South Pottawatomie Progress. (Asher, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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80. POTTAWATOMIE PROGRESS. PONTIUS PILATE’S
LETTER TO CAESAR
H. R. Putnam, Editor and Pub.
Entered as»eoomi-«*lass matU*r April i l'*ii
at the lx>st office at Asher, Oklahoma, under
the Act of March 3,187th
Issued ouce a week at Asher, ()k.
Subscription SI.00 per year.
Contrary to the reports cir-
culated by many of the newspap-
ers, the cotton crop is proving to
be even less than was anticipated.
Many newspaper men are over-
zealous ill their efforts to boost
their town and country. Truth
may be sometimes stronger
than fiction, but it is of toner
preferable to fiction. The fact is
that cotton is not coming up to
expectation—and the mark set by
expectation was low enough. A
gieat deal of stress has boon laid
on the ginning report just issued.
As it really looks to the farmer,
who is in a good position to
judge, the large report is due to
the early season and t<> the great
amount of bolls that were burnt
open by hot sun and dry weather.
When the November report
comes in that ginning average
will take a drop which will take
away your breath, so says the
farmer, and we believe he Knows
what he is talking about.
The state hoard of equalizat ion,
last Monday, set the state levy
at only two mills. This is esti-
mated as enough to raise money
sufficient for current expenses
of government and provide for
the public schools. The hoard
will recommend to legislature
the issuing of funding bonds to
take care of the deficit inherited
from former years, amounting to
more than $2,000,000.
In Mexico, Madero has been
elected to the presidency by a
large majority. He promises
many reforms over the old Diaz
rule. One of the first changes
contemplated is in the system of
voting.
Subscribe for the Progress.
(continued)
There was but one who appear-
ed to he calm in the midst of the
vast multitude; it was the Na-
zareno. After many fruitless at-
tempts to protect Him from the
fury of H is mercilesspersecuters,
f adopted a measure which at the
mom (‘lit appeared to me to be the
only one that could save His life.
1 proposed, as it was their custom
to deliver a prisoner on such oc-
casions, to release Jesus and let
Him go free, that He might be
the scapegoat, as they call it; but
they said Jesus rnustbecrucified.
T then appealed to them as to the
inconsistency of their course as
being incompatible with their
laws, showing that no criminal
judge could pass sentence on a
criminal unless he had fasted one
whole day: and that sentence must
have theconsentof the Sanhedrim,
and thesignatureof the president
of that court; that no criminal
could be executed on the same
day his sentence was fixed, and
1 .lie next day, on the day of his ex-
ecution, the Sanhedrim was re-
quired to review the whole pro-
ceeding; also, according to their
law, a man was standing at the
door of the court with a flag, and
another a piece off on horseback
to cry the name of the criminal
and his crime, anti the name of
his witnesses,and to know if any-
one can testify anything in his
favor; and the prisoner, on his
way to execution, had the right
to turn back three times, and to
plead any new thing in his favor.
[ urged all these pleas, hoping
they might awe them into sub-
jection; but they stiUcried, “Cruci-
fy Him! Crucify Him!”
i then ordered Him to be scourg'
ed, hoping this might satisfy
them; but it only increased their
fury. I then called for a basin,
and washed my hands in the
presence of the clamorous multi-
tude, thus testifying that in my
judgment Jesus of Nazareth had
done nothing worthy of death,
but in vain; it was His life these
wretches thirsted for.
Often in our civil commotions
ha'’e I witnessed the furious
animosity of the -multitude, but!
nothing could be compared to
what I witnessed on this occasion.
It might have been truly said that
on this occasion all the phantoms
of the infernal regions had as-
sembled at Jerusalem. The
crowd appeared not to walk, but
to be borne off and whirled as a
vortex, rolling along in living
waves from the portals of the
pretorium even unto Mount Zion
with howling screams, shrieks,
and vociferations such as were
never heard in the seditions of
the panonia or in the tumult of
the forum.
By degrees the day darkened
like a winter’s twilight, such as
had been at the death of the great
Julius Caesar. It was likewise
the Ides of March. I, the continu-
ed governor of a rebellious pro-
vince. was leaning against a
column of my Basilic, contemplat-
ing athwart the dreary gloom
these fiends of Tartarus drag-
ing to execution the innocent Na-
zarene. All around me was de-.
sorted. Jerusalem had vomited
forth her indwellers through the
funeral gate that leads to Gemoni-
ca. An air of desolation and sad
ness enveloped me. I was left
alone, and my breaking heart ad-
monished me, that what was
passing at that moment apper-
tained rather to the history of
the gods than that of men. A
loud clamor was heal’d proceeding
from Golgotha, which borne on
the winds, seemed to announce
an agony such as was never heard
by mortal ears. Dark clouds
lowered over the pinnacle of the
temple, and settling over the city,
covered it as with a veil. So dread-
ful were the signs that men saw
both in heavens and on the earth,
that Dionysius, the Areopagite,
is reported to have exclaimed:
“Either the author of nature is
suffering, or the universe is fall-
ing apart,”
Whilst these appalling scenes
of nature were transpiring, there
was a dreadful earthquake in
lower Egypt, which filled every-
body with fear, and scared the
superstitious Jews almost to
death. It is said Balthasar, an
aged and learned Jew of Antioch,
was found dead after the excite-
ment was over. Whether he
died from alarm or grief it is not
known. He was a strong friend
of the Nazarene.
Towards the first hour of the
night I threw my mantle around
me, and went down into the city
towards the gates of Golgotha.
The sacrifice was consummated.
The crowd was returning home,
still agitated, it is true, but gloo-
my, taciturn and desperate. What
they had witnessed had stricken
them with terror and remorse.
I also saw my little Roman cohort
pass by mournfully,the standard
bearer having veiled his eagle into-
ken of grief; and I overheard some
of the Jewish soldiers murmur-
ing strange words I did not un-
derstand. Others were recount-
ing prodigies almost similar to
those which had so often smitten
the Romans by the will of the
gods. Sometimes groups of men
and women would halt, then,
looking back toward Mount Cal-
vary, would remain motionless in
expectation of witnessing some
new prodigy.
(to be continued.)
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Putnam, Henrietta. R. South Pottawatomie Progress. (Asher, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1911, newspaper, October 5, 1911; Asher, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc858934/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.