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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATX.AJTTA, GA-, 6 WOITI FOBBTTH »T. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mafl Matter of the Second Class. JAMES B. G*AT, President and Editor. SUBSCKEPTIOM FBICE Twelve months ?“ c Six months <£ The Semi-Weekly Journal Is published on Tuesday •and Friday, and Is mailed by the shortest routes for earl delivery. .. . ... It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a statr of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liber M *®®®' mission allowed. Outfit free. Write to R. R. BRAD LET. Circulation Dept. The only traveling representatives we h * ve * r * 3. A. Bryan. R F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Tates We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. MOTICE TO SITBSCBXBEBS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on | this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper .-hanged, be sure to mention i your old. as well as your new address. If on a route please give tho route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should b « B « nt postal order ot registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de portment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Atlanta. Ga. THE GEORGIA PEACH. I Now comes that delectable season when a nation smacks its lips for the Georgia peach. There are other lands where peaches grow, but whenever you speak of the peach, the world takes you to mean the tind that come from Georgia. This year the sun and rain and the good warm earth have conspired with unusual magic; the result is a record yield. It is estimated that within the next few months there will be shipped from the state between six and seven thousand carloads of the juiciest peaches ever produced. At the lowest calculation, this crop should fetch the state three and half or four million dollars. The shippers figure on an average of five hundred and thirty-five crates to a car and a net profit of a dol lar a crate. In Ifilli which was a lean year, the peach exports amounted to about a million but the year before they reached three and a half million in value; and 1912 bids fair to set a new record. One of the most progressive steps ever taken by the orchard men was the organixation of the Georgia Fruit Exchange through which the system of mar keting has been placed upon an organised and vastly more efficient bas's. Before the Exchange was es tablished, it frequently happened that one market would be gultted with fruit while in others there would be an enormous demand with no supply. Nat urally, the growers received miserable prices and the consumers themselves were inadequately served. The Exchange has virtually eliminated these unsatis factory conditions. When the same business methods of taarketing have been applied to other branches of agriculture, Georgia will be incomparably bet ter off. It is a remarkable fact that the commercial side of peach growing has developed in this state within comparatively a few years. It was scarcely more than a decade go when the Georgia peach orchard comprised at the most a few score or hundred trees supplying only enough fruit for home use. Horti culture In the larger sense of the term, was an un practiced art. Only here and there was attention paid to the development of new or the perfection of old varieties; and even in those rare instances it was a man's hobby rather than his serious purpose. The rich and far-reaching possibilities of the peach orchard as an investment were scarcely dreamed of. Yet, within a few years, it has come to be one of the most profitable of the state’s harvests. It baa originated new industries, notably the canning factory and has turned the summer, ordinarily a dull 'business season, into one of vigorous activity. What is true of the peach is bound to prove true sooner or later of the Georgia apple and of numer ous other products for which the state’s soil is pecu liarly well adapted. Experts have recently declared, after thorough investigation, that by every natural circumstance, north Georgia is one of the greatest apple growing regions on earth. This truth will not much longer be overlooked by investors; Indeed, capital is already turning to the development of this fertile field and within another tan years, it may be predicted, Georgia’s apple crop will equal, if it does not surpass, her peach crop. GOOD WORK, SENATOR SMITH. The skill and surety with which Senator Hoke Smith solved the problem of what to do with the five United States circuit judges constituting the Commerce Court have won national interest and approbation. The Senate, it will be remembered, recently concurred in the action of the House abol ishing that useless and obstructive tribunal. But under the act that established the Commerce Court I»ve additional circuit judgeships were created and the five new judges were first appointed to these judgeships and then assigned to the Commerce Court. Thus it was that though the particular court was to be abolished the judges themselves would continue to hold office. To obviate so absurd a situation, Senator Smith offered an amendment to repeal the original act cre ating the five new circuit judgeships. His stroke wu a bold one and unexpected, plunging straight through to the heart of the problem. It was pro tested by some Republicans that such a measure would be without precedent and unconstitutional. But so clearly did Senator Smith show that it was not only constitutional but also amply justified by precedent that his amendment was adopted by a sweeping majority, all the Democrats -and the pro gressive Republicans voting in its favor. He brought to light the fact that in 1802, at the instance of President Jefferson, Congress abolished outright the offices of sixteen circuit judges who had been appointed for life during the preceding admin istration of President Adams. By whatever name ouch a procedure may be called, it is evidently a most efficacious one for conditions such as existed then and exist today; and to Senator Smith belongs the credit of having pointed the way to an orderly and thoroughly constitutional method of remedying a recognised ill. He has earned the admiration of his colleagues in the Senate and the hearty approval of the people. BLEAR-EYED ORACLES. In their blear-eyed intoxication over the Under wood victory, some of our contemporaries are see ing strange visions and reading wondrous oracles. They affirm that the progressive principle or, to use their own coined phrase, “the people’s movement’’ in Georgia Democracy is dead and done for. The state has returned, as they see it, to the old flabby days of ring boodle and boss rule when public office was a private cinch and the politician’s motto was, "The people be damned." Naturally, their wish is father to the thought. They are accustomed to seize every straw of comfort for the wreck of their own regime and to welcome every fleeting shadow as an omen of its restoration. Dwelling as they do continually in the past, they seem oblivious to the fact that the thought of the world moves forward and that even within a decade conditions which once were tolerated may become impossible. Whoever fancies that the progressive principle or the progressive party as opposed to the reactionaries in Georgia politics is dead is pitiably Ignorant of the state and its people. That principle lives today more vitally than ever. It lives in a series of liberal and constructive statutes that fortify both the business and the human rights of our citizens. It lives in a negro disfranchisement law, in a pure election law, in a just corporation law, in a law that abolished the convict lease and in a system that revitalized our common schools. It lives in the actual results it is yielding day by day; and just so soon as any reactionary clan lifts a hand to destroy the work that has been done or turn back the policies that have been established, they will find to their sorrow that it lives in the con victions and in the ballots of a hundred thousand Georgians. There are few states on which the progressive Dem crats or, if you will, “the people’s movement’’ has not left its impress, but in none of them has it left a more interesting or fruitful record than in Georgia. Its first memorable victory was achieved in the guber natorial campaign of 1906. when the house of crooked politics that had ruled the state almost to its ruin was blasted from its very foundations. The candi date representing the common Interests was nomina ted by the largest majority ever known at Georgia polls and the work of constructive reform began. In the midst of Governor Smith’s first term of ad ministration, came a nation-wide and, indeed, a world-wide financial panic. Its causes were utterly foreign to any conditions existing in Georgia, and its effects in this state were negligible. But it wfis seized upon by the ousted reactionaries as a means of restoring them to power. The ensuing campaign was without rhyme or reason and its outcome was of a purely negative and ephemeral character. The most that could be said of the result was that it repre sented one of those momentary eddies which some times mark the strongest tides of public thought How true this was appeared two years later when the people again vindicated the progressive move ment by a decisive majority. The gubernatorial pri mary of 1910 was the real turning point in Georgia pol itics. The people chose deliberately between two rad ically different types of government, between two sets of policies as far apart as those of the Republican and the Democratic parties. They chose progressive pol icies and a progressive party. Indeed, it is the peo ple themselves who are the progressive movement; and we may remind our swaggering contemporaries that whenever the occasion arises, whenever the real need develops that movement will sweep forward with redoubled vigor. Following the campaign of 1910, and less than a year ago, a progressive legislature elected a progres sive statesman to represent Georgia in the United States senate; and he is doing the entire common wealth credit. One of our crowing contemporaries dwells with peculiar unction on the election of Governor Brown in the special primary last winter; and that we are told was another fatal blow to “the people’s move ment." The public knows well enough that in that contest, which was more than anything else a polit ical opera bouffe, there was no test of strength be tween progressive and reactionary forces. There were no issues that called the people to a decision on those vital principles that were at stake in 1906 and in 1908. The popular vote was exceptionally light The outcome signified nothing with respect to the state's underlying and persistent thought on matters of real importance. And yet we are now told that this thoroughly irrelevant and soon forgotten contest marked a “disintegration" of the progressive move ment in Georgia. But of all the illusions that now mock our polit ical braggarts the most ridiculous is that the result of the recent presidential primary was a rout to the progressive forces. They are hard pressed for proof when they cite a contest in which state issues were not involved and in which a former manager of Governor Brown’s campaign was a stanch advocate of Woodrow Wilson and a former manager of Hoke Smith’s campaign, a champion of Congressman Un derwood. If, under these circumstances, our con temporaries really think that the Underwood vic tory was a death thrust for the progressive party in Georgia or was logically related to the issues for which that party has fought, then we can only give them up as hopelessly impervious of facts and reason. The truth is these gentlemen are seeing cross eyed, if, indeed, they see at all. They are gloating over a campaign that was won through an enormous corruption fund, and, more particularly, through the slanderous aid of the Democratic party’s most des picable traitor and foe. If they think it was their prowess which defeated Woodrow Wilson in the Georgia primary, they are sorely mistaken. It was a vulgar falsehood spawned and disseminated by Thomas E. Watson that did the work. He is the man to whom they have bumbled themselves and paid tribute at the cost of the state’s honor and, we believe, at the cost of their own self-respect. It was by virtue of their alliance with this unprincipled blackguard that they won the day. Their victory, far from proving a “disintegration’’ of the progressive movement in Georgia has proved a shame and a rebuke to the very men who are now trying to drown their humiliation in silly gabble. The progressive forces in this state are, we repeat, as alive and militant now as ever and whenever the re actionaries dare to make a test, they will find how emphatically true thia la. CHE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1912. Lincoln Statue's Views On Presidential Campaign New York World. The rugged, homely face of the bronze statue of Lincoln in Union square wore an amused smile when a reporter for the Evening World put this question today: “Mr. Lincoln, what lb - but there is plenty of time in case any one of them shall be nominated.’’ "Which one of them do you think you resemble the most?” asked the ingenuous reporter. “That is a hard question,” replied Mr. Lincoln, "be cause the resemblance varies in each case. I was considered one of the homeliest men in the country. Well, Woodrow Wilson could qualify for, the Lincoln class in that respect and have something left over. “In the cases of Taft and Harmon, they are and I was a lawyer. I think that point of resemblance might let them in, but I would not like to commit myself any further than that. Os course, there may be other points of resemblance that they have con cealed from me and the public.” “How about Champ Clark?” "I had the honor to be born in the same state as Champ; that’s one point. We have both been called ’Slangwhangers’; that’s another. I often have thouynt that if Champ had been more reserved in his speech and had grown whiskers the resemblance would be closer, but I understand that whiskers are a great handicap to a man who uses tobacco. "Oh, yes,” continued Mr. Lincoln, "and I should add that I was very fond of dogs, even a houn' dawg. ’ Mr. Lincoln paused and smiled reminiscently. "You have not yet named the original ‘second Lin coln,’ ” suggested the reporter, ‘Colonel Roosevelt.’" » "I purposely was saving him for the climax,” said Mr. Lincoln. "He would prefer to be the climax. I believe the resemblance between the colonel and my self Is the strongest of any. “In the first place, we have both been president. We were both elected to second terms. “We have both said the same things. I said them first, it’s true, but I had the first chance." Again Mr. Lincoln paused and seemed to be in deep thought. ' \ “Ever notice any other point of resemblance?” “Oh, yes; one more,” said Mr. Lincoln. “I an! dead.” "But the colonel Is still alive,” suggested the re porter. "He’s as good as dead,” said ths statue, and re lapsed again into silence. On a Roll of Press Paper Maurice Morris in the New York Sun. Thou concentrated Juice And essence of the sprUce! A web, a roll. < A monster scroll a Os close upon a ton, Down from yon dray Along the inclined way, Controlled, you run, And with your fellows stand Cylindrically grand! In far off forest aisles Os Acadie you stood, perhaps, Through waiting years until The woodman’s axe rang "taps.” Then logged in piles They put you through the mill, Which swallowed at a gulp, Tore, clawed and ground you to a pulp. And thus far have you sped, Evolved but incomplete. The presses must be fed; Each rumbles on its bed And calls you from the street Unroll, unsullied web, then, .and assuage Their never ending rage. Become the storied page, Take to yourself impressions of the day. The types must have their way. Changing but changeless, stable yet unstable; Butchered to make a New York holiday, You’ll cheer at least tomorrow’s breakfast table. New Cure for Hiccoughs An employe of the Crocker-Wheeler company at Ampere, N. J., was recently seized with an attack of hiccoughs. Various remedies were suggested, but none were of any avail. The attack had lasted for several hours before it became necessary for him to stop work and go home. At the expiration of that time he was completely exhausted by the continued spasmodic contractions in his throat. Each renewal of the at tack seemed to "fairly tear his insides” as he ex pressed it. So exhausted was he that when a fresh attack seized him, he staggered and almost fell. He put out one hand to steady himself, and the next in stant he straightened out rigidly. His hand had come in contact with a generator carrying a current of 250 volts. After the lightning swift withdrawal of his hand, and a startled gasp, the man turned quietly and went back to his work. He was cured of the hic coughs, but was heard to state that he thought the disease almost preferable to the drastic cure. LADY PREACHERS Ah, my weary heart is reaching for nepenthe sure and true, for so many men are preaching that I don’t know what to do! Tired and stricken, I determine some fat novel to peruse, and the book turns out a sermon, and my soul contracts the blues. Worn by worldly strife and hounding to the show I go and find that the actors are expounding doctrines that disturb my mind. And the dally prints are screeching ser mons on the nation’s crimes; and the magazines are preaching on the evils of the times; all the doctors are discussing health rules till they bring the tears, and the scientists are fussing, pounding texts into our ears. Every one is bent on teaching, I jbh teaching us with voice and tongue; every one is bent on preaching till the last lone dog is hung. It would make the world less solemn, make our journey far more nice, if we once could read a column that con tains no good advice; if the speaker in the forum and the writer in the prints, wouldn’t nag the folks and bore ’em with a string //> . 4TI ~ of Helpful Hints. do you think of the presidential campaign?’’ “I think my chances are good,” he replied, as a twinkle came into his eyes. "It looks as if I would be both nominated and elected. I speak with great con fidence because the way things are shaping it looks as if I would be the only candidate run ning this fall on both tickets.” After a thoughtful pause Mr. Lincoln con tinued: "A few years ago the only American states men who resembled me were Senator Cullom, of Illinois, and *Uncle Joe’ Cannon, and the resemblance In their cases was largely a matter of whiskers. But now it seems that the Lincoln type is becom ing prevalent. Nearly I every man who aspires I to the presidency now lis a Lincoln. Wilson, I Harmon and Taft have I not been officially en tered in that class yet, —— USING AND THEN ABUSING THE CHURCHES Bishop W. A. Candler AT its recent session the Southern Baptist- Convention uttered a word of timely warning, which all concerned will do well to consider. Its utterance was as follows: "We are convinced of the necessity of Baptists themselves supplying the denomination with the leading books to be used in mission study classes. An examination of many of these undenominational books show that a number of them not only mini mize denominational loyalty, which is to be ex pected in such books, but they frequently contain matter that is definitely intended to break down denominational loyalty. In fact, some of them go out of the way to belittle denominational loyalty and threaten the adherence to distinct scriptural principles.” It is not an unworthy sectarianism which in spires these words, but a spirit of conscientious de votion to the convictions of duty which the Baptists entertain. They are to be approved for their sin cerity and candour. There are many undenominational “movements” and organizations abroad in our land just now which undertake to use and then abuse the churches. They ask the preachers to supply them with the names of the leading members of the churches, secure the use of the church buildings, and draw all the influence of the churches into the promotion of their schemes; and then they proceed to berate both the churches and the preachers as if they were utterly backslid den and almost useless. The agents of these “move ments” and “associations” often talk as if nobody but themselves understood the mind of Christ, or had skill and piety sufficient to do the best Christian work. They set themselves up as "experts,” and ac count the pastors of the churches as the clumsiest sort of amateurs in the art of winning men to Christ. They talk much of the kingdom of God in away to suggest that about the only institution which is not included in the kingdom of God Is the church of God. Athletics, baths, banquets, conventions, as semblies at summer resorts, and the like seem to be their most approved means for saving the world and establishing the kingdom of God in the earth. Preach ing the gospel, observing the Christian ordinances, and attending upon the regular services of the church do not appear to rank high as means of grace with these super-enlightened "leaders” of a new and ap proved type of Christianity. It is not to be overlooked that all these “move ments” and “organizations” have a body of salaried secretaries whose salaries are paid by appeals to the liberal men of all the churches —men who have been made by the churches the liberal Christian men they are. Also these irresponsible bodies are addicted to making and selling sundry publications, from which a considerable income is derived. There lies before me now an advertising pamphlet, put forth by one of these extra-church movements, in which it is stated that more than a million copies of its books have been sold. While some of the books sold may have been fairly good, none of them which have fal len under my eye have been as good as the books of the churches which cover the same field, and at least oqe of them which I have read is exceedingly poor and very misleading. But it may be asked, how could these books attain to so great a circulation, if they were not of the highest order? The answer is easy; connection has been skillfully established with all the churches and then worked for all it was worth, and thus has been created a market for them. One of the reasons for the excessive zeal of the agents of the movements to work outside all the churches is that all the churches may be worked. Much is made of the interdenominational feature, and a constant declamation of a vague sort is in dulged about “Christian unity". Professions of "su perior charity" are put forward in contrast with “the narrowness of the churches’*. Upon the whole these “movements" seem to be projected on the “syndicate" and "big business” plan of things. They wish to use the churches simply as distributors of their wares and supporters of their agents. Hence in the pros pectus of every one of them is printed the name of some person as the "representative” of each of the large churches of our land. But by whom were these "representatives” appointed? Certainly not by the churches named. These representatives were picked by the group of men conducting these schemes, and they have no responsibility to the churches to which they belong. They were picked simply to establish a nexus with the churches for business purposes, and not for any work of representation whatsoever. The whole method is one that uses the churches and then abuses them. In order to keep the pace with all the churches, definiteness of belief is de nounced and an indfinite, and atmospheric senti ment Is set up as a sort of pillar of cloud by which henceforth God’s Israel must be led. Such a process leads no where, but ends always in confusion of tongues. It is something worse than folly to try to make all the churches break with their past history and renounce their cherished convictions. They will never consent to wipe out, or ignore, the history by which they have been developed, nor abandon the principles which gave them birth. And if they could be induced to consent to any such renunciation of their characteristic excellencies, the result would not be an increase of zeal and faith, but only an output of gush and insincerity. To blend all Christian churches in one organization, in which they could not coalesce unless they were denatured, would not augment the sum of piety in the earth, but would only deteriorate the religion of all the churches. It Is the logical and inevitable result of all interdenom inational syndicates that they level down the life of all the members of the combine to the level of the lowest member of it. They never level up life. The truly good man is not the man who suppresses his convictions, but the man who stands jtoutly by what he honestly believes. And God wants good men, not flavorless and insipid sentimentalists. We should love good men who bravely believe. One such man is worth a thousand cowardly spirits, who are ready to sacrifice truth and right for the sake of an easy-going peace. Nothing is gained for Christianity and the cause of goodness among men by schemes the tendency of which is to substitute for brave, definite believers a class of jejune sentimentalists without courage and without convictions. The disposition to minimize the churches and magnify inter-denominational and extra-church schemes is a mistake. All the Christianity in the world, which is worth speaking of, has been the fruit of the efforts of the churches and it is found in the churches. Some unworthy people, perhaps, may be found in all the churches; many, doubtless. But few, if any Christians, are found outside all the churches. It is a cheap sort of phrase-making to decry "churchianity” as something separate from, if not absolutely oposed to, Christianity. God’s church THE SOUL’S CAPTAINCY By Dr. Frank Crane "Look you, Hilda,” exclaims Solness in Ibsen’a "Master Builder,” “look you! There is sorcery In you, too, as there is in me. It is this sorcery that Imposes action on the powers of the be yond. And we have to yield to it. Whether we want to or not we must.” There is about every human be ing; a certain sorcery, an invisi ble power. We control the stars, quite as much as they control us. A great deal has been said of man being a puppet of the gods, but perhaps, the gods complain of being the playthings of men. We are told that the great forces of heredity and environ ment manage us and our moods and affairs. But I exercise fully as much influence upon these forces as they upon me. A man has never really found himself and the reason why he lives until he has realized the im perial nature of his own will. Then all things are grist to hia w-r- a mill. Mankind and its instlti tions, heaven and its laws, and ♦ hell and Its pains are in his hand. Whatever they may be they are nothing except what they are to him. Instead of fa|e guiding my life, I, in the deepest places of the soal's drama, am unconsciously guiding z and disposing fata Whether my career be comedy or tragedy depends upon me. Events are my chessmen. It is this consciousness of inner captaincy that makes a soul great. It is in this alone that there is any true joy. All bitterness, cursing, despair, and pessimism are due to one’s losing hold of the helm and becoming servant instead of master of life’s powers. Senator Bacon South Georgia Progresa Long service in pcblic office alone is but poor ground upon which to ask for re-election, but when J the service has been marked with unusual ability and devotion to duty it is one of the strongest claims ihat a candidate can present. When an efficient officer has given 17 years of hard work to any particular position it Is but natural that he should be eminently better qualified to attend to the duties of the office than a new man could possibly hope to be. This is especially true in the case of our national lawmakers, for in congress the prestige of a member greatly de pends upon his length of service. When a new sen ator or representative is elected he is assigned as near as possible to the committees for which he is best qualified. He begins his committee service at the foot of the committee and as the members ah-sad of him drop out he is moved up. It is a well recog nized fact that practically all of the important work In congress is done in the committees, consequently the committee standing of a senator or representative greatly measures his power in the body of which he is a member. For the past 17 years Hon. Augustus O. Bacon has represented Georgia in the upper branch of congress. No senator, Democrat or Republican, has been mors conscientious in the performance of his duty th ar! has Senator Bacon. Whenever the senate is in session you will find the senior senator from Georgia in his seat, guarding the best interests of his state. His votes and speeches are in strict accord with Demo cratic principles. His long service and brilliant intellect have given him a great prominence in the senate. He is now the ranking Democrat on the committee on rules, foreign relations, and the judiciary, three of the most Important committees in the senate. Should the *en ate be placed in the hands of the Democrats next fall, Senator Bacon would undoubtedly be one of its fore- | most members, and his commanding position would give Georgia a great Influence in the framing of no- _ _Aj tional legislation. An example of the high standard in which Senator Bacon is held by his colleagues was f given a few months ago when he received ths largest number of votes for president pro tempore of the sen ate, he being the unalmous choice of the Democrats of that body. His' defeat for re-election would be a little less than a catastrophe for Georgia Now chat we are on the verge of a Democratic victory it would be a serious mistake for the people of Georgia to re tire Auch an able statesman as Senator Bacon and re place him with a new man, untried, who must serve many years to attain to the position now held by our present senator. • Sweet Girl Graduate K | Chicago Post. Observe the noble girl who has completed her col lege education. See her, with her dimpled chin resting in the hollow of her white palm, gazing out into the future with thoughtful eyea What problems may she now be solving? What mighty movements for the uplifting of the race may she be planning? Back of her are the years of study and application. The great minds of the centuries have given her of their best All that science and philosophy can cull from the universe or mind and matter is hers. And now she is ready for the future. There is a hopeful gleam, a confident light in her eyea She speaks: "Some of those back numbers at home will sit up and take notice when I get off the train in this new pannier skirt suit of mine!" has sowed the seed from which has come all the Christianity that is in the world; and, If the churches could be destroyed in the interest of a churchlew sentimentality, there would be no faith left in the earth presently. These inter-denominational and ex tra-church movements themselves could not survive the wreck of all the churches; for they would perish | for lack of anybody to furnish the money to main tain them. In the matter of 'the money-side of these schemes there are some things not to be overlooked. In the United States for more than a century there have been seen side by side the freest type of I Christianity and the rankest type of mammonism. Some persons have tried to fuse both these types into one. Hence we have had the thrifty evangelist, burn- . ing strange fire on God’s altar in order to extract coin from the pockets of the wondering by-standers. ’• His type has nearly played out; the people have “caught on” to the trick. But now he is followed by all sorts of reformers, managers of "movements," au thors and publishers of religious “specialties,” et id omne genus. These successors of him are men of like passions as himself; they also are greedy of gain. The South is an inviting field for them. They are new to It; and it is new to them, and comparatively unexploited. It is a good time for our people to be on their guard against such agents, and to stand by their churches. The tariff and the pension bureau pump millions out of our section. Foreign insurance corporations get millions more. Shall our religion be used to send still other millions in the same direc tion? Do we need so much teaching from masters whom we n»ver Sought, and whom we never author ized to instruct us? Does not every informed person know that the South, judged with reference to re ligion, both quantitatively and qualitatively, is more • religious than is any other section of our country? Let the “experts” spend their efforts on New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston. Our South ern cities are getting on so much better in the mat ter of Christianity than are the cities named that it seems we might be left alone to work out our own salvation until these centers have been cleaned up churches, which have been such great blessings to by the various “reformers” and “leaders.” Meanwhx-e we might be allowed to put our money Into our own both us and our fathers. Why not?
