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PRESS COM MENTS.
MI. Bryan and the CLERGY.
Boston Journa1.)


The extraordinary attack which Mr.
j., .Ii permitted himself to make upon
ny ministers OF the United States in his
II,, "1a,ii. at the auditorium in Wilmington
t Drla are may be explained in one OF
s,Wo ways. Either it shows that the can
uiudtc realizes that the moral forces OF
aiie country are arraying themselves
against the programme of dishonesty an
aiehS and class hatred for which his can
aldacy stands. and is making a boyisb
b en- to strike back at the ministers. or
n.ta - 1Isased IN q deliberate attempt to
sdtef 70 the lawless and anarchistfc By
aSsa1llng the churches. which they haze
DSeither expiana ton is creditable to Mr.
nrN Van but. unfortunately neither expla-
hdtoll Is inconsistent with the course
| when ne has followed in this campaign
ne wilmington Morning News. the dav
lh LIVER, ar, Bryan's speech, printed the fol-
lowing summary of this portion of it.
Mr. Bryan said in effect that NOR hit
tsrhess mad been shown by ministers of
ene gospel. as class. against the advo-
nv ,r'e 80 oi iree SILVER than had been shown
uS tle politicians on the platform and
mat II was not that they had so mneh
attacked free silver as that they had
SHOWN their general disregard for the in
terests of the people. He said the minis
ters were in league with the monopolists.
mat tney lived in ease, opulence and lux
arA' that they We're unacquainted with
ana had no regard for the condition ANA
welfare of their fiocks: that snch a nosi
1loh was not one which ministers OF Tho
Sos pei ought TO occupy: that they should
tisN iiiAitltS 10 give their fellow
men q helping hand: that minister
should be made to feel that it was n parl
oi tilelr DUTY to share the burdens of tho
had ones OF the congregation; that they
,iiu' however, no regard for the condi-
,lon OF their people. thinking more and
Soieiy OF their own comfort and CON
u ,i; that they were in their work for
what they got out of it. and that the min
isders made up a selfish class
rms is substantially in accord with 9TH
ep reports of his remarks. though in ono
tiers those fat. rich fellows and in m
oiher as describing them as a 'luxurious
49,; ;,ns 81 loaters not IN sympathy with the
in eaeh c, ef the Is I'M The meaning
ehce being in the relative offensiyeness ~
the language used N7 "
Ihere could not be charge moro nra-
posterously and cruelty absurd than thia
winch Mr.. Bryan makes that tho mi,s
lsterS OF this country as a class are rich
ana luxurious and indifferent to the
religious e psoR1a Tsking the various
number of ministers whose salaries
amount to $500 or less is larger than tbot
NJ W nose Sc who receive more than that sum.
MOS oi these men have spent wears az
tline and considerable sums of money in
a coiiegiate and theological educaf;on
YET thousands of them cheerfully accept
u DAY laborer. Are these men who can
be described as>luxurious loafers?'' "i'
AS 10 their sympathy with the wants
,PcoP,e. tnat is the very motive
Wnlcn mas led most of them into ia
ministry MIR, and through lives of unwear r1pe
ing service and self-sacrifice they are true
o 20 IL. IN Mr. Bryan's own state and in
3 Ss states of the middle and remoter
w est, the lives and characters of thesa
f siiu,a nave been wrought into the very
FOUNDATIONS of the state and the forces
oI law and order and morals and pooI
government owe everything to them. 9''
men reckless political campaipner
VINO seems to have thrown every scr7,nla |
Wantonly attacks such a BODY of fevote5 |
men and holds them zip before the com.
m munlty as directs of antipathy he simply
in his ~ fn, hiimi ls. and discoses himself |
~. ms ,rue llSht as an assailant of reIir
'oi ana an enemy of the public good.
Sewa'' the Philanthropist.
portland Press)
mere won't be anything for the Hon
arthur Sewall to do after the third Of