Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-03-11
THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH II. 1885.



Hot-GOspeIer.
Now. who has iei " 4 Christian gentle
man writes Us that we have. When a
Christian monitor comes at III IN this direct
style. We AWAY take occasion Ia feel It-
huked. and 20 to looking up eur record. We
have done 80 i'll this instance. amt We tind
the record as exhibited below.
In Mondays issue We had the following
editorial paragraph;
A correspondent expresses ast"nishment aud
displrIsuUr that the churches VI TINS city
should have been PRAYING for the discharged
workmen who ar knights Of Labor ana ne
quotes news paper To ~h"" Thar thesr n "i
/. great sinners. and .hN Inference. in
worthy Of u Christian : prayers. why, bIr>>
our correspondents precious soul. Ihrlst came
To save sinners Ii all thrsa men a e such sin
nFrs as he regards them. what better business
could the churches be IN than praying for
them By cur correspondent own showing.
these sinful Knights very badly need praElnG
for. And that Is the reason we d" not publish
his communication criticiSing the churches Tor
doing the praying.
Yesterday We received the following
meek and lowly' communications
Springfield ,ilobe Republic. MCh9 -
City.
gentlemen
munIratiun ot 5th INST. ronVuC"S me that
when the tremendous machinery Of the press
Is set IN operation against me 10y your iunny
man ! should acknowledge myself crushed
and do
OF courS,. when you said that | expressed
SStOniShment and diSpleaSuTe that the
churches should have been praying for the dis
charged workmen'. and when y"u said that
my communication criticised the churches i"T
doing the PRAYING: and when you Said /
quoted u newspaper to show these h : oi L
arr great sinners and unworthy Of = Christian :
prayers: and when You uttered the above As
your reason for not publishing the article. you
knew you were living This charge you can
meet by claiming that Globe Republic VII Al
lying are synonymous terms.
| an Hoi surprised that you did not publish
NV communication. l would not have done So
. were our relations rryeIS d. But would mol
have taken advantage of my absolute control
Of the only means oi debate To shut out un""m
Portable truths by faIsItyluE them.
FRANK FR,>kE>BERC =
Our Hot-GoSpeler assumes in the above
that our paragraph referred t" his com
munication It did. but how did he know
it. Ii must have described the thing with
some approach to accuracy. or else he could
not have recognized the description: for We
did not name him OF give any name to his
Article
But oar Hot-GoSpeler declares in the
above ~ follows:
Il M surprised that you did not publish
my communication. | would not have dom 50,
Uere our relations reversed
Well then, what did he send il To IL for?
And why would lac not have published the
thing il he had been ia our place Was il
not tit to PUBLISH We confess that we were
Of that opinion.
But. since lie has accused us of lying
about ii. and though il i bad lot ot
rubbish that he himself would not have
published if he had been in our place, we
are going to surprise him by showing
him that We have more nerve than lie thinks
he would have had in the same circum-
stances. Here is our Hot-(ioSpeler's coin
municaiion. ucrbutjn, Ct IitcratiiH from hi
typewriter:
Springfield GLOEE REPUBLIC.
GeHtemel-l was very much surprised by the
statement made i'm your issue nt ith inst Thai
many Of the di Schargrd workmen are members
Of the city churches. and were present at the
weekly prayer meetings. held regularly on
Wednesday evenings last night, and they werr
very feryeRtly prayed fer IN several. II not all
the meetings"
am not surprised that our church r.opl,
should pray for any in distress: neither am
surprised that our working men attend prayer
me 'tingS and are members Of our churches.
for II is my privilege tu have an intimate aC
quaIntGnce with many earnest and consistent
christians who work for day wages But. "a
Olly n nights Of Labor have been discharged
from our shops In any numbers, must con
clude that the wOrkmcu referred ta are mem
bers Of that organization As well as "t oUr
churches. IhlS ., what surprises me. ana
think can show luSt ground for such surprise
Last August, while on my way home her,
from -, Louis. a man on the train handed M
HssHTH NJ fF#H ! HHfFW = NHsaI
Chicago, oStensjbIy in the interest Of wage
earnerS In this country l work for wages. and
my wife and children depend upon nay wage
Tor tood. clothing. aud tUrl. ana anything thai
will aid me in adding t. these seme modest
luNuTieS u welcome. | failed TO mud any suCl
aid in The Alarm however; but | did tini
that advocated which must be- abhorred BY
every man Of clean mUra'S. and the most shock
ing bla>phemy set forth a. plea for the work
1nC man a. against capital, Law. order, and tn
constituted authority OF tod and man.
lt said The right To 1--we IS contingent
upon the right % the free use Of the means ul
life. That right can never be acquired short
Revolution. knights of Labor. unfuri the REQ
Flag" Is this the sentiment of my christian
brothers who WeTr discharged: Again II said.
Government, whether 10y majority OF minor 4
ity Is unuat ural-"h"lly injurious
Is this the Teaching ~ the churches in WhlCl
these discharged brother wurkmen hold thell
membership
The paper also contained notices NJ >evrraI
sunday picuics Ia be given hy the knights ol
Labor at one II which. in Omaha. the rryo
mtlonary feeling ran very high. and II WAS d.
Is this a nj organization for members Of chris
riau churches e. support hy their prayers and
means?
Again this sentiment. Every petition here /
after should be preceded by a dynamite bomb +.
The most outrageous UttrranCeS with which
this sheet ahounds are not III u spread upon
your pages, and | only make this quutatiou
from long article every line Of which iS VIleF 4
Than the part submitted. Atter referring TO .
our Redeemrr as a tramp and bastard,
and CurSlUg God As the author Of all authority I
IL says What matters il whether tod be- De
"piCted rs clothed in vengeance as a robe
hurting thunderbNlts against man and roast
ing infants. pictured as good natured.
"pauuch -belIed, whlte-waiStcndted old gentle
man. revealing his descent from Jehovah only .
in his Jewish nos- and shrcwd features:
neither the one or the other are sponsors for
liberty. 1t is liberty that has modified the
type by emaScuIating authority. The God 81
today is a caStrated euHuch; the form only
remains. vitality Is gone.
This is from the pen Of A. X. Parsons. editor
Of The Alaril Of Chicago: the man VII" ad-
dressed the Springfield knights OF Labor one
evening last week, urging them 10 stand firmly
bv their principles. He l. the mouth piece al .
the organization and the exponent Of the prlI-
s!ples TO which these discharged wOrkmen.
members Of the city churches have sub
~cribed.
IsitdiflcuIt to understand my surprise at
your statement in view VI these facts | Will
d. my christian brethren of the Roman Cath
ollie and Protestant churches the charity to
believe that they arr not members OF that
lodge OF the knights Of Labor whose candi-
dates are Initiated on the sabbath.
Springfield Glob-- Republic
city
Gentlemen:
| beg thai you may see iii 20 give
the inrIoSed place in your paper. d" not
va nj my name pub ished with il, but do not
OF ct 10 your telling IL TO anyone who may ask
fnf n. and am ready to show the vile paper
from which the quotations are made to any
Who will call on me at my home. corner of
Ward and Center stN for that purpose.
Yours resp -cttUlly,
85'S6 EKANK FKAsEENEEEG.
u of course we have no reply Ia offer To