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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1896)
5" ,I" iK! ''Sgr'SSV'V CT7-: V.V'3 ir&iMSS THB COURIER. - 'f trs,arorsr?i- - - ------MMMiiiMMnmmimmmn rrx ttk n n ttm n cttk trn. xn xnx n, tt rTT yTTK TOi xTOi TOx f fr jRjl U4 WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS : In view of the outcry made by prot estants against popish interference in this country's affairs it will bo interest ing to see if the Catholics say anything concerning General Ballington Booth's recall to England by his father, the or ganizer of tho Salvation Army move ment. No one on this side appears to know why ho is recalled and perhaps Burmises are not worth paying much at tention to, but General Booth senior i3 said to object to tho rapid Americaniz ation of the order in this country and to be jalous of his own son, and on that son's return to England he is said to have in readiness a man thoroughly English and who will 6tay English, to send as tho general in command of tho American Salvationists. If Father Booth thinks he can keep the Salvation army of America anglicised and sub ordinate to the authority of a British officer ho would better study the history of Geo. IV and his failure to keep Amer ica a colony. The organization of the Salvation army is as strong as that of the Catholic church. The principle of obedience to superiors is one of tho chief elements of its strength. It is a close copy of tho British army in its hierarchy, promotion, duties of officers, and size of companies. This model, per fected by centuries of experiment on real battlefields, marches, camps and garrisons, was adopted by General Booth and modified as far as tho real object of the organization required. He retained military discipline, obedience to a su perior officer, officer's titles, a uniform etc This perfect organization, together with the love that all crude nature has for display and the also universal but much fainter love of righteousness that humanity has, seem to be the reasons for the success of the army. An organ ization at present strong and potenti ally much stronger should not be con trolled by any one, however good, resid ing in London, England. If he be good he is first of all devoted to his own coun try and thus entirely unfit to control the movements and policy of a religious military organization in another coun try. If he be a bad English citizen he would bo a bad American citizen. In either case foreign dictatorship is de testable and Americans will not have it. If General Booth Sr., attempt it it will probably result in destroying the official relations between the armies of England and America. Their spiritual fraternity would not be affected b the severance of official ties any more than it was when the Episcopal church of America decided to render no tithes or service to the church in England and that all the authority was resident in America Get up on top of a high mountain, Mr. Newbranch, and look back on the road the race has trod. After the first glimpse of the lonesome toiler at the foot of the mountain, humanity climbs in groups, which grow larger as it ascends in this order family, tribe, nation. For several centuries perhaps a nation will be Been slipping backward. The beast which it is supposed to have destroyed has been fed to fatness and the nation wallows and rolls downward. Can you not see that the descent is al ways stopped before it has reached the foot? Some CamilleDeemoulins steadies himself against a 'rock, and urges the people to pull themselves up by the nearest support, mass themselves to gether and bear down the weakened creatures who press against them. And the people whose hearte burn with the injustice and wrongs they have suffered, start up the hill again, walking over the bodies of those stronger than they only because they stand on higher ground. Since the war of the rebellion there has been nothing to make men melo dramatically heroic and it does look as if these times were worse than those twenty-five or thirty years ago. But we are too near to judge. Small things look large and large things are blurred. Nothing exactly like America has ever been tried before, nor that for so very long, but "all history teaches" that if this experiment fail something better will take its place. I mean all history from the first beast-man that could be called aman to tho present, teaches that we are marehing upward. As bad as France is today it is better than pre revolutionary France. English politics were never so free from corruption as today. There was a time in tho Fif teenth century when the Catholic church had Alexander VI for its spirit ual head. How impossible such a pope would be today. The Catholic church is the most conservative and self-satis-tied of any religions or civil organization that I know of. Of course all churches have a complacent air. Otherwise con verts might bo fewer. But Luther dis couraged reform insido tho Catholic church. The protestants by rebelling, increased the rigidity of the church which has remained practically the same from that day to this. Luther was only one of a number of churchmen 'ho were attempting at that time to reform the church from the inside. His entire withdrawal stopped reform. In the last ten years the priests and bishops of this church have begun an aggressive crusade against intemperance. Devoted but isolated Catholic leaders have preached and practised self-denial before but never with such unanimity and vigor has the church in Italy.France Germany and the United Stales taken hold of a purely moral question. The times are medicinal or they could not effect a body still under the lethargic in fluence of tho draught held to its lips by the Middle Ages. Politics in the United States are in a bad way. Municipal city government has been a fester in all the cities of the country excepting in those inland New England towns in which the population and the church membership list coin cided. City councils are a little more careful to cover up evidences of corrupt ion than they were twenty-five years ago. They feel that the large stupid but exacting eye of the public is upon them. They do not commit the robberies they used to, not because they are better, but because they are watched. There are sturdy men in the United States and in the house of representatives. It is scarcely fair to quote Daniel Webster, to show the degeneracy of those who succeeded him. You might as well scorn all literature that preceded or came after Shakespere. These God-men are hors du concours. They prove nothing except that once in three hun dred years or 60 God himself makes a man and breathes genius into him. Leaving out Webeter, .the men of the the day will match any name in your "good old days" list. Conkling, John Sherman, Grant, Tilden, Whitney, Evarts, Lodge, Cleveland, Plumb of Kansas and our own W. J. Bryan are namos that future generations will quote as great and honest statesmen. Finally, discouragement is foolish bo long as America produce men of honesty ability and courage of which yourself, Mr. T. E. Wing and the editor of this paper are examples. Another thing, history teaches very few specific things. It is unsafe to conclude that 0ERKS UVlUBER tyto WMi C Wholesale and Retail. 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