Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-08
THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT.

The New York Tribune saws that in /;
recent sermon western anti-tobaccc
clergyman put the matter in this way
1T is well understood, my brethren, tina
we shall continue to do in the mex
world what we most enjoy doing in this
world. Therefore those who smoke il
this world will smoke in the world t.
come, yea. they will smoke with the fire
that quencheth not"
We hope, nay, we believe, that the
western clergyman is mistaken. 1t i:
not ''well understood" at least it is not
well assured, that we shall continue t.
| do in the next world what we most en-
| JOY doing in this. From the clergy
mans" allusion to smoke, we infer that
his idea of the next world comprehends
| the existence of the internal regions
| Now, how can editors write editorials in
climate so torrid as to melt the lead in
their pencils and shrivel their paper tc
ashes? And how could the editorials be
printed? Types are composed of lead
and zinc, neither of which metals is
capable of withstanding a high tempera-
ture.
We object to this airy assumption on
general grounds. We don't believe that
one local electric light company will en-
gage to furnish IS lights for the street
crossings there while another company
receives 50 for the same service. We
n hot
continue his corners" on grain and
pork there. We don't believe that Jay
Gould will own all the railroads there,
or that the Standard Oil company will
monopolize all the illuminating material.
We don't believe the Wichita Street
Railway company will insist upon a
franchise that will give it the privilege
of erecting overhead wires upon poles
in the center of the streets and leave the
portion Of the street covered by said
franchise unpaved at its option. We
don't believe that the Democrats of the
south will be able to work their tissue
ballots there to any extent, because, al
though there will be no Republi-
cans to watch them. the high tempera-
ture will prevent it, We don't believe
Democrats will stuff ballot boxes there,
because the deyil will tell them that that
game won't work in his dominions.
We don't believe there will be any met
ropolitan police system inaugurated
there, because prohibition will prohibit
without it. We don't believe that rail-
road companies and the Western Union
can water their stocks there, for Dyes
asked Abraham to send Lazarus to him
with a drop of water to cool his parched
tongue, and Abraham said that he
couldn't do it, because of the gulf be-
tween them. We don't believe there
will be any rebellion there for the rea-
son that those whose conspiracies would
provoke one here will be too
busy trying to supplant the controlling
genius there by intrigue to get one up
themselves, and none of the kickers at
their methods here will be there provoke
one.
Finally. we do believe that the "west-
ern clergyman" mis-stated his PROPOSE
ton. 1t would have been more correct
to have said that those who smoke in
this world will be smoked in the next
If he can make us believe that we will
stop smoking-but, what's the use, WE
don't expect to be there to see. But as
to his proposition in general, considered
abstractly, we are like the hard-headed
Scotchman who said Il am always
ready to be convinced, but [ would like
to see the man who con convince me"