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| President Theodore Roosevelt. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, June 8, 1903.
PRESIDENT'S CHURCH.
Handsome New Edifice Dedicated In Washington.
PRESIDENT MADE AN ADDRESS.
Spoke of Service and Duty, Especially to Take Care of Newcomers to This Country—Faith Should Not Be One of Words Merely, But of Good Deeds.
Washington, June 8.—The handsome new home of the Grace Memorial Reformed church, which President Roosevelt attends, was dedicated Sunday with appropriate exercises. President Roosevelt, with his family, attended the services and made a brief address.
The Rev. J. M. Schick, the pastor, read the article of consecration and the Rev. E. R. Eschbach, D. D., of Frederick, Md., preached the dedication sermon.
President Roosevelt occupied one of two bishop's chairs which he presented to the church. He was introduced by the Rev. Mr. Schick and said:
''I shall ask your attention to three lines of the dedication canticle: 'Serve the Lord with gladness; enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully.'
Service and Duty.
"Three better lines could surely not be brought into any dedication service of a church; and it is a happy thing that we should have repeated them this morning. This church is consecrated to the service of the Lord, and we can serve Him by the way in which we serve our fellow men.
"This church is consecrated to service and duty. It was written of old, 'By their fruits ye shall know them,' and we can show the faith that is in us, we can show the sincerity of our devotion, by the fruits we bring forth. The man who is not a tender and considerate husband, a loving and wise father, is not serving the Lord when he goes to church; so with the woman; so with all who come here. Our being in this church, our communion here with one another, our sitting under the pastor and hearing from him the word of God must, if we are sincere, show the effects in our lives outside.
"We of the Reformed churches have a peculiar duty to perform in this great country of ours, a country still in the making, for we have the duty peculiarly incumbent upon us to take care of our brethren who come each year from over the seas to our shores.
"The man going to a new country is torn by the roots from all his old associations, and there is a period of great danger to him in the time before he gets his roots down in the new country, before he brings himself into touch with his fellow in the new land.
Interest in Immigrants.
"For that reason I always take a peculiar interest in the attitude of our churches toward the immigrants who come to these shores. I feel that we should be peculiarly watchful over them, because of our own history, because our fathers came here under like conditions. Now that we have established ourselves let us see to it that we stretch out the hand of help, the hand of brotherhood toward the newcomers, and help them as speedily as possible to shape themselves and to get into such relations that it will be easy for them to walk well in the new life.
"That is one form of duty peculiarly incumbent upon us of these Reformed churches. But we are not to be excused if we selfishly sit down and enjoy gifts that have been given to us and do not try to share them with our poorer fellows, coming from every part of the world who, many of them, stand in such need of the helping hand; who often not only meet too many people anxious to associate with them for their detriment, but too often too few anxious to associate with them for their good.
"I trust that with the consecration of each new church of the Reformed creed in this our country there will be established a fresh center of effort to get at and to help for their good the people that yearly come from overseas to us. No more important work can be done by our people; important to the cause of Christianity; important to the cause of true national life and greatness here in our own land.
"Another thing; let us so far as strength is given us make it evident to those who look on and who are not of us that our faith is not one of words merely; that it finds expression in deeds. One sad, one lamentable phase of human history is that the very loftiest words, implying the loftiest ideas, have been used as cloaks for the commission of dreadful deeds of inequity. We must in our lives, in our efforts, endeavor to further the cause of brotherhood in the human family and we must do it in such a way that the men anxious to find subject for complaint or derision in the churches of the United States, in our church, may not be able to find it by pointing out any contrast between our professions and our lives.
"This church is consecrated here today to duty and to service; to the worship of the Creator, and to an earnest effort on our part so to shape our lives among ourselves and in relation to the outside world that we may feel that we have done our part in bringing a little nearer the day when there shall be on this earth a genuine brotherhood of man."
SAVAGE LYNCHING.
Negro School Teacher Hanged, Burned, Cut With Knives and Beaten With Clubs.
Belleville, Ill., June 8.—The lynching of W. T. Wyatt, the negro school teacher, who shot Superintendent Hertel Saturday night for refusing to renew his teaching certificate, was attended with exhibitions of savagery seldom seen in a civilized country.
The mob hanged Wyatt to a telephone pole in the public square. While his body was jerking in the agonies of death men built a fire at the foot of the pole. The flames flared up and licked at the feet of the victim, but this did not satisfy the mob, and another and larger fire was started. When it had begun burning briskly the negro, still half alive, was cut down, and after being covered with oil he was cast into the fire. Moans of pain were heard from the half dead victim of the mob, and these served further to infuriate his torturers.
They fell upon him with clubs and knives, and cut and beat the burning body almost to pieces, and not until every sign of life had departed did they permit the flames to devour the body. As the fire lighted up the scene the members of the mob stood around the funeral pyre hurling more faggots of wood in the flames. After the body had been reduced to ashes the mob departed.
Hertel was removed to the hospital, where the physicians stated there is no chance for his recovery.
Superintendent Hertel, it is said, refused to renew the certificate until Wyatt should clear his name of certain scandals in which he had been mixed up among his own race.
Angered by the refusal, the negro shot Hertel, and was arrested only after a hard struggle. He was hurried to jail and when Hertel's injuries had been pronounced fatal, a crowd of citizens went to the jail, overpowered the jailor and hanged Wyatt.
Sun Again Visible.
Saratoga, N. Y., June 8.—Sunday, for the first time in several days, the sun was not obscured by smoke and ashes from the forest fires in the Adirondacks. A slight shower fell and the indications point to more rain.
First Rain for 52 Days.
Hoosick Falls, N. Y., June 8.—The drought was broken Sunday after lasting 52 days. Rain began to fall early in the afternoon, lasting long enough to give the farmers some relief and to encourage those who are replanting crops. It has come too late to save the grass. The rain has helped to extinguish the forest fires in this vicinity.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Zionist Movement.
The recent massacre of Jews in Bessarabia gives renewed interest to the Zionist movement, which has in view the reoccupation of Palestine by the Hebrew race, now scattered throughout the world. In the opinion of Israel Zangwill, the novelist, who has gone into the Zionist movement heart and soul, the Bessarabia massacre has given an added impetus to the cause. "It is not necessary," he says, "for the Jews comfortably established in America, but for the great mass of our people. Half of the Jews in the world live in Russia. It is the only permanent solution of the tragic Jewish question."
Briefly stated, the object proposed is a separate state for the Jewish people, and the suggestion has aroused a great deal of enthusiasm in many prominent members of the race. Its chief exponent is Dr. Theodore Herzl, while Max Nordau is another, and Mr. Zangwill is associated with Sir Francis Montefiore in the English branch of the Zionist work.
In December, 1901, a convention was held at Basel, Switzerland, for the purpose of furthering the movement, and the federation which has been formed in its interest now extends to many countries. A recent estimate would indicate also that it had made considerable headway in Russia, since the number of the members of Zionist societies there is put at 100,000.
Already numerous small colonies of Jews have been established in Palestine, and they seem to be doing reasonably well. Certainly there must be some inducement to keep them there, for the growth of the Jewish population during the last twenty-five years has been remarkable. There were, it is calculated, about 14,000 Jews in the country at the beginning of the period, whereas now there are some 60,000. Probably half or nearly half of that number are living in Jerusalem, but many of the immigrants have taken to tilling the soil, and it is claimed that the results of their labors give promise of permanent success. As to the treatment of the Jewish residents in Palestine by the Turkish government it would appear that there has thus far been little cause of complaint. They are certainly much better off than their coreligionists in Russia, where the government seems bent upon the complete extermination of the Jewish race.
THE CITY SUED
For Alleged Damage by Water on Port Watson-st., Cortland—Aggregate $12,000.
E. E. Mellon, attorney for A. J. Barber, Michael Madden, John J. Colgan, Margaret Mourin, F. P. Merchant, and Thomas McMahon, served a summons Friday afternoon on Mayor Chas. F. Brown to answer complaints in regard to alleged damages resulting from high water last summer. The claims aggregate about $12,000. The damage is said to have been caused by the fact that so great an amount of water was carried in the street that the gutters could not carry it off, and that walks, lawns, cellars, etc., were flooded.
A Slight Rainfall.
Sunday marked the fifty-second day since rain had fallen in Cortland, beyond a mere sprinkle on two occasions, neither of which laid the dust. On Sunday afternoon there was quite a little shower and another one came in the night. The total rainfall at both times was not very great, but it did lay the dust and dampened the face of the earth and was decidedly welcome. An encouraging feature of it was that since rain has once begun to come more may follow.
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.
Three Men Speak in Six Churches of the City on Sunday.
Three representatives of the New York Anti-Saloon league spent Sunday in Cortland. Rev. John F. Brant, superintendent of the Buffalo district, spoke at the First Baptist church in the morning and at the Memorial Baptist in the evening. Rev. G. W. Peck, Sunday school superintendent of Rochester district, addressed the First Methodist church in the morning and the Presbyterian church at night, and Rev. H. A. Durfee, D. D., superintendent of the Elmira district, spoke in the Congregational and Homer-ave. churches.
Five congregations greeted the strangers and listened attentively to the latest call for a federation of the Christian and moral forces of the hour against the liquor traffic.
The argument is mainly for such a federating of the friends of law and order in town, county and state that the uttermost strength of the consolidated totality may be brought to bear upon the growing evil of intemperance. The Anti-Saloon league, as its name implies, has but one object, the immediate repression and ultimate suppression of the beverage liquor traffic. It is omnipartisan as to politics and interdenominational in matter of church relations. It has its organization in thirty-nine states and territories and more than 200 men are giving their entire time to the work. Under the plan of league organization, New York state is divided into districts with headquarters offices at Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Elmira, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn and the state headquarters in New York.
The main efforts are directed to a state wide agitation of the question of intemperance that shall be as constant as men and means can prosecute. The sentiment of any community is a cultivable factor and is reflected in the evident conditions of the trade in drunkard making. It controls, as well, the operation of the laws intended to safeguard the public interest. The rum traffic and, its attendant evils, gambling and prostitution, are merely pressing forward to the limit of leash permitted by local public sentiment. The people are supreme and their acquiescence in flagrant violation of law is fairly interpreted as approval of his course, by the law breaker. When the supreme people are ready to stand together upon the main issue, disregarding minor matters, the doom of the destructive business will be sounded.
The overwhelming cost of the liquor trade last year cannot fail to interest the most indifferent—$1,172,565,235--an increase of more than $113,000,000 in one year.
The speakers were present at a citizens' conference held at the close of the day's meetings and steps were taken in the direction of a local organization to carry out league principles. The ministers were appointed a committee to make nominations, each from his own church, for a general committee to carry forward the work.
A committee was also appointed to extend the thanks of the ministers and friends of good order to the mayor and common council for passing an ordinance prohibiting vaudeville entertainments at places where liquor is sold.
Formerly of Truxton, N. Y.
Prof. Eudorus C. Kenney of Baltimore, who is spending the summer in Oakland, favored the students of the Oakland Normal school on last Friday afternoon with a very interesting and instructive talk on "Mathematics," which was highly appreciated by the management and students of the Normal school. The professor's lecture consisted not only in telling, but by illustration practical examples were solved and short cuts demonstrated. Throughout, the lecture was a good, live lesson on the above subject. Prof. Kenney will deliver another lecture on tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at the school house, his subject being "Modern Meteorology."— Oakland, Md., Mountain Democrat.
OPEN AIR CONCERT
By the City Band at the York Hotel Tuesday Evening.
The Cortland City band will give an open air concert on the corner by the York hotel on Tuesday evening. The following will be the program:
Death of Mrs. Waters.
The death of Mrs. Jane Roche Waters occurred at her home, 22 North Greenbush-st., at an early hour yesterday morning of consumption. Mrs. Waters had been ill for some time. The death of her mother, Mrs. Winifred Roche, who was killed by the Lackawanna switch engine on May 25 was a great shock to her and one which doubtless hastened her death. She is survived by two daughters, Lena and Winifred Waters of Cortland, four brothers, M. T. and D. M. Roche of Cortland, John Roche of Oswego and W. J. Roche of Scott, also two sisters, Mrs. Lynch of Cortland, and Mrs. O'Connor of Syracuse.
The funeral will be held from the house, 22 North Greenbush-st. at 8:30 and from St. Mary's church at 8:45 o'clock.
BREVITIES.
—Hay has gone tip to $24 a ton in Syracuse, the highest price touched in years.
—A regular meeting of the A. O. U. W. will be held at Vesta lodge rooms tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.
—The residence of Garry E. Chambers, 23 Tompkins-st., has been connected with the Home telephone exchange. The number is 214-B.
—The new display advertisements today are: G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 5; C. F. Brown, Huyler's candies, page 5; A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8.
—The Cortland County Ministerial association is holding its annual outing today at Little York lake.
—Horace Walker of 74 Owego-st. has preserved a copy of the New York Herald of Saturday, April 15, 1865, containing an account of the assassination of President Lincoln the previous night. The paper is interesting to the student of history both on its own account, and also as a contrast typographically and in size with The Herald of today.
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