Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-03
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Tho bitterness Gngendofod by the ihtn pnl.t.
iHai struEglO IN tits country seems 10 have oTopt
into many school cOmmunitiOs, aud thG people
ara M no hadlY divided that they nave do
tFrmin6d 10 have two separate schools whoro
thofe IA hArdig aunlnient material Tor ono, M a
IA bll wrong Tho Innocent children ara tho
Dnee injured by buh unnecessary hnd ais.
graceful wrhnNing tUomanoho Ohlef,
Politics has no place IN the councils OF
any organization save political one, and
wherever II has been introduced into any
body, designed NJ the outset to be
nGn-polltical, tho result has been, iuyaria-
uAbIy, confusion, strife and dlslntegra'
ton. This In not a proposition TO DO de.
batod, but fact 10 be stated and lts
solfoyldont truth viii DO apparent 10 any
man Of tho most ordinary intelligence
who will for one moment stop and nsi,
himself what would BIO tho GOnso.
quenco II an effort were made, aud sue.
ccsstully In part, TO force any religious
denomination, or the Mnsona, or ODD
Fellows, or Knights Of pythlas, or other
secret order, into q partisan struggle for
ollico And n such effort wore made
with partial success u Is easy to under
stand how tho bitterness aroused would
extend 10 ouch extreme an that reported
Ia Comanch0 county, This Intense feel.
Ing la the OutRrowth oi resentment Ia
men who consider that they have been
deceived aud betrayed by those who pro-
fessod brotherly loyo, When men aAao.
clatg themselves together for mu-
tunl benefit IN any church or order,
there ~ reciprocal trust that each will b,
trse 10 tno declared purposeg,of tile assO
citation, II " IL religious, II IL expected
that politics shall not bo introduced, anl
II political that religion shall bo OK
cluded without this lldollty TO profossoC
aims thoro could DO no corporation II
anything. ono Of the grandost religloui
denominations In the country is split mt,
two parts to-day because IL undertook tt
harmonlzo lta membership on one poiltl
cal question: and IL II too much 10 0sser
That no two denominations aru wide
apart than Rro these fragments whlol
have the same creed ANA service hu
which, years ago, admitted the dis
question Of subjects foreign to IN
purpose FOR which that church wa
organisodp This gull was made by th
attempt TO unity action on ono single pa
litlcal tcnoti what would have been Tn
result had an effort been made to plodg
the denomination to the partisan supper
Of certain men Tor ofllcup
Tho only place Tor politics IA Ia polltI
eel body, aud men who hops 10 eombln
social and benevolent and material nd
yancomont with political unity and aotlo
aro akin TO him who waates his lifo In VI
futile cfort 10 mix oil an,
wator Politics, as religion, IL
thing apart, and those who seek to per
wort tho original purposes OF any organic
alton arc uniaithful 10 t., aud II is IN
consciousness OF betrayal that breeds no
resentment and bitterness that extend
even to social and business life anon
those who once sworo 10 DO brothers,
OF all associations OF mon designed l.
be non.poitloal, secret orders have mos
need 70 watch the entrance door. Sue
organizations are tho chosen holds O
the political adyonturer aud doma
goguo. Away from the publ
oyo and oar, aud secure iron
public crlticlam, he plies his trade 4
comparative safety, and tho knowledge o
hle purpose does not como until the seed
Of strife aud dlaintegratlon arc sow
broadcast, The only hope OF any organ
lnation OF men IL ndollty TO ita dooirre
objects, whether religious, political, "a
clal or beneyolentl and what IL soon 4
Comanche Is but natural result Of In
duelng mon 10 Join secret orders nnde
the assurance that they ara nop.political
and then attempting 10 destroy the use
iulness Of sush orders by conyertln