The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-23
A REVEREND BLATHERSKITE.

The Rev DR.. PENTECosr, Of New York,
is one of the ex-Priest MCGLYNN's follow
ers and chief lieutenants in the ridiculous
Anti-Poverty society. PENTEcosT became
an agitator a few years ago, and talking his
socialistic and communistic ideas in church
talked himself out of the pulpit and into
the ranks of the blatherskites. From bad
he went to worse, and is to-day one Of the
loudest mouthed of the coterie of imprac-
ticables who have visionary schemes for
abolishing poverty, for equalizing wealth
and for obtaining money and valuables by
other than the legitimate methods which
were appointed at the first and have been
! followed by the successful ever since. In
one of his haranguos to laboring men re-
Gently, the Rev. PENTECosT presented figures
to show that there was in this country
enough money to give every man $1,000,
and then he undertook to prove that every
man was by right entitled to the sum men
toned He denounced the corruption and
immortality of the age, and told his hearers
that this would be bright and cheerful
world, that people would be refined, and
have good manners and good morals, and
live in comfort, il men were required to
labor but few hours out of the twenty
four, the remainder. of the time being given
up to leisure, to improvement Of mind and
body and to the pursuit Of pleasure.
1t is expected that the DBNIs KEARSEYs
and the ignorant loafers who have more
tongue than brains and more impudence
than common sense, will sometimes talk in
this strain. 1t pays them to do it, for they
prey upon the ignorant, and make money
out of the fools; but it is surprising that a
once minister of the gospel, a man supposed
to be familiar with the Bible, should
teach such nonsense. The good
book is emphatic in recording the
Almighty as putting it upon man that he
shall eat bread by the sweat of his face.
This was pre-ordained, and the obligation
will continue until the end of mankind. If
the divine decree had not gone forth, and
been binding and imperative since the days
of the first man, ordinary common sense,
acquired by casual observation, should
teach that man cannot live in luxurious
comfort on the wages of few hours labor.
1t is not in the nature of things and never
will be.
The Rev. PENTEcosT may know that he is
a humbug and that his ideas are imprac-
tcable and those of the blatherskite; very
likely he does know these things and still
goes along, getting his living by defying
the divine command, eating the bread
earned by the sweat of other peoples
brows; but isn't it strange that there are
other people who will be duped by him!
This is an age of intelligence; it is an age
of education, of free schools and cheap
newspapers, hence the wonder that PENTE-
COSTS and NIcGLYNNs can thrive, or that
they can exist.
When the laboring men learn wisdom,
they will know that no amount of theory
will ever save them from toll; they will
know that however much one man may
possess, the next man must earn all he gets,
and the adjustment is such that only what
he earns will the laborer receive. If the
man works few hours his pay will be little,
his compensation being regulated by law
which is as old as the race.