The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
SPEAKS FOR HONESTY.
Bishop j. p. Newman Tells Why lie
breaches sfor Mckinley.

''GOd is conducting TINS campaign
it is his campaign and the result is as
certain as all His works"
So spoke the venerable bishop, j. T.
Newman, the prelate who has thrown
one of the most telling shells into the
silver camp in his concise, unequlvo-
cal and absolutely unanswerable state
ment to Senator Stewart Of why he
preached for the success Of Major Nc
Kinley from the pulpit The sturdy
bishop is at the Sherman House,
says the Chicago ISnaes-Herdld, on
his way to Knoxville, Iowa, where he
will preside over conference.
sit is a campaign of honesty, not
wholly against dishonesty wouldn't
say that, because all who are in
fatuated with the falacious, dangerous
and shallow delusions of the silver
movement are not dishonest-and
God is directing it. The nomination
of Major Mckinley upon the platform
on which he stands, the recent sound
money Democratic convention at
Indianapolis, the remaining at home
of the major, and the trips OF the boy
with his twaddle about the periphery
all are but the workings Of the I'M
mutable Creator. When it shall have
been finished, the center Of all power,
God, will have placed Major Nc
Kinley, the center of human honesty,
at the center of the power OF the ma
tion-the mountain-tOp Of honesty.
The hallucination of the deluded will
have been rolled away. Behind all
this silver talk is the scheming force
of the silver conspirators-a plan for
speculation merely. This cannot pre-
vail. God in his wise conduct of the
universe directs the campaign of hon.
esty against the arithmetic that tries
to make US believe that tifty-three is
equivalent to 100
Religion Commands Honesty.
GA great man once said that some
where there might be found planet
where twice two might be five, but we
have never located it. The great
ethics of religion flow from honesty.
The commands of the Lord are for
honesty. l have visited Mount Sinai
and believe in all the ten command
ments-the keynote of the campaign
is contained therein. Every injunc-
tion of the Lord is for honesty-upon
this stands the entire structure of re-
ligion and civilization. Can it be,
then, that anything which contem-
plates great blow at human honesty,
that forces dishonest arithmetical
proposition upon the people, shall
conquer? No. it cannot.
Therefore I think it a duty for the
minister to teach the ethics of his re-
ligion and nature from his pulpit
When my old-time colleague in the
senate while | was chaplain, Senator
Stewart, attacked me for this message
to preachers / told him / was citi-
zen before l became preacher. l
told him there was nothing in my
professionally religion-that abro-
gated any of my rights as citizen.
The basis of religion is honesty, and
the preachers but follow the ethical
teachings in directing the minds of
their hearers toward honesty.
Untruth is Used.
1.-THE boy who is but talking his
Gwaddle for the success of the great
silver conspiracy, of scheme for f.
nancial speculation, tells his hearers,
in verbiage that would appear to come
from one who thinks his audience
made up of infants, that gold has ap-
preciated in value to an enormous ex-
tent, He uses this untruth to work
upon the feelings of the deluded. He
either fails to grasp the real truth or
cares to ignore it. The fact is the
Almighty has been so kind to the pro-
ducers of the earth that there has
been an overproduction, and instead
of gold approaching in value, that
which it buys has deprecated in value.
The Bryan twaddle has it that the
Interpretation of the law of supply
and demand comes first and regulates
the supply. The contrary is the truth.
Produce the supply and the demand
will come.
81 can but liken the silver hallu-
cination to its exact counterpart in
history, the South Sea bubble. That
was wide-reaching in it's grasp upon
victims, deluded mortals even of the
nobility. De Law, the man who set
the seeds of the fever that eventually
destroyed, in France, can be likened
to the dissemination of the present
silver delusion."
Bishop Newman has spent much
time in New York State and he has
sounded thoroughly the pulse of the
''stanch bulwarks of the American
civilization" as he calls the farmer
No more cheering to the Bryanites