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THE LABOR ENQUIRER.
VOLUME 1.-NO. 26.
THE WORLD’S FINAL CRISIS.
A Series of Letters to ‘Workingmen,
The Exclusive Nobility of
Earth.
Ninth Letter,
“You that have tears to shed, prepare to j
shed them now.”
Our last letter was one case in millions, of
state prostitution in the coal fields of Penn
sylvania, Our present letter is one case in
millions, of church prostitution that I saw at
the same time and place, making in part the
personal experience I promised in a recent
letter to give you, that should constitute the
strongest testimony ever presented to .an
> earthly tribnnal of the damning guilt of this
united head of the world’s misiule.
There was at the time of my writing in
the city of Scranton a Christian association,
legalized by state, numbering 800 members,
composed of the wealth, intellect and cream
of the churches and city. The general sup
erintendent was the city missionary, but
above him in supreme authority was Rev.
ri. C. Logan, D. 1)., pastor fit the First Pres
byterian church, the religious mogul andgod
worshipped in all that country. A citizen
of Scranton might believe the pope' fallible
or otherwise, ns he pleased, but if he believed
Dr. Logan might make a mistake, he must
quit the city, anitiWutdd find it to his interest
to be lively about ifr, too.
“BANDS OF HOLINESS”
from this association peddled their com
pound through city and' .country and the
piety, popularity and possibility of an in
dividual was guaged entirely by their stand
ing in this gang. Two of their missionaries
had recently, been gotten out of town hast
ily, on account of trouble with jvomen (one
in a lumber yard). The wives of the chief
lights of this institution were diseased by
their husbands’vice, and met f®r treatment
in the parlors of an abortion hag, kept" by
the association.
Exposure from these victims menaced the
immaculate. Rumor was rife on the streets
that this organization was the “black hole”
of city prostitution and the hot bed of vice
of the country, and a feeling of general in
security overshadowed them. At this crisis
a eounwibof war. was calhd. with Dr. Logan
presiding. The doctor decided that their
emergency demanded the selection of a man
for missionary widely known for truth and
purity, and that he should wrau the associa
tion in the spotless robe of his character, lift
it above criticism to a plane so devout and
holy that the babble oi the rabble never
more would reach it. This victim was toui.d
in the person of H H. Chapin, who in utter
ignorance of the hell before hint, on a salary
of §looper month, entered upon the duties
of his office—an excellent man.
INITIATION.
But, Great God! What is this that meets
him at the threshold ? A spectre from the
bottomless pit, covered with chains and fet
ters to bind him. He flies, appalled, resigns,
and in terror seeks to escape. He cannot.
Every door of hope is barred; every outlook
guarded by these damned infernals, whose
breatli of flame and sulphur he breathes, and
falls like one dead at their feet. “Don’t be
alarmed,” they say, “’tisyour initiation; you
must be pledged to the secrets of our order
before you can be trusted with its work.
Here in this little dark room,, this ‘holy of
holies,’ ostensibly for prayer with penitents,
you must commit adultry with this harlot,
and then we will trust you with our work.
There is no retreat; you will never go out
from here to expose us; serve us, or your
life is not worth a cent. We will report you
to your wife, the church, the world as taken
in the very act. Submit, and none shall ever
knowit. We will make you rich and great;
more powerful and popular than any man
that ever walked our streets, Your scruples
reveal your ignorance; all popular men live
this way; you have been raised in the coun
try, and don’t know it.”
. He yielded, and his commission placed in
his hand ran thus; Rain cheap charity on
the poor, scatter old clothes and food broad
cast, visit the sick witli prayers instead of
potatoes, advertise work and help for desti- 1
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tnte women, and freeze out all you cannot
prostitute, advertise work for “tramps,” but
ridicule and skin when you get them, guard
the sanctity of the Sabbath, fine lone women
who sell cake aud pop-corn to feed their or
phan children, push Sunday law on small
| liquor dealers, pull cheap houses of ill-fame
| for revenue to foot the harlot bills of “the
I little backroom,” but keep three big dens of
! prostitution (which’ have agreed, in view of
j our steady custom, to divide the profits) free
i from disease for association use, keep re
vivals at hallelujah pitch, publish in the
morning dailies, double-headers, the
succuss of the previous day, etc., etc.
WORK BEGUN. /
Immediately new life was infused in every
association work; the papers flamed with
help for the helpless, food for the liuhgry,
clothing lor the naked, rest for the weary,
work for the idle, drugs and delicacies lop
the sick and baiui for the wounded. Flash
on flash went up about the “great awaken
ing.” Revivals were epidemic, conversions
the older of night and day, railroad shops
had noon prayer, street comers, lawn, grove
and forest held an audience, harlots taught
Sunday school, led choirs, puffed the mis
sionary, sang Sankey and Moody songs, got
converted every night and plied their pro
fession on the altar when the ligh s were put
out, doors of chapel and church stood ajar
day and night, public and private houses suc
cumbed alike to tlie general revival want,
; retormatlon washed gutter and alley, the
new missionary was a flaming success; he
ought to be an evangelist, he was an angel,
the air was pregnant with his praise, the
press astonished Itself with the gifts and
graces of the young man, and gray-headed
divinity with bated breatli prophesied of hfs
dazzling future. But, My' Lord! Iu the
thickest pour of this rain of rightousness
the missionary turned up diseased, like his
I brethren. What should be doue witli ids
j wife? She never had spoken; but she
. might. She had ever stood aloof from their
I blasphemous orgies. Siie had not .ifiiliated
I in tier husband’s work; she could not be
1 trusted.
j Couucil of war No. 2 was called in hot
! haste, Dr. Logan in the chair, and the case
| with all its doubts and dangers was laid be
! fore him. “Dear boys,” say j the doctor,
I “never fear. I have managed many such
! cases, and I will this. Leave it to me.”
They did leave it to him, and lie’s got it yet.
| Immediately this arch demon sent this
i message to the missionary’s wife, whom lie
! had never seen: “We all lead this licentious
I lite that your husband does, and you may as
I well know it first as last; aud unless you
! commniit adultry as a pledge of secrecy to
j us, we will divorce you from your husband,
we will blacken your name so you will never
i lift your head in Scrantoi again or bebe
j lieved under oath; your home in your own
i right we will take from you, you shall never
1 be buried beside your only cldld, or meet
j her in heaven when you die. You had bet
| ter yield at once, for this is so filthy you can
not tell it, and if you do, will not be be
lieved. You can’t speak through the press,
we have that ; or through the courts, we
have them also, and it is more than a law
yer’s lite is worth to defend you in a suit
against us; you will never get one to do it.
lIELI, TURNED LOOSE.
Her answer was: “Have you bought the
Almighty? It not, I’ll stand with him.”
| This was the signal for hostilities. Every
association battery opened fire; every tongue
wagged its best, with half-begotten, half
born lies. Slime pits were thicker than in
the vale of Sodom, and filled the atmosphere
with stench to smother Mrs. Chapin. The
j shock was simultaneous, war to the knife
| hilt, and rained on the entire line, and the
j blackest cannonade of hell stormed the cita-
I del of thisbroken hearted woman. Previous
| to the capture of her husband her home was
heaven; peace, plenty and piety dwelt there;
fifteen years of wedded life had known
naught but love; supreme devotion of three
to each other made a cord not easily tl'oken;
none could conceive the breaking. The
doctor knew no ordinary effort could deso
late that home and make it hell, so lie got in
his best work on that job.
A four column article from the doctors
pen now appeared, to blacken her name, and
by a free use of his clerical lash he had ro
, diiced two divinitv poltroons and two thiev
ing coal kings to join their names with ins.
This publication was called by lawyers and
judges the most obscene article they had ever
j seen in print. This paper assured the public
j that ail was peaceful and serene in the
1 Christian association, and no dirt flad ever
“HE WHO WOULD BE FREE, HIMStSLF MUST STRIKE THE BLOW.”
DENVER, COLORADO. SATURDAY. JUNE 9, 1883.
been found about their d6or until the mis
sionary’s wife swept H there (a lady lie
never saw and had nev&- spoken to of their
deviltry). He picked up in detail the entire
bundle of their infamies and laid them on
Mrs. Chapin, except one that he never
touched, and I would not except for the
scripture: “Tilings done in secret shall be
proclaimed from housetop,” and thfe sancti
fied propriety of always fallowing divinity
doctors in their executive acts. The load lie
left behind was the “dear boys,” denuding
their diseased person in the “holy of holies”
and inquiring each of the other, “Brother,
how is the work of the Lord prospering with
you to-day? Keep a stjff upper lip, and if
jour wife kicks, fix bet so sne’ll never speak
again.” '£
Murder as a measure of suppression, by
these devils was openly recommended and
US This ordeal was the’; preface of divorce.
The doctor’s article and the babble of his
gang had convinced Die public that Dear
Brother Chapin’s wife was not congenial
and didn’t sympathize In his work; tied his
hands, clipped his wings, but for which he’d
soar to heaven; marrvSl to one of their kind
he would be a divine wodigy. The doctor
now ordered Mr. to quit his wife and
home, and never moreSross his threshold, on
pain of death. He dtti that, and was next
ordered to swear sonv*iing against his wife
to get a divorce. HMcould not; said his
wife was an excel lea woman; there was
nothing against her. alley suggested several
things; he said, “No: Bie neighbors all know
that’s a He.” But at fast an application was
filed on bogus pretend# supposing the wife
too near dead to ans w#p She did, however,
and thev withdrew, s#ihg It would never do
to face her.. >... .
Thfty.then sent.to.ljlih to a Mormon court
and lioughua cliWip tSTo of paper, stamped,
“DivorwQf to her, supposing
she would then thiuKwierself divorced be
yond remedy. This fiftled. and association
wires revolted: They might go to bed mar
riedand.wake up divorced, and never know
it. NoiheV would not stand it; their hus
bands should'not be Mormons. The doctor
had to take this back, with lies enough on it
to reach to lieaven. He had never thought
of it; the guilty Wife had done it all to hurt
her poor husband; but when his deacon Joe
published the court proceedings he had to
father it and take it home.
Next came anothejypious fusilade. The
doctor has ask,ed divorcp No. 3, in Luzerne
count' court, from which lie had just with
drawn-anu.sepds to Mrs. Chapin, “We have
got Con giiiith for our lawyer to fight you;
vou know he never gains his case by law,
but bv abuse and obscenity. Will you meet
lom?” She replied: "A court room is not
A decent place to enter,but if lam driven
there I shell tell the truth’, though none but
Con and I can stay to hear it.”
That ended that divbfee, and it leaked out
to tlie doctor that Mr. Chapin was frequently
at his house, in territfle anguish of spirit,
broken in health, bapgvupt and 1 desperate,
and that Ids wife stool? hy him as she had
done from the first, and he'was going home
to live again. This frenzied the doctor, and
Mr. Chapin was ordered to take that Mor
mon divorce and fly to parts unknown and
marry on it, or take the consequences.
Chapin, without health, hope, spirit pluck
or pietv, obeyed, went to York. Nebraska,
and picked up a harlot of association brand
and lived with her, rather than longer face
the terrors of Dr. Logan and his gang of
devils.
This experience, a few sketches of which
I give you here, covered years of the black
est pages ever penned in hell. A galling
lire is kept on Mrs. Chapin to this day, to mb
tier still of the home they have so completely
desolated. Years of faultless effort to get a
paragraph of criticism in tlie papers proved
the doctor had them. The editors all said
they ought to do it, they wanted to do it. but
could not stay in Scranton if they did. A
like experience with lawyers proved lie had
the courts, sure enough. Judge Ward, who
took Mrs. Chapin’s case and money, when
pushed to proceed said he might just as well
cut his throat as conduct a case against tiie.se
verv influential men. But a paper did start
in this Sodom, with a hero at its head, and
he gave me leave to say all I pleased.
I published the matter and it was copied
half way across the continent. I said Rev.
I S. C. Logan, Rev. Van Sciioick, Rev. N. vV.
Hellings, J. C. Platt and Henry Rockwell,
! the devils who signed Logan’s obscene sheet,
were murderers, adulterers, thieves, liars,
etc . guiltv of every named and nameless
crime, of which I had fullest proof, signed
my full name and bid them take care of me
if I had wronged the truth in a tissue. As
the second article appeared Logan fled at
lutdniglit in a snow storm, for Europe, to
stay till the matter died out. Every effort
to draw a word from this crew was made,
but failed; they were speechless. I put this
complaint into two sessions of the Presby
tery and saw it read by six of their number.
I made complaint of Yan Schoick to two
presiding elders, and kept a continuous fire
of this horror into the ears of the church for
a year, and all by their silence with one ac
cord declared that these crimes are their
standard and their piety is abreast with it.
This ordeal weighed the church and Chris
tian association as accurately as a balance
weighs a pound of merchandise.
This letter is too long, but contains only a
tithe of the history. „ „
Mrs. P. C. Hunger.
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