St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-25
A HOPELESS SCHEME.


isters a scathing Rebnke to the
Comm ,nweal Cause.
Rev. William Wilkinson preached a
stirring sermon at ST. Andrews church
yesterday morning on the c0mm0nweal
movement In the course OF which he
said:
.'rhe church and the world alike have
never yet realized aud understood, In
Its fuliness and benefcence, the fact
that the Maker of tn universe has
made, founded and sent forth one, and
only one, means intended to set all
right which Is wrong, to lift up all who
are trOdden down. and to raise all
who fall. When a man tells me
that the church is never to speak about
secular things, and to let all worldly
matters alone, 1t Is as II he should say
singer should never sing. and light
should never shine. 1t is one Of the
highest purposes Of music to be heard.
and OF light to be seen; 80 it is one OF
the chief purposes of the church to
stand for righteousness, which has to
do with every true right OF man. Cap
itai comes under its ken, labor is under
its vision and blessing. Labor is holy
and sacred thing. The man who sets
light store by work, or who despises the
does violence to all the noblest heritage
of man. He is the foe of happi-
ness. and stumbling block in the
path Of progress. 1t is not to be for.
gotten that GOd hath set all things to-
getfer. My rights are not exclusive,
isolated. separate and independent of
every other man's rights. They are
relative parts of one e. It whole they
have to be held in the l. sof the public
good. Every other man has rights
cannot set aside, ignore or maze look
ridiculous. In the assertion Of liberty
for myself cannot so act as to bring
at this hour the popular thing to say.
but in this republic the assertion Of in
dividual liberty is at this hour one of
the very worst and greatest dangers to
which we are exposed, and one against
which 1t Is the supreme duty of every
man charged with the Instruction of any
part of the people to protest. Every
age has its own duties. every time its
own manifest questions to answer.
every form of government has its own
excellent qualities and defects. Under
our own government each man has
mt to petition the legislature for any
law be may desire to have passed. 1t
was never designed, and it is thing in
toierable, that lumber of men
shall by concerted action. gather
half million men, as heard
one of the Coxey leaders in this
city In public last Friday declare
they will at Washington. and force
hearing. No government. in my opln.
ion, should submit to such a menace.
The law must be respected, upheld
men treat the Law? How do
they live? Again and again
they have taken trains and 'appropri-
ated" them to their own use. They
repudiate the idea of stealing. One OF
these pilgrims to Washington said on
Friday in public that a woman in their
movement had in his presence declared
her readiness to ''tear the hair from the
head OF Presiden Cleveland"
All this may he said to be the raving
OF maniac. Well, he it SO. With the
memory of Garfield, Lincoln and Mayor
Harrison in view, such statements, If
left uDnOticed. invite disaster.
N0swilder, more hopeless scheme has
entered into the mind of man in mod
ern times than this cOmmOnWeal plan.
1t has in it no proposition of means
to ends. 1t Is not possible
to gain the results it seeks.
Il is unjust in its whole
sale remuneration OF everyone who does
not approve its methods. it lives in the
whole as tramps live in the individual,
and 1t will only end in disgrace. if not
in disaster. There is wide scope for
wise legislation, there is urgent need
for publication i'll politics, the men who
are at the head of the old political COM
binatiOnS need to take warning ami set
their house in order; the day in which
personal interest can with impunity be
set above the collective good IS passing
quickly away. To-us the one impera-
tive duty is To try and speak the truth,
to see clearly aud nnderstandlngly that
we all stand or fall together, the rich
cannot abide on foundation which
is not equitable. The poor will never
rest under any form Of oppression;
Dlcke rlng, mlStruSt and false statements
made to set class against class can lead
only to evil.
The want of this nation Is confidence
When that is restored. prosperity will
return; till then it will not am sorry
for the men who i'll the Coxey army are
going 10 Washington; pain and care are
before them. long for day when, as
in the best days of Rome. none were
for party. All were for the state. The
rich man helped the poor. The puor man
loved the great l love this republic,
| want to see it great, glorious and free.
Ny hopes, desires and sympathies are
all with Christian In which Christ
shall be the head, each man brother,
and equity aud justice the rule of life;
where the bright and clever shall find
happy employ, the son of toll just re-
ward. and the poor ready and kindly
help. Thus would the song of praise
arise to God in the good of men; peace,
content and progress be the order Of the
day. This is the Christian ideal"