The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
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Rev. [. S. Ewton Stops His Paper

We are glad Brother Ewton warn
ed US; many of the Philistines saw
Goliath fall, but they didn't know
what killed him: so when the News
goes down there'll be no need of con-
lecture: every one will know Brother
Ewton did it with his little tongue!
And he assures us there will be
nothing personal in it, but Just a
matter of BUSINESS" Perhaps
Brother Ewton is figurin' on the For
eign Mission field himself!
Now what in the world has caused
this protested man of God to get mad
and do himself an injustice by gra-
tuitously insulting the editor of the
News? Simply because we said Tom
Watson was right in attacking the
sinful waste of this Foreign Mission
hysteria while thousands of our own
countrymen are starving and in rags.
Are we hereto because we said this,
and has it come to pass in this land
of civil and religious liberty that
good citizens can not have opinions
of their own on this Foreign Mission
question without being denounced as
either fools or falsifers by MINIS
TEPS of the gospel?
Why, they are actually sailing
boats up and down the Congo river
over yonder in Africa BUYING MIG
GER BABIES FROM THEIR MOTH
ER'S TITS to bring them to this
country and educate" them and
''civilize" them! while this very
night in the bread lines of our own
great cities there are thousands of
OUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD
waiting their turn to get a cup of
hot coffee to warm their CHILLED
AND RAGGED BODIES! Out upon
such unnatural neglect! 1t is a CRY
ING SHAME and an OUTRAGE. and
even the 'heath ems" HERE AMONG
US must be shocked at it.--for even
they take care of their own folks by
continually sending them money
from this country! A mans first
duty is to his own family, and a ma
tons first duty is to it's own people.
We've gone stark mad over the heath
en-, while we are letting our own peO--
pie go to the Devil! What is the re-
suit? One Of the most prominent
preachers in New York declared the
other day that it was sapping the
strength of the churches: that our
people are spending SO much MORE
money for Foreign Missions than
they are spending for HOME missions
that the working classes of America
are turning their backs upon the
churches! Can anybody blame them?
Out of work, destitute and HUN
CRY, they see pitiful handful drib-
bled out to themselves, while SHIP
LOADS go across the ocean to the
heather. No wonder they are dis
gusted! They ask for bread and are
given a stone! The General Secre-
tary of the Laymen's Missionary
Movement declared in New York last
Friday that we are spending $12,-
100000 year for Foreign Missions,
but that eve need 100000 a
year," Think of it! And hundreds
of thousands of our own American
citizens are THIS VERY MINUTE
begging to us for work and for
bread! To squander fabulous mil
lions upon a lot of worthless heather
on the other side of the world while
our own fellow cOuntrymen are suf
fering here at home is a CRIME. 1t
is against the laws of Nature, and
neither God nor Christ ever COM
manded it. eco We into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature" did not mean to let our
own folks starve while we poured out
money, medicine, food and raiment
upon millions of Slant-Eyes in Asia.
Paul was a right respectable mis-