The Progress., 1893-07-22

The Successful biI~Iuc~, man of TODAY
has practically one principle. II Is the
beginning Of his political economy; it -
the end of hi, religion. II may hH
summed up m one sentence: Look our
FuR No. !, The science of political
economy l. IN" scIcuc" OF accommodating
money and accommodating, it hv all ha1-
ards and 10y Ill mr,ipI, Il ~ based ou
uurc competition: II :, based upon vlT.
The law oi war l. the triumph of the
strongest measured by brute power.
Toss mp a penny IN crowd of boys, and
they scramble for the money. III"
strongest. most brutal. Is ourr>t of -u,
CESS. He whose methods arr les scIu
puloU~ Is thc victim. This l. the essence
of the moderate comU,rcIal system. We
f.ht one another. our merchants cat
each others threats Not oul, do mr~.
chants cut each others throat~, bat men
of different mlu~,ri O., wan one win an
other
"" have braptiful theory that
Things will regulate themselves; that
open ami free competition j. -u~, 80 b.
the salvation of the world Aui yet
financial pauic~. Gluttrd markets. ar.
the dail, incidents of the history Of uur
civilization. Somehow our free. r.gu-
lativc theory ha- not worked and does
not work. Aul orr political economists
hravely inform us that the hope Of the
world is ia war and pcstilcncc. And ""
have been taught bv ncn VIII, claim tc
be rational that "a pr~tilcucr that will
remove millions OF human beings viii hr
Il good tuthc world i'm icSscniug lhcnuu-
bcr of pcorIr - De tyJ; that war is hcnr-
hc.al in furnishing ua q market in certain
commodities and in destroying a." ca
pacity of the race 10 propagate it-cli and
use food.
our rr@ulatiVc th"orlc, are beautiful,
and vet the results are trusts and com
himations. which are the ncgatioH of the
whole theory.
Cur system Of competition : bcaUt-
ful as theory. and Yet tine system must
answer for Chcatin" and lying and
swindliug and stealing and crime and
iutcmpcrancc and suicide and despair.
Thce,arcits necessary. It's inevitable. ac-
compartments.
by chicaucry. by lying. it become, the
business Of the head of the firm 10 br
come an expert sTiudlcr, Il scientific
liar. and to train all his subordina}cS in
the art of lying. This Is one of the first
principles of instruction practiccd IN
some OF our great commercial establish
ments. The clerk who Is advanced l.
IL.
with the straightest face and drive the
hardest bargain with customer. The
fundamental notices of such Il system
are Il mass of colossal lies. To declare
that life is measured by dollars and cents
is to stultify the very fundamentals Jf
real life. \ thief only believes that life
is measured by dollars and cents, and
the business man who seeks to attain
dollars and cents of themselves for them
selves, and to estimate them as valuaf' e
bv the figures on their face, has placed
himself unconsciOusly on the platform of
the thief
Money. to he of any real value and To
touch the realm of real wealth. must be
righteously obtained The richest and
best things i'll life are those that do not
pay in dollars and cents. Love and mo-
bility and honor and generosity do not
pav in dollars and cents: therefore they
have no part in the science of modern
commerce. The life of Il Stanley who
explores the darkness of the world by
this standard is failure. The life of Il
Washington who would suffer in hunger
H. s.,
by such standards.
Such is the contrast between a Success
full Christianity and successful business
today. There cannot he Il moments
questioning of the fact that the business
of today is in conflict with eternal truth
and righteousness.
SO much the worse for business.
The stars in their courses fought
against Ssera. The forces OF nature are
in league with the eternal forces of truth
and right. The business which violates
the fundamentals of right in the process
of its development must have of neces-
sity its Black Fridays, and the Black
Fridays are the necessary Developments
of the clash with Righteousness. These
days of pane are the natural result of
long continued violations of justice. If
they did not come, law would cease 20
be law, and chaos would reign. The fact
that they come is an indication that there
is "A God of right and truth who is guild
ing above all the scenes of conflict and
confusion. The man who violates truth
and justice has thrown his puny body
against the very stars of heaven. He
has thrown his PROSTATE form before
Gods great wheel Of the universe, and
he will be ground to powder The nation
that violates fundamental right must
suffer, and suffer in the very ways IN
which it has wrought the violation.
The Christian way of trade may not
be an easy way; it is certainly not pop
ular way today; it never has been. But
Christianity is the mightiest power on
earth today. 1t is the one power that