The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-06-02
.PCRTRAYS NEED
NOW Of MEXICO.
Mrs. D. B. Wells, COSmOpOlite And
Missionary, Says InterveI-
ton Is Imperative
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ATROCIOUS

Intervention Is needed IN Mexico
When ! have concluded ibis address
YOU may judge Tor yourselves as TO
Whnt the nature OF that Intervention
should be
with this interesting assertion Mrs
- Wells of Chicago, woman of
worldwide experience iu Christian
mission affairs and this week dean OF
the faculty ~ the SchoO ~ Missions
for oklahoma and the Southwest
opened an address before large AN.
dicnce last night I'm st. Lukrs church
her topic being "Ihe UplIft N II Ma
tiOn."
Mexico If ~ truly heathpu as old
china or lndiH The common people
ARE hopeless, yI-ionIcs- They arc
starved and filthy aud iucourelyably
Ignorant Yet the children ARE pos.
sesscd Of bright minds ana are cugpr
to learn, but there Is no opportunity
save such us the people u the United
states through the medium uf the mis-
sionares extend 10 them
BY relating many personal expert
euces IN Mexico during tour N the
mission stations prior 10 the outbreak
~ the present war the spcnkrr con
'ryed Il yI,l picture ~ 'hp actual con
ditious " the people and of their
needs II f. difficult for an Amcn
ran even Though familiar with the
poorest Of conditions to be found in
the poorest places iu our own country
ru conceive Of the utter degradation
"f poverty mud superstition that en-
Nlrous our southern ueighbors
Human Bones Sold
She told Of church ward where
She saw pile or human bones being
carted away 10 a fertilizer factory
Size was Informed that the ground
rent for the graves had not been paid
10 the church by the poor relative. "
. the dead so the church authorities
had the hodirs dug up and sold the
hone, ro the fertilizer factory
She told ~ witnessing wedding
ceremony performed by missionary
Three couples were married IN the one
ceremony one Auplc was father and
mother another son aud hl- chosen
wife. another % daughter and her
chosen husband Astouished at such
q spectacle Mrs Wells was Informed
ihn' the average wages VI people NJ
this class Is about twenty cents a day
that the priest demands Zee N one
hundred dollars for wedding cpre
muny, therefore these people neglect
the formllity Of u wedding II Is com
mon custom When the missiuua rips
win these people TO their confidence
they advise n wedding ceremony for
which there * mo- charge aud the upo.
| pie welcome the opportunity 10 com.
| ply. THE priests demand fee Of
twenty five dollars 10 haptize n baby "
The speaker declared "aud II Is pitiful
to witness the awful struggle and pri.
walton these poor parents undergo I'm
order 10 secure the rite FOR their off
spring"
Toy Dog Invoked
/ To Illustrate the depth NJ vuprrsti
ton IN which these poor people are
immersed Mrs Wells told " seeing a
little image NJ dog ou the altar " an
ancient church said to have been
hullt 10y Cortez This image was said
10 be- the real body, transformed into
stone " u dog that once warned Cor
ten ~ danger from Indians The peo
pile believed the story and would crawl
upon their knees to kiss the image
Mrs Wells, when the sexton was not
looking surreptitousy picked mp the
image and found inscribed on its
base this East Liverpool. 1902" II
WAS a common china toy dog
THE Intervention needed In Mexico
Is the Intervention of the gospel" de-
clared the speaker IN closing. "the
gospel that will substitute wages for
poverty temperance for pulque. knowl-
edge for ignorance aud salvation for
superstition