The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-05


had reference to the present turbulent
political situation, and was listened
to by a congregatio that completely
filed all available space in the large
church. The text was taken from
Ephesians 4-2S: Let him that stole
steal no more, but rather let him Ia
Dor working with his hands the thing
which is good, that he may have TO
give to him that needeth.''
DR.. Holman said in part:
''The indications on every hand are
that we are falling into troublesome
times On ali side we hear ominouS
words that should never have been
used: one class making grave accU-
Sations against another class, and our
whole land is now being disturbed by
socialism and anarchy. Now I am not
going to give you any new theories
as solutions to the problems which
are confronting US, but ! want to tell
you q few things of what the Apostle
Paul says.
Let him that stole steal no more"
How much better this world would
be if there was less promiscuous steal
ing going on. II creeps in everywhere.
Your cook steals a handful Of tea and
takes it across the way to some Of
her friends. The housewife goes to the
grocer and makes him believe he will
receive his pay on the first of the
month; instead he waits for six
months. The grocer has to make up
for il and adds to the price Of his
articles, and so on it goes. Now you
may call this by a better name, but
the fact is that it is plain stealing. A
poor, hungry tramp comes up to your
house and steals a loaf of bread, and
nowadays you call him a thief. Your
bookkeeper steals $1,5OO and you call
him an embezzler. A man steals a rail-
road, and you call him an operator
and send him to congress. A man
steals a legislature and you call him
a statesman, and send him to the Uni
ted States senate. There is that pro-
miscuous stealing going on every day.
Friends, let me tell you it is high
time we We're beginning to learn that
1t is as wrong to steal a railroad as
loaf of bread. The country needs at
this hour of peril more of clean up
rightness and honesty. 1t is high time
men were brought to learn that in
this country a mere technicality of
law may bring a man out of trouble,
but can never exonerate him in the
sight of God
steal no more, say the apostle. !
know the temptation is hard when you
are pinched for money, your children
in tatters and rags, but far better
be it that children should go in rags
than to steal Far better be it to go
through life a poor man than to have
someone walk I'D, spit on your grave
and say, That man made his money
dishonesty
"Now notice what follows Paul's in
junction to not steal: But let him
labor We have a commandment
which says on the seventh day thou
shalt rest. Now many people forget
this implies that on all the other six
days OF the week man shall labor.
care not how much you may have in
herited or how much you have
amassed, you have no right to live in
idleness. The young man who, by
circumstance, is born to inherit a large
fortune and spends his life in idleness
is only worthy of contempt and his
only reward is a cavity in the head
Now there is the poor man who has to
go to work at O'Clock in the morning.
He thinks often this is a hard world.
Friends, let me say to you, it is only
by work we can secure real happiness.
You may think you would be happy if
you only could be idle, but it is not
so. If you want to shipwreck your
life. then spend it in idleness.
Now the text says you must not
only labor, but labor at that which is
good. A man works down in a sewer
ditch for a dollar and a half a day.
When the work is completed he has
added to the worlds wealth His la
Dor has been a benefit to all the peo-
pie in the city, and therefore he has
1abored at that which is good. There
is another man who has put a hundred
thousand dollars in a factory. giving
employment to hundreds of men. and
the world is benefited, therefore he has
been laboring at that which is good.
But there is another man who has ia
ken hundred thousand bushels of
grain and converted it into whisky He
has done nothing for the benefit of
mankind and therefore he has not been
laboring at that which is good. He
has not enriched the world. Destroy
all the obscene literature and the
world has not been impoverished: de-
stroy the business of the man who
speculates in the wheat pit or on the
mining exchange, and you have not
destroyed any source for the enrich
ment of the world or the perpetual
ton of happiness. My friends, always
consider if it is not through toll that
this great world of ours is made bet
ter and sweeter.
And now I am going to say some
unpopular things And first / don't
want you to accuse me of not being
in sympathy with one who struggles
IN poverty. / know what poverty is.
and let no man accuse me of not be-
ing in sympathy with honest toll When
but boy ] stood beside the bed of
my mother and saw her pass away
into a sweeter and happier land, and
all for the need of the paltry sum OF
three hundred dollars At the age of
IA l took my dinner pail every even
ing and walked to the factory, where
] labored until o'clock the next morn
ing. 1 know something about toll and
poverty.
I'VE hear a great deal about labor
these days Now 1 want TO tell you
frankly it is getting so that the man
who trampS from house to house is
regarded as an honest laborer. Men
go around this land of ours foaming
about this poor wretch. Let me tell
you something. There are three kinds
of poor people-the Lords poor, the
devils poor and the poor devils The
Lords poor are those who, by reason
of sickness or adversely. become tenn
porarily embarrassed. There are few
of these, and the churches can take
care of all of them. Then there are
the devils poor He is the tramp.
who believes in organizing Coxey
armies. You have seen him come up
TO the house and ask for bread. say
ing there is no work to be secured If
you give him q bucEsaw ne seldom
bothers you. and sometimes YOU are
lucky even to get your bucksaw back.
The only remedy for this class is TO
build great reformatories where they
may be sert to and compelled to work
as they should. Now we come TO the
poor devil class. They are most to be
pitied- They are the people who don't
know how TO take care of their money
when it is earned, and to help them
is useless. You may give one of then,
a Eve thousand dollar farm and that
much more cash, and in less than
ten years ne win be as poor as ever
But let one of those who are now go
ing about the country foamine at their