El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-11
is THE TIMES EDITOR INSPIRED!
His Original Idea of Heaven. A few Re-
marks About Working People and
| few Suggestions to the Hun
| orrV Centurion.

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| To the HERALD:-I was filed with
amazement when 1 read Saturday
morning in the Times the short edi-
torial about the McGinty Sunday con-
cert. 1t contains a revelation to me
which | am persuaded could only have
come to the editor of the Times through
ins piratiOn. The statement is made
that ''the morning stars sang together
when the Child Christ was born"
dare say that nothing like this appears
in all of the annals of religious or pro-
faae literature. I have beard, since
was small boy and "p!ayed on the
grass" that the morning stars san pg
| together in the morning OF creation.
Would it be prOfane in me to suggest
that the Times is somewhat confused
about dates. Besides this, in the same
appear to me not only new but over
whelmingly original: "We," it says,
''sre taught that the angels in heaven
go around playing on gold harps night
and day" Who has taught the Times
editor this? Is it not wonderfully Or
| iginal? | have heard since [ was a
boy and ''played on the grass that
thee is no night in heaven. In the
same article the Times says: 1.-THE
working people of Ell Paso will have
an opportunity to take their families
to the park Sunday and enjoy the Nc
Ginty band concert" Who are the
working people of Ell Paso? Every
man who makes his living by the use
of his muscle or his mind in an hon
orable way belongs to the honorable
working class. 1t may be, that the
class our mechanics, artisans and day
laborers. Now, in the name of the
classes last mentioned L pro-
test against all such ''rot"
as is contained in the Times editorial
and the article appearing on the third
page of Saturday mornings Times
written by some "hupgry" devotee of
schools and with our great abundance
of the most excellent literature placed
within reach OF the poorest family, l.
rejoice to know that the labO7 ing man
possessed of good common sense can
put himself on level with the best
and create st men in the world. L have
never known a laboring man possessed
of good, common sense, who was so
silly as to suppose that he or his chill
dren could be developed morally. So
cially or intellectually" by. Sunday
concerts or such music as ''Mr. John
son Turn me Loose" The most that
can be said about such music is that,
under some circumstances, there is no
BARN in it, and it may possess some
virtue through its power to divert the
mind that needs diversion. The in
telligent laboring man can on Sunday
afternoon, or at any other time derive
as much pure, genuine, profitable
diversion from good literature and
from the study and contemplation of
that which is truly elevating as well as
restful, as any other man. l do not
believe that those who are referred to
as the working class know so little of
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satisfaction only in the desecration of
a day which is sacred to every true
American, whether a professed Chris
tian or not.
Is Ell Paso nothing more than a half
developed wild, vulgar frontier
town? Is there any city
in the United States that boasts
of it's refinement where Sunday con-
certs are held in the public parks on
there is. l say that the eintelligent work
ing classes have too high an idea of the
moral, social and intellectual, to rely
upon Sunday concerts for anything
gCod. My IDEAS of Sunday might be
considered somewhat peculiar. 1t 1s
unnecessary for me to state them. 1t
is sufficient for me TO say, from my eX-
perience such q performance as that
mentioned in public place on a day
which is made sacred as far as possible
by law can have no other effect than to
debase the youth, and the salvation OF
this country morally. socially, depends
upon the yCu.h of the working classes.
The hungry centurion also suggests
that INSTEAD of re-forging the chains
that bind it to the wild and woody west,
Ell Peso is throwing off the shackles OF
bigo.ry and bypocrisy." [ have moth
ing to say in this connection about
bigOtry and hypocrisy excepting this:
The most pusilapimOus blgOts and
bypocrites in the word are among
those who are outside of an opposed to
the churches. 1t is true that we ought
not to re-fOree the chains that bind FL
Paso to the wild and wOoly west,
neither should we rebind Ell Paso to
the wiz d and woody west by such pub
lie performances on Sunday as that for
which the hungry centurion clamofs.
Again, this hungry individual re-
marks that the little children ''Sh uld
be suffered to come out and hear the
music tomorrow, aud ike the bees and
birds they wont even know it is Sunday
unless you tell them" | say, ii they
have been decently raised and have
Intelligence CROUCH to know one day
from another they ought to krow 1t Is
Sunday. There is great principle in
volved in this matter OF the observance
of Sunday aud the only ground upon
which a man can refuse to recognize
and observe the day rs holy one is an
anti Christian one. Besides this, the
law everywhere draws distinction be-
tween Sunday and every other day of
the week and any child that is raised
with a disregard for any law is not
raised as it should be. Any Texan who
will deliberately disregard any law of
the state of Texas whether in his judge
ment proper or improper is a traitor
to the state, and if SO violating the
law he Processes to b either true
democrat, or r. publican. he is pol
itical hypocrite lam warm friend
of the McGinties and will support them
in everything that in my judgement is
good or innocent. If you will sanction
the sentiments of this article l am will
ing for you to call me,
A MOSS-BACT
The Mexican Central got q train
| through this morning from the City of
| Mexico, and traffic is now resumed on