St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-04
He Interests, if He Does Not
Convince, a Large Au-
dience.
Labor the Source Of all
: Wealth--The Ethics of
Property.
A Strong Plea for the Home,
and Fairness Among
Men.

address there, under the auspices of the
United Labor party. The audience was
made up of thinking men and women of
all stations in life, and it is safe to say
| that no audience was ever more atten-
tive. The address of DR.. McGlynn was
an eloquent one in every respect, and
went to the bottom of the subject. 1t
was clear and concise in every point
and was remarkably well received by
the vast audience. 1t was 8 O'Clock
when DIR, McGlynn appeared upon the
stage, accompanied by DR.. M. p. Finne-
gan, j. P. McGaughey and others.
DR.. NJ. P. Finnigan introduced DR..
McGlynn in brief speech, in which he
! said he was no more fit to introduce the
| spea ker Of the evening than the small
est spark was fit to introduce the sun.
! He paid a glowing tribute to DR.. Nc
J Glynn, whom he characterized as the
| greatest light of the nineteenth cen
| fury, who had foreseen that ruin would
come upon the country unless some
wideSpreading hand was OutStretched
| to prevent. 1t was noble sacrifice
| that the reverend gentlemen had made,
and his reward in the great hereafter
would be great.
DIR. EDWARD M'GLYNN,
| as he stepped to the foot of the stage,
was greeted with burst of enthusiasm.
II am expected to speak upon the labor
| question:" said he, land it may seem
odd that should be taking part in what
some would term partisan politics.
But as L have devoted nearly my entire
| life to doing Gods work, it is not
| strange that | am engaged in my pres
II lNn1; hi Ic
| merely political platform; if l did /
should consider myself sadly out of
! place. | am here because of my priest
! hood, for l believe it is proper in every
respect that priest should take
the part of the downtrOdden and the
| oppressed. Christ himself took by the
hand the horney-handed sons OF labor.
and why should not l. In no place in
the gospel do you read of woes to be
visited upon the poor, but you do read
of how hard it is for rich men to enter
into the kingdom of heaven. We can
not believe that the Lord is unjust, and
therefore we must believe that the rich
men obtained their riches in some lille
ultimate way, or in the administration
of them opposed the poor. Times have
not changed. You all know that there
is wide gulf between the masses and
and the church, and l must say the
masses are altogether to blame. The
trouble is that we have not preached to
the people enough. But the most earn
est wish of my heart is to bring men to
God and to make the whole world Chris
tan, and it has been for me constant
pain to find so many eStranged from the
church, believing as they do that many
of the Outrages which they suffer are
upheld by the church, Too many have
cause to say that the world is cruel
joke rather than the abode of just and
benificent God. There is
TOO MUCH BRUTE INSTINCT
in the world yet, as ii is evident that
the wolf will eat the lamb, and the big
fish will devour the little fish. Yet is
not that the method of our society of
to-day? 1t was the desire to show men
that all the misery of to-day resulted
me from the pulpit. | had no
then, nor do | now intend to
abandon Gods holy calling. 1t
was not to mingle in politics that have
been upon the platform, but to bring
man to God, to make him understand
religion. Politics is the art and science
of craftsmanship, and we find in many
cases. as have done, that politics are
religious duties. | thus would teach
men oil what would seem to be the po-
litical platforms. If any ecclesiasticals
in authority have committed the error
of depriving man of his inalienable
rights in their desire to uphold author
ity, l am indeed sorry, not particu-
larly for myself, but for
them. If l am not permitted
to preach from Gods holy altar l am
content to preach from the stage of
theater. where only last night some
buffoon may have smirked aBd capered.
| am convinced that the Christian
church will not be listened to and
obeyed until the law that all men are
brothers and equals is preached to the
masses. If whole nations are turning
against God it is because the Christian
churches have become foSSiliZed, and
are unfolding authority at the eX-
pense of human right. TO place
dogmas before humanity is placing
the cart before the horse, and will work
a serious injury. When the churches
cease to put back natural laws, lest au-
thority should suffer, the world will be
better. am frank to say that the OPP
position of some men toward the modern
religion is the true religion within
them l am not protesting against any
doctrine or dogmas of the Catholic
church, for | believe in that church. 1t
pains me to see nations wandering
about like flock without a master, yet
such will be the case while the servants
of the master are faltering and SQUAD
bling among themselves, and drawing
no new souls to God.
ALL HONEST MEN LABOR.
am not wholly laboring man, as /
do not possess the ''horney hand" you
so often hear about, but L fully believe
/ could become a Knight of Labor if |
wished. / stand upon the Labor plat
form, for do not believe that labor is
restricted to mere manual labor. A
man who digs the earth is laborer. and
he also is labor the astronomer
who measures the sun and scans
the heavens for new planets.
Thus you would include in the table
army of labOreIs all honest men. The
law of labor thus understood takes on
new dignity. But the labor question of
to-day is large one and demands i'm
mediate solution. These strikes and
lockoutS you hear of every day portend
disaster. They are indicators of
dark social evil which must be settled
in some way. The question is coming:
How are men to get a living? Sure, a
man must labor to get a living. If
he will not labor he will perish.
But this is too low view of the neces-
sites of human life. A man needs
something more than a place to shelter
him from the rain and the cold. His
artistic and spiritual nature must be
fed. Any sane man or woman wants
more than a sack to cover his body and
to protect himself from the cold. He
wants something that will feed his es-
thetic taste. and that is but natural
But all this may be summed up in the
words of God, Man does not live by
bread alone Labor, therefore, is
THE LAW OF LIFE,
and in speaking of the human aspect
we naturally enter upon the moral
question. 1t is the moral or religious
part of this subject that | feel compe-
tnnt to discuss as q minister of God [