The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-03

knowledge Of the Rev. DR.. Jennings,
head of the Western Methodist Book
Concern. non-union publishing house
supported by the Methodist Episcopal
church.
The Rev. DR.. Jennings reminds us
of another minister. Rev. Charles
Stelzle-which calls for an explana-
tory story.
A new congressman went down to
Washington, all swelled up, of course,
and after being shaved a half-dozen
times by the same barber, made bold
to ask IL he reminded the barber of
any other statesman.
20. yes" replied the barber. You
reminded me of Daniel Webster the
very first time l shaved you"
"Ah," purred the gratified congress
man.
Yes, sir; you remind me of Dan
And that is the way the blatant,
sanctimonious, aristocratic union hat
ing Rev. DIR. Jennings reminds us OF
the able, fair. genial, Christian union
machinist-preacher. Rev. Charles
Stelzle.
At Cincinnati, on December 90. Rev.
DR.. Jennings opened his mouth and
gave voice to the following interview:
The greatest tyranny on earth is
the tyranny of an unsanctified labor
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head of the Western Book Concern
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
I'm some places" said DR.. Jennings,
there is a belief on the part of the
workingman that the church is preju-
diced against him. This is not so.
This idea originated largely from the
hoarse mouthings of anarchistic agi
tators and from those who spend ST.,
900 year in saloons and not cent
in the church. Hardly anything more
than such misconception can be ex-
pected from those who hold their
meetings on Sundays in saloons or
back of saloons.
The wage question has been
crowded to the limit" Dr. Jennings
declared.
farther the breaking point will GER
tainly be reached.
why, brethren, 1 could tell you
things that have happened right here
in this book concern within the past
fifteen months that would open your
eyes. The Saturday afternoons
work is not half so hard on the work
ingman as his Sunday nights carous-
ing. / tell you now that things are
being crowded too hard in this coun-
try. There has got to be limit
IF the workingman does not go to
church it is because the workingman
does not want to go to church. l do
not see that he goes to church any
more when he gets his Saturday half
holiday for recreation than he does
when he has to work all day Satur-
day. t Is the whisky bill that the
workingman pays that is his ruina-
tion.''
Lest 1t be thought that the editor
OF this humble little paper may be
criticizing this eminently respectable
and broad-clothed union hater without
knowing him, let 1t be said that this
humble editor has had some expert
ence with the Rev. DR.. Jennings. 1t
happened in Omaha some seventeen
years ago when the big Methodist
ecumenical council was held there
and Rev. DR.. Jennings edited and
managed a daily paper which was
printed in the World-Herald office
Arrogant, assured that all men are
wrong who do not agree with him,
job at a big salary while better men
and better preachers were starving
in poverty stricken parishes. this man
Rev. DR.. Jennings, presumes to judge
his fellows In the face of the divine
command, Judge not, lest ye be
Judged"
Rev. DIR. Jennings resorts to decep-
tion in order to make his case. His
statement that "in some places there
is belief on the part of workingmen
that the. church is prejudiced against
him." is false-absolutely and unquali
fedly false. Rev. DR.. Jennings puts
forth the claim in order to excuse the
failure OF preachers of his ilk to reach
and hold the working classes. Nc
workingman believes the church is
prejudiced against him, but very
large percentage of American work
ingmen are convinced that the church
is ignorant of industrial and socia
conditions, and this belief is strength