The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-30

nifty hold their usual monthly meeting
ut tho Y. NJ. @. A. yesterday afternoon.
Mayor Caldwell was present by invita-.
ton. Tho address was by Row. Wilbur
F. Crafts, superintendent OF the nation.
al bureau OF reforms, and was in part as
follows:
an tho opening pagesot tho Bible ain
Introduces as to tho city. God made
the country, but Cain made the town.
Cain built the first city and his boon
tho leading spirit OF cities over since.
But tho City OF Christ 10 now building
on the earth.
'0ur unbelioi has made US think OF
tho heavenly city as also a city Ia
Heaven, which Ia q very different thing.
The Biblo plainly declares that the
Now Jerusalem, the righteous city
built on the square, but with no court
house in its csntso. without even q
church, since the whole city will then
have been Christiani1ed. is city lot
down from God out OF Heaven'-a city
on earth in which ChrIst ia wholly
King.
"Wheu Jesus aaid, My kingdom is
not OF this world He was correcting the
erroneous Mossiauic expectation OF tho
Jews that He would %lldu2trate His king.
dom by the sword and other political
powers. Whom John said that the
kingdoms OF this world are become tho
kingdom Of Christ he was proclaiming
that Christ would consumma;e His
kingdom by dominating through the
hearts OF the citizens, the politics and
trade OF the world. Jesus could not
have taught us to pray, Thy kingdom
come, thy will be done as in Heaven so
on earth unless it was TO DO 80 done
some day. Behold thy King cometh
unto thee D city OF sin. tho old Jerusa-
lem where even Christ is sold for silver;
but BY the leaven OF His Law thou shalt
become the new Jerusalem, 4 Christian-
lied society, whose traders and rulers
shall no longer be confused and alarmed
when asked, Whore is he that Ia born
King?
"If it seems a hard saving that the
city OF Christ ia building about as to-day
contrast Wheeling not only with the
New Jerusalem ofthe future. but also
with Rome oil the past, where the most
cultured men and the most pious wo.
men found their highest pleasure in the
Wholesale slaughter Of beasts, gladia.
tors and martyrh
az Am asked to tell you OF reform vic.
tories | have seen or known in other
cities, that you may find in them en-.
couragemeut and suggestion for local
municipal reform, especially law en-
forcement. In nv reform tours I have
often come on 4 city in despair because
the criminal classes had elected a mayor
OF their own, or because the city couu-
Gil had refused 10 re-enact some state
law into a city ordinance, or had. made
a city ordinance contravening the state
law. The city fathers OF Bradford.
Pennsylvania, having repealed the state
Sabbath law 80 far Us this city was con.
cerned by a contrary ordinance. | sug-
Sested in a public meeting there that
they should BIO formed into a kindcrgar-
ten class and supplied with little maps
OF the s.nte that they might learn that
Bradford is in Pennsylvania and sub.
ject to i,s laws. So in Denver, also.
"As to the perjured mayors that
abound, l had a part in a most interest.
ing exhibition at st. Paul OF the relation
OF mayor, sheriff and governor. The
mayor, having allowed violations oil law
for years in the case OF Sunday saloons
and Sunday base ball. the officers Of Il
so-called athletic club put up 4 cash
guarantee ,ha. he would not interfere
with a proposed prize fight. also illegal.
which guarantee subsequent events
showed they were safe in placing. A
pavilion was erected and car loads OF
tourhs and gamblers came from all parts
OF the land. Meantime a few good cit
liens, not hoping much. called a public
meeting. Although the two leading
newspapers were owned by the two
chief officers oil the athletic club and ed.
tied accordingly, tho people rallied in
force, The crowded, enthusiastic meet
ing showed that there were seven thou
sand that had not bowed the knee to
Baal. Tho meeting, by resolution, dc.
clared that the mayor, in giving per-
mission for the proposed law breaking.
had really abdicated his Office by
breaking his oath. and appealed to the
governor to enforce the law through the
sheriff, the states officer for the county
in which the city was situated. The
governor. although his business partner
held tho stakes, responded 10 tho com
manding voice OF the sovereign poo.
pie" as thoir prime minister, and CO n
manded the sheriff, on penalty OF dis.
mission, 10 prevent the fight. Tho
mayor threatened iorciblo resistance
through his city police, but when. at
the sheriff's request, = regiment oil
militia was called ont, thia perj urad
officer though. better Of his throat.
This lesson in ciyics was imprcssivoly
completed when tho regiment, early in
the evening for which tho fight was
announced, marched through the
~strects and camped for tho night in the
pavilion. which had been aeized as a
pedestal OF lawlessness.
"The Sunday saloons OF Denver. al.
though they had the mayor, himself n
liquor.sellsr. with tho chief OF police. on
their side, were permanently defeated
by tho sheriff, who had boon elected on
that issue by the mid OF moral votes in
tho county outside tho city.
Another fight with Sunday saloons in
which l had the privilege Of sharing. at
Cincinnati. brought to Wow vet another
way TO enforce laws in spite oil q bad
mayor, which was done in this case,
though n city Judge and prosecutor,
elected by friends OF law and order in
both parties uniting on nominees who
agreed in advance to enforce the law"
Tho speaker also reiorrcd to Now
York where Sunday newspapers, though
sold, arc sold without tho huckstorin9
cries OF newsboys, who in Wheeling, he
said, begin to shout before 6 o'clock,
two, hours before tho frat atrect car,