New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-12-01
Current Opinion


DR.. Thomas on the Referendum. Senator
Teller on Currency Legislation.
Id Utterancss BY Rev. Gregory at q Lib
eral Meeting in Chicago.
DR.. H. w. Thomas, the great Chicago
preacher, is firm believer III the init
alive and referendum. In a recent artl-
Gle, he says:
representative government in our
country IS not success. The interests
of the people cannot be safely trusted to
city councils and legislatures; they should
not have the power to grant valuable
franchises. The sooner we come to the
initiative and referendum system The bet
ter IL,
Senator Teller, the Colorado statesman,
in discussing the probability Of legisla-
ton affecting the currency at the coming
session of congress, remarked on, We'd
nesday:
II do not believe there will be any leg
islation looking TO the substitution of
bank notes for greenbacks and treasury
notes, which appears to be the favorite
method of currency reform advocated
10y the supporters of the gold standard.
think it very doubtful whether the
advocates of the change can agree upon
the details of such legislation, and bank
ers will naturally hesitate to increase the
issue of bank notes in sufficient quantity
to take the place of the entire volume
of greenbacks and treasury notes, espe-
cially in view of the fact that the re-.
demption of bank notes must, to satisfy
the demands of the currency reformers,
be in gold" ... a..
On the question Of Cuban recognition
Mr.. Teller expressed himself as follows !:
II think that congress can settle the
Cuban question by recognizing the bel
ligerent ri gifts of the Cubans, and that
should have been done long since. I be-
lieve the house will pass the senate reso-
luton sent to it during the special ses-
sion,if that measure is brought before it,
but it is quite doubtful whether it will
be allowed to consider it at ALL"
During liberal meetings in Chicago
last week, Rev Gregory of the Church of
the Redeemer preached on "The Eccle-
siastical Juggernaut." He said in part:
"From the very beginning man has
been between the upper and the neither
millstones Of statecraft and priestcraft.
In the old times man was made for the
state. He was the property of the state,
with no rights of his own. Accordingly
laws were framed for the greatest good
for the few, and this explains the wretch
edness of the old world. When Christ
came, the sum total of his teachings
was the greatness of humanity. But soon
the church that took his name proved as
bad as the state. The priests declared
that man was made for crceds and cere-
monies. Mankind was sacrificed on the
altar of sacerdotalism. Christ had no
creed. He simply said: calm high and
live purely" But the Christianity which
took his name took little else.
eff I declare to you that the church
has killed reason and JOY you will ask
me for proofs,a land make the declaration.
It destroys reason with its stupid infalli-
bility. The church transforms us INTO
driveling idiots. All progress in science
has not been made with the aid of the
church, but IN spite of the church.
81 further say that the church is de-
structive of JOY. No man can really be-
lleve the historic creeds of the church
and be happy. No tongue can tell the
misery preachers have caused by their
preachings. Hearts have been made sad
by their spooks and their bogies. The
happy man has been damned and the
wretch who was too cowardly to smile
has been crowned. This mighty jugger-
naut of the church has crushed the JOY
and virtue out of man. But Christ be-
lieved that man was great and that Sum
day was made for man and not man for
sabbath
The Minneapolis Times in discussing
the effects of the DinUlev hill remarks