The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-29
THF. FARMER AND MECHANIC

ueieht nnon the little sins while
n,inkino at the social evil and SIT
they were inclined to. Dr.. rkhur
regarded it as his duty to go SUM
ming as a religious duty and not as
2 fad. He told of things as he sa"
them. and was entitled to the sympa-
thy and cooperation OF every agency
for good in the metropolis instead
he was ridiculed and assailed by a
laree norton of the press. When the
press seeks to destroy n good mar
rying to remedy bad conditions It III
effect becomes n tor the base
men and women the good men are
irving to drive from the haunts OF
sin.
Bacon was said to be 1.-The brightest
and meanest of mankind.' Some one
has said the Sun is the brightest and
meanest Of journals" Certainly It's
cynical attitude and it's persistent
ridicule OF courageous men trying to
make the world better shows that the
designation is not wide Of the mark.
In his crusade, DR.. Parkhurst found
Tie sun lliG IIlOSt USt1u1 diiy VI ~
evil ones because it turned its weapons
upon him and ignored the shameless
conditions he was trying to destroy.
Last week Chicago was aroused I'VE
the exposure Of vice conditions in that
city and the mayor named a commit
tee to enquire into them. On the COM
mittee is q bishop, and Episcopal dean
and another preacher. Commenting
upon the movement in Chicago. DR..
ParkhurSt says:
1T would be exceedingly gratifying
if the New York Sun would take spe-
cial notice OF the composition Of that
committee.
In 1891, as viewed from the moral
pedestal Of hat sensitiyely ethical
sheet, the n exclusive function of
the clergy WAS to stand in the pulpit
and preach a simple Gospel.
And SO deeply stung were its re
fined sensibilities, by the act Of one
clergyman who considered that the
Gospel did not efface the law, and
who, having Investigated vice condi-
ions in New York City, went into his
pulpit and applied the law to the re-
suit Of those Investigations, that it has
continued Tor nineteen years, on every
possible and impossible occasion, to
lam the Offender in its news and
C0iloi1di IoAUil1I1S.
1t is amazing for how long q time
d man is sometimes able to draw on
his stock of holy indignation without
his supply becoming exhausted. Few
birds are able to sustain their fligh,
so long, in ethereal regions. without
coming down to nest.
"Of course, it was immensely graft
flying to a corrupt administration, with
its open gambling shops and improper
resorts, to have q sheet of the dignity
and immaculatcness of the Sun bella
Dor q man who undertook to stem the
current of immoral sewerage with
which the city was then inundated.
People who. under other circum-
stances, would have no desire to lead
crooked and filthy lives feel almost
as though they Ought to be crooks
and nasty. il respectable journals
b~lackguard the man who decrics
knaVery and dirtiness.
"HoWeNer, it IS Well to hide ones
time and to wait for such Justification
as the trend of events and the de
Velopment Of opinion may bring. And
the man who in 81 and 80 was de-
luSed with the o~utpouring of the Suns
IraScible calumniation confesses to 2
certain Oun of satisfaction that.
AFTER nearly q score of years, the city
OF Chicago is OF the opinion that there
are some other things that a minister
can consistently do beside going into
the pulpit and perpetrating sweet pla-
tltudes, and that when vice has be-
come SO dominant that the ordinary
means Of municipal administration are
seen to be no match for it. the minis
tiers are reSOrted to as means of daliy-
me
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