THE following are from an interview with a man who has been in the Philippines, printed in the San Francisco Report, of June 10:—
“The principal cause for the outbreak of the Filipinos,” said Mr. Snyder, “was the presence of the Spanish priests. Secondly, they wanted a part in the government. There are now 10,000 Spanish priests in the Philippines, and they are a source of trouble and expense to the natives.
“All of the people in the islands are Catholics, and I doubt if any other religion can live there. Nevertheless, General Otis stopped the sale of Bibles by other denominations. A man named N. H. Herriman was compelled to stop selling Bibles in the island of Cebu. It was stated by Otis that he did not wish the man ‘nosing around’ down there. But he stopped the sale of Bibles in the town of Manila. Of course I cannot say why he took such action.
“To show you how the people are bled by the priests. If a child is born the parents must pay the priests $2.50. If a person dies the priests will not9allow it to be buried unless they are paid $7.50.”
“The United States Government is forced to pay for holy water, wafers, and wine. These claims are regularly audited and settled. Of course they do not amount to very much, but they are regularly presented. All of the church property in the Philippines is now the property of this government. The churches, monasteries, and all that property were built and paid for out of the Spanish treasury. Therefore, when the islands were ceded to this country, the church property belonged to America. In spite of this fact, General Otis pays $1,000 a month for the Malate Monastery and $150 a month rent for the San Sebastine Monastery. They are used for hospitals. Why the government should be forced to pay rent for its own property is something nobody but General Otis can explain.”
And this is in perfect harmony with other reports; not of Spanish civil rule, but of Spanish Roman Catholic rule.
WHAT IS SAID OF THE PHILIPPINES.
THE following, from a report from the Rev. John R. Sykes to the American Bible Society regarding some of the conditions in the Philippines, may be of interest to our readers. He was sent there from Shanghai last September by the society, to investigate the island as a field for Bible work. After describing the various peoples, he says:—
Not more than one-third of the arable land of the valleys of Luzon has been cultivated. The mountains are rich in valuable timber. While some of the valleys have been denuded of the forests, Spanish official obstruction has spared the valuable trees of the interior. It is not a bad thing that it required about two years' effort and a large fee in order to get a license to fell a single tree, and a heavy duty before it could be exported.
The climate is a continual summer, and it is not unhealthful for Europeans. The cold or dry season is from November to February inclusive; the hot season from March to June, and the wet season from July to October. The average temperature for the year is about 81 degrees Fahr. The most common diseases are malarial fever, diarrhoea, and dysentery.
Of the morality and religion of the natives he thus speaks:—
I am sure that the Roman Catholics of the United States would be as much shocked as anybody at the immorality of the friars. I am aware that there is no such Roman Catholicism as is to be found in England and the United States to-day, and it is necessary that this should be emphasized in order to comprehend the religious condition of the people, and to adequately realize their spiritual needs.
Native Houses in Manila, Mode of Bamboo, Tlatchod Roof. (Photo by Dr. Wood.)
It is astonishing that a lower standard of morals does not exist among the people when we consider the character of their spiritual teachings. It is generally conceded that the Filipino priests are vastly more moral than the Spanish friars, and it is, perhaps, this fact and their inherent superstitions that has prevented the people from abandoning all religion.
With the native, religion is a mere form, and not a spiritual life. The symbols and the observance of religious rites are about all he knows of religion. The friars have been losing their hold on the people. They can not be held much longer in spiritual thralldom.
Of the need of Bible distribution, Mr. Sykes says:—
General Otis, the military and civil governor, said there can not be any doubt of the great need of our work. The Spanish priests are thoroughly hated by the Filipinos, and their hold upon the people is gone. He would welcome the American Bible Society and any other missionary organization, and he would have much pleasure in giving us any help in his power. He thought that our work would probably be discouraging at the start, but there could be no difference of opinion as to this being the church's greatest opportunity in the Philippines.
Admiral Dewey received me most cordially, and spoke enthusiastically about opening mission work. He said he was anxious for the churches and the Bible societies to come in and begin work at once. We could not come too soon.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
A NEW house of worship is being erected in St. Joseph, Mo.
FOUR members were added to the church in St. Louis, Mo., June 10.
BROTHER J. M. REES reports the baptism of three persons at Salida, Colo.
OUR Hamburg publishing house is printing the truth in fourteen languages.
AT a recent local camp-meeting at Ravenna, Neb., fourteen persons were baptized.
BROTHER L. F. STARK has commenced labor in Manitoba, Dominion of Canada.
WORK on the new church building at Boulder, Colo., is reported to be progressing encouragingly.
TWENTY years ago the Iowa Sabbath-school Association reported thirty-nine schools; now there are one hundred ninety-four.
The Spanish Fort at Malata, near Manila, after Bombardment by Dewey. View from the inside. The hole in the middle of the picture was made by a cannon hull. (Photo by Dr. Wood.)
JUNE 10 three members were added to the church at Kansas City, Mo., and three more the following Sabbath.
AT Holdrege, Neb., a church of fourteen members has been organized, and they have a new house of worship in which to hold their services.
SOUTHERN California is to have two camp-meetings this year, — one at Santa Ana, August 10-27, the other at Santa Barbara, beginning August 31.
IOWA Conference is building a sanitarium, to cost about $10,000, in Des Moines, two blocks from the State capitol. It is four stories and basement, and is almost completed.
AS THIS paper goes to press, camp-meetings are in progress at Anaconda, Cripple Creek District, Colo.; Hatly, Miss.; St. Paul, Ark.; Livingstone, Mont.; Arcata, Cal.; and Welsh, La.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of twenty-four members has been organized at Sunshine, Colo., where Brother L. H. Proctor is laboring. A late report says that three persons had fully decided to obey the truth.
AT the close of the spring term of Union College, at College View, Neb., twenty-seven students graduated in the different courses. Most of these will enter some line of work in connection with the message.
THE mission boat California is now engaged in its allotted work along the coast of Finland, and on the adjacent island. The boat is named California because it was paid for by the brethren of California Conference.
PROF. G. W. RINE, for many years connected with the Healdsburg (Cal.) College, has been called to Battle Creek, Mich., to take charge of the preparatory school. This school has a yearly enrollment of about 250.
WE have received a copy of the Standard, published in Darjeeling, India, which contains a lengthy report of a discourse by Brother D. A. Robinson, in the town hall of that city, where he conducted a series of meetings.
THE Review notes the death of our well-known Michigan laborer, Brother J. Fargo, whose life came to a peaceful end on the 27th ult. He died in Battle Creek, where he was taking treatment for heart difficulty, but was removed to his home at Greenville for burial.
OUR work in Russia, so far, is mostly among the Germans. Under former Russian rulers, the Germans were invited to go over there and settle, as the Russians were so far behind in civilization. Thousands accepted the invitation, and colonists were scattered all along the Siberian border, even to the Caucasus and among the Asiatics and Mohammedans. These people understand both the German and Russian languages, and therefore form an excellent medium for disseminating the truth.
THIS item has been in several of our conference papers. It shows the importance of calling attention to our papers: 'One of our sisters read an article in the Review to one of her neighbors. He was so much interested in it that he asked her for the paper, as he wanted some one else to hear it. She let him have the paper, and he took it to the Baptist minister and asked him if he would not read it in the church the next Sunday evening instead of preaching. This was done, and the hearers all thought it was the best reading they had ever heard on that line.'
THE resources of the Almighty for spreading the Gospel of the kingdom are illimitable. He could make the stones cry out, if necessary. A Hungarian nobleman, a member of the House of Representatives, became interested, but would not attend any of our public meetings. While in Hamburg once, he attended a general meeting. This man wrote an article, which appeared in one of the papers of the capital, telling about a new sect of Seventh-day Adventists that had arisen. The article was copied by all the leading papers in Hungary, in both the German and Hungarian languages. Thus the world's own channels may be used in God's providence to circulate the truth.
A BROTHER recently went into a Colorado town to begin labor, where there seemed to be much prejudice. He was perplexed how best to inaugurate his work, under such apparent difficulties. So he took the matter to the Lord and asked that the way might be opened. The consequence was that the opportunity was presented to Sunday for him to lead the Bible class of the Methodist Church in the morning, to preach in the Christian Church at 11 o'clock, and teach a class in the Presbyterian Sunday-school in the afternoon. Then the homes of the people were nearly all open to him. Truly the Lord is pouring out His Spirit upon the people; let those who are proclaiming the last message walk in the light of it, and God will open the way.
The Old Church at Camp Dewey, near Manila, Where Aguinaldo Had His Handquarters. (Photo by Dr. Wood.)
PERIODICALS WANTED.
ALL kinds of our papers and tracts, but especially those giving the health-reform principles. Address, Leadville Missionary Society, Leadville, Colo.
Signs, Sentinel, Instructor, and Our Little Friend, by J. J. Hughes, Hartington, Neb.
Good Health and Pacific Health Journal, by Mrs. A. C. Walden, Crow's Landing, Stanislaus County, Cal.
THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.
In What Is the Proof?
IT is strange how the people and press of a professedly "Christian nation" will turn from the plain testimony of the Word of God—the very revelation of Christianity—to the word of men for a basis of their hopes. An illustration of this credulity is found in the following headlines from a prominent San Francisco paper:—
IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL TO BE PROVED SCIENTIFICALLY.
Remarkable Undertaking of Professor Hyslop and Other Savants of Leading Universities.
The educated gentlemen belong to the Psychical Research Society, which for years has been engaged in studying occult phenomena in Spiritualism and elsewhere. This is what Prof. James H. Hyslop, Professor of Logic and Mental Sciences at Columbia University, says:—
TO THE EDITOR OF THE Examiner: In one year I hope to be able to demonstrate to the world, by incontrovertible proof, that there is another life beyond this. At present I must contend that there is not one iota of reasonable evidence of immortality outside this sphere and method of psychical research. And when I speak of immortality I mean personal survival, that is, the continuance of consciousness beyond the life of the body. I believe I am in possession of incontrovertible facts which demonstrate immortality. I have witnessed some genuine supernatural phenomena, not explainable by either fraud, illusion, or suggestion, and whose significance will have to be reckoned with by all men of science. I am not now prepared to present my evidence, but within a year I hope to have completed my experiments and investigations, and then be able to prove satisfactorily what has never been demonstrated—the immortality of the soul.
And this is what is said by Prof. Richard Hodgson, Professor of Psychology at Cambridge University, England:—
TO THE EDITOR OF THE Examiner: The world is on the eve of great developments. Within two years, perhaps before, through the instrumentality of the most remarkable woman that has been born for centuries, I will bring before the people of the entire world a new interpretation of the laws of humanity, of that first great universal religion, which neither dogma nor denomination of to-day can withstand. It will be a new dispensation—a new belief. Suffering humanity, tortured for centuries with doubts, wavering first this way, and then that, will need no explanation. The new and yet ever old truths need only the rehearsing—they compel belief. When Professor Hyslop declared that he had talked with the spirits of those long dead, he told a simple, bare-faced fact.
Following is part of the Examiner report:—
Briefly stated, we are told that communication has been established with the spirit world; that messages from the dead have been repeatedly received; that life after death has been demonstrated.
A woman, Mrs. Leonora A. Piper, of Boston, is the medium through whom these communications have come. To guard against fraud, this woman has been taken into the custody of the scientists and watched day and night by the detectives of the Psychical Research Society. The extraordinary phenomena with which the investigators have been confronted they are unable to explain except upon the theory that they are supernatural—that through Mrs. Piper the living souls of those who have passed from this earth into eternity have returned and furnished convincing evidence of a future life.
An Examiner reporter had the following detailed interview on this subject with Prof. Richard Hodgson, the American representative of the English Society for Psychical Research, at the rooms of the society, 5 Boylston Place, Boston:—
"For a period ranging over twelve years," said Professor Hodgson, "I have had communication with the spirits of those long dead through the mediumship of Mrs. Piper. To be frank, I first went to Mrs. Piper's house with Professor James for the purpose of unmasking her. That was twelve years ago. To-day I am prepared to say that I am a believer in the possibility of messages being received from what people are pleased to call the spirit land. Two individualities in particular now direct the communications received from her. The first, who now controls her voice, is known to us as 'Imperator'; the second, who now controls her writing, is known to us as 'Rector.'
"First of all, I wish you to understand that 'Imperator' is not the spirit of a mortal, but of an infinitely higher being. I have this on his own and Pelham's authority."11
Life in the Other World.
"I have questioned him concerning the Creator. He replied that there was no such thing as an individual or personal God; that He was infinite, without personality or presence; that His love and charity were all-enduring, always present. Men, the earth, the universe were Him and part of Him. I questioned him further concerning the Christ. He replied that the Chosen One was not literally the Son of God, but a missionary from the God (he used that name for the Creator); the divinity of the Christ appeared to be repugnant to him.
"Another matter about which I questioned him was on the subject of reincarnation, for which, I will confess, I had always had a lingering fondness. 'Imperator' flatly denied this. He said there was no such thing as an 'individuality, under different personalities, living down through the ages,' but that the average man worked out his own future in one lifetime; that sin and crime while on earth worked out their own punishment after death in intense mental suffering, wherein the ego was forced to start once again at the beginning and work up.
"The idea of a personal hell or place of torment was sneered at. Charity—a wonderful, loving, all-enduring, long-suffering charity—was the chief qualification of the Deity. And prayer—earnest, old-fashioned prayer—was as efficacious now as ever in the history of religion. But I will publish my revelation along these lines later, and their publication will cause another cataclysm of religious thought."
And then it has been thought a strange thing that Bishop William H. Moreland, of Sacramento, in a sermon in San Francisco, June 18, should declare that there is communion with the unseen world, but that the spirits are evil spirits. Dr. Moreland refuses to call all the phenomena of Spiritualism fraud and trickery and imposture. Many are not genuine, but some are, if the testimony of candid, unbiased men is worth anything.
But a greater than Bishop Moreland has spoken concerning man and so-called communication with the dead. The Word of God teaches that man is "mortal," subject to death; that "the soul that sinneth it shall die;" that God "only hath immortality;" that the righteous alone will possess it, and that not until Christ's second coming and the resurrection of the righteous dead; that in death "there is no remembrance of Thee [God];" that "his [the dead's] sons cometh to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them;" that "the dead" not alone do not know their friends, but "know not anything," and that "their thoughts perish" when they die. All this and more is taught in the Word of God concerning man's nature and his rest in the grave. If he is to live after death, it must be by a resurrection from the dead.
"But what of these communications with dead friends—father, mother, brother, sister or noted character of the past?"—We reply that these communications are from evil spirits, the fallen angels—demons. These come in the guise of the dead to deceive the longing heart.
When the Lord told Adam that if he sinned he should surely die, Satan declared: "Ye shall not surely die; . . . ye shall be as God." Gen. 3: 4, 5, R. V. The devil could not beguile men into believing that they were as God in knowledge, or wisdom, or power, or character, and so Satan led them to believe that they were as God in respect to an undying nature; that they possessed a deathless entity, the ego, which consciously survived the death of the body. The next steps were easy; these souls were said to know more than they did here, and could communicate with us; the great of earth, when dead, were exalted to gods and demigods, who ruled nations and presided over men; and thus from the false theory of man's inherent immortality—Satan's first falsehood—the great systems of idolatry have sprung. The great pagan world worshiped these demigods, supposing they were worshiping their ancestors and heroes who were dead. They were really worshiping demons or devils, who came in the guise of the dead. So when Israel "joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead," the Lord declares, "Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils." Ps. 106: 28, 37. "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils [demons], and not to God." 1 Cor. 10: 20.
According to the Word of God, therefore, the dead "know not anything." The dead, therefore, do not communicate with the living. The only superhuman power that impersonates the dead are the demons of darkness, the angels of evil. Spiritualism has drawn her vitality from Satan's first falsehood. She has enlarged and beautified it, but it is a lie still, and makes a lie of all hope builded upon it. There will be no revelation of a new dispensation; there will be no demonstration of the immortality of the soul. Men will believe the lie, but it will not affect the truth. Turn to God's Word. "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? On behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this Word, there is no light in them." Isa. 8: 19, 20. See R. V. "The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream; and he that hath My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord."
JESUS—SAVIOUR.
SAID the angel: "Thou shalt call His name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins." Matt. 1 : 21.
"Jesus" means "saviour;" and the world needs a Saviour. It is lost. Sin, disease, disappointment are everywhere. Death, the ripened fruit of sin, has spread its gloomy pall over all creation. Men sin and suffer, despair and die, without hope.
Into such a world as this came the Son of God,—not a Saviour afar off, but one with humanity. Divinity stooped to the level of humanity to lift humanity to divinity. He became one with all men in order that He might make all men one with Him.
To every soul who longs for a Saviour from sin, Jesus meets that longing. He does not save in sin; He could not do it. Sin is ever and always destructive. He who eventually identifies himself with sin will perish with sin. Jesus came to save from that destruction by saving from the sin.
It matters not how great the sins nor how many. He has placed upon them no limitation. "Tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." "He will abundantly pardon." "Where sin abounds, grace does much more abound."
Do not stop to ask how He can do this. Do not question the divine alchemy. Let this suffice. You have no hope; you can have no hope in yourself. No mortal can help you; "none of them can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him." But Christ has redeemed you. He died to save you. He stoops to lift you up. He took your sins that you might have His righteousness. He has caused thousands to rejoice; He will take away your sins, if you will but let Him.
"STORMY WIND FULFILLING HIS WORD."
IN a psalm of praise, we read (Ps. 148:7, 8, R. V.):—
"Praise the Lord from the earth,
Ye dragons, and all deeps;
Fire and hail, snow and vapor;
Stormy wind, fulfilling His Word."
The margin reads for "dragons," "sea monsters, or waterspouts." Spurrell renders, "hissing waves," and for "stormy wind," "the whirlwind acting at His command;" Young's translation is similar.
This scripture comes forcibly to mind as news of the work of the almost daily cyclone or tornado come to us. In them we surely have the "waterspouts," and the "whirlwinds." And these also fulfil His Word.
Many centuries ago God declared that the earth should wax old through the burden of sin resting upon it; that the weaknesses and breaking down of age would be visible even as in an old garment; that the reserved treasures of wind and hail would in the last days be let loose, and spread destruction and desolation. The waterspouts and whirlwinds are meeting the predictions, are fulfilling His Word, and thus are praising Him.
But does God cause all the destruction and desolation, wrought by the fearful potencies of earth and air? Is He responsible for loss of life and property?
Not at all. All the evil of storm and tempest and whirlwind is wrought by "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience." He it was that brought destruction to the house of Job's son (Job 1:12, 19), and that roused the fearful tempest on Galilee to destroy the Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 8:24). Conquering the prince of this world—Adam—Satan controls its elements, over which Adam was given dominion.
But God designed that all the elements of the universe should work out only life and blessing to all His creation. Working in harmony with the perfect laws of His plan, that would have always been the case; for His law is perfect. "The commandment" "was ordained to life," and the inherent power of God in His law would forever have borne the fruit of life in all His creatures.
But Satan perverted that law. He perverted the power of God in everything that is subject to his will. God designed the perfect circulation of earth's moisture; Satan perverted it to evil ends, and we have frost and snow, and ice, and hail. God designed that balmy fragrant-laden breezes should softly fan the earth and its people; Satan has perverted them into winds and storms and tempests, and tornadoes.
Nevertheless, the power is originally of God. The beneficent river, turned from its channel, brings destruction to property and loss of life. The current of electricity in normal operation does no harm; but perverted, strikes dead him who rashly or carelessly turned it aside. The power is in the river and the electric current, placed there by the word of God; but its perversion is not of God. The power is in the air and wind and the elements of earth, but the perversion of that power is of Satan and his demons, whom we may easily imagine hold high revel in the work of destruction.
The devilish malignity, manifested in, and the wonderful and miraculous feats performed by, these monsters of the air show them to be controlled by some masterful intelligence of evil, oftentimes restrained and controlled by a yet higher Power. When a whole forest is laid waste and a tent in the very midst of that forest is left unharmed even to its loosest thread, it certainly shows that some power had built a wall around the tent which the storm demon could not penetrate. When a whole family except a babe is dashed to destruction, and the babe is carried some distance and deposited on the earth without harm, it reveals an intelligence and power beyond the storm. When, a mile from where it started, a thin steel knife is hurled into an underground cellar, just missing the head of a man, with force sufficient to bury it in the hard earth wall, an intelligence and power is revealed greater than mere wind. These are only few instances of many which illustrate the working of the prince of "the power of the air" and his myriads of angels or demons.
And yet, over it all is the power of God. Even the wrath of men and demons shall praise Him, and the remainder of the wrath, that which will not redound to His praise, will He restrain. With the knowledge of such a malignant power, it is good to know that we can hide in One whose power is greater. "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them." "He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust; His truth shall be thy shield and buckler."
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.
IT is as easy to place ourselves under condemnation by condemning our brother and exalting ourselves as it is by committing open sin. It is easy to criticize, easy to find fault, easy to bring scripture against our brethren.
“All men are frail, all flesh is weak,”
and strong and pure indeed is the life in which jealous eyes can not discover some error or missing of the mark according to human judgment. But the human judgment may be more sinful in spirit and motive than the sins and mistakes it condemns. The latter may be committed through lack of knowledge, through error in judgment, while the former, the criticism, may be inspired by the very spirit of egotism, manifested in the prayer of the Pharisee: “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, . . . or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.” I do not eat flesh, nor do this nor that nor these nor those. And, in his cloak of self-complacency, the critic wraps himself, and wishes that other men were almost as good as he. He would lose his glory were they better.
Better by far be the sinful publican, who “would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.” It is good to pay tithes, it is good to fast, it is good to abstain from flesh meats, good to do all these things if they are done in sanctified knowledge and intelligent faith, but better than all Pharisaical doing is a heart of love for God and those whom Christ has purchased with His own blood.
Must we criticize? turn it inward—
“All men are frail; all flesh is weak;Be thou the true man thou dost seek.”
“Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up [in spite of your judgment]; for God is able to make him stand.” “Let us not therefore judge one another anymore; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion in his brother's way.” “Above all things have fervent charity [love] among yourselves; for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
THE ETHICS OF TRUSTS.
Recently an Industrial Commission has been sitting in Washington. Mr. Havemeyer, the great sugar king, was summoned before the commission to testify as to his knowledge. He was remarkably frank in his admissions, and very clearly showed how the ethics of the question is regarded by the trusts. The following is a very good brief summary of the matter, from the Christian Work:
“Whatever may be thought of Mr. Havemeyer’s surprising statements made last week before the Industrial Commission sitting at Washington, there is no doubt they will occasion deep interest throughout the entire country. Mr. Havemeyer’s testimony is remarkable for its frankness, for its admissions, and for its wholesale repudiation of all ethical considerations. ‘The mother of all trusts is the protective tariff bill,’ said Mr. Havemeyer, whose opening statement was a development of the idea that inordinate protection developed trusts, and an argument to show that, while the present law gave too much protection to nearly everything else, it did not give enough to sugar. To quote Mr. Havemeyer exactly, he declared that ‘the existing tariff bill and the preceding one have been the occasion of the formation of all the large trusts, with very few exceptions, inasmuch as they provide for an inordinate protection to all the interests of the country—sugar refining excepted.’ Passing this phase of the matter, we come to the ethical side of the question. This is the testimony:—
“Mr. Harris—You think it is better for all the competitors to be crushed out but one, who would control?
“Mr. Havemeyer—That’s trade. That’s what has been going on from the beginning, and will continue to go on in spite of legislation.
“Mr. Farquhar—As a matter of ethics, Mr. Havemeyer, is it right for you to pay dividends on $25,000,000 over capitalization? is it fair to get all you can out of the consumers?
“Mr. Havemeyer—I never stated anything different from that. I don’t care two cents for your ethics. We reduce price to prevent competition; that’s all.
“Mr. Havemeyer declared that the tariff enabled the Steel Rail Trust to mulct the public to the extent of $9.00 a ton. Here we leave the matter. As president of the great American Sugar Refining Company, Mr. Havemeyer speaks with the voice of authority, and what he says is sure to arrest public attention, whether his statements are accepted in their entirety or not.”
All of which will not tend to allay the trouble between capital and labor.
The Fountain of Life
And now another "fountain of perpetual youth" is found by a Chicago doctor. He discovered it in the lymph of the goat. Men will run after it as they did Brown-Sequard's remedy, of a few years ago, and come back weary and disappointed from the quest. They will find death at the end. There is one "Fountain of life" which is not disappointing, and that is in Jesus Christ. "With Him is the fountain of life."
