The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-03-09
doesn't happen to believe just as we

saloons anu luOSe WIZ WIZ
saloon business, but if to day was
broke-utterly stranded-Pd rather
run nv chances of getting a start III
life again from the saloon element
than from the church element.
That sounds pretty hard, anu
mean, but it's truth and every man
who has been much around the World
knows its truth, and We might as
well face it. There is more real faluh
in humanity among that class Oh
people than in the churches. Inc
church people might loan me money
if | brought them splendid letters or
Introduction, or if had some 1op u
MORTGAGE but the saloon keeper
would look ME over and decide from
my looks whether or not was nom
est. If | looked honest to him my
credit would be good, and you couldn
queer it by confiding to him how
failed once before, either.
want to tell you that there Is TOO
much ritualisrn and too little brother
" love in our churches. Christ MINI
self taught us to love one another
and to do by Others as we would be
done by. He taught us to judge not
lest we be judged, and He and MS
decipals divided freely all they had
with others.
l
friends will be offended by this plain
talk. If it don't fit their individual
cases then it isn't meant for them.
If it does l know it will smart bit,
but, bless you, while occupying a
pew | have been made to smart many
a time, and turn about is fair play.
am in earnest about this thing. The
saloon has frequently been a good
friend to a certain class of people
We have destroyed the saloon, and
rightly | think, are We going to turn
that certain class" away friendless,
or are We going to be as broad rs
the saloon men were?
Never mind, if you don't like my
sermons you don't need to read Them,
but if l don't like yours | have TO
so to sleep to avoid hearing them,
and l am victim of insomnia.
A week or SO ago | printed an
limiting that. it is possible
that there are men in the United
States who are planning to grab
is that we as "a republic
are actually scheming to undermine
a sister republic that We may add
her territory to ours.
OF course l didn't say it quite as
bold as that. l wrote it over once or
twice, and each time l toned it down
a bit. At first it sounded like libel
and then it sounded like treason. l
wanted to come as near to them as
could without actually being libel
as there is any real reason for being
so squeamish about the matter-I no
tice some folks aren't.
For instance w. J. Patterson, Of
Hayes & Hayes, the leading bankers
of Aberdeen, on his return from a
recent tour of eastern and southern
states gave out long interview 20
the press, and this is his comment
of the federal Mexican soldiers that
ne saw while in Jaurez:
They all had caps and Coats said
Mr.. Patterson, but few of them mad
a whole pair of trousers, all sorts Of
makeshifts being used, and more
than half of them were barefooted.
Some had a shoe on one foot and a
piece of board strapped to the other.
Some wore boards entirely as a sub
stitute for shoes. They looked poor
ly fed, and it seemed to me that if
the insurgents are only provided with
food, they can not help but win.
Some enterprising citizen of Los
Angeles concocted the idea of send
ing out 500 well armed, well clothed
and we'll fed Americans into Lower
SuiiAOiA io, Is'hC IheAI Souhtiy
then march to Mexico. | am not at
all certain that the scheme is SO silly
as it looks as first blush. Five mil
lion dollars would go a long way
toward the subjugation of Mexico, if
anybody wanted the country bad
enough to dig up that much money"
Combined as governments men will
do things that as individuals they
would scorn to do. Why? Don't ask
me-I'm no question box.
That Sumas is sowing to the whirl-
wind and already reaping corruption
i. in plain evidence. judging from
reports. A resident of Nooksack-a
man who sees things straight TOO,
says he saw a man and woman
stretched out on truck at the de-
pot dead drunk and four other men
who had lost control of both .nent-
al and physical powers. Another man
said he counted seven DRINKS in three
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