at
least
two
public
concerts
each
month.
;
W. S. ABRAMSON,
Ist Member for Christiansted
Town.
Christiansted,
August,
11th 1919.
Ist
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Abramson)
introduced
the
Money
Bill
and
said,
Mr.
Chairman.
[
hope
this
Money 3ill will meet with the approval of
Members
of the Council, and
as it is for a
good
canse
[ hope
members
will be will-
Ing to pass
it today.
Ath Appcinted
Member
[Blackwood]
remarked:
Mr. Chairman.
It gives me
pieasure
to
recommend
this
bill
to the
favorable
eonsideration
of
the
Council.
A great
deal
of
native
talent
has
been
exhibited in this island
and should be
ap-
preciated.
To me
it
is
wonderful
that
a population
as small
as
ours
could
pro-
diice musicai
ralent
enough
to man
three
or four bands.
I recommend
rhe
Mooy
Bl to the favorable
consideration
of the
Council.
The
Secretary
|Canegata]
again
read
the
letier
received
from
the
Irdustrial
#rass
Band.
2nd
Liember
for
Christiansted
Town
[ Canegcta]
vemarkeda:
Mr.
Chairman.
Ax far
as
|
understand
the
Industrial
IPrass
Band
was
in
reeceipt
of
an
allow-
ance
of ten.dollars
per men.h
which
was
civen
LyGovernor
Helweg
Larsen,
but
thkat
nas
been
stopped.
1
think
under
mresent
cirevmstances
the
best
plan to
cdopt
is
to
adopt
the
Additional
Money
Bill whizh
is
beiore
us
today
and
then
sck
Governinent
for ten
dollars
monthly
fer the industrial
Brass
Band.
1
think
this
arrang:men:
will
meet
with
the
approva:
of the
band.
The
Chairman
remarked:
The
Centu-
ry Brass
Band
of Frederiksted
and
the
Native
DBrass
Rand of Christiansied
have
been
speeified
in the bill and
there
could
be
no
help
givea
the
Industrial
Brass
Band under
this bill if it is passed.
No
one
regnested
the
word
further,
the Chairman
closed Ist Discussion.
With
Goverrment
and
the
Council’s
consent
2nd Discassion
was opened.
Ist.
Member
ior
Christiansted
Town
(Abramson)
would
like
to
know if un-
‘der 2nd Discussion
an amendment
to the
bill
can
he
brought
in
so
as tn include
the Industrial
Brass
Band?
The Chairman
answered
yes,
but the
amendmeht
must
be
forwarded
in writ
ing.It was
then proposed
by 2nd.
Member
for Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
and
carried
that
a
recess
of
5
minutes
be
taken
to consider
the amendment.
The Council reassembled
after a recess
of five minuces
and
the
Chairman
laid
bafore members
an ammendment
to the
bill handed
i1 by Is.. Member
for Chris-
tiansted
Town
(Abramson).
The Amendment
reads:
A JENDMENT
to
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
10
R
b RUDIX
ANVIIS
Second
Session
1919-1920.
That to Council Bill No.
10
1919-
1920 be added:
8
In
aid
to
Industrial
Brass
o
..
e
W. S. ABRAMSON,
Ist Me»iber for Christionsted
Country District.
The Chairman
remarked:
The
Amend-
ment
is now before
you for discussion.
sth. Aspointed
Member
(Lunney)
re-
rmarked:
Mr. Chairman,
The
Industrial
Brass
Band
is ene of our oldest
band
the
young
men have
iabored
hard
to keep
it
up and it would
be
a pity
to let their
en-
ergy fall; they have given
us musiec
when
we
had
no other
musical
band
1cer-
tainly recommrend
the
imove made
in be-
half of the Industrial
Brass
Band.
The
Chairman
then
put
to
the
vote
whether
the amendment
should
be
furth-
ered.
It was unanimously
carried.
It weas
then
put
to the vote
and
earried
that
the
woré
"' This”
on last
line
of the
bill be
struck
our and the word
‘These”’
substituteqd
therefor,
and
the word ''is”’
be struck
out and
the
word
‘‘are’’ sub-
stituted.
A
No
one
requested
the
word
further,
the Chrirman
closed
2nd.
Discuscion
and
the Secretary
anegata)
read
‘he Mon-
ey bitl and the
Chkairman
put
same
to the
Nalit
t-
was unanimously
adopted.
1k
meeting
einsed
at 4p.
m.
’
vicnday
beine
Inior
pay
and
a legal
holiday,
ther.
wi'l
be
no
issue
of this
paper.
For the
infermation
of those
interest-
ed in the
mails,
we
have
been
advised
that
the
Virginia
had
not
arrived
in St.
Thomas
up to yesterday
evenin-
nor
in
Frederiksted
up to 8 thisa.
m.
Possibly
sae
had
tv wait
lin
San
Juan
on
the
mails
from the
States
and
in
that
cose
will
not be
here
before
tomorrow
pro-
bably.
Open
Letter
to Mr.
J.
R.
7‘
Mayhew:-
Sir:
Your publicéation
in today’s '‘Avis’’
of the
libelous
tract
‘‘fcr the
benefit of
the
community
at
large
who
may
be
misinformed by my
Open Letter
{o you’’
serves
as
an
indictment
of Roman
Ca-
tholic
Priests
and
The Romar
Catholic
Church.
You
did
not
write
that
tract.
The
man who
did write
it did
not
give
his
name.
[
suppose
he
was
ashamed
to
do so.
:
The
publishing
house
is
mention-
ed.
But
publishing
houses
pioverbi-
ally
shirk
responsibility
for
subject
matter
treated
in
books,
magazines,
tracts
and
pamphlets.
Thev argue
they
simply do
the material
part,
namely
the
printing.
Isay
vou did
not
write
that
tract,
but
evidently
it
embodies
your
sentiments,
since
you
are
its
enthusias-
tic
distributer.
Nowlam
not
dealing
with
publishing
houses;
I
am
dealing
with
one
nearer
home;
T
am
dealing
with you.
Yon people make
statements
and
then
look around
for Texts
of Seripture
with
vhich
to
square
them.
I
ean
prove
anvthing
from
Seripture
if
1
jugele
texts
the
way you do.
[ ean
prove
from
Scriptural
texts
that
vou
should
com-
mit
sdleide.
' Then
said
Jesis
unto
him'’.
(Judas)
''That
thoy
doest
do
quickly.
John XIII. 27.
And Judas
cast
down the
pieces
of
silver in the
temp'y
and
departed
and
went
and
hange
£
himselt.
Matt,
XXVII
55
Qo
and
do
likewise.
Luc
X. 37:
And the
best
part
of the so-called
-
gument
is
that
it
is
taken
irom
your
own
Bible and
not
Irom
the
Douay-tho
Authentic
Catholic translatoin,
Now,
Mr.
Mayrew,
I
lave
neither
time
nor inelinalion
#or long drawn
out
controversies.
Very
oftenin
sueh
con-
fr versies
there
is
much
heat
and
no
light.
You sign yourself “John R.
May-
hew Supt.
Bible Home
and
Forejon
Mis-
sionary
Soziety.””
You must
be
one
of
big men
in that society.
Wel] then
come
with
me to
some platform and there
state
I.
The Doctrines
of the
Catholiec
Church
you are opposed
to.
;
11.
Quote
from
some
s:andard
authority
or reputable
Catholie Theologian
proving
that
the
Catholic
Chureh
actually
does
teach
what you maintain
she
teaches.
111.
Make your attack
on the
specific
Ca-
tholie
doctrines
sustaining
your
attack
with what
yvou call forceful argument.
Os
course,
you
must
not
forget
that
your
statements
are
worth
no
more
than
‘our
auguments
and
your
opinions
no
more
than
your
reasons.
IV. Then keep before your mind
the
old
axiom
of
logic:
Quod
gratis
asseritur
gratis ncgatur.
‘“‘That
means
if
you
make
a statement
without
a proof, I deny
it
without
a proof.
The burden
of proof
is
on you.
To illustrate:
**You call
me
g
thief.
I
say
I
am
not a thief,
lam
not
to prove that
lam
not
a thief,
but
you
are
to prove that lam.”’
i
V. Then
lam
ready
with
my
rebuttai.
You screen
yourself behind
what
they
do in the States.
As much
as [
love the
Uniced
States
[ am
more
concerned
just
now with what
is going
on in Christian-
sted.
You
say
you
are
justified
in
distributing
these
contemptible
tracts.
Then I am justified in following
you
up.
What
is
more
I
am
not
only justified
but
lam
going
to
do if.
I
am
going
to get
you in
clos
quarters,
then
there
will be
an illastration of one of Nature’s
fundamental
laws
‘‘The
Survival
of
The Fittest.”
Yours to a finish,
JOSEPH
W. DAILY.