The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-26
CHURCH FALSE TO CALLING,
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 a--d all that the Church of Christ prop erly stands for an increased power in the furtherance of the great interests so dear to us and so intimately wrap | ped up in the life and future of our country.
 Acts of Politicians.
 ! I want to go back now and say that it is one of the mischiefs of party gov- ernm snt that it obscures the moral vision of men partisanly inclined, be they Republicans or Democrats-one as much as the other, if not more so. Before taking a hand in the game, I l had labored under the impression that all Republicans were good and all Democrats were bad, all except the members of my own church, which has always been largely dem Ocratic.
 -thout havin exactly reached the point or reversing my estimate, I am very clear in my judgment that state or city cannot be saved by fchanging merely the political com plexion of it's administration, any T ore than you can cure a man of con- sum- ton by putting on him new suit of clothes.
 The Doctor Skeptical.
 The outside inch of a man all the way around may be Republican or it may be Democrat, but that is no sign as to what there is on the inside of that inch. I was born and brought up to have a great deal of respect for Republicans. and I never like to see a man in too eat haste to apostatize from the faith of his fathers; but I w-,nt to know a great deal more. about a man than that he is a Republican before I will trust him with my pocketbook, or before will be willing to commit 70 him Q share in the ad- ministraticn of my state or city.
 Capacity for Mischief.
 The better man is, if he is bad, tn more dangerous he is to deal with and the greater his capacity for mis- chief The chief obstacle with which we have to contend is not iniquity pure and siimplo, iniquity that is not part one thing and part something else. Unmixed depravisy I rather like. + Some Politicians Frank
 There is directness and frankness about it that leaves you knowing where you are standing. You will not be surprised then at my liking for Dick Croker; nor that am so fond of the Divers the Gradys and Pat McCarren and other cognate lumin- aries; feel entire confidence in them. l know just where I shall find them. There is no Hyde-Jeykel business about them. They are consistent. They are of the same fibre all the way th- ough. There 4., about them none of the veneer of decency or taint of re- spectability that make them an uncer- tain quantity. When you talk about them people know what you are talk ing about But when you talk about men that are fifty per cent. one thing and the other fifty angel of light, the performance becomes complicated and you wish that all men were thorough breds either of one description or the other.
 Constructive Policy.
 There are two kinds of effort into which in matters of state, the Church l can throw itself, one constructive and ] the other prohibitive. and the pro- hibitive policy is one in which I have an ever diminishing confidence; not ! but that repression is sometimes l necessary, only repression is incapable | of yielding positive results. It is not what we destroy, but what we create | that constitutes the true: and substan- tial aim of e.-ort, not what we pre- vent but what we v ster and encour- i a g. The ten commandments were prohibitive and failed till on their positive side they were taken up into personal life of the Saviour and rem dered creative.
 Same After Election.
 The thing that. political virtue for gets when a victory of. that kind has been gained is, that the situation af- ter~election is exactly what it was prior to election The elements that ly unalterea;S our virtue is no more virtuous fol being on the top, and our depravity is no less depraved for be- ing at the bottom.
 Undoubtedly there is no such an occasion display of virtuous en- thusiasm that is more than ordinary. But it is to be eremem bered that acute developed by campaign has always to be discounted That is the object of a campaign; that is what the eloq .ence. the fireworks and the brass bands are for, to stimulate the ethical impulse, using the word stimulate" in the sense that 1t is used of public speaKer when it is said of him that before going upon the plat form he resorts to "stimulant,"' to quicken his thoughts to gait outrun- ming their natural pace, and to warm his passions to a heat above their natural temperature. A touch of in- toxication fits him momentarily from his normal condition only to collapse to the ordin.-ry level when the arti- ficial exhilaration has passed off. The CiOdoOAASO OA IAC 4AAQl 1o, Ol course, only to +. rated at what he is capable of before the intoxicant has begun to work or after it has run it's course. f
 Ethical Intoxicat1On.
 What now I want to say is that that expresses exactly t, effect of a political (. -npaign in it's relation to virtue and the stimulation of virtue; it aims to in luce condition of ethical to do what a teamster 1 tries to do when, on the upgrade of 3 hill, he lashes his horses, not that they may become permanently more powerful animals, but mornentarily to intensity what strength is already theirs till they pass the hard point in 1 the hill; tl-en having rounded the top in condition of physical frenzy and artificial strenuousness the poor crea- lures are allowed to stop and breathe and drop back to their normal estate. And@they do drop back. Such intoxi- , cation is own parent to collapse. ,
 Virtue Again Drops. I,
 In the meantime while virtue,% hay ing surmounted the hill, is becoming] rested and falling to it's natural tone, dropping from falsetto to natural voice, depravity, on the other side, put { put of pasture, loaded down by arti- ( icial restraints, goes on accommodating, : ermenting, and so the oscillation pro ,aodc virtI1a and vico tipU to: