The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-14
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LETTER
HIS RECENT ASSERTION CAUSES
INFLOW OF HEAVY MAIL.
REV. CADMAN CAUSED 1T ALL.
Bill Reiterates His Remarks-A Short
Trip to Florida to Ami
hilnte the Grip.

Miss Fair have put their millions to- |
gether and somebody is going to suf- |
fer by it. This thing is al wrong. |
Rich people ought not to marry rich
people, but I don't see how we can
stop it. There are prettier girls than
Miss Fair and handsomer men than
Mr.. Vanderbilt, but money loves
money and that settled it. That
pretty little nursery story about Gin
derella marrying a prince is as dead
rs Hector. But l don't see how We
can prevent these trusts and COM
binations and great accumulations
without q heavy income tax and an in
heritance tax. Even then the mil
lionaires 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
Roosevelt is after them in n special
message. 1t looks like we poor folks
will Just have to submit-and thank
the Lcrd that we are out of Jail and
that it 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 today
and will have Strawberries in n week
or two. There are many good things
not yet in any combine. | suggested
to Mr.. Bealer the other day that | was
in favor of church trust in every
small town, for ! wanted to hear him
for fear of giving ofens9e s9er9GJpGSh 9Jp Stt anI 9 was
er. think it would be n good ideo
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IN the different churches, and we wouId
MAKE combine of the salaries and
divide 1t out pro rata. Doctrinol Sop.
mons have about played out, anyhow.
and excepting baptism by immersion
there Is very little difference in the
essential principles of the Christian
denominations. We all want to idol
iZe somebody and had Just as leave
ldollze four preachers rs one.
some OF the preachers are disturbed
about what | wrote about the 400 in
Nfw York and want me to retract and
from The New York Christian Advo-
cate that the Associated Press dis
patch that 1 quoted from was much
exaggerated and distorted Enough
IS admitted, however. to show that
Rev. Cadman is skcptic on the sub
Ject of miracles and drew conclusions
from his own argument that the edi.
tor says he cannot accept and that Mr.
Cadman says he does not himself nc
cept. That is funny. The editor says
these preachers often give tumultuous
applause to mcritorious paper, but
would refuse to indorse or approve
the paper. That is funny, too, and is
an admission that Mr.. Cadman's nrgu.
ment against miracles WAS meritori-
Gus.
But enough Of this. The northern
Methodist church can take care of
itself. The editor says he has received
from two to twenty letters from each
of fourteen different states asking if
that press dispatch spoke the truth.
And have received many, and among
them are two who indorse Cndman
and the 400. anl one from a Mormon
elder who asserts that the purest of all
Christian faith is to be found only in
the Mormon church, and be sends me
some tracts and begs me to read them.
The letters / have received are 10
doubt sincere, and they are written in
polite and scholarl J language, and gave
me no ground for oifense
Many men Of many minds there are
in this world and it becomes us all to
ne tolerant. Error tnrlyes on lntoler-
ance and persecution.
And here is an editor from Virginia
who complains to The Constitution,
and takes exception to my saving:
80 far as | am concerned | feel as if
] was nothing and less than nothing
in the scale of existence, for know
not whence ] came nor where I am
going And he asks impertinentlv
II have become an agnostic, and SAYS
my utternnces are astounding. There
are some smart people who are hypo-
critical and can't help it. They hunt
for something to hawk at and feed
their conceit. What man knows the
secret of his being or where he came
from in the beginning? The Lord
answered job out of the whirlwind
and said: "Whcre vast tllou when I
laid the foundations Of the earth? De-
clare it if thou hast UNDERSTANDING. "
Perhaps this editor can answer. And
again the Lord asked job: "Hnve the
gates OF death been opened unto thee?
knowest thou the ordinances Of heaven
and canst thou set the dominion there
Off This editor wants to know if |
nave Bible before me. Yes, and that
As what 1t says and much more on
that line.
One day | was talking TO DR.. Cand-
Ter at the union depot in Atlanta. The |
train was about to leave and he had |
hold of the hand rail when newspa.
per man hurried mp with his pad and |
pencil and Sui1. s.Hon, R;sl,,,, L..