Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
Scathing Denunciation of Iowa Pro
fessor Delivered.
CALLS HIN A MODERN JUDASISCARIOT
Former Chicago Minister Says Heron
Is Either a Coward or a Monster
Points Out the Way by Which He
Can Receive Pardon.

MAKES ILLS statement Ill TeleISuCS "
Professor George D. Heron:
my refusal to meet Mr.. Heron at
the Get-Together club next Monday
night was not based upon his position
as socialist, his criticism of the
church, or of the administration.
notice that he says the church is a
practical atheism and supports all the
fundamental immortality of public life
land industry; that President Mckinley
is 'assassinating the liberties of the
Philippines; and that the most honor
ed members of society are its para
sites. Denying these statements for
myself, l concede liberty to another.
Indeed, as preachers, we welcome
criticisms and will pay the cash for
them, though not for compliments. If
the criticisms are intelligent and we'll
founded they will help. If they are
not based on facts in the case they will
fall to the ground and do no harm.
my objection to appearing with Mr.
Heron, therefore, was not based upon
| the vagaries of his intellect, or upon
! the fact that his thinking seems to me
cruel, superficial, and false in its prem
| ises, but upon the deeds that represent
his will and character.
Herron's Deeds Too GIaring.
Il do not wish to be unkind, but
there are sins SO grevious, so bald, vul-
gar and Grass in their persistency and
their virulence that they consume the
mantle of charity as a fame the gar
ments.
Consider the conceded facts in the
case. This man marries young wo-
/ nd Ted ha fot 0f oI,i
almost babies; forms a friendship
with young, unmarried woman from
whom he accepts money to buy his
penses; against his wife's protest goes
abroad with this woman friend and her
mother for a year; returns to tell his
wife that he has ceased to love her,
but loves another, and persistently
urges his wife to obtain a divorce.
When the wife is asked by the Judge if
there is any obstacle to their living to-
gether, she replies, No, except in my
husbands mind
"This mans spokesman and bosom
friend in New Haven justifies the
fathers desertion of the four children
by saying the woman friend gave
the wife 100000 to give her husband
up to her. Mrs. Herrons friends as,
sert that the amount paid was only
| 100000.
i Nov, some money was paid Mrs
Heron, or else it was not. Suppose
no money was paid her. Why has he
not denied the statement to save the
honor of the mother of his children
If any sum of money was paid his wife
by this woman friend, then this man
sold himself, and. whether for Judas
| thirty pieces of silver or 100000
makes no difference.
Either Coward or Monster.
"The first supposition leaves him a
coward in not defending his babes
mother. The second leaves him a
monster, and his friends may take
their choice. If there is community
in this land that represents that New
England Congregationalism scholar.
ship, plain living and high Christian
thinking, it is the old town of Grinnell
Ia, founded by the heroic band of four.
teen graduates of Yale College,"
i DR.. Hills statement then recites
the testimony of the people of Grin.
nell that Mrs. Heron sought her di
vorce reluctantly and is high-minded
and self-sacrificing. woman, and con
i tinues:
why should | go to the Celtic
i gether club to hear Herron's views up
on any subject? cannot hear what
Heron says, because the sobs of his
deserted babes are constantly in my
j, ears"
Conditions Dr.. Hills Proposes.
'If he will publicly renounce this
woman friend and break his pledges
to her for their announced marriage
if he will then rinse out his mouth
with sulphuric acid and cleanse it O.
foul pledges; if he will ask the judge
to remarry him to his deserted wife;
if he will return to his little children
and when they are old enough to I'm
} derstand it, beg their forgivness,
, will, after | am confident of his peni
, tence, gladly meet him on any plat
form, though | will never have any in
terest in the economic statements Of
a man whose intellect can be guiltl
of such vagaries.
'The time has fully come for some
one to say to Mr.. Heron that Brook
Ign is town that represents faith ii
! the Ten Commandments. If Mr.. Mes
Ierole will ask me to come To the Gef