The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-05-27
I,0flSENEEN AGAIN.

LOOSENESY AGAIN.
The Journal fills the air with epithets
and bad names because the ADVANCE
criticized the way in which Messrs.
Thompson and Walker finished up the
business OF their Offices. It says: =
Does he near to say that Thompson s
books and accounts were in such Il bad
shape that it took Thompson three
weeks to get ready for settlement?
He means to say that both the Treas
urer anl4he Auditor had their books
in such condition that it took about
three weeks to get them i'll shape to
make settlement. lie means to say
that the Board of Audit were ready to
settle at any time. afteIthe first of
March but that Mr.. Thompson was not
ready. lie means to say that Il number
of town treasurers and school district
treasurers can testify that we are right
for they were after their money and
could not get it, and that the fact is
simply notorious that Thompson was
about three weeks behind and kept the
Board of Audit, the town and school
district treasurers and the public wait
ing.
We have not charged Mr.. Thompson
with any def;.lcation. Our charge is
looseness. He aud Auditor Walker
were not up with their business. A
number of errors were found in both
sets of books and some radical changes
had to lie made in the Auditors meth
DDS in order to get the books and &C
counts where the new Auditor could go
ahead.
We don't see that it's any of Ogle's
business. Tain't none Of his funeral,
unless it be true, as is asserted, that
Peter Thompson is principal owner Of
the Journal. WHAT'S the use to get mad
and tear around, and call names, and
misuse the language, as though he were
in a pulpit preaching to a people who
didn't know anything about the facts?
1.-THE value of the real estate held
by churches Of I'LL denominations in the
State of New York by the census Of
1875, was $117,597 40, and the number
of members l.l77, 537. This is a valua-
ton of a fraction less than 500 for each
member. The State tax of 1878, on this
Sill, 597 ,140 of church property, would
be- $341 ,O31,7 This divided among the
AT, 537 members, is Is cents per c0pi.
TT. No Christian man or woman who
believes it right to render unto Caesar
the things which are Caesars could OBJ
ject, at least, to pay this small tribute
money to State that protects every
person in liberty of conscience, and in
his own way to worship God. IN. Y.
State Assessors Supplementary Report.
But the State of NJ w York taxes the
halls in which Spiritualists and Free
Thinkers worship and enjoy their relig~
ion in their own way. It is only the So
called Christians, with all their absurd
creeds ard practices, who get this ex-
emption. The so-ca,led Christian insists
that his religion is Gods religion, and
that he ought not to be taxed, while he
insists that the religion of the Spiritu-
alist and the Free Thinker is not God S
religion and therefore that he ought to
he taxed. The injustice and unfairness
of this is manifest even to the blind and
immodest bigot who insists upon it, but
lie is clamorous. presumptuous, persist
emf, overriding, prosecuting, disrespect-
full and even blasphemous toward all
who are not called Christian, and 50 the
great State of New York yields to his
Glamour and allows him to cheat the
State out of $S4l ,C317O taxes.
The State Assessor is mistaken in
saying that New York ''protects every
person in liberty Of conscience" On
the contrary, it protects only the SO
called Christian, while it sends d. NJ.
Bennett and John a. Liant to the peni-
Tertiary for opposing the absurd the
ology protested by the churches. No
greater outrage against liberty of con-
science was ever committed during the
dark ages than the imprisonment Of
these two men. OF course it was done
VLJcl ill SttN UllCUllo(4N-
to- .al federal law. but it wa; a New
York Judge named Benedict, it was
New York packed juries, it was New
York churches, it was q New York
Christian, Association, it was New
Society, and Il New York procuror and
spy, named Comstock. who did the infa
nous work. We wonder that the liberal
element Of the country is as moderate
and forbearing under these outrages as
it is. We wonder that there are not a
thousand Ingersoll's spring,ng to the
front and taking the platform to
denounce the churches and the men
who do these great wrongs. Perhaps
If we possess our souls in patience they
will come forward in due time to lead
the people to avenge such infamous vi
Citations of the liberty which the Con-
stitution grants but which blind bigot-
ry and persistent priest-craft defeats.