St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

the trawl blinds us to reality. closes our ewes
10 great truths, stops our ears to the calls
oi pressing duty which our very interests
make imperative. In this land of ours are
people OF good brain. and at least average
intelligence; but if brain and intelligence be
concentrated, on ourselves and our own af
lairs. we shall not have time to think sufi
GENTLY over the affairs of those who are our
immediate neighbors and in whose success
ana Well-Delng our own Is indissoluby con-
nected We are pursuing | beg TO saw a
dangerous course in relation to the Iaboring
. otass IN thls country, a class on whose de-
Veloping prosperity the prosperity of the
Wnoie community depends. | saw this with
intense conviction. The laboring people in
TINS In country need the help and sympathy of
the church How shall it be given to them?
HOW shall we aid them? All charities pub
nc penefactions, art galleries. museums nav
taae cnurches themselves, cannot help the Ia
Doflng people as they can help themselves
ihe only possible development of any class
IN THIS country must come from within-we
must help them to help themselves.
NOW, what is the note of today-here Won
WIN All agree with me. 1t is combination
Larger combinations and more combinations
are iheVltable. No doubt in the end the re-
SUMS OF the whole will be good but time CT
growth and change are times of pain and dan
ger, ana disturbance and unsettlement only
wap Ina 6nat tne inevitable change is making
way put now shall the principle of combina-
,tion-tms inevitable principle-how shall IT
nave 1air play among all our people? Only by
tLa a sPra 70 all. Let part combine let
the strong and the wealthy combine as thew
are doing, and let opportunities for eombjna,
olon ne grudginsy afforded or denied aIto-
gether to the poorer and weaker elements in
our nation and the unrighteousness and r,ron -.
evil and disaster eau
lam am allqaing to no financial danger, but to
very real danger at our door. l speak win
SteaI pialnness. hold it TO be the duty ~
the christian church and of Christia ~ b;sII ~ - !.
the moor 1so eTerg~nere to help and encourage
70 ,4GeNelop uieir labor unions Only bv tbess
WIN they educate themselves; only thronob
becni,,o VI ratner chiey through them will they
become truly American. Labor unions will do
more 10 make UP multi-nationaIism Than eli
the churches can do IMAM all
,,, LEI us haye the American flag in all the
PUBIC schools. Let it stand for what -
means, out when the boys and girls ieaye
s sl Jet us help them to recognize that
tney nave no chance whatever to assert
themselves and develop their own education
ana prosperity in the future but nv racoo
nlzing the law-and it is Gods iaw-of asso-
CATION l repeat again, if the rich and the
Strong ma 1t necessary to combine II nuSt
be evident to all that there Is further and
to do so. wan
Oh. things are not going as thew ALWAYS
Snouiu IN TINS country of ours and the time
mas come when must turn our attenfion
10 other things than the great hauIs of orr
net ana our trawl, to recognize these sad
Iacts. We speak of liberty our pros
pefity and our greatness but we forget the
hundreds of thousands of those who are
crushed into misery and vice. In New York
city there are many whose earnings for four.
teen hours work daily do not amount to
more than dollar and a half week Eng
land is reducing child labor enormously.
Here-and / know you will be startled TO
learn this-child labor has absolutely in
creased leo per cent in the last fifteen wears
mere were no tramps to speak OF twenty
years ago in this country. The best esti-
mate, perhaps, says there are probably 80 coo
in the state Of New York today. In England
arrests for drunkenness have enormously de-
creased, here they increase. There are more
homicides in the state of New York with its
5000 600 people, than in the British isles with
40,0O0,0OO. And we cannot delude ourselves
into thinking that the foreign populations pro-
duce the criminals. The very reverse is true
These few facts. and they are only few OF
the many that might be adduced, surely are
worth thinking about
We have a war hand-what sort OF a
war? We have no time much as to think
on a wicked war that would be a disgrace
everlasting to our nation and setback 10
all mankind. But there is a righteous war.
one in which we may not hire substitutes,
and for service in which let us in the name
of God grid up our wills. war from which,
if we shrink back. future ages will proclaim
us traitors to the great cause of mankind.
War against the rough places, though they
be mountains high, they must be laid low.
war against Ignorance, misery, selfshness and
sin. To this we would pledge ourselves
God. SO through Thy grace shall we yet
do in this broadcast and fairest of Thy lands
something great for the human race. and so
shall we ourselves be not only the biggest
and the richest, but the greatest among ma
tions of the earth. Help u.s. then, we pray
Thee, to cease from the worship of our net
and our trawl, and to kneel to the Son OF
Man.