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Ion" as she married in the same letter of the
alphabet, she was safe. Anyway, she neither
went above, or below the letter “C.”
As it often happens, Catlett solaced him
self with another wife. Whether he had
'‘heard’’ that his first treasure was lost, we
are not informed. Men are not expected to
be as fertile in reasons and excuses as women
are.
At all events, Catlett got himself a second
wife; and he was then so inconsiderate as
to bring to the knowledge of his first w’ife
that it was all a mistake about his being
dead.
Well, Si r, you never can tell what a scared
woman will do. This Mizzes Carmax went
off right straight to her mother, leaving Car
max to browse around by himself, until the
lawyers can satisfy her agitated mind as to
which of those two men is her lawful spouse.
No, Susan; I do not know what the second
Mrs. Catlett has said or done to Catlett.
Moral; Don't marry on the strength of a
rumor. ; j ;
The L. & N. Railroad and the Car
mack Murder
Did you notice that Robin Cooper mar
ried the daughter of Milton Smith. President
of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad?
Now’ put your wits to w ork.
Goebel, of Kentucky, was giving this pred
atory Wall Street Corporation a lot of
trouble. For years it had controlled machine
politics in that state. Goebel waged a suc
cessful campaign against it, and incurred its
deadly hostility.
On his way to be inaugurated, Goebel was
shot dowm, by sonic one concealed in the State
('apitol building.
In spite of all that could be done, the as
sassin was never brought to justice.
The Republican Governor fled the state,
and is still at large.
Fred Warren, the Socialist, sent letters
through the mails, offering a reward to who
ever would kidnap Taylor, the absconding
Governor, and return him to Kentucky’ for
trial.
And Fred Warren has been sentenced to
jail for it!
Now’, consider:
The head of the L. & N. system is August
Belmont, financial agent of the Rothschilds of
London, and financial allv of J. P. Morgan
& Co.
Belmont is the power behind the throne of
the national Democratic party.
Morgan holds a similar place among the
Republicans.
Both of them are Wall street money-kings
of vast power and almost unlimited resources.
Remembering this, can't you guess w’hy it
is that the fugitive Taylor is not arrested and
put on trial?
Flight has universally and necessarily and
immemmorially been regarded as one of the
strongest evidences of guilt.
But Taylor is not molested—w’hile Warren
will soon be in prison, serving out a six
months’ sentence.
Then, the Cooper case:
Col. Duncan Cooper has long been a
lobbyist for the L. & N. Railroad. He has
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been in the service of the Wall Street ma
rauders for many years.
It w’as his business to secure the passage of
bills favorable to the corporations, and to
kill off those that were objectionable.
Senator Carmack was not the man to be
come the pliable instrument of corporation
villiany. He was a true man, and stood for
w hat he thought was best calculated to benefit
the country .
His tongue and his pen became the terror
of the L. & N. political machine. He was
making himself an irresistible power for
cleaner men and honester methods.
The Patterson-Cooper-L. & N. ring de
termined to get rid of this terrible foe, who
could not be bought, intimidated, or met in
the open.
(Do you see any situation in Georgia re
sembling that which existed in Tennessee?)
Col. Cooper, after having threatened Car
mack's life, deliberately put his threat into
execution. He and his son, Robin, armed
themselves with the latest improved, rapid
fire revolvers, follow’ed their intended victim
—who was on his w’ay home to dinner—and
exclaiming, as they came up behind him,
“We've got you!" shot him to death.
The same secret, but all-powerful, in
fluence that is protecting Taylor, has pro
tected the Coopers.
Patterson pardoned the elder Cooper: and
two unscrupulous office-holders, under the L.
A N. machine, illegally gave Robin a verdict
of “Not Guilty!”
The conduct of Judge Neill and of Attor
ney-General Anderson is a disgrace to civ
ilization !
What they did in turning young Cooper
loose, w’as in gross violation of law, and in
flagrant defiance of public opinion.
And when the widow of the murdered man
sought to proclaim the infamous story to all
the world, the Associated Press refused to
handle it.
And again you feel that the L. & N. Rail
road was back of the suppression.
Even a hardened cynic like Milton Smith
dreaded the effects of a general publication
of Mrs. Carmack's impassioned outcry.
Apparently, the loss of Carmack deprived
his followers of an indispensable leader — a
factor no doubt that encouraged those who
plotted his assassination.
Oh Those Foreign Missionaries!
Seeing, in the latest report of that costly
Board which the Baptists maintain in Rich
mond, an expense entry of more than SIO,OOO
charged up as ‘'lnterest,'' my curiosity was
aroused.
“Interest on what?” said I to myself.
Couldn't imagine what the brethren meant;
so the first chance I got I asked my beloved
pastor to enlighten me.
They've accused me of being so
“absymally” and “epochically” ignorant on
the subject that I have to be mighty careful
about my facts.
Brother McLemore kindly explained to me
that the Board had to borrow’ money, when
mission collection were slow’, (say, in the
spring and summer) to get the necessary
wherewith to keep the foreign missionaries
paid up. Then, later, w’hen contributions
They throw flowers at sea for the
sailors who are lost—how about fire
works for the aviators who are lost
in space, as memorials?
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poured in more plentifully the loans were re
paid, together with the accumulated interest.
Afterwards, I began to reflect about that
matter: and the oftener I turned it over in
my thoughts the less I liked it.
That Richmond “Board” allots to every
married couple of missionaries to China, a
yearly salary of $1,200. For each child under
ten years of age, this couple draw another
hundred dollars; and wdien the child passes
the age of fifteen the allowance for it is in
creased to $l5O a year.
You can support a family on less money
in China than anywhere else in the w r orld.
The prices paid for labor and tne good things
of life are almost incredibly low.
Therefore, the $1,200 paid to the married
couple is worth to them, there, as much as
$6,000 is w’orth to a preacher and w’ife, in
this country.
Yet, in the United States where it costs
more to live than it does anywfliere else on
earth, the average salary of the Ministers of
the Gospel is $630. This means, of course,
that while some of them receive more than
the average, some receive less.
Now’, can’t you realize what a constant
struggle and anxiety life must be to a
preacher wdio has to support a family, here,
on less than half the amount paid to the
married missionary, in China?
Don't you think it a shame that those for
eign missionaries should be so exacting about
the prompt payment of their salaries?
Many and many a preacher in America has
to w’ait for his money, until the stewards, or
deacons, can collect it. They never think of
demanding that the church borrow’ and pay
interest on the arrears.
They themselves either borrow what they
need, or they live on credit while the church
is behind on the salary. Often this works
real hardships to the pastor; but he endures
it, as a part of the sacrifice of his sacred pro
fession.
But it seems that the foreign missionaries
must be paid regularly. That fat salary just
must come. Therefore, the obliging “Board”
does what it has no earthly right to do—
borrows the money at prevailing rates of
usury.
Who gives this Richmond Board authority
to use mission collections in paying interest
on money borrowed for the missionaries?
That money was given to “win souls,” not
to pay usury to money-lenders. To misap
propriate church funds in this way, is a
shocking violation of the confidence of the
pious people who believed that their dollars
would go to the heathen.
Have the missionaries in China no credit?
Couldn't they manage to live on their ac
cumulations, or on loans, or on credit, until
the Board is able to pay them out of the cus
tomary collections?
Isn't it a sin to waste ten thousand dollars
a year on money-changers in America, when
the same money might “win souls” in China?
Those foreign missionaries ought to be
ashamed of themselves! To cheat the poor
heathen out of a cool ten thousand a year,
is scandalous.
The first thing they know’, people w’ill be
gin to suspect that their anxious concern for
the heathen has a world of commonplace
selfishness at the bottom of it.
Aha! see what’s happened NOW.
Here we’ve been howling for battle
ships and now we have one too big
for any dock; the Texas is as big as
the state she’s named for and is a
regular Japhet-in-search-of-a-father,
—only it’s a dry-dock the Texas is
looking for.