Middletown transcript., 1895-07-20
MIDDLETOWN, DEL, JULY 20, 1895.

MIDDLETOWN, DEL, JULY 90, 1895.
WHY NOT TELL THE TRUTH AND
SHAME THE DEVIL.
"When preacher of the gospel, for
tie sake Of achieving a sensational
and ephemeral popularity, forgets his
high calling and descends to the in
diligence Of ill-bred and vulgar per-
sonalities, discriminating public
rates it rank pharisaism. Crimes of
all grades, violation of law, divine or
human, sin in all forms, are proper
subjects Of treatment in the pulpit,
which no one can reasonably gainsay
or object to; but this does not afford
license or liberty to the pulpit to sin
gle out any individual and make him
an object of attack; especially when
the person attacked is, by the circum-
stance of distance, not in a position
where he can answer or defend him.
self; and especially also when the
shafts aimed might find as sure mark
nearer the archer, and where also the
doubt of the effectiveness of the shot
might be reduced to minimum.
Wise sportsmen do not waste ammu-
milton firing across the river when
game in abundance is to be found at
the length of his gun. ."-State Sentinel.
Those Of our readers who will ex-
anime the extract from the sermon by
Rev. Mr.. Turner on our first page will
at once recognize the injustice of the
attack by Mr.. John H. Bateman,
cashier of the Dover National Bank,
and Addicks' paid editor. Mr.. Turner
50 fully and completely proves his
right to speak that nothing but abuse
of the minister. is left the Addicks
employe. Silence would have been far
more becoming. We only regret that
we had not the space for the entire
sermon from the Delaaoarean as it
fully sets forth what a good citizen
should be, but our object was attained
in the first part wherein the preacher
shows that if the ministers of the
gospel do not do their duty then "the
very stones will cry out.''
We do not object to the reference
made to Mr.. Addicks in the sermon
because we do not believe Mr.. Addicks
would object. To our knowledge he
has never objected t) any such adver-
tising. He seems to think it is his
glory. He took his first lessons in
Delaware politics six years ago in pro-
curing charter of incorporation for
his gas company and employed as
lobbyists the present Chancellor, Zeke
Cooper, Roll Kenney, and a lot of the
boys who know good thing when
they see it. He has said the charter
was worth in the commercial markets |
of the world hundred thousand dol |
lars. It cost him several thousand. |
He started in Delaware as Doodle |
candidate and we think if Mr.. Addicks
were at home the reference to him as
such would be pleasing rather than
and Mr.. Bateman would
not have been allowed to write such
abuse Of minister. That is an excel
lent quality Of Addicks; he seldom
abuses; never, SO far as we are aware.
He brags. He claims the earth, but
he would praise rather than censure
preacher of the gosple for doing his
duty. It would be policy in him to
do SO and he would not lose his head
as his subordinates often do.
The TRANSCRIPT has just one OBJ
ject in making extracts from the SER
mon and that is to bring 1t to the at
tention Of as many other ministers as
possible. Just such gosple truth
should be preached in every pulpit in
this State, only more. The preacher
should 60 to the root of the matter
and he will find that it would be to-
day Senator Charles B. Lore instead of
Senator George Gray but for bribery at
The primaries, the worst feature of the
evil, not to mention the manner of Mr..
Gray's first election. The preacher
who seeks would find that the friends
Of Ambassador Bayard and of Chan
;ellor Wolcott dispute the honor as to
The authorship of the '73 assessment
avs, the most unholy, unjust and in
quitious laws that ever disgraced
statute book. By means of them the
will Of the people is set at defiance and
We have "the devil" right here in the
orm Of this law, and nearly quarter
If century contest in fighting this
devil with fire" has 50 hardened the
people that they do not realize the
normity of the crime. Pope's lines
we're never more appropriate:
Vice is . monster of such frightful mien,
Is to be hated needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face, f
We first endure, then pity, then embrace" =
We have endured; we have pitied !,
re have embraced. To be sure the :
Democrats did it first, and so long that =
many Of their papers lock upon it as =
heir special prerogative. Turn to !
heir files and hear the out cry that !
7as made by the Democratic papers in q
SSS against bribery-by the Republi- .,
ans. They we're equally guilty, in !
act furnished part Of the Doodle to :
efeat the ''unit rules in Kent county," :,
In 1890 they carried the election in Il
lent and Sussex by bribery and force t,
nd those same Democratic editors, y
lany of whose names are on the Al
hurch records, had not word to say v
gainst the evil. 1t is only when they k
,se that they set up cry Of 'stop d
lief" to cover their own. shame. W
hey are miserable set. Any men "
olding the relations to public matters al
lat do the editors who excuse and at Y,
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