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THOMSON, GA., JULY 6, 1916.
For Prison Commissioner Against Bob
Davison,
A. H. HENSLEE,
of Barnesville.
He is THE JUROR, who was so outrageously
DENOUNCED BY LUTHER ROSSER IN THE
FRANK CASE I
Henslee stood firm and true, for LAW, for
JUSTICE, for WOMANHOOD!
Same Old S3O Bale Insured
for S7O.
Lowland, June 24, 1916.
Dear Sir: In the Jeffersonian of June 22nd,
you speak of the Government insuring S3O cot
ton at $75. Please give us through the columns
of your next issue the weight of the bales.
Yours truly,
S. J. CLARK.
I did not mean to say $75.: but S7O.
I said, that the same bale which had been
sold in the South for S3O. was insured by the
Government for S7O, after the gamblers had
bought it.
And I proved, what I said; taking it for
granted that the average man understood an
average bale to be 500 pounds.
SHALL THIS MAN BE HUGH
DORSEY’S SUCCESSOR IN
THE SOLICITORSHIP ?
John A. Boykin, One of Leo
Frank’s Lawyers, Wants it?
THE following letter should be read and
1 considered by every voter in the Atlanta
circuit, of which Hugh Dorsey is Solicitor-
General, for the writer of the letter is a can
didate for the office:
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 13, 1915.
Dear Sir: I thank you from the bottom of my
heart for article appearing in Sunday’s and to
day’s issue of The Chronicle. Your courage is
SUBLIME. All honest Georgians should honor
you for the work you are doing to combat and
counteract the forces of evil set in motion by
ARCH ARCH-FIEND, TOM WATSON.
I rejoice and thank God that we have one
Georgian brave and brainy enough to present the
side of truth, and who can so ably present THE
FACTS THAT WILL CLEAR THE NAME OF
JOHN M. SLATON, AS TRUE AND HONEST A
MAN AS EVER LIVED, from that charge of cor
ruption in his official act as Governor. You
should be supported by every honest Georgian.
I am with you ’till the end. Your editorial is
convincing. It has been read and favorably re
ceived here.
With best wishes, Yours truly,
JOHN A. BOYKIN.
FOR PRISON COMMISSIONER
Against Bob Davidson,
A. H. HENSLEE,
of Barnesville.
lie is THE JUROR, who was so outrageously
DENOUNCED BY LUTHER ROSSER IN THE
FRANK CASE!
Henslee stood firm and true, for LAW, for
JUSTICE, for WOMANHOOD!
THE JEFFERSONIAN
“Hou Big a Dunce Tom Watson
of Georgia is.”
Foreign Mission Salaries and •
Other Expenses.
IN New York and Chicago, there is pub
lished a Presbyterian magazine, named
The Continent.
An editorial paragraph" in the May issue
indicates that the Christian who wrote it is
thoroughly imbued with that spirit of ec
clesiastical tolerance, charity, and kindliness,
so characteristic of churchfed periodicals.
The Continent says: .
How big a dunce Tom Watsofo of Georgia is,
appears anew in the latest accusation against
missions published in his magazine, The Jeffer
sonian—the point-blank declaration that a half
century of Christian missions to heathen lands
has failed yet to produce a single self-supporting
native church ministered to by an ordained native
convert. Did the bliss of ignorance ever beat
that? Presbyterians alone could furnish a
couple of hundred examples of what he says
doesn’t exist.
That’s truly pleasant and good natured,
isn’t it? It sets you and me a fine example
of courtesy and amiability.
Tom Watson is not only a big dunce, but
he has shown it anew.
That is, lie has often shown it, before.
Tom’s latest accusation, in his magazine
is “the point blank declaration” etc.
Will The Continent oblige us by citing the
issue of the Watson Magazine in which this
point blank accusation was made?
Possibly the “bliss of ignorance” is not a
Watsonian monopoly.
We will wait and see. What I did say
more than a year ago, was that the Southern
Baptists, after their 50 years’ work and ex
penditures, in China, had no church whose
entire expenses were borne by native converts.
I based the statement upon my under
standing of the circular letter which the Bap
tist missionary, Rev. T. F. McCrea, had writ
ten to the Southern Baptist papers.
If I misconstrued Mr. McCrea’s letter,
then the Southern Baptists had one self
sustaining church, in China, at that time.
If the churches in heathen lands are self
sustaining, why spend twenty-two million
dollars a year on them, and why the eternal
howl for more money?
There are 70,000,000 unconverted citizens
in these United States, and there are hun
dreds of thousands of our children growing
in ignorance and unbelief.
Why not keep the $22,000,000 at home, and
devote it to the 70,000,000 heathen of this
country ?
The answer is—There’s an interlocking or
ganization of seif-interest among denomina
tional Boards, Editors, and Foreign Mis
sionaries, that is invincible to Common
Sense, and heedless of the needs of our own
people.
This interlocked organization is angry
with me, because its golden revenues are
shrinking.
According to the Christian Index (June
15, 1916,) the yearly expense to the churches
of maintaining Dr. William Smith’s Board
of Foreign Missions was $50,353.88.
The Index says editorially:
The expenses of the Home Board last year were
$44,434.97. This does not include the salaries
and expenses of the superintendent and evange
list of Mountain Schools and the pageant at the
Convention. These items amounted to $6,359.59.
Nor does it include $941.00 to Georgia ministers
from the Stocks Fund, and $1,037.40 for the
publication of BAPTIST MISSIONS IN THE
SOUTH.
So we have to pay for pageants, too!
That is, you do. As for me, I am so simple
in my ways and manners and habits that t
don’t need any.
As I understand it, a pageant is a sort o$
circus parade, with the white-horse
in front, and the stump-tailed elephant iii
the rear. Or, a pageant may be an inaugural
affair, when the King prances through tho
streets on his way to the Abbey to be crowned*
Or, it may be a Durbar, like they have id
India. Or, it may be a Carnival celebration)
with brass-bands, and gorgeous floats, and
flow’er-displays. Or, it may be a Suffragett|
and Prepardness exhibition, with all the
lunatics loose at one time, and eaclf lunatic
doing his or her best to make more fuss thaij
any other.
Pageantry is synonymous with pomp,
splendor, brilliant spectacle, elaborate anc|
costly ceremonial, big show, magnificent dis«
play.
What I want to know is this: How did a
pageant become a fixed Baptist observance?
Where do they pull it off, and when? 1$
Alec Bealer at the head of it? Who rides iii
the white-horse chariot? Who leads the
stump-tailed elephant?
But consider that other statement made b$
the Index:
“And $1,037.40 for the publication of Bap*
tist Missions of the South.
What did I tell you?
The fact now reveals itself: they take
sion funds to support mission editors, print*
ers and papers, instead of sending it abroad
for the conversion of the heathen.
Our Methodist friends swiped $363,000
from the heathen fund, last year, and gave it
to mission editors in this country.
And the Baptists are doing the same thing<
Your churches give millions of dollars fog.
the heathen of foreign lands, and the custo*
dians of the money use a large part of it to
finance the interlocking mission machines,
here at home.
Let us now see what the Index says about
those salaries paid out of mission funds td
the Boards:
I
We submit the following estimate of
for one Board:
Two Secretaries, at a salary of $3,500
eachs 7,000.04
One Publicity Secretary at a salary of. . 3,000.0 Q
One Treasurer at a salary of 2,000.00
Traveling expenses of three Secretaries 1,500.0 ft
Conventional Annual 2,000.0 ft
Expenses of W. M. U
Expenses of Missionary Day in the Sun-
day Schools 2,500.00
Expenses of Statistician 500.00,
Stenographers and office help 4,000.0 ft!
Postage, telephone and telegraph .... 3,000.00
Office rent 2,000.00
Traveling expenses of Board members l,ooo.ftft
Printing, stationery and tracts 5,000.fta
Treasurer’s bond and attorney fees.. 1,000.0 ft
Expenses of Laymen’s Committee.... 4,500.0 ft
Miscellaneous expenses 1,000.00 l
Totalss2,ooo*os
These allowances aggregate $52,000. Certainly
the expenses of one General Board should not
exceed $60,000 at most.
r
In these hard times, a salary of $3,500-?
with no office-rent to pay, stenographers and
clerks furnished, and travelling expenses
ditto—is a mighty nice income.
Why does a Foreign Mission board need
a “Publicity Secretary” at a cost of
Am I not giving the Board all the Publicity
it could reasonably require?
Am I not equitably entitled to that $3.0001
If they’ll give it to me, I’ll give half of it
to the Bessie Tift, and the other half to MerJ
cer.
Consider the item—Expenses of Missionary
Day in the Sunday Schools, $2,500.
Is that where the pageant comes in? ts
that the procession in which Alec Bealel
rides the double-hump camel ?
Chew on this item: “Postage, telephone,
and telegraph, $3,000.” c ’
Postage on what? Why don’t thq’ use «
