The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-12
A FEARLESS MINISTER
A Patriotic Preacher Tells Burning
Truths to Multitudes.
Rev. Myron Reeds Address to a
Denver Audience.

Following is an address delivered be-
forea Denver audience by Rev. MyrOn
Reed, the minister who dares to preach
real religion. He said:
You are accustomed by this time to
the cry of anarchy" l find that !
have gained national reputation. l
was content to go plugging along. 1
find that Prof. Ely. of Wisconsin, and
Prof Heron, of Grinnell college, are
anarcharists with me. l find l am in
the same boat with Gov. Altgeld, who
had the courage to pardon men who
were tried for murder, and when they
found they could not prove that, con-
victed them Of anarchy. These little
shysters who get up and howl lamar
chy"-the woods (of Canada)were filled
with them in 1s61-64. These and the
sons of these are the gentlemen who
are now crying anarchy"
1t is good thing to review Ameri-
can history. My father and grand
father helped to make it. In 1913
there were Sons Of Liberty in Boston
who talked treason against King
George. 1t is now distinguished hon.
or to trace ones lineage back to those
men.
LAW OUTRAGED.
If you want me to respect the law
you must make the law respectab BILE.
Burke and Blackstone say that law is
founded on justice and equity. There
are statutes in Colorado that would
shame an Indian-the laws of eviction
and the chattel mortgage law. This
law and order man-he has no ScrupleS
about taking a widows coo kstove or
bedstead or good red COW. l walked
into law office in small mining
town. The proprietor was out. 1
looked over the law library. 1t con-
sisted of the statutes of Colorado. You
know how an old-fashioned Bible, the
one your mother and grandmother
used. will open at the favOrite places,
the 23d psalm perhaps. l picked up
the statutes and the book naturally
fell open at one place-the chapter on
chattel mortgages. When the young
man returned | asked him if he prac-
ticed law. He said no; he had found a
better thing-lOaning money on chat
tel mortgages. asked him how old
he was He replied %. l said, "My
God, what'll you be when your so ?"
Two years ago we were calamity
howlers. Now it's changed around.
The business men, the real estate men,
say business is paralyzed. They tell
us the Wilson bill has done great dam
nge.
Reference was made to the revolu-
tionary war where the colonies tri-
umphed.
~ hof 70 ~
four states have to depend ON Liver
pool? l wonder how we are so tame
how, anarchists that we are, we stand
so much. l remember how my father,
an aboltiOniSt, would come home COW
cred with mud and filed with wrath
We were not allowed in the best SOcie-
ty-were not invited to any Brown
Palace receptions.
MAN MORE THAN PROPERTY.
have file of the New York Daily
Tribune for 1859 In that year John
Brown was hanged for an assault on
Harper's Ferry, with the purpose to
liberate, If he might, when the
time should come 100000 slaves. /
read the Thanks giving sermons, and
but one minister saw anything com
ing: there would be no war. At the
meeting addressed by Everett, and
presided over by O'Connor, lawyer
he said we could not afford to inter
fere with our southern customers.
My God, my friends, man is more
than property. He is not for the state
the state is for him.
Read the statutes. The laws were
made by the patrican for the plebian
So far as amended, they have beer
amended by the noble and the lord
We borrow our laws from England
You know how our laws are made
There isn't session of the legislature
but the first day is felt the hand OF
some corporation. The members are
touched whether they feel it or not
What kind of a law do you expect from
senate where every senator eXcep
four are corporation attorneys? Wha
kind of a job from man you pay So co.
for doing your business and who take
$4,000 for doing his own.
FROM THE POOR COME THE MIGHTY
We chanted that through hostil,
villages. 1t is sung in Republican
meetings. John Brown was an out
law, a felon, an anarchist. He brok
the laws of Kansas, Iowa, Missouri
he broke the laws Of every stat
through which he passed carrying
weapons. Yet we all confess tina
when the old mans body came dow
from the scaffold with a rope aroun
his neck he shook down the temple Q
slavery William Lloyd Garrison
was another anarchist. He kept a
the head of his paper: THE constitu
ton is covenant with death and
league with hell" And yet monu
ment went up to him the other da
on the ground where rope had bee
around his neck. Wendell Phillips
who. they thought, was ''interferin
with business" was pursued ny wha
he called the "broadcloth mob" Th
same Boston the other day erected
monument to him in Boston common
that one piece of land that still
free to any foot that wishes to tread il
STARTLING QUESTION.
What was Jesus Christ killed &c
and who killed him? He tramped a
the way from Nazareth to Calvary. II
was born in borrowed barn. He lie
his disciples through another man
Corntield. These respectable sinner
he called whited sepulchres. II
walked into temple he didn't own an
drove out some money changers he Wa
not acquainted with. He was not a