St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
THE MODERN GAINS.
Rev. w. j. Lhamon Tells How They
Kill Their Brothers. 80.

ANof. w. -. bnatnOn tells HOW IL tey
Kill Their Brothers. 80
AT the Church of Christ yesterday
morning Rev. w. j. Lhamon spoke from
the text, ''For this is the message which
We had from the beginning, that we
should love one another; not as Cain,
who was of the evil one, and slew his
his brother."-I. John, Ill, 2. ~.
He said: There is a negative ha-
tired, which consists in caring more for
something else than for ones neighbor.
Napoleon was ambitious; he cared more
for victories than for human lives. Vic
tor Hugo says: Fifteen hundred men
killed in less than an hour
in the orchard of Hugomont;
eighteen hundred laid low in
shorter space of of time
around La Haye Sainte; all these
stormy Incidents, passing like battle
clouds before Napoleon, had scarce dis
turbed his glance or cast gloom over
his imperial face. He cared little for
figures provided they gave the sum
total-victory." Hence, we may add,
this majestic Gains wholesale slaughter
of his brethren.
Martial warfare is one way of playing
Gains bloody game. Fomented by pol
AtiSithc1 G1O1lAOO Wy hiooO4lohO3 up
posed to be necessary by barbarous
moralists and endured by the people,
wars are but the big, laundering way
of doing what Cain did in his small way.
Bismarck cares more for his standing.
armies and for keeping up, like prize
cock, the show of fight. than he does
to tighten the burdens of the German
people. Other European rulerS are as
foolish as he. There is not one among
them but goes trailing standing army
at his heels like big, bad boy with a
pistol in his pocket. Even our own gov
eminent, seeking some place to bestOW
its ill-gotten goods, puts on its warpai,nt
and sets about building navy. Inc
goods are ill-gotten because taken from
the people by various hig tariffs, to the
great gain of the government and the
greater gain of the mOnOpolists.
But commercial warfare is the more
common way of dong Gains deed. Com
petition is commercial warfare, and we
are all the slaves of the system. 1t sets
US to "Jewing" one another in every
market place. We get our goods at the
lowest cost, not caring whose blood
runs thin for want of bread
in their production. When sewing
girls go hungry and cold maklngsover-
alls at rs cents a dozen that the en-
must be somewhere abroad what Ten
nyson calls 1.-THE lust of gain, in the
spirit of CAIN"
Under the cruel law Of ''supply and
demand" which is only another form
of competition. wages are forced down
till children are forced into manufact-
cries to help exc out the family dole OF
flour and meat. Only the other day the
chief of police in this city called our
attention to the newsboys and boot
blacks, whose vocations are schools OF
crime. Poor little girls may be found
in city hospitals with nameless diseases
before the age of fifteen. In England
10000 married women are in the
factories. In Massachusetts, Cd per
cent of wage earners depend on
the help of their wives and children for
the support of their families. By their
meager wages young girls are many
times driven to immoral ways of getting
money. Capitalists bull their dividends
on watered stock by bearing the wages
of their employees. 1t is estimated that
q, 900 men now own half the wealth of
the United States. More than ten times
as many thousand suffer for the ne
cessaries of life.
There is something wrong. Men have
not yet learned that they are their
brothers keepers. The commandment
that we should love one another has
done much for the betterment of all. but
the work of the spirit of that commands
ment has only begun. Nothing but the
golden rule can be taken as the stand
ard of the golden age. Let cruel en-
ployers beware of the spirit of Cain lest
they be found one day with the brand
of Cain ON them.