People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-12-20
Botkin Makes Him Tired.

The people who went 10 the Pres
byterian church last Sunday received.
! the edifying information that the
preacher who holds his job in that
pulpit has been made tired" by Rev.
]. D. Botkin. He advertised to preach
10 his people on Government, its OBJ
ject."
The ministerial association had re-
QueSted all the pastors to preach a
sermon touching our Wellington city
government, and Rev. Jacka broad.
ened tae scope Of his topic, presum-
ably, so as not to get too close TO
home. He commenced away back in
AristOtle'S time and came forward by
degrees, When he got down to the
United States he advanced the bril-
liant idea that what we want is good,
stable government, honest in purpose
and fearless in execution
Just here. Rev. Jacka, in unmis-
taxable tones, declared that we did
not want an "all-absOrbing, ask-and-
ye-Shall-recelve sort of government, so
persistently advocated by our good
brother Botkin." Reaching the eli
max on his tip-tOe, be exclaimed.
"BOtkin makes me tired" lie chopped
the audience would pardon him for
the reference and the slang"
He finally got down to the point at
the close aud said he had heard some
rumors of rotten city government,
that joints and gambling dens were
extant, ETC., and if they did exist they
should be suppressed"
The difference between Botkin and
Jacka is that BOtkin calls spade
a spade and goes straight at it. while
Jacka trims around the edges, toys
with its outer garments, pleads with
ltln namby-pdmby, gOOdy-gOody way
and this is doubtless why Bev. Botkin
makes Rev. JacFa tired.
Knowing that Rev. Botkin's politics
are unpopular in the city of yelling
ton, he thought he 'Ould make a ten
strike by deriding him. Had the op-
posite been true Jacka would not
have been tired-or if so, he would
never have expressed it. That ap-
pears to be the character of the man.
The VOICE does not presume for a
moment that Rev. Botkin will be in
the least disturbed by the announce
menJ that he has made Rev. Jacka
tired. But since Rev. Jacka has gone
into politics, (which is the science of
government, J we hope he will pardon
the VOICE if it comments on HIM and
his little sermon.
First, let us diSclaim heaping
cenSure upon him for entering the
political arena for we all know there
is nothing wrong in preachers going
into politics if they are Republicans.
What We want is to get all good peo-
pie to thinking on these questions
and God will guide the result.
What iSit that Rev. BOtkin breaches
that makes Onr gentleman of CLOTH
/ tired? He advocates more money.
but he wants it paid out to the peo-
7 pie who will work for it. is it this
? thought that makes him tired?
More money means less usury.
Would this do violence to Gods word
/ which Rev. Jacka processes to preach?
Does Rev. Jacka know that as a re-
suit of trying 10 get down to a gold
basis in this country, the people have
struggled along against falling prices.
} by borrowing money to sustain their
business and pay their expenses until
now the alarming condition exists
that the public and private debts of
this country amount to forty billion
dollars-siXteen billion dollars more
than the total assessed value of all
the property in the United States by
the census of 1890?
Does Rev. Jacka know that the in.
tereSt for one year on these debts at
six per cent is more than the totaI
money stock of the country?
Does the Rev. Jacka know that the
Apostle Paul said, lowe no man
any thing" and that under the present
? regime 1t is utterly impossible fol
them to obey that injunction?
! Does Rev. Jacka know that this
scarcity OF money is the foundation
. of the usury system of the wO. Id and
$ that God in His Word everywhere
. frowns upon it? Does he not know
+. that uSury makes slaves of the peOple
that we are cultiyating trusts, cor
pOrations and human greed instead o.
!, character. Few, if any, of our bust
ness men are making money. Many
of them are losing money. Four mil
I' lions of idle wage earners are in thi
country. Tears are falling upon til,
d cheeks of thousands of women in thi
y land, and helpless babes are dying a