PLOT AGAINST DOWIE

Otago Witness, Issue 2603, 3 February 1904, Page 14

PLOT AGAINST DOWIE

Monotolt Is Al»emed By Geeat Pkomoteh. The Lancaster (Wisconsin) Teller for December

10. By this time the newspapazs are nearly all coiuecsmg that the putting of Dcwie's Zion City into tne hr.nds of receivers was a devilish conspiracy to destroy the great industries cf the place. The people who arc doing xhis and. tne newspapers that pretend to have so erect concern for the people they say he makes We Ox, care no moio for that than they would 11 ,' le -^ psOi]le wero monkeys. It is the eood that Dowie is doing, not the bad, they talk about that they want to destroy Dowie for Xhat expedition (the New York Visitation) ar.d its results were also villainously lied rbo-it in nevyspapers. Great efforts weie made \o hnvc the world believe ihsu his mcetir«s ia New York were niter failures, attended by only thmly-seated! audiences. But i\hen Do;ue had a photogiaph taken, nearly half ?g large as this papsr of his meeting in Madison squaie, October 25, showing that groat auditorium holding 15,000 people, packed m every available corner, which will you believe— that photogiaph or the word of his scurrilous enemies? This photogxiph is reproduced m his " Leaves of Healing, of November 21. Last week's issue of the Milwaukee Times gives the following expressive summary of Dowie's enterprises*—-

"' Zion City is in the hands of a receiver, and for a time the plot ngain&t Alexander Dcwio, the greatest piomoter in tho world today, is succeeding. Monopoly is afraid of Alexander Dowie. It has sten him build up a city of 10,000 people m less than three- years ; it^ has seen him invest 1,000,000d0l m a single plant and establish the fiist lace factory ever

established in America; it Las seen this on& man payu-g cm I,soo,o'JOiiol a jear iii vuges, IjGOO ('"iCiJoi a year for stores rrcl feedstuff, and' 3,000,00.^0 [ 3 year for buildup material; it h&a &:2n Zion City reach a va'uat-on. of 25 000,0'JOdol, and it 13 no wonder that monopoly! sees eta n,; or ahead.

"Is ihe Tobacco Tiust fighting- Dowio? Tobocco i^ rot used m Zion.

" Is the TV hi sky Trust fighting Dowie? There are no saloors m Zion.

" Aro the great grafters fighting Dowie? There is no boodlmg m Zion. " Arc the enemies of the municipal ownership fighting Dowie? The finest example of municipal ownership in America is seen in Zior>.

'• Suppose Alexander Dowie doeg owe a fewpaltry dollars for lumber. Ha ia well off and cb;e to pay; v/ny, then, this suspicious has*© to rum him?

'• Why is he rot given r, reasonable time- id malic a settlement ?

" The friends cf nmmcipgl ownership, temperance people, ths people who are opposed to the use of to bv ceo. to the saloon "and the brothel, and every nun who believes m fair play should stand by Dowie iv his battle with, monopoly."

There arc very good Christian people who abuse Dowie. They should speak guardedly. Hl3 haters who are trying to break him up h:ite you and your religion juat as much as they do him and has religion. you do is noli as effective as whit he is oloing, is th 3 reason why they lot you alone.

ILink cf his establishing a, city of 10,000 people where tobacco is not used! "VTou'cl you rot like to have the honour of that deed? And this oity h^.s not a salcon in it- Could yon make such a city? There are no boodlers Euch as are shown to ba in St. Louis, Mil■wunkes, Green Bay, and ofcber cities, Doe 3 that suit you?

Dowie's city is th-e b-sst governed and cleanest cib r , and its people are the happiest. Let them aio.-.e. If you envy them their happiness, their oleaniinc-33, their pure lives, their prosperity, and hpte Doirie for making them so, it is your sin, not theiTs or his. If he has gathered in thousands of people, many of whom were intemperate, pio{ar_e, vulgar, ivnclsan, leading useless lives, snd has restored them to opposite conditions, it will not hurt anybody for" him to call himself Elijah the R-estorer.