The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-25


two handles OF politics-the primary and
the lobby-of which last the post office is
the only annex Both are now mostly
in bad hands.
The necessities of life in a republic are
intelligence. consientiousuess and the
spirit Of equality, which cannot be pro-
duced except through the sabbath and its
institutions. Republics are born of Christ
and cannot live without him
Under .-Amusemelts'i in their month Of
August It is charged that negroes and
foreigners are the worst offenders against
social purity.
In the case of the foreigners the blame
must be laid. in large measure, upon a
religion that reglects ethics to exat
ritual The coIored churches are not
the only ones where one can break the
DecaIogue without losing his religion
Wherever pleasure becomes the chief
object of life, the Puritanism Of purity
is swept along in the same tide that
destroys the sabbath.
Fifty American periodicals, excluded
from Canada by its government as inde-
cent, were, at the close Of the nineteenth
century. circulated by millions in our
country, at cost OF millions Of dollars to
the taxpayers and of heartbreaks and soul
wrecks beyond reckoning. Seventeen OF
these were published in New York City.
thirteen in Maine, .some in almost every
state
Many of the magazines are becoming sc
salacious in their pictures that several
Y. NJ. c. A secretaries tell NE they have
to expurgate Dieter expeID them before
putting them on the files
The theatres. not only by their plays.
which mostly turn on Illicit loves, but es-
specially by their infamous advertise
ments, rang high among the promoters
of impurity. The streets might be cleaned
Of the pictorial insults TO womanhood by
someone reading the riot act TO the one
billposter who does it all.
Nor is it a remedy Cfor the social evip
TO draw girls from stores and factories
into domestic service. for it is in this last
In which. statistics Of Hon. Carroll
D. Wright show. an evil life oftenest
begins.
Babylon. Greece, Rome. all were de-
stroyed by this plague. France is dying
OF it today
Gambling" in its September mouth.
comes in for some pretty plain talk.
The reformation of the sixteenth CEN
tury was mostly individual. intellectual,
Observation-Disclosures more than social;
doctrinaI more than ethical Drunkness
dwelt tremendously with devotion Slavery
and sanctincatien were preached from
the same pulpits. Personal purity. in
not counted essential to piety. not even
to leadership of piety- And gambling
to the glory of God went right on in
church lotteries. Then. as now, certain
forms of common stealing were con-
demned and common gambling but
rev forms of both in lotteries were
not only tolerated. but even sanctioned
by church usage. Only the present
churches discontinued the use Of this
means OF grace and revenue; and the
Roman Catholics are yet in the process
of sloughing it Of
The church itself has not yet clear
vision of the essence of gambling and so
condemns the man who bets on the pace
of animals at horse race, but elects
to trusteeship the man who bets on the
price of vegetables at the corn exchange
If he wins the bet. The story is per-
tinent here of the Southern gambler. con-
verified from his faro and race gambling
IN a revival. who. feeling the old passion
reviving. noted that the rich members
of the church. with no condemnation,
bet on the future price of cotton and so
took to the cotton exchange and found
il satisfactory.
Betting is the brother Of burglary.
To get something for nothing, or even
much for little in a business transaction.
is nothing less than stealing
Bears" and Bulls are the pests Of
the farmer and the public.
Thus the whole year. II any one wishes
TO look into the proposed subjects fur
Their than Is possible in this pamphlet OF
twenty-eight pages. he is advised 10 read
certain books, mentioned with publish
er's address and retail prices. in a bibli-
graphical paragraph attached TO each
topic suggested. There is a striking fire.
duency OF recurrence of the names of
such works as Practical Christian Soci-
ology" by the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts;
The March of Christ Down the Centur-
les bs the same author; The Temper
auce Century by the same author;
The Cartridge Box of Temperance and
Prohibition" and "Half-Truth in Darwin
ISM" by the same author.