Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-17
CHURCH AND STATE.
Ihe Attitude of Parties ON Civil
and Religious Liberty.


valley, where have resided since 1867
is the strongest evidence have seer
that the Democratic party is getting bacl
to the platform of Thomas Jefferson
with equal and exact justice to all men
OF whatever condition or persuasion i,
religion or politics. As the Democrat
have got ahead of the Republicans OF
that big issue, if they nominate goot
men to be voted for next November.
: will help them give the Republica,
!, party a Waterloo that may caus
them to be more watchful i,
the future. When they (the Democrats
are in possession of all branche
OF the Government, where now organi
zed treason is skulking over this broat
land, planning and plotting for the over
throw OF the fundamental principles O
this great Republic, the asylum for tn,
oppressed of other nations who have flee
from the despotic tyranny of the theoc
racies of the old world and are free tc
serve God as their consciences dictate
they will help our native born pa.
triots to keep the star spangled banner
above the emblems OF the crown and the
cross, regardless of the threats ol
District Secretary M. A. Gault of the
s0-called National Reform Association.
Here is some of the ranting of that
conspirator in the Christian Statesman,
and reprinted in the american SentineJin
1889: whether the constitution will be
set right on the question of the moral
supremacy of Gods law in government
without bloody revolution will depend
entirely upon the strength and resistance
of the forces of anti. Christ" And in q
meeting held at College Springs, Iowa,
Sunday, February 10, 1889, Mr.. Gault
stated four ways by which influence may
be brought to bear to make this Christ
ian nation: "Firet, agitation; second
petition; third, bv the ballot; fourth, by
the sword" And in explaining and JUS
tifying the use of the sword, he said !:
Don't think we are advocating war, but
if we are not faithful in the use of these
other means, as it was with the anti-
slavery question, after they had agitated
and petitioned and used the ballot, they
drew the sword; go shall we as last
resort be compelled to use the sword
and bullet" The above is the official
methods as laid down by one of the
four divisions of Protestant Romanism.
If the prohibition conspirators sre
ever fortunate enough to pass beyond
the monosyllables in their studies of the
scieuce of government, they will find
that they are out upon the highways and
the byways of the longest road to Office
that has ever been travelled in this coun-
try. There is not man in the United
States that could carry State in ma.
tional contest upon that platform.
Compulsion in relation to drink, food and
the worship of God is un- American and
will never be tolerated in this country.
1t can exist only in Governments where
tyrants rule: where the voice of freedom
is unknown; where bigotry controls
the law-making power and bigots
dictate the laws they wish enacted and
desrots execute the DEGREES. If they
have iight to enact prohibitive laws ir
relation to drink they have the same
right in what we eat. After dispoaing %
liquor and tobacco, their next attack
would probably be upon pork, and con
tinue to the end of the alphabet without
any line of demarcation and keep up ar
endless agitation. disturbing the bust
ness industries of the whole country
| when one ounce of moral persuasion
would be worth more than q pound O.
sumptuary laws in all such reforms.
A church is not the place to study
hypocrisy and bigotry. It is their work
outside the churches that needs watch.
ing. When was working for political
reform in bygone years it often came
into my mind ss being very strange that
there was no effort made to reform the
churches, believing them to be as cor.
rupt as the state. have progressed fal
enough in the study of theology to learn
that to reform church is to destroy it.
found what 1 had supposed to be Q
Christian majority in the orthodox
churches was only minority, and if one
OF them had spoken out in meeting and
suggested what would have placed them
on higher plane, with more religion
and less hypocrisy, and more
stateemanship and less treason
more honesty and less trickery
that man would have been turned out ol
the church and pursued by the hounds
of hypocrisy. This explained to me why
there had been 80 little church reforma.
tion. My opinion is that if these gospe
politicians had kept out of the politica
arena, and remained in their pulpits anc
reformed the churches, they would nave
had better luck in filling empty pew:
and converting sinners than by followins
the methods laid down by Gault. Mora
suasion inspires feeling of love where
compulsion creates rebellious hatred
that has brought forth many bloody
wars. From the knowledge obtained
from thirty-fve years. disinterestee
study of the political chess board, am
of the belief that the women that are
working to get the ballot caano
be trusted to use it, as they have
formed an alliance with conspirators who
have demonstrated their willingness te
trade off the principles this Government
rests upon and throw in our starry ban
ner and proud eagle bird for prohibition
and Sunday tyranny. This is what they
mean when they say give us prohibition
and Sunday laws, and you may have
everything else. American freemen will
never accept remedy for the abuse oil
the liquor traffic that would be worse
than the disease, and the sooner these
misguided women who are undoubtedly
honest in their intentions, see that ques
ton in its true light the better.
l will retire from the discussion of this
question until after the two parties meet
in their conventions and put forth then
platforms and nominate their candidates
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