The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-17

REV. J. c. HOGAN.
some in the audience. During his ad-
dress Mr.. Hogan read articles taken
from newspapers to reinforce his
statements. one Of these clippings
was intended to show the contrast be-
tween what Mr.. Hogan called "abnor-
NAL wealth and abjcct poverty" One
told of a. party given by a wealthy
parsonage in New York city in honor
Of pug dogs birthday at which all
the select pug dogs of the neighbOr-
hood, attired in fancy things, jewelry,
coats of arms, etc, attended.
on the same uay, December 4, a baby
was found on doorstep and the moth
er of the child was sent to jail until
she could regain her strength under
mined by lack Of food. Mr. Hogan re-
| ferred to the churches as "alleged
churches" and took particular care to
say alleged every time. In few
| fiery words he also denounced the
Christian Endeavor society, particular
ly lis sinful leadership" as he called
it. He thought that should do" and
not "endeavor." An outline of the SER
mon is here given:
WHAT MIR. HOGAN SAID.
Under present religious, social and poll
| tical conditions in this country we are
! making mIllionaires by the hundred aud
| paupers by the millions With room
| enough for all the Inhabitants of the earth
ana resources untold, we have more fam
! ilics without homes of their own than are
! to be found in Germany or France or Eng
| land today, yet England has 500 population
| to the square mile, and the United States
a population of but eighteen to tho square
! mile In 1890 the farmers owned two
thirds of the total wealth of the nation,
| in 1890 they owned less than one-thrd.
| Today the legaliZcd monOpolists pup Is
| better cared for than the honest poor
mans child, hundred of thousands of chill
| dren are noe so much born into the world
! as damned into it and cursed out of it by
| conditions forced upon them. Millions of
men, able ana willing to work, are idle;
millions of women forced TO enter the
| ways of toll in order to keep body and
| soul together and millions of children
compelled TO work or starve. What is the
! trouble? 1t cannot be overproduction, tor
that would be to make plenty the cause of
| poverty, and the blessings of God the
means of misery. No, it is not overpro-
| duCtion, but underconsumptiom and un-
| equal distribution.
| Every dollar represents the product of
somebody's labor, but there are only three
| ways of getting a dollar. First, receiving
it from some one to whom it belongs,
| without giving anything in return, but
with the consent of the person from whom
| you receive it-that is charity; second,
! taking II from some one to whom it be-
longs without giving any return, but
| without the consent of the person from
| whom you took it-that Is robbery; third,
the third way of getting a dollar is to give
a dollars worth of value, either in prop
| have Ia n
hand or brain-that is trade, eXchansc,
| labor. A dollar obtained in this way is a
dollar earned; so say the best authorities.
QUOTED SOME FIGURES.
But for a man to earn million dollars
in forty years-which is a long lifetime OF
tOil-he will have to earn, over and above
his living expenses, about $500 a week
There are many men in this country whose
| daily labor does not amount to much, but
| whose daily income Is something startling
| That of AsJor is said to be $23, 593; j. d
| ROckafcller, SlS,7l5; Vanderbilt, Sl5,2lt
! This is the daily, not the annual income
Of these men, and they are only types
There are said to be ten men in the state
OF New York whose annual income Is
| equal to the annual income of All tht
farmers in that state combined.
1t is said the late Jay Gould died worth
a hundred million dollars. If he had start,
ing a salary of $50 day; had he worked
every day, and had he been able to save
every dollar he earned, he would not
yet have earned his hundred millions
when he died. Fifty dollars a day, OF
5000 a week, is a very liberal salary; anC
yet a man earning that amount, spending
nothing, and working uninterruptedly fol
5000 years, would not have accumulated
what the late Jay Gould accumulated il
about twenty years.
How did he do IL? Mostly by railroad
wreCkinG; a system similar TO the method!
by which gamblers corner the grain mar
ket, the money market and other market,
of commerce, And these systems and con
ditions are made possible through gin-mil
politics, the liquor traffic and the churci
traffic.
Contrast this wealth and these incomes
with the poverty and destitution that eN
lists in this city and vicinity. According
to newspaper reports old men, women an,
children by the scores may be seen a
public dun ping grounds striving to ge
O'd beef livers, lungs, pieces Of meat ant
other refuse TO stay off starvation. An
in many of the great cities even this can
not be done.
THING OF IMAGINATION.
These are some of the Industrial and po
litical conditions which now obtain in thi
country, and have grown up side by sid
with the multiplication of churches an
the Increase I'm ministers. These are som
of the fruits Of political sin and sinners
and that, too, Notwithstanding SO per cent
OF the total vote I'm this country represent
9hurch voters So evidently Christian
citizenship is largely a thing of ina gina
! tion. But this need not surprise us whel
we remember that these churches have eX
pressly declared In resolution that no si
or crime that man may commit at tn
ballot box or In his political relations vii
impair his standing in the ministry or tn
membership. They say they do not pre-
sumo TO dictate as to the matter OF thei
votes. But It is not a question of votes
but a matter Of morals, and the wor