The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-28

commerce. by grabbing territory All over
the world. There IL no such American dis
ease as "jingoism," or any which bears any
relation to It. What DR..
called "jingoism" is simply q laudabi de-
termination to resist the encroachments OF
foreign "~jlngoism" on this country's rights,
It's American policy, and Its natural ana
manifest destiny. The most peaceiul ana
most peaceable country In the world ana
the most unjingoistic, is America IL minus
Its own business, and only insists
that other countries shall MINI THEIRS 30
far as its interests are concerned. Ian"
guage like that used by this preacher
would SAVIOR Of treason in an American, IL
1t were not balderdash.
"Bossism" he described as Zone OF the
most dangerous isms in the land" mas
much as 1t has always existed In this re-
public IN substantially its present form.
and Is and has always existed, In every Gov
Of the world. and must necessarily
exist, 'bossism" cannot be called a pecul-
iarly American disease, nor can 1t DO de-
scribed as mortal. Lord SALISBURY In
England is the biggest sort OF boss" 30
also was Mr.. GLADSTONE in his day OF
political authority. In Europe it Is every
where the professional politicians who
manage politics; only here do preachers
assume that their interference is a dan
gerous im%pertinence. "Bossism." as as
sailed by DIR. MACARTHUR, Is simply
political organization, and the troubles
from which we have been suffering
of late years have not been due to
too much Of 1t, but too little Of 1t.
They have come from the preachers of
political disorganization. For instance, II
these rebels had not gone in to destroy tho
Republican organization In this city at the
last election, it would lave been successful
In maintaining the reputation Of New York
for political stability by reafirming the
decision of a year age, which brought the
prosperity now interrupted by the actual
result. Boss" PLATT was right and the
mutinous parsons were wrong. He has
sound political common sense, but they
allowed themselves to be used as catspaws
by Tammany.
"Politico.religionism" was ascribed by
DR.. MACARTHUR to the Roman Catholic
Church only. sit is exceedingly difficult"
he said, "for some persons in the Roman
Church to understand that we are In the
nineteenth century," But it Is even
more difficult to understand how a preacher
who supported the "politico-religious" Low
movement can make such an accusation
against ministers who took part in no
movement of the sort in that election.
To be frank. 1t seems %impudent. The Low
enterprise was hatched in the vestry of the
st. Georges Episcopal Church. Mr.. Low
himself n several of the most prominent
managers of the Citizens Union are men,
bers Of that vestry. Suppose such a political
movement had been started in st. Patrick's
Cathedral, with Archbishop CoRR1GAN
and the Catholic clergy generally sup
porting it openly and actively what
an outcry would have been raised
in all Protestant pulpits! Mr.. Low,
an E~piscopalian, was backed by Bishop
POTTER II a great part of the Episcopal
clergy and the Protestant clergy of all do
nominations. Archbishop CoRRIGAN and
the Roman Catholic priesthood as a whole
kept aloof wholly from the campaign. That
Church did not appear in it except in the
person OF two eccentric priests, who sided
with DR.. MACARTHUR in opposition to Tam
many Hall. Such "politico-religionism +"
as there was in the campaign, and there
was a dangerous quantity of it, came from
other quarters than tho Roman Catholic
Church.
1t appears, therefore. that the various and
complicated diseases Of the body politic
diagnosed by the Rev. DR.. MACARTHUR are
in himself only; that he is the dangerously
afflicted patient, and that this republic is
really sound, except so far as it suffers from
preachers of false and perniclous political
doctrines like himself.