Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1909-11-25
Sandspring Farm,
November 18th. 1909.

will try to write again. Dinner is nearly
ready, and he will tell you how a cathol.
ic may have a cheap and delicious Friday
dinner. When your beans are boiled
soft, put a ladle full at a time in a col.
lander over a bowl, and with the potato
masher work them through the collaiider
into the bowl, until nothing remains III
the collander but the hulls, the contents
OF the bowl should be like thin batter.
This is poured into d pot in which an
onion has been Drowned with a spoonful
OF -four, then stirred, after being season.
ed with salt and pepper; it should cook
about five minutes; you have then the
celebrated Purie, which is served on a
slice OF bread fried brown. The holes OF
the Collander should be small if you have
not the PURE sieve. Now, will anyone
tell me how to prepare coon meat for the
table, free of the smell Of the coon? |
have a fat one in brine, which the boy
caught in a trap. NY brine is of sugar,
salt, pepper and water to cover we'll the
meat. Now for my letter.
l saw i'll today's REPUBLICAN the scrip
ture about those ''having eyes, yet do
not perceive" and this is what | would
say OF those who reject a proposition in
politics which would solve the social
problem. Honest men have little use for
politics. Religious men will have moth
ing to do with it. There are exceptions
of course, but the priests of my church
are opposed to its discussion, and if it
came to a vote i'll this country, as it will
soon be voted Oh III England, the qIes-
ton whether the revenue be raised from
a tax on special Privileges, rather than a
tax on labor products; we wonld find that
the great enemy to this measure would
be the clergy of my church.
Was Christ poor2 Did He own II
property Any one may answer these
questions. Still it was Jesus Christ who
taught that a man could do as he pleased
with his property.
Father phclail. editor of the Western
Waterman, pleaded against the union
labor demands for more wages, on the
assumption thai a man could 10 as he
pleased with his property; pay ore dollar
an hour, one dollar II day, or spend $1,000
on a monkey dinner, be really said moth
ing about the monkey, but the fact was
implied. Tie man who instructed me
for my first communion had taken "A vow
o. poverty; he could not receive a bcauti-
full prayer book my mother offered him,
it was against the law of his order. he
was a Jesuit. a good and holy MAJ whose
memory | cherish, yet since that day the
property Of his order has increased many
millions of dollars i'll this country, and
will continue to increase as population
increases, and the order invests III land.
In 1890, four good women, who had
taken about the same vows as the J~esuits,
were examined III Paris by a priest. One
of them, named Barat, was asked why
God made her? To know Him, to love
Him, to serve Him, was her answer.
How may we serve God? asked the priest.
BY doing His will, she said. Now the
that you be TIE head Of the company OF
women organized for the honor and glory
of God. The young woman protested,
she burst into tears, she supplicated, hut
in vain. The result is the Order of the
Sacred Heart, whose members, like the
J~esnits, are poor, but whose property is
worth many millions. There are NJ
better women in the world, as | know by
experience. but, with Father Phelan,
they believe firmly that a mai may do us
he p'cases with his property.
So do | believe this, but it must first
he understood between us what we un
d rstand by property, and it is here thai
II wing eyes we perceive not.
We do Gods will by serving Him, and
the only way l know of serving Him is to
do as the nun did, serve our fe'lowman
and in doing this we must use our reason
which, in the service, must always co
operate with Gods intention in creation
as individuals merge into societies, Sc
must a Divine law exist for The societ,
} as vel, Ms for the individual. Now Just
) ice demands that society, through it
government or politics, deprive no thu
individual OF opportunities given him b.
J his Creator; on the contrary, the Law O
\ progress demands that with advancing
inventions, the life of the individual
should be made easier. This ! perceiv
. plainly with my eyes. and at the sam