Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1907 — No Polilics in Moral Uplift. [ARTICLE]

No Polilics in Moral Uplift.

The moral nplift in West Hammond caused by the raiding of a number of palaces of uniquity/ and which certain Democratic papers claimed was due to the efficiency of Democratic officers, was of short duration, evidently nothing more than a bluff, for the Hammond papers again announce that all the evil doors are now back at their old haunts and that no farther effort is being made to put them out of business. Observation has caused us to believe that neither of the great political parties is often of itself responsible for rigid enforcement of moral laws. Either the officers themselves have a high regard for duty not restricted by party affiliations or they are acting under the direction Of a civic league that is non-partisan. To endeavor to give credit to either party for the cartailing of vice, as a general proposition, would also involve tbe claim that only really good people belonged to the party whose exponent were making the claim. This would make the other party the harbinger of all the wicked. We believe political dis ferences are founded on the prob lems of governmental policy, that neither party has a monoply of all tbe good nor is afflicted with all the bad men in the country. A city like Hammond will have many a moral wave before it arrives at the lily-white moral denliness, and the parties, be they individuals or organizations, republican or democrats, who are trying to clean np that or any other city, are deserving of credit loftier than political ambition.