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Some Late News From the Mis
sion Fields. r
r pILE recent report issued by the State of
Georgia on the condition of our mountain
schools, ought to be conscientiously examined
by those well-meaning Christians who are
financing secular education in Korea, China
and Japan.
Write to lion. M. L. Brittain, Atlanta, and
request a copy.
head it, think over it. pray over it, and
then ask yourself what, in the name of com
mon sense, do you mean by sending your
school-money to foreigners, of a lower race,
ten thousand, miles from- your home.
The Missioniary Voice, is roaring right
along, from Nashville, Tenn.
"Educate the Koreans! Educate the Hin
doos!
Semi the Chinks to College!
Open the kindergartens for the cute little
days!
Feed the hungry Hottentots!
Clothe the naked Africans!
I!urry up the doctors and the trained nurses
for the sick Chinaman, and build another
/ >mired hospitals for the indigent heathen!”
Peruse the following item taken from the
1 oice :
“I have noticed on the back of the Missionary
Voice ’Attractive Specials Ready for Assignment.’
My mother wants to take one of the five scholar
s’ ps at the Wonsan High School, in Korea, and
I want to take one. We will be ready to make
payments after the first of next year.”
The writer takes charge of the education of
ore Korean, and the mother of the writer
takes charge of another Korean.
Two little Koreans will be educated at the
expmse of those two Southern Methodists.
Will they ever see the two Koreans whom
they propose to educate? Never.
These Southern .Methodists who are finan
cially able to educate two young people, might
look around them in any Southern State, and
find two bright Southern boys, who would
shout for joy, to get such a chance in life—•
even as I shouted for joy, when first the
golden door of opportunity swung open to
my longing eyes and tired feet.
Those two Southern Methodists could
have looked around in Tennessee, and found
two bright, pure Southern girls whose eyes
would have been wed with the tears of grati
tude, if they laid been offered what will be
given to the two Koreans.
By assuming that God makes us responsible
for (he Chinese household, we are shamefully
neglecting our own.
By taking upon ourselves the charitable and
educational work which China and Japan are
amply able to do for their own people, wo are
taking from ours the charitable and educa
ti :J help which they need, worse than Japan
and (Jiina need it.
Under the excitement of missionary elo
quence and constant prodding, our people are
doing some irrational things. Consider this
item:
At the Gospel Tabernacle, after the sermon of
the Rev. Dr. Albert B. Simpson yesterday morn
ing, the annual subscription was taken for the
work of the missionaries of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance. The total amount pledged
was $:;4.437.90. One scrubwoman contributed
saved from her earnings, and promised $lO
more as soon as she could get it. —New York
Times, October 12, 1914.
Th :t excited scrub-woman probably earns
a dollar a day, working on her knees, in slops
and dirt.
The Rev. Albert Simpson works with his
mouth, principally, and lives on what other
people earn by working with their hands.
But he whooped at that old scrub-woman
in such a fascinating way, .hat she was glad
to give Simpson every dollar that she had
been able to save.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
She not only gave Simpson all she had, but
promised to give him more, if her hands and
knees held out, and enabled her to make more.
Poor old woman! Who’s to eloquently ex
cite people in her behalf, when her poor old
hands, and her poor old knees give out?
Such items as the foregoing are printed in
the missionary magazines to unhinge the
minds, and open the purses of other enthu
siasts.
Therefore, you will not be surprised at the
following report in the Fozce:
“The Conference Board of Missions of the
Holston Conference (Tennessee) is conducting a
series of district institutes for preachers and lay-'
men, holding two institutes a week, beginning
November 15 and closing December 19. For
the year just closed this Conference reports an
increase of $2,000 for foreign missions and a lit
tle less for HOME and Conference MISSIONS.”
Buy-a-Bale McCord, and the
Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce.
'T'IIE efforts which The Jeffersonian has
1 made to extract information out of 11. Y.
McCord have not been crowned with success.
I find Henry a tough customer. Evidently,
when he takes the studs, he is not easily
moved.
He does not often balk, but when he docs,
he is what you might call “sot.”
During the recent political campaign—
which resulted in Democratic success in the
Soho South, (and nowhere else,) Henry lifted
up his voice on many occasions.
The daily papers were fairb* full of 11. Y.
McCord and Ralph Smith, and Janies R.
Shotgun.
Were we going to keep up the price of cot
ton, and pocket 12 1-2 cents a pound?
Not unless we voted for that Titan of in
tellect. influence and Civic Virtue, Hoke
Smith.
But if we voted for Smith, nothing could
keep the Government from letting us have
plenty of new money, on easy terms, low in
terest, and long time.
Then, armed with these ducats, we could
hold on to our cotton, and say to the Specu
lators, “It's your move.''
But, alas, Uncle McAdoo gave all the new
money to the Wall Street banks.
John Skelton Williams, the Comptroller,
published the statement that he had $300,-
000,000 for us.
Either John kept it. or somebody else got
it: the farmer did not get any.
The farmer newer does get anything but the
blarney, the soft-soap, the promises, the taxes,
and the glad handshake of the fellow that
wants another vote.
According to the latest Treasury statement,
the national bankers are using more than a
thousand million dollars of their due bills,
as money; and we are only too glad to be
allowed to exchange our due bills —which are
not money—for the bankers' due bills, which
are money.
Queer finance, isn’t it?
But, as I was saying 11. Y. McCoyd, Ralph
Smith and James Watch Shotgun became in
tensely interested in the cotton situation.
It was reported in The Journal, that James
himself had bought a lot of cotton at 10 cents
a pound.
It was reported in the Journal that money
was pouring into Atlanta, from all over the
North, for the purpose of paying the farmers
10 cents a pound.
As the Journal said so, it must have been
so.
According to the Journal, enough money
flowed into Atlanta to buy at least $500,000
worth of cotton.
It does not lie in the mouth of 11. Y. Mc-
Cord to deny what the Journal published.
To allege that the Atlanta Journal could
prevaricate on any conceivable subject, would
be almost sacriligious.
Especially, in H. Y. McCord.
Henry is what you might call estopped from
disputing anything the Journal asserts.
The Chamber of Commerce vouched for*
Henry, and encouraged mankind to entrust
him with the Buy-a-Bale lucre.
The opulent philanthrops of the North ac
cordingly piled up stacks of ducats in front
of Henry, withoiut requiring bond, security,
vouchers or anything.
He was Hoke Smith's manager, and the
Chamber of Commerce said he was all hunky
dory, and the Northern money, most of it
tainted —but all of it smelling good—came
pouring down on Henry.
Now, Henry, what did you do with it?
Your silence is becoming oppressive. Your
obduracy is causing derogotory remarks.
Your sudden loss of speech bears a strong
resemblance to William Rockefeller's throat
trouble.
In reply to a letter from South Georgia,
requesting some of that 10 cent money, the
McCord Committee wrote, that 31 counties
around .Atlanta had Hen selected, and that
the tenants and croppers of those 31 counties
would get the 10 cents for their cotton.
All right. Give us a list of the 31 counties!
Give us a list of the tenants and. croppers to
whom you paid 10 cents for their cotton!!!
This demand is a fair one.
The public is interested, and the public has
a. right to know what disposition was made
of THOSE TRUST FUNDS.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce owes a
duty to itself and to the people in this matter.
Already, the refusal to publish a statement
has created a most unfavorable impression.
If the Chamber of Commerce fails to in
sist upon a statement from McCord, the
Chamber itself will be seriously compromised.
How Bo You Like This Brand
of Democracy?
IN the U. S. Treasurer's Report for Dec. 1,
1 1914, it is stated that the Government hai ’
loaned the national bankers recently the sum
of $270,000,000.
The interest rate is 3 per cent.
During the same period, the Cotton growers
pleaded.for a loan to holdyotton.
The Democratic Administration refused it.
' The Government will not even lend us the
$200,000,000 due us for the illegal Cotton tax,
levied just after the Civil War.
The Government won't pay us what it owes
us, and it won't put us on an equality with
national bankers in borrowing money from
the Government.
How do you like that sort of Democracy?
The Rural Preacher’s Say.
UT'HE man that clipped the sow gets lots of
1 fuss, but little wool. Some folks are mak
ing a lot of fuss about Mr. Thos. E. Watson not
being true to his denomination and if Mercer Uni
versity had not known the friend indeed they
would not have called on him to help struggling
boys in and that will in the future attend that
institution. Yes, they got five thousand in cash
and some day that school is to have his library
inestimable in value.
God smiles in such a man as this, who has
retired from a great money making profession,
standing on the altar with speech and pen solely
to lead a people from sin and error. No, I am
not in harmony with him, truth is, I stopped at
a mud hole to catch tadpoles, while he went on
whaling.”—The Rural Preacher, Griffin, Ga.
New Edition of “The Story of France,” by
Thos. E. Watson. Just off the press. Two
volumes, $3.50 the set. Handsomely bound,
gilt tops, gilt lettered. This book is regarded
as standard by the French readers and schol
ars. The Jeffersonian Publishing Company,
Thomson, Ga.
