The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-12-01
W. q. q. u. Column.
FATHER HANNA ON SAMPLES OF
CHRISTIAN CIvILIzING EXHIBIT.

FATHER HANNA ON SAMPLES OF
CHRISTIAN CIvILIzINa EXHIBIT.
EDITOR EXPRESS While reading
the daily papers the last few months
and closely watching tn sects and clergy
in spreading the views of their fervic
imagination, declaring and predicting
the terrible results that would follow
the opening of the gates to the world:
exhibits on Sundays, my mind reverted
back to the clergy and blind Pharisee:
OF Christ's day, eighteen hundred years
ago, i. e. Eye hypocrits! Ye blinded
guidesl Whited sepulchres; full {!
dead mems bones; making long prayers
standing on the streets to be seen Of
meu; loving the highest seats in the
synagogues, and to be called of men
Rabbi! Rabonni! yet neglecting the
weighter matters of the law, judge
ment. justice, mercy and faith in God
AS it has been decided to hold q
church congress of all the sects to com
pare "creeds." Standards" Bibles
'Korans," "Shasters,' "faiths," ano
results of each in their separate and
combined effort as civilizers of man
kind, why not haye had an exhibition
of the effects of the rum traffic as car
ried on in the United States by the con
sent and authority of the general gov
ernment? Why not show to a gazing
world the progress that the United
States has made in the manufacture of
malt liquors and the legaized effects of
the rum traffic?
Why build houses wherein are ex-
hibited the worlds industrial enterprise,
the arts and all the improvements Of
past and present ages of the worlds
progress, all finding protection under
the governments of the Old and New
World, and utilized, as they claim, for
the civilization, development and hap
piness of mankind? Why have all
these things and build no house, make
no move to have an exhibition (open
on Sunday of what the legalized rum
traffic has done for the American
people?
Would it not have been more pleas
ing to God to have had on Sundays
exhibition upon the Worlds Fair
grounds what the legalized rum traffic
has done for the American people as a
christian civilizer, than all the theologi-
cal dissertations on scholastic theology.
artistic choir music. and sect entertain.
ments during the Worlds Fair?
We think that it would, i. e., if two
or three acres of ground; and as much
more as might be needed, was enclosed
with an iron fence thirty feet high;
elevated seats erected on the outside
and near by on each side of this cage
Open the cage door and carry ir,
haul in, drive in Il the young boys
whose brain is fired with the effects Of
rum.
Bring in and turn loose the wife
slayer, the heart smasher, home break ri
the gambler, the grave robber, the prize
ring pugilist, and drunken sports from
the dens of infamy and companions Of
high and low prostitutes.
Bring all in from the gambling hell's
pool rooms, with all the wild, ravipg,
ranting, drunken lunatics and jail.birds
Have in one corner of this dirty den
place to pile up all the clubs, axes,
hatchets, knives, revolvers. razors and
shotguns that were used by drunken
tisnds in numbering fathers and mothers,
husbands, wives and children-and even
the bade at its mothers breast--all OF
whose blood was spilled by Americana
legalized rum power.
Reserved seats would be desirable for
governors and legislato OF each State.
and the Congress and Senate and Pre-.
sident OF the United States, and with
them should be comfortably seated all
the preachers and elders and praying
church members who voted to license
the internal traffic.
The other seats should be occup et
by tie broken hearted widowed
mothers; young wives with crushed aud
bleeding hearts; with babes in then
arms clothed in rags; children holdin.
to the tattered garments of mothers
crying and begging for bread; father,
with bowed heads and sad hearts; fair.
sweet girls in prayer to God to remove
the curse that political religionists en-
tailed as legacy of prospective and
otherwise happy homes.
Then to complete the exhibit. let the
President make an address to the gag.