Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1895-12-14
Ell SANADOR EN- ROUTE.
Schlatter Healing in Northern Santa
Fe COunty-May Arrive Tonight
An Eastern View of the
Healer.

Schlatter, the healer, left Embudo, Taos
county, at 2 O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
taking the main highway down the Rio
Grande toward Santa Cruz. d. & R. g..
train men saw him on the road an hour
later, he being easily recognized from his
white horse and by his remarkable per-
sonal resemblance to the print pictures
of Jesus Christ. 1t was expected that he
WOULD REACH SANTA CRUZ
about o'clock last night. He doubtless
spent the night there, and, perhaps, he
reached John Bouquets place at Pojoa-
que about noon to-day.
As to what the healer's plans are for
the immediate future nothing is as yet
known. 1t may be that he will make a
prolonged stay in Santa Fe, in accord
ance with his promise made to the crowds
that greeted him SO devoutly at Lamy in
September when he passed through from
Albuquerque to Denver. The faithful
who we're at Lamy at that time confident
ly declare their belief that he
So WILL KEEP HIS WORD
then given to them.
To-day many wild rumors have been
ahoat to the effect that Schlatter had
reached Santa Fe. He was located ac-
cording to these reports, first at one
house, then at another, and NEW MExI-
GAN scribe has been kept pretty busy all
forenoon running down these rumors but
70 Gv,I thok khov To bod ho o1 al
ment of truth.
The NEW MEXICAN has struggled all day
long to secure telegraphic communities
tion with Espanola in order to ascertain
if Schlatter had left Santa Cruz for the
south, but up to 1886 p. N. no word had
been received.
AN EASTERN VIEW.
Speaking of Schlatter, the New York
Tribune in its issue of November 20,
says:
"It is not easy to form an intelli-
gent judgment concerning the apparent
power over disease possessed by Francis
Schlatter, the healer. Perhaps we should
say undoubted, rather than apparent,
power; for it seems to be established by
numerous reputable witnesses that he has
effected large number of remarkable
cures. But what is the secret of his
power, whether due to the unique per-
sonal magnetism of the man or some alb
normal gift, it is impossible to say. The
whole subject is involved in obscurity,
which has been, if anything, increased by
the widespread vogue that has come to
him. y.
ut is easy to say that he is charlatan,
who is deceiving the public, or that he is
half-crazy enthusiast, who is deceivipg
himself; but either of these theories in
wolves difficulties that are almost insuper-
able. For, as we have observed, there is
satisfactory evidence that he has effected
remarkable cures. Had these cures been
wrought under the auspices of the Roman
church, which claims still to exercise the
power of miracle conferred on the Apos-
ties by Jesus, we shonld be able to classi
fy them with such phenomena as Lourdes
and other shrines. Or had Schlatter
gained following of ignorant and super
stitious people, the whole matter might
be dismissed as unworthy of notice. But
the healer appears to be working in
dependently Of any religious denomina-
tion, and, if the accounts Of him are trust
worthy, he claims some mysterious mis-
sion from "the Father" presumably God,
by virtue of which, he says, he is able to
do what he does. Moreover, he has been
exercising his vocation in city (Denver)
whose citizens are perhaps less given to
credulity and superstitious illusions than
any other community in the world"