Show SERIOUS SITUATION I IN NEW YORK There Is a serious situation dis- dis disc dis disclosed c closed In New YOlk Voik at one of o f our Sleat national conventions When men and women selected from pal t leadership and representing much of or the bitter bIller element of ei- ei eI ev every cry ery state gather In national con I fel ence and aud are so torn lorn with re- re religious re religious discord that thel the cannot agree and when 1 the presiding of- of officers of officers of the com convention disturbed over the rumblings o ot of a pent up pent hatred are afraid to open the sal gal to the ticket holders fearing all an the time has when the people generally must be- be begin begIn be begin gin to consider whether hether the na- na nation nation na nation tion is about to be engulfed by the of all human passIons re passions re religious fanaticism Good men and v w omen w with Ith high Ideals disposed to be neIghborly lund and tolerant can be trans trans- transformed transformed formed Into bigots when hen religious differences are pIa ed upon an and made the basis or of conflicts I 1 is dyed blood I led ed with the deeds and misdeeds perpetrated lit In the name of religious zeal with its mixed population population tion made up in gleat part of ot Im- Im v has brought Its J prejudices and religious religion Iea leav age is no place for the fostel- fostel ting ng of those old world orld animosities It If this country becomes the bat bat- battie battie tie ground on which the Ibe old wounds wound of ol antagonism are to be opened the casualties s w it ill II make mako the world turn aghast and the stigma upon the na tion will In be worse orse than that upon RussIa In Its turning from the stab stab- stabilizing stabilizing pow power er en of Christianity While the manifestation is dIS- dIS disturbing dis disturbing and the possibilities be- be vond be-vond ond calculating we e have faith that the overl overwhelming helming body of the p peo- peo peo people o- o opie pie cannot be draw dra drawn dran n into an liou agia-liou lion Hon 1 which bleh will Ill dh divide Ide the country Know flourished nourished and became a serious menace but hut It fell fir if Its 0 own n weight HIght Almost over overnight night after assuming assuming great proportions tons it sank ank out into Inlo oblivion It Is a reflection on oui form o of gO to assunte assume that wrongs cannot be corrected except by mob mob- mob L richings and floggings In which the wild lid excesses of or the mob are allowed to pla pia are dIrect challenges to the form of govern sovern merit ment which we hall hail as glorious v he we sing America and the Star Star Spangled Banner Danner I |