The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-12

ed with our national government, and
even tho government OF tho city in
which no rU'ideaI
City officers SHOULD DO elected for
their qualifications, nOtaCcordlng to tho
political apOils -ystcm. 4 nun should
occupy certain Office because hO Is IN
expert in that line, not bccdn5O como
politicians hUyc promised him the Office
Tor work done In behali OF their political
party. II IL not every man oil ordinary
buaincsJ ability that can administer tho
affairs Of u city, Honesty IS not the
only thing necessary to cnrry on tho
affairs Of city government, skill and
knowledge arc quite as essential. No
business man would place man at tho
head OF department Of his store or
mill simply because he was honest; he
secures Il man who il all expert in that
limo of business.
Tho business OF Il city should DO con-
Quoted oil business principles by mon
who understand their business. Tho
strGnts and alleys should DO graded,
paved aud repaired by professional
street builders. Tho board OF education
should DO composed Of men who arc
themselves we'll educated, and who aro
recognized iu tho city rs cducatora. All
our city offices ahOuld hc filled by men
who arc vel! qualified TO conduct tho
business Of their Offices reform Is
very much needed along thia lInn. An
othcr step in municipal reform is that
CRIME SHOULD UE DETECTED AED ruN-
lsIIED.
"Crime should be treated as crime.
The moment You loCalize or IL
censo crime you put the mu-
nicipaI government stamp on vice.
No respectable city can afford to do that.
The Society for the Prevention Of Crime
in New York city, led ny DR.. Charles II.
ParShurst, has undertaken to demon
state and break up tho system OF paid
police protection under which yico aud
crime huvO abnormaIly ilOurishcd. This
society has thoroughly convinced New
York city that vice is regularly pro-
tcctCd by Iammauy Hall and the police
force for tho lions share in tho profits.
Tho saloons OF the metropolis have
complained to Tammany's boss that
they are paying $G0O,0O0 annually in
brides to the police force 10 prevent tho
police from making arrests, and that
the blackmail levied on them is too
hGa"y and should be reduced.
What Il multitude OF crimes this
SU00,0O0 OF ealoon money has an
nually covered! \ similar condition Of
affairs is found in almost nil of our great
cities. although on smaller scale. You
might imagine that tho principal bust
moss oil the police force was to protect
crime and vice instead OF arrcsting and
roofing it out. But how can YOU ex-
pGCt 4 policeman to arrest saloon
Keeper where he gets his free drinks
daily? How can you expect him to ar
rest the drunken sot with whom he oc-
casionally drinks? How can YOU OK
pee: city government to condemn vice
and crime when its mayor appears be-
fore his own bar and fines himself Tor
drunkenness? when its chief OF police
is found in n brothcl, and its policemen
daily drink in the city saloons?
WHAT FART SHOULD CHRISTIANS TAKE?
There is sentiment frequently cx-
pressed by men who are opposed to
reform, that q minister or leading
Christian has no rights in political
affairs. do not believe that n
Christian church, rs an ecclesiastical
body, has right to interest itself in
political affairs. Neither has minister
in his representative capacity. But tho
members Of church are no less citi.
zens than those who do not attend
church. When Young man enters the
ministry he does not disiranchise him
self, but still retains all the rights Of
citizenship. That idea that ministers
should be re!egated to tho church
stcoplcs, high above the roofs OF tho
houses where they will not be contain
mated with sin and the wicked
world, and only permitted to de-
cCnd once n week to discourse
on life in the celestial city, has long
since been exploded.
"When moral issues are ut stake, as
in New jersey last fall. the pulpit has 4
right TO come to the front. Instead OF
it being the duty OF tho clergyman to
keep out OF these things il is most i'm
portant that he and his Christian pco-
pic should 90 into them. Tho church
is Of no bened. to tho world If it re-
mains silent in fight where moral
issues are involved.
GLOW will you purify the pool OF cor
runt politics if the good elements stand
aIoof from tho performance OF their
political duties? Ii your city is good
enough TO give you business and n
homo. it also deserves your political
support rs loyal and patriotic citizen.
DR.. Macarthur well says "rhe man
who is so engrosscd with the duties OF
:hc other world that he cannot perform
his duties in this world, is not likely
ever to sce another world MS good "a
this world" The Bible stimulates to
noble patriotism as well MS to fervcnt
piety. II good men desire good govern
mont they must make themselves felt
all tho way from tho primary to the
ballot-box.
Every city needs reform. I hope to
see the day when municipal and na-
tional politics will DO completely and
permanently divorced; whom all tho
people will DO educated in the city gov.
ernmont. and when not only honest
but we'll qualified men will hold the
offices; when tho duty OF the police will
be not to protect crime but to Danish it;
and when the better classes OF citizens
will do their whole duty to their city,
their state and their nation"
a PERSON is premnturely old when