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A TERRIER' SERMON.
ON HICH-TONED CLERGY OF
DENVER, COLO
By Kcv. F. F. Passmore of the M
Church Watchmen and Shepherds
“Preaching Christ and Flirting with
Gamblers and Harlots at Ballot Box.”
Rev. F. F. Passmore of the Methodist
Episcopal church and member of the
Colorado conference, recently preached
a sermon which is attracting a wide
spread attention, owing to the pro
aounced views, fearlessly expressed, re
gardlng evils of the present time and
the apathy of the church in dealing
with wrong. We can only present a
few quotations from the sermon, which
was preached from the text:
“I have set thee a watchman unto
the house of Israel.”— Ezekiel 33:7.
“Feed my sheep.”—John 21:15-17.
Mr. Pasmore said. “Watchmen are
men who arc appointed to look out for
danger, and when they see it to give the
alarm and warn the people.
“Shepherds are men who are to look
after sheep -all the sheep and all the
interests of the sheep.
"Studying the ministry of our church
from the standpoint of the above scrip
tnre, 1 am Impressed with the fact that
the greatest failure of the age is the
ministry. I find the ministry In our
church, as a class, the most worldly,
unfaithful and cowardly that it has
ever been. The church Is worldly,
formal and unspiritual, and has lost
her power for good; yet the church is
on as high a plane as her leaders.
"When I look over the ago I see
crime of every description and violence
on the Increase, murder, lynching,
suicide, adultery, drunkenness, gam¬
bling, defalcation, the oppression of the
poor, political corruption, the outrag¬
ing of womanhood and girlhood; In a
word, the passions of men the worst,
the most infernal and devilish—are
running riot, I am constrained to
stop and ask what our ministers, who
are supposed to be the opposers of all
sin, are doing? 1 am sorry to say that
I find them, even to our bishops, throw¬
ing their Influence In favor of all these
sins and crimes. It Is a sad state for
the church, and a gloomy condition
for the country, when the ministry and
tho corrupt and criminal classes are
working hand In hand, and walking
side by side, as the preachers, saloon
men and other corrupt and vile classes
are doing.
“Just as the preachers stood for the
divine right, of kings in the days of
Cromwell, and for the king and the
nobility In the days preceding the
French revolution, and upheld the
slave-holder In the anti-slavery strug¬
gle; so our bishops, elders, editors,
college professors and the pastors of
great churches arc standing by the
rich and supporting them In outraging
the poor.
“For men to pretend to preach Christ
and then go to the ballot box and sup¬
port the worst men, and the most devil¬
ish and infernal sins and crimes of
this age, Is about the baldest and loud¬
est hypocrisy that has been made open
to the world for ages. How much more
staunch supporters of sin can our bish¬
ops become than to favor licensing
saloons, and support a party that now
favors licensing tho prostitution of
womanhood? This is worshiping at
tho shrine of the rich and the vile with
a vengeance. 1 am no longer surprised
at the Inefficiency of the ministry; the
corruption In politics; the doadness of
the church; the development of trusts;
the growth of monopolies; the wealth
of the few; the poverty of the many;
tho brutality of crime; the desecration
of the Sabbath; the increase of infi¬
delity; the rapid growth of im¬
morality.
“1 am no longer surprised at the con¬
dition of the church, the country and
the age, when 1 think that our bishops
and great preachers, with few excep¬
tions, have joined with corrupt poli¬
ticians, gamblers, saloon men, Sabbath
breakers, prostitutes, money-changers
and the opponents of tho poor
and weak. instead of driving
the money-changers from the
temple, they are Invited 1,1
and made welcome. D ire anyone think
for a moment that such preachers are
proaching ( hrlst. living his spirit, and
representing his doctrines to the world?
Christ’s doctrines, principles and spirit
would change all these things and
would bring about an era of well-being
to mankind. The trouble with our ago
is that Christ Is not being preached in
our great churches by our great
preaehers.
“Great churches in whose pulpits
stand men sending forth peels of im
passioned oratory for the pleasure of
a few rich and favored, and never a
word for the thousands of poor, hungry
and cold of humanity, who have been
brought to this distress by the very
men who are sitting enraptured by such
eloquence. Is about as far from In'ing
the true spirit of Christ as heaven is
from hell. Some women and children
picklng up coal in the great rich city
of Denver to keep from freezing, while
other women and children in the same
city are worshiping (?) God
in a two-hundred-and-flfty-thou
sand-dollar Methodist church only
a few blocks away, with the
added luxury of soul-enravlsh
ing music from a thirty - thousand
dollar organ. Does any sane man, saint
or sinner, believe for a moment that
either of these pictures—the one on the
river, or the other on Capitol Hill—are
the products of Christianity? If the
people in the bottoms were not so poor,
the people on the hill would not be so
rich. If the people on the were not
so rich, the people on t bottoms
would not o poor Yet we have D.
D s of theology that are
teaching that both these conditions arc
the results of Christianity.
"A portion of the mm who »R
In the pews of our great, churches, and
hang on the words of our bishops and
popular preachers, are the men who are
corrupting our polities, oppressing the
poor, debauching womanhood—are the
men who do not listen to great preach¬
ers but pay them high salaries, and
build the flue churches. Our bishops
and great preachers are living in such
style of opulence and affluence, and
moving in circles of such magnificent
splendor, that the poor cannot pay tho
bills, and cannot, therefore, hope for
their sympathy. The ministry should
live such a plain, simple life as to be
able to breathe the air of full freedom
and perfect independence, which would
enable them as ambassadors of God to
he faithful and true to all classes of
men.
“Our great ministers in this state
with Chancellor McDowell, last
fall and also last April, joined
hands with the corrupt politicians,
gamblers, saloon men and fallen wom¬
en of Market street, to ‘redeem.’ the
state and city. They succeeded, and
as one of the results of the ‘redeeming,’
Denver was never so nearly turned
over to the criminal elements, and
gambling and prostitution were never
so flourishing as now. A fine lot of
‘redeemers!’ Preachers, chancellors,
university professors, saloon men ami
gamblers and scarlet women, A fine
lot of ‘redeemers’—such a lot as re¬
deemed Babylon, Tyre, and Rome just
before those great powers fell, A fine
set of reforming preachers, preaching
a little about Christ In the pulpit and
flirting with gam id era and scarlet
women at the ballet, box.
“The fact Is that bishops and leading
ministers have gone away from the
true work of watchmen and shepherds.
It is to-day as Dr. Hamilton said in an
address before the Colorado confer
ence at Boulder last summer, that a
‘hireling ministry perpetuated slav¬
ery.’
“See what the bishops, editors, elders
and old preachers now on deck havo
bequeathed to us. They have left to
uh a desecrated Sabbath, about three
millions of drunkards, an annual death
harvest for predltlon of about ono hun¬
dred and fifty thousand drunkards,
two hundred and fifty thousand sa¬
loons, patriotism almost dead, expiring,
four million tramps, the rich are grow¬
ing richer, and the poor growing poor¬
er; the rich in power, controlling the
navy, army and government; the gen¬
era! government tho most corrupt the
world ever saw; two saloons running
full blast In the capitol of the world’s
republic. These are only a few of the
conditions that a compliant, complac¬
ent, obsequious time serving and man
pleasing ministry have left to this ago
for solution. And amid all this de
generacy and moral disintegration,
these old brothers of ours are not turn¬
ing over a hand to save or reform the
age. They are so busy with the saloon
men, gamblers and scarlet women ‘re¬
deeming’ tho Htate, that, of course they
have no time (?) and less disposition
to spend their time on trifles. It would
never do to neglect such weighty mat
tors as ‘redeeming’ the state and city, if
tho church and Sabbath, and manhood
and justice and right go to perdition.
"Such a ministry as this never blazed
out new highways for a progressive and
marching humanity. A ministry that
will protect rich rogues In the church
and support corruption in office, can al
wuvs ho depended on with tho scarlet
women ns ‘redeemers.’
“We have not a bishop nor great
preacher to-day that L thundering
against sinners and corruptions that
are overturning our homes, tho
church and nation itself. Our great
preachers to-day are preaching for big
salaries fine mansions and sumptuous
Uvlng; and they are getting them.”
“It Never Man,"
Forty-five years ago tho slave power
of tlu> south were arrayed in opposition
to Mrs. Stowe's book “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin" just as the money power is to
day against “Coin’s Financial School, ,,
j At that time tissue It was of falsehood charged that and her lie
I j book was a
tion. Affidavits were published to prove
that there were no such characters as
I the slave driver Legree or Topsy or Un
do Tom: It was a fiction,
, j s j ow t | 1( , .sound money league sends
out affidavits that the dialogues re¬
\ n "School" never took place;
; M Ml . Horr savs it -never wuz."
j Mrs stowe wrote a - key to Uncle
1 Cabin.”
: -p onl - s
j The Harvey-Horr debate will he the
; ];cv t0 - Coln > 8 Financial School."
Fiction is a favorite plan of reaching
the public mind.
Facts and figures will now be read,
i w heve they would only fov this have
passed unnoticed.
The “Key to Uncle Toni's Cabin”
I on i v recited facts which had been pub
ij s hod but were not read by the mil
Hons.
After reading the story which had
p eon s0 viciously attacked by the
j UK power of the time, the facts recited
ti l0 -key” proved a clincher. “Uncle
Tom's Cabin" awakened the people dur
j n g the fifties and the "School" has
awakened them to-day.
The debate is only bringing out what
has been told a thousand times to un
listening ears but will now be read by
millions,
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" freed the slaves
forty years ago.
"Coin's Financial School” will lead
to freedom from the money power.
It will do this, even though as a
“School" it “never wuz."
The leading democratic papers of
Mississippi say that there will he a
unity of their newspaper men in sup¬
porting the next democratic ticket, no
matter what action the party may take
on financial matters. Of course—party
before principle will be the policy of
all old party papers throughout the
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UNCLE HAM—“Guos* I’d Better Destroy Those Suckers Growing Up from the Hoots and Then the Branches Will
Bear Good Fruit,’
British Conservator, London, July 3, 1895.—At no distant day we will have to deal with a New American party,
made up of the anti-English (anti-single gold standard, rather) elements of the Republican and Democratic parties.
By throwing their support to the New People’s Party next year they may succeed in overthrowing both Democratic
and Republican parties. __________
FREE SILVER IS SURE.
COLD STANDARD ADVOCATES
ABANDON HOPE.
Tliolr Crowd Now Entering the Specula-
1 1 vo Market and Buying Silver Bnl
lion by the Million—Why the l’riee of
Sliver Is Blslng.
“Gigantic Combine.”
Under the above heading, the so
called “metropolitan press” of the coun
try, that is, the press that has been
hired or bought to make the fight of the
English money-lenders and buyers of
American bonds, stocks and mortgages,
has been showing up the alleged com¬
bination of “western mine-owners and
,
(speculators in silver bullion.” The ob
ject of \hls alleged combination is said
to be to make a profit of the rather neat
f* 11111 °f ?75,000,000. It is claimed that
(the combine lias already acquired con
trol of silver bullion worth at present
market rates about $75,000,000. This
bullion is stored, and the daily output
»f tho mines is being bought and added
to the stock on hand. The plan of the
combine is said to he to enter politics
iand secure the adoption of the free
Icoinage policy. “The moment the
United States government determines
to coin all silver brought to Us mints
ns it now coins gold, that moment sil¬
ver bullion will double In value, com
manding as high a price as it ever com¬
manded in the history of the world.”
Thus it is that the silver speculators
expect to suddenly convert $75,000,000
of silver bullion into $150,000,000 of law
ful. debt-paying, 100-eent dollars, near
ly half of which will be net profit.
The following quotation from the ar
tide alluded to will speak for itself:
"The combination is playing desper
atel.v and courageously for a splendid
Make. If it can force this government
into free coinage it stands to make any
where from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000,
depending on the time, the amount of
bullion it will have on hand, and other
circumstances and conditions now
largely speculative,
“People have wondered at the extent,
the dash, the persistence, and force
of the free silver campaign. They have
marveled at the energy displayed by
the apostles of silver, their ability to
cover territory, and the unfailing regu
larity with which the leaders turn up
in the thick of the fight, whether ac
tivity is centered in Memphis, New Or
leans, Denver. Springfield, Chicago or
Kentucky. Most of the talkers of note
are poor men—statesmen out of jobs—
yet they travel in palace cars, put up at
the best hotels, take long jumps, and
are here, there and everywhere, mar¬
shaling forces, infusing enthusiasm in¬
to the masses and keeping up interest,
by every known artifice.
“How can they do it?
“The answer is simple. The silver
combine is paying the bill. The silver
campaign now' raging with such an ap¬
pearance of violence in half the states
of the Union is inspired by the silver
conspirators, and is purely as business
an enterprise as a wheat, a pork, or a
stock “corner ever was. It is sordid
from the ground up. hut so cleverly
have the conspirators kept themselves
in the background that the truth is
only beginning to appear. Even now
many of the details are lacking, but the
main fact is known, and the particulars
_wjlji be filled in as they come to light.
The great mass of silver bullion has
been acquired by the combination un¬
der 70 cents per ounce. If the cam¬
paign now on foot can be carried to a
successful issue, the holders hope to
be able to unload at $1.20 and above.
By keeping up the agitation they imag¬
ine that within two years they will se
cure such legislation as they need.
“The campaign will be directed for
the remainder of the summer, as it has
been thus far, from the Plaza Hotel, in
New York City. It is there that the
wires of the silver bullion combination
center. It is from there that the finan¬
cial and political operations of the con¬
spiracy originate and are given form.
The contributing members living in
San Francisco, Helena, Salt Lake City,
Denver, Cheyenne, Omaha, St. Louis,
Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia,
New York and London, keep in touch
with their representatives and trustees
in New York, though the details of the
management of the campaign are mat¬
ters for star chamber deliberation. The
magnitude and working power of the
silver combination is only dimly real¬
ized as yet, but it will not be long be¬
fore its full extent and significance are
laid bare before the world.”
The foregoing is suggestive of at
least three things: First, that throw¬
ing open our mints to the free coinage
of silver will enhance its bullion value
to the full limit of its face value as
money, just as the most rabid silverites
have always claimed. Second, that the
speculators of the large cities care only
for their pockets and use politics, poli¬
ticians and people solely for purposes
of private gain. Hitherto, the specula¬
tors have stood for gold monometallism,
because of the profits they have seen
for themselves in such a course. Now
some of them, for exactly the same rea
son. favor free coinage of silver. Third,
that the gold speculators from this time
on are to be met and fought by the sil
ver speculators by the same means
and methods w r hlch the gold
speculators, since 1S73, have so suc ~
cessfully employed to enrich themselves
and plunder the people.
Let the fight go on. but let the peo¬
ple remember that good as free coin¬
age of silver will be, and sure to come
as it is, that their interests demand,
among other things:
1. Gold, silver and paper legal ten¬
der money.
2. The abolition of national banks.
3. Government ownership of rail¬
roads and telegraph lines.
4. The preservation of the land for
the people.—Vox Populi.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Kentucky Populists are prepar¬
ing for a grand fight in that state. The
chairman of the state central commit
tee has issued a circular letter ealung
for the co-operation of Populists in
other states, and asking for donations
of money and literature from such
states as have no elections this year.
HE CORNERED JOHN.
UNCLE SHERMAN MUST RISE
AND EXPLAIN.
How Did the Silver Drop Oat of the
Law of 1873?—On the Track of the
Criminals After Twenty Years—Who
Doctored the Bill?
The Chicago Inter-Ocean of July 22
contained a striking editorial on the
\ result of the Horr-Harvey debate up
to that time. In fact it is so pointed
that we can’t resist the temptation to
reproduce a large part of It in a con¬
spicuous way. It will be observed that
it calls on John Sherman to rise and
explain his part in the demonetiza¬
tion of silver in 1873. It correctly says
that the time has come for Sherman
to speak. Mr. Harvey has tracked him
so closely and so accurately that he is
treed, and no one but himself can ex¬
plain how he got in the hole or how
he can get out. This is highly Interest¬
ing, considering that the Inter-Ocean
is a very loyal and prominent republic¬
an paper and Sherman an extra
prominent republican leader. Here is
what the Inter-Ocean says:
“Both disputants give considerable
prominence to a silver dollar that never
existed nor was ever authorized, but it
deserves even more prominence than
it has ever had. We refer to the pro¬
posed dollar of 384 grains, character¬
ized by Mr. Sherman at the time as ‘a
dollar that will float around the world.’
It was in the bill, as was also the trade
dollar of 420 grains, when Senator
Sherman, as chairman of the committee
on finance, explained it to the senate.
How did it get out of there? Mr. Horr
read a letter from an ex-congressman,
Mr. Packard, of New Albany, Ind., in
which he says that the trade dollar was
substituted for it, but the explanation
given by Mr. Sherman at the time
speaks of both being in, so Mr. Pack¬
ard’s memory is at fault. Such a mis¬
take would be easy. Twenty-two years
is a long time in the life of one man.
The statement of Mr. Sherman was as
follows:
This is a good Idea. Every inch of
ground we g:?in in Kentucky and other
states holding elections this year will
help us in the fight next year. The
Populists in Kentucky have a good plat¬
form, and they, have the pluck to make
a good fight. They ought to have all
the assistance from outside the state
that lg possible to give. Contributions
for this purpose sent to J. A. Parker,
Paducah, Ky., chairman of the state
central committee, will he sacredly de¬
voted to the cause. Let all Populists
help some.
0 0 *
The Harvey-Horr debate is over. It
is significant for several things, not the
least of which Is that Mr. Horr was
so effectually whipped that the pluto¬
cratic papers would not publish the dis¬
cussion. Notwithstanding the fact that
the gold bugs arranged for the debate,
and challenged Mr. Harvey, it is now
very plain that for their side it was a
great mistake. But what were they to
do? Harvey’s hook was crushing the
life out of their cherished theories and
bid fair to accomplishing the over¬
throw of their system. How was all
this effect to be counteracted? They
could prohibit the sale of the book on
some of the railroads, but that only
added to its sales elsewhere. They be¬
thought themselves to crush the author
and the book at once by over-matching
Harvey In debate. They sent east and
imported one of the best-posted gold
bugs they could find, and also one of
the most Invincible debaters.
That Horr’s own papers and friends
will not publish the discussion is a
plain and undoubted admission of his
overwhelming defeat, Bring out an
other boss.
♦
One of the facts that should not be
lost sight of in this financial discussion
is that the men w r ho are clamoring
loudest for “honest money.” as they
call it, are themselves dishonest. They
have never yet made a bargain with
the people's representatives that did
not savor of fraud, and in some cases
fraud was so apparent that if the mat¬
ter had been appealed to an honest
court (if we had one) it would have
been set aside. In proof of this
tion we need only to refer to the
called credit strengthening act of 1869,
by which $1,500,000,000 in bonds were
declared payable in a currency worth
from 30 to 40 cents on the dollar more
than that for which they were sold;
to the demonetization of silver in 1873,
and again in 1S93; to the exception
clause which they had tacked on to the
greenback, thus making a better money
for themselves than they did for the
soldiers who were risking their lives
on the battlefield; entering into a con
spiracy to produce the panic of 1893
for the purpose of influencing Congress
to demonetize silver to the end that
more interest-bearing bonds be issued;
the deal made by Cleveland, Carlisle
and Company, by which they trans¬
ferred the keeping of the credit of the
United States over to a syndicate, pay¬
ing the syndicate $9,000,000 com mis
sion in the transaction. This is the
class of men who are clamoring for an
honest dollar, which, with them means
a dear dollar.
“ ‘Again, Mr. Sherman in speaking of
the silver dollar on that day, said:
“We are providing that it shall float
all over the world.” Again he said
(Forty-second congress, vol. 1, p. 972):
“This bill proposes a silver coinage ex¬
actly the same as the French and what
are called the associated nations of
Europe (meaning the Latin Union), who
have adopted the international stand¬
ard of silver coinage; that is, the dol¬
lar provided for by this bill is the pre¬
cise equivalent of the five-franc piece.
It contains the same number of grains
of silver; and we have adopted the in¬
ternational gram instead of the grain
for the standard of our silver coinage.
The ‘trade dollar’ has been adopted
mainly for the people of California and
others engaged in trade with China. ^
That is the only coin’ measured Uy the
grain instead of by the gram. The
intrinsic value of each is to be stamped
upon the coin.” ’
“This is a perfectly plain statement,
its candor and explicitness testifying
to its sincerity. It is well known that
the trade dollar stayed in the bill and
proved a failure. It did no harm, at
least none of consequence, but it failed
flatly of its purpose. But the French
dollar, as it might be called, did not
materialize. It was lost somewhere on
the road to enactment. Mr. Horr seems
quite unable to account for its mys¬
terious fate, except by introducing the
Packard letter, which the Sherman
statement just quoted disproves. John
Sherman still lives, and if he can throw
light upon the subject now is the ‘ac¬
ceptable time’ to do it. Senator AU1
son referred specially to that dollar of
384 grains in his speech in the senate
on Feb. 15, 1878, when he said:
“ ‘But when the secret history of this
bill of 1873 comes to be told it will dis¬
close the fact that the house of repre¬
sentatives intended to coin both gold
and silver, and intended to' place both
metals upon the French relation in¬
stead of on our own, which was the
true scientific position in reference to