The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
rAMMANY AND A PHARIsEE.

AMMAN AN IL Il r 1ArS1SEE4'
Some. years before his death, the late
Jay Gould made a gift of $4,000 to al
church in New York. It was not ac- 1
cepted because the church to which it
was given could not approve of Mr.
Goulds business methods. The case
occasioned much comment at the time,
and the individual church came in for
far more condemnation than did Mr..
Gould. A case Of similar character
has just TRANSFERRED in New York. 1t
is fully explained in the following cor
respondence:
Trinity Baptist Church,
New York City, Dec. is, 1897.
Victor j. Bowling, Esq:
Dear Sir:-Your favor Of the 18th is
timent: Enclosed herewith / send you
a check, on behalf of the Tammany
Hall organization in the Twentyfourth
Assembly district, for distribution
among the deserving poor under your
charge My only regret is that the
amount is not larger; but, as there are
so many channels of distribution, /
have done the best 1 could.-Very
truly yours,
VICTOR j. DOWNING"
Dear Mr.. Dowling:-We are in straits
for funds to prosecute our many-sided
work among the poor of this district
Our own pockets have been emptied
again and again, and still men, women
and children appeal. Aims, clothing,
bread, shelter and help of all kinds are
sought each day. We long to minis
ter to every worthy applicant. There
is nothing along the human side of our
undertaking we SO much need as NOM
ey. And yet, kind sir, I cannot accept
the profered check. [ dare not touch
it with so much as the tips of my fin.
gers. Coming, as it does, from a So
ciety which represents much which is
most to be deplored by all well-disposed
persons, it would seem to be a little
less than a crime to take your ill-got-
ten gains, even for such a deserving
object
And in closing, I am prompted to
commend the following Scriptures for
the thoughtful consideration of the or
ganization you represent:
80. full of all subtilty and all mis-
chief, thou child of the devil, thou en-
envy of all righteousness, wilt thou not
cease to pervert the right ways of the
Lord?" Acts xiii, 10.
Thy money perish with thee" Acts
viii 90
Now. my dear Mr.. Bowling, 1 shall
read the above to my congregation.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES w. PUTNAM,
Pastor Trinity Baptist Church,
New York City.
P. S-Please find enclosed your check
| J. w. P.
This letter declining this contribution
is compound of pharisaism and char
latanisn; it is vulgar bid for cheap
notoriety and nothing else 1t is true
that Tammany is not model of all
the virtues; likewise it is true that
| Tammany is not so black as it is
painted. This contribution lit was $500
! would have afforded some relief to the
poor for whose benefit it was made
Even if it was not desired to accept it
the clergyman to whom it was sent
could have returned it in modest,
| Christianlike manner, void OF all osten-
tation and self-righteousness; but it
was too good q chance to pose to be
resisted, and it was taken advantage
of and has served it's purpose.
Senator Cullom's dog fight. or rather
the. dog fight that took place in his
|
almost as much as the mill at Carson
did. Says the Washington Post:
Nevertheless, dog fight is not the
most serious question before modern
society. nor does it constitute the most
formidable menace to our esthetic and
! intellectual development. There are
still murders, burglaries, acts of arson,
brutality, wife beating, embezzlement.
forgery, disturbances of the peace, per-
! jury, etc.-a hundred different crimes
and malefactions which would seem to
be more legitimate provoeation of po-
| lice activity and vigilance We can
hardly believe that a dog fight-evf-
IDENTIFY an impromptu and amateurish
scrap-in Mr.. Cullom's stable, is an in
| cident which need call for such a pro-
/ digious eruption of the law. If the
dogs snapped fiercely enough, and
| sqnalled loudly enough to disturb the
neighbors and to cause complaint on
the part of those who could not see
the fun, we willingly concede the pro
priety of sending a policeman to the
scene of the trouble to stop the noise
and discipline the authors of the mis-
demeanor; but this vast outpouring of
the force, these columns of dreadful
comment and conjecture, this tragic
concentration of alertness and excite
ment this contemptuous subordnation
| of every other issue to the exploitation,
in all its narrowing details and solemn
ramifications, of that dog fight-all this
fills US with a certain tired feeling, for
| which we should dearly love to find a
remedy. Evidently, there is something
darker and more awful than now meets
the eye at the bottom of this dog fight
episode; What is it?"
No one will be surprised if it shall
yet be discovered that there was a col
ored gentleman at the bottom of it.
A Washington special to the ST. Louis
Republic says that there is dissatis-
faction among Pennsylvanians with the
appointment of James c. FIcNalIy as
consul at Bogota, Colombia. It is
charged that McNally is not a resi-
dent of Pennsylvania, but-of Salt Lake
City, and has a law Office in Utah
The nomination was made upon the
request Of Senator Quay, and on the
ground that he was personal friend
of the senator Various congressman