Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-15
ATTACKS BISHOP POTTER.
Rev hr zeiter of SimOnsvilIe en New
 Subway Tavern.


 The services at the Chapel street Methodfst church in Simonsville last night were characterized by one of the most sensational sermons of inc year. The Rev John E. Zeiter fha pastor, was the preacher. and he n,ada a scath1ng attack upon BishoD Potter for stamping his approval on fbe liquor trade by attending the formal opening of the new Subway tavern ir New York a short time ago and dedi. cat1ng,as it were, the liquor emporium Rev Mir Better has gained considera- Die notoriety on account of his aer- mons since he came to Waterbury but last nights discourse is said to be the most sensational of all After refer. ring to the fact that Bishop Potter. Who has been unmercifully denounced Dy clergyn1en and temperance workers and other people since he presided at the opening of saloon, which is to be conducted on a better scale than the average cafe, entered politics some time ago, he said:
 HIS own people repudiated his at. t1ttlde then as they did on the divorce question and as they have in this pres- ent venture of his. The thirty pieces Of silver which Judas received for be.
  and the Jews bought plot of groun as a burial place for the stranger dead. Tn the case of Bishop Potter. he would put the per cent earnings of the Mulberry street rum shop with which ne proposes to build others of its kind all over New York into a cemeterv wherein the poor bodies of the souls Of men and women who patronize the Subway tavern may be buried. The bishops reason for this saloon is that by bringing the church down to the level of the world, worthy people might be brought into closer touch with the church What is the result7 As matter of fact persons have gone into other saloons and call for a Rock of Ages high bail' or Safe in the Arms of Jesus whiskey.'
 You laugh, but tell you it is pitt able. Another idea of Bishop Potter's IS that his grog shop might be made a place where a man could go with his wife, and seated at some sort of an arrangement like soda fountain, have his liquor drawn through a fau- cet. It is horrible to think of wives and sisters going into such places. It's all right for men, we say, and we think nothing of 1t, but when our wives and mothers and daughters de- scend to such places it makes us think differently.
 Bishop Potter has still another rea- son for the existence of his saloon; he intends to use certain percentage Of the profits which accrue from it in the establishment of other places of sim- far nature in other sections of the city. And why? He says he is q member of twelve swell clubs, and from spending the best part of my life In New York know pretty nearly what those clubs are They are not formed for literary purposes. but have only social and political tendencies. When Bishop Potter wants enjoyment he can go to one of these clubs and obtain the best. But his poor parish toners who furnish him his fat salary, in order to obtain their pleasures and enjoyment must go down into the sIums of Mulberry street What would you think, if you and I were standing here at the pulpits side and a man were to come up and give me $5 bill and took $4.90 of it and went up town to the Abagadasset club, or whatever you call it, and spent it on the fat of the land while gave you 10 cents to go down into the Dogs Nest to get whatever you could?
 While Bishop Potter was leading the dedicatory exercises singing Praise God from whom all blessing flow the angels in heaven must have looked down on the scene and grieved, while the devil grinned as he never grinned before. At those exercises there was enough spirituous liquors In 1 the place to set the people of a city the size of Waterbury drunk. T read, in one of the local papers that the county commissioners have refused to issue any more licenses in the city, except that under which the bar at the new hotel is to be run. have the heartiest commendation for the commissioners and am only sorry that other license is going to be given. hoped it would be refused, as the conference of the Methodist Episcopal church is to be held there next spring and I don't want to be held responsi- ble.
 Tn conclusion want to ask how long 1t will be in view of Bishop Pot ter's action before the church of Christ will lend it's sanction to the bucket shop and the gambling hell. the accompaniment of the saloon, and how far off is the day when the same church of Christ will give it's approv- al to the houses of prostitution which have their birth and rise in the gin mill?"