The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-08-22
Road Politics religion.

cussed politics and in our last dis
cussion we learned among other
things that there is no war in the
Philippines, and has not been since
st. MoK. began his missionary
work on the islands,
Our opponent who is one of those
up. to neutrality-suspicious. Republi-
cans, said that if the American peo-
pie only knew the amount of good
st. MoK was doing on the islands
there would henceforth and forever
be but one political party. And
when ] said the name of that party
would be spelled with big ID, he
put his hand in his pistol pocket
and we thought of kentucky and
stepped back two or three inches
After he had cooled down little
and looked more calm, we asked
him to tell us what good st. Nick.
was doing, and how he was doing
it.
He said that the pooplo ON the
islands were vile sinners and un-
less they, vera ohristianized they
would all be lost, and that Imperi-
alism Che pronouncedit imperilism
and didn't have the heart to cor
rect him) must exist in the islands
until oil the people were saved.
We then asked what he under
stood by Imperialism, and he said
it was kind of religious book or
tract that was being sent to the ma
tives to read and was intended to
prepare them for the revival of re-
ligion which was soon to sweep over
the islands.
Whom we told him that accord
ing to his theory st. Nick. had al
ready sent about sixteen thou
sand to perdition, and that L had
not heard of anyone who had nc
copied st. McK.'s new religion, or,
in other words. WAS on the road to
Heaven, he replied that [ had for
gotten AguinaIdo, who seemed TO
be religiousIy inclined ever since
tho Evangelists had captured
his (Aguinaldo's) wife and
stolen her wardrobe, and that
ST. Nick. had not dono tho
real Apostolic act yet. just laying
the foundation and getting ready
for the great work of saving thom
from their sins.
When asked if he knew that ST.
Mack had once given God the
credit for tho 'great good they
were doing in spreading the gos-
pei and at the same time blamed
Senator Hoar with having encour.
aged the natives to accept said gos-
pei, and that the Republican press
is now trying to fasten all the
blame on Mr., Bryan, claiming that
he went to Washington City and
persuaded Democratic Senators to
vote for the retention of the islands,;
yes, said he, our holy, and aIwise
President did say at one time
that God sent him into Z Philip
pines, but that was before he real
lied the magnitude of his 0e01,
greatness and his power to spread
the gospel; and that Senator Hoar
had done, like all good Christians
do, surrendered his own opinion
and counted them as nothing COM
pared with those of st. Mack and
St. Mark.
AS to Mr.. Bryan, he said he did
not know what he had done, but
he supposed Bryan was very
wicked sinner, for he was causing
our good President more anxiety
and unrest than all the wickedness
in the Philippines. why" said
he, "thore is nothing else in all
this wide world that would give
our soul-saving President that
peace of mind and rest to his soul
that would surely come to him
if he only know that Mr.
Bryan was safely housed up in
heaven, where his enjoyment would
be 30 great that he would me0er
have any desire to return to this
sinful and unfriendly world" He
then frightened his grip on his
pistol and said that ST. Mack would
soon have those natives Christian
lied and the Democrats kentucky
lied, SO that it would not be ne
cessary to run the Government by
injunction nor assassination any
more, and with our present pros
perity, we could at any time look
for the New Jerusalem that John
saw when he was on the Isle of
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