March 21, 1695
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When did Anna Gould earn f 5,000 to
pa j for two veils. '
Did any one ever hear of a farmer's
daughter paying $2,000,000 for a(no-nc)
Count husband? Why not? In it a fact
that railroads don't iay? ;
Thb Republicans are atraid of the bad
character they have by black art con
jured up to fcad them, and are now cry
ing out to be saved from Frank Graham.
Graham is Bud Lindsey's -man, and
Jim O'Shee has also been conferring with
Bud. Over half of the Democrats will
"gravitate" to Graham. This makes it
all the mors necessary that all good clti
tens get together.
George Gould made his sister a wed
ding present of a $40,000 crown. But
the American people will support that
crowned princess with yearly tribute and
all her French descendants forever, if the
government does not condemn and buy
in the throne of these railroad kings.
Minneapolis mill operatives have or
ganized to resist the ten per cent reduc
tion in wages decreed by the Euglish own
ks of the PiUsbury-Washburn concern.
It is a common case of English rule upon
American soil. How do you like it, work
lngmen, to have foreigners' decree cuts
in your wages? ,
' Paor. Hkrron's new book, "TheChris
tian State; a Political Vision of Christ,"
containing his celebrated oration at
Lincoln and a fuller expression of bis
thought upon the same subject, is just
off the press end can be had in paper
covers for 40 cents. Cloth, gilt top, 75
cents. T, Y. Crowell & Co., New York,
are the publishers. ..-
The News says: "The Republican con
vention was sufficiently warned by the
reputable element of the party that it
must nominate its best man. Instead it
nominated its worst a man without
ability of the character necessary for a
mayor, whose associations are distinctly
bad, whose character is colorless, and
whose record as a councilman is far from
good."
The press dispatches state that Japan
will demand a cash indemnity of China
and that it is estimated at from $50,-
000,000 to $300,000,000. The money
kings of the world stand ready to draw
from the civilized nations, from the pre
sent feeble current of trade, whatever
metallic money is needed to pay this
indemnity, shipping beyond where it will
be possible for it to return. :
The News says not one-third of thedel
cgates in the Republican convention that
nominated Graham will vote for him.
Its reporters talked with 35 delegates
afterward, and found only three for
Graham. But do not be lulled to sleep
Graham is a hard man to beat because
the bad element of parties will be solid
for him, and he counts on getting the
great vote that always vote the entire
ticket stamped Republican. He will also
have the undivided support of thecorpo
rations, especially the electric liirht com
pany, the B. & M. and the American Ex-
nange bank.
save us fro if our friends
Therein An encouraging revival of inter.
est in municipal good government wej
lug over the country. The great work of
Dr. Parkhurst, the City Vigilance League
and the Lexow committee in New York,
gave form and impetus to the Civic Fed
eration movement elsewhere, and per.
manent results in many cities may be
looked for. Lincoln has as much need of
a non-partisan good citizenship move
ment as any other city of its size. In fact
there is desjterato need of overthrowing
the boodle ring by electing not merely a
good mayor, such as we have had for
lour years, but a clean council and excise
board also. Mayor Weir's bauds have
been tied by the ring tools that preceded
him and that came into office with him.
National political questions ought not
to divide the honest people of a munici
pality in their purely local elections.
National politics should be kept apart
for national and state elections.
Good honest municipal government is
all that is at issue in city elections, i
Parties are a necessary evil which pro
fessional politicians make use of locally
in two ways, namely, to divide good
men and unite bad or self-seeking men.
There is no' sufficient reason why the
Prohibitionists, Democrats, Republicans
and Populists of Lincoln should not
unite their bullots to elect a ticket made
up from all parties, the best known, most
respected and best qualified citizens who
nre willing to sei ve the city. The Civic
Federation ought to, with large acces
sions to its ranks, not only select such a
ticket from the choice of the several part
ies, but it should by earlier action do
what it can to get each party to put up
for candidates its very strongest, best
material.
Wedenbt think the Topulist centra'
committee of the city and the minds that
led have done as wisely as might have
been done. Lack of preparation, of suffi
cient discussion, of clear grasp of the new
situation and the proper work of the
Civic Federation, made it impossible for
the convention Saturday evening to
know what it wanted tp do, or what as
a party we ought to do.' We ought to
have selected the men in our judgment
best fitted to fill the city offices. We
ought to have done just what the three
other parties had already done. Then
with four tickets to choose from the
Civic Federation could have made on the
whole a better selection and some of our
men would have been elected. There was
no reason why the 1,500 Populists as
Fopulists should be by convention action
obliterated, lost sight of, and at the
polls be counted as DemocraticorRepub
lican voters. ' The Populist convention
could and would have named some ex
cellent men for the city offices, and the
Federation would not have passed them
all by to favor certaiuly no better men
in the other parties.
We do not want anything that looks
like a trade, a deal, a tieup between office-
seekers. If we had named our best men
and a committee of the best citizens ap
pointed by the Civic Federation had
passed upon the merits and strength of
all candidates, and then the Federation
as a whole had voted to endorse the. men
to the greatest number satisfactory, the
men endorsed would be voted for by their
honest element of all parties and this
election would have been assured. . (
Where no principle but honesty, is in
volved, where there is but one policy ' to
pursue, that of economy and guarding
the common interests, it is senseless for
good people to divide themselves. But
we do not like to have it appear that the
Populists of Lincoln have no men whom
they are proud to present and propose
for public servants. The candidates of
the two old parties will be elected, the
best we hope of each, and the Populists
who make their election possible will
have no visible part, uo accredited
share in saving the' city. They will be
counted as Democratic or Republican
voters and it will be published abroad as
an old party reform.
TWENTY-SEVEN CENTS A DAT
In the Hocking Valley, Ohio, one of the
richest coal-mining regions of the world,
the mining population is in destitution
and compelled to accept charity to keep
alive. An investigating commission ap
pointed by Governor McKinley has just
reported that, "Throughout the entire
region we have fouud the unemployed in
the most extreme destitution, depending
upon the weekly issues of (he relief com
mittees for their en tiro subsistence." The
commission reports that the miners have
had only from 42 days to three months
work in the last year, which made an
average family income for the year of
only 27 cents & day. Yet there was no
drop in the price of coal. . ,
The report says further, "In all cases
we have found the miners averse to the
acceptance of charity and showing an
earnest desire for work."
Now what is this bntslavery? A disin
herited class, cut off from Nature's boun
ties, whose masters will neither employ
nor feed them! It is worse than chattel
slavery.
. About the same time that the investi
gating commission appointed by the
governor was reporting, there was a
meeting of bituminous coal and carrier
monopolists being held in New York, the
Hocking Valley coal kings being repre
sented by William Ryan and W. F. Mills.
The chairman was J. M. Ferris, general
manager of the Toledo and Ohio Central
Railway. They came together to decide
how much coal should be placed on the
market, how much should be mined at
each mine, how much work should be al
lowed to, not alone the Hocking Vallny
miner, but all others as well, and how
many men, women and children should
starve or be beggars. They agreed on
what the output should be to sustain
prices, and at the same time how much
of the time the poor miners should be
refused employment. The lesa time they
are employed the higher must be the
price of coal, the more must the poor of
all classes, with insufficient means to buy
fuel, suffer for lack of i.t.
Every family buying coal is being
pluudered by this combination of coal
and railroad monopolists who keep tens
of thousands of miners on the verge of
starvation in order to reduce the coal
output and sustain prices far above what
full time work for the miners would al
low. This picture, of natural and chartered
monopoly and correlated starvation,
should be brought under the eyes of the
entire class who care for liberty, equity
and natural rights. Who created and
stored these mines of coal? Not the men
who monopolize them. They belong by
inalienable right to all the people. Titles
conveying them in fee simple to a part of
the people, to a few, are not clear, are
not just, are as much an outrage and an
abomination as the claim of kings to rule
by divine right. Shall we allow parch
ments, title deeds, and chartered monop
olies to make men kings, afterourfathers
fought to overthrow the government of
king? Shall we continue to allow so-
called property rights to hold down and
drag men into a proletariat class, a
legally disinherited class, and force them
to work at wuges which coal kings decree,
when they work, and accept charity or
starve when the kings decree that they
shall not work?
Shall we allow property titles to da-
grade the landless below even the black
chattels whom a righteous war set free?
They were fed, clothed, sheltered, and re
ceived medical treatment. JThey were kept
in good, healthy, workingcoudition. But
the class today who by our laws are al
lowed no right in the sunlight, the soil,
the rain and the dew, the economies o
capital, the working forces of nature and
the stores of coal, and oil, and iron, and
other gifts of God, this class, unable
even to find a master, much of the time,
are in thelowestmiserable condition that
men have ever been dragged down to.
The mines and highways of every sort
must be restored to the people, the gov
ernment. Refuse to do this and violent
revolution is unavoidable. Meu made in
the image of God, now robbed of the in
heritance belonging equally to the chil
dren of God, must soon come to their
own, in a great year of jubilee, or the
parchment titles of monopolists will have
their writing obliterated foreverin blood.
The haughty heads of the French kings
and nobility and all who backed them
fell into the basket a hundred years ago,
A million lives expiated the sins of slav
ery in our own land but thirty years ago,
and we had the ballot all the while.
THE INDIANA ANARCHISTS .
- It is high time for the people of the
United States to arouse themselves and
overthrow the political anarchists who
are reveling in plunder and trampling
Justice under foot. The Republican legis
lature of Indiana plannod a resort to
physical violence to prevent at the last
hour of the session the Democratic gov
ernor sending to the speaker's desk by
his private secretary the veto of acertain
bill. They nailed the doors of the gallery
of the representative' hall at the top and
drove cleats under the bottom, and when
the governor's secretary entered the ele
vator to reach the regular entrance two
legislators jumped on him, broke one of
his ribs, which pressing on bis heart has
left him in a critical condition; they kept
the elevator swiftly runniugup and down
bo that for some time he could not get
Off; then on the floor of the legislature he
was hustled and jammed, and the tetoed
bill was torn from him. The struggle be
tween friends and foes, with foes outnum
bering, made a most startling scene
the lawmakers of a great stateriotingl
The critical condition of Secretary King
after the riot alarmed the honorable par
ticipants, and there was a general scat
tering to avoid possible arrest for mur
der. When the lawmakers of a state resort
to physical violence, to murderous as
sault against regularly constituted
authority, when they upon the floor of
the legislative assembly, in a deliberately
planned .effort thwart the will of the
chief executive who is simply exercising
his constitutional prerogatives, it is the
worst possible form of anarohy, a sort
that must destroy all respect for law,
from such anarchists emanating.
What would the daily press have said
if the Indiana legislators' riot had oc
curred in a Populist legislature? Fancy
their display lines and their horror
stricken editorials.' But not a lisp will
be uttered against these Republican an
archists by the Republican press.
The income tax assessors of Cleveland,
Ohio, have discovered by investigation
that Cleveland millionaires who have
hitherto claimed a residence in New York
to avoid paying taxes in Ohio have not
been paying taxes in New York. Anar
chistssee? Don't believe in supporting
the government. Refuse to be governed
by the laws. Fifty men at least in Cleve
land, owning millions of dollars worth
of stocks and bonds, have been caught
lying and dodging tax obligations.
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DIAMOND COT DUMOKD
The countries ol Europe, and even
Cii Colony in South Africa, are din.
uii.iiiiutmg against our products, pro
tecting tjieir people again t our cheap
goods to off-tet our protection against
their cheap goods, and so "protection"
eeawMto be protection. Reciprocity is
commercial and economic sense. One
nation cannot by passing tariff laws
benefit its own people, considered as a
whole, at the expense of the people of
other nations, unless such other nations
are lacking in intelligence. That nation
which does not meet discrimination with
discrimination, and duty (tariff) with
duty, or prohibition . with prohibition, is
not awake to its power to free itself from
commercial tyranny. There are really
no natural advantages which one nation
possess which are not balanced by other
natural advantages of other nations.
Tariff laws interfere with mutually ad
vantageous exchanges, and are economi
cally justified ouly when used to coerce
other nations into opening their markets
to our goods. By taxing German sugar
(at thedemandof the Sugar Trust) wecut
off (or lead the Germ in nation to close
up) the German market for American
meats, and so lose more than we gain.
Tariff "protection" is also a delusion,
because wherever natural advantages fa v
oranimlustry therecapital takes itself ii
the government is stable. Natural con
ditions of production at tract capital and
labor, determine the surplus products of
each nation, and equalize advantages.
Therefore the laws which interfere with
free exchange damage the people of both
nations, of all nations. But the tariff is
of slight consequence as compared with
either the money, land, or transporta
tion monopoly.
WHO ABB THE CONSPIRATORS?
Mr. Debs in his Chicago speech on,
"Who Are the Conspirators?" charges
that the railroads themselves set fire to
their cars to secure military aid and to
put down the strike. It was a noticeable
fact that Pullman cars were not selected
to burn, but a lot of twenty-five year old
box cars. While fighting the box car
fires Captain Palmer, of the city Are de
partment caught a man cutting his hose.
He promptly knocked him down and
when he searched him was surprised to
find he was a deputy marshal. Twocity
detectives report that they caught two
deputy marshals deliberately making a
business of setting fire to box cars. They
were going about with waste, saturated
with oil, firing cars right and left. Those
deputy marshals were in the service of
the General Managers (railway) associa
tion. '
General Miles at the end of the strike
at a banquet given by one of the big
clubs of the city made the assertion 'I
have broken the back-bone of the strike.'
The soldiers were sent to Chicago to
serve the corporations. "No court takes
judicial notice of the violation of the law
on the part of the railroads," said Mr.
Debs.
LOW PRI0ES MUST BE EXPECTED.
We clip the following from the latest
financial report. The argument that a
large crop cannot help the farmers much
because of the inevitable low prices is
unanswerable. The farmers who are
much in debt are between the upper and
nether millstones. The Republicans com
ing into power will not help prices in the
least. The only hope of the country is to
elect the Populists to power. Their rem
edies are adequate. The report below is
from one of the best New York papers:
The situation in the West and North
west is still unsettled by the low prices of
grain, and capital is timid because of the
arguments that are advanced by the
bears on stocks in New York that a large
crop can do the agricultural classes little
good, as prices cannot improve much
while storehouses are filled with the last
crop. The average of prices of commodi
ties, takingthe country through, does not
improve; and this week there has been
much disturbance from Btrikes. Fif teen
thousand coal miners are out in the Pitts
burg bituminous region, and several
thousand men in the building trades are
idle in our own cities. Strikes in. iron
and textile manufactories are increas
ingly numerous. Sales of wool hold up
well, being 4,858,000 pounds for the
week, against 5,150,300 last year; but
this year's movement is much more
largely of foreign wool. Iron continues
dull and heavy; but it is encouraging to
note that orders for large numbers of
freight cars are being distributed by
leading roads in preparation for
business later on. Clearing house ex
changes are 8 per cent above a year ago,
and railroad gross earnings are showing
an average increase of 5 percent. For
eign trade is not in reassuring condition;
for exports from New York decreased
$3,100,000 in February, while imports
increased $8,900,000.
SAVE MONEY BY CO-OPERATING
The Co-operative Wholesale Society,
Limited, of England and Scotland have
just published their annual report. The
total 'sales in the last year amounted to
$50,000,000. This Society has been in
existence thirty years and from small be
ginnings it has grown to the present
enormous dimensions.
It is such a business (on the Rochdale
plan) as the Christian Corporation is
about to start in Lincoln, that is. it will
start retail co-operation. They ask
those who wish their supplies at wholesale
pricesplus laborcost of handling goods,
to advance $10.00 to the capital fund.
This entitles one, who then purchases
goods to a share in the profits, the share
being proportioned to the amount of the
purchase. The more there are who co
operate, or who buy at the co-operative
store, the greater the labor economy,
re it-aving, etc., and also the corres
ponding profit for purchasers. ,
Those who advance $10.00 can draw
jt out after DO days if they wish to, or
need to, either in the form of cash or
goods. Already fifty families have
agreed to co-operate in the proposed
tor, and we can get four times that
many in a short time, and be sure that
the busiuess will grow, will build itself up
steadily and more and more rapidly
until it shall absorb the trade of all who
care to save money.
SEND NAMES AND ADDRESSES.
There are no doubt thousands of farm
ers in Nebraska who do not know where
to get feed grain to carry them through
thecoming year. If all of oursubscribers
who have feed grain to sell will send in
their names on a postal card, we will
publish it free of charge, so that our
readers who need feed may know where
to get it. -
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
Ex-Representive Springer of Illinois, in
an Associated Press dispatch of March
14, is reported as saying:
"The actual purpose for which the ntw
silver party was organized does not
seem to be well understood throughout
the country," said ex-Representative
Springer today. "That party was or
ganized for the purpose of forcing one or
the other of the old parties to adopt the
16 to 1 silver platform. The silver men
in Washington put their beads together
and declared that they were going to so
manipulate things that one or the other
of the old parties should not straddle the
silver question. One of the most im
portant maneuvers of next year's cam
paign will be the dates of the democratic
and republican conventions. According
to tradition the democrats, as the party
iii power, 'must hold their convention
first, but it would begood politics on the
part of the democratic leaders to make
an effort to have their nominating con
vention after the Republicans shall have
acted. Of course this is a game which
both may play at, and I expect some
sharp jockeying by the national com
mittees of the two parties. The silver
party is merely a club held over the dem
ocrats to force them to a 16 to 1 stand
ard. I personally know that the very
men who have engineered this movement
intend to remain in the democratic party
fighting for delegates to the national
convention and making , tremendous
efforts throughout the country to secure
a majority of theconvention. They hope
to get control of all the southern states,
of practically all the delegates from west
of the Missouri River, and perhaps one
half of the delegates from Illinois, Iowa,
Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. If they are not disap
pointed in their expectations they will
easily control the great majority of the
voting strength of theconvention. They
will have possession of the committee on
platform, and in all probability will be
able to dictate the nominations as well
as the resolutions.
"If they succeed in their efforts to take
possession of the democratic party, "con
thiued Mr. Springer, " the proposed new
party will disappear as it d.v magic.
That will be t he end of it, and large
blocks of the republican party in the
western states will wait to see what their
national convention does before giving
their allegiance to either ticket. I am
convinced the democratic convention will
be controlled by the silver people, and if
the republican convention is held later
there will be nothing for it to do but to
take the dpposite tack, adopt a conserv
ative, sound money platform and nomi
nate some man like Allison, who is satis
factory to the silver people. It looks to
me as if this would be approximate
the outcome of the maneuver. The silver
question will overshadow everything
and thus naturally kill off both the pro
posed silver party and the old populist
party, and combine within the demo
cratic ranks all the silver elements in
the country. On a sound money plat
form the republicans will be able to carry
every state in the east, including, no
doubt, New Jersey, and the next presi
dential battle will be determined in Mich
igan.Illinois, Indiana and the states fur
ther west. Instead of three or four candi
dates in the field, I expect to see a square
fight between the two great parties, with
silver at 16 to 1 as tbe issue. I believe
Allison has a much better chance to be
the republican nominee than any other
man, and I also believe the democratic
candidate will be found in the west."
Not so fast, Mr. Springer. The Populists
with clear heads see the political situa
tion and politely decline to be either
killed or swallowed. Silver is not our
main contention, what binds us together;
therefore it cannot be used to split us
apart, or lead us into the democratic
party. The silver question will disrupt
the democratic party, not us.
It has been remarked with surprise and
some misconception that The Wealth
Makers tlid not announce last week the
banquet this (Wednesday) evening in
honor of Senator Allen. The omission
was simply a case of oversight, a slip o'
memory for which we were exceedingly
sorry. Those who fancy the writer has
any personal grievance or unkind feelings
toward Senator Allen are entirely mis
taken. We are not built that way. We
love all men more than we do any one
man or class of men, and this love com
pels us to stand by eternal principles and
the demands which we see to be most
just and necessary for the defense of all
George C. Ward, of Kansas City, edits
the People's party plate matter page of
the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Company.
He ought to have been endorsed at the
late meeting of the N. R. P. A. at Kansas
City, endorsed as strongly and complete
ly as was W. S. Morgan. Ward is with
out a superior as a writer on financial
and economic questions, a sound thinker,
and one of the best informed men whom
we have, nis weekly page is uniformly
excellent. His selections as well as what
be himself writes are as valuable matter
as could be selected from a very wide
circle of reform publications. Mr. Ward
was endorsed as "an ardent and true
Populist." But he is more. He has
done immense service, molding and edu
cating the people in tbe principles of the
Populist purty.
The honest self-respecting citisens of
Lincoln could not help feeling disgusted
and degraded as tbey saw on tbe streets
all day Thursday of last week the hired
carriages of candidates carrying voters
to the Republican primaries. Each car
riage was placarded with the name of the
man who paid for it, or the name of the
tool some corporation was putting up
funds for. They were on the fly in all
parts of the city all day, and the result
the nomination of Frank Graham for
mayor, at least was what might have
been looked for. The great bulk of the
voting was done by men who have no
sense of the dignity of citizenship, men
who are not ashamed to have an office
seeker hire a carriage to take them to the
polls. Nominations for office are made
not by the people, acting freely and in
telligently, but they are made with1
money. The voters are bought and
transported like cattle. The man and
his backers who can hire the most car
riages aud hunt up the greatest number
of base men, men who are not men, to
cart to the primaries, paying for all votes
in rides, cigars, drinks, promises, trades,
and coin of the realm, is the man who
comes out victor in theconvention. And
the men who are indifferent and so sel
fishly absorbed in their daily business
affairs that they will not take the trouble
to attend the primaries and vote for
honest capable men, on election day are
expected to ratify the work of the office- -seekers,
boodlersand corporation agents.
And so the worst element secures power,
plunders the public, 'frames mischief by a
law,' and by what it gets out of the peo
ple controls elections and keeps its tools
in power. How long will the majority
submit to the rule of the vicious and
through partisanship divide thestrength
of the honest class?
The supreme court of Illinois has de
clared that the sweat shop law of that
state, an act "to regulate the manufact
ure of clothing, wearing apparel, and
other articles," is " un-cou-sti-tu-tional."
The law prohibited women from being
employed for more than eight hours a
day or more than forty-eight - hours a
week in any factory in the state. The
court sustained the claim of the attor-
nevs tor t lie sweating manuiacturers,
that the law took away the constitu
tional right of a citizen to contract his
or her labor. This shows that our whole
system of laws is built on the capitalistic
or profit Beeking basis, on the doctrine
of absolute private property and " per
sonal liberty," liberty to starve or come
to terms with landlords and caoitalists.
What! deprive a woman of the right to
sell her body for sixteen hours, or day
and night both, if she needs to? The pa
per constitution as interpreted by manu
facturers' a ttorneys, must, and shall be
preserved, even if the moral and physical
constitutions that God has made bave to
go to the devil.
The Indiana legislature wound up in
an anarchistic, violent, disgraceful resort
to physical force, between the governor's
secretary, who sought to present a mes
sage from the governor, and legislators
who succeeded in preventing it and broke
a rib of the secretary in the fight. New
Jersey has also got the cover off and
brought to light "a mass of corruption
and jobbery that has made even that
ring-ridden state startle with 'horror."
"The evidence brought out disclosed
the existence of a systematic and organ-.
ized robbery of the public treasury, the
spoils of which were apparently shared
by state officials from the top of the
ladder to the bottom. The bills for
everything bought for the state
house were regularly raised and bills
frequently rendered for goods that were
never supplied at all. All the way
through the results of the investigation
bear a striking resemblance to what was
brought out during tbe trial of the Ne- ,
braska impeachables two vears aero and r
show that the methods of looting etate-V
institutions are everywhere the same.
One of the best physicians in town in
formed us in a talk on the hard times a j
few weeks since that he had between six . 1
and seveii hundred dollars worth nf trnrlr m
frt At Sttiv not ionfa tt-Thrft . nnnM nnf Iiam
treatment begun for lack of means to
pay the unavoidable expenses connected
with surgical treatment, nurse bills,
medicine, etc. He mentioned, without
calling names, cases of physical torture
and where life itself was being risked be
cause of no means to employ physicians
and surgeons and trained nurses.
Another physician but a day or two ago
referred to the dullness of demand for
doctors to treat cb ron ic ail men ts. So we
live and din in this aelfiah anritl.l
onun,
to gain one from another. And those
willlno to iiiMtifv tlipmaolno rtalo,u, L.
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the law of supply and demand regulates W
everything.
The churches of New York are tnovinir
out of the poor down town district and
following the rich. Tbe Episcopal church
of the Annunciation on West Fourteenth
street and the Church of Sea and Land,
Presbyterian, are two who have just de.
cided to sell out their down town church
property and withdraw iuto better
society. Tbe Scotch Presbyterian church '
on Fourteenth street is still anotheri
which has decided to sell its property 1
which the rich have moved away from and v
itself get away from "the poor" and "the
common people," the sort that Christ
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