Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-03-09
the CRY COUNCIL.

The Eagle does not assume the duty
Council as II general thing. nor as any
part Of its duty as public journal, but
II does hold that the campaign of some
Of the so-called apostles OF reform who
addressed the Central Hall mass meet.
ing In reference to the passage of the
much talked of Cosmopolitan and Og.
den ordinances was Incorporate. un.
truthful and uncalled for.
1t further holds that the language
came with bad grace from platform
that was thronged with men who dare
not face the light Of day or OF public
criticism on either their public or pri-
vate lives. 1t Ii safe to say that II a sud
den exposure could have been made dur.
Ing the meeting Of the lives Of nine
tenths Of the hOwlers who frothed and
mouthed from the Central Music Hall
last Sunday-nn exposure not Of their
private peccadillOes, but Of their public
sins-that platform would have been
deserted within five minutes from the
moment OF exposure.
Especially deserving Of reprOof and
condemnation was the conduct and
language Of the reverend gentlemen
who degraded their high office In the
church. their holy calling and the pre-.
cepts Of Christianity by participating
In the proceedings Of Il lot Of money.
grabbing spectators seeking to keep
up their enormous winnings ut the eX.
pense OF the people, and who so far for.
got the teachings Of the Master and the
Sermon on the Mount as to defile the
quiet Of the Sabbath afternoon by hurl.
Ing calumny, detractiOn and villihca.
ton against their fellOw.citizens.
Alas, with modern progress and civ.
ilixatiOn. melancholy though the
thought may be. many Of the land.
marks Of a truer II not as advanced a
condition Of Christianity are passing
away. Time was when the vesper bell
and not the tOcsin Of the public alarm.
list summoned the cleric to the duties Of
the day.
These he found In the cloister. the
cathedral aisle. the silent altar or the
public, and not the rOstrum. the plat
form. the meeting hall or the public
places Of the town.
And what sorry figure these same
clerics cut when they desert their legiti.
mate spheres for others to which they
do not belong! Ignorant. absolutely
and blindly ignorant of the merits Of
the case under discussion. they under
take to discuss them with the same dog
matlsm with which they enunciate the
truths Of Christian doctrine In their
and they thereby bring down
ridicule upon themselves and do in
calculable injury to the cause of re-
ligion.
What could be more unseemly than |
n reverend bishop standing side by |
side with the promoter of one Of the |
worst steals ever smuggled through the |
council, and joining with that same |
Individual In denouncing men for pass.
Ing measures that time will prove to be
public benefits.
What so disgusting as to hear that |
name ecclesiatic denOuncing men as an
in'als, monkeys, dogs, vultures and so
forth, and designating lie legislative
wing OF the city government as a "me-
nagerie." We would ask the reverend
gentleman II this was the language usu-
ally INDUCED In by the meek and lOwly
Jesus when talking to the multtudes
IN the days OF the long ago. This cleric
Df the purple among other things de-
hOunced the members OF the council as
pubiicans. 1t does seem strange when
The word came to his lips that he did
not recall the incident OF the Pharisee
who, In the temple, stentatiously pro-
;lalmed that he was not ms other men
md thanked God for II, while the hum
We publican lOwly cried, God, be mer-
dful to me, sinner"
The similarity In the juxtaposItion {
{ facts and circumstances In both cases
> startling.
The eminent divine sneered at the !
ity council because many OF It's men,