The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-15
ON Cash BASIS.
That's the Way Dowie viii Do
Business in Future.

Chicago, Dec 15.-"Zion City here
after will be conducted on cash basis
that is the lesson to be gained from
our financial distress. am confident
that all commercial claims against US
which do not amount to more than one
months busineSS-win be paid before
the end of the year. L have asked for
this extension of time that purchases in
the future may be made only for cash,
and that no settlement shall be delayed
longer than one week"
Six thousand persons listened in
Shiloh tabernacle while DR. Alexander
DoWie talked. the first time since the
dismissal of the receivers of Zion City.
of the causes leading to the descent Of
the creditors. He outlined his future
financial policy.
Among the factors instrumental in
bringing about the receivership the gen.
eral overseer enumerated:
Misrepresentation that Mrs. Dowie
had gone abroad with $1,000, 900, and
tnat he intended to follow her with the
remainder of Zion City's earthly treas
ure.
Filing of suits aggregating $4,000 by
Waukegan creditors before his return
from New York
The present bankruptcy law, which.
he declared, is extremely dangerous for
all commercial and banking concerns. .
The desire of a banker, whose name
he withheld, to secure the appointment
of a receiver.
A conspiracy to wreck Zion City.
ssThare was not word of truth in
the report that Mrs. Dowie had taken
these millions with her, and yet it was
persistantly circulated declared 'Dr." :"
Dowie. For months. as you know. we
had planned to take this trip. and L
shall leave on January 1 to join her,
returning on June 80.
eve will pay every claim against us
before the year is uD and with pen
cent. interest"
In the audience there We're many
City, and these with Dowie's followers,
chaered-
ct was a deliberate attempt to
wreck Zion City, said the general
tanned that the lawyer who induced
the court to grant the receivership,
which had been refused a few hours
before. procured assistance because a
prominent banker desired the receiver
ship and backed him up with a mass
of false statements.
'T don't wish to reflect in the slight
est degree on the court. the receivers.
or their ATTORNEYS. all of whom treated
me with the utmost cOnSidera ton"
Mr.. Dowie did not announce the name of
the banker who he asserted wished to Sc
cure the receivership. He stated that he
but found that he was not in the city.
''On his return. continued the general
oyerseer, II shall not hesitate to give his
name unless he can give satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION. wish to say that F. NJ. Blount
of the Chicago National bank is in no
wise implicated in the charge"
In concluding, Dr.. Dowie complimented
his followers on their attitude-both de-
positors in sthe bank and shareholders in
all commercial enterprises. Had they filed
their claims, he asserted-and he himself
was the principal misunderstanding
stocks that would not mature for % years
it would have been possible to swamp
the $350O00 commercial creditors accounts
and the terms of settlement easily could
have been dictated. as the people of Zion
City would have had the power to outvote
the other creditors 10 to l.
Dr.. Dowie will hold meeting in the
Auditorium on the afternoon of Decem-
ber u.