Oxford eagle., 1922-01-12
OXFORD fl GLE, OK ORE, MISslS SSIPPI.

all be equally Synap paCnet etle anu eduali
anxious to relieve suffering. / think
told this House once the STORY Of q
little boy who said, a fellos said my
sister was red headed and 4 licked
him" A gentleman said, Well what
color Is your sisters hair 4 IIe said,
ss.I ain,t got 40 sister, hut Z was Just
fighting oil the principle I.aughter1 \
Well, OH the principle do not feel
we have The right to donate and APP
propriate money raised by t;tyation
to the relief of suffering Or to q
charity matter and could not con-
scientiously vote that way. Now, IN
any matter of that kind, as say, we
may differ. But ! believe IN building
churches, and believe every COM
munity ought to have good churches.
| believe in sustaining good conditions
of every kind social, Intellectual, and
moral in every community-but the
qquestion of appropriating tax money,
for instance, for board of super
visors of county to build a church in
community would be a question not
to be considered. And as we are on
that idea of the method by which
these things are to be done and the
principles on which we may agree and
disagree, understand that we are not
to discuss at all to-day the antilynch-
ing bill, and am not going to dis
cuss that bill.
But / want to extend my expression
of appreciation to some of the gentle
men who spoke in favor Of that bill
the other day, especially my friend
from Ohio (Mr. Fess) and the Mem
Der from Kansas (Mr. Campbell). |
approve generally the ideas they ex-
pressed, and / approve the spirit in
which they expressed them. They ans
/ may differ as to methods by which
that unspeakable, horrible evil may be
suppressed, but we agree thoroughly
on the principle that it ought to be
suppressed. And so we may agree on
principles and disagree on methods in
many matters of legislation.
Now, some Of US Democrats got lost
the other evening, you know (laugh-
teri, and some of my good friends on
the other side of the House have been
impertinent enough to inquire where
was that afternoon. (Laughter.) !
do not know that am required to
answer that question as to just where
/ was, but / do want to say this: l
was out in an effort to do something
for the Republican Party, something
to help the Republican Party. Laugh
ter) Part of the afternoon / was
down at the Post Office Department
trying to get tive Democrats into
postal positions down in my district,
and by so doing trying to save the
Republican Party (laughter), and IN q
very scriptual way or by very scrip
tual method. OF course, we are not
supposed to talk Scripture here very
much; we are not supposed to know
much Scripture. And we are not sup
posed to talk very much about religion,
because we are not supposed to know
very much about religion. Yet this
House is organized on scriptural
basis entirely. That is to say, we
have the sheep on the right side and
the goats on the left side. Laugh
ter.)
MR.. KING. On the right or on the
left? (Laughter.)
Mr.. LOWREY. On the right and
on the left. And, furthermore, the
Scripture says, Enter We in at the
strait gate: for wide is the gate and
broad is the way that leadeth to de-
struction, and many there be which
go in thereat." And, again, "Strait
is the gate and narrow is the way
which leadeth unto life, and few there
be that find it." lLaughter.) It is
not entirely out Of order to talk about
things from the scriptural standpoint.
/ was out to help you that evening,
and some Of you reproached me for
it. was trying to put in q little salt.
(Laughter.) Salt, you know, is saw
ing element. Some one has said that
Jesus Christ was great democrat.
OF course, that may have been Re-
publican preacher who said that, and
he was not speaking Of democracy as
we speak Of it, in the popular mean
ing, but in the original meaning q
the words | realize that He was talk
ing good democracy when He said,
Eye are the salt Of the earth, ard
perhaps talking to democratic people