The San Francisco call., 1896-02-05
prove the members of these compacts were

! prove the mem bers of these compacts were
! barbarians-were gamblers. They gam
bied in the profits to be made by their
illegitimate business. It was barbarism
opposed to ali Christian teaching against
everything that Christ taught upon earth.
Here in California people, he said, were
too lar away from the struggling millions
to feel the effect OF this barbarism. Here
where man is close to the first turning of
the soil, to the new life, this terrible strug-
gle could not be felt. He continued:
Another imperfection in the present system
is the abuse OF the rule that only the fit<est
should survive. This accounts for the slums,
Tor ignorance and poverty, for, weak minds.
The doctrine OF survival OF the fittest cannot
survive under the old regime. Ii a man be
tied to grinding occupation for life it is because
he is not fitted for better employment. A
collier whose life is crushed out in the mine is
said TO have been unit; but nature made him
ut for better, the system of the time did not.
In the great centers of population, in Lon
don, New York and here, full many gem is
left to pass unseen. Though the rule is wrongly
applied. that the fittest should survive, men
should be placed On an equal basis. Look at
the history of the human race; it is one long
story OF wrong from man to man. In the old
days the slaves were made by the sword. Now
he is made by the circumstances that force him
TO toll.
Looking at few features of the present
day Mr.. Murasky read a newspap per de-
scription of the houses and treatment of
slaves in the Kimberley mines, and the
speaker declared:
That is cage for wild animal, and yet to-
day they are confined in that cage voluntary
human prisoners. They work in the mines at
day and pass to this cage at night through
tunnel; they are not allowed to hold converse
with the outside world. These men have
bound themselves by voluntary contract. the
western system came along and compelled
these same men to earn their living, but not
without these conditions. That is the barbar-
ism of it.
There must be some necessity of life that
compels these men to live as slaves. and what
is 1t? That few men and women might
wear brilliants-that a few men and women
might wear diamonds on their shirt bosoms
That is q picture while in perfected civiliza-
ton could not exist.
The lecturer went ON to tell of the ef-
fects of present conditions on English peo-
pie. Taking Bradford, the cotton manu-
featuring town in Yorkshire, where men
and women know little more than the
loom, and even now can wear only wooden
clogs, he said that hundreds of cripples
are found-all the result of In Justice, in
humanity of man to man. If The woman
of the slums is not held in as high esteem
as the woman of the four hundred, this is
one of the worst barbarisms of this time
The faults in the system exist because
men permit them to be SO. Men make.
the world what it is without an effort to
make it what it should be- Men need to
understand better and to observe the COM
mandment, "Do unto others as men should
do unto yon.' This is the doctrine by
which mans injustice to man shall be
blotted out.
But the world is working forward; it
will in time change those conditions which
make the unfortunate individual the VIC
tim of his more lucky neighbors. More
and more each day men are feeling their
common origin, and they will realize that
the aristocracy of learning, like other casts,
will disappear in the great democracy OF
minds which a fully developed Christian
civilization will bring about. Through it's
tragedies, its miserles and its injustices
the human race is passing to a better
state. In this evolution, in which so
many myriads have taken part, men can
do their share of the work by appreciating
better the condition and respecting m ore
tile sacred, inalienable rights of those
about them, by obllterating in God-m ade
resemblance all man-made distinctio ms.
He continued:
What better institution to csrry forward the
1t is the expression in living form OF Chrisps
gospel. 1t was founded to carry into effect
Christs teachings. Its mission is to inspire
man with that love for his neighbor thar
Christ preached. Its ministers, by long train
ing, by years of ineulcation, by the example of
their predecessors, by command of God him.
self, are imbued with the ambition to carry
messages of peace and good will to all men. In
the fulfllment of their mission they have left
untrod no foot of this earthis surface where
man dwells. They are the companions
Of lepers, the comforters Of the wounded,