Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03
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They know if we go there we can get
up so great a crowd that it will take
three trains on the Michigan Central
to carry them. To help your great
road l want a pass from Chicago to
Lonesomeville and return for myself,
wife and little daughter daughter
weighs 1907. Before Mr.. Sooner gets
through with his eloquence the gen.
eral agent has the pass written. Mr..
Sooner takes it, goes to Lonesome
vile shows his pass to everyone and
tells the people of Lonesomeville if
they knew anything they could ride
on the cars for nothing. He also
says he is glad he beat the Michigan
Central because their brakeman was
so goll-darned mean he would not let
his wife fry Goldfish and onions over
a sinking oil stove in their beautiful
passenger coach.
Another class is the Reverend pass
puller. At Emery Wheel, small
town in Monroe county, Pa, on the
Lackawanna road, lives a Mr.. Dan d.
Soulsaver. Mr.. Soulsaver peeled bark
in the summer, worked in the Emery
Wheel factory in the winter and held
revivals in the little red school house
at night. He liked the latter calling
better. He heard that missionaries
were doing a great business in Chi
cago; so he cultivates bishops voice,
buys himself a clerical hat, a high
white collar that buttons behind, and
a preachers vest that is cut so high
| in front that it makes a chin rest;
grows side whiskers goes to Chicago
and opens up a mission at, say Oak
Park, where he sings, prays, eXhorts
and passes the hat. The heather at
Oak Park do not take to him, they
do not dig up or fall PROSTATE before
the anxious seat and cry for mercy.
The Rev. Dan d. Soulsaver gets hun
CRY and wants to go back to Emery
Wheel. After he has worked the
P. D. O. railroad for a pass from Chi
cago to Buffalo and return he goes
over to the Lackawanna Office. He
is ushered into the little inner Office
the holy of holes where sits the great
western high priest of the Road of
Anthracite" to whom the Rev. Dan
d. Soulsaver makes the following ap-
peal: my name is the Rev. Dan d.
Soulsaver. l am the heavenly excur-
sion agent of the Anti-Hades mission
at Oak Park. Every night thousands
of the unregenerate, unsanctified and
non-elect are flocking to my mission
and imploring to be saved. The cry
goes up both day and night for saliva
ton, but the room where | hold my
blessed revivals is too small All those
who cannot get in are forever lost
We want large building. The good
people of Emery Wheel have agreed
to furnish the money if | will only
come and get it," Tears were running
down the Lackawanna agents cheeks
like the precious ointment tina,
ran down upon the beard. even
Aaron's whiskers, that went dow
and besmeared the skirts of his
night gown. The pass from Buffalo
to Emery Wheel and return was is.
sued. The Rev. Dan d. Soulsaver
went back to Emery Wheel, sold his
return passes and resumed his old job
|peeling bark.
The eastern roads were worked so
last year, that by December 31st they
had a pile of these passes as big as
the anti-Smoot protests in Washing
ton. These passes were obtained in
the same way and are just as worth
less to the railroads as the Smoot pro
tests are to the United States senate
The eastern roads used no tact OF
discrimination. On January 1, wher