The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-11-05

| pastor or the Congregational church
of Weiser? If the latter then YOU
presented sad object, trying to use
/ your moral influence to further what
you stated was but a personal politi
cal preference. The christian pulpit
has taken an astonishing stand in
this campaign, and do you mean to
say you stood on that platform as
custodian of the redeeming grace
that flows from the Savior, using his
livery to serve mammon? We did
not so take YOU, but so You evidently
desire to be taken If that is so.
we believe what has been SAID about
the pulpit in this campaign In the
pamphlet from which you got your
speech (Which matter was printed in
the Congregationalist Of Sept "a, it
says
In This great crisis every Christian man
and certainly every minister mas Il solemn
responsibility. IL is always safe To an
peal To the conscience of the American
people ana, with MI the pprils involved.
no one has Il right 10 be silent During
The war oil The revolution and in the great
rebellion 1t was the ringing words from
the pulpit which stirred mems souls and
inspired The people to that which was
rl-ht and true. la this new and even
greater crisis to whom ought we 10 look
so certainly MS to the minister of the COS
pei OF Christ? 1t is he who should show
the crime of trying TO array class against
class. and the cer,an disaster to the GER
tam disaster to the missionary work ut
home and abroad which is sure TO follow
The debasement of our currency. Nav
God help every man TO vote with a full
consciousness Of what is involved for the
coming generations.
Is that what moved YOU to repent
the speech to the people here? May
not minister be bribed by caiolery.
soft words and hattery as well as
money? You read that and was so
inspired that you immediately left the
pulpit and took the stump, and that
too, at time when YOU would be
supposed to feel desire for retire
ment, not to speak of propriety But
you seem to desire it to be taken that
you stood there as pastor, and that
II any one lays finger or pen on YOU
they do it through church or college.
Baby play and hypocrisy Are those
vestments to be used to give you i'm
munity from the sword of political
discussion? They do not entitlc You
to it. II you are going to drag them
into the whirlpool, you will have to
take the responsibility of denouncing
honest men rs anarchists through
your cloth, the same as you iusulted,
it, the citizens of Weiser
when you recently hurled it forth
that certain "den of heli' here was
supported by the married men
of the town You did not refer
to the saloon either, but another in
stitution.
Now, about the patronage Of the
If our work suits and we
can do it cheap enough, the SIGNAL
will be glad to get it. If you prefer
to get it somewhere else and can ad
vantageously, well and good; we have
nothing to say 1t will not affect our
friendship for that institution. We
shall do all we can to aid it, the same
as before. There is nothing between
the SIGNAL and the academy or any
officer of if, as you unjustly and de-
ceitfully pretend II yon have work
to give us we are glad to get it, if
you do not care 70 give it to us, it is
We take what comes in
our way but will never truckle to
gold sentiment to bring paltry dol
ar to our business Will YOU say as
much for yourself and your business?
Ii we had any doubts of the stories
of coercion, we have them no longer.
When christian man like YOU can
write n letter like the above, less pre-
ensious persons would use employ
nent to hold men in line for gold {
Your letter shows that were you an
employer you would use coersion IN
he interest of your personal desires,
The most We can CLEAN from the
bove is that those who agree with
on are the ''better element" and 7
hose who differ are 1.-The lower Gle /