The Louisiana populist., 1895-12-06
NATCHITOCHES LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1895
places will be mxde smooth, and the
crooked places straight"

places will be mxde smooth, and the
crooked places straight"
AS Jefferson said in this regard: mo
attribute Of God takes sides with oGr
wicked government in robiug labor to
make millionaires. Well may we
tremble for our country as ne did,
when we remember that '.God Is just.
aud that His justice will not sleep for
ever" Sin brings its own punish.
ment. What a man soweth he shall
also reap" We are sowing an awful
crop, What shall the harvest be?"
10 assume or ad nit that this system
OF mammon-worship will continue in
definitely. is to assume that the Bible
is huge lie, and Christianity a per-
feet failure.
The principles OF the Omaha plat
form ii applied to our government.
or any other, would destroy man
mon-wOrship. They are in perfect
harmony with the the ten COM
mandments, and the sermon On the
mount. Yet strange to say, auG
humiliating to think OF it. thu
churches, and the great body OF tn,
ministry antagouize them; while the
majority of the members of the
churches would, II enlightened. sup
port the Peoples party. But church
papers are under the control Of the
High Priests of mammon, and the
editors dare not print the truth.
The churches being the most numer-
Gus and powerful organizations in the
world and uphoidiug this great sys-
tenn OF fidolatry-mammon-worship-
it about shuts out all hope OF a peace
full solution OF this awful qustiOn. In
writing thus about the churches
don't antagonize Christianity at all.
IL the Bible don't condemn interest it
don't condemn anything,
While all the churches of our
country, claim TO be Christian
churches, they are not true exponents
of Christianity. They have lifted
society as high as they can. Society
and civil government will never rise
to higher plane under their present
teaching. What the world needs.
must and will have, is the application
of true Christianity in civil govern
ment. II Christ didn't teach and
practice pure socialism, he didn't
teach and practice anything. His
followers so understood him for two
centuries.
Gibbon, the great historian. say:
(and he didn't pretend to be q Christ
ian) that In lone hundred and fifty
years after Christ by its influence
idolatry was overthrown. and slavery
abolished. aud during the reign OF
five successive emperors, it was the
happiest period OF the human race"
And church history informs us that
Christians practiced perfect social.
ism, and had all things common
selfishness had no place in their reli-
gion. Now it constitutes the warp
and woof OF business. There cer-
tainly never was an age in
which selishness reigned so alb
solutely as It does now. Even the
heather world puts US to blush on
this score. When Columbus first
landed on the island. the natives
made al, haste to supply them with
provisions without money and with
out price; aud ho wrote to the King
and Queen of Spain using this Ian.
guage, al tell you they are the hap
piest people on the face of tho earth,
the words mine and thine are not
known among them" Yet in two
years the accursed love OF gold had
destroyed half OF them. We read
that when Cortez conquered Mexico
that they offered human sacrifices to
their sun-god, sometimes three hun
dred victims at one time, and it makes
cold chills run over u.s. while at this
day we are sacrificing hundreds OF
thousands yearly TO our mammon god.
Mexico had twice as many inhabi.
tants then as it has now. So much
for our boasted Christian civilization.
Under our perverted government one
man acquires by fraud enough land
to make small state. while millions
OF better men can never hope to own
enough for grave. One man under
our wicked laws may (and some have)
accumulated enough money to buy
whole towns and villages, while mil.
lions OF better men have mo place to
lay their heads,n One man, who
never did days work. draws an In
come by interest OF millions OF dol
lars, all OF II paid by the poor. for the
poor pay all interest.
The great cities are practically
rented property. Every ten or fifteen
years the poor pay enough rent (usu-
ry In form) to rebuild the great cities,
and are poorer than they were.
Reader. do you think this devilish
system can run on always? II you
do. you must think that God Almighty
is dead, or that he has abducted his
throne in favor OF the devil.
Well: 1t will continue as long as
mammon-worship continues. and the
dollar is our business god. But the
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