The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-16


movements of social progress and reform
can rarely be attempted at such times
without much risk of discreditable or
unbecom;ng turn, due 10 the infalibie
intermixture of an over-heated quaiity
Of zeal, which Is well known to become as
deadly and malignant at anything De-
yond 81 degrees Fahrenheit as il Is ike
wise obnoxious and disgusting at under
% degrees. We must observe the tner-
mometer.
But Chicago's vanity is suddenly set
wildly afiame by the spectacle OF large
social gathering of Christian Endeavor-
ers at Boston. so that il feels il simply
cannot and will not take TO itself any OF
the admirable precepts promulgated with
out first having the headquarters Of
Christian Endeavor straightway removed
10 Chicago.
Possibly there are none who would take
the smallest offense a such step, pro-
viding they were thoroughly we'll assured
that Christian Endeavor could stand il,
and to show there is no hardness We
really and fervently wish, and hope 10
high heaven they will get il, for ali US.
Because, according 10 what We have all
but heard openly expressed so many.
many times, il is obvious that this move
ment has certain Interior end, not II the
remotest degree sinister, but simply COM
pretending the extirpation by natural dis
placement of the what are they good
fors.' otherwise euphcemistically yclept-
ed preachers, parsons, galways and the
gracefully pulpit-pounding gentry gen.
orally. For what is more certain than
that forty agreeable and intelligent young
persons. bent upon acting Christianity.
shall in the end undo one belated parson
talking God-Aimighty?
II Chicago will excuse us for one mo-
ment we should like 10 say there has late
II been in our midst an extraordinary in
stance Of the subversive influence, and the
wild unrest incident thereto, in the &C.
tons OF one of the brighter members OF
the sect, who not exactly compromising
what was eating him. has been to the
pains of rising to the supreme height Of
the Topeka idea of municipal morality
based upon hypocrisy. and was astounded
TO find his auditors warmly sympathetic
but much inclined 10 commit the best part
Of his resolutions to the STRENGTHENING
department, and the balance of his price
less finer sentiments 10 the police board.
But the Chicago Tribune, interested
after the Chicago manner of getting all
the bulwarks possible, with marvellous
display OF tact naively remarks that the
influence of the movement would then
reach all points in the shortest possible
time. particularly in the west and south,
where there is great need of Christian
Endeavor." This is cool. 1t makes US
forget what warmth is. The statement
could be highly recommended as a thera-
peutic agent in fevers. We are chilly.
Where is Chicago? Where is that slough
towards which, as IL by natural law drifts
and surges the off-scouring of the great
northwest, as il toward city of refuge?
Pit under pit OF nameless vast iniquities;
malebolge on malebolge of rank contain
nations; hideous and hell-tinted pictures
of low-pulsing slum life; swirlinS filth OF
municipal corruptions! These. we be-
heve are situate in the midst of the COM
mercial district, Chicago. Here are gath
cred from every cline those old Incomes"
of every animosity. Men that fit in the
night in dishabile from the bawdy house
TO the glare of the midnight saloon. to
take a drink, guffaw loudly at the law,
only to disappear again where none need
follow. The fountain of midnight orgies,
and the head center of high kicking and
low thinking! Yet the Tribune publishes
picture OF district in Lemont. ILL.,, and
repines that the toughest street in Amer
lea is hard by Chicago's portals, and lets
it go at that, and five days after modes;ly
bids for the latest product of the Boston
which it hopes TO refine, as IL does pork,
and 10 ship the same with all convenient
speed to the west and south where there
is great need of Christian Endeavor!
Z. d. GILBERT.