The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-03
Bishop Potter and the Party of Moral
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Bishop Potter and the Party of Moral
Ideas. r7
Bishop Potter in his Centennial SER
mon thought fit to inveigh against the
yulgarity and corruption of the age.
One would suppose that this was a
sufficiently ordinary proceeding. 1t
was commonplace, and in the direct
line of precedent.
The republicans of the country,
however, are all up in arms against
the bad TASTE displayed in the
preaching of such a sermon in pres
ence of a republican President. Aside
from the absurdity of discussing a re-
ligious discourse on the ground of
taste y as opposed to conscience, it is
rather amusing to see the party of
moral ideas SO featly putting on the
CALLING shoe that the Bishop prepared
for him to wear whom it fitted.
Bishop Potter is an honest man, and
an excellent and fearless minister of
the church, which is no respecter Of
persons. When : villainy in high
places was to be scourged he cared no
more for a President, nor even for a
Postmaster General or other party
boss than he did for those unfortu-
mates on B1ackwelIs Island to whom
he frequently extends his gracious
ministrations and to whom, we have
observed, he always speaks in a tone
of admirable Christian charity.
But, accustomed as he is to dealing
with guilty co~nsciences, the Bishop
had no idea of the rawness of the sin
laden political soul. The cool inditfer-
ence with which the work of corruption
is continued in the seat of government,
where offices are traff1cked for party
advantages, had doubtless ac-
customed him to regard the
men who did such deeds as
case-hardened. But he did not realize
that the criticism of a Bishop was a
political danger. For, in fact, it was
not in the consciences of the party
managers that the wound ranked,
but in their love of power. He did
not reflect that his condemnation
would rise up against the Harrison
Blaine Wanamaker Window ring
when election day came around again,
and he forgot that all politicians were
abject towards when their salaries
and perquisites were assailed,
nl1a& f.t 49, = Foxna 4Io+ ,s.o1~aa ALL
adherents of the g. o. p. SO angry.
THE Hoboken authorities should
delay no longer in the matter of pro-
viding more school accommodations
inStheir city. At present, while every
bit of space available is occupied, it is
possible to give some children only a
half days tuition, and no less than
500 children are unable to get into any
school at all. How serious a matter
this is considered by parents is shown
by the report that some families are
contemplating removal to New York,
Brooklyn and others cities, where
their children may be able to attend
school.
The Evening Journal Awakening.
We congratulate our only compet-
itor, the Eoenin9 Journal, on the
completion of its twenty-second year
and the suspicious beginning of it's
twenty-third. We congratulate it
especially on the new departure it APP
pears inclined to make in the direction
of modernization.
When we entered the field of
journalism in this city, we prophesied
that the public would not only bene-
fit directly through the establishment
Of q real newspaper in their midst;
but would also gain indirect advantage
through the reforms which the only
other publication that circulated
among them would be compelled to
adopt.
From the outset the Eoening
Journal made covert attempts at inn
proyementin its methods; but these, Of
course, proved futile, since they were
always hampered by the editorial