Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-02-25
TIE OTHER SIDE OF TT.
Many Things For Which We
Should Not Be Thankful.

TIE OTHER SIDE OF TT.
Many Things For Which We
Should Not Be Thankful.
GRev. D. oglesby in Chicago Express.l
AIr. President: Your proclamation
calling on the people to meet IN their
houses of worship and publicity, &C
knowledge their obligations to God,
and return thanks to him for his bless
ings so bountifully bestowed on the
nation was timely and appropriate.
He has in his good providence given
us a wonderful crop. enough to sup
ply the necessities of all the living
things; we have been spared the raw
ages of pestilence, comparative peace
has reIgned within our country, and
no foreign foe has disturbed our Dor
ders. 1t is eminently proper that We
should be thankful, and express our
gratitude in the most public manner.
But, Mr.. President, how have We
used these inestimable blessings?
What returns have we made TO the
great author of them? .-..-.-.
Service TO humanity Is service to
God He is no respector of persons
How is 1t with us as q nation?
Are not our laws, many of them,
yea, most of them. partial?
do you not know, Mr.. President,
that our government is not in har-
mony with the divine government
Do you not know that the government
is IN league with the rum traffic? Do
you not know that the saloon exercis-
es the balance of power, and turns the
scale IN our elections? This great
curse that destroys the peace and hap
piness of millions of homes, brushes
the hearts of millions of mothers,
wives and sisters, blasts the hopes
and wrecks the lives of millions of
men and boys, yet our government
fosters it, protects it. licenses it and
encourages it, even looks out for for
eign markets for 1t, thus spreading
its blighting influence to foreign lands;
can this be pleasing to God, Mr.
President?
Do you not know, Mr.. President,
that our government and laws are the
essence of Partially; that 1t is run in
the interest of wealth instead of hui
manity7 Do you not know that it is
administered in the interests of CAPT
tai so called, or wealth. Do you not
know that our system of exchanges or
commerce is a system of gigantic rob-
bery7 Do you not know that the
toilers who produce all wealth have
the least, and the ones that produce
the least or nothing have the most?
Do you not know, Mr.. President,
that under this system which ''takes
from him who has nothing and gives
to him that has much" or from the
poor and gives to the rich has enabled
few men, a mere handful 81, 000) to
acquire half the wealth of the country
Now Mr. President, if 81, 900 men or
families, can in thirty years acquire
half the wealth of the republic, how
long will 1t take them to gobble it all I?
Under this system of commerce
three million of our citizens are sub
jects of, and supported by charity.
This system of unjust exchange fills
the land with idle men who tramp
the country hunting work. An adver-
tisement for twenty-five men to labor
will bring 500 in twenty-four hours
in any large city. Our penitentiaries
are crowded to oVerfowlng, our jails
are full, demand for larger insane
asylums What does it mean? More
executions by lynch law than cIval law.
Murders, suicides, robbery, embezzle-
ments, and all kinds of crime on the
increase. What does it mean Mr..
President?
Our robber system of exchanges
has built up, and IS now building
great cities more rapidly than any
country ever did in any age. These
cities in the eyes of the superficial OBJ
server, are the pride of the nation.
But to the rejecting man who looks
beneath the surface or causes, they
are seen to be ''storm centers" By
the mad moral blind mammon-wor-
shipper, they are called money CEN
ters." But they are centers of vice,
crime, poverty, Wretcbedness and mis-
cry, types of the pit below. They are
ulcers on the ''body polite" seething
masses of corruption, sinks of inIquI-
ty standing over rumbling volcanoes.
Mr.. President, if the great father
above should see fit to Withhold only
one crop as he has in Russia this year,
/ it would strike our great cities like a
cyclone. And If our great crops are
to be the prize of gamblers, can we
expect that the ruler of the world will
continue to put up the stakes to be
gambled for7 Won't he get tired OF
being forced into partnership relations
with boards of trade men and grain
gamblers soon7
What does he say on the question
| go to, now, ye rich men, weep an6
howl" Why? Because the ''cry Of
the men who reap the fields have come
up into the ears of the Lord" whose
''Wages have been kept back by fraud. ,
Who will be the calamity howlers'
then7
Mr. President, do you hear the CRY
of the toilers of the soil, of the miners
in the pit, of the horny handed me.
chanIc, Of the wealth producers every
where7 Do You hear them crying
for relief, for justice? Do you think
that the great God is a dlsinterestec
spectator
Mr.. President, do you know what
this social war now raging means
Or are you one of the blind ones whose
predjudices prevent them from Inves.
tigating and learning?
Is it possible that you belong to the
class who believe that money has al
was ruled, therefore 1t always will p
Don't you see the different state o.
society now to that of former ages
There is too much light in our coun
try now, to admit of any form of slaV-