The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-04-20
BILL APPS HEAVY MAIL.
Receives Letters From All Parts Of
the Union
ABOUT HIS RECENT ASSERTION
fiat He Knew Not Whenee he Came NOT
Whittier he Is Going 49, His Trip TO
Ftoridz-An0ther 1ruSs.

Now mere 10 another trust lust con-
Mr.. Vanderbilt and Miss
Far have put their millions together
and somebody is going to suffer by it.
This thing is oil wrong. Rich people
ought not to marry rich people, but
don't see how we can stop it. There
are prettier girls than Miss Fair and
men than Mr.. Vanderbilt,
but money loves money and that settled
it. That pretty little nursery story
about Cinderella marrying a prin7e 10
as dead as Hector. But don'ts see how
We can prevent these trusts and COM
biDations and great accommodations with.
out heavy income tax aud an inner
itance tax Even then the millionaire
would hide out OF it or lie out of it.
They would dodge the revenue men
just like the moonshiners do. We see
that Vanderbilt is lodging them now
in New York and Governor Roose-
welt is after them in q special mos
sage. 1t looks like we poor folks will
just have to submit-and thank the
Lord that we are out OF Jail and that it
is as we'll with US as what it is. They
can't form any trust on air and water
and our gardens and home raised
chickens and eggs and potatoes. We
had asparagus for dinner to-day and
will have strawberries in q week or
two. There are many good things not
yet in any combine. suggested to
Mr.. Bealer the other day that 1 was in
favor of church trust in every small
town, for 7 wanted to hear him and oil
the preachers preach and was afraid to
leave my own little church for fear OF
giving offense to our preacher. l think
it would be good idea for the preach
ers to rotate and preach in the different
-hurches, and we would make a com.
bine of the salaries and divide it out
pro rata. Doctrinal sermons have
about played out, anyhow, and except
ing baptism by immersion, there is
very little difference in the essential
principles of the Christian denomina-
tons. We want to idolize some body
and Just as lief idolize four preachers
as one.
Some of the preachers are disturbed
about what I wrote about the 400 in New
York, and want me to retract and ex.
plain. and I am pleased to learn from
The New York Christian Advocate that
the Associated Press dispatch that
quoted from wac much exaggerated and
distorted. Enough is admitted, how.
ever, to show that Rev. Cadman is a
skeptic on the subject of miracles and
drew conclusions from his own ar
gument that the editor says he cannot
accept and that Mr.. Cadman says he
does not himself accept. That is funny;
The editor says these preachers often
give tumultuous applause to a mer-
itorious paper, but would refuse to in.
dorse or approve the paper. That is
tunny, too, and is an admission that
Mr.. Cadmen's argument against mir
acles WAS meritorious.
| But enough of this. The northern
Methodist church can take care Of it.
self. The editor says ne has received
from two to twenty letters from each OF
fourteen different states asking if that
press dispatch spoke the truth. T.
And ] have received many, and among
them are two who endorse Cadman and
the 400. and one from Mormon Elder
who asserts that the purest of all
Christian faith is to be found only in
| the Mormon church. and be eepds me
some tracts and begs me to read them.
The letters I have received are nc
doubt sincere, and they are written in
polite and scholarly language, and gave
me no ground for offense.
Many men of many minds there are
in this world and it becomes US to be
tolerant Error thrives on intolerance
and persecution.
And here is an editor from Virgins
who complains to the Constitution, and
takes exception to my saying: $50 ia,
as I am concerned I feel as if I was
nothing and less than nothing in tn.
scale of existence, for I know no,
whence I came nor where am going. ,
And he asks impertinently if I hav.
become an agnostic. and says my utter
ances are astounding. There are som,
smart people who are hypocritical ana
can't hslpit They hunt for something
to hawk at and feed their conceit
What man knows the secret of his be-
ing or where he came from in the be
ginning? The Lord answered Job on
of the whirlwind and said: "Where wa.
thou when I laid the foundations O
the earth. Declare it If thou hast IN
Outstanding. Perhaps this editor ca,
answer. And again the Lord aske,
Job: "Have the gates of death BEEF
opened unto thee? Knowest thou tn
ordinances Of heaven and canst tho,
set the dominions thereof ?'' Thi
editor wants to know If I have . Bibl
before me. Yes, and that is what i
says-and much more on that line
One day was talking to DR.. Candle
at the union depot in Atlanta. Th
train was about to leave and he ha
hold of the hand rail when newspape
man hurried up with his pad and pen
Gil and said: "Hello, Bishop. Excus
me, but where are you going?" TIL
bishop pulled himself up gently as tn
! car began to move aad said: IN
friend, am going to heaven Wher
are you going?" I enjoyed that, bu
if had been the reporter think
= would have asked: And whore
heaven, and how big is it. and whe
will you get there? That uadiscovere
: countrv from whAnce' no travalar -,