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Show AN t'NC'A I.I.ED "OB UtRMOV, Dr. Hamlin is the dominee who preached the funeral sermon over the remains of Secretary Windom. There was plenty In the life and work of the dead statesman for the reverend gentleman gentle-man to eulogize without going out of his way to perpetrate a stump speech upon the mourners, among which were the president and his cabinet, lint Dr. Hamlin is an enemy to silver and he could not resist the temptation to put himself on record as such at a time and on an occasion when it was positively posi-tively indecent to do so. That, however, how-ever, is too often the case with political preachers. And so the good doctor sandwiched in his funeral remarks a few words about "honest money" and "sound currency," and a diatribe against free coinage. What made his oration more offensive oven than it otherwise would have been is the fact that Dr. Hamlin is the pastor of Mr. Harrison's church aud therefere supposed to know something about the latter' views on the question. Of course the conclusion is wrong as the president's relations to his pastor are noc political. But so was the interpretation inter-pretation given to the words of the unfortunate un-fortunate Burchard all wrong and yet it was used by the euemies of Mr. Blaine with ruinous effect. 'The silver question is now pending before congress and the president presi-dent will deal with it in his own way when it conies to him for oflicial action. There is no excuse for a minister in turning a funeral address ad-dress into a political speech, especially when it might be tortured into a compromise compro-mise of the president, who happens to be a confidential friend of the pastor and a member of his church. |