Arizona republican., 1920-08-25

duty. If Mir. Raley's statement is to be taken at it's face value, each minister should be given the franchises of his congregation in bunch so that by one vote they may insure the sacredness Of the ballot and the righteousness of the proposal to which they give their suf- frages. But dis idea is ahhorrent to the lover of liberty. It is subversion of the first principles of free govern ment.
 But MT. Raley says that editors make suggestions to voters, and he asks why the good people," by which we take it he means preachers" should be denied this privilege. We can ans- wer him. They should be denied this privilege for the soundest reason ever put forth by free people to guard the sanctity of it's government. They should be denied this privilege because it's granting means the alignment of church and state; because it means that religious conviction should be the mafnspirng Of political action; because 1t takes away freedom of thought in religious matters as well in political affairs, and attempts to substitute reli- gious opinion fer political ideals: be- cause in short. 1t declares that the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of earth is the same thing, and that the Iaborer in the vineyard should also traffic with Mammon in the dull sea- son. We allow the editor the privilege Of attempting to carry suggestions among his readers because he does it as politics. and we refuse the privilege to the minister because he does it as being moral or religious. Let MT. Raley forget his place as minister, and then we cheerfully assent to all his proposals, despite the fact that the manner in which he sends this certain paragraph is unseemly. About whom the less said the better" Why. MT. RaIey? Politically all men are as good as you, and may use their privileges as they see fit. They may be as wrong $ you, but why take from them a right for which you yourself are up in arms?
 In the next paragraph MT. Raley's courtesy is again apparent. He tells us that the editor has fallen into the same old bunk that has always been whined out from the politicians. the ward boss, the saloons, the gamblers, the evil dooers of all stripes" Strange language from one to whom this same editor has opened his columns in a spirit of fair play. There are other merit an answer, but space forbids- We shall remember them, however, and do them justice at the first convenient moment.
 Now we come to article 'four." Here MT. Raley destroys the force of HIS enllFe Let us reAO. Fourth, you say that the fX' appears before the names of those who are no toriously immoral and of proven in efficiency. We may have made mis- takes Oh! then your assertion at the opening of your letter. MT. Raley, that ! no suggestions were made in the list IS not entirely true. You have made an- other mistake" The names were marked but in marking them you may not have been as careful as you should! The marks did not appear through the error of the printer There
 was reason, or you would not return | to the subject. Farther down in your letter you convict the editor of incon- sistency. Why should not we convict you of something worse?
 Again: "We have no proof that any of the marked men are notoriously inn
 moral, but will say that we are re- | marking one or two and may change our opinion as often as we have reason | to do so." Here is another hint of the | horns and the cloven hoof. In fact, the more carefully we read Mir. Raley's | letter the more we are inclined to be- | lieve that the editor was right. we
 will be very inconsistent politically" l What Does political truth vary any more than religious truth? Can a course of conduct be righteous today and evil tomorrow? Is Truth relative, | and does it change with the years? MT .Raley insinuates all this-but per | haps he is mistaken" again.
 In his answer to the fifth proposition
 Mir. Raley. opens the paragraph with an
 assertion that shall be clipped and pasted carefully in our scrap book. l Answering a statement of the editor | that discrimination is made against members of the Mormon and Catholic | churches, MT. Raley says
 Personally, we have occasionally been called liberal by some of our | friendsi"
 What a de0'o -e+'o-- for the year of