The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-28
PARKHURSTON TRUSTS
New York Pastor Calls Them
"BIood-Suckers."
FLUTTER AMONG THE FEMININEs.

He Tells How the "Bargain Buyers" Are
KILLING Sewing Girls by Inches-Re-
marks by the Minister, Who Intimates
That He Has Poor Opinion of the Nor
ais of the City-Evangeiist Moody Criti-
cises the Churches of Brooklyn.
New York, Nov. 2S.-The Rev. Charles
II. Parkhurst preached rather a sensa-
tional Thanksgiving sermon Thursday
morning in the Madison Square Pres
byterian church. His subject was "Hu-
man Brotherhood" and in the course of
his remarks he paid his respects to
trusts and combines and referred to
them as "blood-suckers, thirsting for
human blood" DR.. Parkhurst caused
fiutter among the feminine portion of
his congregation by getting after the
bargain" buyers. He pictured the
poor sewing girls and seamstresses at
work in the tenement houses of the
back alleys as the real ones who had to
suffer from the cut in the prices of
handmade work. Next he portrayed
the rich woman on a still hunt for the
cheap articles in the dry goods stores
And then he denounced the wealthy
buyer in thes words:
Helps to XIII by Inches.
"She does not kill the sewing girl out
right. What is worse. she helps to kill
her by inches. The sufferings among
the poor. who are deprived of the need
full coal by the high prices and the
deaths that are sure to come from II.
are cAargeable directly to the coal mag
u,fo
bines or coal trusts use their power to
the end of drawing off into their own
treasury as much of the poor mans
money as they can or dare to the i'm
poverishment Of the poor or reduction
Of their comforts, and to the sapping
Of the current OF their life. then these
companies are guilty of theft and mur-
der. There is no other way to charac-
terize it. The supreme function of man
is not ownership. but trusteeship."
Low Value on Morals.
DR.. Parkhurst does not have a golden
opinion OF the morals Of the city. He
announced his sentiment somewhat pc
culiar for a Thanksgiving address:
II do not know how many unfaithful
husbands or wives there are i'm this
community but I should calculate
a
ter of million. The love between hus-
band and wife is kept true in some
cases by the possession OF children, but
1 have learned enough to know in the
case of any couple that might present
themselves before me to be married.
I would not at any rate of premium is
sue an insurance policy on their con-
jugal felicity good for more than fve
years. unless on the contingency of off,
| spring or on the basis of their common
| faith in God"
Moody Scores brooklyn Churches.
Evangelist Moody at Cooper Union
scored a custom of the Brooklyn
churches. which is also followed in
New York, TO the surprise of visitors
| from the woolly west.
'I went to fourteen churches before
I found the right one, and not any OF
| them had anything on the front except
an undertaker's sign. They call Brook
| lyn a city of churches. but ] found IL
| a city of undertakers. Take the under
takers signs off the churches and put
up signs telling what is going on in
side. The habit churches OF Greater
New York have OF advertising the busi-
ness Of their sections in preference to
| displaying the names of the churches
may be practical. but doesn't look hos
| pitable to strangers. 1t is too much
| like the sentiment. Leave hope behind.
| all ye who enter here.''