Morning Oregonian., October 22, 1906, Page 8, Image 8

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1906.
WORK OR GO HUNGRY, THE ORDER AT MULTNOMAH'S ROCKPILE
Anti-Saloon League Delegates
Hold Mass Meeting.
Has No Apologies to Offer for
Its Attitude Toward
Divorce.
REV. PAUL RADER SPEAKS
Temperance "Culture," Not "Re
form," His Theme Reviews
Work for Cause During
Past 100 Years.
i WILL NEVER CHANGE IT
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
STANDING FIRM
ASSIIL RUM DEMON
Believes in Kigid Discipline AVith
Respect to Marriage, Says Father
O 'Ha ra Fol lows Teachi n gs
of Early Fathers.
Father O'Hara, at the Cathedral last
night, declared that the Catholic church
; maintains today the same position on
marriape and divorce as it did 1S00 years
i-agot and that it v.ill continue to teach the
rsatne doctrine until time is no more. He
said that the church had no apologies to
- offer for enforcing ricid discipline, as the
: church had recognized at the outset that
i laxity regarding the marriage contract
; would open the flood-pates of immorality
Individual, domestic and social. Father
O'Hara said, in part:
( "There is no doctrine of the Catholic
rchurch more characteristic of her distinct
f ive spirit and ethos than her teachings
on the sacredness of marriage, and there
t Is none which bears more eloquent testi
f mony to her historical continuity with
j primitive Christianity. The history of the
church has been a record of her heroic
. contest with the passions of princes and
'of people in behalf of the purity and sane-
tity of the home.
1 "From the days of St. Paul the union
' between Christ and the church was a
t symbol of the sacredness of marriage.
'. Wedlock received a religious significance.
It was no mere private contract, revoca
ble at will. It was a pledge before God
tof marital fidelity while life would last.
"The Catholic church ISuG years ago rec
vnlzed no grounds which would authorize
'divorce in the sense of permission to con
tract another marriage. The so-called
J 'Scriptural' ground for divorce was re
i yarded by the early Christians as a rea
: son for separation, but they most em
i phatically denied that the innocent party
t was thereby permitted to remarry.
Early Writings Are Explicit.
"The writings of the early church are
! most explicit in this regard. They declare,
Fin so many words, as the Catholic church
' declares today, that the attempted re
marriage of a divorcee during the lifetime
of the other party, is adulterous.
"In enforcing this rigid discipline In op
position to the demands of human pas-
'winnu nrwl i n flu vnrv tpeth nf ' t wfntinth
'century pagan culture, the Catholic church
has no apologies to offer. She Is imposing
no mere ecclesiastical legislation. With
tSt. Paul, she may say. Not I, but the
Lord, commandeth that the wife depart
not from her husband; and if she depart,
that she remain unmarried.
"The spirit of the world has never taken
kindly to the idea of self-restraint for un-
eelnsh ends. Hence the rigidity of the
Catholic church in regard to the marriage
contract has always provoked opposition;
and In no respect is she more admirable
than she is for the enemies she has made
during the nineteen centuries that she has
led tiie vanguard of Christian civilization
In the battle for domestic morality.
"Eighteen hundred years of world-wide
experience with the workings of human
nature, has served but to intensify the
conviction that rigid discipline is neces
sary. The prospect of absolute divorce
Is the fruitful source of hasty and ill
assorted marriages. It encourages dis
content and incites to the commission of
the very crimes which furnish legal pre
text for annulling the marriage. It im
pairs the mutual conltdence between hus
band and wife which is essential to do
mestic happiness. Separation without
prospect of another marriage is the only
moral practicable relief from a mismated
union.
Kccogtiizcs Sex Equality.
"The Catholic formula of marriage has
&lways recognized the equality of the
sexes. It is identical for both man and
wife. The same obligations are incum
bent on both. The acknowledgment of
Inferiority by the special promise on the
part of the wife Ilnds no place In Cath
olic tradition.
"With the spread of divorce and the
consequent loosening of family ties has
come a widespread moral pestilence,
against which grave warnings have been
littered. On these moral delinquents na
ture will be avenged by the propagation
of a race of weaklings, and Cod will be
avenged in the world to come.
"Kight hundred years ago as today the
Catholic church stigmatized as murder
the slaughter of the unborn innocents.
That the enu of the sacrament of matri
mony should be frequently frustrated by
such cold-blooded and unnatural murder
evinces a quality of conscience in our
modern pagans that is calculated to appall
the mind.
"In regard to physicians or others who
willingly assist in such a practice, the
teaching of the Catholic church has al
ways been equally plain. They are guilty
before God of being accomplices in willful
murder.
The doctrine of sacramental, mono
Kamle and indissoluble marriage has en
nobled woman, made man less bestial and
Jounded in the Christian home a sanctuary
where motherhood is held in honor, where
children are welcomed and reared in love
of God and service of country. Such is
the Catholic 'doctrine, ImjO years ago, to
day and forever.'
t SES PALM AS COMPARISON
Dr. Wilson Likens the Christian to
the Tree of the Bible.
Pi. Clarence True Wilson, at the Grace
Methodist Church, compared the Christian
to the palm tree. The subject of his ser
mon was "Why the Righteous Are Iike
Palm Trees." Ir. Wilson said, in part:
"There is a striking resemblance In
many kindred characteristics in the whole
family of palms. Like Christians of what
ever name and wherever found, they all
possess the great and essential charac
teristic of their common origin. We must
keep in mind that the palm tree of Scrip
ture Is the date palm of Palestine and
Arabia and study the various lessons of
Its analogy in learning the various re
semblances in which the righteous shall
flourish like the palm tree.
"The first thing that strikes a stranger
when studying a palm is its erectness.
No other trees are so straight up and
clown as a class. And yet now exposed,
now tossed by the tropical storms, now
laden with fruit, up It grows, fur as pos
sible from earth, near as may be to
heaven. We need more upright men, who
etand square to every wind that blows
and resist every adverse influence when
standing erect.
"Its beauty will be aeeond attraction.
He who makes everything beautiful in its
time has inspired the expression, 'the
beauty of holiness. Nothing is so lovely
In character as the symmetry of right
eous development. The righteous flourish
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ITlI the SI prisoners now confined
in the stockade at the county rock
ouarry at Kelly's Butte on the
Powell Valley road, !t Is work, or nearly
starve. It goes well with those who work,
but for those who lag or refuse to labor
rough sledding is in store. It is Judge
Webster's idea that the prisoners who
will not work should starve, and Commis
sioners Lightner and Barnes believe in
the same eosoel.
While the county has had some experi
ence in using prisoners in crushing rock
like the palm. The palm bears Its
branches and fruitage on high. It does
not stop with its branches, but pushes its
way up through them and throws its
stocks higher up. It lives above and be
yond Its past attainments. With branch
and fruit far from the ground the palm
trees tell us that the further we get from
earthly conditions the better for our de
velopment. The palm is firmly rooted. The storms
may sweep around them, but they stand.
The righteous man with motives spring
ing from a deeper source than his sur
rouiulinss and fed by hidden streams can
stand for risht. whether the world can
see it for a time or not. We need more
men to pioneer unpopular reforms in
every age."
Dr. Wilson announced that he would
speak next Sunday night on "Parsifal, or
the Story of a Life Tempted, Tried and
Triumphant."
SPKAKS FOR ARBITRATION'.
lr. Short Discusses Strike In Sermon
at Taylor-Sweet Church.
Dr. F. Burgette Short, at the Taylor
Street Methodist Church, in his sermon,
last night on "Temptation," declared
that the strike of the grainhandlers
should be settled by arbitration. He
declared tiiat the commerce of Port
land should not be hindered, and snid
tiiat, while he was unable to place tho
blame for the strike, as he had made
no extended investigations of the con
tentions of either side, it was due to
selfishness. Dr. Short said in part:
Too bad. too bad. thnt our shipping In
terests have become Involved, because of the
strike. I do not know who Is to blame,
l'erhaps both sides are at fault. This I do
know, however, that three unbiased men
can be found whose decision in the matter
ought to settle the difficulty, and permit
the commerce of the city to coma and to go
unhindered.
The temptation of the employer Is some
times too great to make money, and he
win squeeze his employes that he may sat
isfy his Inordinate desire for money. On
the, other hand, the employes sometimes
make unfair demands. I cannot place the
blame, but Its name Is selfishness: and while
selfishness rules, the commerce that belongs
to Portland Is going elsewhere, and the
prosperity that should smile upon us is
bestowed upon another.
Someone Is wrong. The giant brother of
our National strength must clou their dis
agreement. Labor and capital must not war
with eajh other. They bav made us what
we are. I honor the man whose genius has
enabled him to make a fortune honestly.
I equally honor the man. strong of muscle,
who earns his wages honestly. Both are
my brothers, and 1 keenly regret their dis
agreement. Capital, pay good wage-'-!!
for the county roads at Linnton, it was
not on so extensive a scale as has been
undertaken at this new rock quarry, and
much is expected from this method of
road construction. The county has 13
acres and a great quantity of blue rock.
Here a stockade has been erected for
keeping from 30 to 40 county prisoners
at a time. Inside the high board fence
is a solid concrete building 25x75 for the
sleeping quarters, dining and kitchen for
the prisoners, who are as safe, if not
safer, than in the Jail at the court house.
Everything is neat, clean and well ventl-
you can afford. Labor, give honest toll
earn every dollar you get. Consider each
other's interests. Be solicitous of each oth
er's welfare. Share each other's burdens.
Give for the common good of all.
Each has rights sacred as truth. They
are truth; and for those rights stand like
men. But one or the other is -wrong; or per
chance both. 8elf -interest may have ob
scured the right. Therefore, my brothers,
I beg-you, place your case at the disposition
of good, fair men, and abide by their de
cision. You live not to yourselves alone.
Every man's act affects the whole commun
ity. Arbitration is the Christian method for
settling all such difficulties.
IXVEII.S MEMORIAL WINDOW
First Congregational Church Dedi
cates Gift From F. A. Kribs.
The memorial window placed In the
First Congregational Church by Frederick
A. Kribs, in memory of his deceased wife,
was dedicated yesterday morning. Bev.
K. L. House delivered a brief address, his
subject being "Woman's Love." -His clos
ing remarks weret as follows:
"One of the grandest statues in the
world is that of 'Liberty Enlightening
the World,' but in Christ's words 'She
hath done what she couldf we have one
better. Its height reaches to heaven; the
inscription on its side was penned by the
Son of God; its pedestal is- literally the
whole earth, for 'wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached, this thing that she
hath done shall be told for a memorial
of her." And wherever this story is told,
light goes forth, grander than that which
Liberty's torch supplies; a light which
llghteth every man that cometh into the
world.'
"This woman brought her best, and
Christ accepts only our best. This was a
personal act to a personal Saviour. She
did not send some one else, but came
herself, a loving worshipper and admirer
of him. Tha motive of her giving was
love. It was not duty. If she had been
commanded to do this it would have
taken the whole heart out of it. The
great theologians of the Middle Ages were
rich In angelogy, and they always gave
the first place to the seraphim, and the
next to the cherubim. The word 'seraph'
Is derived from a root signifying to love,
while the world cherub is derived from
a Hebrew word 'to know,' and so they
taught that the angels of love stand
nearer to God than the angels of know
ledge. ."And then she was beforehand with her
love. Many or us are behindhand. Joseph
and Nicodemus were behindhand. They
loved Jesus, but did not manifest as Mary
did until after he was dead We should
lated, and the prisoner employed at this
quarry cannot complain about his quar
ters. The stockade and quarters are placed
at the south entrance to the ground and
are flanked on one side with a grove of
fir trees. From the stockade a passage
extends to the rock yara, where the rock
is quarried and wheeled to the crusher,
with board fences on both sides 12 feet
high, and barbed wire at the top. The
prisoners march to the rock yard. Guard
houses are stationed on both sides of this
yard " overlooking the prisoners. The
prisoners are well fed and the one who
works will be well treated.
The rock is Broken up with sledges by
the prisoners and fed to the crusher.
When a prisoner has had a month of this
exercise he will not be troubled with in
digestion. The crusher can turn out 100
cubic yards of rock a day. From the
speak our loving words while our friends
live; and not give them only after they
are dead.
. "And then there is great encourage
ment in these words, for they show that
the offerings of humble loyalty and silent
love are accepted by Christ. If this wo
man was to be judged by visible achieve
ments, by showy enterprises, by notable
charities, her life might be called a
failure. But she dia what she could.
That little was a test of her sincerity.
"Then Christ announces the fact that
ability is the measure of one's responsi
bility. No soul is tasked beyond its
power. God's commandment never passes
the line of a possible obedience, and so
never goes over from justice to tyranny.
"And then in the last place, we are
told here how to perpetuate our names
and influence in the world. WThat we
do for ourselves in the gratification or
worldly pride and ambition shall perish,
but what we do for Christ will live for
ever." At the close of Dr. House's adiress the
veil was lifted revealing a window of
wonderful beauty. The window has six
large pictures In it; five panels being
on the main floor and the other in the
gallery, at the top of the window.
The picture is one of Plockhorst
"Christ taking leave of His Mother;" the
second, third and fourth panels are a
group of figures representing "Mary with
the Alabaster Box," "Mary, the Mother
of Jesus," on her way to the tomb of
Christ, with the "Angel of the Resur
rection" confronting them; the fifth win
dow has "The Ascension of Christ;" the
top window, which Is above the five, has
Hoffman's "Jesus at the Well."
The middle of the lower five pictures,
which represents. "Mary the Mother of
Jesus on Her Way to the Tomb of
Christ." Is a memorial to Wilhelmine
F. Kribbs.
The window was built by a firm in this
city, at a cost of about $6000. They have
been over a year in its construction. It
is pronounced a fine work of art.
The Minute Men. a class whlck was
organized about two years ago. for so
cial purposes and the study of the Bible,
has started a move to raise a fund for
the dedication of a window, in memory
of Reno Hutchinson, their first teacher.
Dr. House preached his farewell sermon
last night before his departure for Bos
ton. He leaves at 9 o'clock this morning
for a three weeks' trip. He will visit
New York before his return and try to
secure more assistance for the churches
in the West.
RAISES TOBACCO QUESTION.
Rev. Shaffer, of Tnited Brethren
Church, Condemns Use of Weed.
Bev. H. C. Shaffer, pastor of the United
srusher. the rock is lifted by an elevator
to the bunkers, where it is screened into
three sizes for road work.
Later another crusher will be installed
which will double the capacity of the
plant for turning out crushed rock for
the county roads. Power for operating
the second crusher is at hand with the
engine in operation.
The taxpayer is interested in the eco
nomic feature of this method of road
work, and incidentally the whole state is
an interested spectator. It is by no
means an experiment. Engineer W. A.
Eathel, who was with the plant at Linn
ton, says that crushed rock was turned
out at that place for 35 cents a cubic yard,
and placed in the bunkers ready to place
on the county roads. It costs by other
labor tl and $1.25 a cubic yard, so that
the gain is fully two-thirds over the
ordinary cost of road construction, and
besides, a material is turned out that is
Brethren Church, Bast Fifteenth and
Morrison streets, yesterday received sev
eral members into the church. He asked
the questions of the candidate in public,
first if they believed in the total pro
hibition of the liquor traffic and second
whether they considered the use of to
bacco an unchristian practice. All an
swered both questions in the affirmative.
A year ago Mr. Shaffer asked of candi
dates for membership in the church
whether .they believed in prohibition, and
yesterday added the tobacco question.
In explanation he said that the last
general conference made it plain t..at
the use of tobacco in any form on the
part of a minister was objectionable.
"If ministers are required to abstain
from tobacco." said Mr. Shaffer, "then
the laity ought to be placed under the
same restriction. However, the church
does not draw the line of membership
on the use of tobacco, but does condemn
its use."
TALKS FOR BLCE SUNDAY.
East Side Preacher Criticises Sheriff
for Failure to Close Saloons.
Rev. Earl S. DuBois, pastor of the
Grand-Avenue United Presbyterian
Church, yesterday morning denounced the
Sheriff of Multnomah County for his fail
ure to close up the saloons on Sunday,
declaring that he was equally guilty of
violating the laws of the state with the
saloonkeeper, and equally cupable. Dr.
DuBois spoke on "Sabbath Keeping and
Sabbath Laws." He said that the Sabbath
was made for man, for his Intellectual,
his physical and spiritual well being, and
declared that the Sabbath was necessary
to all Christianity, and that taking it
away would mean the destruction of
Christian freedom. He pointed out
Canada as a country which had enacted
the most stringent Sabbath law of mod
ern times, prohibiting manual labor of
all kinds, excursions, receiving and dis
patching of freight on the railways, thea
ters and places of amusements on Sun
day, which Dr. DuBois declared was a
good law.
"In France' he said, "where an effort
was made to subvert and destroy the
sanctity of the Lord's day, there came
bloodshed, disorder, revolution, and now
we see that that country has restored
the seventh day there, for industrial rea
sons. When we in America adopt the
Parisian Sabbath then our freedom will
pass from us. Even in China, that sleep
ing giant of 400,000.000 of people, has come
to recognize by imperial decree the Wes
leyan Sabbath. Our Government has rec
ognized that day by making it a condi
superior and which makes a permanent
roadbed.
Besides this great saving in the cost of
road work, which makes it possible to im
prove twice as much road surface as for
merly and substitute crushed rock for
gravel. Promoters of the plan declare
it is a decided benefit to the prisoners, in
putting them in condition to earn an hon
est living at the conclusion of their sen
tences.
The crushed rock will first be trans
ported to the roads by wagons, but these
will soon be supplemented with a trac
tion engine which will haul several
wagons. The first road to be covered with
material from this quarry will be the road
extending to' Woodstock from the Powell
"Valley road, but all the main county
roads will be dressed up with crushed
rocK as fast as it Is turned out. H. B.
Chapman, road supervisor. Is 4n immedi-
aie cnarge of the plant.
tion of the appropriation for the James
town Exposition that the doors shall re
main closed on Sunday. It will be a sad
day when saloonkeepers. Infidels and Sev-
enth Day Adventists shall have destroyed
our tjnrisuan sabbath.
"It is a fact that most politicians will
not enforce the law unless forced to do
so. In this city the law for closing of
saioons on tne sabbath is openly violated.
and yet the guardian of the peace of the
community refuses to enforce the law
when his attention is called to that viola
tion. He becomes as much of a criminal
as the men who thus openly violate the
law ty refusing to enforce the law."
SERMOX BY E. NELSON ALLEN
Only True Aristocracy Is That of
Character, Says Preacher.
Rev. p. Nelson Allen preached yester
day at Hawthorne Park Presbyterian
Church on "True Aristocracy." He said:
In America we claim to be truly demo
cratic. We claim to believe that all men
are created equal and with certain Inalien
able rights, such as life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. This equality in
heres not In the accidentals of life, but
In our divine birthright, in the great fact
that God made of one blood all nations for
to dwell upon the face of the earth and to
dwell together as a common brotherhood.
We cry out against caste In foreign lands,
and then proceed to divide ourselves asunder
by the most superficial considerations. The
curse of this land is the aristocracy of
wealth. It seta the capitalist over against
the laborer, as truly as patrician was ever
against plebeian In the days of the Roman
Empire.
Judge Talfourd, who has devoted his life
to a right adjustment of labor and capital,
said: "If I were asked what is the great
want of English society today I should say
it Is the want of sympathy between masters
and men." What is true of English society
Is true In our own land. Strikes and lock
outs are evidences of this lack of sympathy
and co-operation. And these conditions will
not cease till both sides recognize the great
truth of human equality as taught by -the
Carpenter of Nazareth.
Where there Is a divergence of opinion as
to rights the principle of arbitration Is fair
to all concerned. Neither capitalists nor la
borers have a right to cause the public in
convenience and financial loss when It is
thus possible to make an equitable adjust
ment. . The determining factor" In the solu
tion of all such economic questions Is the
equality of man, the recognition of the doc
trine of brotherhood.
The only aristocracy that Is permissible,
the only true aristocracy. Is that which la
founded upon personal merit the aristoc
racy of character, the aristocracy of right
living and high thinking. All have a right
to belong to the nobility of royal worth.
A mass meeting devoted to the cause of
temperance was held at the First Presby
terian Church last night by the Anti-Sa
loon League, and was the last session of
the convention of that organization. Rev.
William Gilbert, of Astoria, and Assist
ant Pastor Hare, of the First Presby
terian Church, assisted Rev. Paul Radcr
in the services. The address of the eve
ning was on "Temperance Reform" and
was delivered by Mr. Rader.
Mr. Rader said in introduction that he
felt "culture" was a better term to use
with temperance than "reform," as this
movement, like anything else, would pro
gress only by cultivation to bring out the
best that Is in it.
'Education used to be a mere cramming
for examinations," he said, "but now it
Is different, and we go at a student or a
man to bring out the best there is in him,
as all the thinking world knows there Is
something in every man capable of culti
vation or development. This Is the teach
ing of Christ.
'It is natural for men to want to go up
to progress, but they are retarded by
our systems, by our false laws. We should
have laws that will help all men to pro
gresshelp communities to progress. We
spend thousands of dollars in building up
our states, and yet enact laws to tear
down all we have built up. Fanatics on.
any question are always desirous of tear
ing down something, but a revolution does
not help build anything and people must
learn that any question must be culti
vated. Men are as capable of cultivation
and propagation as the rose, if ve only
go at it right."
Mr. Rader gave some interesting data
concerning the first 100 years of temper
ance movement, and even cited the fact
that before the question was agitated min
isters of the Gospel drank whisky and all
men thought they could do better work
and get better results when primed with,
liquor. The first committee ever formed
In the Interests of temperance was In tha
Presbyterian Church, he said, and the
first society in the interest of temperance
was format! Jn 1826.
He spoke of Father Matthew, who
worked such wonders in Ireland in fight
ing the drink habit, and of the occasion.
on which the New York Legislature ad
journed to attend a prayer session at the
Presbyterian Assembly adding that there
was a difference in the New York Legisla
ture of today.
To solve the question Mr. Rader advo
cated a determination or pledge on the
part of every citizen not to vote for any
man of any party who is in any way op
posed to total abstinence. He declared
that the Internal revenue laws, and the
law which permits the sale of liquor to be
licensed, are working a detriment- to the
state and the people, and should be done
away with.
The plea of every city that "it needs the
revenue" should not, he said, be consid
ered, as It had been proved in "dry" coun
ties and "dry" states that this plea is
fallacious.
MOUNT TABOR INSPECTED
Committee From Initiative One Hun
dred Looks Over High Ground.
Dr. W. W. Johnson, W. N. Carter and
W. G. Kern, a committee from the In
itiative One Hundred, paid Mount Tabor
a visit yesterday afternoon, spending two
hours examining it in detail. This com
mittee was commissioned to investigate
Mount Tabor and report on Its advantages
for park and reservoir purposes. Dr. C.
H. Raltety, of the water committee;
Councilman Frank S. Bennett; H. W.
Hodges, Frank J. Perkins and H. A.
Eastman, of the Mount Tabor Push Club,
were present. The whole territory was
covered In the investigation.
There was some speculation as to the
best place to locate the proposed reser
voir. Heretofore it has been suggested
that it be built on the summit and that
the top, comprising some 14 acres, be
cut down 190 feet, but yesterday another
suggestion was made to the effect that
the reservoir be located on the Bouthwest
side of Mount Tabor, where there Is con
siderable flat ground, and thereby pre
serve the highest point intact for the
park. Dr. C. H. Raffety said that the
water committee would have the eleva
tions taken on the side to ascertain if it
is high enough for the reservoir. He
thought that perhaps a reservoir might
be built there as high as the present
one on Mount Tabor.
The opinion of those who made the
examination yesterday was that the high
est point ought to be kept as it is at
present, if possible, and a reservoir built
on the' southwestern side. In that way
the beauty of the elevation could be pre
served unmarred by extensive excava
tions, i
The sky was clear and a perfect view
could be had in all directions. A bette"
day could" not have been selected for inf
spection of the elevation. The committed
will submit a report to the Initiative Ono
Hundred. ' ' ;fftT?553
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