St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-09
REV. VIM. M'KINLEY's PRAISE OF
WOMEN WHO BRAVED COURT
TERRORS
IN THE INTEREST OF PURITY.
HE ALSO PRAISES THE ATTORNEY
WHO PUSHED THE WINE
ROOM CASE.
Come In for scathing Arraign-
ment by the Central Park
Pastor.

should law breakers be law max
ers, and is a man good whose business
is bad|' was Rev William McKin-
ley's topic at Central Park M. e.
church last evening. Among other
things, he said: THE supremacy Of
the law over all, and the equality Of
all under the law. is the greatest
achievement Of the human mind in
application to social problems. 1t has
cost ages of conflict and oceans Of
blood to reach 1T, and it is worth all
1T cost. for it gives to every man the
opportunity to make the most of HIM
self, and so does the best possible for
hlmself and for his fellow man, the
largest room for the individual deyel-
opment and social development. Civil
jzatlon, which is progressing and help
full to all men, is based upon the SUI
premacy Of law. In a nation like this.
the newest Of all the nations inherit
ing law Of the wisdom Of the past
where all men are not only equal be-
fore the law, but have an equal voice
In making the law. There is a double
application for all men to reverence
ana obey the law, which expresses the
intelligence, the conscience and will Of
the people in its highest form, and is
the best index to the supreme reason
and the supreme will of God, who is the
source Of all authority and of all law.
In country in which free schools,
free churches. free speech and free
press give all an education, which,
rightly used, fits them for an honest
Judgment Of all vital questions. In
such a country as this, law, when en-
acted, Is as near as man can approach
to 1t, the rightful Interpretation of the
supreme will and law Of God, so that
in true sense it may be said that the
voice OF the people thus expressed is
the voice Of God. Ages Of Saxon lib
erty and Christian civilization have so
trained this nation that there is in
the great mass of our people an honest
reverence for law, more than for our
army or navy or police, or all Of them.
This reverence for law protects us
and is the bulWark of our peace, and
our prosperity, and our progress.
Break 1t down, and we have no army,
or navy,or police, that could keep order
IN this country for a day. All our
armed forces would be chafed before
a whirlwind Of popular uprising, and
the heart and the conduct of men, by
this reverence for; law and patriotism
that 1T implies, were it removed.
Nobody would be safe. No mans
house, no mans property, no mans
person would be, protected. So again
In this country man who occupies
position of public trust, elected there
uphold law and enforce the law; to
OBEY 1t himself and to see that others
OBEY 1t-that man, when he becomes
an ally of the. laWless and partakes
IN the spoils or profits Of any lawless
business, he is ardouble criminal. When
pubic officials become the allies of
criminal classes and make themselves
rlch out OF any criminal business, they
are the worst criminals in the country.
Whether the law reaches them or not.
COO help me. l will try to do what /
can to reach them with Gods truths.
The chief cities Of this country are
stained and rotten with corrupt deeds
OF chief officials who are themselves
corrupt.
ut Is more than political offense,
more than social crime It is a. sin
against God and against man: against
the memory of our fathers.
TO live, fatten and thrive on the
V1tais OF the nation is to commit sin.
1t Is the duty Of every pulpit platform
ana newspaper to sound alarm. to
awake and arouse the people to their
peril.
'The voice of the coming generation
was heard last week In one of the
courts of this city, pleading and pro-
claiming reverence for God and law.
All honor to an attorney for the peo-
pie who did his whole duty so far as
1 have been able to judge, in the prose-
cution Of the peoples enemies, the
criminals, in Official places and out of
them, who have polluted and pervert-
ed and corrupted the people to the
best OF their ability and power; and that
young attorney, and not only one but
millions of American young men, that
Will stamp this political infamy in the
earth. Crimes against mothers, daugh
ters and sisters of this world were
braved by two young women who
raced all the pollution exhibited in
that court in behalf of their daughters.
IN oehaf their homes with all their
virtue and sanctity, and in behalf of
their sons and brothers. who were ex
posed to this infamy, and those two
brave women, representing their sex.
ought to be hpnored by a law Of men
that reverence their mothers and sis
tiers and their wives and daughters. I
want to spit in the face of any man.
whether he be,a politician, or a hired
attorney pleading the cause of cor
rupted officials that assaults woman
mood when that womanhood is trying
TO protect home and virtue"