The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-03-31
THURSDAY, MARCH 81. 1881.

Terms $500 Year. 500 for Six Moaths.
THURSDAY. MARCH 81. 1881.
THE WORTHINGTON BANK&
BY reference to the Commissions,
proceedings, published in another col
umn, it will be seen that when the
Board came to look up the matter Of
the assessed valuation of banking cap
ital IS reported by the two banks. they
ordered one-eighth of the county funds
to be deposited with the Bank OF Worth
ington and seven -eighths with the No.
bles County Bank.
The figures on which this action was
based look peculiar to those not &C.
q.,ainted with the mysteries of banking.
Thus the assessed capital of the Mobiles
County Bank was found to be only
$1,932.35 and the credits of the bank a.
owe liabilities, or rather bills receiva-
bic over bills payable. was only 81 $780,
". Yet the MOBILES County Bank sdver-
tises capital stock Of $4,000. The
showing of the Bank Of Worthington
was much less still. The money on
which the banking is done was returned
at SIG and the credits above liabilities
at $3.50.
The deposits already in the Mobiles
County Bank are, and the average de-
posts of the past year have been, con-
siderably in excess of the banking capt.
tai of the bank.
We believe the law does not allow q
County Treasurer to deposit in bank
an amount in excess of the assessed
banking capital of the concern.
AN INTERVIEW.
In last weeks issue we replied to one
of the Journals filings at Spiritualism
by stating that Ogle had preached a
sermon in Luverne, containing ideas
which are spiritualistic, and We added
that lie obtained them from a lecture
by Prof. Buchanan which was publish
ed in the Banner of Light.
This reply brought Ogle into our Office
in the evening for an interview. He
denies that he took the ideas from Bu-
chanan's lecture, and says that he did
not read the lecture until after he
preached the sermon. We therefore
give him the benefit of the denial. Our
conversation was in the main a friend
ly and il courteous one, but it no sooner
got abroad among the Journal set that
we had had All interview, than they
were saying that "Ogle had made Mil
Ter swallow his words and promise to
take it back.'' This, of course, is every
word a lie, and is on par with the story
of the same gang that Ludlow had made
us take back something we had said a.
bout the temperance fanatics. Ludlow
never spoke to us at all about the tenn
perance matter except in general way
at the Northingto:1 Hotel in the pres
ence Of twenty persons. So much for
the usual braggadocia Of the Journal
set.
Now word more about Ogle $
preaching. We told Ogle that no matter
whether he got the ideas from Buchan-
al or any other Splrirualist, the ideas
were those taught by Spiritualism, the
main one being progression after death.
We know that Ogle has been for some
time reading the articles of DR.. Wat
son, Prof. Buchanan and other emf
nent Spiritaalists, and we know that
ITO man of sense could read them with
ont imbibing them and seeirg at a
glance how mich more reasonable, Ella
waiting and beneficial they are than the
wretched ideas taught by Orthodoxy.
Ogle claimed that newspaper spar.
ring was legitimate, but that his pulpit
was another matter and minated that
it was too sacred to be attacked in the
newspaper and that he wanted that let
alone. We do not give his words but
give the idea. We told Ogle that what
he said in the pulpit was public proper.
ty and that if we saw tit to attack it we
Should do 50.
Let 1T be understood that We do not
regard pulpit as any more holy than a
newspaper nor preacher as any more
holy than al editor. In fact, we be.
ievc that editors, as class, are truel
and better men than ministers. So far
as Osle is man we respect him. But
we do not respect him because he is a
preacher. In fact, we think, and we 81
told him in the interview, that so fal
rs lie was u minister he wore 4 straight
jacket, and could not be free and in
dependent man and preach what he be-
lievel.
Only i few words more as to Ogle's
sensitiveness, flor we haye already Civ
Ell this matter more space than it de-
serves.) We pointed out to Ogle in the
interview, that never yet had we ad
mitted into our columns anything like
studied personal attack upon him
save in the way of brief squibs, half hu
morons, in response to the studied. vii
lannon's, blackguard attacks male on u
IN the Journal. At the outset OIL,
printed over q column attack upon u.
written by some BLACKBOARD signing
himself "Country jake" who used tn,
most villianous language lie could com
mand in attacking us on account of on,
religion, consigning us to HI, etc
This brought out some squibs from Us
upon Ogle. Again, only a few week.
ago, Oyle published a column and ;
q"artAr article, from another black
guard signing himself r. D. Barber
calling us IL dog" etc., and an unprej
udict'd farmer said that lie had read thu
ADVANCE from the first, and had not
III the whole time seen as much black
snarlism in it as Barber put into thi.
one article. Oyle seemed to think il
was proper enough to allow any black
guard To make Stn3io1 If ,,,,o, -.