The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-12
AN iNTEMPERATE PASTOR.

T HE HERALD is always sorry to see
intemperance. either in speech or
in other lines. 1ntemperance is not
becoming in any individual. but when
a minister of the gospel allows himself
to be guilty Of it the spectacle is par
ticularly displeasing. A Rev. DR..
George S. Bishop. pastor of a church
in East Orange. N. J.. furnishes the
latest example of clerical intolerance.
Discussing the coal strike and Presi-
dent John Mitchell OF the United Mine
Workers. he SAYS:
rs the demagogue who leaps to the
leadership of an irresponsible union
and who says to the unionist, 'Starve
until I let up and TO the nom union
list. Work if you dare and 1 will de-
stroy you'-is this man 10 be exalted
as the hero Of the hour and to be ap-
plauded as hero and treated with as
II he we're a dictator who Is to be
feared and pacified and deferred to?
Or is he to be treated as a conspirator,
a criminal, a mischief maker, mis-
creant, an enemy to organized society
and put down?
1t Is said that the operator ought
to deal with this man. What has this
man. this third outside party, 10 do
with miners and mines? Do such men
as he ever work? Has he any business?
What is his irresponsible union? What
constitutional authority has il? What
charter? What legislative or legal ex-
istence?
What has this man, this third
party. TO do with workingmen? What
right has he to represent them. to
determine for them, TO tyrannize over
them. TO issue his ukase like a car,
to declare, as he did yesterday when
| taking the train back from Washing
ton, that any directions now issued
viii be only for the continuance Of the
strike?
What right have idle spectators of
other mems honest toll to do or say
about il? What right has the peram-
buiating agitator to say to working
men, I am between you and your en-
ployer. He shall not treat directly
with you. He shall not have the
chance. He shall treat directly with
me. and I will tell you on what terms
70 live or starve.'"
No cause has ever been advanced by
such utterances as these. In the first
place, they are grossly untrue, and in
the second place, if they were all true,
they would still be out of place in a
pulpit. The mission of the gospel is
one OF peace and love and forgiveness.
The true servant of God does not 20
about with a flaming sword with which
TO destroy the doer Of evil, but with
a cruise Of oil TO anoint his wounds
and with soft words to turn away his
/ wrath
The fact that DR.. Bishop lives in the
trust-ridden state of New Jersey, the
fact that probably many of his parish
toner's are trust magnates, does not
justify his denunciation of an individ-
ual who has given him no real cause
for offense. 1t is not necessary for
The Herald TO defend John Mitchell
The character OF this great labor leader
is well known to those who desire 10
know It.
He has worked hard with his hands
nearly all of his life. DR.. Bishop 10 the
contrary Notwithstanding. and now he
is working with his head to better the
condition OF thousands whose condition
stands in sore need OF betterment. DR.
Bishops talk is. therefore. important
only in the sense that it is an example
Of the intolerance with which the trusts
and their apostles view the laborine
man.