The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-12

definite number of votes aud thus hold
Ing an overwnelming balance OF power,
go to existing parties and demand
reco gnition and ebeisance.
There Is more or less corrupt on In all
parties and all they fear IL votes. Show
10. 900 voters pledged to one idea and how
soon their hats will come of.
do You want 10 hear what a dis.
tinguished politician says of political
parties. Senator Ingalls, recently SAID
Government Is force. Politics Is a battle
for supremacy. Parties are the armies.
The decalogue and the golden rule b rave
no place in a political campaign. Tue
object IS a success 10 defeat the an.
tagonist and expel the party in power Is
the purpose. In war 1t is lawful to de-
ceivs the adversary, to hire Hessiaus. to
purchase mercenarisE. to mutiists, to
kill, to defraud.'
1t Is the truth. AS o rule, party leaders
have no principle. Their God Is policy;
they are very sensitive TO public opinion
and are sensitive to great organizations
commanding votes. They are the great
est towards on earth and can whip
around as promptly can fright about
face You let these meu know that ali
che churches in the community have
combines In one organization to protect
the interest of morality; that parties are
nothing to them and thas they support
their principles and carry them iuto
effect, n these men will fall upon their
very stomachs In the dust. Lat the
churches thus organize int these cravsns
Will have The same respect for Us that a
fifth rate power Ia the old world has for
Her Majesty US warship Benbow, which al
the time OF her launching was the most
powerful battlesnlp afioat. carrying guns
weighing hundred and eleven tons
apiece, whose charge of powder Is eight
hundred u fifty pounds. whose shot
weighs eighteen hundred pounds, aud
can tear its very way through u solid
wall of iron armor.
Now what we want Ia a "Benbow" in
every city, which shall command re-
spect and be ready ats moments notice
to train her guns upon the enemy and
pour Into them her shot and shell. Tina {
the church of God can become such q
power is a foregone conclu ion. if good
people will Cooperate; for In every COM
muuity the order loving people ut
number the rascals and eau hold them In
check II they are SO disposed. Further
more the churches are permanent insti-
buttons which supply solid ba sis for
operations.
sU NDAY SCHOOL POLITICS.
such 40 organization in control. ex-
isting politicians would behave Jhem-
selves, and soon q nobler class of men
would enter politics. Our enemies may
pooh-pooh at such a semileccliastical
machine, and call it Sunday School poll
tics; but the simple fact is there is moth
ing vIcionary about 1t and it has ceased
to be an experiment. III the city OF
Worcester, Mass. 1t works like magic,
aud has 50 purified politics as to h i've
almost made y new city OF it. Nothing
but the church of Christ is strong euou On
TO undertake such a task. aud IL she un-
dertaKes ii In earnest sne will CERTAINLY
succeed. There 10 yet great power Ia the
Church of God, and the signs of the
times indicate very strongly thai she ia
to be still more powerful days to come,
whe n religion shall be more simple and
practical.
There is nothing on earth SO potter Mt as
conscience. when il is oncs aroused. The
surface currents of every DAY life are as
nothing compared with the stately march
of the under currents of the soul. Ice
bergs often travel against both wind and
tide, n go crsshing through all OBJ
structions, Because they are tmpelled
by the vist under currents of the deep.
Brethren. the times are ripe for such
a movement rs | have described. There 10
q growing disposition on the part of
thinking people toignore p ARTISAN politics
in municipal elections aud vote for the
best man, no matter to what party he
belongs. INDEPENDENT voters are multi
plying aud breaking away from party
dlctation. In other words they are be-
coming broader minded and more pat