The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-26
TUESDAY, APRIL &c, 1904.
PULPIT CAMPAIGNING.


Those who. are anxious for the sue
cess of the Democratic ticket regard
with great equanimity the programme
of the Republican campaign commit
tee in which the pulpit is set down for
q star part. But their reverence for
things sacred is outraged by the two
gentlemen who, out of the many called
by the Republican managers, are the
only ones of repute that have fallen
into the net.
The Republican campaign committee,
in person or through it's authorized
agents, prepared the substance Of the
arguments that have been addressed
to long suffering congregations, whose
temples of worship have been trans
formed for the moment into party
hustings. Other clergymen, whose self
respect impelIed them to decline the
proffered bait, have had the same de-
lectable matter urged upon them. The
opposition need not consider seriously
the affair as a political move. The
community will not soon forget the
violence done to the honor and dignity
of the church.
The charges brought have already
been fully dealt with. There is no
gambling, in the common acceptation
of the term, in st. Paul There is i'm
morality here as in every other large
city, as there will be until human ma
ture has been radically changed and
elevated. We neither evade the point
nor apologize for the condition. But
we cry shame upon every man, most Of
all if he lays claim to holy office, who
makes of that condition, ineradicable,
permanent, universal. a campaign cry
to be shouted from the pulpit to defeat
a given party or a certain candidate.
It is perfectly fair, under such cir
cumstances, to ask what guarantees
are given or available on the other side.
First, since this administration is III
question, has it changed matters for
the better or the worse since it came
into power? That is fair question.
because those responsible for the ear
lier conditions are asking to be re-
stored on this very issue. We have be-
fore US as we write an official list Of
the dens Of immortality in st. Paul in
WI In
Republican rule. 1t is official, being
the roster by which that administration
levied its tribute on infamy. If either
of the vOlubIe clergymen whom the Re
publican committee has made it's in
struments wishes to be fair, let him
examine this record and proclaim it.
1t is at the service of any citizen who
chooses to come and look at it.
We find in this scarlet catalogue the
names and location of 1913 women of
evil life, occupying rooms, all paying
fines. We find listed fourteen cigar
stores, also paying fines, and used as
blind for the immoral traffic. We
find the names of twenty three persons
renting rooms for immoral purposes.
We find twelve hotels listed that were
licensed to harbor the same vice. In
all these cases the spread of infamy
was protected for money payments; a
considerable part at least Of which
went not into the city treasury, but d.
rect to the police force. There were
also fourteen big houses, regularly IL
censed, for the residence and occupa-
ton Of immoral women. This I'M
speakable occupation was then carried
on in one building within the very
shadow of the House Of Hope.
These are facts only four years old,
which the misguided gentlemen Of two
important pulpits utterly ignore 1t is
fair and necessary to state them here;
because the government which it is