There is to be a monster anti-Bennett
law demonstration in Milwaukee to-day.
A republican newspaper tells tjuay
that “only the dead are privileged to
meet infamous accusations by dignified
silence.”
The Milwaukee Protestants are moving
in a phalanx more or less solid to support
the Bennett law. It is not so much that
they care for the law. as that they like to
see it give offense to the German Catholics
and Lutherans. The Bennett law would
never have lieen heard of if it had not
been advertised. It would have slept
among the still-born laws that are passed
by unwisdom and ignored by the com
mon sense of the people.
The judges of the ..upreme court should
seek cover now. The clergy of Milwaukee
are moving to call a monster convention
to fulminate a decision that will declare
the supreme court decision in the Bible
case the poorest kind of poor law. The
judges are unmoved, however. Having
decided the law as they believe it to lie,
and in accordant*; w ith sound legal prin
ciples, having satisfied their judgments,
their consciences, and the enlightened
spirit of the age, and the truest idea of
religious freedom, they can regard the
muruiurings of sectarianism with the
calmest indifference.
