Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-09-10
Mr.. TAFT'S RELIGION.

No good can come out of the evident
purposeoisome efthepoliticianst to raise
the question OF religious beliefs in this
presidential campaign. If there was
one dominant thought III the establish
anent of this nation it was persona
and religious liberty, and the questions
of high character, Integrity, purity of
private life and intellectual capability
have been the controlling demands in
political candidates., rather than to
what religious creed he subscribed or
in what manner of worship hs engaged
A dispatch from Washington quo;es
Congressman Flood, of Virginia, as
follows:
81 believe that the fact that Juu.S
TAFT is "a Unitarian i'll belief wlII prove
to be the burning Issue Of the campaign
shortly. You have no idva how much
the people are discussing it. They do
not like the idea of voting for a man
who does not believe that Jesus Christ
was God, but was only a good man.
Mehammedans believe that. l am not
criticising Judge TAFT or any ether
man for his religious views, but the
masses OF the people OF the country be-
aieve in Jesus Christ as the Son Of God,
and they do not approve OF any sect
switch teaches otherwise"
We had not heard of any religious
revival this summer in Appomattox,
nor does Mr.. Flood that he
would vote tor Mr.. Taft if he held any
orthodox views, and we de not be-
lievs that any great number Of people
will endorse the idea of carrying re-
ligious questions into politics.
The plain OF the Senate, Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale, a very distinguish
ed man, is a Unitarian, and in the
Cabinet OF President Roosevelt there
is a Roman Catholic and a Jew, and
no man on earth could say aught
against either of them.
A writer in the Richmond Christian
Advocate says
''yVhat is a Unitarian? He is one
who denies the doctrine OF the Trinity
and the divinity OF God. They are
divided into two classes-the conserv-
-atives and the liberals. The conser-
Natives believe in miracles and III the
inspiration of Scripture and the resur-
reetion of Jesus, but they deny his
divinity. The liberals have a purely
rationalistic creed. They say Jesus
was a GOOD man, inspired OF God like
others, but reject his divinity. They
do not believe in miracles, and reject
she supernatural element in religion.
They deny the atonement of Christ,
and saw that he died simply as a mar
tyr to the truth, as other good men
have done. The latter class is said to
be in the majority"
we do not know that Mr.. Taft holds
either of the views. or that the writer
quoted above has fairly set forth the
whole of the Unitarian creed, but we
all know that the questions of a mans
religious beliefs do not fit or unfit him
for the civic and political duties O.
his country, and that they have ne
place in the consideration OF a man.
qualifications for office under the con
stitutien of the United States.
The suggestion that Mr.. Taft al
President would have the naming o
chaplains tor the army and navy ane
might fill them with Unitarians is to-
absurd for talk, Certainly, as Score
tary of War and the governing author
dty in Cuba and tn Philippines, III
such animation has been made, but Oh
the contrary, there has been every IN
dication OF as complete a separation o
church and State as the basic laws G
the country centem plate, and the his
tory oil our institutions holds inviolats
1t an issue that has ne part in tn
campaign and should net be serisusl
considered. The people will go .
w%orshiping according to the dictate
of their own conscience, and are niue
mere interested in the political cod
of the Republican party than in tn
individual manner in which Mr.. Ia
serves his k
There is more Catarrh in this section OF Il
country than ali other diseases put together, ar
until the last few years was supposed to be /
durable. For a great many years doctors pr
nonrced it a local disease and prescribed loo
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure wi
local treatment. pronounced it incurable. 81
800 rouo oatarrh to be a constitution