Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-03
4 SERMON ZOE TIE SEASON.

his duty.
Il SERMON FOR THE SEASON.
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the Dor
rover is servant to the lender.-PRoyERBs
xxi: Z.
One would think, on perusing these words
of the wisest of men, that he had in his
minds eye the present condition of affairs
in the United States. Most empnatically do
we find it true that 'the rich ruleth over the
poor, and the borrower is servant to the
lender" It will long be subject of won
der how government, framed by the people
for the people, should have thus degenerated,
but the wonder will cease as soon as the in
quirer has examined into the manner in
which those into whose hands the govern
ment has been given have discharged their
trust.
The Republican party took control Of the
country nearly eighteen years ago. They
wanted a change, and were determined to
have it. Disregarding the safe conservatism
that had previously been the policy of the
party in power, they found themselves in
volved in a gigantic civil war. For four
years the war ragged. We were obliged to is
sue paper currency and to nm into debt to
maintain the war against rebellion. But
meantime large and favored class had
Strung up. The equipment of armies and
the placing of loans had involved the outlay
of vast sums of money. Those who were
favored with contracts soon became enor-
mously rich; those who negotiated our
bonds were enabled to add largely to
their wealth. These have formed dis
tinctive class of the most dangerous
character conceivable, and recruited from
other sources have become cemented into an
aristocracy of money, more menacing to our
national integrity than could be the open as
saults of any foreign foe. They have seized
upon and now control every department of
our government, and have SO manipulated
our financial affairs as to make wealth the
governing power, the people it's serfs. High
officials, from the President down, fall down
and worship the money power and do its
bidding. The rights of the great mass
who compose the people of this country are
as naught. They are plundered on every
hand-the little that they have is taken from
them that the rapacity of the rich may be
appeased
The prospect is not one that pleases, and
but for the fact that there still resides in the
people the power to remedy the evils that
have sprung up during the past eighteen
years it would be intolerable. Happily the
money power has not become SO strong as to
overthrow the constitution upon which the
government was based. Happily, too, the
people have become thoroughly aroused to
the danger that threatens them, and exhibit
a disposition to right the wrongs to which
which they have been subjected. All over
the land the wave of popular opinion has
swept, making itself felt. The aristocrats
who have thought to reduce the mass of the
people to abject subsection are beginning to
tremble, and one by one their plant SER
wants in the halls of Congress have been re-
tired to private life.
The people of Minnesota have duty to
perform in aid of this great revolution
which is destined to restore this government
to its pristine purity. representative of
the worst portion of the money aristocracv
is before the m as candidate for Congress.
He is using his money to corrupt and de-
base the franchise. He has used it in the
past to Cypress the poor and to further the
schemes of numherless rings with which he
has been associated. He worships Mammon
with his whole heart, and cannot conceive
how any one else should refuse to do obei-
sance at the same shrine. He is in close
sympathy with those who would make the
rich to rule over the poor, and the borrower
to be servant to the lender. To Illustrate his
schemes should be the first duty of every
citizen, and more especially Of every Chris
tan. His plans and his policy are de-
nounced by the divine law; his acts come
under the condemnation of him who, spring
ing from the people, was their truest and
best friend, and indeed the Son of God. No
follower of Christ can cast his vote on Tues
day for this representative of all that is cor
rupt in political life without doing violence
to the precepts he processes to observe
Every vote cast for him is vote in favor of
the monstrous system which is designed to
make the rich rule over the poor, and the
borrower the servant of the lender. Think
of this before you deposit your ballot on
Tuesday