Show CHANCE TO 01 MORAL what mcewen says about san francisco atmosphere OF VILENESS the one case of dr brown is tut but th the continuation of oe a series of In decencies thrown into the view of the youth of both sexes war talk australia would set up as a r republic in gate case ot of war irish want canada correspondence tribune I 1 san francisco jan 3 1896 As an a community we have no chance to be moral 0 m 1 our minds are continually continual ay forced t to 0 dwell I 1 on P phases eases of 0 wickedness with which church people and the newspapers seem to be at liberty to discus publicly and treely freely but which arc not to be mentioned in mixed company by the worldly and well bred scarcely had tho the excitement over the vile old men at north deitch beach abated and the mothers of san francisco ceased to hold mass meetings to debate the doings doing of 0 the abysmal dreches wre ches than price the publisher of the A P A magazine was arrested tor for carrying on a trade in a sort eort of 0 literature that tha t may rot not be described As brother price has been warring against rome and her abominations the mothers of 0 san francisco find and the brothers and f sisters aisters 0 the protestant communions comm unions op appeared pe arof to take but a 2 languid interest in ills his ca cue e the matter ot of his guilt or innocence seemed to be secondary to the question w A hether or not nol the ardful catholics had employed detectives r and nd talen a hand in hla his exposure then came the brown se scandal andal a thunderclap that the rev bev dr brown pastor of the first congregational church I 1 Is a good man few doubt except that great horde who have nn an instinctive distrust ot of the righteous and rejoice in their downfall men everywhere are discussing the painful affair it Is the general opinion ehl that the doctor made a mistake to pay V 0 hush bush money to old urn davidson davedson Dav ldson and a greater one in taking back t to his own hono home the young woman inkot involved ved pape especially As it Is known to him that the she tried to sell her story for 1100 1000 to the chronicle of course as a in matter atter of prudence it Is just as well to have it a young female of 0 that kind under ones eye arid and influence as to surrender her to ones enemies nevertheless it would took look better were the d doctor 0 actor 81 ahn n t ply to take hla his stand on the declaration of his innocence and let his persecutors I 1 ors do their worst Never nevertheless theles s allowances 1 low owannes ances ar are to be made ro for r dr brown this Is 1 not the first time his christian character has been attacked lie he narrates liow low once lie he visited what was supposed a oil to be the sickbed sick bed of 0 one of his ind lady Y parishioners who has ever rince strange to say been allowed to sit under his pres preaching ching when she ur expectedly threw herself into hla hia Ms arms covered him with kisses and then had a a witness of tho the scene appear dr brown did not submit to blackmail bInck ma A in that hat case further his predecessor I 1 in the pulpit the rev dr barrows left led a tearful fearful record behind him ile he was waa one of the most eloquent preachers but it was proved that his private life was as riotous as that of the mot reek reck less man about town in justice to barrows it should 1 bi said that he died in la an eastern lunatic asylum riot not long go find and it may have been that his wickedness Rick edness zas was the result of insanity notwithstanding withstanding ot dr L browns retention of 0 miss overman in his home notwithstanding the ahr singular of sirs mrs davidsons accounts counts of tile ills confessions fe fes and not notwithstanding wit ding the li ari machers excessive talkativeness under ai r the circumstances most men of year Years experience and eb charily arity I 1 think are disposed lapow li ti in believe him to be just I 1 what R blat he says he la 18 the blameless victim t i m of a conspiracy of bad women it Is natural that IL a clergyman should be 1 very e much more excited than ai a layman cwi accused as 83 he has been it Is part and 11 a high part of his profession at 1 obligations to lead a pure life his reputation for or chastity Is as important to him as tile the same reputation Is 1 to a woman roman in losing it lie he ir lees ses everything being a man and privileged to an all intimacy with women denied I 1 to other men men judging him by themselves art prone to listen credulously to tales that it if true apan ruin to him remembering bering this it li Is merely fair to give an accused clergyman cler clem ryman man the benefit of ever every y doubt yet as aa dr brown Is not want ing ill in th the 0 wisdom of this world orld it mut must by y this time bo be borno borne in up upon him that the me rule rula of confessor and comforter con comforter forter to a distress Is not suited to him it Is 1 his fate fata to inspire elther either a fatal wislon or a 0 desire to black blackmail mall henceforth ho he will act sagely if when ullen a veiled and weeping female enters his y he be shall instantly telephone tor for his HI wife or when ho he lo Is called to r some ome suffering lady 0 of f his hock flock ho he shall take sirs mrs brown with him indeed it would he well were all clergymen to pursue this course or arrange to give spiritual consolation in pairs |