The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-09-08

Bryan men.
J. M. Shoup and Mother Hey
burn are to make goldbug talks
in Challis on the 28th.
Carl Lane, A. McGinnis, N. J.
Sharp and Billy Buster returned
from Stanley last Friday.
The Moscow Double Standard
suggests that the Lemhi Repub-
lie change its name to the Heel
er." This is a good name for
this Mark Hanna organ that is
making a feeble effort against
Americas freedom.
NOTICE.-There will be a
meeting of the Silver Knights at
the Odd Fellows hall on the 9th
inst. at 8 o'clock p. m. Let all
the members attend, as there is
important matters to be attended
to and under consideration. A.
K. ZEIGLER, President.
DIR. J. G. Leonard lectured in
the courthouse last Friday eve
ming on the Astromical Interpre-
tation of the Scriptures. ALI
know that most of our religious
ceremonies originated back of
the Christian era; but whether
the present church faith can be
satisfactorily explained by scien-
ce in this manner will have to be
left between the ID. DIS. and
scientific teachers. We do not
claim to either theory. The DIR.
names his subject Science and
the Bible" Look and see where
is the truth.
Messrs. A. G.. Lanterman, of
Cripple Creek, Colorado, and
George Howe, of Duluth, MINI.
capitalists, arrived here on Mon
days train and left the following
day for Stanley, where they go
to investigate a large area of
placer ground which they are
negotiating for. The property
is owned by different parties,
who have been working their re-
spective claims at intervals for
several years past, depending
entirely for water which melts
from the snow in the spring.
Messrs. Lanterman and Howe
have taken a surveyor with them
and if it is found practicable to
bring in a ditch whereby water
can be had the year round, the
sale will undoubtedly be made.
There are between 800 and 1000
acres under consideration, and
if the deal is consummated there
will be work for several hundred
men to get the ditch and mines
in running order next spring
Ketchum Keystone.
A majority of the religious
papers of the country have de-
clared against silver, says the
Western Mining World. Among
them we notice that the Church
man, the Independent and the
Christian Intelligencer especial
ly are not clinging very close to
the Golden Rule and are most
abusive of the silver men. They
refer to them as anarchists, re-
pudatorS, traitors, lunatics, lar
cenites, etc. We presume this
is modern christianity. These
men who are supported by the
jingling silver that falls into the
hats each Sunday are assuming
to teach finance instead of the
gospel of Christ, for which they
are hired. All history, both
biblical and worldly, shows that
bimetallism has been for centur-
les the rule. Any one who has
not learned this fact is not fit to
edit religious papers or preach
in the pulpit; if he is unreliable
on this subject he must be shall
low on many others. 1t is our
opinion that when a religious
paper, or man who stands in
the pulpit, permits the line of
teachings to vary from that
taught by Jesus Christ and re-
sort to abuse and calumny to at
tract a little attention to them
selves, it is high time for the
press of the country to call them
down. They certainly have
their hands full to com bat against
the immoralities of the world and
unless they make much better
showing in the coming genera
ton than they have made in the
past few years, their mission
among us is sadly in need of
bolstering up; and no doubt a
silver dollar, issued under free
coinage law, backed up by the
wealth of the greatest nation on
earth, would be as effective for
this purpose as would those of