The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-10
HYPoCRITEs HURT ANY CAUSE.

could have found equal facilities.
HYPOCRITES HURT ANY CAUSE.
In the local reports of the EAGLE yester-
day morning we find an account of pro-
hibition meeting held in Garfield hall for
the purpose of strengthening temperance
convention called for Topeka to counter
act the influence of the late resubmission
convention. That was all right and per-
fectly proper. There are very large per
cent of good and true men and women,
men and women with whom we would
trust our life and honor, who believe IN
prohibition as temperance measure anu
as a moral agency, as honestly as they be-
heve in heaven, as earnestly as Is their
hope of Immortality. Such peoples con-
victions we respect just as much as we
hope they respect ours. Take a man like
Rev. j. D. Hewitt, for instance. With
his Scotch heredity and ethical training and
religious education he couldn't be other
wise than an earnest radical. AS a tenn
perance man it would be unnatural
for him to be anything else than a
prohibitionist. Honest resubmissiOnistS
who know him respect his utterances and
convictions. nay, even in multltudinous
instances, love the man for manhood's
sake We only cite Hewitt as an instance
There are scores and hundreds Of others in
the prohibition ranks like him. We re-
spect all such; do not blame them for fail
ing to see the matter in the same light we
do. even; for the reason that we know that
they are inspired to their course by the
conviction that they have fast hold OF a
great moral lever which in the end will
serve to lift humanity on to higher and
safer grounds. These are respected in the
same way and degree that a member OF
one church respects the member of an
other church, whose chart reads different
but who have their hearts and hopes CEN
tered on the same haven of rest
When the resubmissionists went to To-
peka it was charged by the prohibition
papers that there were men of the dele
CATION who were in the habit of using
intoxicants. This was not denied. 1t was
charged that one of the ninety-three who
went from Wichita had in his time sold
beer This was not denied. There was,
therefore, no hypocrisy or concealment.
At the Garfield hall meeting night be-
fore last, called in the claim of higher
morality and purer temperance, there was
prominent at least one whose life has been
lie, and whose presence, therefore, was
blight effecting the convictions of
every man present who knows his
history. He is hypOcrite OF
the stamp of Iscariot, and so far as this
community is concerned, the devil would
have by his presence lent the occasion as
much of moral force. He is one who would
go with you to the house of prayer that he
might seek an opportunity to defraud
your mother or rob your child. He would
for a bride of half that given
to Judas rob you if he could of your home
or undermine your business. He Is in
short as low in the estimation Of every
right-minded man, as untrustworthy, as
treacherous and dishonest as it is possible
for a creature to be and remain outside
the the pennitentiary; and, while no good
citizen can afford to be forced into posi-
ton of cOuntenancing him, his presence
only serves to discredit any honorable
movement. In the interest of good morals,
of right example, of public standard, such
persons should be by decent, self-respect-
ing people crowded back and down, and
out. 1t is bad enough that such pretend
ers as have no interest real or personal, IN
the city who hope for gain and advantage by
forcing themselves into the company of
recognized decent men, should be counter
anced or listened to, but far worse when
stinkers and skunks, whom the well
wishers of such occasions would not for
moment trust with their money or with
any other important interest, are per
I'd r,-tn If
lower the standard of personal worth and
standing for the youth. Notoriety IS not
nopularity nor is perfdiOus acuteness
talent. and public morals suffer where
enemies to the public are exalted, because
distrust is thrown not only upon men but
upon any cause with which hypocrites
have a connection, for they contaminate
whosoever they may associate with.
Hypocrisy is the most damnable trait
that ever crept into this world through the
heart of the devil y lie is innocency it
self bv contrast. One of its examinations
was the crucitixion of Christ, followed by
the self murder of its human agent. "Hy-
pocrisy" is conspicuously emblazoned
above all other crimes and sins along the
darkest corridors of hell The King of
Kings could have won to His great heart
all the world of lost souls but for the
father of lies" who begat hypocrisy As his
darkest triumph in the innermost womb
Of perdition and then plastered it upon
the tongues and faces of men who in rot
tenness of heart stood up in public places
to thank God that they were not as other
men. We have respect unto the pleadings
of an honest man. however erroneous we
may think his convictions, can admire and
even love those who conScienuously differ
with Us on the most vital questions to our
happiness, but the presence Of the putrid
hvpocrite willis all that Is good in one and
furnishes and stains all virtue and all
purity.
LAST NIGHTS FIRE