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PAGE 4 TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN R AD ICA LISM A N D C H R IST IA N IT Y that as generation has succeeded generation Scotch dogs have become well-nigh tailless, and the public revenue from the dogtax in that part of the kingdom is very small. We thus see that even the tail of a dog may have some effect on the finances of a nation. Many dog-owners in America and all over the world cut off the tails of their dogs, without knowing the reason for it. Custom is a hard master and it requires unquestioning obedience. No-one claims that the United States is a Christian nation. Our constitution specifically makes religion a matter for the individual to decide and not a state concern. But still we must admit that the principles of liberty, equality, fraternity, upon which our gov ernment is built, are essentially Christian principles, and history has shown that the men and women who have held these principles as dear as life and built our THE CALIFORNIA country to the present stage have been Christian men and women or educated and brought up under Chris The California, regarded as the most powerful war tian influence. ship in the navy, was launched a fews days ago at the All the movements that have emancipated man and Mare island navy yard, Vallejo, Calif. Gov. Stephens made manhood rather than riches the essential quality was present and his daughter, Mrs. R. T. Zane, acted have been backed by Christianity. Workers have as sponsor. been lifted from the plane of slavery to the dignity of The California represents the third electrically driven free labor through the tenets of Christianity which ship of her type to be added to the U. S. navy—the regards the producer of value as of the highest value. other two being the New Mexico and the Tennessee— The principles of free labor are Christian principles. and is regarded as the ultimate in fighting fitness. Her Yet we find radical labor agitators, who demand the lenghth is 624 feet, breadth 96 feet and depth over 47 results of Christianity, but who want to crucify Chris feet. At her mean draught of 30 feet her displace tianity itself. We find labor agitators in one breath ment is 32,000 tons. She is equipped with 12 14-inch extolling the value of individual liberty, equality, fra guns and her speed is estimated at 21 knots an hour. ternity, and in the next venom and hatred toward Not only is she electrically driven but her guns, Christianity. You cannot gather figs from thistles. her ventilation, steering, supplying of power to the A tree cannot produce both good and evil fruit. A drive shaft, her laundering, printing, icecream freez man cannot be consistent in demanding the good things ing, cake-making and disk washing are all operated brought by Christianity, and at the same time blas by electicity. Her huge turbines are of 28,000 horse pheme it. power. She will carry a full complement of 58 officers When you hear agitators talk so glibly about the and over 1,000 men. Her total cost is about $15,000,- rights of man and at the same time villify everything 000. As soon as she was launched work began on an Christian, ask yourself about his real motives. Is he other great battleship, which will be christened the interested in your welfare or in his own graft? Al Montana. ways suspect the man that has been rescued from the H ELD OUT depths, and who then strikes the hand that saved him. A man arrested for murder bribed an Irishman of The viper will sting the breast that warmed it, but a the jury with $100 to hang out for a verdict of man real man is not so ungrateful. Russia is trying to crucify Christianity. We have slaughter. The jury was out a long time but finally seen a few of the results. Do we want to throw our came in with the desired verdict. The man rushed country back several hundred years in its development? up to the Irish juror and said, “ I ’m obliged to you; Eet us be calm and look for the truth. Eet us take the did you have a hard time?” “ Yes,” said Casey. “ A divil of a time. All the “ red” hysteria at its true value and refuse to follow it into the quagmire. We have the agitators with us, rest wanted to acquit you.” but let them prove their faith by their works before Some horses, acording to the testimony of their we follow them. keepers, never in their lives lie down to sleep but get W H Y H IS TAIL IS CUT their rest while standing motionless on their feet. The In Scotland the farmers are exempt from paying tax animals relax completely and often stand for hours on their sheep-dogs, because of the help these dogs without moving perceptibly, apparently resting quite as are. As a mark that the sheep-dog is tax-free, his well as those which lie down to sleep. It has been tail is cut off. The Scots as a race are very thrifty, suggested that they sleep on their feet because they and the custom grew up among the people of the towns are afraid of the mice and insects which often infest as well as those of the country districts to dock the stables. The fact that they tend to lie down more tails of their dogs so as to make them look like when turned out in pasture seems to lend color to this sheep-dogs and thus escape the tax. The result is explanation.
