should influence legislation to raise prices, they would be dishonest. Either course would be easily possible by legislative manipulations; either would be dishonest and subversive of government.

Now, passing these A B C propositions which nobody thinks of denying, how do they apply to the present situation? Have we a case of inflation or of contraction? Of contraction. Have we a case of rising or of falling prices? Of falling. Have we a case of increased or of decreased purchasing power of the dollar? Of increased., Have we a case of advantage to the creditor or the debtor? The creditor. To what extent? In the average. to just about the percentage in the fall of price of silver bullion.

Average prices have fallen just about fifty per cent. since the demonetization of silver, or since that act began fairly to produce its legitimate consequences. This is simply another way of saying that the gold dollar has appreciated in like ratio. Everything has fallen except gold. It, being the standard, has, of course, risen. Now, let us ask those who so sweepingly charge Western creditors with an attempt at repudiation, Who are the aggressors in this case? Instead of the silver movement being an aggressive effort on the part of debtors to pay fifty-cent dollars, it is a defensive movement on their part to prevent their creditors from making them pay twohundred-cent dollars. Let us ask Dr. van Dyke and others who are solicitous to preserve equity, in what respect is a two-hundred-cent dollar a whit more honest than a fifty-cent dollar? Does any one question that the debtor would be paying double the purchasing power that he borrowed? "Let facts be submitted to a candid world."

Most of the debts, mortgages, and bonds which now hang like a body of death over the newer portions of our country were contracted from ten to twenty years ago, since which time prices have fallen half. If a Nebraska farmer borrowed a thousand dollars twenty years ago, when wheat was worth a hundred cents a bushel, and other things in proportion, he was borrowing a purchasing power, expressed in wheat, of a thousand dollars, Now, if he is compelled to pay the thousand dollars in gold, when wheat is worth only fifty cents a bushel, he is practically paying a purchasing power of two thousand dollars. In general terms, it may be asserted that the Western borrower is compelled, under the gold standard, and the fallen prices which it causes, to pay twice the purchasing power in wheat, corn, wool, horses, labor, all the essential products of his life's work, that he borrowed. Hence, even if the free coinage of silver does result in a permanent fifty-cent silver dollar, and if the debtor pays his gold debts in that depreciated currency, he is, after all, paying back the same quantity of labor and the products of labor that he borrowed. Five hundred dollars in gold or a thousand dollars in silver is worth as much now as a thousand dollars in gold then. If these things be true, what becomes of the charge of repudiation so flippantly hurled against the hard-working pioneers of civilization in our great West?

Who is dishonest, the debtor who is trying to pay his debt in a form that commands the same purchasing power for himself and the creditor, or the creditor who seeks to take advantage of circumstances by which he can force payment in a form, even though it be nominally the same, in reality twice the burden to the debtor and twice the advantage to himself? Does it not rather appear that the sentiment which several of your correspondents express is making its outcry, not so much because it is in danger of losing half of its Western investments, as that it is afraid it will not succeed in doubling their real value through an artificial fall of prices? FAIR PLAY.

Chapel Cars

To the Editors of The Outlook:

Having seen in your paper several appreciative notices of the work being done by chapel cars under the auspices of the Baptist Publication Society, I thought it might be of interest to your readers to know the real facts in the case. Instead of being used to reach communities where the Gospel is not preached, so far as my observation goes, the chapel cars are used almost wholly as a means of sectarian propaganda in towns where there are already plenty of churches. S is a railroad town where there were Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, and Roman Catholic churches. Both the Protestant churches, were small, one having less than fifty members. The chapel car comes, and another small church was started. Within a month a Congregational church of less than ten members was organized in a town of 150 people. By means of outside funds a small building is being erected. The chapel car is at work there. The only possible result is that a few may be prevented from joining what in many respects is a union enterprise. The car is then going to a town of seven thousand people, which has fourteen churches, to help in some mission work on the outskirts of the city. It has stopped at this city weeks at a time, within two blocks of the Baptist church, the evangelist helping in special meetings in

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the Baptist church, using the car as a lodging-place. This car once came to a town of 1,100 people, with five Protestant churches and, to my personal knowledge, not a single Baptist family, and held meetings The evangelist, a man who, I am glad to say, has been dropped from the work, reported in the denominational paper fifty conversions. The people in the place did not know of one. These are instances that I can vouch for as occurring within a radius of fifty miles. I have heard of others similar.

In justice to the excellent Baptist brethren, it is right to say that I have known of one Baptist Home Missionary Superintendent who did not believe in this kind of work, as it tended to multiply more weak churches than can be properly cared for.

In the interest of true religion and of church unity, ought not such facts to be known?

themselves. There are none of these defects about Colorado College. It is the oldest institution of its. kind in the State. It is broadly, wisely, and soundly administered. Its trustees are the leading business. and professional men of the community. Its Faculty are men of high scholarship and earnest devotion Its course of study is thorough and progressive. Its students are sturdy, industrious young men and women, representing a wide territory. The College stands for the highest ideals of religious character, intellectual training, and public service.

If its present usefulness is to be maintained, if its unequaled opportunities are to be improved, if it is to become the most powerful force for intelligent Christian character between Chicago and San Francisco, as it promises to be, the securing of the remaining sixty thousand dollars necessary to complete the Pearsons fund of two hundred thousand dollars before next January is an absolute necessity. I do not hesitate to commend this cause as the most solid, the most urgent, the most hopeful object to which persons intent on doing great and perma nent good at this present moment can consecrate their gifts. The College has influential and wealthy friends in Colorado; but the business situation is such as to render it next to impossible for them to withdraw money from their enterprises at the present time. A large part of this fund must come from the East now. Once on its feet, the College is sure to have abundant support from its own locality, as soon as business conditions here improve.

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About People

-Queen Victoria's chaplain-in-ordinary, the Rev. A. Robins, lately preached his five thousandth sermon at Windsor.

-Henri Durant, the founder of the Red Cross movement, is, it is reported, in a Swiss hospital, sick and in poverty.

-Frau Cosima Wagner has received from the King of Wurtemburg the gold medal of the Order of the Crown to mark the twentieth anniversary of the production of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at Bayreuth.

-The Queen of Roumania is said to be the only living author who has written, opera librettos in four languages-French, German, Swedish, and Roumanian. She has just finished an opera libretto in French, founded on a Turkish subject, for M. Jules Massenet.

-Dr. James M. Aldrich, who has just died in Fall River, Mass., at the age of seventy-nine, was prominent in the anti-slavery movement before the war. He severed his connection with the Society of Friends because they refused to open their meeting-houses for antislavery meetings.

-The handwriting of the late Rev. Dr. A. J. Gordon was singularly difficult to decipher. In the biography by his son the story is told of his answering some correspondent who wanted to know his views on some eschatological question. He wrote briefly, expressing his regret that he had no time to amplify. Some months later he received another letter saying: "It is certainly fortunate for me that your time was. so limited. I have already spent nine weeks in attempting to decipher the handwriting of your note, and am not nearly done yet."

-The Boston "Transcript" says that this story of Daniel Webster has never before appeared in print: "He was once sued by his meat man. The man did not call upon Webster afterward to trade with him. Webster met him in the course of a few days and asked him why he didn't call. 'Because,' said the man, 'I supposed that you would be offended and wouldn't trade with me any more.' To which Webster replied: 'Oh, sue me as many times as you like, but, for Heaven's sake, don't starve me to death!" "

-A bust of Thomas Amold, of Rugby, has been placed in Westminster Abbey. It is opposite that of Matthew Arnold, who was thus honored before his father, and is near the busts of Wordsworth, Keble, Maurice, and Fawcett. The Dean of Westminster said, in unveiling the bust, that they were trying to honor the memory of the great teacher to whose teaching they owed a debt which they could not overestimate. They were paying honor to the memory of the great Christian reformer of the whole life of English public

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