St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-27
Rev. j. B. Freeman Enters the
Race With Rev. Wallace
II. Butriek,
To See Who Can Bespatter the
Mayor With the Most
Mud.
Epithets Hurled From the
Pulpit a Disgrace to Any
Christian.
The Mayor Of the City Lik-
ened Unto a Coadjutop
Of the Devil.


this side of the internal regions, more
have mercy on his soul-Satanic mai
esty than Robert A. Smith,"
These are the words with which Rev.
j. B. Freeman, pastor of the Arlington
Hills Presbyterian church, yesterday
electrified his congregation. But that
was not all. He was reviewing the
events of the past week, and in the
course Of his sermon he said the fol-
lowing:
My avowed purpose this morning is to
stir UP public sentiment. And we pro-
pose to do it by looking the facts of the
past few weeks fairly III the face and by
revealing to you some things in cOnnec-
ton with the recent episode that
you can scarcely believe. The
events of last Wednesday were
only the elimination of long
series of insults heaped upon the
law-abiding citizens of our city. For
years past a body of respectable and
loyal people of the community have en-
deavOred TO effect certain reforms and
to throw around themselves the sacred
mantel of the law. No matter what
the proclamation of the law was,
whether it was Sunday base Sail,
Sunday theaters or Sunday saloons,
all they got for their prOtesta-
tiOns were ieers and ScornS. Things
have been gradually going from bad to
worse until DR.. Crafts. who has travelled
all over the land and has made city
morals special study, has said that st.
Paul was the
Most Hopeless City
that he had visited west of Chicago.
Now, what were the conditions we
had to contend with in our last cam-
paign? First, there was no association
of well-known citizens, prominent in
civic affairs, bent upon prOfaning the
law. These men are numbered among
our bank cashiers, our newspaper
managers and proprietOrs of our in
dustries. Back of them was great ele
ment utterly devoid of public conscience
or public morals, and these men knew
all about the law. They had it before
them. Their attorney told them that
they would outrage it, and yet these
gentlemen went calmly on and made,
their preparations to defy the law. Is
not this shameful state of affairs on
the part of such citizens as these?
Then there was the press of the city.
1t is lamentable fact that the secular
press is utterly useless as a champion
of any moral cause. 1t has
No Moral Stamina
at all. No public conscience. 1t SIM.
ply tries to be on the popular side. 1t
will change seven times day, if public
opinion veerS i'll as many directions
In this great crisis, when public
sentiment was said to be too low to en-
force the laws, what did our great dailies
l. So fhn
language of one of them: 1--WE are not
prepared to lend our support to this
movement" And yet the convention
of editors will pose as the ''mouldeTs OF
public opinion" the great educators of
the people," Lord help us if that's all
the education we get.
But last, and worst of all, is that great
standing menace to our municipal lib
erty, the mayor and his police force.
Everybody knows that it has been the
settled policy of Mayor Smith to
Defy the Plain Laws
upon our statute books. What shall we
say of him when. in the face of the
proclamation of the governor and the
determination of the sheriff to uphold
the law, he marches down to the club
with his. attorney and clerk and
chief of police and boldly declares
that. II they VIII 20 on with the night.
he, with his 800 men, will protect them?
We knew that Mayor Smith had no re-
gard for public morals. We knew that
he had no interest for his fellow Great
ures. We knew that he feared not God
nor respected man. Now we know that
he is also a: traitor, lawbreaker and
rebel. That no seceder who ever
shouldered his gun and went forth to
dissolve the Union of this great repub-
lie was a greater revolutlOnist than he.
We
Talk of the Italians,
and the Bohemians, and the socialists,
and the anarchists; but what of the
Tammanyites. and the Tweeds, and the
Smiths? Take him all in all, there is not,
on this side of the internal regions. a
more able c0adjutOr of his-and mayGOd
have mercy upon his soul-Satanic
majesty than Robert A. Smith.
1t is certainly an awful state of affairs
when men like John Ireland and S. j. r.
Mcmillan and ID. X. Moves and thou
sands OF others have to leave their voea-
lions and 90 in body to the governor
in the forenoon of Tuesday and beg of
him to throw around them the mantle
of the law.
Now, in conclusion, let the good work
90 on. Let us attend the mass meeting
tomorrow night and hear the rest of it.