The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-05-02
liking Contrasts and The
lessons Taught.

tau 81 by the application of the
llav 6ontrast, as we'll in the ami
ma ia the inanimate world.
lIt without saying that in all
p0 a Missionaries, appointed or
ore for the public good, that
1.-THE sa direct amenibility at the
ba public opinion. This prin-
oil bolds good both in secular
Ian cIesiasticai matters. Hence
it that, as guardians of the peo-
pie 6ithful press will cry aloud
AM pare not Whenever a Presi-
lden Bishop, United States
lS6r siof id their relation to the
lpu io have been guilty of any ne
lale 81 duty whereby the people
Ired "a Injury.
me ago there were two
h6ps sent by their church on
business of no ordinary import.
One of them, Bishop Potter, of
New York, was commissioned to go
to the Philippines and inform him
self of the lay of the land, the full
situation there as field for miss
ionary work by the Protestant
Episcopal church. The other,
Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota
was sent to Porto Rico on exactly
the same business there as that in
trusted to Bishop Potter in the
Orient. They both went and on
their return made clear, full re-
port of the spiritual conditionsan and
needs of those two sets of Islanders.
With their report to the church
we have nothing to do. 1t is sim
ply mono of our business. With
the marked contrast between the
two prelates, since their return, we
have this much to do, and that is
to commend most warmly Bishop
Whipple's silence about politics as
applicable to Porto Rico. He, as a
Bishop of the church, has wisely
kept his peace about politics and,
attending.olosely to his Divine Mas
ter's business, has added largely to
his national reputation for single
hearted devotion to high command
ing duty.
We-regret our inability to COM
mend Bishop Potter's course since
his return. We feel bound to OK
press our deep regret that from the
large space given by the Imperial
Press to Bishop Potter's views
touching MoKinley's policy in the
Philippines, that there has been a
sad merger of the prelate in the
politician.
1.-THE New York Bishop has been
obedient to the Paulineiniunction
of this conc thing do" what time
has he found to give the grave
questions of constitutional bearings
and the State policy involved in
this whole matter, suoh an amount
of close study as to make his opin-
ions worth SO much? No, the
truth is the Mckinley press caught
at the views, not of Henry Goldman
Potter, citizen, but of Rt. Rev. ID,
O. Potter, d. D., d. O. L., LII. D,
Bishop, and sent them broadcast all
over the land, to the injury of the
church in the lowered standard of
his apostolic orders. Through the
Bishop, the church has been dap
pling in partisan politics, and her
white vestments are bespattered
with it's muck and mire. Bishop
Whipple's silence has been golden.
We wish we could say as much of
the Bishop of New York.
Passing from the church to the
State, what sharp contrast be-
tween Senators Hoar and Yelling
ton, touching their course in the
matter of Mckinley and his future!
Both of these gentlemen seem to
vie with each other in their clean
out, able and exhaustive reproba-
tion of MoKinley's course. In his
hearty, honest condemnation Sena-
tor Hoar seems to surpass the SEN
ior Senator from Maryland. There
the parallelism ends and the sharp
contrast begins. Senator Hoar
practically says: eft is true, Mr..
Mckinley, your course has brought
all this woe on my country in your
trampling under foot the Constitu-
ton, but go on and 1 will follow
you. 1 will whip my patriotism in
and follow my party"
Senator Wellington says: my
patriotism, my conscience are para
mount to that wing of the party
which breaks faith with the Consti-
r