The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-11-14
ask you. WHAT DO YOU THINK or YOUR OWN
PREN(IlE WHO ARE TRYING TO WllITEWASll y
SlANDERER LIKE HAM?

rs rcgrcttabc this controversy may appear to many
local people is in order this week for try to the
Evangelist NJ f. Ham liar with respect TO his charges against
Julius Roscnwald. of Chicago
do no, believe that i, is helpful to the fair OF Elz-
ahsh City, nor To the good Of the churches the real
ChstianS that ISLANDER shall 80 unrebuked Elizabeth City
can not afford to mirch its fair by listening To words OF
uuth concerning and certainly not concerning man
whose reputation honesty and for wise welfare work is
nation wide.
Sancrcrs and hbccrS ii ordinary citizens arc punished by
law This case for legal action one for the lead
ing czS o Elizabeth City rcscntrcScnt deeply and per
mancmo personally as matter oi personal Pr'dc-
that any one should their city and publicly dcnouncc
one Of the ccancs, and useful i'll the country And
81 ru the evidence before having the faith and c"n
cncc in v,r desire know the truth and believing that your
judgement agans, the false "prophct will be final and en-
platic.
Taking advantage oi the that there only few
Icy,h families in Elizabeth City Ham has bitterly aSSallcd
the lew, in sermon after and accused the Jews "l "
ny the destruction o Gentle civilization and c"S'E ID!
rrv no,,bc device to dcbach the Gcnc and weaken them
rhy,icav mentally and morally lie pointed t" Ju'u" N"Sch
yald OF chicago example OF the dab"ca' in'crhao
lev accusing Ruscnwad of aiding and abctung tho most nor
c vice conditions in Chicago and by implication making Mr.
Ru,cnwad party vice ring that encouraged hc%'" '
traffic in the bodies OF Young white girls.
mildly rcScnng these ruthless and ba7cFH" c'a'Se
/ RO,CnWlld,
the \n,i Chris, hacvcr that D and branded me as an enemy
: ,r. church and an enemy OF God implying among other
h;,r, ,la, had attempted to wlicwaSh the most vicious
criminal, in Chicago.
The Subterfugc of a Coward
believing Ham To- be a ruthless ana mc'a''"S ','' "
nu him t. hc spreading gospel OF MISUNDERSTANDING '
urv and nuity Elizabeth City that would n"rc To Sr'a
harm to- the city and the best interests Z" the 'n"'e'
Elizabeth City, SAW nothing else do but to challenge h
iii; last ,yppk'S SSicp of
Ham let every opportunity /" rcract or m"oy HIS S'!''
ncu, onal,t Mr. Roscnwad go by until NcdncNday morning
Having thrown every possible bluff for week ana having n
aII convinced himself that this newspaper had na'Ico MN W
his lie Han, told the tabernacle crowd "Wednesday morning
,, me had never said these things about RoScnwad at a bu
had simply read what others had said
\ iImsicr makc,hiit excuse advanced by
corncrcd liar Thousands in Elizabeth City know very wei
ylo, m m said about Roscnwald and how he denounced TIN
,,, ,o,cr for having defended Roscnwad, telling th
,c,r that newspaper man who would "whtcwaSh gang
like that" mcaning RoScnwad and the Chicag" vice S
needed PRAYING for and needed it bad
Ham was driven 10 take water "Wednesday morning be
~ some one carried news him of the numerous telegram
that have this newspaper the publication "' "'
,can should forever damn Ham i'll the opinion at Thought
nl and minded people Ham said that would publish Sue
communications bu, that they wouldn't anything at al
don't know who gave him the niormation would dislike
think that the of these kilograms were dvugcd
Ham lv John D. Sykes Western Union Telegraph operator
hi, city, who clerk the IiamR Ramsay meetings ana w
dictates nightly at the meetings
But is no excuse ior Ham say that he only read VIVA
some one else had written the pedcr Of lc aS bad aS III
liar himself and Ham uSpcakaby bad because he read h'
written v others declared that he had other proofs to back
the things he had read and then proceeded to build up cas-
against Iuis Roscnwald and the whole jewish races on i
documents
No one accuses NJ T. Ham OF being fool he is one OF tn
ckc most ingenious and best informed men OF his Kind III
knew or should have known that the ProocoS OF the SeVe
Mise Men of Zion from which he has read to his audiences
this city many times repudated three years ago and utter
" condemned by such Woodrow Wilson, Nm li"War
! Taft, LYMAN Abbott William Cardinal OConnc. William Jen
nnps ravn Evangcnc Booth and more than hundred othc
prominent statesmen and clerymen OF tho Christian faith
But knowing these things to have been repud'ated iia
has assumed that the people OF Elizabeth City are lot
enoran, hicks who would fall for anything he told them ana 1T
has used lot OF old and horoy dscredited Anti-Semti
Lis 4 iracrp