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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-12-12
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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-12-12

Big Bunch Old Papers, This Office, II
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
SAYS SHE is WILLING
TO HELP TRUTH SEEKER

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Our dear Heavenly Father is a God
Of love. His name is love. STUDY the
Word of God prayerfully and God, by
Ills Holy Spirit. will let you see If
you are seeking ruth sincerely. There
IS a day coming when God will Judge
the world in righteousness and sin. In
Romans. chapte' 6. verse %: For the
wages OF sin Is death" Gonesis. chap
ter Ply: Thou shalt surely die"
Satan has been putting in the minds
Of people that they will not die, This
does not mean the physical death, for
God says II Is appointed once for man
to die. Then He says BLESSED are
they who die in the LORD" That means
the physical Ieath IN Proverbs xxiv.
l.: Psalms lXxti Il; St MATTHEW XVI,
81 We shall ne punished according to
our works Sins. Read also Malachi.
chapter iv, |. Revelation Xxx. ills: also
chapter 81 In Revelation: Then God
Will make new heaven and new earth,
wherein dw"llcth righteousness. Also,
the Meek shah inherit the earth"
could write many scriptures on this
point. If you wish, YOU may call AT
my home, 3ls Eleventh street southeast
Would be pleased to help any truth
seeker. MRS. SCHEITLIN.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
COMPARES FREE THINKERS
TO WELL-POISONERS

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
My family and / have been constant
readers of your valuable paper for
years, and | have always admired your
intrepid stand for what you considered
right Surely l think II you knew of
a plot to poison a we'll of water of
which thousands of your readers were
drinking, your CONSERVATION and alarm
would know no bounds and you would
use your most earnest endeavor to
bring the criminals to justice.
But are you aware of the fact that
by publishing such letters as the one
signed Free Thinker" you are aiding
worse than poisoners, for as that same
good Book that he Is trying to dis
credit says, Fear not him who can
kill the body, but he who can kill both
body and soul"
You should have no room in your
family paper for such poison as that
contains for the young mind. whose
God-fearing father and mother have
taught to reverence and have faith
in the Bible and religion, the only
things which will be any comfort to US
when we are about to leave this
world. y. h B.
Hyattsville, Md.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
GIVES REASON WHY ULSTER
DOESN'T WANT HOME RULE

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
80 T.. j. NJ. thinks ireland is to be-
come one of the greatest OF the English
speaking countries, In case she is grant
ed home rule. on what does he base
this opinion? Surely not on what Ire
land has done in the past. And in case
she gets home rule will she be any bet
ter of? No, she certainly will not, for
AZ soon as she becomes free, the free
thinking people, the ones who want to
think for themselves, will find their
heads under yoke which will drag
them down to ignorance and poverty a
thousand times faster than the crown
OF England ever did. Tho free think-
ing people of Ulster are looking at the
tate of other countries under the same
yoke, taking for example Spain, the
Philippines (before the United States
took them over, Portugal (before the
people began to think for themselves),
all the South American countries, where
the majority of the people are living in
the ignorance of the middle ages and
are not allowed to think for themselves.
This is the reason Ulster doesn't want
home rule. II they could be really free,
as the people of this country, they
would gladly accept home rule.
FROM ONE WHO KNOWS.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
A LOVER OF TRUTH
SEES JUDGMENT AHEAD
the Editor 1f TIE TIMES:

To the Editor 1f THE TIMES:
IT seems that the kindness of The
Times in permitting people to air their
views has been taken advantage of by
a lot of people who show by their writ
ings that they are in a very sad con-
dition spiritually in things pertaining
TO God for no one who has the love or
reverence for God would come out in
so bold manner before a gaping
world against the plain teachings of
the Bible as they have and show the
truth of the very Scriptures they deny.
1t was prophesied by the word of God
that there would come in these last days
moCkers and scorners who would dony
the only Lord. God. and our Lord
Jesus Christ
These be they who separate them
selves, having not the spirit to whom
is reserved the blaCkness Of darkness
forever; for because they loved not the
truth as is found in Gods word, they
were ready to believe a lie, and be
dcluded and damned. Their case is,
indeed, most wretched beyond the mind
TO conceive, and they are to be pitied
Also st. Peters second Epistle. second
chapter. tells of false teachers who de
nying the Lord that bought them and
bring upon themselves swift destruc-
ton sad to say that many shall follow
their pernicious ways by reason OF
whom the way of truth shall Re evil
spoken of. r, r. GREEN.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
CONTINUES COMPARISON
OF CLERK AND MECHANIC

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
l believe Clerk classes me as a knock
er. ] am sorry that he looks at it ip
that light. do not mean to knock any
one, and on the other hand 1t pleases
me very much to know that he is get
ting more money in his envelope on
pay day.
Now, Mr.. Clerk, one thing ] want to
ask you: Do you really think the
farmer or mechanic are lacking in their
brain power and do you think that
your position is the most desirable?
Let me say to you that the mechanic
as well as the farmer have proven TO
the world that they possess more braina
than all other people combined. The
the core, ana are possessed with rare
intellect.
A few years ago l went to work on
Government job to be rated according
t. qualifications. In thirty days I re-
Ceived my ratings through the civil
service, giving me 100 per cent. So I
say that the examination you stand
don't fit you for the position.
On this same Job was man who had
passed an examination giving him a
high percentage. He remained only
to noon the first day. The superintend-
ent saw that he could not deliver the
the examining room. but when he was
put to a test his brain wouldn't work.
In conclusion, Will say that l selected
the vocation l am following because
1t requires brains and am always on
! the alert, looking for higher and nobler
| things, which a mechanic Is ever ready
| and qualified to handle. RIP-SAW.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
BAD MEN, NOT BAD SYSTEM.

Because a group of rich and unscrupuous men,
four years ago. we're Senatorial candidates in Wis
consin primary, the whole primary system has been
bitterly attacked since. Its enemes-the
mics of every plan that would restore the people to
control of their government-have charged that the
system bred corruption and prevented poor man
getting a chance.
In 1908 two neghboring States held Senatorial
primaries, Wisconsin and Iowa. In Wisconsin four
candidates swore to spending 100000. 1t has
been testified that the total expenditures in that pr-
mary amounted to $95OOOO, and that it induced only
onehrd Of the voters to cast their ballots presum-
ably, corruptibIe third.
That does not look good for the primary. Yet in
that summer of 1908 right across the Mississippi
river Iowa held Senatorial primary in June, to
determine between Allison and Cummins 1t was
red-hot campaign; over 100000 votes were cast
which is two-thirds of the total Republican vote cast
in the November general election of that year.
Not suggestion of scandal marked that primary.
Neither Cummins Allison had money to spend
neither spent it; neither would let his friends spend
it. Cummns got 95324 and Allison 05,9S1 votes.
Three months later Allison was dead. Another
primary was provided, and for the second time in
that year the Republicans had to make Senatorial
nomination. Again, neither side had money, neither
side used it; not suggestion of improper methods
was heard. This time Cummins received 1888, ,597,
and his opponent, John F. Lacey got 9537l that is
seven in every nine Republicans voted in the primary
Wisconsin and Iowa the same sort of States;
have the same kind of people; very similar primary
laws. One State produces a nauseous scandal that
still offends the nations nose the other produces an
orderly, decent, universally acceptable decision of
big public issue.
The answer is plain. Bad. corrupt, vicious men
willing to debauch the electors and pervert the
system, made. the Wisconsin primary a disgrace
Decent men and methods made the same system
complete success in Iowa
Don't attack the system. Improve it. Append a
corrupt practices act with rigorous penalties; exclude
every corrupt official from the place which he has
been corruptIy chosen. Begin with Stephenson. The
primary will be safe enough then And it will give
the people chance to run their government, which
without primaries they can never do.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01

the American attache which the same Archie,
would drop in "By-the-way" and when they quit
laughing the war was over.
In the larger sphere of today he is the human
Hague Every moot point OF equity and good usage,
from trivial malapropos to international menace, is
justiciabe in the easy, debonair forum of his in
fectous magnetism. And that's some personality!
To two successive Presidents he has been at
once bulwark and bouonnere. Alert to every pos
sbity of cranks and bores he has yet been adorn
ment, a companion, an inspiration.
They do him great wrong who assume that he is
the curled darling of the Administration, to whom
life is one grand sweet song. 1t was Senator Ed
munds who replied, when asked how he could follow
the round of dinners with so many different kinds
of wines and things" that it wasn't the different
kinds, but the bloomin indifferent kinds that got in
the deadly work. Being merely figure Of speech,
of course this doesn't illustrate very much, but
steady diet Of danes becomes flat, stale, and un.
profitable.
So just as sprns comes piping over the hills the
Presidents Admirable Crchton will 60 to seek SUM-
shine and strength in Italy. And as
His little boat
An ark a1oat,
Sails round the purple peaks remote,
he will carry with him the real love and the solid
esteem of all who know him, with best wishes for
an early return to health
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
CIVIL SERVICE AND POLITICS.

Edwin NJ Lee, late chairman Of the Indiana
r publican committee, writes the Civil Service Com
ssion that many Federal offceholders who are for
oseveIt being impressed as workers for Taft.
r. Lee wants to know what about it.
The commission has replied in effect that the
competitive classified service people must not be
politicians, but persons outside this service and in
te executive or departmental civil service with
out the commissions authority.
That is people holding the important offices,
having real political power, may be as active as
they please, and answerable only to the heads of
their departments; the people who have neither i'm
p1rtance, means, nor influence, must not mix
Will anything happen to offceholders if they
.gea active for Mr.. Taft? No, Mr.. Chairman Lee
nothing will happen If THEY GET ACTIVE
ENOUGH. Nobody need fear being fired by Mr.
Taft for supporting Mr.. Taft. If folks were to be
fred for that, there would be hardly postmaster
revenue collector, district attorney marshal customs
3llector, other rstcass official left in the South
Recently the Virginia State committee met and
ildorsed Taft Twenty-four of the forty who at
ended were Federal offcehoders
Some little time before that the Alabama or
sanization called a State convention and named a
delegation to Chicago. Every delegate named was
Federal offcehoder.
Lately the President nominated for ten good
Federal jobs in North Carolina While the nomina
TONS were pending in the Senate, factonal quarre
arted in the State, menaCing Taft control.
The President recalled his ten nominations, anc
hung them up as prize for the winner; 10 differ
nee which faction controls, just so it's for Taft it:
q get those jobs-and, of course all the rest in the
State
No, Mr. Chairman Lee no harm will come tc
Federal offceholders who support Mr.. Taft.
But if you have any offceholding friends whc
need the tip, just tell them that things are likely
be mighty unhealthy for them if they support any
body except Taft
And, Mr.. Chairman Lee, please don't write an,
more such funny letters. That sort of humor il
making a lot of politicians suffer from cracked lips
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
SUPERNATURAL FACTS
REMAIN CLOSED BOOK

To tho Editor of THE TINES:
Does modern science educidate every
mystery of our immense universe? Is
there nothing left to be discovered and
revealed? Then verify the scientists
have reached the exalted height of God
the Omniscicnt! II so, there is nothing
more TO be said.
The supernatural" birth of Christ can
certainly not be rcconCiled with the so
called natural law nor physiological or
knowledge of divine laws forfeited in
punishment of sim, that would agree
The pretended knowledge of modern
scientists is material science, and they
evidently wander in the dark wherever
spiritual science enters into the subject
Was there NEVER a beginning with
out natural law, and pray, WHO made
the natural law, and why? Just think
little, Mr.. EX-OrthodoX Minister and
seek enlightenment. Did not God create
the world, and breathe life into mortal
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
SAYS RODDENBERY is
UNJUST TO CLERKS
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TINES
Replying to Representative Eodden-
bery's remarks of the cath instant.
Educated as he was in a country store,
gOssiping about the stove, and in a viii
lage seminary. becoming all attorney
by studying the State statutes and
learning to filibuster and sent to the
Legislature at the intelligent (0 age Of
twenty-one, then to Congress, where he
sits back in an easy chair talking poll
tics, voting himself an increase In
salary at the expense of the working
people. doubtless the GAG kULE helps
to keep his constituents from learning
the facts, and he feels that 1T is to his
benefit to take away the constitutional
rights of the clerks and prevent them
from making public the facts they con-
tend with. Being ignorant, he doesn't
know that hundreds of clerks are work.
ing nights and DAYS for a pittance;
university graduates, who have spent
study to be able to fill technical posi-
tions to protect his constituents from
fraud and oppression, working in filthy
and unsanitary rooms. and 'ridiculed''
by conscienceless politicians who would
be the Nero of America. He would
take away their rights as American
citizers, place them in slavery, and then
because he refuses to give them enough
TO live on, send them TO the poorhouse
when they are old, and even then the
half not been told" He doesn't want
| look up the regulations governing the
clerical forces OF the Government, then
investigate the working conditions.
ATTORNEY.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
HAS LOST CONFIDENCE
IN PRIEST AND PREACHER

To the Editor OF TIE TINES:
In the Mail Bag of the 2Sth instant
Is. Says Bible Alone Has Survived
Through Ages" by +. E. f., Der
wood, Md. While / agree with the
ritter in all he says. l feel ashamed
for him for not placing his name in
stead of his initials to his letter. There
Is nothing to be ashamed of in belieV-
ing in the Saviour, although there are
many who 90 not. Yet we are placed
here as free agents to take or reject
as we please.
In this same Mail Bag is another
letter. us Deeply Surprised at Super
stition bv Free Thinkers" who has my
deepest sympathy. am sure no one
will try and change his views, but I
see TO reason why he should hold the
editor anyway responsible for placing
his letter before the public. The Mail
Bag is free to all as long as 1t Is not
abused. While | do not drink. I have
no right to try and force others to do
any more than I have right to
| ing about the Bible. Only allow others
| the same privilege you take to your
self. Of believing as they please.
When $1,000, coo or more people never
attend church, no wonder there Is
such controversy over the Bible. Some
one Is to blame for such a state of af-
fairs in a civilized country: Fancy near
| " two-thirds of the population OF this
! civilized country never attend church
| Why? l will answer for myself for
such shortcomings for the past twelve
| years-is loss of confidence In preach
er and priest. Men all Of high educa-
| tion-and yet dare not look the truth
in the face or speak 1t from the pull
pit.
ators and Congressman, got their or
| ders from their master, not to mention
| the Money trust?
Waller AsSHETON.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
THOSE ARE HONEST"
WHO ASK RELIGION "wHY?''
To the Editor of THE TIMES.

10 the EditOr OF THE TIMES:
Mr.. c. y. Dickson assumes that the
man who does not attend church regu-
larry needs an excuse, sbserting that
there arc few who are honest" This is
true, perhaps, of the church's own ad-
herents. Let them, then, accept the
rebuke.
There are others however, who need
40 nrnlDgy or excuse. They are as
free to stay away as others are to go.
They do not need the weekly services vf
q paid and trained specialist to bolster
uD with speeious arguments q worn-out
faith, the influence of a cultivated hys-
terra to keep their minds in the beaten
path esta blishcd by authority: to have
their IDEAS supplied for them, or to seek
hypnotic influence to lull to rest all
doubts and fears.
They think for Themselves. untram-
meled by the tyranny of mans re-
ligion which forbids the question why"
unfettered b. absurd myth OF super
stitious rite.
These, ut least. are honest" and
whether 'few' or many, their number
Is increasing as intelligence advances,
and one by one the myths of religion
are discarded.
These fables are necessary, perhaps.
to infant races and men Of unreliant
intellect, who have supplied By con-
lecture what cannot be csta bished in
fact. but the history Of religion is a
continuous cvolution--old fantasies dis
cardGd as advancing intelligence reveals
their abSurdity. new theories supplied,
in turn to join the discard.
stop the printing press, Mr. Dickson,
close the schools, put an end to prog
ress and enlightenment. IL you would
have the honest non-cnurchgoers he
main few WIT.FoRD HASTINGS.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
ROOSEVELT HAS LOST
CONFIDENCE OF PEOPLE
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
My hat is in the ring" and with this
announcement follows Theodore Roose-
welt, the most contemplate trickster
that ever stepped into the political
arena and the most gigantic fraud ever
forced upon the American public.
Notwithstanding his repeated state
ments that under no circumstances
would he again accept the nomination
for the Presidency, he has, without the
slightest regard for these statements,
and for his honor, come forward and
announced his candidacy, Offering to
the American public the most feeble
and amusing excuse for such a step,
assuming by such an excuse that the
people of the United States are totally
any statement he may make in lieu of
his wonderful egotism and universal
knowledge 90 of all things. This one
act of his has lost him the confidence
Of a majority of fair-minded people.
How can II be otherwise. He is the
man who, on every occasion, has not
hcsitated to dub anyone interfering
with his pet schemes a liar, and by this
recent announcement of his in the face
of his repeated statements TO the con-
trary he has Telegatcd himself to the
realms of falsehood ana placed himself
at the head OF his famous and world
wide Ananias Club. He has lowered
himself in the confidence of the coun-
try; he has come out from behind the
wall of his self-vaunted sincerity; he
has shaken off the mask of his make
believe square deal" and the coun.
try knows him now for what he is
worth.
Though he has come back from Elbs
and has thrown his hat in the ring, he
will eventually have himself and the
hat both kicked out. and his future
will be in exile on the political isle oi
! St Helena. N. K. ROBERTS.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
What's on the Program in
WASHINGTON Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: LodyCs-Columbia
No. 3; Lebanon. No. T. F. c. Royal
school of instruction. Eastern Star
Martha Chapter. No. 4.
The following |. O. o. +. organizations
will meet tonight Lodses-CeHtral.
No, l, and Metropolis, No. 10, degree
degree work.
The following knights of Pythias or
ganizatiOns will meet tonight: Lodge
Syracusians. No. 10 Pythit.n Sisters
Meeting of joint increase committee
p. IT. (, Pythiau Temple, 1912 Ninth
street northwest, p. m;
Lecture by Miss Nettie Lovisa White,
Fourteenth and Clifton streets, II a. m
Bridge party by the Margaret Whet-
ten Chapter, Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution.
Lectures before the National Geograph-
ic Society, the New Masonic Temple,
4:5O D. m. and $40 p m.
Meeting of the Woman's Interdenomin-
ational Missionary Union, Church of
the Ascension. 2 p. m.
Lecture on The Revealing Of the
Righteous one" by Alonzo T. Jones,
FIynn's Hall, Eighth and X streets
northwest, 7:45 p, m.
Drill by cavalrymep and artillery
men at Fort Myer 2:3O p. nj.
Cecilia Beaux, Corcoran Gallery of
Lecture on wholesome food by DR..
George NJ. Whitaker, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, Friendship
House.
Demonstrations by Boy Scouts, Ninth
Street Christian Church. p. m.
Reading for the blind, Congressional
Lecture on dRadioactivity," by DR.. r
II. Moore, under the auspices of the
Chemical Society of Washington, Cos
Concert by the United States Soldiers
Home Band. Stanley Hall, $3.50 p. m
Lecture on, First Aid in the Treat
ment of Burns" by DIR. Isabel II
Lamb, federation class, Public Id
brary, p. IN.
The Washington times., 1912-03-01
FREE EXPRESSION ALONE
WILL SAVE THE REPUBLIC

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Your "onmcndable course in keeping
OPEN free peoples column for the eX-
preston OF general opinion should en-
list the support of all lovers of intel
lectual freedom. Already the growl of
coercion in ambush from the intolerant
is heard, These people are of that inert
class who grow pale lest their own
Judgments should become too bright.
and mems free thoughts be crimes and
earth have tHo much light" l can
read their weak mental effusions with
sense Of Indifference or humor, be
cause know that where freedom Of eX-
pressiCn obtains error is dooraed to de-
feat: but they are apprehensive and
fearful because they have no confidence
in the power of truth to conquer, and
appeal as a last resort to suppression.
No educated clergyman now believes
in the verbal inspiration Of the Rible
One writer says as an evidence of its
divinity ii is being translated into hun
dreds of languages. If he was scholar
enough to follow these trahslations he
would find that the idioms of one tongue
utterly forbid their translation into an
| other without verbal accommodations,
and the teXt is never the same They
are all man expressed. Thousands Of
verbal errors in our own translation
| have been corrected, and each transla-
| tlON DuI GNlhS " llc VI A'lSSc
errors A belief in the inerrency of
the Scripture would lead us back In u
belief iE witchcraft, for the Bible eX-
pressly commands: Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live"
| More and more as truth crosses the
path Of error in our political life will
we be required to settle all questions,
theological or otherwise. by the aid of
| reason, and a medium of free express
zion will clone save the republic.
DAVID ECCLES.