People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1897 — Page 1

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CHURCHES FIRST BAPTIST. Preaching every two weeks, at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p. m.j Sunday school at 9:30; B. Y. P. U. 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7p.m.; C. E Voliva pastor. *** CHRISTIAN. Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday ■ school, 9:30; J. Y. b. S. O. E./2:30; S.Y. P. 0. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30 Ladies s,t Ald y Soclety meets every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. *** PRESBYTERIAN. Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday School, 9:30: Junior Endeavorers, 2:30p. m.; Y. P. S. 0.-K., 6:30. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:80 Ladies Industrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. *** METRO HIST E. Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League, Sunday 6: Tuesday 7: Junior League 2:30 alternate Sundays. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Dr. R. D. Utter, pastor. LADIES AID SOCIETY every Wednesday vfafternoon by appointment. (w *** CHURCH OF GOD. Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching, lo:45 and 7.8 o; Sunday school, 9:3o; Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Ladies Society meets every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. *** CHRISTIAN— BARKLEY CHURCH OF CHRIST. Preaching every alternate Lord s Day. Morning, Sunday School 10:00 [Preaching ll:oo. Evening. V. P. 8. C. E., 7:8o; Preaching,B:oo. Rev. R.S. Morgan, Pastor. LODGES HA ST© Ajrc.-PR AIRIE LODGE, No. 126, A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. C. G. Spitler W. M.; W J. Imes.Secy. EVENING STAR CHAPTER, No. 141, O. E. S., meets first and Third Wednesday s of each month. Nellie Hopkins, W. M. Maud E. Spitler. Sec’v. *** CATHOLIC ORDER FORESTERS - Willard Court. No. 418. leets every hrst and third Sunday of the month at 2 p. m. E P. Honan, Secy., FrauK Maloy, Chief Ranger. *** ODD FELLOWS. IROQUOIS LODGE, No 149.1. O. O. F., meets every Thursday. W. E. Overtou, N. G.. S. C. Irvin, Sec’y. RENSSELAER ENCAMPMENT, No. 201. I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. T. J. Sayler, C. P.; John Vannattl. Scribe. RENSSELAER REBECCA DEGREE LODGE No. 346. meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Mattie Bowman, N. G.; Miss Alice Irwin, Sec’v. *** r O. OF FORRESTERS. COURT JASPER. No. 1703. Independent Order of Forresters. meets second and fourth Mondays Geo. Goff, 0. D. H. C. R.; J. W. Horton. W o. R.

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ORDER OF ARCHERS.

Statement of Premises Upon which It Operates. Why Have all Our Class Organizations and Political Parties Failed in Results?—They Ignore Laws of Nature and the Distributive Factors. Following is taken from a circular issued by Plato’s Archers, an organization that is making rapid headway, irrespective of party, local conditions, or trade i Environments. We shall have more 1 to say of it in the future. Our readers cannot afford to miss anything they see in print regarding it. We can truthfully repeat in three words, that it has the key which solves the PROBLEM.

REFORMATIONS DEMAND ORGANIZATIONS. Reformers in all ages have labored to increase the happiness of man in this life. Plato, the immortal philosopher of Greece, framed an ideal Republic based upon the fact that each individual in society is endowed by nature with some specific virtue. which adapts him to the production of some special form of value, which fits him for some vocation in life wherein he can become the most useful to society. The most perfect state of civilized society must be that state wherein every individual can enjoy perfect liberty without endangering the peace, prosperity, or perpetuity of the commonwealth. Man is instinctively industrious as the ant, the beaver or the bee. The man who finds that place in life for which nature has best fitted him, enjoys more happiness than one who has been driven by necessity into an abnormal field. Man is actuated by motives, influenced by environments. Men do not create motives, they simply obey them. To adjust ourselves to our conditions, to harmonize with our environments is the effort of our lives. No greater work can be accomplished by any reformation than to secure the opportunity to each member of society to find its proper place. Secret societies are organized for the avowed purpose of bettering the condition of the members of which each is formed. Each society is organized for a specific purpose, and inspired by a central idea, around which everything must cluster, and to which everything must be made tributary. “Ye cannot put new wine into old bottles,” is a figurative way of saying everything in nature has a specific individuality which identifies it; which determines its shape, color, and destiny; which marks and distinguishes it from all other creatures or individualities. This law of individuality is infinitely essential to all order; it seperates the atomic particles of matter from each other, and keeps the planets whirling in their own orbits; confines solar systems to their respective regions of space, and prevents the material universe from becoming a chaos of confusion. Nor is this law confined to material organisms. It is equally

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applicable to religious, political and social systems. A grain of corn, a grain of wheat, a mustard, and a peach seed planted in the same soil, moistened with the same water, warmed by the same sunlight, grows seed each after its own kind—one a stalk of corn, another a stalk of wheat, another a mustard plant and another a peach tree. No method of treatment can change one into the other, nor can either be grafted onto the other. Each has a distinct individuality which alone deten mines its future, and any effort to unite them will end in their destruction. Thp same is true of religions, A church founded upon the idea of justification by faith alone, can not be expected to adopt the .idea that works are essential to salvation; nor can a church whose essential feature is baptism be expected to take up and pursue any theory that would make the essential feature secondary in importance. In the light of these existing facts, let us carefully analyze the great reform movements which are engaging the minds of mankind to day, and, if possible, deduce a logical conclusion therefrom.

Henry George and his followers think the wrong exists in our method of taxation, and that a single tax on land values would correct the evils of which we complain. The K. of L. was founded upon the idea of uniting the working men in one grand organization whose numbers would en able them to resist the encroachments of the employers upon the rights of the employed. In its essential feature it is organized to render strikes more potential, hence its appeals for support are made especially to the wage worker. They see no enemy beyond the avaricious employer, and hence can not be expected to take up the “single tax idea.”

The Grange is founded on the theory that the “middle man” has brought us to our present condition, and their remedy lies in cutting off this feature and bringing the producer and consumer closer together, and can not be expected to take up the single tax idea, nor to fight the battles of the wage worker and his boss. The F. M B. A. have found that there are too many merchants, and their remedy is to starve out all the unnecessary ones by concentrating their patronage upon the favored few. The Alliance has conceived the idea that somehow the remedy lays in legislation, but are divided upon the question as to what that legislation should be, and how to accomplish it. Their central idea is unity; with no definite object or recognized leader.

The temperance reformers see the enemy of. all social order in the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and can not be induced to look beyond these for a possible cause, but insist that Intemperance is itself the cause, and have organized their secret societies to eliminate this evil with no agreed plan as to what means are necessary to accomplish its removal. The Financial Reformer sees the wrong in the money system of the world, and to introduce this idea into the minds of the masses has gone into the ranks of the other existing organizations to convince them that their essential feature is secondary and that the money question is , the essential one, hence we find

the Greenbacker among the temperance societies struggling to induce them to lay aside their views and take up the money question. And thus you see every one of these organizations fighting each other over the “essential feature” of the needed reformation, with no more prospect of changing the nature of these organizations than the florist has of changing the mustard plant to a*peach tree. The soul of the Henry Georgists is “single tax.” Destroy this and attempt to substitute another and you kill the .movement. Attempt to substitute the money question for the “strike” and “boycot” of the K. of L. and you disintegrate the order. Try to engraft the “money question” onto either of the existing secret organizations, and the effort is equally fruitless, and alike disastrous. It is true, we have made some progress in educating some of the members of eacfl of the existing secret societies on the necessity of financial reform, but none will claim that we have reached a point in this process of education where we can reasonably calculate that these organizations are ready to lay down their recognized “essential” measure and take up a subject that will necessarily make the object of their special care, secondary. If the problem of civilization is ever solved its solution must be practicable; if practicable, it can be put into practice. We must present this fact to the masses so conclusively that none can gainsay it. We must organize a secret society, whose essential feature is the existing wrong and whose object is the application of the remedy. We must show how utterly impossible any reform measure must be while the production and distribution of wealth is controlled by heartless money kings and soulless syndicates. We must adopt such methods as will at once appeal to the strongest motives that govern human action, and at the same time plant in the minds of all, the seed thought that will grow into a knowledge of the truth. The essential germ that individualizes a secret society must be set out in the ritual. No thought embodied in any declaration of principles, not in harmony with the essential principle of the order, can be made to take root and grow. Relying on these fundamental truths, the ritual of Archery has been carefully prepared, and the truth set forth in a beautiful and impressive ceremony, presenting in a strong light the cause of the present prevailing distress nuder which we are struggling. This ceremony once seen leaves upon the mind an indelible impression, and prepares the mind for the reformation without which all other reformations are impossible. By no means do we deprecate the work of labor organizations. Each has its work to accomplish; each its special mission to fill. Some are organized for mutual aid and self protection; others for education along the line of needed reforms. It is not the aim >of this order to oppose or interfere with any of them, but by presenting the necessity for the reformations that we advocate, to enlarge their field of usefulness by making the reforms they advocate possible and their influence more potential. If you ask us what we have, we answer, “come and see,” and if you think we have the truth and are of use to you, take hold; if not, no harm can come to you or us.

DUNCAN BILL PASSED.

House Rounds out the Record by Passing this Measure. —————— * Received and Approved by the Governor Baker and the * Rest of the Lobby Made Conspicious. Tuesdays Journal. The House yesterday morning rounded up the excellent record of the Legislature by passing the Duncan bill providing for the auditing of township warrants by a Aboard of three. Though the bill was passed yesterday the Governor received it, examined it and approved it by signing it last evening. An effort had been made to suspend the rules and pass this bill on Saturday and the leaders on both sides of the House were anxious t<s get it through because it was the only measure left restricting the expenditures of trustees.' The lobby of school supply men had succeeded in killing off every othir measure for this purpose. They were all on hand yesterday morning in the final effort to kill the Duncan bill. The boldest one of them, Baker, of Baker & Thornton, was on the floor occupying the seat of Representative Eichhorn most of the time and whispering a word to every member that he could get hold of. When the bill “was handed down, Mr. Blankenship spoke in its favor and called attention to the operations of Baker on the floor. He declared it was high time this man who had been st> bold in attempting to control the work 6f the House were out of there. Mr. Thomas arosei to a point of order, declaring that Mr. Blankenship had no right to take cognizance of any person by name. Speak - ; er Pettit declared that the chair held a very different opinion and that if this man was found on the floor again he would be promptly ejected. Baker had at the first word from Blankenship slipped out back of the railing and stood there among the other school-supply men watching the proceedings.

The bill constitutes the county commissioners a board to audit the warrants of the twp. trustees of the county. It requires them to meet the first of each month and audit these warrants, examining them and satisfying themselves that they are for legitimate and proper expenditures, and that the goods thus purchased have been delivered and are as represented. The commissioners are required to report to the Circuit court and all disputed warrants are tried by the court. The law permits any taxpayer to recover for the county twice the amount of a fraudulent warrant and attorney’s fees and expenses for himself in addition from the bondsmen of the trustee.

Her Dream Came True.

Knoxville, la., March 4. Miss Gertie Trusler, living in East Main street, in this city, dreamed the other night that her uncle, Samuel Trusler who died last summer, appeared to her, telling that his money was hidden in a certain place in the barn. Next morning she dug at the place where she had dreamed it was seci eted and found a tin can containing S6OO in gold coins.

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NUMBER 38.

MR. GHIZUM IS WAYLAID

While Returning from Kentland to Morocco is Set Upon. Supposed Result of Prosecutions in Liquor Cases, where Violators were Pushed and Not Dismissed, to Their Surprise. According to reports, Prosecuting Attorney Chizum had an experience late Monday night while returning from Kentland. Now Mr. Chizum is a native of Morocco, and at the Kentland court were numerous parties under charge of selling liquor other than in strict accordance with the law, receiving in return the customary fines. It seems the fact of being fellow townsmen, and having heard that infractions of like purport had beeu lightly dealt with in towns like Rensselaer, they felt apparently justified in expecting at least equal treatment from the prosecutor. Hence Mr. C. thinks he |ias a plain case agin’ certain parties on charge of murderous or some other sort of assault. Our evening contemporary reports the incident after this manner:

“During the day Mr. Chizum had publicly stated to the court that he must go home, to Morocco, that night, on account of sickness in his family. “He started home very late at night, with a team, and with him in his covered c irriage, was Attorney Graves of Morocco and* ex-druggist of Kent land. As they drove upon a bridge over the Iroquois River, 5 or 6 miles north of Kentlanu, a buggy load of men drove close up behind, and some began shooting revolvers. At the same time another man, on horseback, suddenly rode up and seized one of Chizum’s horses by the bridle and attempted to stop his team. One of the parties in his buggy seized the whip and began to whip their horses at such a rate that they dashed ahead in spite of the efforts of the man on horseback, who held on for quite a little distance.

Chizum’s team narrowly missed running off the grade, as they passed off the bridge, they escaped that danger however, and drove on to a farm house, some distance aheaSa, where assistants were procured, and Mr. C. and his companions'then returned to Kentland, where he called up Judge Thompson and had warrants issued for the arrest of the same parties who had been prosecuted for selling liqdor. “The theory is, that some of the gang had heard Chjzum announce that he intended to go home Monday night, and they expected that he would go alone and they thought they could easily waylay him at the bridge and throw him into the river; and which being very high now, and with steep banks at that place, and the chances would have been very slight for his ever getting out again, alive. There are no licensed saloons in Morocco and tor some time past a gang of toughs have run quart §hops and had things entirely their own way. ” The Morocco toughs if such they prove to be, deserve to be dealt with severely for their manner of procedure. When they know there are methods which temper the severity of the law’s penalty, they should have made straightway for Rensselaer and instigated a careful persistent inquiry. There’s a heap more gained by even tempered moral suasion than by midnight assaults. Let them learn it.

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