The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-10
ADvEnIlsTs SPEND MONEY
Two Letters State That Trade OF
Their College at Lincoln Means
Much to City.

y SOhhSSO ~ y ASGAhlC
Much to City.
To the Editor Daily Republican:
Your paper Of the Feb. 18th con-
tanned a long distance telephone in
terview with the managing editor of
the Lincoln, Neb. Evening News in
which he stated that the Lincoln
merchants did not get much business
from the Adventist College," situat-
ed some six miles from Lincoln" or
its students, that they had their OWL
stores out at the colony and did
about all their trading there" chat
they were decidedly clannish."
After reading this interview I at
once wrote to w. H. Twining of Alex
andria, S. d. who was then at the
Sanitarium at College View, stating
to him the main points of the inter-
view and asked him to investigate
and write me the facts. AS a result
| hand you herewith a letter from
b. M. Emerson, business manager
of the college at College View to MIR.
Twining, and also ask to make some
quotations from a letter of Mr.. Twin
ing to me dated at College View, Feb.
%, 1910. Mr.. Callahan, manager of
the Sanitarium at College View esti-
mates that the Sanitarium and SO EN-
ployes spend $4,000 per year in the
city of Lincoln to less than $1,000.
in College View.
In College View are three stores,
stock mostly groceries stores owned
one by an Adventist, one who pre-
tends to be, and the other by a man
who makes no ~pretentions.
Two street car tracks run from
Lincoln to College View, the patron
age of the roads coming almost en-
tirely from Adventists and they do
not go down to Lincoln just for fun.
Sixty per cen of the 500 resident
members of the College View church
paid last year in 1.-THE $4,000. This
means an income of $1,000 600 to these
500 members and nearly all of the
money spent is spent in Lincoln as
we'll as that earned by the remaining
40 per cent Of the membership.
The Adventists operate many coll
leges and sanitariums throughout the
world, but they do not operate stores,
do not own stores, but trade and
spend their money with the stores in
the cities and towns lei where they
are located. 1t is entirely safe to say
that when their number is compared
with the number of other religious
denominations it will be found that
Seventh Day Adventists pay into the
commercial world more none than
any other religious body in the world.
The Adventists are not clannish. A
letter just received from Albert Tuck
er of Elk Point, member of the Iocat-
ing committee and vice president of
this conference informs me that thei
people of Elk Point raised $1,5O1. 90
and the people out near the school,
Adventists and others, raised $1,520l
for the school provided it remain
down there. The school down there
was never intended to be a largeI
school. About so students there now
and that's the limit. This letter also
says that the committee didn't receive
the telegram sent it on the night Of
Feb. II by Mr.. Upton advising the
committee Of the action of the Com
mercial Club in regard to raising
$1,000 to get the school here.
Space is not asked for this article
with a desire to increase or take from
any sum of money the citizens of
Mitchell may Or may not care to give
in order to get the Adventists college
located here. l merely want the facts
in regard to the charge they are clan
nish and have their own stores and
do their trading with members of
their church to come before the peo-
pie. AS a member of the church and
an individual l had much rather see
the school remain at Elk Point, where
it is and other smaller schools erect
ed in different parts of the state as
they are demanded, but if the confer
ence thinks one big school is best
and want to change the location from
Elk Point to some other point in the
state, then l hope the school will be
located near Mitchell whether the
city gives them sever thousand dol
lars or seven thousand cents, but if
Elk Point with a population of about
1900 thinks that it is worth $4,000 10
them to have the present school re-
main there, I don't see that Mitchell
with five times the population is TAX
ing very much of a risk in giving a
little lore than twice as much mon
ey for more than twice a; LARGE a