The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-24

The Venezuela dispute has brought
forth nothing more disgustingly often
sfye than the prelude" preached on
Sunday by John [. Scudder from the
pulpit of the Tabernacle. The coarse
yulgarity of this mans illusions to the
Prime Minister of England and the
President of the United States, per-
hans the two highest stations in the
world to which a man can be exalted.
were utterly repellant to all sense OF
decency. These men, however great
and however high in authority, being
servants of the people, are fair marks
for popular criticism. Nobody could
complain of Mr.. Scudder or any other
man expressing his opinion of them
fully and freely. so long as he did it
In a ann consistent with public de-
cency.
The tone of Mr.. Scudder, however, is
an insult to the people of the United
States as well as to their President,
and to the Great British Nation too,
though, of course that is no immediate
concern of ours. His language and his
treatment of the whole subject were
in utter violation of every propriety
Of the pulpit. of politics. of all public
discussion.
There is something grotesque n way
about Mr.. Scudder speaking of these
two great men as 'sinjudicious indivi-
duals." Ye gods and little fishes. who
made Mr.. Scudder censor over the ruiz
ers of the earth? The spectacle of this
village parson exuding his gall upon
this OCCASION is suggestive of Tom
Thumb biting his thumb at
John 4. Sullivan. 1T would be well
for Mr.. Seudder to remember that Mr..
Cleveland and Lord Salisbury are as
much bigger than he as the United
states or the British Empire is bigger
than Jersey City.
1t seems as if the license of the press,
about which we used to hear so much
talk, would nave to yield soon as a
popular bugaboo to the license Of the
pulpit.
The Rev. Claude Raboteau was much
more decent in tone han Mr.. scudder.
But he was hardly more patriotic. and
certainly not more wise. Life is too
short to waste much time over the ut
terances of clergymen concerning the
affairs of this life. of which assuredIy
they know very little as a rule; so we
win only deal with one little selection
from Mr.. Raboteau's discourse. He
said4-
ut may be patriotic to resist England
in her unwarranted assumptions. but
let Us pause as a 3pe a bisb smfss patrio II sni a t.
wreck and ruin our a ana lmRerll
the very safety of our government?
..afay be patrioticr'
Ye gods and little fishes. this is the
man who was initiated last week in the
American Protective Association.
Where Is the fool killer. anyway?
can any mortal tell us how our land is
to be wrecked or ruined by the Presi-
dent asserting Its honor against the in
science OF its natural and historical
enenys Can anyone explain how the
safety of our government is to be inn
periIlea even by a war with England?
Every mar with a spark of American
feeling should thank God that he has
given Us a President In whose hands
the honor of our flag is safe. that He
has given thu great mass of our people
true hearts to respond to the cry Of our
Country when her honor Or her safety
is II peril.
Already, the thrilling call Of duty,
sounded by our President has done
more to purify the land and LIT up the
souls Of citizens han all the theoreti-
OIL politics Of 4 generation. Thc cali
and the response nave exassS our name