The San Francisco call., 1899-08-12
SWINE and SALVATION.

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Francisco wonder worker named Dowie
- He hailed from far New Zealand and his bust
ness in life was prolongng it by Christian healing
He professed to cure all the inherited and acquired
ills of the flesh and bones by persuasive lncanta-
ton which induced the sick to think that they were
well. "As man thinketh, so is he was interpreted
by Dowie to mean that if sick Smith think himself
well Jones, so is he
His career here was more or less checkered-prln-
cipaly more AS prophylactic prophet he found an
mplacable rival in the healing climate OF California
and finally pulled in his sign and made tracks tor
other fields These pastures new he found in Chicago
There he has an institute with capacity Tor hve
hundred people and it is full all the time, for verify
one OF that kind is born into the world every minute
When his signs and passes failed to repair rebel
lious liver or remove the reorsc of guilty stomach
he came to putting the blame OF failure on pork
diet and posted on the walls OF his mystery mill,
above the Legend God Bless Our Home, tablet
inscribed, 'Whosoever eateth of swine flesh
raiseth hogs is not fit to enter the kingdom of
heaven" Dowie therefore decided to attack the hog
in his stronghold, for the Berkshire, Poland China,
Suffolk and Chester White root in every square mile
o Illinois and the neghboring States, and in that
city doth not Phil Armour stick ten thousand pigs
day and turn into money everything from bowels to
bristles except the squeal? To attack the hog and
tilzer hair brushes bone buttons and sausage cases
is to pull the foundation from under Chicago and send
a misery through several States. When the of
heard OF Dowies campaign they grew cross
grained The sentiment Of those prairie States
uttered one time by Hon. Frank Landers of Indiana,
who packed pork, went to Congress, ran for Gov
ernor and bought the Hoosier hog crop His pack
cry in Indianapolis redoent OF odors not OF
Araby The people revolted and called d big meet
ing in EngIish's opera house to denounce Landers
and all his works Orators took the stage and held
Up pity and protection their noses, dishearened by
breathing the porscented air and discolored by the
OF disnfectant remedies. 1t was torrid time but
some one said fair play jewel which shone
i'll a sOws ear, and Mr.. Landers should be heard.
That stalwart slaughterer appeared and said: "What
settled Indanny? Corn and hogs What built every
house in this State? Corn and hogs Wizard the
money come from to put UP this opry-house and
paint them picters OF Mr. Shakespeare Mr. Johnson
and others OF celebrated countrymen? From
corn and hogs What eddicated Governor Hendricks
and made Dan Noorhes an orator and bought Ben
Harrison's linen breeches an coupee to ride from
Delaware street to his law office? Corn and hogs.
When I think OF what would become of Indianny
without corn and hogs l think a Hooser that CANT
stand the smell OF slarern pigs ought to be dr1mmed
across the line into Kantucky blue grass an
go into the dairy
That settled it. The crowd voted with effusion
that the Landers porkhouse was an ornament to the
city.
In the midst OF such community Mr.. Dowie has
unured the black flag skull crossbones and all,
against the hog a stumbling block to salvation.
He has sent out evangeists to preach this crusade
right into the heart of the hog region Two of these
Mr.. Groves, until year ago Methodist evangelist,
and Mr. Holmes, formerly Methodist elder selected
their field the town of Worthington, MINI,
where stood the embattled hog. roofing by the road
side. They converted the leading hog breeder Mr.
Milton, in whose white clover pasture hundreds Of
hogs were passing their novtiate for the corn finish
which would fit them to matricuate in Phil Armours
institute in the early winter. Milton was made 10
feel that these gruners team pulling him right
straight into that fiery furnace and burning lake de
scribed by his namesake John. He agreed to save
his own bacon by sacrificing that Of his hogs and
after preparing wide and deep grave and tomb
inscribed, ''Whosoever doth not bear his cross
and after me cannot be my disciple; this
monument erected over swine flesh killed for Jesus
sake he and his sons got their Winchesters the
evangests supplied the prayer and cartridges and the
signal for the first volley, which they said came by
divine inspiration, and the shooting began, nor
stopped until every porker had rooted the dust
The scene had attracted large number of neigh
boring farmers, and when the funeral began they
threatened to lynch Milton, the evangelsts and all
concerned.
The affair closed by taking Milton before court
to test his sanity and notice the evangelsts to root
out OF there This they did after delivering two pray
in the hogpen
The probable propagation of fanaticism is shown
by the genuine alarm of the Chicago pork packers
lest this fad spread and materially reduce the hog
crop, and it has already had bad effect on the price
of corn