Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
CHURCH AND STATE.
yahn C0ndra Lays Down His Plat
form Upon tsIsms.s,

pehn Condra Lays Down His Plat
form Upon tsIsms.s
EDnoRs HERALp-Being opposed to
|he mixing Of politics and religion, !
my work for many years to re-
Iorming State and national politics, leav-
ng church reformation in the hands of
10 chosen leaders, and as long as they
beloved the legitimate work of their
sailing they were not disturbed by me.
When they crossed the line OF demarcs-
lion, however, and entered the political
arena with . new party labeled "Pro-
/" party that has formed an
Alliance with the so.called National Re-
Iorm Association and the American Sab.
bath Union, and the Christian Temper
Ance Union or Woman's political party.
they exposed their hypocrisy to public
view. These four divisions represent
what might be called Protestant Roman
Ism of the United States of America, as
they are upon the Roman platform OF
theccracy, and extending the hand Of
fellowship to the Roman Catholics to
join them in q crusade that would over
throw civil and religious liberty in this
country. At the present time this is the
paramount issue in the politics of the
country and must be settled before other
issues Of less importance that are before
Congress. This is the big issue that
caused me at the beginning OF 1889 to
sever my connections with political parties
and go back to the study of ancient his
tory. wished to eee something of the
experience Of the old world in relation
to church and state unions and / found
that their so-called Christians had to
travel with the Bible in one hand and
the sword in the other. That would
doubtless be their best plan of convert
ing sinners in this country if they could
establish theocracy and have the Gov
eminent furnish the sword. This great
controversy that has been foisted upon
the American people will revolutionize
political parties and church creeds more
than any other issue that has come up
since the promulgation of the Declaration
Of Independence. The war Of the rebel
lion was fought to decide whether we
should have two weak republics, one
free and the other with slavery; or one
strong free Government. The present
issue is: Shall we have free Govern
ment, Of the people for the benefit of the
people, guaranteeing civil and religious
liberty to all American citizens, or q
theocracy that would doubtless be ruled
by bigots and hypocrits, with Bible in
one hand and sword in the other, and
misnamed Christian nation. Fellow
freemen, which side of this great contro-
yersy do you propose to take? There is
no neutral ground or halting station. ]
am not the property of any political
party or church creed, and they are moi
responsible for my opinions. l will sup
port the candidates in our approach.
ing election that give prohibition
women voting, church and state
union with Sunday tyranny, the biggest
black eye in their platforms and upor
the rostrum. Those that have an eye or
Washington City, Sacramento or the
Los Angeles Court House had better bs
reading up ON this great issue. They
will have to meet it and define their DO
sition with no uncertain sound. If they
are az silent in their political platforml
and upon the rostrum in relation to thil
eSerehadowing issue as President Har
linou udb uccu III LIS jdtc m06bdE6 "
Congress, it will look like they were il
sympathy with the crusaders that ar,
working to establish an ecclesiastica
and stale deHpotism over what would b,
the ruins of the grsndest republic eve
organized by brave men. am one o
the many that voted for President Har
zison, and one of the few that do no
want an Office from him, and one of thu
many that will hold the Republican
party responsible if it ignore so i'm
portant q question. The party tina
takes firm stand against those con
spirators, and settles this question in 8
way that it can never come up again al
disturbing element in American poll
tics. is the party that will rule this Gov
eminent for many years to como. Viii
one of the two great parties meet thosi
eonspirators and demand a halt? l
not they may have to stand aside anc
give place to q party that will. The
slavery question killed the Whig party
and caused the Democrats to go out O
business for a quarter of q century
Stranger things have happened than fol
the Waig party to be resurrected and
cause both the great parties to retire i
they fail to respond to the call of Ameri
can freemen, who have yigilant sentinell
on the watch-towers. From Maine tt
California, from British Columbia te
Florida, all eyes are now turned upor
Washington City, where the Blair Sun
day bill may be called up at any time
We want no secret star chamber or darl
lantern work in connection with that bill
which is engineered by the four divisions
Of the crusaders that have been described
in another part Of this letter. The
American people are indebted to Alonzt
T. Jones, who is we'll known to the read
ers of the american Sentinel, for his able
defense Of civil and religious liberty, and
his exposure of the gigantic frauds il
that go. called fourteen million petition Il
tho United States Senate in favor Of thu
Blair Sunday Rest bill. 1t was demon
strated that if those conspirators were
young in political experience, they wert
old experts in colossal trickery. The
Prohibition political party is responsible
for this mixture of politics and religion
/ will help them stir it until the unedu
cated can distinguish between hypocrisy
and religion. 1t is my intention to dis
cuss this big question through the public
press in all its important bearings be-
tween this date and the next November
election. JOHN CoNDRA.
Whittier, December Is.
Flower Festival Home.
Considering the fact that misunder
standing exists in the minds Of some
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