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housing Hindoo children, said to be orphans.
At another station (Deogarh) the mission
aries paid only S3OO for evangelistic work,
and gave $2,100 of the mission money to the
feeding, &c., of Hindoo orphans.
In Porto Rico, that same Board spent sl,-
700 in the support of orphan girls, and sl,-
400 for orphan boys—negroes at that.
God in heaven! Can’t they find homeless
little waifs white and black here in this coun
try ?
At Kulpahar, India, they applied $2,200
of your mission money to a “Women’s and
Babies’ Home.”
hat a blessing it would be in this coun
try, if our churches would apply this money
to the establishment of hospitals, lying-in
Homes for the women of the poor, who are
about to become mothers, and for the tender
care of the babies!
Have wo any such noble charities in all
this great rural world of America ?
No: we have not. There are a few in our
large cities; but I do not know of a single
one in the small towns, in the country vil
lages, and in the lonely farm-districts, where
the doctors are few, and the women have such
an exhausting life of care and toil.
O my countrymen ! is it right to drag the
surplus dollars out of the pockets of the hus
bands of these women, and with those dollars
establish luxurious “Women’s and Babies’
Homes” for the Hindoo mother and the Hin
doo babe?
God knows, I cannot see it that way.
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Brother Harris took me sharply to task on
the matter of the missionary salaries. He
accused me of exaggeration. But my state
ments were taken from official Reports of the
Boards. If I am wrong, those Reports mis
led me.
For instance, here is the itemized statement
for the mission at Bina, India:
“Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Elsam, salary, $1,200
Children’s allowance 300”
Total salary for the missionary’s family,
$1,500.
As I remember the official statement of our
Baptist Board, at Richmond, Virginia, the
missionary and his wife are paid $750 a
piece. For each child born to them SIOO a
year is paid, up to fifteen years. After the
child has reached fifteen, the allowance for
said child is $l5O a year.
Count the average family of children at
the low figure of three, and you can see that
the Board pays the missionary family an
average of SI,BOO a year.
Brother Harris was quite joyful as he
exposed my error in comparing these salaries
with those of our consuls. It is always enjoy
able to catch the other fellow out, in a state
ment relating to facts.
Well, maybe I was wrong about that detail.
Yet. we might examine it, and see.
There is a very cheap and useful little book
published by The Neale Publishing Com
pany, of New York, entitled “The United
States Government.” I wish you could spare
a dollar and buy it for quick reference, on
questions concerning your Uncle Sam.
Turning to page 63, I find the facts about
the (’onsular Bureau.
We have 57 consul-generals who are paid
from $3,000 to $12,000. We have 141 consuls
whose salaries range from $2,000 to SB,OOO
a year.
Now when you consider that a consul is
expected to keep open house for American
travellers, act as judge within the jurisdic
tino of his consulate, be on the go constantly
gathering up commercial information, and is
net allowed a yearly vacation of three months
on full pay- as the missionary is, you can
See that a consul stationed in Eurone is not
as well paid as a missionary stationed in
China, Japan and India.
Os course, the consul stationed in those
THE JEFFERSONIAN
cheap-living countries, is paid as well as the
missionary, excepting in the matter of the
one-fourth of the year that the missionary
draws full pay, and does no work.
Brother Harris surely failed to make due
allowance for the fact that the missionary is
paid for 12 months’ work, and only works
nine.
So, after all, the missionary who lays off
three months every year, and who is paid for
increasing his pious little family, is a blamed
"sight better oft than a mere one-hoss consul
who gets $2,000 a year, with no vacation, and
no bounty on child getting.
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In the recent Women’s Missionary Council,
of the M. E. Church, South, held at Fort
Worth, Texas, they allotted SSOO to the work
of looking after “rescued” young women in
this country, and $72,000 for China. These
misguided fanatics appropriated $29,000 to
the utterly worthless Koreans, and $24,000 to
the white people of all the States •bordering
on the Gulf of Mexico.
The yellow folks of China and Korea pull
down SIOI,OOO, for the missionaries, the
school-teachers, the doctors, &c., that get the
soft snaps in heathendom, while the hard
working preachers of Florida, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, and Texas, get the
crumbs.
Texas, alone, is big enough to hide Korea
where you couldn’t find it in a month’s search,
yet the Home Mission work of this imperial
State draws a pitiful mite compared to the
sum sent to the imbecile Koreans.
(Or rather, to the sleek missionariese who
luxuriate among the childish Koreans.)
* * * ❖ * * *
Brother Harris could not believe that the
foreign missionaries lived in grand “style, and
kept a houseful of servants. lie judged the
missionary by the shabby clothes he wears,
when he comes to this country to beg for
'more ducats.
Some office-seekers play that little game,
when they go out after Old, Man Peepul’s
vote.
If even you see one of our Army or Navy
officers who has been entertained by a mis
sionary in China, Japan, Korea, or India, ask
him to tell you, in confidence, how those holy
nabobs live. I have heard from these officers,
and know whereof I speak.
But you are not asked to take my unsup
ported word for anything: every statement
made by me can be substantiated by mis
sionary reports, letters, magazines, papers and
books.
For instance, here comes Bishop Frank W.
Warne, of the M. E. Church, of Southern
Asia ,writing to The Christian Herald of New
York. April 15, 1914.
The Bishop defends the foreign mission
aries from the candid statements of the emi
nent Hindoo, Dr. Keshava Shastri, of
Benares, India. You will remember what a
sensation Dr. Shastri created some months
ago, by saying that the missionaries were not
converting any Hindoos and were “living
like lords.”
Bishop Warne virtually admits that the
missionaries do live like lords, and keep a
houseful of servants. He says that the custom
of the country demands it.
He says that the missionary keeps several
domestic servants, “but they do not cost any
more than, one servant at homey
Now, let me put it to your common sense:
If labor and living in these Eastern lands
is so cheap that the missionary can employ
“several,” at no greater cost than one in this
country, how much more does, his salary of
SI,BO0 —for self, wife and children—amount
to than SI,BOO in this country?
Bishop Warne savs that the wife of the
missionary .is entirely relieved of all house
work. Neither her mind nor her body is
vexed and worn by the dull round of domes-
tic drudgery. The several servants attend to
all that.
The Bishop argues in favor of her happy
condition, because it enables her to devote all
her time to missionary work.
With fine Christian scorn, the Bishop asks:
. “Does the church send women, either mar
ried or unmarried, to the non-Christian world
to spend their time peeling potatoes, wash
ing dishes, and dusting houses?™
There’s your humble, contrite, self-sacri
ficing spirit! What! Shall Bishop Warne’s
wife peel a potato? God forbid!
Shall the foreign missionary’s “lady,” as the
Bishop calls her, lower her proud crest to
wash the dishes ? Shall this “missionary
lady” soil her dainty hands with the handle
of a house broom ?
Never! We will shed blood, tears and more
cash before the missionary’s lady shall stoop
to peel potatoes. It’s quite enough to ask her
to eat such democratic food as potatoes.
Let the riff raff do the peeling. Let the
scum of creation wash the dishes. Let the
rag-tag and bob-tail sweep the house.
Gentle Jesus! w’ho ever thought that a mis
sionary bishop would write such arrogant
snobbery, and that a Christian paper would
publish it?
Bishop Warne contemptiously asks—
“ Shall we dismiss our servants?”
No! Bishop, NO!
eKep ’em all, and hire more! We’ll pay.
the’ bill. That’s why we are here. Never
in the world would it do to allow the mis
sinary “lady” to come down to the level of
Martha the friend of Christ.
Perish the memory of Dorcas! she’s a back
number.
Bless my soul! as much as I knew on these
pampered missionaries, I never expected to
read ‘one of their own letters in which it is
insolently implied that your wife and mine,
your daughter and mine, may have to go to
the kitchen, and may have to sweep the house,
but that “the lady” of the foreign missionary
is too much of a princess to stoop to such
menial service.
I wonder what our home preachers are
thinking, as they read the amazingly haughty
letter of Bishop Warne.
Senator Ben Tillman’s Rnies
For Health and Long Life*
QENATOR TILLMAN of South Carolina
enlightened the U. S. Senate, the other
day, by explaining how to keep well and live
a long time.
His recipe was printed in the Congressional
Record, and I see it reprinted in Mr. Hearst’s
Sunday American.
One of the most important of-the Senator’s
rules is, that when you wake up, in the morn
ing, you must take your right leg by the heel
and kick yourself in the buttock 24 times.
After this, you take your left leg by the heel,
and kick your other buttock 24 times.
In this manner, you stimulate circulation,
create energy, and blow the, vital spark. It’s
rather rough on the buttocks, but it will keep
them from getting sore when you ride horse
back.
Little did I think that the U. S. Senate
would ever have to be advised to kick its own
posteriors.
But Tillman says it must be done, if the
Magi would preserve life, health and strength.
Fancy the highest law-making body on
earth, lying abed, kicking its own rump, with
its own heels!
Tillman says he does it regularly, and that
he is renewing his youth by it. But Benja
min is from South Carolina, and it may be
that South Carolina is the only State whose
proud sons can maintain health and strength
by this novel process.
Still, yoli might try it.
Won’t you send us one new subscriber?
