New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-17
THE RELIGIOUS PRESS DOOMED.

We shall regret to lose the religious press
from current literature But since It's extinc-
ton anDears 70 have been definitely decided
upon by the Plat,-Quigg organ, there is prob
ably no hope for It, and we shall have TO recon
Gle ourselves rs best we may to the loss. Inc
religious press. it seems. like the Republican
press of this city. the Union League Club, the
Manhattan Club and 10000 Of the 100000 Anti
Tammanv voters. is Infested with Mugwump-
cry" and must 60 like all the rest In IN art-
Gle in It's sunday issue on THE Decline OF the
Religious Papers" the organ points ont with
great clearness the growing tendency on the
part of the religious press TO antagonize Platt.
That is the very essence Of Mugwumpery. ana
has TO be put down wherever found if we are TO
continue 10 have the blessings Of government
of THE by THE Master" and for the
Master For. the organ says, this Mugwump
spirit is in the face of the principles upon
which rests our system Of party government
1t Is IAN attempt TO Illustrate the formation and
enforcement of a party policy representative
"of the common agreement Of great body Of
citizens upon certain large issues and the suDor-
"dination to it of individual. opinions and whims
touching matters less vital This is trlne
circumlocutory but between the lines one may
ails the religious press
In fact, the organ presently proceeds to be
more specific 1t says that the religious papers
"incucated disintegrating doctrine during the
late campaign; that they proceeded on the
assumption that the great question of the age
related to the propriety Of the leadership or
"Mr Plat and the personal merits of Mr. Low
Far be it from us to dispute the justice or the
summary processes by which The New-lork
Sun" is swiftly eliminating pretty much every
thing in the realm Of animated nature that stands
in the way Of Plat and Quigg. but 1t does occur
10 us, and we venture to suggest 1t here, that II
1.-THE great question Of the age" in the late cam
paign related TO anything else under heaven ex-
cept 1.-THE leadership of Mr.. Plat and the personal
merits Of Mr.. Low" the readers Of The sun
never found it out through the perusal of that
extremely high-spiced newspaper. We pre-
sumo, however. that what the organ means TO
arraign the religious press for is not because II
discussed the propriety Of Mr.. Platts leader
ship but because it vigorously and constantly
denounced the Improperly and scandal of It,
And we presume also-though It can hardly be
offered as a justification-that the reason why
they did il was because II Is right In their line
TO denounce money-changers in the temple.
II IS barely possible, Of course, that the re-
lgous press may not hear Of the edict for Its
extinction in time to go out Of business voun-
tarily either this week or next The same doom
has been pronounced upon The Tribune and
other secular newspapers. as well as upon the
Union League Club. the Manhattan Club and
majority of the Republican party; but for some
reason or other-possbly defective service OF
understanding has yet been extinguished any
where. 1t may also be because the contract
which the organ has taken is huckicberry too
large 10 be successfully carried out. 1t is an
interesting struggle, anyway. The heroism OF
the Young man in THE SUM- who has grappled
with all these disinteg eating forces at once can
never be sufficiently admired. He may not sue
coed in exterminating everything he fires his
intellect at. but even If he fails he will be re-
| membered as the Arnold Won Winkelred Of his
time. for he has gathered into his fair young
bosom an uncounted host Of spears Of contempt
/ and disgust
Make way for Plat and Quigg!" he cried,
.Make way for Plat and Quigg" and died.