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A BLAZING FIRE OF CRITICISM IS
HEAPED UPON PREACHER'S HEAD
CHICAGO TUNIVERSITY PROFES
SOR ASKED TO WITHDRAW
FROM CHURCH.
CHICAGO, Ill.—Prof. George B.
¥oster, whose writing, denounced as
“g bitter indictment of the christian
religion before the bar g@f skepti
cism,” has harrowed the clergy of
Chicago, was called on by Rev. John
ston Myers, pastor of the Immanuel
Baptist church, to withdraw from
the Baptist ministry and to yield up
his ordination papers. The fire of
criticism was directed chiefly at Pro
fessor Foster’s recent book, ‘The
Function of Religion.”
This motion was put before sev
eral hundred preachers and church
laymen gathered at the conference
of the Baptist executive council, and
only the objection of one man, Prof.
A. K. Parker, who, like Professor
F'oster, is an instructor at the Uni-1
versity of Chicago, prevented evic-‘
tion. Professor Parker prevented |
action by calling attention to an ed-!
ncational provision preventing action“
without a week’s deliberation. This
matter was accordingly postponed
until June 14th. |
“I want to say now that I'll be
here next Monday morning to pre
sent the same motion,” cried Dr. My
ers defiantly. It was after Professor
Foster had been characterized as an
undesirable Baptist, and as a teacher
‘which would dethrone the church
and defy evolution’” that the effort
to eject him from the councils of
the denomination was made.
Called a Knave.
“Professor Foster declares,” cried
Rev, Mr. Matthews in the course of
his discussion of the recent book
penned by Professor Foster, ‘“that
one who calls himself a believer in
the Bible 1s a knave. Then, thank
heaven, I am a knave.”
“May I ask how that word is
spelled?” interrupted Professor Par
ker at this point.
“Knave,” replied the speaker.
~“If you will pardon the correc
tion,” observed Professor Parker, “I
have the book in my hand, and the
word is spelled ‘naive.’”
“I want to say at the outset,” said
Rev, Mr. Matthews, ‘‘that as a schol
ar T have the highest respect for,
Professor Foster.
“I was a pupil in his first class of
doctrinal apologetics. As a teacher
and as a gentleman I hold him in
high regard. But in his religion I
regard Professor Foster as an unde
sirable Baptist.
“Professor Foster states in his
book, ‘The Function of Religion,’
Which 1 propose to review, that God
did not make man in His own image,
but that man made God in his own
image. He says we are not fallen
angels, but developed animals.
‘‘He says that miracles have al
ways been the recourse of ignorance,
and that modern technic must take
the place of magic. I wonder what
he means by ‘modern technic.’
Tirade Against Clergy.
‘““He declares that sclence has un
dermined the Trinity—of course that
it is in his own mind. He says that
Jesus is to kill the soul. He makes
a tirade against the clergy. He says
that the book of humanity is great
er than the Bible.
“The title of this book should
have been ‘Religious Without Chris
tianity.” He is guilty of the supreme
conceit of ranking self greater than
Christ. He styles our grand old
book as the ‘petrified remains of the
christian religion.””
While the Rev. Mr. Matthews was
speaking his voice quivered with the
emotion he was unable to control.
The situation was as tense a one as
has developed in Chicagos church
circles in many years. The auditors
leaned forward in their seats in order
to miss no words of the proceedings.
Through it all Professor Foster’'s
17-year-ord son sat with flushed
cheeks and shining eyes. The lad
‘shifted in his seat during the earlier
part of the denunciation of his
father’'s views, and at last, unable
‘to restrain himself longer, he half
‘rose and cried:
| “Why don’t you review the book
‘and not the man?”
l A buzz of excitement spread over
the room, but the speaker paid no
attention to the interruption.
When the motion was made to ex
pell Professor Foster there were
cries of ‘“‘second it” from all over the
hall.
After the meeting Dr. Parker said
that whatever action might be taken
by the preachers it would not affect
Professor r'oster’s relation with the
University of Chicago in the least.
“This conference has nothing to
do with the university,” he said.
| BEEs KILLED HORSE.
.I{andolph Farmer Lost Buggy Ani
mal in Unusual Way.
Mr. James Gormerly lost his fine
buggy horse last Sunday under rath
er peculiar circumstances. Saturday
afternoon the horse was tied in the
back yard near where there were sev
eral stands of bees. The bees be
came furious, and made a wholesale
attack on the horse, which was una
ble to break away, and it was not un
til after he was badly stung that he
was cut loose. When he was liber
ated he made a dash to get away,
and ran down in the valley near the
G. F. & A. road, where he fell and
remained until Sunday afternoon,
when he died, despite all that medi
cal skill and jockeys could do to
relieve him, being literally stung to
death.—Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1909.
BANKS ARE PROSPERING.
Nearly Five Billions of Deposits Dur
ing Current Year.
' A Washington dispatch says that
during the current fiscal year the
national banks of the country have
received in individual deposits $4,-
826,060,384, which is more than a
billion and a half dollars in excess
of the entire outstanding money sup
ply of the United States. The year
which will close with the present
month has been one of exceptional
prosperity for naticnal banks. Since
May 14, 1908, there has been a net
increase of 155 in the number of
national banks.
Notwithstanding the unusual num
ber of banks withdrawing from the
national system the aggregate capi
tal, surplus and profits of the banks
reporting on April 28, 1909, amount
ed to $1,729,057,010, an increase of
$58,586,428 during the year. The
loans and discounts increased $434,-
763,993, deposits $513,403,594, and
total resources $774,261,145.
FLOCKING TO CANADA.
Nearly 400,000 American Farmers
Have Gone There in Six Years.
The movement from this side of
the line into the Dominion is one of
the gigantic events in western civili
zation. Its proportions are roughly
indicated by a writer«in the Century
Magazine, who, after careful inquiry,
estimates that in the last six years
388,000 farmers have left their
homes in the United States to take
up free homesteads in Canada. As
suming the correctness of this esti
mate it appears that the United
States in six years has contributed
to Canada an army of farmers great
er in number than the entire popula
tion of Montana and 75,000 in excess
of the combined population of Dela
ware and Wyoming.
POTATOES AT $l.lO BUSHEL.
Buyers From St. Louis, Chicago and
Omaha After Texas Crop.
A Texarkana, Tex., dispatch says:
About a dozen potato buyers are here
from Omaha, St. Louis, Chicago and
other points for the purpose of buy
ing up the potato crop of this and
adjoining counties. No deals have
been reported yet, but the buyers are
busy interviewing the farmers. The
latter, it is understood, will not be
satisfied- with anything less than $l3
per bushel for this year’s crop. 'l‘hei
Texarkana Truck Growers’ Associa
tion during the past week sold two
cars, which netted $l.lO per bushel.
PAID A $l5 WATER BILL
WITH A $76,000 CHECK
CLEVELAND, O.—John D. Rock
efeller paid a $l5 water bill in the
village of East Cleveland, where his
Forest Hill home is located, today
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UNGLE SAM’S GREAT LOSSES
. .—__———
EVERY FEW DAYS EXPENSES OF
GOVERNMENT EXCEEDS IN
s " ¢OME OVER A MII;LION.
’ WASHINGTON, D. C.—Did you
know that on this day the govern
‘ment spent about $165,000 more
than it took in? And that in the
few days since June Ist its expendi
tures have over-reached its receipts
by over $1,000,000? And that for
this fiscal year the deficiency in the
treasury is some $98,000,0007?
Such is the distressed condition of
Uncle Sam’s pocketbook, although
in the excitement over the tariff bill
the deficit has been lost sight of.
Whenever the tariff bill is out of the
way the deficit will loom up as one
of the biggest questions before con
gress.
The democrats and progressive re
publicans have offered to solve the
annual hundred million dollar de
ficit problem by adding an income
tax amendment to the tariff bill.
The income tax would produce $BO,-
000,000 every year. Aldrich has re
jected that solution.
But what about cutting down ex
penses? As long as the present ad
ministration leaders remain in pow
er, that is more impossible than any
of the other reliefs.
There Is No Hope.
Here is the reason there is no
hope for the expenses to be cut: It
is already planned that when con
gress meets this fall it will appro
priate more than $100,000,000 in ex
cess of the sum it appropriated last
session. There was no river and
harbor bill last session, you remem
ber. This year there will have to be
one. It wil carry about $50,000,-
000.
The navy bill at the last session
carried about $137,000,000. Sena
tor Hale says that at the sixty first
session it will run up to about $160,-
000,00..
At the last session there was no
public buildings bill. At the com
ing session this bill will be neces
sary, and wiil carry $20,000,000 at
the lowest estimate.
Census Appropriation. |
Then money must be appropriated
for the taking of the census. The
Panama canal will have to be given
a further stupendous financial lift.}
The army is calling for an increase
with a check for $76,573.14. The
check was mailed from New York,
and evidently the envelopes became
mixed. The village clerk, after re
covering, mailed the big check back.
in propertion to that promised the
navy.
Republican extravagance is des
tined to be one of the big issues of
the congressional elections of 1910,
and will be a still bigger issue in
the next presidential campaign. So
many commissions and other new
offices have oegn created for politi
cians in the last eight years that the
running ,expenses of the government
are more than double what they were
during the last Cleveland adminis
;tration. .
~ Figures tell a story of extrava
\gance almost impossible of compre
‘hension. The aggregate appropria
tions of the last Cleveland adminis
tration (fiscal years 1893 to 1897),
amounted to $1,5674,105,5566. The
aggregate appropriations for the last
Roosevelt term reached $3,214,993,-
198, or more than twice the sum re
quired to run the government during
the Cleveland administration.
‘ GEORGIANS OVERCHARGED.
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ITwo Claims Had a Sad Disposition
~ Before “Wind-U;)" Commission.
) A Columbia, 8. C., dispatch says:
‘The only feature of the dispensary
investigation Thursday was the tes
ltimony of Mr. M. E. Rutland of
Batesburg about a horse he got from
Kentucky for, Dispensary Director
Towill. The witness could not say
how Towill got the horse. °
Two Georgia claims had a sad dis
position. One was for six hundred
dollars in favor of the Acme Brewing
Co., and the commission found that
the company overcharged almost
enough to entitle the state to the
brewery, and the other, in favor of
the Savannah Brewing Company,
also overcharges in excess of their
claim.
ORDERED TO END LIFE.
Yuan Shi Kai to Receive Yellow Cord.
Suicide Certain.
A Peking special cable to the Chi
cago Record-Herald says: A report
is current that five court officials are
now on their way to Honan, carrying
the imperial yellow cord, signifying
the throne’s order that Yuan Shi Kai
shall commit suicide.
The report is accompanied by cir
cumstantial details to the effect that
the officials are to watch Yuan Shi
Kai day and night, giving him two
months in wtihch fo carry out the
order.
TONS OF GOLD. _
Denver, Col., Is the Treasure Box of
Uncle Sam.
With the arrival of a shipment of
$7,500,000 in gold coin from San
Francisco the Denver mint now is
the treasure vault of the nation, with
$370,000,000 I gold stored in the
federal coffers there. This is the
greatest amount of gold ever hHoused
in the mint. Fifty million dollars
in gold coin has been received at the
mint since May 15th. from the San
Francisco mint, which has now been
practically depleted of its gold re
serve. g
VOL. 27.---NO. 38.
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WAS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS AT
SAVANNAH MANY YEARS.
Was Given the Rank of ‘“‘Colonel” by
the Georgia Legislature. Hero of
Fwo Yellow Fever Epidemics.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Col. John H.
Deveaux, collector of the port of Sa
vannah and one of the best known
negroes in Georgia, died at his home,
No. 514 Taylor street, east, last
night. He had been in failing health
for about seven months, and had
been confined to his Bed a good deal
of the time.
Three presidents of the United
States appointed Col. Deveaux col
lector of the port. He had held a
government position most of the time
since 1870, when he was made a
clerk in the custom house.
’ When the yellow fever epidemic of
1876 was raging in Savannah De
‘veaux and two other clerks remained
with the collector at his post, the
other employes taking advantage of
a general leave of absence. One of
the clerks died, and the collector and
the other clerks were stricken, leav
ing Deveaux the only official on duty.
He kept the custom house open and
single handed attended to the enter
ing and clearing of vessels, keeping
the commerce of the port unbroken.
The day the collector returned to his
desk Deveaux was stricken with the
fever.
Col. Deveaux resigned his position
under President Cleveland’s admin
istration. In 1889 President Harri
son appointed him collector at Bruns
wick. Four years later an epidemic
of yellow fever broke out there, and
again Deveaux remained at his post
and faithfully disbursed a large sum
of money to the afflicted people of
Brunswick under the direction of the
treasury department. At the expira
tion of his term Mr. Cleveland was
again president, and Deveaux re
signed,
President McKinley appointed him
collector at Savannah in 1898. He
was reappointed by President Roose
velt in 1902, and though his term
expired three years ago his syecessor
has not yet been named.
Col. Deveaux was an officer of the
Georgia state troops, colored, for
twenty-one years, and was in com
mand of the First Batallion many
vears. At the beginning ef the Span
ish-American war he volunteered his
services to the president and to the
governor, in which he was sustained
by his command. While his endeavor
was recognized his services could not
be utilized at that time. The Geor
gia legislature in recognition of hi
services passed a special act advane
ing his rank from major to that of
lieutenant colonel of the Georu::
state troops, colored, the commission
to terminate upon his death.
He was born in Savannah, and
lived here practically all of his life,
He was 61 years of age. While ’“‘;
position before the public threw him
in contact with the white people he
never made himself objectionable
always avoiding friction so far as tha
color line was concerned. S