The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-10-23
PEOPLE WITH a PREJUDICE.

PEOPLE WITH a PREJUDICE.
One Of the worst evils of the present
day is the inclination on the part Of
some people to create dissention and
distrust between classes between Ia
Dor and capital, between religious de-
nominations, between the church on
the one hand and the non-church world
on the other. There was time when
even our forefathers down in New Eng
land thought they were the judge and
jury in certain matters, and as a mat
ter of fact they were.> They made
Roger Williams hike to Rhode Island
because he entertained religious views
contrary to the.belief of the blue-belly
Puritans, but the descendants OF the
Puritans and of the founder of Rhode
Island are one social family to-day and
live in peace. Since the days of the
Puritans things have become different.
The Puritan is no longer the only
pebble on the New England seashore,
and the people of all nations and
climes, and all religious and non-relig-
ious beliefs, the Catholic and the Chris
tian Scientist, the stiff and orderly
Presbyterian, the easy-going and pro-
gressive Congregationalist, the one
sided Baptist, the vigorous Methodist,
the formal Episcopalian, the Salvation
Army enthusiast, all, and bless them
all,-live and have their being where
the Puritan formerly lived on his hide
bound faith and blue laws. In those
days it was different. The Puritan had
New England, the Dutch had New
York and surroundings, the Quakers
had Pennsylvania, the Catholics had
Maryland, and the Huguenots had the
country further south. 1t is different
now. We have grown up together.
We have loved together, intermarried,
and fought together, and some have
died together on the battlefield. We
have found good in all and the man or
woman who seeks to array faction
against faction and class against class,
one church against another, or labor
against employer, is mere child stand
ing at the great cross roads of human
progress confused and bewildered.
Distrust and discomfort and religious
and social prejudice are relics of the
dark ages. If we want to dig up skele-
tons of the past we can find them right
here at home and do not have to 90
back many years, and we can find them
in all sects and denominations. But
society and the world has grown and
improved in the sunlight of reason.
We no longer fear and distrust one
another. We may not all see things
just alike and we differ in our views
and beliefs. It was always thus, and
will be ever thus. But let US all try, to
WELD the great hammer of reason that
is to weld the warning factions of So
ciety and church into one mighty link
of contentment and harmony.
Get ye hence, plotter and agitator.
This is no time for stumbling blocks,
and criticism and prejudice. In the
great workshop of life men are work.
ing shoulder to shoulder and convert
ing labor into the finished products for
the busy marts. They are of all be-
liefs and social conditions, and it is
none of our affair what orders they
may belong to or what churches they
may attend, so long as they are law
abiding and peaceful citizens. Such
men are good neighbors, and fellow
citizens, and lnthem we have implicit
faith and confidence, knowing that
most of them are living deep in their
hearts for higher purpose, and know
ing that they will fight for their home
and country.
This ought to be enough to satisfy
any man, but it seems it does not.
CAPT. M. L. FAY, Democratic candi-
date for congress from this district, is
rich man and owns valuable mining
properties on the Mesaba range. A
valuable mining lease which he owned
near Hibbing, has just been sold to a
Pittsburg firm for a bonus of S28O,0O0.