Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-09-13

of a public menace as is the Rockefeller
trust He has been condemned for fail
ure to appreciate the Christian spirit
evinced in the maintenance OF the Sab
bath, he has been weakened by the at
tacks that have been made upon him
for accepting rebates from the rail-
roads, while proclaiming to the world
his unalterabe opposition to the sys-
tenn which has been denounced by
every Republican orator that has ap-
peared upon the platform during the
present campaign, and he has shown
personal weakness in meeting such
issues that have, in the opinion OF
many practically put him out of the
race for the governorship.
Homer l.. Castle. the Prohibition
candidate for governor. accentuated the
issue of "the Church vs.. the Brewery"
in his speech delivered recently in Har-
risburg when he said:
II must insist that Mr.. Emery Is not
fit to be the governor of this state, be-
cause his mental ideals are low and tre-
mendously warped. He sits down in
cold blood and writes a letter to
man, in which he puts the church and
the school house and the hospital on
parity with a brewery. Just think
of it!
As to the Church.
1.-THE church, which, aside from the
home. IS the only institution which
has Divine sanction and ordination.
'The church. which has stood for
these ages as the sign present of God
with man.
"The church, into whose life has been
poured the thoughts of the best men
and women that have ever lived.
"The church, for whose life SO many
men have laid down theirs and will
lingly surrendered all they had and
were, that it might have life.
"The church, whose spires point the
mariner on nfe's sea the way to the
better.
"The church, into whose portals you
and went as boys. and where first the
minister of God laid his hands in bles-
sing on our heads.
"The church. where our names were
enrolled and where every Sabbath we
meet and catch fresh breath from the
atmosphere of higher life.
THE church. to whose altar you and
| led the woman who became part and
parcel of our lives. and heard the min
ister say, Whom God hath joined to-
gether let no man put asunder.'
THE church, through whose door
we carried for the last time the body
of sainted mother.
THE church. that comes to the bed
side as all things terrestrial seems to
recede from us, and touching our fad
ing eyesight. makes us to see glories
beyond. This church Is no better, in
the ideas of Lewis Emery, than brew
cry, and | am not objecting to Mr.
Emery's ideals.
Some have said that he is honest
when he makes these statements. Let
that stand for the fact and his very
honesty makes him the more ineligi-
BILE as the governor of Christian conf
monwealth.
"The objection that urge to him IL
not that he believes that the church
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that the man who does believe that
ought not to be foremost in Chris
tian commonwealth.
I'VE have in this state approx
mateIy 5000 ministers of that church;
we have at least 5.000000 attendants
upon the public services of that church,
and. to pvt it in the parlance of the
street, l say 1t Is up to that church to
demonstrate by declining to support
Mr. Emery, that it does not believe that
1t is fact that they are no better than
the brewery"
Mr.. Castle then gave testimony as
to the great work of the public schools
and the hospitals of the common
wealth. which, he said Mr. Emery had,
with the church. linked in the same
category of the breweries.
He recounted story about Mr.. En-
cry making a speech on Sunday at a
gathering of Italians, where beer
flowed freely" and on this point he
said, among other things: II do not ask
Mr.. Emery to reverence the Christian
Sabbath day. | do not insist that he
shall go to church; l do not even insist
that he shall not attend Italian brawls
but l do insist that the man who does
that is not fit to be governor Of a
Christian commonwealth.
Beyond the peradventure OF doubt
it is the duty of the church to take a
hand in this fight, not alone for the
maintenance OF it's own honor, but for
the maintenance Of the honor of the
country"
Emery's Oil Trust.
Mr.. Castle then discussed at length
Mr.. Emery's business operations, de.
slaring that the Pure Oil company
with which he had been identified, ID
as much Of . trust in Its way as Is ths
Standard Oil company.
Upon this point, among other things
he said:
II have said. furthermore, that Mr.