The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-03-31
A TEMPEST in a TEAPOT.

Of old would not probably have turn
ed his lantern on him in searching for
that article.
However al public journal look
ing at all times to the best interest
of the community, it does not re
pose to stand by and see the mayor
made the target Of arrows badly aimed
and not wisely discharged.
We have a profound regard for
Rev. wylIys Rede. rector Of St
Marks church. 1t is our privilege
10 be numbered among those whe
have a place IN his flock. lie j.
IAN able and earnest worker ia the
Masters vineyard. but like the mayor
he also must not lay claims to infal
Ilibility and when he departed from
his pastoral duties yesterday, ad.
dressed an open letter TO the people
Of Brunswick and publicly denounced
the mayor for not Furnishing certain
individuals tried in the police court
we think he erred.
AS a matter Of fact Dr. Resle ~a'
not at police court and as the law
holds that hearsay evidence is not
sound. we submit that the learned
doctor was in error in criticising chs
mayor. when, as a matter Of fact, he
did not know what testimony had
been adduced at the trial in CUES
tion.
The whole matter, it seems, grow
Tout Of the fact that contractors e
removing house belonging to Mrs
Iii. G. Colesberry to the lot ADJOINING
llho rectory Of St. Marks church,
found 1t necessary TO cut few limbs
from one Of the live oaks on The
blind street leading to the lot relefreo
Ito. II seems that the contractors Sc
Icured permission from the councils
committee on public works before
Icutting away these limbs, which really
Idoes not do violence TO the tree, ana
lthat. in the face Of this fact. pr
IRede prosecuted the contractor in thu
Ipolice court with the result that tae
mayor dismissed the case holdins
Ithat no crime had been committee
land no intention Of crime existed
These are the simple facts in II,
lease. However, there is another SIDE
Ito the matter DR.. Rede, i occurs e
us, should have looked to the surround
Iings and circumstances in the case.
Mrs. Colesberry, in the first plaee
lis widow Of many years standing,
lis communicate in the church Owe
which Or. Rede presides. She is y
OCCUPY the house which is being re
moved at large cost to her and !
this simple limb had not been takel
from the tree. although a short as
tance from the lot, the work woul'
have stopped then and there sarel
Hi seems to us that il any objections
were in order it might have been II
better grace had they come iron
some other source
We join with Or. Rede in his pre-
TEST against the Unnecessary destruet
lion Of our beautiful trees We woul
raise our voice against such conduct
but the doctor should remember tina
1.-THE well established principle of SCI
Iecting the less OF two evils has Y
ways ana will always prevail aud l
this case the home Of a widowed NC
man certainly should not have beei
sacrificed to spare the branches CT Al
oak tree on totally blind street
1t is not in our province TO 81
TO the clergy where their duties b
gin or where they end, but as "
Iheard Bishop Nelson say in st, Mars
church a few Sundays ago, it dos
seem to as, if they would pay NOR
attention to matters that effect NOR
largely their own parishes and thei
own PASTORAL duties they would com
nearer attaining that degree OF U.S.
fulness for which God has fashione
them
in the meantime we respectful,
call the attention OF Dr. Rede TO th'
magnificent lesson taught in the Goid
en- rule, upon which the Foundation
OF an true and healthy religion i.