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BIBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
STRENGTH FOR THE DAYS—
“Thy choes shall be iron and brass;
“and as thy days, so she!l thy strength
;fi'e." Deut. 33:25.
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Everybody here was relieved a
great deal today when we found after
the worst of the storm had gone past
Tybee, where our soldiers are en
cumped, that they are safely housed
ir. the barracks at Screven., Savan
nah seemed not to have suffered a
gicat deal from the tropical storm,
" We admired Senator McKinley
when we learned that he had stood
the cost otrhls campaign for reelec
tion in llllnois. but he spent a fortune,
three hundred and fifty thousand dol
lavs, in the race. He is a rich man
and all that, but he must have en-
Joyed being a senator from Illinois.
If any group of outlaws in the south
Lad concocted bhootleg liquor out of
wood alcohol that had poisoned and
killed forty people, the whole aboli
ticnist, pharasiacal north and east
vould be upon our necks with clubs
and chains ready to imprison us for
permitting it. And yet, just that
thing, if we are to judge from press
accounts, has occurred at and around
Puffalo, New York. And the men
who made up the poison are accused
of knowing before they sold it that
it was a poison which would produce
death,
The Manufacturers Rccord takes
time to say that the bank failure; i»
Ceorgia and Florida are greatly mag
nified, We should take time to ob.
serve that the Federal Reserve banks,
the tools of Wall Street, are tryity
to make these failures very lacye
Wall Street is using the people’s ow:n
Lanking system in an effort to de
press this section where development
ard progress has been marked in the
past year. But we do not think that
dastardly effort is going to succoed
Florida and Georgia are going on with
their season of progress. All tie
east and the north cannot take the
Florida climate away—and on that
the development there is going stead
ily on. Sure, the bank failures are
magnified. Business is going straight
alead — large, substantial develop
nent in both Georgia and Florida.
These closed banks, most of them,
d'dn’t have to close. Thney will be
cren and going again very soon, we
have every reason to believe.
While we are taking stock of the
profits which the farmers never
nake on !Iwir‘(-rops. their melons,
their peaches, when they go to mark
et, we also note that rail stocks take
all leads on the eastern market ex
changes and soar higher and higher
every day. Without being termed an
avarchist we wish we could write it
into the minds of the rail officials
that to Kkeep the orchards and the
fields sending their great tons of
choica fruits and other ciops to the
r2il lines to handle, there must be a
feirer division of the returns. While
the money goes to pay freights it
leaves the farm and orchard without
euthusiastic owner and operator.
Without fairer returns this tonnage
nast dwindle——and while it dwindles
--while the grower suffers more and
more of poverty in his efforts to make
something out of the crop yield, he is
geoing to become more and more hard
ened against the carrier. One day
Fe will have a chance to vent his
aunger in revenge—and that revenge
vill cost the carrier more than h~ is
now dreaming, It wonld be far heitor
to be failr while fairness might save
both grower and cerrier, |
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TROUBLE IN MEXICO ‘
The president of the republic of
Mexico gends a message to the world
today in which he charges that the
veliglous crisis in Mexico is bhased up
on the fact that the clergy—meaning
I'I”’ priesthood -of the Catholic church
llu Mexico—is inciting the people to
rybellion. And the Associated Press
ings us further news,
“Kvery Catholic church throughout
the country held its greatest crowd.
“With Saturday the last day on
which Catholic priests will officiate
in the churches, in obedience to pas
toral orders withdrawing the priestg
a 8 a protest against the government's
new religious regulations, the faithful
i that religion are engaged in an in
tense movement to avail themselves
to the utmost of the rights of their
caurch while opportunity permitted,
“The government continued today
its preparation for inflexible enforce.
rient of the regulations in the form
of an “economic hoycott,” under the
leadership of the League for Defense
of Religious Liberty,”
It would take column after column
et explanation to make' the story of
the trouble in Mexico plain to our
readers, but we want to help them
to understand this thing in fair and
impartial manner as we deal with
this thing. From Rome the fight of
the Catholic church for domination
over schools, property and govern
ment has been conducted for many a
century. The wealth of the country
has been gathered into the Catholie
chiurch and its funds have for many
years heen loaned out at interest up
on the lands of Mexico, The hand
of the (fatholic priest has blighted all
effort at the establishment and main
tenance of a public school system
until of late Calles, a Catholic him
self, has broken away and is fighting
a great fight for a free country, re
ligious liberty, and the right of wor
ship. according to the consgcience of
the individual.
The Catholic churci in Mexico has
had in its power to create a new
Mexican, an educated Mexican, a
ciean Mexican. It has had in its
power to raise cconomic standards,
‘Lut the Catholic chnrch in Mexico
hasg done none of these things. During
450 yearg of almost absolute rule
ouly the domniant aristocracy learn to
read and write. The church still
pciemits the lepers and diseased to
div their rotting hands in the same
hely water used by healthy children.
And how many thousands of lepers
still beg at the temple gates with all
the misery of impending death upon
their faces—for alms, “In the name
of the Most Holy Virgin,” “for the
suke of the most pure hood MI
Christ,” “in the name of the Miracu
lous, pure Conception!” ",
One of the erying criticisms against
Mexico—although a meaningless one
~the c¢ry that is raised by the Cath
oic church itself—is that the }wons
are not married. To the peon civil
marriage means nothing, but the fees
and the costs of a church marriage
are prohibitive, and if pard, mean the
beginning of a debt that lasts all hig
I'fe and down to the days of his
children, That the Mexican desires to
marry is time and again illustrated
‘v striking human interest examples.
Last year a man owning a cattle
ranch issued a general invitation to
the countryside to come to his place
and be married free of charge. He
built a temporary chapel and hired a
priest and for two days the hymenecal
torch flared as it never had in that
part of the world before. So many
persons took advantage of the oppor
tunity that the priest who began mar
v ing a couple at a time was obliged
teward the last to line them up in
httle squads of six and eight and ten,
ond let them have it, so to speak,
Ly wholesale., It was pathetic to see
¢ld men and women with their
(hildren and their children’s children
all waiting in the same groups to be
married,
In some cases the Catholic church
has deliberately aggravated these
evilg. It has manifested its desire to
gee the Mexican remain ignorant, de.
tased, and ecconomically subjected,
it has opposed the secularization .of
eaucation, It has opposed woman
svifrage, It has opposcd prohibition,
It has opposed labor organizations, It
Lug excommunicated peons participat.
irg in land subdivisions, preventing
their owning their own possessions,
It has torn the land in twain with
sunguinary civil war during one lhun.
c¢red yeuars and has fovght every
mwovement for human freedom and
ewnancipation,
Thesc—while awful to comprehend
in an age of civilization—are bt few
of the things charged against Cath.
olie domination in Mexico, According
16 our estimate of it, knowing tho
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Leaning of human liberties as we
know them hI this country, President
Calles and the present government in
Mexico are fighting the greatest fight
for human liberties ever fought in
this age. Separation of church and
state is one of our greatest prizes in
this greatest country on the earih,
And yet we have a neighbor so under
demination of the pope in Rome that
Loman Mbherty in Mexico is a thing
wimost unknown,
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