The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-12-14

king under protest. Our republic is the
Israel restored, the nation born in
day. and the only government that was
ever born in a day. Mammon idolatry
has perverted our republic until it is
only republic in name. Instead of
choosing men who fear God and hate
covetousness, we elect men who seek Of
flee in order to make money, regardless
of God or man. The man who comes
out of Office without being rich has
missed his opportunity.
Mammon idolatrs rules everything
now, politically and rellglously. No
man can succeed new in church or state
unless he has the mark of this beast
in his forehead and in his hands.
The only way to. secure reform any
where is to abolish mammon worship.
So long as the chief end of man, of
business, of commerce, of everything, is
to get money, so long will we be defeat
ed if we monkey ground to secure our
pet measure of az kind. Division
means defeat. TIE high priest5 of
mammon unite and conquer. The peo-
pie, the toilers, the wealth producers,
have divided their forces heretofore, and
met defeat every tine.
The masses have been deceived. The
cunning high priests OF ma,nmon have
made them believe a multitude of false
hoods; that the tarifi, or bimetallism, or
immigration or the4single tax, or some
other side issue such as prohibition or
the rum trafic-that these things are
the disturbing eles cnts. Thousands
and millions OF men believe today that
If some of the questitls were settled cor
rectly, that our poll sical troubles would
end. But that is aaereat mistake and
the mammon priest" know it. Their
business is to draw interest from every
body in every turn of The wheel. Their
business and their interests are directly
against the interest Of the wealth pro-
ducers. They get tie wealth without
producing it. They 10 this by controlling
the government by and through the
Democratic and s.apuhlican I. parties.
They own them botl. There is no issue
between these parts that amounts to
the ashes of a rush But they keep the
masses deceived by making them be-.
lieve that the tariff or bimetallism or
some other thing is Of great Importance
All the reform forces, all labor organi-
cations, every laboring man, should i'm
mediately swear eternal enmity to these
old parties. The party that is in favor
of bonds and redemption money, is in
favor of enslaving the toilers. The
leaders know that. 1t is their method of
growing rich in idleness. No man can
serve God and indorse the doctrines Of
the two dominant parties on the money
question. Eye cannot serve God and
mammon.'
Hence this battle now raging is a war
between sin and righteousness, between
right and wrong, between serving God
and serving sin.
No man can vote in favor of lends,
debts, and usury, without violating the
man can vote the Republican Or Demo-
cratic ticket without SHINING" We
have been deceived too long already. 1t
is time we wake UP. We are slumber-
ing over volcano now.
Mammon idolatry has about ruined us.
The ballot, this most sacred of all things
to free men, is lightly esteemed. 1t is
thing of merchandise. It is sold and
bought in the open market. 1t is cheap
too. Thousands upon thousands of
free men will sell their vote for glass
of beer or the promise of job of work,
or a dollar Our country is in the
jaws of death when we reach such a
state. But we are there. Elections are
farce.
Money, bribery, force, starvation, des-
titution. these drive voters to the polls
like sheep to the shambles. They only
hope to relieve present hard conditions.
The man that votes against the cause
which produced these hard conditions,
and the decentralization which must re-
suit from them votes to serve God.
This is the object of every labor or re-
form organization. Hence they are call
ed the people of the saints of the Most
High"
They are working and voting for hu
manitv and for God And they will sue
ceed They are on Gods side and must
win.
They are working to secure a perfect
form of government in which all men
will be equal in lava true republic.
This is the government to be set up
and the prophet said it would stand
forever"