Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-02-16

WsHally oi general application from | which the guilty conscience applies such condemnation as it's secret needs | demands. The silken words of ar raignment are seldom so pointed in their application as to inhict wound upon the most guilty wretch that listens. But occasionally we find 8 moral Hercules that bares his breast to battle with grievous wrongs and yields his weapon of attack with fear less vigor in the cause of right, no matter how many financial Goliaths are arrayed against him. Such a notable parsonage recently denounced the late political murder of Col. John N. Clayton of Arkansas, from his pull. pit in Little Rock It was the Rev. . Wallace Carnahan, rector of Christs Episcopal Church, the fashionable church of that city, and his words ring with such solid sense that they should be taken home to every persons heart and cherished as guiding principles in his duty towards the great public of which he is an individual part. After reciting the particulars of the crime the reverend gentleman said: "This community is vast college, with the children for pupils and you, their fathers and mothers, the teachers. Can you imagine what these little minds, though their tongues may he silent, are busily asking themselves? Is 1t worse to steal 8 ballot box than it is to steal $100O00? Is there any crime in theft if Q thief goes un- whipped of the law9 Teachers, ss surely as you admit into your friend ship, receive into your drawing rooms and take into your fraternities men of known dishonesty, just so surely you teach your children-your pupils that crime uncaught and unpunished can be no wrong. The murder of Col. Clayton is the logical sequence of what Democrats are pleased to call repay ment of the debt owed the Republi- cans. You say the Republicans set you the example. You readily learn cd the lesson of ballot-box stuffing and of baliot-box stealing in order that you might have the choice of the evils. You have chosen the greater evil. No matter if you argue that life, liberty and property depend upon taking away fIom a bad set of men the offices accorded to them by an ignorant pOpulace. The right of revolution be. longs to the abused masses, and this right of revolution does exist and will exist for all time. What may seem advisable to an outraged public is a crime of the deepest dye when caught up and assumed by an individual who lpresumes 10 arrogate to himself the right 10 sit in judgment upon the re- -snl. -st an election that should voice the choice of the people. This Ina: been called AR audacious pulpit. Il is probably an nNaudacious pulpit, but SO long as I stand here, Gods minis ter, it is my purpose to strike crime fairly between the eyes, to use 6 yernacular phrase, whenever it may show its head, let the blow fall upon whomsoever it may. l am responsible alone to my God for the manner ir which I conduct the stewardship with which 1 am intrusted. The admission of men, with money; with sulled repu talions, into your homes, into your drawing rooms, into your secre societies and into your business, how ever much it may be deemed advis able because they are successful men
 kalaying of the cornerstone O Crime, and as ye SOW so shall ye reap Money, money, money, has been called and it is the root of all evil. If tho getting of money by unfair means bt  right, then. there can be no very grea wrong in stealing a ballot-box. there is no very great wrong in steal ing ballot-box, there can be no yer, great wrong in any other crime, ever that of murder. The winking at an, giving countenanco to any crime political or private, means gradual an, easy steps to the commission of greate and more heinous crimes. Giyin, countenance 10 crime is striking a the life of our social state, and a surely as the darkness follows tn light just so surely are your socia liberties, your life, and the sacrednes oi your homes endangered by ever, encroachment which you permit"
 We lift our hat in profound respec for the man who dares utter sucl brave words; words filly spoken an aimed directly at the corroding targe of iniquity. They undoubtedly oC cssioned a profound sensation, but n one will dare impeach their justnes They are applicable to every city, tow and community throughout the Ian and they strike at the very genesis ( crime.