
the world were of the same mind with
our correspondent and if daily pa
paper could be ought else than a news
paper, in which is reilece ed the daily life
and interests ola people, secularly, NOR
allyreligiously and wickedly individual
advice might prove profitable. But
alas, il is not So
Our correspondent first asks Us to
''let up" on ST. John. We answer that
Republican newspaper could just Us
easily ''let up on that ulan who has
brought defeat TO the Republican par
~ and disaster to this country as a
prohibitionist could .'let up on fight
ing whisky. He says, many Republic
ans will never vote the Republican
ticket again unless the Republican pa
pers stop their abuse of the saint.
We answer that any man
who thinks more of 81. John
than he does of his Republican
principles is not a Republican 10 hurt.
and the party wants no ones support
who thinks more of man than OF
principle. Ii ST. John in their esti- 7
nation is greater and better than prin- !
ciple let them worship him, We don't /
care. II man can't be for prohibi- !
ton and temperance without bcinc |
first for the traitor and skunk ST.
John, then his temperance principles
are a sham.
Our correspondent advises further
by saying let all the Republican papers
severely let st. John alon9: keep his
name out of sight, as he only lives on
notoriety, and that is just what the
Republican papers are helping him TO.
Our advisor might with just as much
propriety tell the church to stop fight
ing sin, and ask the pulpit TO let the
devil alone. If the church and pulpit
should let the devil severely alone,
does our correspondent imagine that
the boss enemy of mankind would sub
side and in little while be lost sight of? I
Not much. lie would curl his tail over :
his back, take fresh chew of bIim- /
stone and in the quiet hours thus 4
afforded him hatch up more trouble i
and despair for poor erring and help II
less humanity than we could overcome II
III thousand years. No. sir, the {
church wants TO keep up lis fight on 5
the devil, even if his santaDc majesty c
does seem TO get the upper hand now C
and then, and SO the prohibitiouists. $
who are prohibitionists at heart. and Y
not ST. John worshippcrs, want to II
keep up their fight on the damnabIe Fl
decoction patented b. the devil 10 81
ruin man, and copyrighted by ST. John -
TO get office with, until both thedeyil h
and whisky shall have been beaten W
In the meantime the Republican news III
papers which made st. John in the oil
first place, will take charge of his fu- "
ture. &C
Our correspondent-whose sincerity
we can't doubt in the lcast-clo,es by as
advising the EAGLE TO stand bv the ST
w. &. T. L. We can only answer b.
that politically, the W G. L. L. is tor IN
ST. John. Please read their proceed so
Dgs in their last convention at ST. co
Louis. The EAGLE would stand ar
by the W. {. I. L, just bu
As it delights TO stand by the church re
and by all good people who favcr pu- II
rity for purity's sake, but when il 81
.omes TO political principles ii believes de
n the Republican party though ST. in
Iohn and the W. {. T. L. should down fn
hat party every day in the year. We pc
re no lees a Republican because the lou
v. &. I. L. endorsed St John and all
hereby enabled him to elect Cleveland, az
bat conspicuous friend of woman. TN
nd TO put the Democratic party in ms
ontrol of orr country, and our cor ge
espondent shoots wide. probably, of In,
is real intentions when he asks Us TO bu
Import any organization whose leader ain
ublicly announces that the only SEN bu
BILE thing TO do is to wipe out the wi
republican party. We will even 90 Is
Irther and say that we would not pla
lpport any church that would in lis ito
Inference, assembly or association abi
solve TO defeat the Republican party. adv
ther bv the advocacy of st. John or for
any other enemy or traitor. al I
To place st. John on the pedestal OF ma
artyrdom and thus magnify his inn cha
,rtance as leader of a great morsl can
inciple is the farthest from our de- goo
re- Judas Iscariot was denounced but
TO immortality and of the Kind that It
John deserves. Drunkenness is ran
e one great evil of this country and W
is intended to lessen that ord
il, but St. John is no more entitled pot
the leadership of that refo. m lhsn bre
rs Benedict Arnold entitled TO have 81,
Ell made the general of the Amcri- give
n armies in the place of the patriot wins
ashiDgton. wrl
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