Show individual AND CONCUR CONCIS FED AC 1111 TION ON tile the springfield mass republican referring to the recently issued address to the clergy of urging their concerted action as an ministers minister to abolish aten biennial lal elections la in that state declare that the ministers who issued the address are out oat of place and adds it in ia the privilege of the individual clergyman to mix in politics politic as he pleases if he can see his way clear to that end but when a body of cler clergy Y men come forth and join foin in an appeal to other pulpits in behalf of a certain course of political action they need to beware of of the mightiness of the moral side of I 1 their heir cause for if there is one thing of which the people of this country are jealous it la Is concerted clerical interference in affairs of state the divorce of the two is the product of long struggle in the worlds history and it cannot now be considered lightly ligh ily the right ot of an individual cle clergy rily man or laburch officer or member to mix in politics or business bu atness toss is as inalienable as a the right of any other coulsn to do the same thing althou although gb there sire afe bigoted people who raise objection w believer a clergyman or church member opens his bis mouth on other sub jeo a than those usually termed tons loue it to Is when a clergyman clergy man attempts attempted to exercise his bis ecclesiastical influence over the political sets acta ot 61 his coD grega aion that the churchman is IB wron 9 the republican neatly deatly draws the he line of distinction between what la Is the act of a man am aa a citizen and that of a man inan as a church official A citizen who labors in a church capacity for the temporal and spiritual salvation of his hie fellow beings does not thereby hereby close his bis lips or tie his bands in politics or any other calling that falls to his lot BB as a citizen |