The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-03-21

F,on tie s.l,imose sun,

According 10 various reports which come
to Us from that once PiOus land. It Is aP-
parent that morality in New England Is at
a low ehb The time Is fast approaching
when il will be necessary to organize socie-
ties throughout the South 10 do missionary
work down East. From Massachusetts,,
the original hotBe of the Pilgrim Fathers,
and the stamping ground Of Wendell Phil
Ips. comes the exceeding bitter cry Of the
oppressed negro. And one Of our esteemed
Boston contemporaries finds II accessory 70
plead With the pastor Of the leading colored
church not "a make his complaint too bitter
DOR bis cry too load- IL seems that young
eolorcd man in cultured Boston recently
diverted himself by numbering two white
women He was arrested, and his pastor
suw complains that his treatment was 50
harsh and unsympa,hesie that he died IN
prison Right upon the heels OF this out
rage comes a narrowing story oi balioi-box
suihng in the Hub. which alusoSt reads A.
If i, came from Philadelphia. From Rhode
Island esmes = tale Of bribery and corrup-
tiua which !. almost alluring enough u at
tract immigration from Delaware, Ia ms
message to the Legislature the Governor 81
this light little common sealth declares
that ..the election Of assemblymen BY
means Of bribery goes ON year after year
without punishment and with hitie co.,
ceaInent The esteemed Providence
Journal is yery bold, aud says there are
men in the General Assembly today who
would be in jail if the statute forbiddIng
bribery were enforced. la former years
this State was generally known a. Rogue 3
Island
Crossing the border FROM Rhode Island
we come to Connecticut. The esteemed
Hartford Courant a leading paper Of that
State, feels impelled to say
We know something about the misuse of
money 10 elections IN Connecticut. The evil Is
not ~ tIAgrAut with Us nowadays. We think,
as with our neighbors on the east; but
is more than bad enough. We know some,
thing here also about laws that make n herce
show OF teeth aud don't bite. When has a
Connecticut vote-buyer been arrested, tried,
convicted imprisoned aud 1istnanehiseH We
Yankees are 10 no case to be ViFiuously ana
beyond measure shocked at the brisk election
dav traffic in Delaware and Mary tand-shock-
ing AS is. We have smali.fry Addickses OF
our own. Still less does i, lie 10 our mouths 10
deuouuce our fellow Americans in States fur
Their south than Delaware and Maryland for try
ing TO reduce the evil 10 minimum 10y sweep
ing exclusions ofnot0rionsly venal voters from
their eleciorates We wish they had gone
about the attainment of that end IN an ALSO
lutelv sir gle minded, Straightforward, deten-
sibIe way; but, having said that, our criticism
Is estopped.
We would think they do know some
thing about the misuse of money when 1t
has been stated by gentleman who made
an investigation that one half the voters
in the State of Connecticut are up for sale
on election day.
But vote buying and selling are not the
worst kinds of immortality if the state
ments of the Rev. Henry L. Hutchins,
who died the other day in New Haven,
are to be credited. That gentleman, who
was an agent of the Bible Society, said not
long ago that the native Connecticut stock
is either dying off or becoming degenerate,
and that it will not be long before foreign
immigrants will have to be looked to to
put Puritan New England back on the
high moral plane for which 1t was once
famous. He asserts that among class he
terms ''the poor whites there is an almost
absolute indifference to religion; that the
moral laws are most hagrantly broken;
that there is a condition almost bordering
upon polygamy, and by reason of continual
intermarrying mentally degenerate and
physically enfeebled people are populating
the back country districts where years ago