The representative., 1897-06-02

| the parsonage will fully pay for all the
| cylinders needed for each Sundays SER
| vices. The phonOgraph will not only
do that, but it will furnish music as
! well-music from the masters-which
will save the organist and choir salaries.
Indeed, it looks as though the parsons
are about to follow in the steps of the
work cheaper, and in most cases can do
| it better.
We used to be told that congress and
the government could not help busi-
ness. Now the Philadelphia Times
comes boldly to the front, saying:
Congress and the president can make
business splendid" And this it de-
clares can be done by adding to the
burdens of the people hundred mill
ions year in the way of taxation-for
| the benefit of the poor manufacturers!
Free salvation" built up Protestant
| ism, and the Protestant clergy have
| been kept busy ever since explaining
that they didn't mean it literally but
| only in the abstract. The fact was that
| tradesmen wanted a tradesmen's relig-
| ion--no middlemen, cheap rates, through
| tickets, no stop-overs in purgatory, and
| every man for himself.
Get Christ to back your note, and
| then get bankrupt whenever you please.
Step by step business established the
police system. introduced the credit
| system everywhere, founded banks, de-
| flied property and captured the world.
| Today the millionaire business man is
playing the title role in life's drama
! Upon him both church and state de-
| pend. He towers above all others in
| importance and strength, and the
whole action and progress of the play
| depend on him. He is the consolidator
the organizer, the destroyer of competi-
tion. He comes like creator into the
| midst of industrial strife and chaos and
says: Let there be order, and trusts
and combines He is playing a neces-
sary and inevitable part; but of course
ne does not remain on the stage forever.
10, that day Is yearning toward us,
Dimly we discern it's shape
When the millionaire shall perish
| Like the cannibal and ape
| There is another player in the dress
ing room, waiting for his cue He is not
quite ready yet but rapidly learning
His name is The People, When the
millionaire monopolist has organized
business into a trust of trusts, and all
the commerce of the nation is controlled
| by single corporation the people will
be obliged to compel that corporation to
give every citizen share of it's stock
Then the age Of business will come 10
an end, and the age of pleasure will be
gin.
Human nature is steadily evolving
and expanding as the centuries roll
past, and is already outgrowing our
industrial system. 1T is human nature
to eat, said the savage; 1T is human
nature to fight" said the king; ''it is
| - AA'Se"iN ~ ~ oy, Sdlu CuC O.,
1T is human nature to grab,' said the
| business man.
All this is true, but is this all? Is
there not another stop in the organ
1t is human nature to co-operate and be
happy.
This is not a business universe any
more than it is a savage or a military
universe. All fighting and praying and
grabbing must pass to the rear. Sol
diers, chaplains and bankers are out
grown types, and evolution says to the
race: Pass on" The sword and the
cross and the dollar have had their dav:
let us now bring on the bouquet OF
flowers as the emblem of happier civ
ilization
Brother Gage, the new secretary OF
the treasury. is friend of labor" AT
least SO labor says, and, of course, It
must be true. Mr.. Gage recently went
to New York to consult with the "labor-
ing men" of Wall street as to what
would be good financial system for the
country. The workingmen of Wall
street, through representatives of their
union-the bankers union-told Mr.
Gage what they thought would be a
good thing for the Wall street toll
ers. They think it would be a
good thing for organized labor if the
government would retire the greenbacks
and issue bonds, which the bankers