Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-07-18


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There is good deal of talk about
DR.. Lorimcr's salary. He breaches in
New York. Boston wants him. hav-
ing had a taste of his efficiency, and
has offered him S2O.OOO year and
parsonage that is anything but hut.
1t Is u high-watCr mark salary, and
causes discussion because there are
people who do not believe that min
lister of the Gaspel should allow money
to determine his location, or that any
minister should be paid 500 week.
There IL n business side to IL. The de.
mands made OH modern minister are
immense. lie must be an orator, Il
thinker. Il planner. lie must have
health. magnetism and that mysteri.
Gus something that fills the pcws.
charges the very air with electricity,
and makes the people treasure his
words and support his projects. You
cannot fix the cash value of that kind
Of II minister. He Is worth whatever
q church can afford to pay him. and
II the sum Is $4,000 there isn't Il
shadow of a doubt that he will do
his community $4,000 worth of good.
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They do some things better In Rus.
sia. The Standard oil Company TN.
deltook TO corner petroleum at Baku.
a Rockefeller agent got control OF all
the rolling stock and sent the price
up All the visible supply was kept
under perfect control until the rail.
way authorities telegraphed to the I'm
perial capital for instructions. An int
mediate reply was returned that II de-
livery were not ordered within twenty
four hours the tanks ready for haul.
age should be emptied on the railroad
tracks and returned for fresh filling
mt Baku. subject TO open market con.
troll. The corner In petroleum was
convincingly broken and repetition
Of the business SO familiar In this part
Of the world was not attempted Had
the sherman law been promptly and
faithfully enforced from the time Of It's
enactment the history Of corners In the
United States would be brlefer. We
cannot AFFORD to substitute despotism
for democracy. but It is humiliating
comment on democracy that II has
failed TO prevent the erection Of des.
potism In commerce as absolute as that
Of the imperial government In Russia.
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It Is a fact that no witch was ever
burned or put to death by fire IN Sa.
lem or any other part Of Massachu.
sets. How the impression that Cot
ton Mnther and his associates had
pcrpctrated that horror gained cur.
rency Is ineXplicable, but II has been
floating around for generations, and
in all probability will 'go on forever"
Salem was the scene Of the trial. con.
victiOn and execution by hanging Of
persons accused Of witchcraft. says
the Washington Star. GallOws hill,
the cminence on which the hangIngs
occurred. IL perhaps the most inter.
| esting show place In New England.
1t may be doubted II more sincere or
conscientious men ever lived than Cot
ton Mather and his brethren. They
went to the Bible for their authority,
to the Mosaic law. emitting the Chris
tian dispensation. That law told them,
Thou shalt not suffer witch 10
live" Firmly believing In witchcrnft
and having no doubt that they had
witches to deal with, what We're they
to do but to kill them? From their
point Of view they exercised great hu.
manity In employing the gallows rath.
er than the fagOt.
| Frequently one hears II said that
such ana such Il word, II spoken be.
fore this or that man or woman, Ia
like red rag In front Of II bull. Some
OF these inHaming words or phrases
In political speech and writing nrt
protection" free trade" ''gollstand
ard equal suffrage "prohitlon,'
liquor license" ana third term
Controversy has waged round the ideas
for which they stand, and all the hare
feelings aroused by angry dispute ar'
recalled when the words are used
Men ana women are In such stric
bondage to words that 1t Is difficult
to get ut the merits of q question II
discussion with them, II any Of tn
quarrel words" are used. The. wis,
man. therefore. avoids such words am
makes us of others, less worn, whe!
he desires his views on cOntrovcrte,
subjects to receive a respectful hear
ings. There are words of allurement
also, which tactful speakers enplO.
to gain the goodwill of their hearers
The discerning man who sees through
words to the things they stand for |
seldom excited by the quarrel words
ana Is not often allurel by the entice
ment of empty compliments. He doe
his own thinking. as Emerson advise,
the young men Of Harvard to do, whe
he told them that Plato and Othe
. notable thinkers Mt the time the.
were evolving their theories. wer
young men In Libraries, ana held II
patent on the right to reach independ
, ent conclusions. The inclination to L.
Others do ones thinking II first co,
sin to the willingness to sit In bond
age to mere words. There Is no plac
, for either of the cousins In the inte
/ lectual outfit of the men and wOme
: who lead In the work of the worlt
1t Is better to have the microscOp
. reveal the blue clay In u coffee bel
2 ~" than to await the tardy revel,
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