Daily Republican., 1889-11-13
Rev. John b. nuigs's Structures.


A final word In reference to Brother
Quigg's criticisms of my article in the |
REPUBLICAN of October 20. Aside from
a little harmless sarcasm, his words are
marked by that manly, straightforward
spirit SO characteristic of my esteemed
brother. may he mistaken 10 asserting
that II the usual resolution of endorse
ment OF the Peninsula Methodist had
been offered last session of conference 1t
would have been tabled; but that i'm
preston very generally obtained at
Easton. Let every man have the courage OF
honest conviction to stand l,p and be
counted for or against said resolution
neKt spring.
And repeat, the members OF the Will
mlngton Conference do want some voice
in the manage ment Of what certain claim
to be the organ of the body, we are not
satisfied to furnish subscribers and cash,
and have no say as to the management Of
the paper, and no share in its earnings.
Nor is it our duty to take the initiative
ia the case. Long ago Bro. Thomas
| should have taken that initial step. 1t
is not question of expediency only, but
of right. 1t management transferred to
tho conference might not give complete
satisfaction, but that is not the question.
And repeat, how would a member oil
our conference be received at the hands
of the Philadelphia Conference should he
embark in Il similar undertaking, even
should that brother be the Raw. John B.
Quizg, than whom no member of oul
body las a completer fitness, both for th'
editorial work and its business manage
menti They run their own paper AM
book store and share the earnings there
of, while Bro. Thomas invests his thous-
ii To-. h 4.
conference, and merely asks ue to furnish
subscribers aud cash and utter no wort
OF dissent.
Yes, It lie true, before he opened hi
splendid bookstore in Wilmington GU
people had no place in said city wher
they could find our distinctive Mctho
dist publications. but Bro. Quigg wei
remembers that the representative of on
great "Book Concern" as New York toll
us at the Easton Conference that tn
more patronage we send direct thereto
the larger will be our annual share in il
etrnings for our conference claimants
and we get from New York as cheaply
and we object because the paper is run
in the main, by q member Of anothe
conference. Nor would the case be In
proved much now should he seek
} transfer to our difference and thus be
COult u ttIthll CUuTltbitb WtI
3 due us In the stlrt. Bro. Qalgg's sttemI
to give this obje- ton force and poll
against the brethren who have from tim
to time been transferred to our body, is
slip of his pen. He Is too logical TO sc
n Its entire irrelevancy.
They have come into our ranks b
= tr ,nsier; not either to establish som
secular vocation among us out Of whic
= t make living, but to do the work c
tie psstorate, and we give them heart
!. welcome aud make them feel as much .
It home among us though they ''had grow
@ up in cur cypress swamps.p
@ Brother Quigg's attempt to quiet OF
!, recalcitrant brethren into meek submit
:, = sion by the phantom of possible loss I
:, the Conference, which we would
! called upon to make good, does not hay
\, a substantial backing. Is there loss
c our sister conferences who have their ow
e papers and b. ok sto- ~ And would I'll
" Peninsula MethN dist management inve:
T. ther thousands aud build an elegai
structure In which TO conduct their II
a creasing business, and put In all II
modern appliances Of the trade If the
!. did not feel good assurance that II woul
pay them well? Aud when We copsid,
II that our conference territory Is expecte
II to furnish tue material for that success
d it Is only simple justice We should sha
d these receipts.
4. 1t is inferred nowhere IN my artlc
10 that We arty prohilitlonists" want OIL
no Of our own kith ana kin elected to ed
the paper. 1t is doubtful whether OF
such could be found willing to leave Il
passionate for editorial work. The editor
B, politics has nothing TO do In the cat
We Nor do we wish to see the paper trar
OF ferred TO the ranks of third party pape
ce But If Bro. The mus affects to run nc
lg partisan paper let him do it in truth l.
o. him be consistent. This he has been ire
Ia the first, as his s'aunchest friends MI
ma admit, and while he ruus his paper on
';ss non-psrlisan plan We prefer that he sh
"fame ont" against the saloon and eve
Is measure employed to perpetuate It.
u We object TO a non parllsanism u
3. dops less than that. But the fact Is, B
er Thomas, like many others, has so stro
ee political bias that he cannot but ma
lie. It manifest In what he says and what
nd writes. Himself u most seriously atfeci
i'm by that "strabismatc perversity
=, vision" of which he wrote some I
~. weeks ago.
zee ain glad our good editor has "
* down ths bars" to correspondents v
i'm may seek 10 antagonize the editors q"
en- theories." l am inclined 10 think
las scales viii soon fall now.
las Nov. IL, 1889. q. W. BURKE