River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-08-05

tons, Is possessed of such fOrgiylne
christian spirit that he could within six
months publicly consort with another
public man who has not yet given legal
sanction to a sexual relation the issue of
which may not aspire to his fathers
name, and who must bear the brand OF
bastard TO his dying day.
Upon the question of practical NOR
ality, however, the disciples of the
Beecher school are not at all bigoted, and
they are willing TO concede something to
the opinions of those old-fashioned people
who have not their light. Mr. Beechers
family paper, his organ so to speak, adj
mits that there is some virtue in chastity,
and in its comments upon the Dixie case
admits that oifenses against chastity are
not consistent with the possession of all
the qualities which enoble human nature
and dignity human life, and make human
progress possible" That is an opinion
that would do no discredit to the re-
nowned Jack Bunsby. The little word
"all" so qualities the sentence as To leave
no room for argument. l suppose, how
ever, that the editor of the family paper
made the mental reservation that such
otienses are not consistent with the DOS
session of all the virtues if the person
gets caught" as Dixie did. Our respected
Chief Magistrate was shrewd enough to
secure a financial settlement, and our
reverend exponent of political purity had
a fortunate backing of witnesses who
could swear that they never saw him
break the Seventh Commandment, and
both live rs shining examples of what
Mugwumps worship as patterns of purity.
Just now, and a little nearer home, there
are symptoms that consistency may receive
new exemplfcatiOns. Three months AGO
Gov Rusk was commended for his promp-
titude in depressing riot, protecting prop
erty and restoring peace to the metropolis
OF our state At that time it was strongly
asserted that the labor organizations OF the
state, or the city of Milwaukee, were in no
way connected, or chargable with, the riot
Gus distdr Dances which threatened the
immunity. Gov. Rusk himself was spoken
u in the highest terms as man of more
than ordinary decision OF character. carry
ing oct faithfully his official duties at
time when the governors Of five other states,
with precisely the same duties and the same
occasion tor nerve and decision, were found
totally lacking in both. To-day, under the
lead of agitators like Schilling, ard melted
by the leaders and wire-pullers of the
Democratic party, the labor organizations
or some o. them-lre raising the c-y. "any-
thing to beat Rusk," "down with Rusk,"
nd the consistent" gentlemen and news
papers who commended the governor in
May now shake their heads and say that it
will not be "policy" to antagonize the "labOr
organizations" by nominating the man who
had the nerve to do his luty at the time
when il was all important that the duty
should be faithfully and promptly per-
formed. Such a iace-to-the-rear argument
IS equivalent to saying to chilling and his
followers that the Republican party is sorry
that it happened to have an executive who
would uphold the laws of the state, and if
you will vote with us next fall we will
nominate man who may be depended upon
not to call out the militia, OF to interfere in
any way with your plans 4. arson, robbery
and intimidation Of honest working-men.
That is what any concession to the Schilling
element means, in whatever terms it may
be stated, or by whomsoever stated. If the
Republican party OF this state embodies any
such weak and vacillating plank in its plat
form i'll September it VIII not know, by the
votes it gets, that it had candidate in the
field. This statement may not be "policy,"
in the sense some politicians see it. but it is
"business." The consistency Of any other
course is paralleled by the Mugwump at
tempt to find political perfection and per-
sonal purity in the party which appears to
have q minimum of either. G.. Is. NJ.