Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-03
BLIGHT OF DAHLNANISN
Continued from First Page.)

Curry. d. D., pastor of the Calvary Baptist
church. in his Sunday evening sermon on
YOUR City Election
There should be no recognition of
classes. We are all-rich or poor, white or
black, high or low-members of the munich
pality, and it should be our chief desire
to elect to the office of mayor and other
positions men who will uphold and enforce
the law. That is all we should seek for
and all we should ask for.
For three years the good, respecting,
law abiding citizens have witnessed the
spectacle Of our mayor and other city Off
Gals administering that law of license to
those interests which are law breaking and
criminal making. Every officer of the law
who might have had It In his heart to dis
| charge his duty has been discouraged in
so doing by the command and example of
those over him.
THE time has come for those citizens to
have the right respect for the law incul-
Gated to express themselves at the ballot
box. Every man should recognize the
solemn responsibility entrusted to him on
next Tuesday, May 4"
Opposed 10 Moral Progress.
Rev. j. Nsrver Gortner, pastor of Nc
Cabe Methodist church, Fortieth and Far
nam streets, Sunday evening said in the
course Of his sermon:
Dahlmanism during the last three years
has been opposed to every species Of moral
progress and is worthy of being buried a
thousand fathoms deep beneath the ac-
cumulated Indignation of an outraged and
incensed populace. 1t has stood in the way
Of moral progress in this proud city of the
! u-acf nahlmaniSu1 ig dOompd IN he re-
membered in coming years as a blight with
which a city was once cursed, but from
which It was ultimately delivered by the
awakening of a people no longer willing to
be governed by a confessed opponent of
the principles of moral progress and re-
form"
"The providence OF the ministry is to
preach the observance of law and morals
said Rev. r. T.. Bell at the Church of the
| Covenant, Pratt and Twenty-seventh
streets, Sunday morning. The subject of
his address was '"The Majesty of the Law"
and was from the text, Psalms cxix 81.
He said:
THE 18th Psalm is the exaltation Of all
law and wisdom. The laws of God are
paramount to all other laws and are APP
piled to our moral, social and spiritual lives.
A violation Of a social law we call bad
form. We should treat our fellowmen with
equal justice regardless Of color or race.
Political laws are framed to suit our
notions, yet after all, all laws come from
an eternal source"
On Personal Liberty.
On the subject of Personal Liberty, ="
Rev. r. II. Houseman at CASTELAR, Street
Presbyterian church last night said:
The prostitution of a city's highest Of
~ H.
sonal passions is enough TO disturb the
conscience Of a hardened sinner. Law is
the great conservative power in society.
Its power, however, depends on its enforce
ment. If not enforced, instead Of educating
upward, it educates downward. When can
didates announce beforehand what by inn
p~lication may be taken as a pledge that
they will be easy about enforcing laws
that by oath they pledge themselves TO
enforce, we have conditions which are a
tremendous encouragement to lawlessness,
Such a condition is fraught with infinite
peril to our city and its young manhood.
Vice grows bold and the already lawless
are defiant. 1t is hoped that with time
such men will repent of such an unholy
travesty on manhood and nobly regard
their own better instincts as well as the
betterment of society"
While he mentioned no names, Rev. L. o.
Baird, pastor of st. Mary's Avenue Con-
gregational church, told his hearers in a
pulpit editorial" before the sermon that
they ought to have enough pride in their
city TO vote for men in whom they can
take pride, for the political pride OF a
city is the social pride Of its people, Mr..
Baird's subject was, Obedience to Law the
Price of Liberty"
90 Rata nu,ahafr mo. Al. .,,k4,.t 80 tLr
sermon Of Rev. r. p. Petersen. pastor Of
the Norwegian and Danish Methodist
Episcopal church, and he told his people
that the best way to get a better omahs
is to place In positions OF trust better men
whenever the opportunity presents.
Rev. George McDougall, pastor of the
olivet Baptist church, preached on Law
Enforcement"