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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

high as Haman, by the providential inter
position of God.
The eventual result of the conspiracy
then was the great popularization of the
Zion crowd and the extension of lions
borders and so it will be today. We
defy the devil, and defeat him in defying
him. Gods cause can be hurt only from
the inside, never from the outside.
What was the final outcome inDaniel's
day? They got their resolution" en-
acted into law-illegal law-and they
sent Daniel to the lions den. 1t seemed
as though real victory was theirs, but
God says, ''The triumph of the wicked
is short" The lions contracted the lock-
jaw and developed bad case of extreme
somno1ence. But when God had deliv-
cred Daniel, their jaws got limbered up,
and they were fully aroused by the time
Daniels enemies reached the den. 1t is
written, "They brake all their bones ere
they came to the bottom of the den."
All men eventually reap what they
sow, they get what they give; and ever
find the wages like the work at last
Joseph's brethren sold him into Egypt
God, by famine, drove them there also.
Hannah built a gallows to hang Gods
man on; God forced him to that very
gibbet.
The Babylonian servants of Nebuchad-
nezzar terribly heated the fiery furnace"
for Gods noble trio-Shadrach Meshach
and Abednego They found it danger
Gus business making it hot for some one
else The fire scorched them to death on
the outside of the furnace, while those
on the inside had nothing burned but
the bands that belonged to Babylon, and
they were free in the flames and God
was with them The DEVILS crowd are
real combustible; Gods folks keep
cool" in the hot places. Daniels enemies
received just what they planned for him.
Judas, whose avarice sold Christ to the
cross, thereby drove himself to the gar
ret and the suicides gibbet and the pot
ter's field"
Conspirators today should hesitate to
take a track that leads to such a goal ;;
for God is just the same today, and so
is His cause, and so are His people.
Zion would ordinarily welcome a gen
t1eman's investigation of everything in
Zion, but when "an investigation" is
called for with the sole purpose of be-
smirching Zion and trying to make it ap-
pear that there is something foul hid
den away-well such investigators and
the instigators of the same will be shown
enough 'rottenness" and "duplicity" by
an exposition of their own ranks and tao
tics ere they are through with it. We
have had enough of "the wicked calling
the righteous to repentance and the
devil trying to cast out Cod
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26
The Fate of Ancient Politi-
cal Conspirators
Elder Thomas H. Nelson

THIS petitioning of legislatures to
make special class legislation against
some troublesome reformer, is one of the
devils old tricks,-and, if he were not
a Ounce, he never would try it again.
1t is dastardly piece of poltroonery, SO
much so that its covert, craven coward
ice will be resorted to only by the basest
and most contemplate of men. Its use
by them is virtual confession Of the
superiority, and almost invincibility, of
the one against whom it is used.
In the reign of Darius, the Median
king, the growing popularity Of Daniel,
the prophet, famed the fires of jealousy
in the hearts of his envious contem-
poraries. They acknowledged that they
sought occasion against him" But they
had to confess 1--WE find *** no error
or fault xxx or occasion against him, ex-
cept it be concerning the law of his God. "
Their gods and religions, and conse-
quently, their lives, were different from
his. Here is revealed the inspiring cause
of the conspiracy to petition for special
class legislation through which they
might railroad Daniel to oblivion.
The kings pride was sycophantically
dPpCdlCd " CllClI do lflC dS
"the peoples welfare" is today made the
scapegoat. The real cause in each in
stance is their despicable conspiracy to
feloneously assassinate opposition and yet
cover their crime with the sanctity OF
the law, and honor themselves with the
appearance of patriotism, while doing So
The king and the people whose pride
and selhshness are judiciously exploited
are to pay the expenses of the astute
and Jesuitical enterprise that is calcr-
lated only to relieve these contemplate
miscreants from fear and defeat A
shrewd bit of many-sided political fraud
ulence, is it not?
A benignant Providence generally sees
to it that all such schemes contain the
elements of their own eventual defeat
Did Haman, the Persian politician
succeed when he secured special class
legislation to destroy Mordecai (the Gen,
eral Overseer of Zion), and all his faith
full Jewish members, in the days oil
Ahasuerus and Queen Esther? He got
his resolution adopted" but God inter
posed against its execution, and, though
he built a gallows seventy cubits high
on which to hang that General Oversee1
Mordecai, yet by Gods everything provi
dence, Haman, after fearful humbling
was himself hanged on that same gallows
Some, in this present conspiracy, are
already politically hanging themselves as
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

NO GENTLEMAN WILL SMOKE OR USE TOBACCO IN ZION
CITY!
the religious thousands
who all the world Godag and
abiding nothing,
The Vva and Zion who begging the Illinois State Lega
individuals
who Zion City with full knowledge of all restrictions and
be loyal protesting be loyal the principles
and of the Community and who then suddenly turned around
climbing Them added
few of the world the fesh and the devil who have regard either
for the Gospel the law.
Township by 1000
the Election by $685. and the School Election LAO this cotere
wordgs Help
Zion of the Community which they have founded and
built e us the carcase'
O these criminals eve FOUNDED THIS COM
MUNTY AND BY OUR SACRIFICES WE BUILT IT AND IF YOU
STAY THE RULES AND REGULATIONS,
OR YOU MUST TO ANY ONE OF A THOUSAND
OTHER CITIES WHERE YOU CAN DRINK AND STINK,
SMOKE. CHEW SPEW, HEARTS
CONTENT"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26


in
hactrig
themselves Will
in and there question to what the result
will
Let be distinctly understood that when the investigation started vohva
State Illinois
bounds of the state and further that the bunch OF porch
seeking the Illinois legislature
thoroughly will be thing
i last of land n the peniniary
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

the courts and the fact that they are with
out judicial authority, they pass special class
legislation that allows them to usurp courts
rights and accomplish ends the courts
would forbid. This is sagocions anarchy
a breeder of Bolshevism
THE Greatest Reformer and Pungent
Truthteller of all history = Himself a vic
tim of popular, political and religious OPP
preston, scathingly denounced the blind,
blatant hypocrisy of the rulers of His day.
Then He added that, while they were gar
nishing the sepulchers of the prophets their
fathers stoned (literally raising monuments
to them), they were at the very same time
stoning the prophets of their own day, just
as their fathers had previously done. They
were by that very same fact, Jesus said,
unintentionally proving their real DISPOSE
tional sonship to those fathers, in spite of
the fact that they were bemoaning and con-
doning their crimes. This is "a perfect
description of the egotism of every age and
always foreshows the true reformer's fate
-"hemlock' and "hysop" Thoughtfulness
sees in this subtle, slanderous slam at Mr..
Voliva and Zion, on the part of his en-
venomed adversaries, a sure proof of
Heavens appreciation. The character of
mans enemies is an indication of his own
character When the devil has such re
representatives., Zion would rather have "the
old lion of HELP roar than snore. His
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

WILL ANYBODY ATTEMPT TO DENY THAT THE OFFICERS
AND MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC
CHURCH IN ZION HAD THE RIGHT AND STILL HAVE THE Rl(T
UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES THE CON
STTUTION OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, AND THE LAWS OF THE
TO PURCHASE $500 ACRES OF BARE LAND
SAVE A FEW FARNlHOUSES = AND ESTABLISH COMMUNITY
COULD HAVE THEIR CHURCH HEADQUARTERS,
THEIR SCHOOLS, INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRIES AND
WHERE THEY COULD SERVE LIVING CLEAN, INDUSTRIOUS,
AND HONEST LIVES?
ZION CITY HAS BEEN TODAY AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE
THE CIEANEST MOST LAWABIDINGs COMMUNITY IN THE
STATE ILLINOIS, OR IN THE UNITED STATES.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

az GHURCH IN ZION BOUGHT ELEVEN SQUARE MILES
" VACANT LAND, EXCEPT A FARMHOUSES HAVE,
IHROUGH EIGHTEEN YEARS OF TOLL AND SACRIFICES ACCOM-
PLISEED WONDERS!
THEN WHY SHOULD INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NO CON-
Nfn1lON Or SYMPATHY WITH THE ZION MOVEMENT BE Al
LOWED TO COME N AND SAY TO PEOPLE, OUTp
AND THEN CALL UPON THE COURTS AND THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS ASSIST THEM
THE HERITAGE OF THOUSANDS OF EARNEST,
LAW-ABIDNG CITIZENS?
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26
Some "Shirtleft"
Scraps
By Elder Thomas II. Nelson

IN contradistinction to a real statesman,
politician is a man who acts from policy
rather than principle. With such shift
ing weathercocks, gold is often more in
fuential than God and the peoples good
combined
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

angel = Satan out of seraph (Which he
was originality. That abnormal desire has
been making devils from that day till this
but the continued appearance of the angel
in politics is a fallacy, while the fact of the
imp is reality.
WHEN, under the astute urging of a
sagacious deceiver, unlawful lawmakers in
a State Legislature usurp the rights of the
courts that they might wrong the citizens
of the State under the garb of legality,
such laws make lawlessness. Such absolute,
arrogant autocracy such devilish, dom
ineering despotism, was the bloody, Bolshe-
vic-breeding principle that ruined Russia.
NO man should be trusted with the bust
ness of the public who cannot mind his
own.
1T is a clever piece of successful charla-
tansm, an ingenious bit Of subtle 6endish-
ness, to pull the wool over the eyes of State
Legislators, and under the guise of patriot
ism, use them in their simplicity, at the beo-
PIES expense, to help pay your campaign
grudges and, incidentally, to crush your FIJI
ture political opposition. Hats off to the
"Shirtless" chicane who has done it! But
since it is point in law that ignorance of
law is no excuse for breach of the law,
the legislators who have allowed themselves
to be fooled into this intrigue are become
real, amenable anarchs thereby Ignoring
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

THE dead are sacred We speak real
charitably of the departed no matter how
warllke we acted toward them in life. One
OF Mr.. Voliva's main offences lies in the
fact that he has not made domestic job
for the undertaken He can be popular yet,
the very minute he serves practical notice
on some man that he is we'll out of their
way. But he stubbornly persists in re-
fusing to purchase popularity at that price,
and there is the trouble
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

wealthy corporation.
SINCE Mr.. "Shirtless," as an adroit
secretlve, cunning manipulation, is a subtle
enough schemer to make an unwilling
cat's-paw of the State Legislature, and use
its members in their exalted capacity to
assassinate rising reputatior-at the tax
payers expense = in order that his chest
nuts may be pulled from the fire and his
political opposition besmirched and crush
ed, his knavish chicanery is somewhat off
set by the contemplation that he is no ordi-
nary scoundrel. Mr.. Voliva and Zion may
yet exult in the fact that the consummate
defeat of such an astute, discriminating,
bold and crafty dissemb1er is no small
triumph.
THERE is something that smells TO
Heaven in this "Shirtless" policy, which
asks the legal right to wrong many in or
der that one might profit by their loss.
POLITICS, as a substitute for principle,
either finds fool or makes one.
THERE are men today eulogizing Theo-
dore Roosevelt who, by their cruel and
unjust opposition, helped to "break the
golden bowl and place him where he is.
They would sanctify their crime by little
pious (yet poisonous), post-mortem praise
Thus, if some polluted politicians and press
prostitutes who are trying to crush Mr..
Voliva today, were to hear of his death,
they would endeavor to ease their con-
sciences by saying, "Well, he was fear
less, forceful fellow"
HE knows enough in politics who knows
millionaire.
HOLY Writ declares that an abnormal
desire for office made an imp out of an
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

HE has learned much in politics who has
learned how to keep in the goodwill of a
wealthy corporation.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

HE who would build up personal re-
putation on an outside reputation which he
ruined, admittedly, has poor foundation
for poorer reputation. Pity the nut!
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

THE honor of the office is often made
to sanctify the crimes by which it was
acquired
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

THERE is an envenomed SANDER - a
cowardly attempt at the assassination of a
reputation = in the call for this investiga-
ton. 1t appears that Mr.. "Shirtless" is anx-
ious to crush the man and the movement
that he fears, and, being too timorous to
show his hand, he is DESTROYS of making the
State Legislature his unwilling accomplice
and his eventual scapegoat. What craven,
criminal cowardice, under the guise of the
public welfare! 0 Patriotism, what exc
cradle crimes are committed in thy name
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

POLITICS, as substitute for principle,
either finds a fool or makes one.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

THERE is something that smells to
Heaven in this "Shirtless" policy, which
asks the legal right to wrong many, in or
der that one might profit by their loss.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

HOLY Writ declares that an abnormal
desire for office made an imp out of an
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

HE knows enough in politics who know:
a millionaire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
BAD BREATH
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
s at the Cause and Remove It

DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets. the substi-
tute for calomel, act gently on the bowels
and positively do the work.
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quick relief through DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets. The pleasant, sugar.
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but firmly on. the bowels aud liver,
stimulating them to natural action,
clearing the blood and gently purifyinr
the entire system. They do that which
dangerous calomel does without any
of the bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty, sickening
gripping cathartics are derived from DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets without Eriping
pain or any disagreeable effects.
DR.. r. M. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years of prac-
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint, with the
attendant bad breath.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
o vegetable compound mixed with olive
oil; you will know them by their olive
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

s, Il. Frank Miller and J. w. Lawler,
income tax experts who have been in
the local internal revenue office with
w. d. Chamberlain giving assistance
to corporations in making out their
income tax schedules left today for
Athena to carry on the same work
there. Mr.. Chamberlain will join
them tonight. Because the corpora
ton tax blanks did not arrive in time.
the corporation schedules were not
completed by March Is.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
.I,eturns from Trlp East.

Miss Anna I>inniburg returned to-
day from an extended trip East. She
visited New York where she pur-
chased iwomen's wearing apparel for
her firm, the Sayres store. and also
visited her father at Pittshurg. Penn
sylvania. He has recovered from a
recent Illness.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

Alex Gibbs arrived from Pendleton
this week and has accepted n position
with the firm of Gillian & Bisbee.
plumbing and heating, according to
the Gazotte-Times, Heppner. MIR.
Gibbs is man of long experience in
this line. having worked in Portland
for number Of years and for the
past two years has been working in
Pendlcton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
!. ID. Zurchcr Here.

J. d. zurcher, field worker for the
la. Union. Baker, Grant and Malheur
counties, arrived in Pendleton this
morning to spend the day in confer
'ence with the county managers OF
the Victory Loan drive.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Intcrcst Rates WIN he AttractlYe.

George Hartman. district chairman
for the Liberty Loan. who returned
this morning from Portland where
he attended the loan conference. saya
that according to Information received
there the interest rates viii be atrac-
tive enough to tempt bond buyers. Ac-
cordins to estimates the interest win
be not less than "a on taxable
bonds and ga on non-taxable bonds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

Another Bungalow for Grant Street
Another new home is to be built on
the north side In Houscr's addition, on
Grant street. A permit was issued
this morning by Recorder Fltz Gerald
for the building to Fannie o. Dupuis
1t is for a five room BUNGALOW and is
to cost $4,000. is.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Witnesses in Murder case.

David Olinger, Jasper Olinger. Mr.
Sprague. John Stark. Connie Stark.
George Kent and J. II. West are in
Pendleton today from Milton and
Freewater, all being witnesses before
the grand jury in the Omar olinger
murder case.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

Indian lecturer and writer. Chief
Red Fox will leave tonight for the
east to complete arrangements for the
establishment of a Christian church
mission on the Yakima Indian reser-
walton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Home From France.

Raymond c. Wilsey arrived home
In Pendleton this morning on the NJ.
r. train from Camp Lewis, where he
had just received his discharge. Will
sey lis the son of Mrs. Julia L. Wilscy,
512 Clay street. He was in the coast
artillery and landed overseas in
October. but did not reach the front
before hostilities ceased. He expects
TO be here for few days when he win
probably return to the coast. -f+i1i
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

three days. The news was conveyed
in a letter from her daughter. Ruby.
to Mrs. L. b. Wells. The Graves fam
lily were in Echo several years ago,
when Mr. Graves was operator at the
station here, and later they farmod on
Butter creek.--Echo News.
Butter creek Ecvho News
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Going to Teachers. Meeting.

A. c. Hampton. superintendent OF
schools at La Grande and Superin-
tendent Strange of Baker are here
today en- route TO Spokane to attend
the annual meeting of the Inland En-
pire Teachers Association. Mr..
Hampton is president of the Oregon
state teachers association.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

That 81 men from Athena saw SER
vice in the army or navy or are still
in the service is shown by the report
Of Mrs, Fred Boyd, local war histori-
lAh for that place. Athena also has a
splendid record in the amount of Lib
erty Bonds purchased, with a total OF
more than s230,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the office of the county clerk
the Athena Drug Co..
with capital stock of $4,000 divided
into 100 shares. The incorporators
are A. ]. McAllister, Charles II. Car
ter and Frank j. Harris.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
VIII Accept New Position.

Miss Edith Youngkra ntz. who has
been employed for the past month az
clerk in the office of w. w. Crydera
district forest SUPERVISOR left today
for Portland. where she will be en-
ployed in the office of public roads
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
returns to PendIcton.

Alex Hudson has returned to PEN
dleton from Payette, Idaho. where he
has disposed of his farming property
and now expects to make Pendleton
his home. He will do the assessing for
Assessor Strain in the Pilot Rock sec,
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Los Angeles Leads.

M. Rnlison. navy recruiting officer
in Pendleton, announces that Los An
geles with t6 enlistments. leads the
western division in enlistments this
week. Portland Is next with IA. one
of which is from Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
win visit Lodge chapters.

Mrs F. W. Settlemier. worthy grand
matron of the Eastern Star lodge who
visited the local chapter Saturday
night, will visit the Milton chapter to-
night. the Helix chapter tomorrow
night, the Athena Chapter Wednes-
day night, and the Weston chapter
Thursday night.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Mr.. Eddy Leaves.

G. Fl. Eddy. who for the past three
years has been golf instructor at the
Pendieton golf club. left today for Cor
Wallis. where he will be instructor at
the Corvallis club. He will lay out the
golf course there. The local club has
not secured successor TO Mr.. EDDY
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Gets $50 Bounty Money.

Three dollars a piece is the price
of coyote pup skins. Hugh Rhae
came up from Echo this morning with
the skins of II small coyotes wrapped
in a newspaper, and was issued
warrant for $51 as bounty.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
VIII speak Tomorrow.

DIR. Louise Richter, speaker for the
Oregon Social Hygiene Society. viii
speak tomorrow evening at O'Clock
in the library auditorium to mothers
of ,adolescent children, and win repeat
the lecture Wednesday afternoon at )
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
WIN Attend Centenary Conference.

Rev. r. f. Gornall leaves today for
spokahe to attend "A conference for
the centenary drive for the Methodist
church in the Columbia River confer
ence. Rev. Gornall is member Of the
conference finance committee.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
'NMS NOTES OF PENDLETON

Echo plant to shear 1000 for slusher.
after which they win start on the sea-
son clip at the plant of about 10000.
Echo News.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31
Arrested for morrow county Cfnccrr

Joe Blakely. deputy sheriff, yester-
day took Albert saunders to Heppner
junction to turn the prisoner over to
the Morrow county sheriff. Blakeiy
arrested Saunders at Echo the day
before. Saunders is charged with
having contributed TO the delinquency
OF minor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

Mrs. J. +, Wyrick, who has beer
convalescing at st. Anthony's hospital
after an operation, will return tomor-
row TO her home In La Crosse. WASH
ington.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

Mrs. M. o. Bennett left this morn
ing for Echo. where she Will assist in
measuring and weighing of babies
which is being conducted as a part of
baby week, In that city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-31

Through the cooperation os Guy
Matiock. slides advocating the Pcndle-
ton fly campaign will be shown this
week at fhe local moving picture the-
atres.