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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18

speech at a republican banquet that
incensed Dr. Talbot, his dictator or
hierarch, as the Tribune would call
him if he were Mormon, and Tai
bolt saw that an honest, truthful
preacher would kill the missionary
business in Utah, so the very first
opportunity that DR.. Talbot had to
show his ant-Utah teeth after Rev.
Mr.. Young made the speech above
referred to was at the Methodist con
ference, and there fired the Rev Mr..
Young out of Utah.
In next weeks Truth ! will have
something to say about the Utah
devil fish" hat worried the Tribune
because Rev DR.. Goshen condemned
it. Yours truly,
V. S. PFET.
Washington, d. c., January 9, 1908.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18


built meeting house at Princeton,
Mass. The civilized, Bible-reading
Puritans burned this meeting house
and passed laws making these civil
lied, Bible-reading Methodists a gang
of felons and disturbers of society.
1t is historical fact that ever since
the Bible has been known or read,
most of its readers have prosecuted
each other, these prosecuting Bible
readers believing the Bible taught
that the God of the Bible was all
eternal torture-loving demon, that i.
was this demons great pleasure to
roast without intermission," some Of
his children in hell fire forever, and
others to live in eternal bliss" IN
heaven forever. Preachers who
taught the above were a curse to the
nation; they made towards of the
people by filing them with fear and
madhouse dope. But there arose
among these civilized Bible-readers
other civilized Bible-readers known
as the Universalists, the Unitarians,
the Mormons, and the Christian
Scientists, who said that the Bible
taught that God was love, life, happi-
ness, and good will towards all men;
that an eternal burning hell was de-
moniacal logic, that a loving GOD
and eternal torture would not coin
eide. The religious sects who be-
lieved in an eternal hell were always
prosecutors, while the religious sects
who did not believe in eternal tor
ture never prosecuted.
From the above facts we have to
conclude that some readers of the
Bible may be uncivilized, and heath
enish enough to prosecute and even
murder their brothers, while others
of its readers may be highly civilized
and do good to all but in logical
sense the Bible is not always fore
runner of civilization. We might just
as well say that the saloon indicates
civilization because saloons only thrive
where civilized man reigns and the
saloon and the Christian missionary
usually locate in the same city in
heathcnish countries. The orthodox
Christian missionaries have taught
he American people that the only
way to civilize the uncivilized is to
send them Bibles with missionaries
to explain it, and millions of dollars
are begged from the American PEG
pie every year to support the mis-
sions.
Many of the missionaries do not
like to go to foreign countries to gel
a slice of this missionary money, for
they may be sent to some countries
where they will have to do some
work, or to others where they are
liable to get their heads chopped off,
or to others where they may be cut
up in chocie, juicy steaks or boiled
up into soup. This class of mission
aries, to get their mission money
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18
CALIFORNIA; FRUIT WORTH
TWICE AS MUCH AS HER
GOLD.

Fifty years ago California was a
mining camp. Today the value -.
the States orange and lemon crop j.,
equal to the product of her gold
mines. Her total crop is worth tw;,c
as much as her gold output.
The returns of the California citrus
fruit crop for the season ending No
vember Ist, are just now available.
They show the shipment of 27,487
carloads, worth about $4,000 900, an
increase of 1000 cars over last yea.
The marke. for this fruit is the
East and Middle West. Only frac-
ton of the $34ooo,ooo worth of or
anges and lemons could have been
produced or marketed but for freight
rates which enable the California
grower to compete in any market
with the growers of any other section
The story of the development of
the States fruit trade is duplicated,
though perhaps less strikingly, in re-
spect to other products.
The California Board of Trade re-
ports the average yearly product OF
the soil and the mines of the State
as in the neighborhood of $358,ooo,
600. Using round figures, this is d.
vided as follows: Cereals, $4,000
900; other products, SAG, 900; farm
animals and their products, $75,ooo,-
900; vineyards, $Io,8oo,ooo; orchard
products, 1900, 900; garden products,
Sc, 900; minerals, including petro-
leum, cement and coal, $4,000, 900;
lumber, $72,ooo,ooo, and other forest
products, $I5,ooo,ooo. Wine produc
ton has trebled in twelve year.,
reaching S4I,oooooo gallons IN the
past year
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18
pEET's LETTER.


liouoN SHTlStldH ministers LOT years
that the Bible is forcrunner of civil
lization, that all civilized and inteli-
gent nations read the Bible and use it
as their guide in life, that all nations
and people who do not read he Bible
are uncivilized and heathenish With
two or three exceptions, all the
preachers of Utah will say "amen"
to the above statement.
In reading Washington Irving's
life Of Columbus, we find that when
Columbus landed in San Salvador, in
1892, he found the people there did
not steal, lie, were not quarrelsome,
warlike, or INDUCED in vicious habits;
they seemed to be controlled by love
and good will, they enjoyed the birds.
the animals, the fruits, the flowers,
the trees, the hills, the meadows, the
wales, and the running brooks; they
lived close to nature and were happy,
and after death they expected to live
forever on the happy hunting grounds
prepared by the great Spirit. These
people had no Bible, they could no,
read books; they read the stars, the
rivers, the clouds, the storms, nature,
and the great Spirit that controlled
all, and were happy.
A few years later, in 1920, the Pill
grims, band of civilized Bible-read-
ers; landed in America. They were
driven into exile by another and lar
ger band of civilized Bible-readers
because they could not agree as tt
what certain passages IN the Bible
meant Soon after landing in Ameri-
ca these civilized Bible-readers ban
ished poor old Roger Williams be-
cause he said the Bible taught the
Baptist faith.
In 1856, some other civilized Bible
readers called Quakers, landed in
America. The Quakers had discov-
cred that the Bible taught peace and
brotherly love The civilized Bible
reading Pilgrims said mo, it doe,
not; the Bible has been boiled down
and the concentrated extract there
from is the Westminster confession
of faith which teaches foreordina-
ton, predestination, infant damnation
and many other horrible atoms for til.
-elect-that is Our guide of life
and you Quakers will have to accept
it or suffer the consequences. The
peaceable, civilized, Bible-readins
Quakers SAID they did not believe in
the Westminster confession Of
faith" and would not follow its teach
ings. Then the civilized Bible-read-
ing Pilgrims cut the Quakers' ears off,
bored holes in their tongues with
red-hot irons, then hung them to
death on the gibbet. In 1902, civil
lied Bible-reading D. D. preacher by
the name of Increase Mather, dis
covered that the Bible taught witch
craft and he wrote "Illustrious Pro-
vidences," a book proclaiming the
truth of witchery, taking all his au-
.ta.:... f-o,,, +ba P;bIa S+ond;po IN
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18

Governor Hughes should remeni-
Der as warning the case Of Judge
Parker, who kept silent until the
people thought lie didn't have any
thing 10 say.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-18


Rev. RI. Talbot, superintendent and
presiding elder of the Methodist mis-
sions in Utah, drawer of fat mis-
sionary salary, who stated in the
bible Society Record" for Decem-
Der, 1907 "There are 200 towns or
more Gin Utah) with a population
from 100 and up, where the Bible is
never seen or used;" the reverend
gentleman wifully and knowingly
lied in the above statement Person
ally, ! care but little whether the
Mormons or any one else read the
Bible as long as they make good, in
telligent citizens and neighbors. Rev.
DR.. Talbot knows that there is not
a Mormon town in Utah, of any size,
but what has many Bibles and many
Bible readers. Every Mormon town
has sent out missionaries, and these
missionaries take with them leather
bound Oxford teachers Bible which
they read and study, and when they
return home most of them are good
Bible students. Ninty-nine per cent
of all the Mormon bishops and their
counselors (and every Mormon town
has them) have Bibles. DR.. Talbot,
tries to make the people of the east
ern states believe that the people of
IL 80 he, 70
Utah from the heathenish condition
she is in will require Bibles and Chris
tan missionaries, to furnish which
will take lots of money, and will TIL.
good people of the east please dig
up?" He, as well as nearly all other
so-called Christian missionaries OF
Utah have to deceive the liberal peo-
pie of the eastern states to get their
salaries; they have to SANDER Utah
and put it in bad light before the
world to draw their tainted wages.
Suppose these so-called Christian
missionaries should tell the truth
about Utah; suppose they should for
get themselves and tell the people OF
the east that every town in Utah has
a good public school and good teach
ers; that Utah has greater percenl
age of children attending school and
as small a percentage of illiterates
inebriates, paupers and criminals as
any other state; that more people
in Utah own the farms they live on
and more Utah farmers are free from
% debt than any other state; that the
people of Utah are as well educated
are as kind, as hospitable, as honest,
as industrious, as temperate, as the
people of any state in the Union,
the people of the east would then all
say with one accord, Charity begins
at home; we will SPEND our money
at home and keep our missionaries
at home; Utah is able to take care OF
itself without our help" If the truth
was told about Utah DR.. Talbot as
well as nearly every other christian"
missionary would be out of job and
Utah would be known as it is. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21

CONTINUED on Page Five.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21
Toll Roads I'm Early Days.

The description given by Mr.. Golf of
the development of the toll road and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21

government turnpike proved very in
teresting. The toll road first came
into existence in Europe, grants being
given certain persons or companies to
collect toll for the keeping up of the
road. The toll gate became eventually
a convenient method of highway rob-
berry, and as the roads were not i'm
proved, travel was avoided wherever
possible. AS a matter of fact, bridges
were built where there were no
streams merely in order to give an
excuse for collecting toll. Then the
government assumed control of the
turnpikes and attempted to regulate
the collection of toll. The stage coach
was the result.
But in the first quarter of the 18th
century the stage coach gave way to
the steam engine, and the development
of the steam engine has been one OF
the great achievements of man.
All in Short Time.
Mr.. Golf impressed very clearly on
his hearers the remarkably short time
in which the railway has developed,
by telling of the trip of Robert Lee
of this city from the east in 1S49. Mr..
Lee at one point was held "a hours
while his train waited for the accumu-
lation of sufficient freight at the bot
tom of the grade that the train he was
on might, in going down grade, draw
the other train up the hill. On this
trip Mr.. Lee purchased travellers
guide, containing information regard
ing the railway system along the great
lakes at that time. These combined
lines were 5G2 miles long, and later
were the nucleus of the present New
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21

York Central and Hudson river sys-
TENS.
H. w. Crawford entertained the club
with a few vocal numbers, including
charming medley and a Virginia
darkey's idea of the conception of the
singing of It'll We Meet Again." sung
by the members. During the dinner
music was furnished by Miss Schnei-
der and Miss Noack The members
were given an opportunity to inspect
the unfinished work on the new addi-
ton to the Sunday school rooms at the
west side of the old building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21
MEMS CLUB HAS
GOOD MEETING
Dinner and Excellent Program Are
Enjoyed by Members Of Broad
Way Organization.
E. L. GOFF READS PAPER
Gives Entertaining Sketch of Develop
ment of Means Of Transportation
Since Early Days.

The members of the Mems club OF
Broadway Presbyterian church last ev-
ening enjoyed the regular monthly din
ner and program of the club in the
Sunday school rooms of the church.
The dinner was served by a commit
tee of the club at $50, about 125 men,
bers being present Following the re-
past, DR.. F. A. Smith, president, made
a few brief remarks, which were fol
lowed by readings by Robert Rexdale.
Mr.. Rexdale read three of his poems,
"The Man with the Hoe: The Other
Side of the Picture;" Our Absent
Brothers, poem written on the oc-
casion of the dedication of the Elks
club building, and 'Motherland." The
last number was read by request, and
Mr.. Rexdale told a little story in con-
nection with it. He wrote the poem
in 1898, and read it in Chicago soon
after he came from Maine. AT the
time of the St. Louis fair, there was
much debate in the Maine legislature
on the question of appropriating sum
of money for Maine building at the
exposition grounds. The debate was
won by the faction favoring the APP
preparation when one of the speakers
read Mr.. Rexdales verses in support
of his arguments.
Mr. Rexdale's readings were follow
ed by vocal selections by Will Trim
BILE, and a violin solo by Miss Noack,
accompanied by Miss Josephine
Schneider. W. S. Parks addressed
the members briefly on the business
matters of the club.
Talks on Transportation.
The principal number of the program
was a paper by E. L. Golf on Trans
portation." Mr. Golf gave a very en-
transportation and the development of
the means of transportation from the
time of the Garden of Eden to the
present time, and concluded with a
picture of the possibilities of the flu
ture. He spoke of the primitive
methods of transportation, Oh
foot, by means of horses, don
Keys, ana Gamers, anu SHOWeu lut
development of transportation by land
through the periods up to the modern
steam and electric railways, and by
water from the time when the raft
was the only method of water trans
portation to the present age of grea
ocean liners. Incidentally, Mr.. Gof
gave an interesting account of the de
velopment of the good roads move
ment, beginning with the founding o.
the Roman empire. The roads bull
then were constructed on much the
same lines as those built by modern
engineers, and some of them, aftel
$500 years of use, are still in excel
lent condition. These roads were frs
built for purely military purposes, bu
later became great agencies in com
merce. After the fall of the Roman
empire, however, road Improvement
were neglected, and it was not unit
the 10th century that any efforts were
made along this line.
Toll Roads I'm Early Days.
The description given by Mr.. Golf o
the development of the toll road ant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21
IN THE CHURCHES

Services in the various churches will
be held as follows tomorrow:
Zion Swedish Lutheran, Forty-fifth
street and Seventh avenue. Rev. e. K.
Tonson, pastor. Services at 10: as a. m.
and 1880 p. m. Sunday school at 9:15
a. m. Prayer service Wednesday at
GAS p. m.
Grace English Lutheran, corner For
ty-fourth street and Seventh avenue.
Rev. Ira o. Nothstein, pastor Sunday
school at 9:15 a. N. Luther league at
Gas. Services at 10:45 a. m. and
7:45 p. m. Morning theme, Christ
the Life Giver" Evening theme
The Cry of the City
Swedish Lutheran, corner Four
teenth street and Fourth avenue. Rev
s. G. Hagglund, pastor. Sunday
school at $3.50 a. m. Services at 10:45
a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
German Lutheran, corner Twentieth
street and Fifth avenue. Rev. c. A
Mennicke, pastor; Rev. E. D. Men
nicke, assistant pastor. Services al
| 10 a. m. and 1880 p. m.
German Evangelical, Ninth street
between Fifth and Sixth. avenues
Rev. f. j. Rolf pastor. Sunday schoo
at 9:15 a. m. Services at 1920 a. m
Trinity Episcopal church, Nine
teenth street and Sixth avenue; Rev
Granville H. Sherwood, rector. Ser
| ices at 1880 a. m. and 10:45 p. III
Rev. C. E. Rice of Alaska will address
the congregation at 10:45.
/ Memorial Christian, corner of Thirt
avenue and Fifteenth street. Rev. w
5. Clemmer, pastor Bible school a
I9'?0 a. m. Junior c. e. at $3.50 p. m
iY. p. Christian E,ndeavor society 4
IG:45 D. N. Services at 10:45 a. IN
and 1880 D. m. Evening theme, 81
I the Bible a Lie?'
Second Christian, corner Sixth stree
and Thirteenth avenue. Sunday schoo
at 9:15 a. M; George H. Hull superin
tendent.
Central Presbyterian, corner Twelfth
street and Eleventh avenue. Rev. Mar
ion Humphreys, pastor. Sunday schoo
at $50 a. M Christian Endeavor at
D. m. Services at II a. m. and 7:3
p m. Morning theme, Following Gu
Fathers God" Evening theme. MAX
ing a Living and Making Life
Aiken Street Union chapel, Soutl
Rock Island. Junior Christian En-
deavor at 2:30 p. m. Sunday schoo
at p. M. Miss Stella Bollman, super
| intendent.
/ Broadway Presbyterian, corner o
Twenty-third street and Seventh ave
nue.. Rev. w. s. Marquis, pastor. Rey
4 w. G. Oglevee, assistant. Sunda
school at 9:15 a. m. Services at 1914
/ a. m. and 1880 p. m. Morning topic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21
Mormon Service.

here Rev. Mr.. Rice at the Christ Epis-
copal church, Moline.
Mormon Service.
Mormon services will be held in the
|. o. o. +. hall, 1713 1-3-1715 1-3 Sec
end avenue, tomorrow. THE Restora-
ton Of the Gospel Personality OF
Cod Revelation and obedience. )"
etc, will be the subjects for considers
tiCn. They will be treated from a
biblical standpoint by Elders F. o.
Green, r. w. Penney, H. Tippets and
S. c. Peterson. Sunday school will be
helc at 100 p. m. and preaching serv'
ices at 3 p. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21
Colds and Group in Children.

"My little girl is subject to colds"
says Mrs. William H. Serig, No. Al
Fifth street, Wheeling, w. Va. Last
winter she had a severe spell and
terrible cough, but | cured her with
Chamberlain Cough Remedy without
the aid of doctor, and my little boy
has been prevented many times from
having the Group by the timely use of
this syrup. This remedy is for sale by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21

Christ as a Capitalist" Evening,
The Major Chord in Our Thanksgiv-
ing"
South Park chapel, Presbyterian,
Thirtieth street and Fifteenth avenue
In connection with Broadway Presby-
terrain church. Bible school at 2:30
D. m. Teacher training class at $3.50
p. m. Young peoples meeting at Gas
p. m. Services at 1880 p. m.
United Presbyterian. Third avenue
and Fourteenth street. Rev. ]. L.
Vance, pastor. Sunday school at $50
a. m. Young Peoples society at 6:45
p. m. Services at 10:45 a. m. and
1880 p. m. Morning theme, The
Saints Rescue and the Sinners Dan
ger Evening theme, Hearing and
Doing"
First Methodist, corner Fifth ave
nue and Nineteenth street; Rev. r. B.
Williams, pastor. Sunday school at
$3.50. Junior league at 2:30 p. m.
Epworth league at $50 p. m. Services
at 10:45 a. m. and 1870 p m. Morning
theme, Shilling the Tempest" The
aLnual thank Offering service of the
WCman's Home Mission society in
evening with address by Mrs. Hill.
Spencer Memorial Methodist church.
corner Forty-third street and Seventh
avenue; Rev. F. e. Shut, pastor.
Junior league at 2.30 p. m. Epworth
league at 6:30 p. m. Services at 10:45
m. and 1880 D. m. Morning theme
Almost a Christian Evangelistic
service in evening.
German Methodist, corner Of Sixth
avenue and Fourteenth street; Rev
William Schoenig, pastor Services al
1890 a. m. and 1880 p. m. Sunday
school at $50 a m. Sunday school,
program in evening.
Free Methodist, Ninth avenue
and Fifteenth street. Rev. Johr
Harvey, pastor. Sunday school al
9:45 a. m.
Wyman A M. e. Mission, Thirteenth
street and Fifth avenue, S. r. Cottrell
pastor. Services at IL a. m. and
p. m. and p. IN.
First Baptist, corner Third avenu,
and Fifteenth street. Rev. H. w. Reet
pastor. Sunday school at $50 a. m
Services at 10:45 a. m. and 1880 p. m
| Edgewood Baptist corner Fol
ty-fourth street and Fifth avenue
Rev. d. II. Leland, pastor. Sunda.
| school at $50 a. me Services at 10: Al
a. m. and 1880 p. m. Young People
meeting at g.: 45 p. m. Morning theme
Joy an Essential in Successful Chris
tian Service" Evening theme, God
| Cali to Work.
Swedish Baptist. corner of Twenty
first street and Fifth avenue. Preach
ing services at 1890 a. m. and 7:45 ?
On.
Second Baptist chapel, corner O
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21

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ARGUS.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-17
WIRE FENCES FOR TELEPHONES.
Used by the Signal Corps in Direct
Ing Military ManeuYers

Ing ManeuVers.
In the West and Southwest, where
there are long stretches of unbroken
Wire fences, these wires are frequently
used to convey telephone messages from
one point to another" said Capt. John
u. Souder, of San Antonio, Tex, here
on business before the departments, ac-
cord1ng to the Washington Post.
In some localities the fence wires
are converted into regular telephone
lines, with permanent equipment for
practical use. These lines are often
from ten to thirty miles long, and are
great convenience to people of the
ranches.
''The United States signal corps is
well trained in the use Of wire fences
for telephone purposes. In the mill
tary meneuvers that take place in the
ranch region the signal corps plays an
important part in directing the move
ment of the troops by improvised tele.
phones
In some localities where the coun-
try IS rough or heavily wooded it is i'm
possible to convey the signals from one
point to another by the usual methods
Of flags or other visual signals. It is
then the telephone is brought into Dlav.
Each detachment of signal CORPS
men is equipped with a field telephone
attachment. 1t requires the work of
but minute or two to connect this at-
tachment with fence Wire and to get
into direct communication with head
quarters.
The use Of the fence wire for tele-
phone communication obviates the ne
cessity of constructing temporary field
telephone lines by the signal corps.
1t sometimes happens that a little diff
Guilty is encountered in using the wires
on account of some poor connection or
break, but it usually does not take
long to discover and remove the cause
Of the trouble.
ION some of the big ranches straight
lines of wire fence fifty to seventy-fve
miles long are frequently found. These
afford excellent opportunity for mill
tary field service
las a matter of necessity all ranch
fences must be kept in good repair. To
do this fence riders are constantly en-
ployed.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-17
ROYALTY SEES WEDDING.
Daughter of Ambassador Reid
Marries Before King and Queen.

daughter OF Ambassador he1O
Marries Before King and Queen.
Miss Jean Reid, daughter Of White
law Reid, proprietor Of the New York
Tribune and ambassador Of the Unit
ed States to the Court Of st. James,
was married recently In the Chapel
Royal, st. James Palace, London, to
John Hubert Ward, brother Of the
Earl Of Dudley and Equerry nwait-
ing to King Edward. The ambassa-
dor gave away his daughter.
His majesty and the queen and
other members Of the royal family
were among those present in the an
cient chapel, one Of the few remains
of the old palace Of the Tudors, in
which Queen Victoria and several Of
her daughters were married. The roy
al party also attended the reception
subsequently held at Dorchester House,
the residence of Mr.. Reid.
The bride wore but three pieces Of
jewelry, and these were old-fashioned
clasp bracelets, the wedding presents
of King Edward, Queen Alexandra and
Mr.. Ward. President Roosevelt's gift
was rare old Dutch book treating Of
America