The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

son, and Gives Them
Some Advice.
| JosEPHUs DANIELS, Editor.
Raleigh, N. c.
DEAR SIR: Your letter in which you
say
RALEIGH, N. c., Sept. II, 1895.
Rev. G. DURHAM. D D, Raleigh, ~. Z.
DEAR SIR: I send you to day copy
Of the News and Observer containing
explanation of Cyrus Thompson Ffesi-
dent of The State Farmers Alliance IN
regard to his attack upon the cnurch'
You will find on the editorial page an
extract from his speech. Ideslre' next
SUNDAY morning, to present a sympo'
sium of the views of eight or ten OF the
leading preachers of the State, IN reply
IN the questions: Is the Church Ghe
enemy of Hberty2' is DR.. Thompson
ripht in his posiUiong / write to ask
Won TO be one of that number. Please
make vcur reply to cover about a quar-
ter or hail a column, and let me have
it as early as possible, Saturday morn
ing at the latest. l think 1t is exceed
ingiy important hal the clergy of the
State should rebuke this attempt to
bring the Church into %disrepute.
Yours very truly,
JOsEPHUs DANIELS"
has been received.
You will, therefore, allow me, with
out any thought of discourtesy to you
or to DR.. Thompson, to reply just as
[ feel the occasion demands.
1. l do not know what you call the
Church" and am of the opinion that
neither of you know what you mean
by it.
3 Whether DR.. Thomps0n's cCndem
nation of the Church" III his speech
at Cary, will do more Ito bring the
Church into disrepute" than your de
fence of it in the News and Observer
will do is, perhaps, an open question.
3 1t is true, l think, that The
clergy" if you mean by the clegy"
the preachers in the various religious
denominations in the State, do not need
to be told by the News and Observer
what they should rebuke."
4. 1t is, doubtless, a matter of sur
prise, indifference to most right minded
people who take the Bible for their
guide, what you and DR.. Thompson
think, OF say, o write and print on
this subject.
5. The man who, in an address to the
people Of North Carolina, declares "tbe
Church to day stands where it has al
ways stood-on the side Of human
slavery, and not on the side of liberty ;"
and then in a three column explaua-
ton does not define what he means by
the Church." and gives no facts,
makes himself ridiculous; but not more
so, I think, than the political editor
who say S: The question raised by Dr..
Thompson is the graveet one thai the
people Of North Carolina have ever
been called upon to consider, and then
urges the clergy" TO rush into his
political paper to save the Church.
from disrepute.
6 The clergy" in North Carolina
are lot e set of holy noodles, or sanc:i
fed doodles, to be frightened on the
one side by a wreckless statement of
an Onslow doctor, or humbugged on
the other size by the insidious plans of
a political editor.
Z. Dr.. Thompson, in his statement
which you publish, nowhere says that
he said in his speech at Cary, The
Church to day stands where it has al
ways stood-on the side of human
slavery, and not on the side of liberty
Would it not be reckless in me to take
for truth the unsupported statement of
the News and Ooserver7
CONCLUSION AND ADVICE
Every man should keep to his own
work. Let DR.. Thompson keep to his
pill bags and do what he car Co prop
erly diagnose and treat the diseases of
the people in Onslow county, and let
Josephus Daniels look after E G.. Smith,
J. c. L. Harris and his forty negroes
in the silver convention, and do what
he can, according to the understanding,
to make the real owner of his paper the
next Governor.
The Church" is in no danger. It
don't fear d.. Thompson's condemna-
ton, nor does it need Josephus D aniels'
defense.
Remember too, 90, you came from
{ "~esnngton City 20 'save the State
nv tHe Church, and you haven't saved
4 out'e yet You had better get
through with one thing at q time go