Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-29
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Their fanaticism consists in believing
some things that their neighbors do net
believe. All things considered, the Lee
want mob has less in the way of excuse
than any of its Infamous contempora-
ries, not excepting the Ripley county
(Ind. organization Of good citizens,
who summarily put to death squad of
their i'll behaved neighbors. =
A Terrific Indictment.
Surely Beriah has drawn a terrific
indictment of these righteous mobbers
up in Maine. Being only wild and
woolly westerner, silver lunatic, q
free trade fanatic, therefore clear out
side the pale of New England sanctity,
I would not dare to pen such words;
bnt, as Mark Hanna has not yet muz-
zled the press-not yet, not yeti
make bold to quote the above caustic
paragraph from Brer Wilkins. So, San
effort was made to set them afre, but
the lucifers did not work welll' God
be praised If the lucifers had worked
as expected we would have witnessed
in the blazing light Of the closing days
of the nineteenth century two men
burned in Maine because they "take
st. Peter literally. and because they
were accused of inducing their follow
ers to ssgive up all for humanity .
Why, bless my soul. that's s precisely
what Jesus Of Nazareth enjoined upon
his followers to do when he walked the
plains of Palestine. IF he had not been
crucified then and had happened in
Maine in this leafy month of june and
had gone about doing good, as was his
wont, and inducing people to give up
all for humanity, he would have been
burned al the stake, provided the luci-
fers had worked we'll Brother Wilkins
must be the most sanguine of mortals.
for in the editorial from which have
quoted he says. ''We may be permitted
to hope that it-that is, this mobbing
of evangelists will temper the judg-
ment Of the good people of New Eng
land toward other communities We
all fervently hope the same thing. But
in this matter seeing is believing. and
shall remain a doubling Thomas un-
til l see some sign compelling belief
And to think that this incredible hor-
ror occurred in the congressional dis
trict represented for so many years by
Hon Charles Addison Boutelle, who
considers all men knaves and fools ex-
cept himself I'm dazed. ratified. nerv-
ously Frustrated, fattened out TO think
Of il. Pom honor, it's the first time I
ever entered into the spirit Of Mullen
berg's lugubrious song, i would not
live always, ask not to stay. Hither-
to l have had decided hankering for
life here below, but since Charles Addi-
son Boutelle has let slip his bold on the
world S tail we're doomed to iDeffable
gloom, misery and despair
The proud motto Of Maine is, ftDiri-
go" q directly Let us pray that she
will not direct us to mob all our evan
gelists. priests and preachers.
Ont west and down south our fiery
young men sometimes mob brute in
human form for rape. arson. robbery or
murder, but | undertake to say that
there is not community anywhere
south of the Potomac or west Of the
Alleghanies where any preacher OF any
phase of the gospel of the Prince of
Peace would be mohbed for proelaiming
bis plan of salvation. Men of she south
and west do sometimes take the law
into their hands TO protect the sanctity
of female virtue and human life, but
they protect the ministers of Christ
rather than mob them.
These pio1s and polished New Eng
landers, who. for 10, these many years
have been standing on the street cor
ners rolling their eyes heavenward,
thanking God they are not as other
men, especially not as the southerners
and westerners, would do well to visit
the south and west and learn some
thing of humanity and Christian ciyih-