The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-02-16
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1921.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1921.
THE CALLED JADES VINCE
After dragging his ministerial robes thru the
muck and filth of l. V. A. politics., the rector
of the Church of the Advent of this city, feigns
surprise that some of the muck in which he has
been wallowing with reckless abandon sticks to
his priestly garments. Therefore, he would
attempt to wash out the offensive spots by hav-
ing the Mann-fed Journal print an editorial,
written either by himself or the editor Thos. F.
Mccarthy, in which he is fulsomely praised and
his enemies unsparingly denounced. In charac-
teristic Walkeresque fashion this reference is
made to the World.
The local Nonpartsan newspaper has waged a Bit
ter war against Mr.. Walker personally. That paper
has stopped to the lowest depths Of invective and
philippe to degrade the man, who is the leader in a
church.
It is seeking to tear down the moral structure he is
attempting to erect. It has called him the vilest
names in its vile vocabulary. It has resorted to the
meanest methods in its warfare against this man that
have ever been resorted to in this state against a
minister Of the gospel"
The World has no regrets or apologies to
make for the things it has said about this man
Walker. But when he or Editor Mccarthy
says that this paper "has stopped to the lowest
depths of invectives and philippe (whatenell
does that mean, anyway to degrade the man."
or that 1T has called him the vilest names in
its vile vocabulary" or lit has resorted to the
meanest methods in it's warfare against this
man" etc., he or they, as the case may be, are
just lying, as the readers of this paper we'll
know.
= The World will admit, however, that a per-
feet word picture Of the rector of the Church of
the Advent has appeared in it's columns, but it
was not drawn by the editor of The World or
anyone connected with the paper. It was
drawn by one far more competent and familiar
with his subject, and it is said by students of
literature to be one of the most life-like word
pictures ever drawn, and one which will live
as a classic. 1t was first published, not in The
World, but in the Devils Lake Journal, Nov 81,
1919, and so that the minds of readers may be
refreshed we quote a few paragraphs as fol-
lows:
drawing about himself the mantle of THAT
BRAND OF HYPOCRISY THAT SEEKS TO USE
THE GOSPEL TO GIVE VENT TO ONES OWN
PECULIAR SPLEEN, the rector of the Church of
the Advent last Sunday said a few things from his
pulpit that, HAD THEY BEEN SAID IN THE
HEARING OF A UNITED STATES MARSHAL
OR AN AUTHORITY WITH GuMPTIoN TO AS
SERT HIS AUTHORITY, HI SPEAKER WOULD
HAVE BEEN THRUST INTO JAIL"
> Now there is nothing slow about the punch
in that paragraph. Most anyone can get the
drift of it. But read on:
Among other things he sought to exploit the killing
in Centralia, Washington, of American Legioners by
some radical l. ". WIS to the disadvantage of the
Nonpartisan league of this state. THE THEME
OF HIS ~v1TUPEROUS SERMON was that Christ
stands behind organized government, and the clergy
man Immediately went into a conclusive philippe
against the present government Of the state of North
Dakota, saying that it smacks of a~narchism, "that
it invites the red flag of anarchy in the state" and
that it is putting in the schools of "your children and
mine" books that will make anarchists Of our chill.
dren,' or words to that effect"
Did you get that THEME OF HIS VITUP-|
EROUS SERMON?" But the worst is vet tol
come; listen to this:
ssThe little minister is a big dreamer. He hates
anarchists because they want to overthrow govern
ment, r. HE WOULD / TO DO A LITTLE
OYERTHRoWING ON HIS oWN o.
But whataSthe little minister. really has done il to I
HIS PULPIT; TO YAK THE HOUSE OF
4 THE CLEARING HOUSE FOR HIS OWN
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES He said, that a. the
Use sn@tyidaal is. 50 is the government. After his II