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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-21
THE INTOLERANCE AND PEEV-
ISHNESS OF THE REVEREND
WESLEY LANE.

ISHNESS OF THE REVEREND
WESLEY LANE.
Dear Sir:-As an evidence of the
intolerance of the ministers of the
gospel today and also how you are
either misunderstood or misrepre
sented, I wish to quote to you a
statement made here last Sunday by
Rev. Wesley Lane, a Methodist
preacher. In speaking to the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society on
the work of missions in the foreign
field, he said, in substance:
81 do not endorse everything
Dear DR.. Lovett' does. I think that
he made very great mistake in
ever noticing the Hon. Thos. e.
Watson at all; for if he hadn't,
nine-tenths of the people would
never have heard of his views at all.
Christ said, Go We into all the world
and preach the gospel to every crea-
ture,-now will you believe Christ,
or will you believe Tom Watson? I
say to you put Tom Watson and
what he says to one side and go for
ward to do what Christ commands. .
I Just thought I would write you
this for your amusement, although /
know you hear such things every
day. Yours truly,
Wrens, Ca H. L. FRAN.
Comment.
Let us all be patient and forbear-
ing with such intOlerant men as the
Reverend Wesley Lane. The pulpit
will hear from the pew before
great while longer; and the pulpit
will do a wise act in needing the
pew.
There isn't a particle of conflict
between what Christ said we ought
to do and what I am reverently ad-
vocating. eco We into all the world
and preach the Gospel to every crea-
ture", does not mean that such faith
full men as the Reverend Wesley
Lane should pull his congregations
for money to support Christian mis-
sionaries in such luxury that none of
them have less than three servants
to wait on them in their elegant
homes. The Reverend w T. Ayers
gave the whole thing away in the
Christian Index four weeks ago. In
defending the fine living and the en-
ployment of so many sreyants by the
foreign missionaries, he argued that
unless the foreign missionaries lived
in that style and employed at least
three servants, the people of China
would not respect them.
How does the Reverend Wesley
Lane reconcile that kind of luxu
rious living, and catering to the
standards of the Chinese empire, to
the style of living which was that of
Christ, and which caused Him to be
despised of men? He went around
among the poor, barefooted and
bareheaded, with one garment on,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-21
15be Jefferson.an

during the course of a speech in Con-
gress, that 1--WE (meaning the people
of the United States) ''have no poor,
and it will be long time before we
have any such problem on our
hands, Nobody disputed the state
ment, and I think, as a historical
fact, it could have been said up to the
time of the Civil War that we had no
poor Such thing as people starv-
ing to death, or committing suicide
as an escape from starvation, was ac-
tually unheard of, except in acct
dental cases, isolated and remote
from human help.
At the present time, the number
of the unemployed, of the poor and of
the hungry must range somewhere
between million and ten million
human beings 1t is said that there
are tens of thousands of children of
such cities as New York, Philadel-
phia, Boston, and Chicago, who go
hungry to school, are insufficiently
clothed, and are diseased In China,
a regular part of the equipment of
missionary church is a free drug
store, (Which they call a "dispen-
sary'',) surgeon, a doctor, and some
trained nurses. If these medical and
surgical people are not fully occupied
by sufferers who come to them for
relief, they go out in the highways
and byways in China, searching for
those who need medical and surgical
treatment, and who need scientific
nursing.
The point that have been making
on Foreign Missions is that we have
departed from the command of Christ
and the practice of the first 1900
years after Christ We no longer
rely on the simple gospel plan of
teaching the heather that which
Christ and His disciples. We now
rely upon free medicines, free doc
tors, free literary schools, the sup
port of orphans, widows and lepers;
the teaching of up-to-date farming;
the teaching of music, sewing, en-
broidery and cooking; we rely upon
the pleasure that we give to the
heather when one of the missionary
dentists cleans out his nasty mouth,
and puts a new set Of teeth in it, or
fills with gold the half-decayed fangs
that may remain in his gums.
Our folks have, apparently, lost
their heads on this subject and the
Christian Index was so forgetful of
cause and effect that it published
prominently a letter written to the
paper from China by Rev DR.. w.
T. Ayres, who defended the luXu-
rious living of the Foreign Mission
aries in China, by saying that if they
did not live in that style, keeping at
least three servants, the Chinese
would not respect them. How diff
ferent is that from the meek and
lowly Jesus, Who was despised OF
men because He consorted with the
poor and lived like one Of them!
How different it is from the pioneers
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-21
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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
GREAT COAL STRIKE IN UNITED
STATES AND CANADA
FEARED.
IT'S UP TO OPERATORS
Unless Every District Operator Signs
Up Bituminous Workers in
Both Countries Will
Walk Out.

Indianapolis. md. Jan. 26.-A gener-
al strike of the miners of the bltuml-
nous coal fields of the United States
and Canada will be called If the nine
operators of all or any of the districts,
refuse to sign contracts granting an
increase of wages. Such at least was
the declaration of many leaders IN the
convention of the United Mine Workers
If America today.
Pres. Thomas l.. Lewis in discussing
the proposition informed some OF the
leaders that the entire delegate body
should go to Toledo neXt week for a
wage conference with h operators OF
Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsyl-
vania. urged that wage contracts shoulC
not be signed by n districts OF the
union until all have obtained from the
mine operators a uniform increase O.
wages.
nc one district should slaughter an
other" Lewis said, by sending Goa
into the market while another dlstrlc
was struggling for better wages.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
TROOPS FIGHT FLOOD.
Fifty Thousand Soldiers in Paris Aid
Municipal Authorities.

Paris. Jan. 25.-Fifty Thousand SOL
Giers comprising the garrison of Paris,
were placed at the disposal OF the
municipal authorities this morning 20
isht the floods whose raNages are
spreading ruin and CONSERVATION
throughout the city. At 5 TINS morn
ing the water at Port Royal had ouch
ed &c feet above low tide and was rls-
ing at a rate of nearly one-ha'f inch
an hour with the prospect of the rise
continuing until midnight.
The damage already done is incalcul-
able. The industrial life of the city is
rapidly becoming p~aralyzed. Only Two
sections of the subway are in opera
ton While three-tourths of the surface
lines are tied up. Factories are SHUT
ting down because of a lack OF
power due to electric plants having
been flooded. Half of the telephones
in the city are out of commission and
telegraph and railroad communicates
is demOraliZed.
The weather in Paris grow worse
rather than better and at noon Paris
was the center of an area OF 10"
pressure n a bitter cold rain anC
sleet were falling throughout the flood
ed regions. adding % the suffering OF
poor and hOmeles s ones.
The price of bread and other 1000:
has increased. owing to he fact tina
communication with the provinces l:
crippled. No rains from the soutl
are coming beyond Choisy-Lc-Roi.
The depleted supply of drlnkin:
water has caused the greatest alarm
With the rise Of the flood but a fey
inches higher. the pumping station
still in operation must stop n Parl
in the midst of a miniature ocean, WI
be without water fit to drink.
The situation at between twenty an
thirty suburban towns above this cit
is worse than the capital itself.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
w Washington.

Railroad freight rates between MIS-
s~issippi river crossings and OttumWa,
W are declared by the Interstate
commerce commission to be unreason
able and excessive.
Voicing his desire that he postal
savings bank bill should be reported
to the senate and given immediate
consideration, Senator Burkett pro-
tested against the adjourning every
Thursday until the following Monday.
Speaker Cannon officially ruled that
President Roosevelt had acted without
specific authority of law in appointing
representatives to the third lnterna-
| tional conference on maritime war at
Brussels.
Are the returns made by corpora
| tons under the law imposing a tax
of | per cent of their net Incomes to
be open to inspection as public rec
ords? The law says they are n a
decision soon must be reached by
Secretary MacVeagh as to the latitude
to be given in the Interpretation OF
the statute. The attitude OF the trade
in this regard is being awaited with
undisguised interest. Many inquiries
have reached the internal revenue bu'
reau on the subject.
Ten bills relating to the public
lands and conservation policies OF
President Taft and Secretary Balm
ger were introduced by Senator Mel
son. chairman of the committee or
public lands. The measures are no
the same as those which Representa-
f tive Mondell of Wyoming declined t'
champion, but they relate to the sam
, subjects.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
ANDY JONES HAS ABANDONED
EFFORTS TO GET PERSONAL
LIBERTY.
May NOT TAKE APPEAL
eact That Convicted Banker Goes 10
~Leavenworth Taken to Mean
That Sentence Will Be
Served.

Fargo.-Unable to secure anyone to
take the place Of Michael Lynch of
Grand Forks who withdrew from Andy
Jones' bond. Judge Edward, leading
counsel for the defense notified U. S.
Clerk J. A. Montgomery that it would
be impossible to perfect he instru-
ment and that plan to FURNISH the
Rugby bank wrecker his liberty while
an appeal is being taken to the circuit
court had been abandoned
AS a result Jones will be removed
to the federal penitentiary at Lea
venWorth. Kas, where he will start
the service Of the decade sentenced
imposed by Judge Charles F. Amidon.
Many who nave followed the case
interpret the inability to secure an ap-
peal bond. to mean hat the sentence
Of the court will be served without
protest and that the case will never be
taken to the circuit court of appeals.
While Jones was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary. under the
existing Jules he will have to serve
but six years and eight months If he
takes advantage of the good behavior
allowance.
Just when he will be removed to the
federal penitentiary has not been an
nounced and probably won't be Jones
will be in the custody Of U. S. Mar
shall J. f. Shea and a deputy.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
HIGH PRICES SMASHED.
Wide Spread Agitation Kills New York
Market.

New York. Jan. 26.-"The market IS
dead; the agitation against the high
uriccs did it, was the declaration to-
day of a wholesale meat dealer. !Ne
action of local markets, both wholesale
and retail. confirms the dealers asSer-
ton. Lamb dropped q cent wholesale
pork lOin . cents and some dealers IN
beef cut prices a cent more a pound.
1t was said today that the wholesale
dealers were stocked with thousands
of unSOld cuts Of dressed beef with
supplies still steadily flowing in.
Beef will be cheaper by the end of
the week than it has been in years
said a brother wholesaler. After that
the price won't go lower for the supply
will be cut down.
All this is aid to the widespread
agitation against the use of food pro-
ducts considered to be OVer-priced. The
force Of public sentiment is shown in
the price drop, the dealers dmi
The grand jury investigation of the
food combination. particularly OF the
alleged milk trust, continued today
District Attorney Whitman continued
to look into the cold storage situation
on the complaints that the system i:
largely responsible for the ability O.
the food dealer artificially to sustain
prices in and out of season.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
HILL VISITS PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT DECLARES REPORTED
CRUSADE A MYTH.
After Conference With Noted Railroad
Men Taft Puts Quietus on sem
sational Rumors.

Washington, Jan. 25. President
Taft today made public the following
statement as to his reported crusade
against corporations:
NO statement was issued. elthel
from the attorney generals Office OF
the White House indicating that the
purpose of the administration with ret
erence to the prosecutions under inc
antitrust law is other than as set
forth in the message of the president
of Jan I. 1910. The sensational state
ments. as if there were to be a new
department and an ndlscrlmlna'e
prosecution of important industries
have no foundation. The purpose o,
the administration is exactly as already
stated in the presidents message
The statement was issued after th'
president had talked with Jas. j. Hill
the railway magnate and had received
information that prices were crumOllht
in New York under the various reports
| printed Yesterday and this morning.
There were no further statements
from the White House except the fore
goirg.
Hill, on leaving the White House
said he did not pretend to represen
or speak for the president in anything
but was sure that the president Woui'
not attack the corporations. II TN
corporations were violating the avs O
the country Hill said he supposed tina
they would be brought to book.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
CONDITIONS GROW WORSE.
Flood in France Causes Immense Loss
of EropertY.

Paris. Jan. 26.-The flood situation
grows worse hourly. At Point Royal
this morning the raging torrent of the
Seine of p feet, S inches above the
low water mark, ana was rising at a
rate of nearly an incn an hour against
an hourly rise of less than half an
inch yesterday. Although the river
marine was reported stationary at
FrctesOus, to the east Of Paris, the
fluvial navigation department declares
hat the volume of water rushing
down from the YOnne and other at
fluents Of the Seine above leaves no
hope that the high water mark will
be reached before tomorrow morning.
when the flood is expected to reach
the maximum of 81 feet, or a height
greater than was reached by the dis
astrous flood of 1902.
Premier BRAND and Minister Of Fin
ance C%ouchery after a consultation TO-
day estimated that the flood losses
exceed 5000, 600, 600. Paris has beer
divided in five sections, each in charge
OF a military commander, who will con.
troll the relief and rescue work. Thu
Senine continued TO rise tOdy and thu
situation grows worse.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
FAVOR SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.
National BoarA Of Trade Convention
Edorses Several Measures.

Washington, JAM. 26.-When the Ma
tional board of trade convened oday
it began taking up the resolutions as
they were reported by the various COM
mittccs. Several organizations rep
resented have submitted an unqualified
endorsement of the ship subsidy to
support a merchant marine and this
subject in all likelihood will be unani-
mOusly endOrs ed.
Postal savings banks. currency re-
form and conservation, it was expected,
would be reported ~favorably during the
day by the committees which had them
in charge, the only debate likely to oc-
cur being on the form in which the ma
tional body shall give its approval
1t also was expected that during the
day President La lame would appoint
a special committee of five to investi-
gate the causes of the present hig
cost of living.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
Beef Probe Spreading.

Chicago. H., Jan. 25.-Other organ
izations of the sO-called Beef Trust
than the National Packing Co., may be
included in the federal grand jury in
v~estigation, according to a report cur
rent about the federal building today.
In this connection it became known
that the information which came to
Judge Lands was in the form OF a
letter making detailed charges. These
charges We're of such a nature that
Judge Lands Immediately reported
them to United States District Attor-
ney Edwin w. Sims.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
BREAKS ALL RECORDS.
Situation in Paris Is Very Alarming
10000 Refugees.

Paris. Jan. 27.-The River Seine,
whose flood has caused death and de-
struction during the past few Gays was
stationary at noon today. Dea0
cattle and trees ire being borne down
IT'S current.
The stage of TIE waters this morn
ing exceeded all records of 1918 ana
up to - the river continued TO rise
at a rate of three-quarters of an lnch
an hour. Hope was given to local
authorities by an early report that
the Seine was stationary at its upper
branches.
1t Melun, Nogent and Bray the max.
imum flood was reached during the
night. On the other hand the river
Marine was reported as still rising ana
a new and higher flood was racing
down the Younne and Grand NORM.
Perhaps the most alarming features
Of the situation in the morning was the
fissure at Auteuil viaduct at the fool
of Paris. Should this give way, II
would act as a dam and submerSe the
entire city.
The valley Of tie Seine now presents
a terrifying spectacle. the flood i
miles wide for twenty-five miles above
and the remaining torrent runs through
the city at the rate of twenty-five mile
an hour. 1t is flush with the parapct'
of the bridges where i. j. not actual.
overlooking them. turning into mudd.
lagOons and choking the undergroun'
WORKINGS of the city to q burStln'
,nipf
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
VOICE ~COUNTRY'S NEEDS.
Business Men Of United States IN
Session,

Washington. Jan. 25-Sixty chambers
IF and boards OF trade,
vOicing the business needs or the ma
ton from as many cities. were repre-
sented in the fOrtieth annual meeting
OF the national board of trade. Wnich
began it's sessions here today. ON
cer1ed action on live iesues Of the daF
will be taken and expressions of the
national body. Indicative of the senll-
ment of the business interests. will be
given in the form Of resolutions pro-
posing some legislation favoring some
new proposed laws and asking for the
repeal of some o in force.
Twelve of the largest bodies come
with strong resolutions calling un-
euuivocally for a ship subsidy to pro-
mote an American merchant marine.
Twelve others will call for Il forward
march on harbor ard river improve
ments.
Others. While divided somewhat ir
opinion of methods. stand for the con-
%servatiOn of natural resources
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
FROM DAY TO DAY
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES
FRESH FROM THE WIRE.
4 WIDE AREA IS COVERED
Embracing a Condensation OF Events
in Which Readers Generally Arc
Interested.
Foreign

American shoe manufacturers are
making extraordinary shipments OH
orders from their German agents.
placed in anticipation of the enforce
ment of Germany's general tarln
against American importations on n
after February Z.
A native runner who has arrived
from South Africa reports that Col.
Roosevelt has killed three good pulls
and two COW of the white rhlnoceros
family and considerable lesser game
The naturalists have collected many
species of birds and mammals.
Former President Roosevelt IN a let
ter dated Nairobi, East Africa, Dec
Is. and which was received at lhe
smithsonian institution, states ina
the expedition under his direction III
tc that date had collected S,413 specl
mems of vertebrates, a large numpel
of moiiusSSs and other invertebrates
several thousand plants and abou
1000 photographs.
Countess Cassini, daughter OF tn
former Russian ambassador at WASH
ington, who has been studying II
Paris for two years, made her depu
in a concert at the Theater Femlna II
Paris.
Complete returns from elections II
England for members of parllamen
make the standing Of the parties u
date as follows: Government coal
ton: Liberals 70. laborites II, Iris
nationalist 16. Opposition: Unions
sc. Net %unionist gain, 80.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
BaIiinoer Probe Drags.

Washington, Jan. 27.-Just what the
charges are that Louis r. CLAWS up
holds against Richard A. Ballinger,
secretary of the interior, were finally
made clear to the congressional lnVes-
tigating committee before it's first SEES
sion adjourned yesterday afternoon.
Louis 70. Brandeis of Boston. speclai
counsel for CLAWS, Informed the COM
mittee upon it's il sistence of a SPECIFIC
nature Of ale cations, though MAIN
tanning that it was not any one act
bnt a series of acts and circumstance
upon which the charges were based.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
Personal.

President Taft is showing much tact
in bringing opposing congressional
factions together.
The Ballinger-Pinchot committee is
soon to start it's investigation.
Senator Nelson has been selected as
mead of the Ballinger investigating
committee.
Senator Burkett believes he will get
a postal banking bill through congress
during this session.
Iowa editors will hold their semi
annual meeting at Boone, March II.
Zelaya, former president of Mica
aqua. is preparing to go to Belgium.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-02-18
Farmers Also in Boycott.

Frankfort, Kas., Jan 27.-Farmers
in this vicinity have stared a counte
boycott against labor union tina have
refused to eat meat and they expect
10 make it statewide.
The farmers plan to quit using the
products of the labor of ~boycottlnS
unions for one year. In addition 10
this they purpose to advocate Tree
trade. Organizers of the movement aver
that the packers are back OF the meat
bOVCOtt.