Wichita eagle., 1889-07-10
A FEW HARD, DRY, SOLEMN FACTS FOR
THE CITY COUNCIL.

THE COCNCAlS
The EAGLE, as is well known, endorses
Councilman Coffin's views touching the
proposition 70 restrain the Salvation Army
in its mode of worship by ordinance. On
two or three occasions, in the past two or
three years, we have felt 1t duty to cite
the fact that over and above all other
facts of freedom, America boosted her re-
ligious liberty. The fathers put it in the
Declaration of Independence and into the
constitution, and it is there to stay. We
serve God according TO our own conscience
in this country, where there is neither
state religion nor government supported
church. Some people object to church
bells, some to music in churches, some to
camp meetings, and SO on, but the one an
swer is religious liberty" The council
that attempts 70 beat any worship that
does not embrace obscenity or immortality
will get left. OF course no true worship
can partake Of either. Without doubt
the Salvation Army's methods are dis
tasteful to many and their noisy demon
stration nuisance to some, but, every
man, in this country, is possessed OF the
inalienable right to do his praying either
in the street or on top OF the house, or,
like the city councilmen. in his closet-as
we never hear of them praying anywhere
else-and as loud and long as his con-
science can hold out. with or without
horns, drums or flags, and without being
molested or made afraid by some thin
skinned ordinance cooked up in pretense
of striking his music, but which actually
strikes him fright where be lives" That
,,o,l, ,I,o :, for IN oil "a
EAGLES religious influence as not to step
higher and yell louder when the Salvation
army swings by ought to be compelled to
worship a few times according to the
formula and dictum Of the car in Siberia.
Business may grow ever so dull with the
waning of the day, but the star spangled
banner, whose red and white folds are
followed IN the cleaning by the
salvation lasses, their fronts to the rear
and their backs to such foes as the hud-
lums, the members of the city council and
a scared horse or two, IS little short OF an
inspiration, and that mayor, clerk and
city council would do much better to join
the procession than ''to offend the least
one Of these and thus take the chances OF
"mill-stones" and deep seas" and q bot
l
birthstone ascendeth forever and forever.
Pigs may squeal by the thousand, packing
| houses continue to smell louder and more
and more of it, locomotives TO go threshing
and shrieking through our streets forever
at forty miles an hour, but the council
man who puts his unholy hand on q
woman who has on neither hustle or O
corset, nor anything else worth mention
| ing save blue bombazine dress, and the
armor of righteousness, is going to get
| left and don't you forget it. 1t pains
| the EAGLE, IN a rudely distressing manner
| touching such of his refined inspiration;
and sentiments as have survived the rudel
shocks of city administration that slam:
a sewer-ditch right through his front yarc
and permits everybody else to make s
! highway of the same, and to run over hin
/ generally, to again allude to these agree
able housekeeping Virgins who can sina
backwards just as well as straight ahead
and we sincerely hope that we may b.
spared the notifying and painful job o
again sQuatting upon them-the council
not the girls-in behalf of those who by
drum and flag find it not impossible tt
roundup for the kingdom Of heaven thu
most hardened and abandoned specimen
| Of this community, the members of thu
aforesaid city council only saved and ex
| captad