The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-11
SETH BOTTOMLEY

SETH BO1'EOMLEI
Goes for the Political Preachers and
Graveyard Stump Orators In a Way
to Make the Fur Fly.
FOUR OF A KIND.
Editor Representatives:
Patriotism is the last refuge of scoun-
hrel."-Dr. johnson.
The above quotation never was better ex-
emplfied, perhaps. than 1t is in the current
news of the day. OF course the good old
doctor did not mean true patriotism but
that bastard kind which is peddled around
on public occasions by unprincipled speak
ers of the day, both lay and clerical, and
strange to say, in times of great unrest
more especially by the clerical. 1t is
Stranger still that these ministers Of
peace should always get on the side of
the strong against the weak, the rich
against the poor, might against right, when
the only excuse for their existence is to
preach the gospel of Cancellation and good
will to mankind. Instead of doing as the
good book teaches them to do, preaching
justice and equality before the law to man,
denouncing and crying Woe unto him that
buldeta his house by unrighteousness"
Thou hast taken usury and increase and
greedily gained of thy neighbor by extor-
tion," Your treading is upon the poor, and
ye have taken from him burdens of wheat"
they appeal to every evil passion that lays
hidden In the human heart and rip
open the old sores that are healing by
that kindly touch Of nature which makes
all the world akin" kindle anew the smoul-
dering fires of sectarian. political state and
national envy. jealousy and Ill will that it
is their mission to soothe down and de
Stroy.
THE FIRST KIND
There is beautiful cemetery in our
heighborhood, backed on it's east side by
the large and we'll laid out grove Of a
prosperous farmer, which adds greatly to
the beauty of the situation or late years
the G. A. r. Post of a neighboring town
haS held memorial services, and this year
everything and everybody, with the excep-
ton which Is the cause of our writing this
letter, combined to make the event I'M
usually attractive and impressive. The day
was perfect the music and singing of a
quality that is too, too rarely found in a
rural community, the same may be said of
the dinner, which, in regard to- both guam
tity and quality, was credit to the female
portion of the neighborhood. The graves
or the III Union soldiers were decorated in
an impressive manner by their gray haired
comrades. which reminded US that thew
were getting a long distance from the time
when brother against brother was a-train-
ing
church-the United Brethren in Christ-and
the nature of its mission ought to have
deferred the speakers Of the day. from
using the occasion and the opportunity
given them in trying to make political cap
ital out of it.
The course they took would have been in
decent enough if they had been common DO
litical bummers, or the members of the
post" all of one political complexion, but
when we consider that both of the speakers
were teachers of the word" one the presi-
dent of-what would be giving it too hon
orable a name to call anything but a bogus
theology factory-and the other Free Bap-
fist minister, their conduct was simply dis
gushing. The more so that under guise of
preaching from the text, death Is Swal-
lowed Up in Victory" the professional
wolf IN sheepskin lauded the grand old
party OF false pretenses," laid all our
woes at the feet of poor old Grover and his
party, and with all the cunning Of a mar
row, bigoted, dishonest. cruel, venomous
and revengeful mind denounced the whole
Democratic party, North and South. as
rebels at heart today. The Baptist spouter
was less logical, but more rabid than the
manufactures of bogus Christians and that
Is saying a great deal, as either of them
could have been pulled on their launches
by facts of history and official statistics
time and again. What made their CAB
the more glaring and impudent was the
character of the G. A. r. men and the
audience. Five of the old vets were ALI
ance men, all having at one time or an
other been delegates to state cr county
conventions. others were Changers. and
others old line Democrats who had never
voted the Republican ticket In their lives.
1t must have been Emusic to these sim
nefs ears to hear themselves denounced
as rebels and traitors after having tramped
from Atlanta to the sea" with Sherman.
ana followed Grant, from eft. McHenry
to Richmond"
1.-The second. third and fourth kind" 1t
is needless to go into details of the other
three kinds one illustration describes
them all. We merely move the scene to
Richmond, Va. Time, Decoration Day."
Speaker of the day, a Rev Blatherskite
very appropriately named Cave, as his
cavernous mouth belched forth, il possible
more blasphemous rant than his Northern
brethren of the cloth; he capped the climax
by charging the North with "robbina ono
man to keep another" This was rich from
fellow whosa trade had been to nreaob
peace be stir to the black race whi,a
the whites robbed them of their earnings
Inc third player in this dirty game is a
coWied stepfather of the Roman Catholic
Churcn' the Rev. Father o. Foxey, we will
cali him. His part in this game of BLUR
Is to denounce all labor unions farmers,
organizations, ETC., as Instruments of tho
devil. 'Ae
One would naturally think that "three Of
a kind'-and such a "kind"-would capture
the pot" but no, there is 'missinp
INK, hole in the seine, that would LET
out part of the flats, gudgeons and bull
heads who have got to be tlattered. fright
ened and beguiled. while their pockets are
being rifed by. the James and Younoor
gang of political robbers
The A. p. A. completes the chain. the
met" reaches clear across the stream
These fellows would turn the wheels If
progress back 400 years. to the times Of
Bloody Queen Mary. and that female
f1end, her sister Elizabeth. Which of the
flour" take the cake for devilishness
the reader must Judge.
Why such characters are tolerated Is be-
yond our comprehension. except it has
come to pass, as Tom Moore predicted.
that our nation would be 'rotten before il
was ripe" SETH BOTTOMLEY.