The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-22
M.GLYsN TO THE CLERGY.
They'd Better Purify Church Politics
Before They Clean the City.
Now Work Cuu SAINT 4

They'd Better Purify Church Politics
Before They Clean the City.
New York Sun, Sept =.
DR.. McGlynn and the Anti Povertyites
had hurrah last evening in Cooper union,
on the occasion of his return from his
Western trip in search of health. When
the doctor. with a brown and healthy
color on his cheeks, stepped ON the plat
form, handkerchiefs floated upward, and
yells of Hi, hill" greeted him.
''The Clergy and Corrupt Politics" was
the subject of DR.. McGlynn's lecture. This,
he said, referred, of course, to the so-cailed
citizens movement. The doctor held up
to scorn the admirable literary essays de-
livered every week from the pulpit, while
the clergymen fail to point their forefingers
at the millionaires in the front pews and
cry: "Woe unto you rich men, or, 1.-THE
rich man can hardly enter into the king
dom OF heaven" The conversion OF a
millionaire to honesty is so against the
nature of things as to be practically out of
the question. SO they are let alone, and
clerrymen have become dumb dogs who
don't know how to bark.
Then the doctor got to close quarters
and became saiirical. "Why don't you
preach to the usurers in your front pews2"
he said. You know usury meant interest
in the Scriptures, but now you say usury
means exorbitant interest. Did you ever
see $40 gold piece bring forth little 81
gold piece? No, all interest is usury.
That's Roman theology. at the same
time we hear of a banking scheme in which
certain ecclesiastics are interested in send
ing out money TO invest in Americat mort.
cages.
fathers when you come down to practical
politics YOU are the most foolish and guilt
bic of men. But, poor, dear, silly reverend
sirs, il YOU elect your mayor you'll find
you've been pulling somebody else's chest
nuts out of the fire. Ii you don't look
sharp, instead of making men purer, you'll
make them more corrupt.
..Don't believe there is not union of
church and state. It's we'll known that
favors are exchanged between churches
and politicians. You help Us and We'll help
YOU Dear brethren, hadn't you better
try ana make it no longer matter OF in
terest on either size to wink at the corrup-
t,ons on the other side? Now. the church
winks at the corruptions OF politics In or
der to get the money from the public
treasury into the churches tills. There are
millions of dollars distributed to charitable
York don't know anything about
how it is done. Persons in
power can make it profitable to
institutions to cultivate their acquaint-
ance. One OF the reasons why one of the
political parties is so entrenched in its
power. is because the clergy are in favor
of political corruption. We all know the
proper time to hold church fairs is a month
or so before election. A candidate Tor
Judge can lay $40 note on table at a
booth, and he believes he can get votes for
il Not long ago a pastor announced from
IFS pulpit Mr.. So-and-so Ga gambier) visited
our fair. Another Mr.. So-and-so hasn't,
and we hone he will behave as handsomely
as did his opponent
Let the olergymen purify church poll
tics. saw. before they try their hand out
side their parishes. Tammany Hail. in
Tweed's day, was kept in power by the
clergy. but of course the clergy dion Z
know il then. They were fooled by the
leaders OF the gang. Then there are the
sham parochial schools which some people
have teen getting UP while turning deaf
ear TO children crying for the bread OF life.
III the text is to be: III We aid II not 10 the
least OF these. we did IL not 10 Me, there
Will be ecc!esiastics who viii find II sS dlfil-
cult to get into heaven as the rich man IN
Scripture. I've opened vast held OF in
ouiry Tor the brethren. Now l suppose
they won't ask me to join them"