The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-22

ton end tried to discipline Mrs. Stet-
son and sixteen of her practitioners,
VINO. being freeborn American citi-
zens and believing in home rule. are
ready to make a declaration Of indie
pendence and sing that grand old song
OF yankee Doodle Both mother
countries and mother churches should
beware of stepping on the freedom of
the American individual.
The trouble between Mrs. Stetson
and Boston goes back to the DAYS
when n was reader in the First
church and her followers were declar-
ing that she would succeed Mrs. Eddy
as supreme leader. Evidently there
were persons in Boston who held other
views, for they first made a rule that
prevented Mrs. Stetson from bein. re-
elected reader and then practically ac-
cused her Of heresy. Virgil o. Strick-
Ter. former head Of the publication
committee, was elected reader in her
place. I used to know Stricken when
ne was a young lawyer in Omaha.
Then he had little money. and If he
harbored any religion to speak of no.
body suspected it. Now he is reputed
TO be a millionaire and is the official
head of the biggest Christian Science
church In the metropolis. 1t is a
manageable world. my brethren, that
boosts some of us and hits others on
the head with a pile driver. Well.
am glad to see as good a chan as
Stricken on the climb, ever If he IL
Following what seems to me a side
path.
l recently had another striking illus
tration Of the way westerners come
INTO New York and run things. While
browsing around st. Johns cathedral
on M~orningside heights I heard of n
canon Robert e. Jones. The name
struck me as familiar, and l hunted
up It's owner, only to discover one of
the friends Of my boyhood. | had
known him as a struggling rector in
Kalamazoo. Mich. and now found him
practically in charge of the building
OF the worlds fourth largest cathedral.
Between times he had been a college
president. It warns ones heart to see
success even II it is vicarious and en-.
joyed only by our friends.
That Is the way with New York. 1t
Is recruited from the whole nation
indeed. from the whole world. Lead.
ers In many lines of endeavor-the bar.
the press, the pulpit-hail from all cor.
ners of the land. l remember writing
editorials on a New York morning pa
per when every man in the room was
from the west. Two other examples
came under my personal observation.
One day In the subway l ran into a
man that l remembered as chancellor
OF the University Of Nebraska. He
was DR.. James II. Garfield, then H.
brarian Of Columbia university. At
another time | strayed into the Church
OF the Strangers, on F~ifty-seventh
street, and was delighted to discover in
the pastor. Dr.. D. A. Blackburn, a for
mer schoolmate at Lebanon, o. And.
by the way. he was the last man in
the school | would have dreamed of
as a minister. Both Garfield and
Blackburn are dead now, the first as
a result OF Il street car accident and
Dr.. Blackburn only a few days ago
from heart disease. l mention them
only as examples of the makeup of
New York. which reflects in it's life ev-
cry state in the Union.
Take the newspapers. for example.
The five most prominent proprietors
are Whitelaw Reid of the Tribune.
Adolph S. Ochs Of the Times. William
r.. Hearst of the American and Jour.
nal, Joseph Pulitzer of the World and
James Gordon Bennett of the Herald
and Telegram. Reid and Ochs were
born in Ohio, Hearst in California and
Pulitzer in Hungary, although he got
his start in st. Louis. Bennett is the
only n Of the five who was born in
New York, and he Inherited the Her.
aid from his father. One could run
through other professions with a like
Those who abuse New York
for being un-American do not knew
New York. 1t is not eastern, western
or southern. but all three in one. 1t is
miniature of the nation. 1t makes
Its human levy on every section.
When it comes to strikes. we have
that reach us where we live.
Street car strikes may be walkouts in
more senses than n yet no one really
suffers from doing the Weston act. al
least temporarily. But who is to live
without pie and shirt waists? That is
the double calamity that has New
York in it's grip. The piemakers have
been out for some time, and now the
are on the go. AS a re,
we are eating rice pudding and
prunes and making we the waists OF
last year.
Each waist a thousand peekholes has. you
say.
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