Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-02

the Newark Evening Star of Friday
night. I plead guilty to the charge.
1 have no apology to offer for my po-
sition. Not only am | making a Ill
rect bid for the church vote, but for
the workingmen's vote and the bust
nessmen's vote. I am not asking for
the votes of the gamblers or the
'black-legs' or any other disreputable
characters; but I am asking every
decent citizen of Essex county to vote
for me for assemblyman.
I'm the display article in the Star,
a part of the letter which / sent to
the ministers of Essex county is at
tached to a letter sent out by the
Citizens Committee of One Hundred.
/ am not at all familiar with this or
g~anization, nor have I ever met or
correspondent with any of its officials,
so far as I know; but / am perfectly
confident that these gentlemen are
engaged in a thoroughly sincere fight
for civic decency in Newark.
For ten years I have been max
ing an appeal in every part of the
United States in, behalf of working
men, and 1 have been making this
appeal because of an experience Of
twenty-five years in New Yorks
tenements. 1 know the problems OF
the workers, and, frankly, / have
been trying to line up the church in
their behalf. 1 am far more con-
cernedA about the church going to
the workingman than I am about
the workingman going to church.
The church is simply a means to an
end. The people should be the end
of our endeavors. This is the doc
trine that 1 have been preaching ma
tionally for ten years. The only rea-
son that l have entered the political
fight this year is because l e a
chance to speak this same message
in the political field. If I can secure
a square lea for little children in
industry. for women in the indus
trial field, for underpaid and over
worked men, I am quite as willing
to secure it through a political CAM
paign as 1 am through a religious
campaign. I am tired of a maudlin
sympathy which expresses itself
merely by shedding a few weak tears
and then quits the job. If any mans
religion cannot stand the test of a
political campaign he might better
throw it overheard. From what L
know of the churches of Essex coun-
ty as a whole, including Catholic,
Jewish and Protestant, and of the
ministers and layInen who constitute
these churches, l believe that they
stand for civic decency of the saner
sort.
eff Jesus Christ never summoned
the policemen to enforce the gospel
with a club I have a very distinct
recollection that He n time took a
whip of cords and drove the gam
blers from the temple. If He never
went Summing, He denounced, in the
most fearless fashion, the people who
were responsible for Stun conditions.
Decent Citizens Must Solve Problems.
Comfortable pIatitudes will new
solve community problems. They will
be solved only as the decent citizens
of Essex county, in the spirit of the
broadcast democracy, r willing to
fight for them. To quote from a now
famous speech of Theodore Roose-
welt:
1.-THE leader Of the time being, who
ever he may be, is but an instrument
to be used until broken and then to
be cast aside; and If he is worth his
salt he will care no more when he is
broken than a soldier cares when he
is sent where his life is forfeit in
order that victory may be won. In
the long fight for righteousness the
watchword for all of us is to spend
and be spent. 1t is of little matter
whether any one man fails or sue
ceeds, but the cause shall not fail,
for it is the cause of mankind. We
here in America hold in our hands
the hope of the world. the fate of the
coming years; and shame and dis
grace will be ours if in our eyes the
light of high resolve is dimmed, If we
trail in the dust the golden hopes of
men. Sincerely yours. ;,
CHARLES STELZLE.'
Bishop Edwin S. Lines was asked
today what he thought of the leagues
attempt at pulpit publicity.
Il have received no notice." he said
"If 1 had, I should make a statement:
but otherwise 1 hardly think I ought