The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-11-13
THE WAR OF THE COUSINS.

Should comply with my feelings. and IN,
requests OF some of your friends, your article
IN the ADVOCATE oil last week would pas,
lmnOticed by me. You however raise seycra
important questions and place Il few mis-
representations before the many readers U
the ADVOCATE, so that II becomes necessary
ior me TO reply, / cannot believe that y0l
hold me In "high regard" IL so, you would
not have under cover Of darkness asSaiCd
me, simply because an "mdignant sorehead'
requested you to do so. Had you said, wa,
prompted TO write Il sufficiently "Spleeny'
article 10 warrant reply, l would cOngratu
late you upon your success, To your ques
ton, What did you mean? ] would say, that
meant what ! said, aud said what meant
Your refusal to accept my denial and my
pastors explanation, can HsCtibe only to i
b general weakness that some third party men
have OF miscuustruing and distrustmg what
R'publicanS may say aud do. / clam sOmu
credit for forcing the "Indignant Sorehead'
10 subscribe his true name, regret, however
I to note your connection with the matter, and
now chitle myself for not treating this whole
affair with silent contempt. Yes, ! do be-
1 lleVe in protection, the protection OF the
home against the saloon, the protection OF
home Industries against foreign, public
schools against Ignorance, honest labor
against convict and pauper labor I believe
III the protection of our free inSttuIUnS,C civil
and religious, and every American industry
that affects common cultured labor, a prOtec-
ton that VIII make common labor reSpcctj-
Die and remuneratiye, so that the laborer
other Injuries of life, cluthe his wife and
children respectfully; educate his children
, Tor society and usefulness The essentials of
Ire are, Bread, Water and Air. Your party
advocates but Waterfalls is an excel
lent essential, but il is not enough to sustain
life very long. The Republican doctrine of
this age Is protection, in o'her words, BREAD
and Water" two of the essentials of life
God, the giyer of all, furnishes the thIrl--Air
free and in great abundance, and lie in
tended our nOstrlls for the passages through
which the air is to he inhaled and eXhaled in
respiration, am however sorry to say that !
do not carry out the intentions of my Creator
Tor often in the silent night the sweet slum-
bers of my dear wife are disturbed by beau
ttul sonOrOus song of protection, occasioued
by the involuntary opening of my "clams'.-
as you put IT, Now, If you breathe through
your nOstrils and through my "clams." am
, ] a greater sinner than yOu? IT | fl mly and
honestly believe that the Republican doctrine
OF to-day means the protection of the home
against the saloon, more and better bread, l..
G., the blessings and luXuries OF life more
freely and equally distributed among our
common people, believing this, am a great
er sinner than you, who do not believe It?
Believing that the doctrine of my church is
right, teat hing that the only promise of the
"lie that now is and that which Is to come"
| is to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ and receive the remission of sins, ac-
cOmpanied by the evidence of Gods Spirit
that this is lact, and knowing that some
churches do not specifically teach my way of
understanding the plan OF salvation, have |
not the right of telling the people so, and call
back the erring ones, none but moral cow
ard would refrain from doing so. claim the
same right on any question of the day. Dis
cuSsing the subject, "Itcllgion in Politics." |
| said, 1t Is the duty of the christian voter
| to study the live questions of the day-that
| the leading questions presented by the two
! great parties to-day were, free schools. pro-
lection, moral purity of candidates and the
prohibition Of the liquor t. traffic; under the
| industries meant what the Republican party
| claimed that it did, it behoovcd us as chris
tian voters to deposit our ballots accordingly
and thus pray, "Give us this day our daily
| the words you ascribe to mc--"You might as
! well vote the bread out OF your own mouths
/ as vote the Prohibition tckCt"-I do say that
! the few third party friends present may have
! understood ME to say sO they occupied I'M
comfortable positions "a similar position Oc-
I cupled by you last week when our hCnOred
| BISHOP Bowman, surrounded by Democrats,
| Republicans and third partyites, exclaimed
| when he beheld the $4,000 majority for Gen.
| Beaver: GLORY to God') which somewhat
| rritated them, thus they could easily place
| their own construction Onmy address. Now,
| taking your words for mine, believing what /
| do, would | not have the right to say "to
| vote otherwise is tn vote he bread out of
| your mouths?" Since have been voter in
| Franklin township, the election boards have
! always been composed honest, cOnScieuti-
Gus citizens, representatives Cf the Demo
cratic and Republican parties, and cannot
/ let the impression 20 out that any have ever
| refused TO accept an honest ballot east. On
| the occasion referred to by YOU one or two
| OF the third party men on depositing their
| ballots were joklnglv addressed by one of
! the officers OF the board thUs-reachng his
/ hand toward the windOw-"We don't take
| your tickets here's" this officer afterwards
said to me that being lamiarly acquainted
| with the parties, thought they would accept
the matter as q Joke, but some people II you
tCuch them Win Il pm fastened to ten foot
pole viii leap ten feet into the air for ''glory"
| aud pose as martyrs" Had YOU told the
| readers OF the ADVOCATE why You wrote the
| letter which you say treated with contempt,
| they would ut once say that was justified in
| doing so. In explanation and as reminder
| To Non OF The circumstance, | would say, that
after the election of "a received anonymous
| clippings from papers, (papers having col
| umns or parts marked for my eye of the
! most eXasperating kind to n Republican at
| tnat time, SO naticnce ceasing to be a virtue
| with me- addressed several cards 10 persons
| NhCm ] suspected, you being one Of them.
! Striking YOU pretty hard YOU at once showed
| tie white feather''-as YOU did in this case
| by writing me a long letter, the substance
! OF which was, that | was responsible for the
small vote that the third party received in
| the county. You did not ask me for my reaS-
ons, in sand letter, for leaving the third par
| ". but YOU supposed them, and mt great
| length undertook to correct me. Learning
| subsequently that yOu had great weakness
| in this direction, thought best to pass your
| letter by without notice. Owing TO the late
/ ness Of the hour cannot answer your Uues-
tion. WHY did You leave the Prohibition
party" but by the permission of the Editor,
VIII do so in the next issue Of the ADvo-
! CATE. w. C. WEISS
Bethlehem, Pa, Nov. ., 1896.
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