The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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A TERRIFIC SERMON
H4CH-TONED CLERCY OF
DENVER. COLO
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Church Watch men a
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Rev. F. F. Passmore of the Methodist
Episcopal church and member of the
Colorado conference, recently preached
"A large portion of the men who alt
ia !:c pews of our great churches, and
hang on the words of our bishops and
popular preachers, are the men who are
' orrupting our politics, oppressing the
i'Oor, debauching womanhood—are the
men who do not listen to great preach-
ers but pay them hUh salaries, and
build the flue churches. Our bishops
and great preachers are living in such
style of opulence and affluence, and
moving in circles of such magnificent
^plt?ndor. that the poor cannot pay the
hills, and cannot, therefore, hope for
their sympathy. The ministry should
attracting a wide j live such a plain, simple life as to be
C d I T , ,n8 ,0 thC pr0" able t0 "reaU"' the alr of full freedom
re: independence, which would
Sarding evils of the present time and
the apathy of the church in dealing
with wrong. We can only present a
few quotations from the sermon, which
was preached from the text:
'I have set thee a watchman unto
ths house of Israel."—Ezekiel 33:7.
"Feed my sheep."—John 21:13-17.
Mr. Pa3smore said: "Watchmen are
wen who are appointed to look out for
danger, and when they see it to give the
alarm and warn the people.
Shepherds are men who are to look
after sheep—all the sheep and all the
' interests of the sheep.
' Studying the ministry of our church
from the standpoint of the above scrip-
ture, I am impressed with the fact that
the greatest failure of the age is the
ministry. I find the ministry in our
church, as a class, the most worldly,
unfaithful and cowardly that it has
ever been. The church is worldly,
formal and unspirltual, and has lost
her power for good; yet the church is
on as high a plane as her leaders.
"When I look over the age I see
crime of every description and violence
on the inerease, murder, lynching,
suicide, adultery, drunkenness, gam-
bling, defalcation, the oppression of the
poor, political corruption, the outrag-
ing of womanhood and girlhood; in a
word, the passions of men—the worst,
. the most infernal and devilish—are
J running riot. I am constrained to
stop and ask what our ministers, who
are supposed to be the opposers of all
sin, are doing? I am sorry to say that
I find them, even to our bishops, throw-
ing their influence in favor of all these
sins and crimes. It is a sad state for
the church, and a gloomy condition
for the country, when the ministry and
the corrupt and criminal classes are
working hand in hand, and walking
side by side, as the preachers, saloon
men and other corrupt and vile classes
are doing.
"Just as the preachers stood for the
divine right of kings in the days of
Cromwell, and for the king and the
nobility in the days preceding the
French revolution, and upheld the
slave-holder in the anti-slavery strug-
gle; so our bishops, elders, editors,
, college professors and the pastors of
our great churches are standing by the
rich and supporting them In outraging
the poor.
"For men to pretend to preach Christ
and then go to the ballot box and sup-
port the worst men, and the most devil-
/ ish and infernal sins and crimes of
this age, is about the baldest and loud-
est hypocrisy that has been made open
to the world for ages. How much more
staunch supporters of sin can our bish-
ops become than to favor licensing
saloons, and support a party that now
favors licensing the prostitution of
womanhood? This is worshiping at
the shrine of the rich and the vile with
a vengeance. I am no longer surprised
at the inefficiency of the ministry; the
corruption in politics; the deadness of
the church; the development of trusts;
the growth of monopolies; the wealth
of the few; the poverty of the many;
the brutality of crime; the desecration
of the Sabbath; the increase of infi-
delity; the rapid growth of im-
morality.
i "I am no longer surprised at the con-
( dition of the church, the country and
the age, when I think that our bishops
and great preachers, with few excep-
tions, have joined with corrupt poli-
ticians, gamblers, saloon men. Sabbath
breakers, prostitutes, money-changers
and the opponents of the poor
and weak. Instead of driving
the money-changers from the
temple, they are invited in
and made welcome. Dare anyone think
for a moment that such preachers are
preaching Christ, living his spirit, and
representing his doctrines to the world?
Christ's doctrines, principles and spirit
would change all these things and
would bring about an era of well-being
to mankind. The trouble with our age
Is that Christ is not being preached in
your great churches by our great
'1 preachers.
"Great churches in whose pulpits
stand men sending forth peels of im-
passioned oratory for the pleasure of
a few rich and favored, and never a
word for the thousands of poor, hungry
and cold of humanity, who have been
brought to this distress by the very
men who are sitting enraptured by such
eloquence, is about as far from being
the true spirit of Christ as heaven is
from hell. Some women and children
picking up coal in the great rich city
of Denver to keep from freezing, while
other women and children in the same
city are worshiping; (?) God
in a two-hundred-and-fifty-thou-
sand-dollar Methodist church only
a few blocks away, with the
added luxury of soul-enravish-
ing music from a thirty - thousand
dollar organ. Does any sane man, saint
or sinner, believe for a moment that
either of these pictures—the one on the
river, or the other on Capitol Hill—are
the products of Christianity? If the
people in the bottoms were not so poor,
the people on the hill would not be so
.rich. If the people on the hill were not
to rich, the people on the bottoms
rould not be so poor. Yet we have D.
Ds. and schools of theology that are
teaching that both these conditions are
the results of Christianity. nation.
enable them as ambassadors of God to
be faithful and true to all classes of
men.
"Our great ministers in this state
with Chancellor McDowell, last
fall and also last April, joined
hands with the corrupt politicians,
gamblers, saloon men and fallen wom-
en of Market street to 'redeem/ the
state and city. They succeeded, and
as one of the results of the 'redeeming,'
Denver was never so nearly turned
over to the criminal elements, anS
gambling and prostitution were never
so flourishing as now. A fine lot of
redeemers!' Preachers, chancellors,
university professors, saloon men and
gamblers and scarlet women. A fine
lot of 'redeemers'—such a lot as re-
deemed Babylon, Tyre, and Rome just
before those great powers fell. A fine
set of reforming preachers, preaching
a little about Christ In the pulpit and
flirting with gamblers and scarlet
women at the ballot box.
"The fact is that bishops and leading
ministers have gone away from the
true work of watchmen and shepherds.
It is to-day as Dr. Hamilton said In an
address before the Colorado confer-
ence at Boulder last summer, that a
'hireling ministry perpetuated slav-
ery."
•
"See what the bishops, editors, elders
and old preachers now on deck have
bequeathed to us. They have left to
us a desecrated Sabbath, about three
millions of drunkards, an annual death
harvest for predltion of about one hun-
dred and fifty thousand drunkards,
two hundred and fifty thousand sa-
loons, patriotism almost dead, expiring,
four million tramps, the rich are grow-
ing richer, and the poor growing poor-
er; the rich in power, controlling the
navy, army and government; the gen-
eral government the most corrupt the
world ever saw; two saloons running
full blast in the capitol of the world's
republic. These are only a few of the
conditions that a compliant, complac-
ent, obsequious time-serving and man-
pleasing ministry have left to this age
for solution. And amid all this de-
generacy and moral disintegration,
these old brothers of ours are not turn-
ing over a hand to save or reform the
age. They are so busy with the saloon
men, gamblers and scarlet women 're-
deeming' the state, that of course they
have no time (?) and less disposition
to spend their time on trifles. It would
never do to neglect such weighty mat-
ters as 'redeeming' the state and city, if
the church and Sabbath, and manhood
and justice and right go to perdition.
"Such a ministry as this never blazed
out new highways for a progressive and
marching humanity. A ministry that
will protect rich rogues in the church
and support corruption in office, can al-
ways be depended on with the scarlet
women as 'redeemers.'
"We have not a bishop nor great
preacher to-day that is thundering
against sinners and corruptions that
are overturning our homes, the
church and nation itself. Our great
preachers to-day are preaching for big
salaries, fine mansions and sumptuous
living; and they are getting them."
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never wears HATI.
CUIlm ol Bradford. Pa., IIcIIvtm la
Nature's Covering.
Clinton Miller, of Bradford, Pa., a
florist gardener and quite an inte'lll-
I gent man, says the Buffalo Express, hag
a strange hobby. Ho does not and will
not wear a hat. Not since a boy has
Miller worn any head-corering other
i k 1° 3 8ll0rt' growth of natura'
] hair. In the summer, with the hot sun
pouring down upon his uncovered head.
Miller may be seen walking around the
town or at his work, with the utmost
serenity of manner, as if he never
minded it a little bit. In the winter It
is the same. The mercury may descend
I clear to the bulb in the thermometer,
j the winds may blow and the snow may
fly. but Miller never minds it and stalks
about bare-headed and without an
overcoat. The rain doesn't feaze hlift.
either. Nothing bothers this man with
the hobby, as far as the elements art
concerned. Miller attended the No*
}ork State Fair last year, and was an
object of great interest. It was very
hot during the days on which the fair
was held, and the sweltering crowds
tried to keep cool with broad-brimmed
| hats, parasols, umbrellas, etc., and Mil-
ler, with his bare head, seemed to be
I lie only person on the grounds who did
not suffer from the heat. He gives as
his reason for not wearing a hat that
nature provided us with a head-cover-
ing. and he says that it is foolish for
a person to wear a hat or any other
artificial head-covering. "You say you
don't sec how I can stand it? Look at
the North American Indian. How doe3
lie stand It, or how did he stand It be-
fore the entrance of civilization, which
resulted in some of them adopting hats?
See the natives of far-off Africa and
other far-off countries, who do not wear
hats. Why, you can even see the fool-
ishness of wearing a big, heavy, cum-
bersome hat by looking at women on
the streets with bonnets as big as a
silver half-dime. They don't need any
j hat. Another reason that I do not wear
j a hat is that It,produces baldness. If
the people of the civilized world wore
hats there would never be such a thing
as a bald head, unless brought on by
disease. I wouldn't wear a hat, and
should be glad to see every other man
abandon its use. It might be hard at
first, but they would get used to It soon,
and would be pleased with the result."
ONCI.K SAM "Guess I'd Rotter Destroy Those Suckers Growing
n . _ Roar Good Fruit.*
E&S ®sss2sssssa
from the ltoot4 and Then the Branches Will
FREE SILVER IS SURE,
gold standard advocates
abandon hope.
Their Crowd Now Knterlnjr the Specula-
tlve Market and lluylng Silver Bul-
lion bj the Million—Why the Price of
Silver Is Itislng.
"It Never Wui."
Forty-live years ago the slave power
of the south were arrayed in opposition
to Mrs. Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" just as the money power is to-
day against "Coin's Financial School."
At that time it was charged that her
book was a tissue of falsehood and fic-
tion. Affidavits were published to prove
that there were no such characters as
the slave driver Legree or Topsy or Un-
cle Tom: It was a fiction.
Now the sound money league sends
out affidavits that the dialogues re-
ported in the "School" never took place;
as Mr. Horr says, it "never wuz."
Mrs. Stowe wrote a "key to Uncle
Tom's Cabin."
The Harvey-Horr debate will be the
key to "Coin's Financial School."
Fiction is a favorite plan of reaching
the public mind.
Facts and figures will now be read,
where they would only for this have
passed unnoticed.
The "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin"
only recited facts which had been pub-
lished but were not read by the mil-
lions.
After reading the story which had
been so viciously attacked by the rul-
ing power of the time, the facts recited
in the "key" proved a clincher. "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" awakened the people dur-
ing the fifties and the "School" has
awakened them to-day.
The debate is only bringing out what
has been told a thousand times to un-
listening ears but will now be read by
millions.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" freed the slaves
forty years ago.
"Coin's Financial School" will lead
to freedom from the money power
It will do this, even though as a
"School" it "never wuz."
The leading democratic papers of
Mississippi say that there will be a
unity of their newspaper men in sup-
porting the next democratic ticket, no
matter what action the party may take
on financial matters. Of course—party
before principle will be the policy of
all old party papers throughout the I stock
"Gigantic Combine,"
Under the above heading, the so-
called "metropolitan press" of the coun-
try, that is, the press that has been
hired or bought to make the fight of the
English money-lenders and buyers of
American bonds, stocks and mortgages,
has been showing up the alleged com-
bination of "western mine-owners and
speculators in silver bullion." The ob-
ject of this alleged combination is said
to be to make a profit of the rather neat
sum of $75,000,000. It is claimed that
the combine has already acquired con-
trol of silver bullion worth at present
market rates about $75,000,000. This
bullion Is stored, and the daily output
of the mines is bsing bought and added
to the stock on hand. The plan of the
combine is said to be to enter politics
and secure the adoption of the free
coinage policy. "The moment the
United States government determines
to coin all silver brought to its mints
as it now coins gold, that moment sil-
ver bullion will double in value, com-
manding as high a price as it ever com-
manded in the history of the world."
Thus it is that the silver speculators
expect to suddenly convert $75,000,000
of silver bullion into $150,000,000 of law-
ful, debt-paying, 100-cent dollars, near-
ly half of which will be net profit.
The following quotation from the ar-
ticle alluded to will speak for itself:
"The combination is playing desper-
ately and courageously for a splendid
stake. If it can force this government
into free coinage it stands to make any-
where from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000,
depending on the time, the amount of
bullion it will have on hand, and other
circumstances and conditions now
largely speculative.
"People have wondered at the extent,
the dash, the persistence, and force
of the free silver campaign. They have
marveled at the energy displayed by
the apostles of silver, their ability to
cover territory, and the unfailing regu-
larity with which the leaders turn up
in the thick of the fight, whether ac-
tivity is centered in Memphis, New Or-
leans, Denver, Springfield, Chicago or
Kentucky. Most of the talkers of note
are poor men—statesmen out of jobs
yet they travel in palace cars, put up at
the best hotels, take long jumps, and
are here, there and everywhere, mar-
shaling forces, infusing enthusiasm in-
to the masses and keeping up interest
by every known artifice.
"How can they do.it?
"The answer is simple. The silver
combine is paying the bill. The silver
campaign now raging with such an ap-
pearance of violence in half the states
of the Union Is Inspired by the silver
conspirators, and is purely as business
an enterprise as a wheat, a pork, or a
"corner" ever was. It is sordid
from the ground up, but so cleverly
have the conspirators kept themselves
in the background that the truth is
only beginning to appear. Even now
many of the details are lacking, but the
main fact is known, and the particulars
will be filled in as they come to light.
The great mass of silver bullion has
been acquired by the combination un-
der 70 cents per ounce. If the cam-
paign now on foot can be carried to a
successful issue, the holders hope to
be able to unload at $1.20 and above.
By keeping up the agitation they imag-
ine that within two years they will se-
cure such legislation as they need.
"The campaign will be directed for
the remainder of the summer, as it has
been thus far, from the Piaza Hotel, in
New York City. It is there that the
wires of the silver bullion combination
center. It is from there that the finan-
cial and political operations of the con-
spiracy originate and are given form.
The contributing members living in
San Francisco, Helena, Salt Lake City,
Denver, Cheyenne, Omaha, St. Louis,'
Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia!
New York and London, keep in touch
with their representatives and trustees
in New York, though the details of the
management of the campaign are mat-
ters for star chamber deliberation. The
magnitude and working power of the
silver combination is only dimly real-
ized as yet, but it will not be long be-
fore its full extent and significance are
laid bare before the world."
The foregoing is suggestive of at
least three things: First, that throw-
ing open our mints to the free coinage
of silver will enhance its bullion value i
to the full limit of its face value as
money, just as the most rabid silverites
have always claimed. Second, that the
speculators of the large cities care only
for their pockets and use politics, poli-
ticians and people solely for purposes
of private gain. Hitherto, the specula-
tors have stood for gold monometallism,
because of the profits they have seen
for themselves in such a course. Now
some of them, for exactly the same rea-
son, favor free coinage of silver. Third,
that the gold speculators from this time
on are to be met and fought by the sil-
ver speculators by the same means
and methods which the gold
speculators, since 1873, have so suc-
cessfully employed to enrich themselves
and plunder the people.
Let the fight go on, but let the peo-
ple remember that good as free coin-
age of silver will be, and sure to come
as it is, that their interests demand,
among other things:
1. Gold, silver and paper legal ten-
Thls is a good Idea. Every inch oi
ground we gain in Kentucky and othei
states holding elections this year will
help us in the fight next year. The
Populists in Kentucky have a good plat-
form, and they have the pluck to make
a good fight. They ought to have all
the assistance from outside the state
that is possible to give. Contributions
for this purpose sent to J. A. Parker,
Paducah, Ky., chairman of the stato
central committee, will be sacredly de-
voted to the cause. Let all Populists
help some.
• • ♦
The Harvey-Horr debate is over. It
is significant for several things, not the
least of which is that Mr. Horr was
so effectually whipped that the pluto-
cratic papers would not publish the dis-
cussion. Notwithstanding the fact that
the gold bugs arranged for the debate,
and challenged Mr. Harvey, it is now
very plain that for their side it was a
great mistake. But what were they to
do? Harvey's book was crushing the
life out of their cherished theories and
bid fair to accomplishing the over-1
throw of their system
this effect to be counteracted? They
could prohibit the sale of the book on
some of the railroads, but that only
added to its sales elsewhere. They be-
thought themselves to crush the author
and the book at once by over-matching
Harvey in debate. They sent east and
imported one of the best-posted gold
bugs they could find, and also one of
the most Invincible debaters.
That Horr's own papers and friends
will not publish the discussion is a
plain and undoubted admission of his!
overwhelming defeat. Bring out an-
other hoss.
Lord Derpsftkrd's "Snap."
The fraudulent "Lord Beresford,"
who is in the Georgia penitentiary,
seems to have rather a good time of
it. He has been made a "trusty" and
appointed an inspector, with an allow-
ance of $18 per month. It is amusing
to see him lord It over Harry Hill, who
Is still "In the ranks," as it were. The
two men are at outs and will have noth-
ing to do with each other. Hill is al-
ways complaining, and every day he
has a new kick coming. While Hill has
to bunk and eat with common convicts.
Lord Beresford has apartments at a
boarding house and rarely comes to the
camps. He has almost unlimited liber-
ties. In addition to his $18 per month
allowance, "my lord" realizes a neat
sum from a night school which he is
allowed to teach. The school is quite
a large one, and Beresford conducts it
in his convict garb. He is also allowed
some privileges In regard to his dress.
Instead of the full regulation striped
suit, he wears only the trousers, with a
neat citizen's coat and vest. This is
his schoolroom attire.
One of the facts that should not be
lost sight of in this financial discussion j
is that the men who are clamoring
loudest for "honest money," as they
call it, are themselves dishonest. They j
have never yet made a bargain with j
An Oild Pavement,
E. Turke, the head chemist of a sugar
refinery at Chino, Cal., has recently
been making some experiments which
have resulted in the completion of the
oddest pavement ever laid. It is made
mostly of molasses, the kind used hav-
',°w,„wa®,a" | in® been a refuse product hitherto be-
lieved to be utterly worthless. It is
simply mixed with a certain kind of
sand to about the consistency of as-
phalt, and laid like asphalt pavement.
The composition dries quickly, and be-
comes permanently hard. The heat of
the sun, instead of softening It, makes
!ie pavement harder and drier. A
llock of the composition successfully
withstood repeated blows of a machine
hammer and showed no signs of
cracking or bending. Should the pave-
ment prove to be all that is claimed the
sugar planters of the south may find
a profitable market for the millions of
gallons of useless molasses which they
are said to have on band.
Niagara l>jr Electric Light.
The Michigan Central Railway has
placed an order with the General Elec-
the people's representatives that did !r'C ComPany of Schenectady, N. Y„ for
not savor of fraud, and In some cases! ^Powerful Beach lights with which
fraud was so apparent that if the mat- t0 illuminate Niagara Jails, The order
ter had been appealed to an honest | -for two 48"lneh lamps of 100'000
court (if we had one) it would have
been set aside. In proof of this asser-1
candle power each. These will be oper-
I ated from the Falls View Station ter-
der money.
2. The abolition of national banks.
3. Government ownership of rail-
roads and telegraph lines.
4. The preservation of the laud for
the people.—Vox Populi.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Kentucky Populists are prepar-
ing for a grand flght in that state. The
chairman of the state central commit-
tee has issued a circular letter calling
for the co-operation of Populists in
other Btates, and asking for donations
of money and literature from such
states as have no elections this year.
race, and with different colored lenses,
or slides, a brilliant effect will be pro-
duced upon the raging waters of the
rapids and the falls. The power to gen-
erate the current will be taken from the
river itself. The only similar attempt
of illuminating waterfalls is that of the
famous Rhine at Schloss Lanfen, Ger-
tion we need only to refer to the
called credit strengthening act of 1S69,1
by which $1,500,000,000 in bonds were j
declared payable ia a currency worth I
from 30 to 40 cents on the dollar mora I
than that for which they were sold;;
to the demonetization of silver in 1873, \
and again in 1893; to the exception! rm,,. . ,
clause which they had tacked on to the ! )ntn ' promised will sink
greenback, thus making a better money j Nlaeara beside illuminated
for themselves than they did for the I
soldiers who were risking their lives
on the battlefield; entering into a con-
spiracy to produce the panic of 1893
for the purpose of influencing Congress j extreme popularity was rather embar-
to demonetize silver to the end that! rassinS- For instance, on leaving home
more interest-bearing bonds be issued; I each he was always intercepted by
the deal made by Cleveland, Carlisle' an affectionate mob, who insisted on
and Company, by which they trans- I hoisting him on their shoulders and
feired the keeping of the credit of the | asking where they should carry him.
United States over to a syndicate, pay- I ^' was no' always convenient for him
ing the syndicate $9,000,000 commis- J to say w,here he was s°ins:. so he used
sion in the transaction. This is the to sa-v,: "Carr>' me home, carry me
class of men who are clamoring for an j bome' ant^ so 'le used to be brought
honest dollar, which, with them mean« ' t"'me llalt a dozen times a day a few
a dear dollar. | ^"tes after^aving his own door.-
Life of uen. Sir E. B. Hamley.
Inconveniently Popular.
At one time the Duke of Wellington's
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