The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-04
WHAT FOOLS We Be.
Scoring Given to the moral Ele
ment of Kansas,
For Voting as 1t Did at the AaSU
Election.
WORKED FOR SUCA Eho.
Temperance People Taken ln'
Just Once More.
- 49,
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon's Indig-
nant Protest
ABOUT PARTISANSHIP
Saws We're Blind to Corruption
in Our Own Party.
His Remarks Endorsed by the
Ministerial Union.


At the regular meeting of the Minis
terial union this morning, Rev. Charles
NJ Sheldon read an interesting paper.
He said he had been requested by the
programme committee to prepare
paper on "Kicking" His subject was,
"Some Things We Have Right to OBJ
jsct to-"
The members of the union all en-
dorsed the paper by resolution.
We have a right to object to the in
tense partisanship which never sees any
faults in the members of its own party,
but criticises and condemns the very
same faults and mistakes in the other
fellow who does not utter the party shib-
boleth. This partisanship is found in
every political organization. They are
all guilty. Because man is of my poll
tical faith, it does not follow that he
never does any wrong. And yet the
political papers will stand by the men of
their own party through thick and thin,
especially thin, and never utter word
of criticism or warning or rebuke.
Everybody goes who has the same
party spoils at heart, and saint and sim
ner are catalogued under the letter IS"
without any other distinction or differ
ence.
Against this travesty on craftsmanship
and patriotism we have right to object
and we are to blame if we don't object.
Partisanship of this narrow stripe is Of
fensive in its deepest sense to every
thing that is free and manly and indie
pendent The slavery of partisanship
today shuts the mouths and shackles the
actions OF countless men and newspapers
Honest criticism and rebuke of wrong
doing within the borders of the party to
which they belong is an exceedingly rare
thing with politicians who put partisan
ship first and patriotism last. The paper
that ventures to say what it really be-
lieves concerning the actions of men in
all parties, regardless of consequences, is
at once bounded as a guerilla In politics
and a traitor to the cause. The man who
speaks his mind concerning immortality
and Tascality and municipal misrule is u
hero and a crusader and a saint and a
gentleman just so long as the people
under condemnation are not of our party.
But if he turns his guns on any one in
our party, then he suddenly becomes a
fanatic, a liar and a nuisance. Are there
not rascals and hypocrites and bad men
in all parties? And why should any
man be spared, no matter where he
is, II the public good demands
that he be shown up in his true colors!
The slavery of America today is partisan
ship. And it is a slavery that ties many
men hand and foot, abject and cowardly
Alas for the facti But it is Il fact and a
deplorable one in our national life to-
day.
Double Standard of Morals
We have right to object to the double
standard OF morals constantly forced
upon US by the customs of society Du.
ring a recent raid on a disreputabIe
house IN this city, number of youne
men aud women arrested together were
brought before the authorities. The
young women were detained. the voupe
men were allowed to go on their owI
recognlzance. 1t has repeatedly been the
case that the persons who have beer
punished and branded by published re
ports of their depravity have been the
wretched women, while the men. wht
are the more guilty in many cases. drol
out of sight altogether, and not eveI
their true names occur in their reports
because, forsooth, they are young mel
who move in the circles of fashionabl,
society Against this awful wrong t.
womanhood, this vile standard of moral
which makes the woman sinner an,
drives her from society. but smile
upon the man as creatnr
to be forgiven and excused he
cause he must SOW his wild oats
Against this most wicked discrimin atinl
In the matter of the same sin bv hot
sexes, we have not only the right but tn
DUTY TO utter our most tremendous nrc
test wheneverswe can. 1t is no NOR
excusabie for man to yield to his ma.
sions than for a woman. When he !
found guilty his name should be nnl
hshed and society should expel him ius
as certainly as it expels the sister. T6er
are men in this city today who have di,
honored the name of manhood. and 81
clety knows it, and yet they go and com
at atperfeet freedom in society's rounds :
pleasure. There are women who hav
ISIlen through the temptations offered +
!nese men, and they are outcasts livin
~ nt 'ne ne exlle's hell without any purgator
sta al ne unjust wrongs, dishonorabj
oat1s ~ tSa Sa SET up by the civilized societ
~ .1S Ourlsuan ls world today, none is :
worthy OF condemnation. and rahrlra :
snlS Is demoralizing to home an
state. It will, it does, threaten to tba al az
foundation of all we hold dear 49, rei
the double standard of mans aIz, s ~in il
mans morality, we must utter enc 80
ing. Society has no right to msin+a a.
the deadly false doctrine of wild a,i Gu "a =
90nng men, but none for youne won,a =