The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-04-07
SECULAR AND SACRED
SEv. THOMAS DIXON HOLDS ALL Lg-
CLIMATE BUSINESS As SACRED.

A Prelude On Dr. Parkhurss's War OF
Vice In New York csty-side Remark,
on Governor Hiu aBd Tammauy-Ths
Faithful Preachers Duty.
NEW York, April 3.-Rev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., returned TO his pulpit this
morning after a lecture tour Of two
weeks through the west. The regular
sermon Of the day was preceded by a
review of current events, entitled s.Dr.
Parkhurst's Bomb" in which most
hearty support and approval were ex-
tended to his militant neighbor. whose
church is just across the street from
Association hall. He said:
1t has been suggested, since the recent
explosion Of sacred bomb from the
Madison square pulpit, that a worthy
successor TO DR.. Crosby has been found
in DR.. Parkhurst by the directors of the
Society for the Prevention of Crime.
True. And they have found a man of
aggressive power who win press the
work far beyond any point ever before
reached in its history.
DIGNITY OF A CORPSE
With oil my heart welcome him to
this work. i bid him Godspeed. lex
tend to him the right hand of Christian
sympathy aud fellowship. May his heart
never grow weary and his arm never
grow weak! We of course mingle our
tears with those who spell their piety
with a capital p, over the fact that so
great preacher has fallen into sensa-
tlonaisIn. This is too bad. But then,
after all, it is well to remember that a
dead preacher never makes a sensation.
The most dignifed preacher ever saw
was a corpse.
What response has been given to this
terrific indictment of New York's munic-
ipal life?
The friends of truth and righteousness
have given generally most hearty sup
port SO far as the public press has
spoken.
sA8IBo AND THE CHICKEN.
And yet few decent newspapers
have expressed regret that the preacher
denounced crime so vigorously without
having in his possession documentary
evidence to fix the crime on individual
criminals! What nonsense! The fact
of crime is one thing; the fastening of
that crime upon the individual culprit
Is another. 1t is not necessary to find
feathers in the teeth Of Sambo to know
the fact that have lost a chicken. II
is my duty to proclaim my loss. The
fixing of guilt is the duty of the officer
of the law. The failure to fix that guilt
does not restore the. chicken or make my
loss any the less painful fact.
CRoKER-DIE TEARS.
The response on the part of the Grim
inals directly attacked has been quick
and painful. Tammany has wept copi-
ously-great, briny, globular Croker-dae
tears! Tammany weeps not at her own
sins but at the degeneracy of the modern
pulpit in falling SO low as to mention
its name before a decent audience.
Well, it is rather hard on the audience;
but hard things must be done sometimes,
if Tammany's sense Of the sacred and
the worshipful is shocked!
And then the keepers of houses of i'll
fame whose business has been inter
rupted by this episode have joined their
melodious voices with the chorus of
Tammany and Tammany's brilliant
hand organ hard by the city hall, and
all together these three birds of feath-
er weep dirge over the harm done the
morals of the young by this indecent
preacher! This trio weeping over the
wounded morals of the city forms Il
spectacle that should bring tears to the
pavement stones of the Bowery!
PEBBLES By THE SEA.
DR.. Parkhurst has only touched the
facts. He might have gone much
farther. With the positive zeal of
child in new world, to whom all was
revelation, he has only picked up few
pebbles on the seashore of a city's
shamel
Is it necessary to prove that the sun
shines at noon because an owl boots at
the idea? Bah!
Do we not all know that police cap
tains enter Office poor and come out rich,
and grow rich on salary barely suf-
fcient for the modest support of family?
Only last Saturday gentleman told
me that to his personal knowledge the
police captain of his district had lived
for years in the rear of notorious house
of prostitution, and that the citizens Of
that street had appealed in vain for re-
dress. To uncover these villainies is
next to impossible, because they are Sc
cret compacts between criminals and
those who represent the law itself.
VINO TC pFSPoNsrpT ~
But who is really responsible for all
this? (Tammany IS minority, and al
ways has been.) The citizen king who
forgets it on the day of election. The
criminal upper classes who prove trait
ors to their country and their God by
Ioafng instead of voting. The men who
in their greed for personal gain-what
they please to call their private busi-
ness-leave the affairs Of the city to go
to the devil. The preachers Of the past
and present who have spoken smooth
things and cried peace, peace, when
there was no peace. The preachers
called to proclaim the kingdom of
righteousness who have been aTEed
into submission by bullies and COM
Elalu6u W LoAG tAAS1k eAEa9s taAAA AANaf g
held them, and gone on whining and
sniyeling and visiting old women ard
children, while the world has laughed
at them as sexless monstrosities!
ADAM AND JUDAS AND MOSES.
If for the last twenty years we had
heard less about Judas Lscariot and
more about his modern successors, there
would be fewer of his iik still holding
the bag. If we had heard less about
the fall of Adam and more about the
fall of our aldermen, the population Of
Canada might have been much larger,
with corresponding benefit to us. If we
had heard less about Moses and more
about tie mayor, we might be nearer the
ideal Of Moses today.
Let DIR. ParkhUTSt go on with his
rork. But what VIII come of it? The
kfngdoml The kingdom of righteous
ness at last! But the real remedy viii
be found at last, not in the courts 1t
viii be found in the ballot box behind
those courts. 4 campaign for the pre-
vention of crime to be efficacious must
,ae,;,, befo-e the 11rirnaries. continue till