The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-06
HON, G. r. TINGLE
Writes an Interesting Card in Reply to the
One from Or. Cunningham.
10 he Editor OF ts IEtslligeResF,

writes pn Interesting ChFu N hoPN ~ 'HN
One from DR.. Cunningham.
10 ne Editor Of tAs EAtsIlisResr
sR:-When your reporter asked me
few questions, receiving as many answers,
l did not expect column article would
appear putting words in my mouth / did
not use, and printing the statement oil
another copied from Pittsburgh paper
as his own work and my utterauces, Such
Ia the fact, and is made the occasion OF
Rev, DR.. Ounningham's letter Of defense
published in your Issue Of this morning,
Had been correctly reported, the Doctor
| am sure, would not have found It neces'
sary to rush precipltately into the news
paper In defense OF his sChoOl.mate, Mr.,
jackson. | will not take up your apacs
by quoting the Doctors reprint OF your
article, but simply make a plain statement
Of what did say, and as the Doctor and
l have always been the best Of friends, |
will tell him even more about this Alaska
missionary business than ] told the re-
porter, did not say that the approprla-
ton by the Government was, ITO give
jackson and hia friends good sal
aries and enable them to live
in q country where they can work some
seal operations on the sly" l said moth
ing whatever rejecting on Rev, Sheldon
JaCkson's character as q gentleman and
christian, for | believe him to be both,
Just as his honorable friend In his defense
statesi he Is an enthusiast in the cause in
which he Is engaged and believes in the
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his efforts, and has persisteRtly for years,
tried to get Congress 10 grant the appro-
priatiOn which he finally secured, Ihsve
not doubt Of the honesty Of his motives
and the hrmness Of his belief that with 1t
he can do good. As 10 his "working seal
operations on the sly" have only TO say
that the seals do not go within 500 miles
Of Sitka, where Mr.. Jackson lives, and he
could nottrade in them il he wers disposed,
ION the sly" or in any other way, and |
never attributed any such acts to him,
As to MIR. Parker having two pupils
aud they are his own children, one Of
whom Is q baby" l am again incorrectly
reported, What 1aaid was, that Rev. Mr..
Parker, his wife and lady assistant, were
up to st. Michaels, at the mouth Of the
Yukon river, this spring, under the
auspices Of this Educational Bureau for
Alaska," Of which Rev, Sheldon Jackson
Is the General Agent or Superintendent,
and that his three little children would be
his only scholars and one Of them was
baby, Mr.. Parker Is an EpisCopalain and
goes as missionary and teacher, drawing
q salary Of 81 400 and the Indy assistant a
salary Of 5000 aud all expenses going aud
coming ARE paid by the Educational Bureau.
Doctor Cunningham is pleased to say
There IL not word OF truth in the asser-
ton one Of JacksOn's friends, Parker by
name, sent there as teacher, only has
two pupils and they his children, one OF
whom ia baby The public and the
country may rest assured that Rev. DR..
Jackson Is no party to such business
With all respect to Dr.. Os Familiarity
with tue work Of his missionaries and
teachers In Alaska" I say emphatically,
that Rev, Mr.. Parker has not one scholar
ut st. Michael Station and will not have II
he remalns there oil winter, which no will
not do II he can get vessel to bring him
self and family back to civilization. Mr..
NJ. LOrenz aud vile, the fur Company's
agent at st. MiChRel's, spent month on
st. Paul Island with us and came 10 San
FranClsCo on the same vessel with me,
and crossed the continent with me, and
are at their home to-day: p. 0. address,
Round Pond, Maino. l will tell you az
they did me, that there are but Twelve
Indians and one white man now at St.
Michael's for Mr.. Parker to work on, and
that he and his family are discouraged at
tho thought OF wntering in climate
sixty'Rve degrees below zero, where they
cannot do q single particle Of good In 70.
turn for the pay they get and to Compen-
safe Tor living in such rigorous climate,
No! Mr.. Parker may stay there for 1--WE
years and he will not have five scholars
in that time; this statement l can sub.
stantiate by twenty as respectable wit
nesses as DR.. Cunningham would require,
MIR. Parker and his family are good peo.
pie and no one was more Burprieed than
they, so Mr.. and Mrs. Lurenz told mo, at
indinG the true stale OF things; 80 much
30, that Etrs. Parker wanted TO return
on tho same vessel. A teacher was sent
to OnnotOska by Mr.. jackson and was
told IN Onnotoska as l came through that
he was waiting to be taken oil as his
school teaching was failure for want Of
pupils, he having no more than half
dozen. AS Mr.. Parker only went up In
May | do not think DR.. Cunningham
knows thing about him or his move.
menta and was drawing strongly on his
faith In Mr.. Jackson when no said "there
10 nota word OF truth In the assertion, &C."
Now Tor Mr.. JaCksonl DR.. O. says: "he
has dole more for the good OF tho people
oil that country than any other or all other
men put together" This Ia strong Ian.
gnage and | assume when a gentleman OF
the high standing Of Dr.. Cunningham
makes such statement he 10 prepared to
prove what he states. Where are the
churches he has builtP Where ara the
congregations he Is preaching TOT Where
tho schools outside Of Mrs. Netherlands?
and Just here lot INC say that whom this
good woman gets up before the Mission
ionary Societies and gives Mr.. jackson all
the praise for the success Of her school,
she does herself great injustice and II Is
ungenerous in Mr.. Jackson II he does not
accord to her all credit.
know that since Mr.. Jackson went to
Sitka In 1877 as the escort Of Mrs. Nc
Farland he has been leCturing and writ
ing books, etc., about Alaska, and yet he
has never been 800 miles from sitka. Com
Bldering the Territory Is one.sixth as large
as the whole Of the United States, and
that the fur company maintains over
HIty stations all over the country where
provisions and supplies are exchanged
with the natives for their furs without
which they would starve l think the
doctor will admit when no realizes that l |
made no reflection on Mr.. Jackson and
cools of, that he has over.cstimated DR.,
Jackson in the good he has done as COM
pared with tho good this fur company
has done and Is doing daily. They or
dered their agent at st. MlChael's, Mr.. |
LorenE, 10 make Mr.. Parker as comfortable
as possible and sell him his supplies at the
cost price in San Francisco. They main
tain a school on each Of the Islands Of ST. |
Paul and St. George for eight months
each year, and tho Treasury Agents under
instructions from the Secretary Of the
Treasury compel all children over 0 |
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