The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894, December 07, 1893, Page 4, Image 4
THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. DECEMBER 7 1893 TBS MGE-liEPEMI. CMKUdtiOB0lU Iters AlliiBcesaebnsU Independent p0xu9ku etut thtmdat bt Thi Alliance Publishing Co. mo M 8 tree t, Lincoln, Neb. aoaaa or ptaaoreaa. j w. -ot.rB. Pnt. H. 8. Bowim, Sec'y. J. H. AFFM, E. a Bswica, . Nblbom. SUBSOBIFTIOM Ort DOLLA PM YlA a-c. niiD Riuoa Iditor 7--.. t u.i.ritt Busineee Manager, j.Thtir Advertising M'ngr. If Uj mn moat fall (or me to rlae, Then eeek I not to climb. Another'! pain I choose not for my good. A golden chain, A rob of honor, la too good a prize To tempt my hasty band to do a wrong Unto a fellow man. ThU life hath woe Sufficient, wrought by man's saunlc foe; And who that hath a heart would dare prolong Or add a sorrow to a stricken s ul That seeks a healing balm to make It whole f My besom owns the brotherhood of man. N. L P. A. Pwblleher Anaoannementt The subscription price of (he AixuKoa-H- PSrHDUI is VI. w per year, WTsrmui in buj eaooe. Paper will I i be promptly discontinued aaeaplratlonof time paid for Dales wv re- Hln nrdora to enatlaua. AoavfraJn sollcltls subscriptions should be Terr earelul that all names are correctly palled and proper ppstotnee glren. Blanks far Mtnrn aubscrlotlona. an., tmn ha had on atiDllcatiea to this efflce, return toioiuvwi always sign year name. No matter bow flan yon write as do not neglect this Import ant matter. Bvery week we receive letters vrlth Inoompleto address or without signa tures and It Is sometime difficult to locate aesa. Cvjavoi or APDBMV. Subscribers f'ahtag o chance their postofflce address must always five their former as well as their present ed Ireas when change wUl be promptly made. Address all letters and make all remittances arable to TUK AJUUA140E PUB. CO. , Lincoln, Neb, I swear that the builder no longer To me shall be less than tbs plan; enceforward be guerdon and glory And life for the average man. B aii um CUai. Five hundred and seenfy-nloe peo pie own more than bja of Indianapolis Eleven nw Populist members the VirglaltTieglglature thla winter. In r TqE figures heretofore published by ,us, informing out readers thatequa an ffrage carried in Colorado by 3,000 majority, were less than the truth. The Ohe huwdbed thousand people were evicted from New York City tenements last year, because they could not ret money to pay rent. And one man in the tame city has lust completed private residence for his family at a oostof 19,000,000. ' . . The banquet given by the Nebraska Manufacturer! and Consumers League at the Lincoln Hotel last Friday even ing? was a most enjoyable affair. The viands were of the finest, and the com pany llttened to not a little post-prandlal wisdom, mixed with wit, the speeches all showing the good of helping one another and oneself at the same time, by patronizing home industry. Pkffer has telegrphed to the Topeka Advocate tbat he does not favor a silver party and that he endorses the Advo cate's comments, which we reprinted J7' y last week. The Associated Press report IA of a Kansas City new party meeting, attended by Jerry Simpson and other Populist leaders, has been found to be a lake. Taubeneck, S'mpaen and other, reportel to favor a new party, have && dared themselves against it Uut Wrlghtman, the unknown, has called a St. Louis meeting to organize a silver, one idea party, we can spare every Populist who wants to join it, and never miai them. Sbvbmty-ONE jallllons of dollars in the New lork banks and millions of people unemplot ed and starving, wait ing for somebody who has credit and business confidence enough to bind themtelves to pay usury tor it! No work without usury trlbu'e. It is no wonder the money power through all its organs denounces as da. serous and ridicules na financial craiinoss the great Populist demand that the government . ahall henceforth provide ail nowlful money and loan ttdirectly to the people. This d man J put the ax at the toot of plutec atle tyraeny. Keep It there, brethren, and drive It to the helve with your ballot blows. To great cry agaio.t ill. tUcryof mortal Sbylock fear, The e (Tort to draw us away from thla work to foul with the tit of la Just'ee, here nl there, must not sue eed " 1 11 m Tm vltteea weeks war between the striking coed miner tf England and t tJr vat ploy ere fcal to W vhded by toverawsetnudlaUoe. The strike wae ffacilag the whole elrclenr trade, the ble range of busts), t jai te e wars m thla, e4 worse, with v ieooe add!, aWhrgtaU4 labor end capital are brief Ug on. It U a d.awa WlUe ltee lb, fJef el liberty aadtke U.S"y iatrnv'he4 force of erg aalsee re4. The f rvat eorvra tlM have 4 wrote t erush Ue labor orgaalzatloiJ of tbU country, end bare begun the effort in the Lehigh Valley E. tt. war. The outcome of tbat strike U being watched with Intense ilntereet and anxiety by the organieed workers if the country. If the rail road men, better organized aod bet'er paid, can be crushed into slavery by bir- ngjthe tarring; slave of capital, bow ean other !trades successfully contend against in jostle? If (be workers only were Intelligent enough to unite at the ballot box, they would accempllsh something. DEWED THE EIGHT TO WORK AHD LIVE- TnorsANDS of men are idle in the fllfferentcltiev of Texas. Crowds of idle white men are re ported at San Diego, California. FOUR hundred miners are seeking employment in the Black Hills in vain, The miners of Bevier, Mo., are strik Incr avalnst a 20 oer cent reduction in o wages. The miners of Springfield, III., are out on a strike arainst a reduction of wages. Among batters alone ia Orange N. J. 8.000 are unemDloved. And winter is upon them. n Fully 1.000 Idle men are unable to iret work in Helena, Montana. The winter promises much distress. About 1.000 idle men. residents of Leadvllle, Colorado, have a gloomy prespeot and a hard winter to face. The Santa Fe Railroad has closed all its shops at Gilveston, Texas, throwing 800 workers out of employment. Hundreds of men are out of work at Brewton, Ala. The highest wages paid are 76 and 80 cents a day, and business is as a stand still. (wan 1,800 persons are eut of employ men Win BlddeforMAi&e. The York CottoFactory at that place has been shut doTjn eight weeks. A strike is In progress against a ten per font, reduction in wages in the on at Louisville, Ky and over the line of the L. & N. road. Therb are hundreds of idle men in Aspen, Col., and vicinity. Much suffer incr Is being endured by them and the outlook is very discouraging. It is stated on the authority of the well known statistician, Lorlnlilodgett, that of the 00,000 textile worker in this country 70,000 are out of work. Two thousand employes of the .Etna Standard Iron and Steel Company at Martins Perry, W.'Va , are turned out of employment and the mines shut down. Mrs Ledickv, aged 67, and her daughter, Fannie Ledecky, aged 35, committed suicide in New York City, Nov. 22nd, because they were in want and could not get work. Buffalo, N. Y.f it is reported, will spend 1257,000 to provide woik for the unemployed. Why can't all the cities tbat are dealing out a up to the starv ing use the same sense? Miners and mine laborers after seven weeks eaforoed idleness have been com pelled, at Vanoouver Island, B. G. to acoept a 20 per cent, reduotion In wages which are now at sturvation point. Thousands of the unemployed have crewded into Los Angeles, California, in the vain hope of finding work. They are coming in to that city in armies of from 103 to 250. Workers are warned to s' ay away. Wages of the miners and mine labor ers at Mineville, Essex county, New York, have been cut ten oer cent. A few of the mines are running half time, thereat are closed down. Many idle men, and much suffering must be looked for. A CUT of ten per cent, has been made in the wages of 1,200 employers of the Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown, Pa. They have been working on half time for several months. Uninterupt ed work is now promised them till spring. Tns Carnegie Steel Company at Home' stead, Pa., has notified employes tbat their wagei would be reduced (from I1.40) to fl 20 a day. The Carnegie Company's nail mill, employing 2 "5 hands, has shut down for an Indefinite time. Twr.nty riva bat factories, .a Dan- i bury Count cilvut have closed since the goldbugi won their vio'O' jinCoogrrM, The oompaoU began, to employ non union men, probably to load to trouble, snd lo have an exvue to close their mill. It has thrown 3,000 men out f work. AT the faiuou or lntamous lirur d'Alene, miner and laborers to the number of huiHtrml are eut of employ ment Only two or the mines are work ing at present and tioe ate llk.ly any time t shut down. Hundreds of suen asd their faintlle will U this district be brought fao to f e 1th, start a Un daring the winter suae the. The mining district of NrwooaK Tna., it ivporled crowdod with miner who cannot get work enough to buy rora meal an4 meat buy ey fro u Kentucky an4 Tenneiee, Is the or4, "Uoih place are bed for taler r eat hhorr. Duel sett i de.aorli 1, and starvation ur the ' wviker m the face. The n later aoa will ta aeethe dlstma, IS0W ASD WORSHIP TOUR RULERS. From the last Journal of tbr Knight of tabcr and other sources we have gUaned for this issue some of the gloomy and heart-rending evidence re gal ding the unemployed poor of t' e fac tory villages, mining districts and smaller cities of the country. And from the news columns of the November 28 New York Tribune we hav gathered for our readers other f ac s regarding the unmploytd rich. The sight of, the 27th ult, wa-tbe opening of the seaon at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the city which contains 1,103 millionaire, and over a million and a half of homeless, landless teut ment dwellers. Under the heading, "Brilliant Cos tume la the Boxes Magnificent Gowss and Dazzling Jewels The Well-Koowo People Who Were There" the g eat daily devotes large space to a descrip tion ef the men and women and clothes, who with their kind constitute "society." We quote therefrom: 'I he boxes were filled with the repre sentative men and wo of en of society, the latter In the richest and most mag niricent gowns seen here since laxt winter. The display of jewels was daz zling. It was after nine o'clock before all of the boxes were occupied. John Jacob Aster's box was occupied by Mrs. Edward Willing and her daughter, Miss Willing. Barton Willing and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Tiffany Mrs. Willing as in a rich gown of ivorv white satin, Vimmed with silver ao-lA point lace ana otter tur. naiss wii'ieg wore a gowu of pa e pink satin coint d wun silver Drocae, wniie...ji'n, Prrrv Tiffany was attired in Balmon corded silk, trimmed wi&'band of maroon velvet. She 50N a crown formed of dlamoi d eilrs.a necklace f solltairedia monds.fahd many beautiful diamond orpaihent on ber corsage. tienetai and Mrn. llovd RrvRA. with E4ward Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. aipant), and Wortniogtou Whltehouse. were1 in the adjoining box. Mrs. Bryce looked exceedingly handsome in airown of wtiite sa in and point lace, a diamond nesKiace and several diamond ornaments in hercoiffur: Mrs. Sloane woreairown oi aeep red moire ana wnue lace and a - Jl a - a m . tiara of diamonds. Mr. and Mrs. William Douglas Sloane and Mr. and Mrs. H. McKay Twombly oocuDled their box with Ml Kmllv Vanderbilt Sloane, who is to make ber formal entry into society on Saturday of this week. Mrs. Sloane wa in a blue satin brocade and wore many magnlfi cent diamond ornaments iuoluding a necklace of solitaires. Mrs. Twombly wore a gewn of maave and white bro cade and white lace, and Mies Sloane was in a simply made gown of rose-pink 8u k ano wmte ice. Mr. and Mrs. Elhrldge T. Gerry's box wag occupied Dy Mr nd Mis (Jtfdun Mills, and the letter's cousin. MlssHovt. who wore a gown of deep pink Uti aud wniteiace, wnue Mrs Mills wore gown of pale mauve sa;ln. veiled with chiffon of a deeper shade and trimmed with white lace. She wore a tiara of of diamond and several diamond orua menu in ber cortage. , wir. ano Mrs. j. nernont Morcan occupied their box. Mrs. Morgan wore a superb gown of white and rose satin brocade, a diamond necklace and a btoud oi diamond stars in her hair. With Mr, and Mrs. Morgan were two of their daughters One was attired in blue and silver, and the other in a rioh gown of white satin and point de Yenice lace D. O. Mills, wh sat in his b x, had as bis guests Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Rid. Mr. and Mrs Hohert Goelet ocouuied thdirbox. Mrs. Goelet was attired in white satin, ai d wore a larsre tiara of diamonds. Mrs Paran Stevens, who has leased the box belonging to William K. Van- derblit, did not arrive until 10:30o'c1ock. tier guests, Mr. and Mrs I. Townaend Burden, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Albert btevens and Char .68 Von Hoffman, were on hand early in the evening. Mrs. Stevens wore a striking gown of pink silk, combined with black velvet. Mrs. Burden was attired in a gown if white satin, made with a bodice of bright blue chiffon spangled with silver, and large punea sieeves, made oi the blue chiffon. She also wore a necklace of solitaires and an aigrette of diamonds. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Dyer, jr., the latter in a rich gown of white satin profusely trimmed with black lace and pearls, and a tiara of diamonds, had as their guests the pretty Miss Blodgen of Baltimore, who was mi white a'in and chiffon; Mr. and Mrs. William Burden, Alphonso de Navarro, Harry Lehr and Fredrick Youngs, of Albany. Mrs. Bur den was attired in a rich gown of white satin brocade, the left side of the cor sage being trimmed with garlands of red roses. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clews, with their daughter, Mit-s Elaie Clews, occu pied their box., Mrs. Ciews wore a dress of pale blue and white satin, embellish ed with point lace, and a number of diamond stars In ber hair. Miss Clews wore a simple gown of pnk silk, veiled wl'h white chiffon. John W. Mackay bad a hi guest in bis box, which it in the first tier, Mrs. George W, Kldd, who wore a gown of turquoise blue satin, trimmed with Venetian lace; Mis Gaorette Kldd. in white satin and point applique lace; Miss Edi'h Hoadley, in black tulle. ilotud with silver, and Mre. lU-kin-, who wore a gown of mauve satin and white lao. Mr. and Mr. Calvin S. Brlce, the latter in a rich giwn of plueh ivd velvet aad eailn trtmiurd with fur, had a thi ir guesU Mia Itoleu Urlee, In whl o silk; Mis K I trie, In white satin and rooe-DK'urcd brocade; S -wrt 8 Brlce and Truxtna H ale, ex-Mlulster to IV ml William C. Whitney, with hi brother-in law, Colonel Payne, enjojtd the opera and the brilliant eoetie la the auditorium from one of the parltr.e U)t. Mr. and Mr. Frederick II. Benedict mmi'led a hoi ia the first live. Mre iWftvUUti wore a roa of lp roe e lortd sella and aoorocetof lawomt Their gufata were Mr. and Mr ttjia- cn Wood, Mtikndtvtand lKF'rei MankM. Mr. and Mr Hermann Oelrleh a 4 astnolr futi M itU aad Mr, and Mr Vtrtlo, of Ha Kraoloo, Mi Oelrltib wa la a white Ho, wail her liter, Mle fair, wore a uperb gown of plot aetia merierei ia gold. W have p t copy farther the dree deeerlptlea ad pervoaa) naatioa 1 of 208 other notables present (notablv rich), whom TheTribuoe described and caned to please their vanity. But what we have here printed will give eur readers a glimpse of the glory and gaie'y of upper-tendom. The fancy of tlj reader wiil add to what we have given much of the rest "music's vol uptuous well;" the mild, perfumed air: the effect of grand architecture and its artistic decorations; the flashing lights and j wels; the faces of the assembled thousands, and human forma baif-bll-dea, half-revealed; the bewildering b auty of changing scenes, and the vocal and drama Jc talent of the playing artist. The rich are pursuing pleasure, the poor are pursuiog jobs. The non work log rich live in palaces, the over worked poor live in hovels and crowded, disease-breeding tenements. The work of the rich Is to invest, the work el the poor is to produce. The part of the rich is to command, the part of the poor is to serve, or starve. And all this rel glous and economic priests declare to be the natural, necessary order. It is according to established law, the law of the god of this world, whom all in the market places worship. Notlcg, .Uuthla list of New York "society peopfe:i,uU' Standard Oil msgnjites. ex secretary WftV.C. Whlt- nMrvfcnd his brother-in-law, Col.??yneJ 'faitney Is the man who bad controf of the Cleveland delegations in the Chicago convention, and backed by the other millionaires of the country he set Grover over us to cut off our money supply and rule for Wall Street. Notice also the several times millionaire, Ca via S. Brioe, late chairman of the Democratic national committee, a fit leader of plutocra lo "D mocrary Whitelaw Held, the uatlonal Republican leader, was also numbered with this company of royal beneficiaries, the people who are supported by net profit, rent and Interest tribute. J. Plerpont Morgan is of the firm of D-exe), Morgan & Co., brokers, who engineered the Reading R. R. combination a year ago last February, wbioh enabled them to raise the prlee of coal to all consumers and to so make 18,000,000 in one day sales of Reading stock. Crowns, tiaras, coronets, are the nat ural ornaments and insignia of this ruling claws. FAOTS WHIOH EXPOSE FAL8EHU0DS Do you remember that five years ago the Republican party assured us all if their representatives were returned to power the American producers would be protected by the tariff? The higher tariff, which they gave us In the Mc Kinlej bill, was to be a sure cure for all social Ills, because it was guaranteed to provide work for all at high wages, and procure high prices for everything And do you remember that four years later the people got so tired of Hepubli can prosperity that they sighed for change? We are not saying that the Dem cratlo party didn't also fool the people with false hopes; but they knew it to be a fact that wages and prioea coatinu ed to fall under the McKlnley tariff, and that the unemployed contingent was not absorbed. Do you remember also that both old parties declared again last year that the tariff was the great and only issue? and that within four months after hU inau guration the Democratic President, be- o luse ot falling prices and lack of pur chasers and unemptied markets and business failures, called Congress in special session to To reduoe the robber tariff, of course and give us, with freer trade, a wider market for our goods, a chance lo re lieve ourselves of an overproduction of wealth. Well, no; not exactly. The president had, with the help of Wall street, theught of another way to prevent over production and reduce our wealth; and his decree was that congress should cut "ff the supply of money. And the Re publican congressmen turned in with great alacrity and helped pass the measure, which both parties agreed would certainly restore contidenee and cause capital to flow freely through the channels of trade, and make things hum. Bufore the news could flash over the wires that the silver money obstacle to prosperity was removed the parties be gan quarrell g which should hare the credit cf the job. But, somehow, prices kept going down after the "confidence" measure was paaeed, and those In pressing need oouldn't borrow, and those able to pay would n t borrow, and the buln is para lytts ha Inoreatt-d, and the &rmy of uo employee i ueing recruited every dy by huudred and thouanU. Ye, lb leader of both old partie ba t lied in the service ot Wall street, and robbed and betrayed u. And now again It I "ail on aot oenttif the tariff. " AcordiBg to the lU'puU leans It I fear of tree trade; according to the Democrats It I thtt actual monster of Injuet'oe, the MeKlutey bill. Hut every voter who dors hi on thinking can that It I ther, UrnWr both lUputl on aid iVnv tratlo rule prlct have Wea fall ipg for teeoty year The McKtaUy tariff wat powertee to tfYnt It, km) the eloelni; ff the mint against Ur ha M4i the bed wetter worse. Ntll-vr ttsn lowerlag th arlf by the w bill raise prion. What w otui have I aa end of money atax. and money at call without uaary. THE XEETI5G3 AT HASTI803- We call attention to the call found elsewbert In this Issue of the annual meeting of the Farmers Alliance of the state, also to the call of the People's party state executive committee for a State Conference of Nebraska Populist, and to a meeting (called by the secre tary) of the Nebraska Icdependent Press Association all three meetings to be held in Hastings the first week in Jan uary. The importance of this comin to jreth rof oue people for general onsulta tin, to discuss the political sit uation by counties, and 'o formulate plans for or ganized, aggressive, educational work In every portion of the state, cannot be measured It will be an experienced body of men who will meet for counsel, and what they plan will be performed. All Populists who can possibly attend the Conference should lay their plans to go. Those who cannot go, but who have what they believe valuable ideal and suggestions to nuke, are invited to boil down their advice and send it to The ALLIANCE-lNDiPEKDENT for publica tion. THE CAUSE OF UNWILLING PAU- FERISM -, The metropolitan daily papers have been suppressing the facts respecting t'te numbers unemployed and the wholly SesTrt&lS podltion of very, very many In the citieSS9can pod no work. They think it will not answer to have the light fall on the lower stratum of society, the submerged, most miserable sinking class. Disturbing reformers with great hearts would be sure tomul lnlH l II L I m . . wie wuoie oreaoini truth were published. Unselfish thinkers every wnere would attack the problem of unwilling pauperism, and go to publish ing the causes of it; and the ruling classes would then have a great fight on their bands. we nave, however, three or four daily papers in the second or third class cities who print the truth, and The Flying Post of Newark, N. J., is one of them. From its Nov, 25th issue we learn that a rescue mission to feed women and children in that city has "for a long timo past been supplying nearly four hundred destitute men and women with food weekly. At the same time the roof of the Mission house is shelter lng from one hundred to one hundred and fifty men nightly. These are most ly tramps and are made to saw wood for their board and lodging. The cold weather makes it doubly hard for all thess unfortutaNs" Bread and . up tickets are distributed, as far as they can be made to reach among the unem ployed, keeping thorn fiom starvation aid worse humiliation and desperation. In all the cities the condition of the unemployed poor is most dreadful to think of. But all this army of unem ployed is a necessary part of the capi talistic system: a class of drones on top, an idle class at bottom; fewer ebs by far than there are men seeking them, and those at work overworked because of the unemployed ready to take their places, and always underpaid for the same reason. Periods of business de pression and enforced idleness eat up the scanty savings of the poor, and force them to accept work at the lowest living wages, which increases the mar gin of profit for capital. The men with capital will not allow the multitudes to work except on terms of commercial oppression, net profit to capital, and corresponding loss of product by the pro ducers. The capitalistic system of pro duction and distribution is based on monopoly, and conducted by insatiable greed. GUR PARTY MUST PRESS THE BE FOR if In the December Forum is an article ef great weight and timeliness, entitled "Are fresidential Appointments for Sale?", by William D. Foulke, Presi dent of the Indiana Civil Service Re form League and of the American Pro portional Representation League. The article is caned forth by the notorious purchase Dy the millionaire Van Alen of his appointment as American Minister to Italy. He considered it a good bar gain at fuO.000, which he advanced to help elect fjieveiand. And as he ad vaocd It to Whitney it was, likely, used to nominate Cloveland, so placing him under a mulHIplied spalls obligation Mr. Fuulke makes a fair analysis of thla much discussed act of Cleveland and also of the like act of President Harrison in rewarding Wanamaker for collecting campaign fued, and warn the Ameilcan people against, allowing meney to purvbaee ofuce aad honor ao piece ia toe gut of the govern ment It will ruin the public service, tlWe the suffrage, destroy io It valu a well a it acrednes, and make patriotism Impossible. In the word if Mr. Fou ke Why etiou'd the voter who see oftine oetoeu for money hesitate to uko ... k ... -.. . u , k . ove a country wurre go a Mir tr f. p lurni aim mm iuv rr mi i moos Bra cxonn'U to ma wrauit r wnv tiouM they die for It? Wtat lunplra'Uui w.-.M there he la the great astute of uvir his tory It w UHevot tht the ma who bote thra wr a'4e of aa act Use mis? WayennuM ian i ant ihlnj but fold. If gold aitmw 1 u, ,, awna of honor? What sort uf hut- hwlt ft lll m developed under uK etgiine What elker leeue I l,rm twIM fraught with result to fu pi B. Ilftotte petti kt Popular (ovaraaia.t The aloud tua awil iniii tun l I. Made a with bolt of tUttrvJctlon. n is only when the heart falls, when pub lic spirit languishes, that our ease i indeed desperate. It 1 our belief that the Populist party must give more attention to the civil service reform question, and in all it future state and national conventions champion it In our next platform it should be given leading place, not be- '' cause ft is aa end, but a necessary means to make our reforms appear practical to voters, and through then DOBMOie. - Anomer ininc., j n rank- and file of our party must ref use to let a few leaden, office seeker, run It The people must choose their represent-' lives and servants. The offioes are. theirs, and itlfitk office setters mint be kept under. A 0ALL TO THE OHUR0H. Thi Niw Rkdimptio. a Call to the Church to Reconstruct Society Accord Ina- to the Gorpl of Christ. By Bev George U Ber ron, U. V., Professor of Applied Chrlstlanitr li 'owa College. Author of "The Larger Christ, H "The MeiwaBe or Jesus to Men of Wealth." "A Plea for the Gospel," and "The Call of the Cross." Published by Thomas Y CrowtllACo. ' There is indeed a prophet in Israel, a voice crying in the wilderness, a John Baptist who is preaching repentance and nreDarin? the wav for Christ's ing, if the people will hear his voice He is laying judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet, and t'.e hail of his swift, heaven-born, heaven, driven sentences is sweeping away the refuge of lies. His message to the higa 7ndaug.j rlctl d elfish rulera and their morarsVpporivr,4,.eUie7 wuio uowd, ana mat iney lift up the lowly to their level. He is brlnginr the word of the Lord against industrial and commercial selfishness, and is show ing that the church as well as the world Is atheistic, that all are worshiping the creature instead of the Creator. . Th world and the church agree, practical ly, that there is no room for love la business, that Individual selfishness must meet and struggle with individual selfishness. But the new prophetsaysl It is a fiction to characterize as law the principles that now govern econom ic production and distribution. In fact, we are and have been in a state of in duvtrial anarchy; of locial lawlessness. Selnshnest is alwmit tnfini j.;4. : . Competition is not law, but anarchy. That competition is the life of industry is the most profane and foolish of social false. Jl08;. . ti social imbecil ity. It is economic waste. It is the destruction of life. It is the deformity. " .Try "iouj u civilization. It will be as outrageous to the civiliza tion ef the future as cannibalism is to me civilization of the present. Concerning capital he affirms: Capital is a social creation, and its administration a social responsibility; bo tbat industrial federation lies in ihV nature of things- An industrial democracy would be the social actualizalun of Christ lanitu. It is the loaic of ih S! firmin in km Mount, which consists of the natural laws by which industrial justice and social oeace- can be obtained and estahfuhtd tk democracy that is in Jeu B.nnn la sufficient to equalize social burdens and distribute social benefits. It is not merely spiritual law, but natural and. economic law, that the strong shall bear the infirmities of the weak. Neither church nor utata dm escape destruction at the hands of an arrogant and irresponsible plutocracy, save by proceeding at secular world under the reicn of th moral law of Jason. Listen to this searching truth: The man who professes Christ In th prayer meeting, or in his creed, and then denies the practicability o' the Sermon on the Mount as industrial law is both a hypocrite and an atheist. Either the theory of the competition of self-interests as the natural law nf Dronertv and material n atheistic anarchism, or Christ was not the power, and revelation of God. It we have not faith that hma1 win nar.urauy anu aounaan t v com th rnn rrh. obedience to the will of God, we then confess that goodness is not sovereign: ouu ouyicmo id iue universe, ana deny the wisdom and providence of the werd of God. We must make room for one mDre quotation, following; The brotherhood of man, for which, the werld iitnorantlv orioa latkn - J u uv of Christ. The social revolution ia a new coming of the kingdom of God. It Is the matonlesi opportunity of the " church. A brotherhood of righteous ness, a kiogdom of social justice, is" be und to come; and whether it come quietly or tumultously, through tl evolution of love, or through the wrath of blind and Christless veugeance, de pends upon the attitude of the Christian church toward the social question. There is no Infidelity so terrible In Its consequences as the want of etWt on. the part of one who calls himself a Christian to regenerate our social con ditions. There 1 no atheism so fright ful a the opinion and consent th.t loclety must remain as It it. Th mni charge thatcan bi made against a Christian is that he attempts to justify the tiistina social order. That th old order cannot remain is eviaent to all but blind eye a, Neman with moral sense, nothing bu hopele aulfishues and stuolilitw tail tows that world-wldo rhanire are u.u.,, who m so. iai reooustructtoo and a uewclvUUttloa. These extract, mere fraamen'.. rlre but a faint Idea of the new thouif ht. the moral force, the convincing, convicting power of Divine truth found In thia he k. u I, ihe sword of the Spirit raised against elohnr, and the prao- W " vertal practice of the business w .r'j. 1 I'he teaching of It It book must be ao- ewpwd aad praetited bt fore the chuttsh Itself ran be Christian, or e oUer. The eli chapter df the hx are; The H -elal Htvotutlnn; A ChrisiUa iK trlse bt Property; Ike t'omleg Ciuolfiibi.; Th Iteal'ty of Halvatloa; The Cvtammi evoatuti and Tie l oll f L'fe Nonttlalnur U ptiHa w phmu, matter not by whom UKd u ftr. ) ilalaed. and aa Individual ea hv ay V