The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28
4 RINGING SERMON.
REV. MYRON REED, THE GREAT
CONGREGATIONAL PREACHER
STIRS UP THE PLUTOCRACY.

ne FIRES Oh FdGL4OCLSW IAN
not Dead.
The following address was made by
the Rev. Myron Red before a large
audience at Denver. 1t has the ring
of patriotism in it, and will awaken
thought and discussion everywhere:
"When seven or eight gentlemen got
together in the United States hotel 1
Saratoga to determine how much coal
shall be taken out of the earth each
day to keep prices level, how many
hours is q days work, how much shall
the miners be paid, that is business.
"When a few hundred laboring men
get together to help themselves indi-
vidually and, their families, that is
anarchy.
Jesus Christ was the greatest social
list in the world.
1--WE hear people talk about social
ism. They say it would stop individu-
ality and individual enterprise. Ihope
it would. There is tso much individu-
atty. The individuality that makes
one man worth $50, 600, 900 is too much.
We don't want so much in this coun-
try. My ambition is to have enough
for myself and family to live on.
THANK God, for eleven years in
Denver 1 have had enough to live on
and to give some away.
"BelshaZzar could only eat SO much,
drink so many fagrons of wine. There
was a limit. There is a limit to the
usefulness of money. Beyond this
limit money is to corrupt courts and to
buy iuries. Above the limit money is
evil. As the sacred prophet said,
Money is the root of all evil Men in
this city have been spoiled by it. I
know a man in this city that was
spoiled by it. Not the lack of it, but
having too much. He was a nice, de
cent man a few years ago. l used to
walk up Broadway with him. He
would stop at the grocery, buy his sup
per and go up the hill to his home. He
had sympathy for the people, was in
sympathy with them. In a year Or
two he had a different stride, a differ
ent atmosphere. He doesn't remember
his friends; doesn't remember where
he came from. He has no sympathy
with the poor.
"My memory is longer. remember
where he came from.
81 was fortunate in being born poor.
don't remember any of my family Oh
relations having any money.
81 don't remember any of them be-
ing in jail or in the poor house.
''They were honest, hard-working
people; seamen, most of them.
'Do you suppose I forget my father,
my friends, or any of those ~toilers, the
companions of my youth3
"There was a soldier in France, in
Paris, who was found on the peoples
side of the barricade. He was asked
what he was doing on that side, and he
replied I was born on this side of the
barricade; on this side I will die.
II was born on this side, thank God,
and on this side 1 will stay. When 1
awake in the morning and look over
the glorious blue mountains and ere
sun rises over them in all it's grandness,
1 remember Gods promises, and I won
der how we became SO submissive that
we put our necks down to be trodden
upon by feet accurately fitted to our
necks.
"What stock do we come from2 Old
Sam Adams and Otis and Patrick
Henry and Benjamin Franklin and
George Washington. All illegal men,
out of the pale of the law. rebels.
Franklin said, we must all hang to.
gether or we will hang separately
"The revolution was a long time
coming. Men were talking about it in
Massachusetts, and in Virginia, in New
York and in South Carolina. By and
by came the casting of the tea in Bos-
ton harbor. By and by came the Dec
laration Of Independence. Here we
are, forty-four States, and we haven't
the courage of those thirteen little
colonies without credit. They fought
a seven years war independent of
Great Britain. We are forty four
States, dependent on Great Britain.
We haven't much to be proud of. 1
am proud of my grandfather. At 16
years of age he went with Montgomery
to Quebec; marched through forests
and snow.
'"The thirteen colonies without army,
without navy, without credit. They
came out with a flag. That flag is still
flying, thank GodI
'Why should forty-four States put