The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-04-21

Unless. the Senator says, Neral Forces
smash MonopoIie,.
Washington Post
Senator Marion Butler, Of North
Carolina, spoke last night at the Peo-
pies Church, (TOm Dixon's church
New York; in Typographical Tenn
pie. He was introduced by Rev. DIR.
Kent, and spoke upon the DUTY of the
Moral Forces in Relation to Trusts
and Monopolies."
The Senator began with the quota
ton that "man's inhumanity to man
makes countless thousands MOURN" "If
that is So" continued the speaker,
"why is it so, and it being SO, what
is the church doing about it? It is
truth which cannot be cOntroverted.
that in a government of the people, in
q republic, misery, distress, the great
inequality in the distribution of
wealth, the evils which God did not
put upon US, cannot exist if the great
moral forces of society, the churches,
the colleges, and the schools, do their
duty.
"rhe influences which combine and
conspire to levy tribute upon the many
for the benefit of the few cannot sue
cessfuIly carry out their purpose and
produce the results which they have
unless those influences be first used in
combining and conspiring to poison
the fountain heads of learning and
mufIle the pulpit. What l complain
of as one of the fundamental evils of
society is that the masses Of the peO-
pie are deprived Of the opportunity OF
acquiring the wealth that they pro-
duce and earn; that those who produce
the wealth to-day do not enjoy that
wealth; it is concentrated in the hands
of a few-those who toll not, neither
do they spin.' They tell us that the
poor we have with us always. Yes
there are in every community those
who will not take advantage of the op-
portunities afforded them; they bury
their talents. The majority Of the
people of this country are being made
poor while they are making the cOun'
try rich"
As q remedy for these evils Senator
Butler said that if the ministers ant
the college professors, the educators
and other great moral forces did theii
duty there would be sent to Congress
better men, who would make better
laws, Christians should turn them
selves into committee of inquiry ant
seek out the causes of our distress ant
how they might be alleviated. He dit
not believe in injecting politics int
religion, but he did believe in insert
ing little religion into politics.
II do not criticise milliOnaires 81
much for being millionaires and TO
the burdens they impose upon the res
of humanity. We would all do tn
same ourselves were we in their places
or could we secure a monopoly. w
ourselves are to blame for allowing
these things to 60 on and these condl
tions to exist when is vested in US tn
power to prevent them" Continuing
Senator Butler enumerated and dwel
at some length upon the monopoly q
money, of the railroad, and the tele
graph. The only solution, he said,
through the medium of the ballot-bo,
but he feared that the great mora
; forces of society would delay in pei
forming their duty too long, in whlc
!, case he prophesied that the change
. conditions would surely come throug
revolution, which he hoped would
:. less bloody than the great French rev
olution. He prayed that some powt
would move the pulpit, the press, an
q other great moral forces to come to Il
lreSCue.