Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
IT Is A DISGRACE.
PREACHERS BuLLDozED INTO LINE
BY REPUBLICANS. ss'.s4s=4
Those Who Decline to Abandon the Saliva
ton of Souls and Become Republican
Campaign Shouters Risk the Penalty OF
Dismissal from Their pulpits.

Dismissal from Their Pulpits.
National Democratic and Silver
Headquarters. Chicago, Sept. o.. 1885,
The. most disgraceful article ever
pr!"-cd in an American newspaper was
published by the Chicago Evening
| Post. Tuesday, Sept. 10. 1t was pre-
| pared by the Republican national COM
| Uittee, and before being printed was
| approved by Mr.. Hanna.
| There was day in our national MS
tory when such an outrage would De
resented by the overwhelming major
| ity of the American people There was
| day when the author and publisher
q: such a sacrilegious screed would be
| iilloried by public opinion, and held
UP to the scorn and derision of fut-
| ure generations
The ministers of the gospel, the
| preachers of the word of God. are to
lie whipped and bulldozed into line IN
order that an English gold standard
I may be permanently fastened upon the
people of the United States. The pas
tor who refuses to convert the sacred
walls of his church into political
club; who declines to abandon the sal
walton of souls and become a Repub-
lican campaign shouter, risks the pen
atty of dismissal and may count on
the lasting hatred of the wealthy hypo-
! CITIES who have issued this edict.
Do you doubt this? Send for copy
Of the paper and read the article on
!. the first page, headed, For National
IIo. nor" Before quoting from this
shameful article, let an undisputed fact
be stated.
William Jennings Bryan is a church
man. He is devout Christian, and
/ has prt into practice those precepts
which Christ taught and which the
clergy are supposed to advocate. w.
]. BRYAN is man of spotless reputa~
ton. Mot a word of suspicion has
ever been breathed against him. Not
a drop Of intoxicating liquor ever
passed his lips. Never in his life did
!. he smoke, drink or swear. He is de-
voted husband fond and loving Ia
Their. No word OF malice has yet peen
!. uttered by him against those whose
lying lips have charged him with trea-
son, reputation, dishonor and anarchy
=, He is the chosen leader of an honest
\ sincere and patriotic fac ton OF the
American people who are attempting
to exercise their constitution al rlgh'
to settle great public question ny ar
appeal to the ballot box.
= Read what the Chicago Even ING
Post says of w. ]. Bryan and the
cause he represents:
d 1.-THE threatened attack upon the
MORALS and honor of the country by the
u Reputation of honest debts followi. 1t
7 the election of William j. Bryan ha
atoused the guardiansof the public con-
y science, the ministers of the gospel, in
msuner that brings to memory the
noble eight made from the pulpit in
1861 against secession and slavery. Sc
strongly have the issues of the present
9 campaign appealed to the preacher
that all hesitation on account of the
Y relationship bet ween church and state
has been overcome. No only will the
pulpits in every section of this city re-
sound with denunci, ntion of the Chi
cago platform, but pre- achers whose ell
M oquence is known throughout the ma
~ ton are going fearlessly INTO the arena
TO battle for the moral welfare OF the
90 country.
=. 1.-THE scenes which uShered in thu
terrible carnage of the civil waN' affort
III t3le only parallel in the present centur.
when the preacher forsakes the pulp
|
gatherings. Last Sunday the tocsil
was sounded by ministers from ever!
side of the city, and until the urgent is
n. sues reach the climax next Novembe
the pulpit will wage relentless wa!
upon those who champion the debase
ment Of our coinage. To the individ
ual who doubts the determination ant
., earnestness of the ministers in thi
campaign it would be an act of Chart,
to advise him to attend the regula
weekly meetings of the ministers an
U. mark the forcible expressions agains
~ Bryan's efforts to provoke class hatre
! and foist a dishonest currency upo
the people, 1t will be worth Will
III to watch the pulpit from now on. Thos
who do not come out directly on pc
ltical issues will surprise their listen
ers with "sprinkling it in," to quot
the pastor of the First Baptist church
- Rev. p. S. Henson. But those VIII
as want to hear the present issues dis
cussed from the pulpit without tn
slightest reserve and without stint 6
uo language will have many places c
70 worship to choose from next Sunda
~ and every succeeding Sunday until Nc
- Kinley is elected and the free silve
craze throttled for all time"
DO the Christian people OF the Unite
states approve VI liio ! ileiS Vie Siiul Y
- gone into competition with the BARRON
as a forum for political discussion. In,
%, agine st. Paul wildly swinging hi
ne arms and urging the crowds, who as
semble to hear the words of God, t
- vote against the debased silver none
NJ of the carthagenians. Picture Chris
asking tn poor and the sick and tn
MANNED who foekea around him
~ they believed in sound money.
II, But this is not all The good Chris
~. ,ians OF the country must not complai
If the church doors are closed durin
the last weeks in the campaign. Hell
- ia the plan agreed on by Mark ftann
- after q consultation with the wealth
parishiopers Of Chicago:
~ aside from the broadsides whic
N, will be discharged from numerous pu
pits number of the most eloquel
yer preachers in the city have volunteers
And to go abroad and stump this as We
as surrounding states. DR.. Frank Gun
saulus is getting ready his gripsack
start for Wisconsin and Michiga
towns where he will make converts
il there are any left to be made-t
repeating the advice which he admin
tered at Plymouth. Mass, and in tn
md city. Enga gements are already PEN
ms ing for the noted Jewish liberal dvin
. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, who is not in tt
- habit of minclng language when
wants to tell his congregation what
Oh is convinced bears the stamp OF trnt
WI Peoples Institute on the west side h
,.,a been overlooking with enthusiast