The sun., 1908-11-02
CRYPT SERMON TO VOTERS
NO PLACE Nv HEAVEN OR HE'LL
FOR HIM " HO DOESN'T VOTE.
Canon Peters Calls Citizens Grafters Who
Don't Chip In TO Campaign Funds n
They Can-IcgIslators Average as
High as the People They Represent.

Don't Chip In TO Campaign Funds if
They Can-LcgIslators Average as
High as the People They Represent.
Canon John P. Peters talked at the
afternoon service in the crypt Of the
Cathedral OF st. John the Divine yester-
day on THE Message Of the Church to
the Voter" His discourse was one Of
a series on "Sociel Service The crypt
was filed and many men came in late.
DR.. Peters said that too many men were
swayed by personal interests rather
than by patriotic motives at the ballot
box. People ought to vote for the best
interests of all and let personal expecta
tions fall out of sight.
4The dissatisfied, so-called respectable
non-voters," he went on to say, ARE
Laodiceans. neither cold nor hot. There
seems to be no place for them either in
heaven or in hell
Both parties had promised to make
public the campaign contributions, he
Raid, and one party had done 80 in ad-
vance Of election, and by so much wss
better thap the other. What was wanted,
however. was publicity by law. The
I,
sharing in the fruits of government.
was shirking his responsibilities.
Morally that is just es much graft
he said, -as taking money, or benefits in
any other way, that one is not entitled
to-"
DR.. Peters went on to say that it was
difficult to show such -virtuous citizens"
that there wes anything good in dis
trict leader, who even if CRATER was no
worse a CRATER than they.
Il am willing to say that the men rep
resenting us all as Aldermen. legislators
and at Washington ere of az high average
as the people they represent Perhaps
they'd be higher il the average at home
was higher said the preacher.
The court system OF this stste. DR.,
Peters said, was awful" A supposedly
we'll informed man would tell you that
the Judges were not Of as high character
as the lawyers who appeared before them.
because you could not got men of the
highest character and ability to give up
practice to take places on the bench.
If that is true it is wrong" he said
THE community has right to ask any
citizen to sacrifice his own desires and
income for the general good, and the
honor of such service should count for
much
Referring again directly to voting,
he said: 1T is wiser to vote for a bad man
in the other party than for a bad man
your own party. And certainly it is
wiser to vote for a good man in the other
party than for a bad man in your own
party. The fool in office often does
more harm than the knavo."
Many who called themselves Pro-
hibitionists lost all sense of proportion
by their devotion to the one ruling idea
The Independence party he described
as appealing to the dissatisfied in both
the old parties.
But it must be said.' he added. shat
it has rendered a very valuable service
in pointing out the corrupt methods of
the old parties
- The revelations by it made regarding
certain great corporation or trust
he said, were not only a shock to the
country but valuable lesson as to the
great danger to the government of the
country through the operation OF those
influences. He also told his hearers that
in the matter OF voting for local cand-
dates they should bear in mind that
there has grown up a predatory tariff"
which was not a legitimate protection
to industries which needed protection,
but designed solely to enable a few men to
got rich.