The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1906-03-09
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ing teh News editor. If have wit
tingly or unwitting1y sinned against
him or any other respected citizen of
Bottineau or elsewhere. I would gladly
make suitable amends. l fail to see
how I can have made myself offensive
among, the Doukobors They are an
unoffensive people and it is said some
what peculiar in the performance of
their religious rites and ceremonies,
but I believe they are sincere. Crit
icism is an efficient means of reform.
"Open rebuke is better than secret
love- Not only is it competent to
criticise the laws, but those who make.
and execute the same.
''Ye are the children of your father.
the devil, and the works of your faith
er ye do; he was liar from the be.
ginning and abode not in the truth. -
That was grave charge luade by and
august parsonage against very sane
titled sect, posing to be the children
of Abraham; official hypocrites, men
who were in the habit of straining at
a gnat and swallowing camel.
hope Mr.. Falkenstein will never try to
swallow camel, but I regret to find
him straining at gnat in an effort to
suppress the free unbridled discussion
of public questions. Who is this one
man, self constituted board of censor 2
Has the German Emperor given him a
corner on American privileges? From
whom does he get his authority that
even our minister does not hold other
than a prayer meeting without his let
OF lease-forsooth Doubtless the man
is to he pitied. for he really seems in
capable of discriminating between
private and public matters. Who
cares where I live? Has a poor help
less Indian, who has been robbed Of
his property by some government
official, leaving his wigwam and fam
lily in pitiful destitution, no right to
p rotest? May not his tribesmen rlead
his cause7 Strange this gentleman
cannot see the red man is not a citi-
zen, but rather partakes only of the
crumbs that fall from his master 8
table, but I wish to respectfully inform
him I am.
Mr.. Falkenstein is very wonderful
man. with wonderful views and prints
a very wonderful paper. Solomon said
that there we're three things that were
too wonderful for him. I fancy if he
could have known the learned editor
as I do. he would have made it four.
I am not phrenologist, but think our
friends bump of elf.esteem must be
very prominent. Well, I believe that
every man should have a generous
supply of this commodity, but would
not advise taking on too heavy deck
load, least it might disturb his equil
ibrium. If I am not mistaken the
genial gentleman's delicate sensibility
of ministerial propriety was greatly
shocked last spring when the reverend
gentlemen Of this city called meet
ing purely in the interest of the COM
nlunity at large. And among the
many sensible suggestions were that
some means should be devised for the
correction Of pool room evils and
abuse of druggists permits. An alb
solute prohibitory license was men,
toned for tie former and think en-
tire government control of both the
manufacture and sale of all alcoholic
beverages was proposed as remedy
for the latter. On general principles
I presume it is quite impossible for
any druggist to sell iutoixcants by vir-
tue of permit without violation of
the spirit of the law. care not how
pure his intentions may be because of
the unblushing Justification of his pat
rons. We want more of these meet
ings. They do much good and no
harm, except that they vex the right
eous soul of Mr.. Falkensten- at least
so it would appear-inasmuch as at
the time the above mentioned meeting
was conceived he felt constrained in
the columns Of his paper to seriously
call in question the competency Of
gospel ministers doing other than
spending all their precious time on
their knees praying for the salvation