The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-11-27
From OHIO.
To the Editor Of the woREISeNAN's Advocate
ORFRIIN Nov l6 IS75

To the Editor Of the NOREINGMAN's ADVOCATE
OBERLIN, Nov. 10, 1873.
Mr.. EDITOR God moves in mystic
riUus way, to perform his wonders 1t is
not 5he perfected greenback that is killed,
by hurling Ohio against it it is, We con
fess, Oberlin has done it, but it is Oberlin,
modern OberiiH Do not fail to make the
distinction, for they are unlike as light
and darkness. Ancient Oberlm opposed
usury, while the modern is built upon it,
since her alliance with the money lords,
until one of her old deacons, now no more,
affirmed. it is said, he could, he thought,
glorify God by taking fifty per cent. inter
est per annum, and do it benevolently,
and he was, apparently the most Iovely Of
upon his countenance. ObeIlm, without
knowing it, has been using a boomerang,
and 50 Of all such who oppose the green
back, and may all its enemies be routed as
she will be. Not Oberin, but her misrsp-
resentatiues Let her be Purged, redeemed,
and saved to humanity. We love Oberlin
aud hate the evil in her councils. Her
pressing Of God into the service of the
money power we hate. II is not Oberhn
but her degenerate sons, ordained by cap
ital We call upon her, as did Elijah Il
old. If the Lord be God, serve him, and
. q ,,F
mammon in the name Of God, and all that
is sacred and holy, is what We object to
Let there be no more haltlng between two
opinions.
1t is affirmed, and we think with truth,
that the capitalists OF New York city sent
us a leader as early as 1885, and his sup
port came from the capitalists of New
York and Boston combined, it is believed,
and he never lacked for money apparently.
He had but to make his wishes known,
and they were fully met. 1t was also said
Of him, not very many years since, that
he paid the largest tax of any individual
in Oberlin They knew their man and
made first class investment. When men
are treated as our venerable ruler, Cover
nor Allen, and his truthful and powerful
companion Carey was, it is time for naked
truth To assert itself, III Oberlin. II Is writ
ten in the book you pretend to revere
Thou shalt not speak evil Of the ruler OF
thy people, even when it exists, appears to
/ be the sense
/ We have to strike at the bulwarks Of
usury. 1t was sad Of the South, her
churches are the bulwArks Of slavery, bat
1 here, at least. Ger colleges and theolnglca
seminaries are the power behind th'
churches. according to our observation
Cowles. Of the Cleveland Leader, Is al
Oberlin man, as was Hudson before him
and Oberlin rejoiced in them both, in theil
iniquities On it does her soul good sh
wrings her hands ior JOY, and her face l
all smiles at the Leaders work. Never II
our hearing has she, or her minions, ut
tered word against the DAILY Leader, an
it is found in all our houses, as We Nigh
say. i. e.. in all that can afford the e1
pense 1t is the paper, par excellence
and our own Oberlin Weekly Nsirs, Obel
Inns organ, is not in its character one VIII
better. Such is the pahulum on which v
live. and papers such as the ADvoCATl
Indianapolis Sun, ,Greenback Herald, Tam
of Cleveland, and all of their class, al
I I'll ahv,f he ~
= faithful, although We have done our a
most, for years TO introduce them. VI
y people appear to have more faith, con
t dence in their religious teachers than
e their own senses, snd why not, since th'
y are perfect. and all that is good and holy
= ;, They have entrusted them with the kee
d ING Of their souls OberlIn is terrlb
n afraid Of Roman Catholicism Of cours'
l. She has apparently extracted from 1t eve
> element that can serve her Perfectl'
serves her instead of infallibility. The
= is a change of name merely. If the pow
y, of Rome Is stronger anywhere than I
er power of Oberlin where she bears ru
,o we are sorry. We are not dealing in sla
- and slander now but in solemn, max
truth, and it is for the healing OF the I
T. ton we utter it; for the nations htetor
en- is IN peril through Oberlin. We regard !
e. as much of traitor to liberty in her o
on GERS as Benedict Arnold Was, and It woI
:. be treason in us, uneer the circumstanc
IL not to expose it. We regard Ober
on through her officers as having endorsed
Of the iniquity of the late canvass to acco
- plish her ends, and those ends are destr
tive to our entire industries Of this
'"s have no doubts. We have, in our
1m perience, never known the Democr'
ay party to descend to any thing lower
:. meaner or more false to accomplish d
ends, than did the so-called Republic
me in the recent cal vass We have abund
encouragement, for God Is on our >
he Let us work Now is the time. l