The Irish standard., 1900-06-09

Audfks were IN exceedingly BAD taste
and showed that he is entirely desti-
tute of that esprit de corps" which
should characterize members of the
same profession, but especially of the
sacred ministry. He has recently been
guilty of the same impropriety.
In last weeks issue of The PEOPLES
Paper, Rev. S. w. Sample, in the most
courteous language he could employ in
addressing any one, whether lay or
clerical, wrote an open letter to Dr..
Shutter on his recent speech to the
veterans of the Civil War and concluded
by saying:
In conclusion, DR.. Shutter, permit
me courteously but most earnestly to
ask you these questions: Are you will
ing to defend, in public and honorable
discussion, where both sides can be
heard, either the present administra-
tons course in the Philippines or Great
Britain's course in South Africa or
both? Will you meet me, at some suita-
bic time and place, in such discussion
or discussions? Or, !: you do not re-
gard myself as a foeman worthy of
your steel, will you meet in public de-
bate some one else chosen by the Anti
1mperialist League Of this city? In case
OF your willingness to meet in public
debate either myself or some abler rep
resentative of anti-imperialism, have
authority for stating that the Minneap-
oils Anti-1mperialist League will gladly
make all the needful arrangements for
and meet all necessary expenses of said
debate"
One would suppose that DR.. Shutter
would reply to that challenge in the Ian
guage OF gentleman, and say that he
respectfully declined to meet DR.. Sam
pie, who really is "a foeman worthy OF
his steel" and his superior as platform
orator and debater. Instead of replying
in the same spirit OF friendliness dis
played by DR.. Sample, what does the
corporation preacher OF the gospel say?
Listen to him:
II have not read Mr.. Samples open
letter. I observed that it covered at
least two pages of his paper, so threw
it aside. When people write to man
as busy as l am, either open or CLOSED
letters, if they want immediate answers
they must be brief and to the point.
OF course this is too much to expect OF
Brother Sample. l am told that the let
ter contains challenge to a Joint dis
cussion on the merits Of Aguinaldo and
his cause, and also on the Boer ques-
ton. cannot conceive what good
such discussion would do. The people
do not need it for information, and GER
tainly should not go into it either to
gain notoriety for myself or confer it
on Brother Sample. The people have
access to all the sources of information
we have-sucl as newspapers, books
and magazines, and they will make up
their minds on the subject without such
poor assistance as either Brother Sam
pie or myself can offer. They will make
up their minds and Brother Sample will
hear what they think of the George
Washington of the Philippines and his
cause next November. The Boer bust
ness is already practically past the stage
OF debate. If the people have not read
up on these subjects, as 1 think they
have, they have had the inestimable
privileges Of attending Filipino meet
ings at the Lyceum and elsewhere and
Boer meetings at the Exposition and in
other parts of the city. At those places
Brother Sample has spoken with that
wonderful Auidity OF speech which one
of his ardent admirers has ascribed to
him. Then he has paper, Of which he
is sole editor and proprietor, and his
Sunday meetings. What more can he
want? Be content, my dear brother,
with these sources of power and Unfit
ence and go on converting the COM
munity. Some OF these days, when I
have the leisure, l will read Brother
Samples communication and chal-
lenge."
That is the way in which DR.. Shutter
escapes from the debate. He will not
meet DR.. Sample or anyone else on the
Filipino and Boer questions, but will go
on in the even tenor of his ways, maxi
ing assertions that he is unable to prove.
Being the pastor of an aristocratic con-
venticle it is beneath his dignity to ar
que with the pastor of the Peoples
church. He, in his intellectual pride,
breaches the gospel of mammon to the
Goldfish aristocracy and receives fat SAL
ary therefor; his challenger breaches the
gospel OF humanity and righteousness,
and receives nothing but the voluntary
contributions of the plain people. One
is the preacher of the rich; the other
of the poor; one administers to Dives;
the other to Lazarus. On the last day
the latter will be justified rather than
the former.
THE SENTIMENT OF NATIONALITY.
The century now rapidly closing has
been one OF the most remarkable i'll the
history of the earth-perhaps the most