The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-23
JERRY FOUNDER AGAIN
ut Is Wicked Even for the Rich
to SIM"
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
Money, Not Brains. Appears to Be the
the Qualification for Senator-The
Frightful Example Helena Sets
for the Youth OF the State,


vanced in years and somewhat bent
with rheumatism, gathered himself to-
gether for brief time last evening and
addressed a portion of his old audience
/ from dry goods box on East Park
street. 1t was an impromptu meeting,
and the old gentlemans voice was not
in good condition, but at times he would
shake his white locks with his old time
fire and vim. He announced as his
text 1T Is Wicked Even for the Rich
to Sin" He said:
Since I was granted superannu-
ated relation 1T has not been my custom
to preach very often. but l did not want
this Sunday to pass without some pull
pit in the. city Of Butte being raised in
protest against the bribery and corrup-
ton and debauchery that is now going
on in the capital of this state. 1 didn't
want this Sabbath day to pass without
some minister Of the gospel telling his
people that sin is wicked, no matter
how rich the sinner, and that as sure as
there is an eternity sin will be pun
ished in the high as in the low.
II suppose some of my brother cler-
y
wait until the grand jury reports be-
fore denouncing sin. 1t does not strike
me that Christ waited before denounc-
ing sin until a grand jury had put an
official stamp on it. This is sim. He
had a way of hitting blow at wicked
ness and vice and corruption where
ever he found it, even in the taberna-
cles. A grandbjury's judgment Is not
necessary to determine the fact that
there is great Wickedness going on il
Helena. There certainly was 100000
worth of evidence of it. If you won't
believe that Clark or his agents used
that money for purposes of bribery,
then you must believe that Daily or his
agents used 1t in a conspiracy. In
either case the sin is just as great and
should be denounced. You must take
one horn of the dilemma or the other.
Il do not want you to imagine that I
am addressing you after long silence
merely for the purpose of discussing
the senatorial situation. l shall not
discuss that. Since the United States
senate became, nothing but home for
retired millionaires. since all over this
land money and not brains is the main
qualification for seat in that body,
since the. time seems to have arrived in
this country when the American boy
who would aspire to the senate must
first make himself millionaire, since
igible, can not say that the senator
ship is matter of much moment to,
me- But that which is Of moment TO
me is that in the capital of this state
an example is being set in debauchery.
and sin which must be of incalculable
harm to the youth OF our state
"Pile UP into one mOnStrOuS heap all
the sins that have been committed in
Montana since the Louisiana purchase.
Take the sins Of the Indians, and the
sins of the early traders and the sins Of
the pioneers and of the cowboys and OF
the people of to-day. Take them all
and pile them all up into one great
monument for the children of Montana
to look at, and all together they could
not do as much harm to Montana's boys
and Montana's girls as that which is
going on in Helena now, and when
goes on there every time there is con-
test for senator.
But they tell me that this is politics,
and that the clergy ought to keep out
of politics for fear of offending some
body. Politics! I tell you there IS
worse than politics going on there.
There is traffic in mems souls going on
in this states capital! I tell you that
mems souls are being bought and sold,
and not a protest is made by the Christ
ian church!
so 1 have re-opened my pulpit to-
ton, but merely to warn the members
of my congregation that because a rich
man may break the laws of his state
and go unpublished it doesn't excuse
you for doing the same, and you
mustn't expect to escape your just de-
serts. If you are a policeman and you
accept a bride from the gamblers not
to arrest them you must expect to be
punished for it if you get found out
You must not expect the press to con-
done your offense unless the bride is
big enough and the briber rich enough.
If you break the laws of the state by
stealing or burglary you must expect to
go to the penitentiary. Because rich
man may break the laws and escape
unpublished does not in any measure
excuse you.
My friends, riches can not revolu-
tionize morality! / know there are
members of my congregation who think
that there are some laws for the rich and
other laws for the poor. They see the
rich go UNPUBLISHED at times while the
poor suffer for much more trivial Of
lenses. But / tell you that there is no.
thing on earth or in Heaven more true
than that sin will be punished, and 7
believe the more lucky a man is in this
world in escaping the due punishment
for his crimes, the greater will be his
punishment hereafter. History is be-
ing enacted in Helena. But it is history
which will not stop in Helena or in
Washington, but will be carried to the
great judgment throne, for it is not a
senatorship alone that is being bought
the traffic is in mems souls! MY
friends, there may be injustice on earth
sometimes. But in this great universe
there is an memorable justice which no
dollars can evade! l tell you that there
is one great Judge who is not afraid of