Show Those Hallelujah Cranks I The press of the coast generally has I condemned the act of the recent mobbing I of the Salvation Army at Sacramento The Carson ApjuaT stundrf in nobly with I the literary herd and deplores the hoodlumism hood-lumism that would fire sticks spoiled I eggs defunct cats and other missies at 1 an iterant gang of supplicating lunatic I The poignancy of its grief is partially subdued however by the following hardheaded hard-headed practical reflection The Hallelujah Halle-lujah lads and lasses as they call themselves them-selves who tramp about the country singing sing-ing doirgrel hymns of their own composing compos-ing and hurling ungrammatIcal rebukes to sin are miserable parodies upon men and women The cause of Christ is in need of no such half crazy exponents and religion is in no way benefitted by their howling in the streets and yawping in front of stores The women who join these organizations organiza-tions are notoriously weakminded and the semiidiocy which they manifest at the time is generally completed before they have tralveled along with the mountebanks moun-tebanks upon the road The shrewd managers of the Salvation Army are growing rich off the selfhumiliation of the few weak dupes they employ There are now about fifty thousand religious tramps going about the country suffer of Christ ing every privation for the cause and collecting money that goes into the pockets of a few potbellied fatjowled rascals who live in purple and fine linen in London and New York |