Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-05-07
Good Roads Prom a Religious Stand
point.


EDITOR JoURNAE-pm a little back
ward about writin to an editor, but
me and Mrs. Smith and all the Smith
family, ia fact, Is 30 entboosed over
yer good rode skeem, we kant refrane
from expressin our admeashun.
Ifit wuzeDt for my un-education /
might write up the Jacks want to re-
late in q more pleasIn stiIe but bad
rodes is to blame for my lack Of ex.
purtness in spellin and uther ackom-
plishments otherwise mite have had.
The KAPITEL JURNEL is the best
educator we have In Sleepy Holer, ex-
ception the Good Book, an the Hnller
folks is slowly CROWN better by readin
them. We think il was doc to THE
JURNEL that we gained the victory IN
the CRATE senatorial kontest. The
stick-tu-itiveness of THE JOURNAL on
that Ockashun was refreshin. Its
morel attitood tord publick questsbuns
il generally about correck. 1t seems to
take the golden rule fur its standurd
an when feller's pollyticks Ia based
on that rule IL IL almost as fur-reachin
fur good az his religin fur most fellers
has more pollytIcks than religin.
But, Mister Editer, we're digressin
frum our subjeck, which is: "Good
Rodes Frum a Religis 5taBpint." j
gin see as plane as plane kin be how
rsligis errers kin kreep into orthodox
churches by haYin to travel bad rodes,
an we want to help you git wider
views on this important sabjeck, an
kin thiuK Nv no better way NV showiD
the probabilities NV such evil effecks
tollerln bad rodes than by relatin what
occurred in the Primitive Practise
church IN Sleepy Holler.
Last Sunday bein' set fur the meetin'
OF the awfishall bored, an me an ma
Dor Jones bein' j'int pardners, as men,
bers OF the bored, lowed to git early
start. 'Cordenly, 1 drew by fur Jones
at an early hour an we got off in good
time, but alas we broke down time AL
agin, chuggln' over ruts am holes, an
OWN TO the meekness of human ma
chur, we had to yield to perfsnity after
hard restlin' agin IL, too. When we
arrived at the meetin' house the bored
had transackted all its bizness without
our voice in their important deeishuns.
They passed a cents pur capity tax on
every saint or sinner, which Is to pass
through the door over which is 'rltten
"Preech the gospil TO every creechur."
week days is free, but Sunday is tax
collection day. Now II Jones an me
could got thare In time we'd kicked
hard agin anything 80 "unprimitive."
(you know what Rendered u.s. an
even from a secklar view it's contrary
TO the rules Nv justice an ekwety. A
rich man with one child pays less than
a poor man with a bakers dozen.
That you'd oughter know Nv these |
facts, Mister Editer, In order to have
an all around view NV the grateness NV
yer undertaken, Sence / kun to re-
member IT, The JOURNAL has said |
the way 10 spread an evil is TO keep a |
talkin' about IT," an 1t would sorrer
Dy heart to see any other church a
pickln' up this error uYthe Primitive
Practls church NV Sleepy Holler, st'll |
1t wouldn't surprise me to see It go into
effeckt somewhere else before two
months passes by.
1 argy good rodes fur saint, good
rodes fur saintess, good rodes fur sinner,
good rodes everywhere. The better the
rodes the easier the travlin' an vote
Aginst entrance fees 10 heer the gospil
preeched, espeshully after drivin over
ate miles Nv bad rode. pde ruther stay
home and read over The JOURNALS
Saturday Night" In my scrap book
an study the book which has opened
lp palmer and better rode than lots
~ our Orthedoxeyes have been able to
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