The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-02-20
PUT CROMWELL
IN CONGRESS
HILLS INVITES COMPARISON
Sounds Optimistic Key
Dips Into History.


BY far the best lecture held this
season under the auspices of the M.
E. church Epworth League course
was that of last evening by Newell
Dwight Hills. DR.. Hills is the pas
tor of the old Henry Ward Beecher
church. He is born orator and held
the large audience spellbound with
his witty sayings and eloquence
throughout the entire evening.
His talk was mostly on the tyranny
and cruelty of the olden days Of
Great Britain and Spain, and the
present revolution in Russia. He
spoke Of the time OF the cruelty in
Great Britain, while Charles the First
reignei as king, and the days of OIL
yer Cromwell following. He said
that during the time of Oliver Crom
we'll King Charles was the king Of
grafters, and even went so low as to
sell the pirate king back to the pr
rates for two sacks of gold. He
spoke of how Oliver Cromwell tore
down large number Of castles in
Great Britain that the people might
have liberty, and said that when he
visited England short time ago he
went to the ruins of Kennewick cas-
tie and there he saw ten young la
dies studying with one of the lady
instructors of a college. She was
reading to the students Of the works
of Oliver Cromwell when he tore
down that castle, and, slamming the
book to the ground, cried, "cruel
wretch" then the young ladies each
took the corner of their handker-
chiefs and pressed them to their
eyes and shed seven or eight large
crystal tears because Oliver Crom.
we'll had destroyed such beautiful
works of architecture. "But," Mr..
Hills said, "they did not shed any
tears for the poor unfortunate people
who were imprisoned within those
walls
MANY histories state that Crom-
we'll hated architecture, but they do
not know of what they speak, as he
did not tear those castles down on
that account, but he did the work to
free the poor people, and those books
should all be placed in a pile and
burned.
Cromwell did more for the poor
people of this world during his day
than any other man." said Mr.. Hills,
land If he were in the legislature O,
congress of the United States today
there would be some great reforms
in those bodies.
1--WE often hear a person remark,
Things are not like they used to be
in the good old days of our fore
fathers There were no good old
days of our forefathers. When
these pessimistics talk of the good old
time of our forefathers they do not
know anything about the old times"
Mr.. Hills said. About 100 years
ago many babes born died of filth.
Over twenty years ago an epidemic of
typhoid fever and other fevers
ragged and people were dying OF like
cattle. One hundred years ago
slaves were sold on the streets of
New. York.
ssToday we have the life insurance
and municipal corporation frauds. II
such things had happened in the days
of our forefathers they would have
said they were as white as snow as
compared, with the existing condi-
lions of those times. presume there
are 100 policy holders in this audi
ence tonight, and while you sit here
the head men of those Insurance COM
panies are voting themselves salar-
les Of 100000 per year. They only
work occasionally. but their salary
is compulsory. These men have run
of with about everything. but they
have never been known to run
on with red-hot stove cover. Fifty
years ago everybody was a CRATER.
but today almost nobody is a CRATER.
and when It is thought there Is one.
everybody looks at him and points
him out as a CRATER. OF course
there are some honest men in this
country connected with politics and
insurance companies.
1.-THE people of today have q great
many glorious liberties. When you
consider the present revolution In
Russia you viii notice that the people
are lighting for the same liberties
hut they are trying to buy all the lib
critics in one big revolution. They
are lighting for personal and initial
lectual liberty, liberty Of their edit
ors and pres and the education Of