The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-02
WARFARE of CONNER
What 1t Means Carried to Its Log
zeal Conclusion.
% the Editor Of the Globe

To the Editor Of the Globe
1t is gratifying in the extreme to find
cosmopolitan daily which aims to grant an
unbiased hearing to ayman who may differ
In opinion with the policy of its editor.
While | agree in a measure with your
editorial of today l still maintain in obed-
fence to the divine law, that the aim of our
civilization can never be attained SO long
as we are content to submit In silence to the
merciless warfare Of modern commercialtsm,
which must inevitably when carried to It's
logical conclusion, consign every man to the
street and every child to the store, workshop
or factory. Cali this "sentimentansm" If
you please; the Jfact remains, nevertheless,
that Is is dawning upon the mind Of the
most bigoted optimist that there is such
a thing as Justice Applied Christianity would
place every child in the school, every woman
In the home and every man in the factory, Of
fee store workshop And why is it not
applied? 1t is certainly advocated enough.
You seem to assume that because things are
they are they must be right. Christianity
refUtes the proposition. Christ found things
in his day were being conducted TO the salts
faction Of the fortunate, as they are today.
and had his pretending followers practiced
his teachings weg would not be facing such
Industrial conditions as we are today.
1T Is better to- give than to receive" and
DO unto Others as We would have others
do unto YOU is the law Of Christ 1T Ia bet
ter to steal than to starve, and DO others
before they get chance to do you'' Is the
law Of modern civilization.
l prefer to accept the former for my ideal,
and have endeavored to prove it by my
life and actions. II my ideal conflicts with
must take the blame. | maintain that the
laws Of trade should conform to the laws
Of God. The law of compensation, " from the
standpoint Of the political economist, Is
fraught with deep significance. To the citi-
zen DESTROYS Of eliminating the present condi-
tion of widespread poverty and despair it
is but a glittering generality
Must mankind starve in order that the
laws Of trade and compensation may remain
invioate? Is there no higher ideal in human
existence than that OF seY2 Is Christianity a
myth and its teaching a de!usion? say
no; emphatically no. So long as there is
one honest human being willing to work
who has less than enough no man is entitled
to more than enough.
While this statement may conflict with the
theory of the political economist II certainly
is in strict conformity with the true Chris
tian spirit Of life DO unto others as YOU
would have others do unto You.
AS you assert, my quarrel is not T n
Progress or the department store Iy
quarrel is with the system of society VIII .ch
creates such paradoxical conditions as con-
fronts the world today. Millions starving in
the midst Of abundance. What a satire on
our boosted progressive civilization. My sym
pathieS are not confined to the victims Of
the department store, but extend into every
sway. ''''US
Darwin's law ofsthe survival of the Httest"
Is no longer considered an economic axiom
1t is paralleled by the ancient theory that
para graph I take EXCEPTIONS believing
as l do that when the masses realize that
they must fight fire with fire. they will
InEtgtrat9 a Pegimeeof cooperation az out.
lined in your editorial
Again thanking you for the courtesy Of
contained in your editorial, I am respectfully,
Louis Nash