St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-08
FIRING AT FREEMAN.
The Incorporate ParsOn Receives
Another Scathing Rebuke-


Another Scathing Rebuke-
Rev. Freeman, whose recent intem-
perate utterances from the pulpit have
provoked a storm of indignant protests,
is beginning to hear the returns from
the outside. One of the Severest TebukeS
vet administered to HIM comes from the
Catholic Sentinel at Chippewa Falls,
Wis, which says:
There is such thing as OVERRIDING it
in any matter connected with the affairs
of life. Such thing as overzeal i'll re-
ligiOus matters as well as secular. Such
a thing as OYerestimating our own holl-
! ness. like the Pharisee praying on the
street corner, or Burns Holy Willie in
his bedchamber after debauch. Such
a thing as Understanding the Chris
tian conduct of our neighbOr, or giving
public scandal by commenting on their
acts. We think the following TRADE
from the lips of Self-cOnStltuted CEN
sOror of morals in st. Paul very repre-
hensible Oh these grounds. Preaching
on the Hall and EitZSimmOnS prize fight
last Sunday week he said:
Everybody knows that it has been the set
tied policy of Mayor Smith to defy the plain
laws upon the statute books. What shall we
say of him when, in the face OF the procla-
nation of the governor and the determine
ton of the sheriff 10 uphold the law, he
marches down to the club with his attorney
and clerk and chief of police and boldly de-
clares that if they will go on with the fight
he. with his 300 men will protect them? We
knew that MayOr Smith had no regard for
the public morals. We knew that he had no
interests in his fellow creature. We knew
that he feared not GOD nor respected man.
Now we know that he is a traitor. a law
breaker and q rebel. That no secdder who
ever shOuldered his gun and went forth to
dissolve the Union of this greatrepublic was
! q greater revolutOnst than he We talk of
the Italians and the BOhemians and the So
cialists and the anarchists, but what of the
Tammanyites and the TWeeds and the
Smiths:
Such language as the above, even if
true. coming from man taking adyan-
tage of his position in public meeting
house in great city, is improper and
objectionable, and if uttered anywhere
else. should be answered with a club,
| or a rope and a SouSe in horse-pOnd.
The injury it does to the youth of the
nation is beyond calculation. 1t lowers
the dignity of a minister of the gospel,
and is calculated to bring deeper and
more lasting disgrace on the Christian
religion than anything Mayor Smith or
| the demi-mOnde of st. Paul ever could
effect. were they all as wicked as this
| ill-bred preacher represents them to be-.
Men are not made better by bad Ian
guage coming from the.lips of self-con-
stituted moralists. The languag of this
mau shows that he be either, or has been
! familiar with all the vices he claims to
be rooted and growing in the city of St.
| Paul. If the maxim be true that "Out
of the abundance of the heart the soul
! speaketh,' what calumuiouS, rancor-
Gus heart Preacher Freeman, of St.
| Paul, must possess. How deeply learned
in the hidden vices must ne be, when
! he can trace out all the private abodes
| Of the scarlet women who ply their
trade in that metropolis, and how thank
full the hardened debauchees, old and
Young, of that city, must be to Mr..
| Freeman for giving them the cleW to
the places where these cyprians re-
| sort.
a few years ago a frebranp of the
Freeman stamp, in the same unjusti-
| fable manner, alleged that every third
women in London was unchaste, and
reSorted to designation houses for the
practice of vice.
The authorities of that matter-of-fact
] metropolis ordered thorough inYesti-