| Show A KICKING BISHOP SEVERAL papers have made favorable comments on some remarks made by bishop bowman of the methodist church while attending a meeting of ministers in chicago they were discussing in lively style the eight hour labor movement and bishop bowman was requested to express his opinion on the subject in the course of a few brief remarks on the prevailing strike in the southwest he said if they could get Jay Gould by the neck and kick him around four or five blocks and not quite kill him I 1 think it would be a very good thing and one oae that would tend to simplify the labor problem materially teri ally it if this is a christian method of correcting an evil we fail to see it in that light the sight of a Meth methodist odst bishop holding the wall street capitalist by the be scuff of the neck and kicking him along the street would not be very edifying to pious people nor strictly in accordance with christian principles and what effect such episcopal violence would have upon the labor question does not appear to the naked eye one of the essential qualifications of a bishop according to the instructions of paul to timothy and to titus is that he must be no striker and 91 not a brawler and if bishop bowman was to knock out oat jay gould in four rounds or around four blocks it is not at all probable that the hours of labor would woula be in anywise reduced that wages would go up that capital would come down or that striking stalking the railroad king would prevent or put down strikes on railroads or elsewhere A kicking bishop would not be a corrective example to kicking laborers whether the bishop meant to be jocular or in earnest his remarks which have attracted so much attention were wrong in principle and evil 1 in e effect hect and only exceeded in folly b by V the commendatory comments which have been made upon them by bv the press brer s to pander to the clamors of unthinking people if pugilistic dignitaries of an aggressive sect can offer no better remedies for the serious evils that in menace entice the country than the bowman in an medicine it will certainly get no better very fast |
