Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1908 — DAN BALDWIN GREAT HYPOCRITE [ARTICLE]

DAN BALDWIN GREAT HYPOCRITE

Former Goodland Banker Puts on Saintly Airs at Indianapolis and Goodland Paper Makes Biting Comment.

The Goodland Herald appropriately goes after Daniel Baldwin, the man who with Dague owned the Goodland bank, and who has So far prevented a trial on the promise that he would pay. Patience is about worn out at Goodland. The Herald heads its article “Old 40 Per Cent” and the article reads as follows: In way of' Introduction we will say that “Old Forty per cent” Is a nickname given to Dan Baldwin by his (friends?) at Logansport. Mr. Baldwin attends church in Indianapolis nowadays, Logansport is too small for a man of his caliber, he is too well known for the people to appreciate his goodness. In his article to the Star he says: "If .Christ should come to Indianapolis today he would be delighted with the miles upon miles of cheerful happy home for which Indianapolis is justly ce’ebrat.d —homes of the thrifty poor as well as of the rich and in which this beautiful Sunday balm is being enjoyed to the utmost by thousands of old as well as young.” And this Saint also says that if Christ should visit Indianapolis today he would hear a lot of good sermons in which the various preachers would insist that God is an experience rather than a definition and that religion consists largely in a clean, upright life, and that fidelity and duty are better than accuracy in belief. Mr. Baldwin fails to mention? some of the things Christ would find

if he should come to Goodland today. If Christ should visit Goodland today he would find the Goodlandbank shut up tighter than a clam, which was owned and robbed br this pretended disciple of Christ who hopes to reach Heaven by wearing, the cloak df a Christian. He would find hundreds of depositors of th& defunct bank who are crying for justice, simply justice. If he should come to Goodland today he would" find “miles upon miles’” of happy homes that are cursing the very name of Daniel P. Baldwin. If he should come to Goodland today and visit the poor widows, who lost their last dollar that Daniel might build a railroad and a sawmill in Arkansas, he would say: "Who is this man Baldwin?” They would answer, "He is the man who stole our money, he poses as a Saint, preaches and makes speeches, telling other people how to be? good, claims he has money enoughr to pay every thing he owes, but refuses to pay a cent. He is a man who has committed a deed for which other men have been sent to the penitentiary, but for some unaccountable reason he is permitted torun at large. He is a man who cares no more about keeping his word than a hog cares about holidays. He is the guy that hypnotized the receivers. If Christ would visit Goodland today Baldwin would ba doomed to shovel coal for eternity.”