The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-25
stranger to all honor, an enemy of all

stranger to all honor, an enemy of all
decency.
This person who arrayed neighbor
against nefghbor, employer against
labor, squirted this city full of venom.
SANDER, abuse. suspicion and down
right vicfousness, came with what Gre
dentials? Who is he?
Why, had he come here as a vaude.
Vile actor, had he come here as a lee
turer either in the Coliseum or on the
Chautauqua platform, had he come
here as an editor, had he come here
as street corner haranguer, had he
come here as an accredited minister
OF the gospel permanently to fill pull
pit, had he come here as a speaker
before the Commercial club or a fra
ternal organization, and slandered Or
CARNATIONS. churches and individuals
as he did in the tabernacle. he would
have been tarred, feathered and rid
den out of this city on a rail! Not
even the method of putting his cow
ardly body and his dirty tongue into
the custody of policeman while he
made his getaway after dark, would
have been accorded him
Did the fact that he brazenly and
basely debased and debauched the re-
better? Did the fact that he used the
cloak of piety to cover his itching
palm make the itch any less? Too
bad that somebody in this city didn't
have the courage to make a practical
application of the Christ's example
when He took a whip and dashed the
money-changers from the temple be-
cause they were prostituting the re-
ligion of God by using His name in
order to coax, threaten and wrench
money from the sincere but credulous
and thereby filling their own peck
cts.
He talked about not being in the re-
vival business for money. Well, If
this person is in the work because he
really wants to uplift mankind and
save souls, why doesn't he go to work
in the missions of Chicago. where the
laborers are few. the pay is small but
the need is great?
Why doesn't he offer his services to
Hull House?
Why doesn't he go to the Inasmuch
Mission in Philadelphia and accept
service under Tony Bddle, getting
$1,000 a year for working in the slum
districts of Philadelphia? Why doesn t
he go down on the East Side in New
York, where Jacob Riis and Mrs.
Isreals are having hard fight to in
still decency and courage in the men
and virtue in the women. Why
doesn't he go to Washington, D. c.,
and help the Alley improvement asso-
citation in it's uplifting work?
The proof of religion is its result.
What has been the result of this char
latan's billingsgate? Compare your
city today with what it was before he
came Neighbors at outs. friendships
severed, business distracted, factories
disorganized men and women going
around with their hearts full of ha-
tired, their minds saturated with
SANDER and suspicion, their fellow
man the object of abuse; enmity, dis
cord, strife. instead of harmony, mu-
nicipal pride and Christian fellowship
Isn't it about time the people of
Richmond have done with mounte-
banks and get back into the paths of
sanity and neighborliness and frater-
nalism, the treadng Of which has
made this one of the best places to
establish a home and rear family?
Isn't it time the next time a man
comes here to teach morality that he
at least be required to give his creden-
tials-to give as good reference as he
would be compelled to give if he
wanted to borrow 500 or rent a
house?
T. RE,NNETT GORDON