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Show An Evangelist Demagogue. A WORSHI PL-ESS Sabbath will be the portion of a Methodist church in Salt Lake if the Rev. Dr. Al-britton Al-britton is allowed full elbow room for that attempt. He is a fit successor of the Rev. Dr. Iliff only in one respect as a political preacher. Both Iliff and A Mtrii t-.n o,.,. iii. :.. i.. ..lvii ic cinivt: in monumental egotism. The difference between them lies in one continually harping on something he knows of, or thinks he has knowledge of. That one is Dr. Iliff. The other exploits any and all subjects that he reads up from proceedings pro-ceedings in congress, or from any other oth-er source that provides ammunition for a . splurge. He is Dr. A'lbritton. He, too, has the advantage over Dr. Iliff in the friendship of indolent reporters, ever ready to receive "hot stuff" with out going arter it. The less fortunate Iliff, for a long time, could get but one paper in the city to exploit his oratory. Editorial mention was tnade last week regarding the complaint of Rev. Dr. Lorimer of the Madison Avenue Bantist church. New York. He lamented lament-ed the attack of secularists and took a gloomy view of evangelical' religion in the United States, even predicting that "in fifty years wo will have no Sabbath." Sab-bath." It was argued in the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Catholic that the secularists had sufficient grounds for complaint (against the -ministers, and: that if a j worshipless Sabbath .and empty churches followed, the ministers alone are to blame. It is such preachers as Dr. Albritton with their "popular sermons" who are bringing destruction to evangelical religion re-ligion and driving the workingman out of the church. It is such sermons as that on immigration, delivered last Sunday, which breeds resentment and hatred among the classes in a community. commu-nity. What does Dr. Albritton know j about immigration in its relation to the state that should invoke the shadows shad-ows of departed presidents to .smile upon this gospel-smith? What right has he, as a minister of the gospel, to insult the two races which have added . more to America's glory as a nation CllJ.1 fill nthU'c ,w,,K,-,l T ... ....... uw.... lUniuiiiru. j. no any better citizen than the German and Irish emigrant, to whom he contempt-oilsly contempt-oilsly alludes? Think of. an utterance utter-ance like this from a Christian pulpit: "There are clangers ten thousand times greater to this country through immigrants immi-grants from Italy, through ihe beer-guzzling. beer-guzzling. Sabbath-breaking Germans, the dangerous element of Ihe Green Isle, than through the immigration of tlie Chinese:" That sentence disc-overs this "evangelist's" "evan-gelist's" shallowness and prejudice in one lump. It shows that his inclinations inclina-tions bend toward a political vocation, but his imperfect knowledge of government gov-ernment and its effects would make him another Burchard to the political party taking him up. None, however, would dare trust him to enunciate their political po-litical principles, except it be the A. P. A., to which he rightfully belongs, even if he be not a member. No in vitation being extended Dr. Albritton Al-britton to take an active hand in politics, perforce he must remain a preacher, a sensational preacher, and revel in topics her knows nothing about. What Dr. Albritton said hist Sunday Sun-day (as appeared in the Tribune next morning) was tantamount to a wish for Chinese rather than Irish or German immigration. Is it possible that there j is another man in Salt Lake who could utter such sentiments without being rebuked by a race of white people? peo-ple? Does this evangelist know what his sensational talk would lead to if carried out by congress? There are in China something like J j , j.nnr, iiium ui mem toning for miserable wages, living in a manner in which an American beggar should not be asked to live. If the exclusion law is not renewed, thousands and tens of thousands of these Asiatics may be expected to land upon the Pacific coast within the next five years, ready to slave for almost any pittance, ready to live in any depth of filth and squalor, bringing their Asiatic language-, their Asiatic clannishness. their Asiatic customs cus-toms and their Asiatic vice. , This is the element which Dr. Albritton Albrit-ton would welcome rather than "the beer-guzzling German and the dangerous danger-ous Irishman." This t tl-io .loec t.-lm w ould take the place of honest American Ameri-can labor, male and female. Shame upon such an evangelical demagogue as the Rev. Dr. Albritton. Is it any wonder that there are empty churches in New York? Will it cause surprise j if one is soon found in Salt Lake City? |