The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-05
GOING TO WHALE MORRILL,.

tlGnS are cafIl Ing DlS tiubS ioi -'Aoi
rill The Third party Prohibitionists,
backed by to or three prominent
preachers and a few dozen not so big,
are seeking TO array the churches
against Morrill,. There are few
score of others who were promised
places under the Morrill, administration
by local small bores and by presump-
tious members of the state central COM
mittec, which Offices have since been
filled with good and capable men,
which small bores now can't sleep for
their hatred of Morrill,. To all these
Morrill, is Immoral and everything that
is not moral. All these combined and
led by one J. 3. McAfee, who has been
fighting the Republican party for years,
have issued a call for Il convention to
meet in Topeka on the Fourth of July
for the purpose of abusing Morrill,.
This will help Topeka out and at the
same time afford the soreheads and
cranks an opportunity, and not hurt
Morrill,.
In getting even with the govorner
this aggregation will whale into WITCH
ita. Notwithstanding Wichita is the
most temperate city in the state, the
most religious and the best governed,
the town and all it is, will be skinned
and, no doubt, largely by men who
will 90 from that convention as the
real and duly accredited representa-
tives. They, however, will not be the
men who have made and sustain the
town, but rather the men who live off
of the town. That whole convention,
it is safe to say, will be largely made
UP of men who, in neither bearing the
taX-burthenS necessary to municipal
improvements, well being and great
ness will ignore the fact that fine
hot flourish in dead towns; that mag
nificent public school buildings and
grand Y. II. c. A. institutions, are not
erected and supported by places which
have morally and commercially gone
to the dogs, that, in short, there can be
no possible harvest in he absence Of Il
field. Could all the state and munich
pal governments of Kansas be brought
to the standard of ]. Il. McAfee and his
tribe there would be nothing left in the
state for its preachers or churches to
work with Or for, and half of the men
who will compose that whaling con-
yention would either live on much less
or otherwise be compelled to emigrate.
no r 10 fn,
hoOd-would be gone. In eliminating
the physical instrumentalitieS and re-
sources which build up and sustain a
city you not only pull down its temples
but tear out its foundations, leaving it
a waste and death, to neither of which
conditions is morality, temperance or
religion of any moment. AS for the
proposition that the first work Of that
convention should be for the arraying
of the church against the state govern
ment, against all who will not obey
the church'S dictates, rather than listen
10 its pleadings, founded on good will
and love, there comes only the sugges-
ton of hari-kari. Churches as now or
anu az pei IAN " III
the way of auxiliary organization, de-
pend as much upon material business
and commercial prosperity as does the
saloon itself. Its all right to combat
disease, but if the patient be killed in
the effort where is the gain. Evil nor
good are either absolute. Neither is
unmixed with other. The best we can
do is to seek to minimize the bad and
build up the good. Great things do not
come out of small possibilities. What
would become of one-half of the world
if both halves saw and felt and acted
alike?
However let the convention meet
and proceed to get even with Governor
Morrill,. Topeka will flourish so long
as it is possible for a big convention,
or supreme court or legislation to con-
vene as often as once a week on an
average the year round, even if Wichita
and Kansas City and Leavenworth and
Atchison do shrink and finally wink
out. The McAfees and ROtkins, ct. al,
have a right TO live and in living TO be
hoard