The Irish standard., 1891-06-13
a BROWN ROAST.

Some people do not know when they
have enough, and some do not know
what they do want, but they keep on
begging for little of everything in
sight. This is the position Of the kevs.
Morrill, and Allen just now. These
would be reciaimers of sinners. short
slime ago preached most sensational SER
mons on the supposed immortality OF our
e1ty, and did not stop to qualify any OF
their statements, but came out Hat
footed, so to speak. When the grand
Jury met it considered 1t it's duty to III
vestigate these charges, and so sent tor
these two sensational preachers to sec
what foundation they had for the state
,nents they made. The jury was anx-
1ous to know where this crime was ram
pant: they wanted to know just where.
as Minneapolis has All area o. 81 square
miles inside her boundaries. What was
the result? Neither OF those gentlemen
knew anything themselves, They said
they we're told that Minneapolis was a
wicked city, and they had every reason
to believe thar intormants. But as to
their ability to point TO the exact loca-
tion and the like, they were unable to.
Both men denied shey made the state
ments attributed to them by She press,
but they had nothing more to say in
their defence when the jury reminded
them Of the fact that the statements re"
ferred to were published simultaneously
in all the morning papers. They COZ
tented themselves with simply denying
these statements. TO set themselves as
right as possible thew gave the names OF
their informants. and these gentlemen
were called in to tell where they goS
their information. In almost all these
cases general denial was entered as to
their having given any such information
TO the ministers IN question, and so the
jury deemed it their duty to make re-
port Of their findings. which they after
wards submitted to Judge Pond on the
bench. So far as their report bears on
the reverend gentlemen in question, we
deem it our duty in the interest OF JUS
tice and fair dealing towards the admin
istration. in which we have the greatest
confidence, to quote the following ex-
tract from the iury's report: "This
grand jury has no hesitation in saying
that 1t regrets that the ministers of the
gospel should so far lower their dignity |
as to proclaim from their pulpits and
through the public press of this city, the
existence of evils and immoral condi-
tions Of affairs that "smell to heaven"
based only upon hearsay and rumor.
We believe the reverend
gentlemen got only semblance Of au-
thority for the statements made in refer
ence to the morality of the same city,
which they admitted was one of the
cleanest, morally, In the country, tended
rather to sensationalism than to their |
earnest sense of right seeking and right
doing, which charaoterizes the high
minded and conservative citizen" Did
these ministers accept their rebuke with
good grace as they should nave? No,
they entered their pulpits Sunday morn
ing and poured forth torrents of abuse
on the jury, the administration and the
men. The jury for making
the report it did; the administration for
not allowing them the privilege of rum
ming the city and its affairs as we'll as
their own parishes, and the newspaper
men because they published the grand
iurY's report, They claimed the news.
papers misrepresented them, but al the
published pFadtieally the
ma articles q preached III these min