The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-29
SPOKE TO THE MINISTERS.
Prof. 2ic"ron, "f G"inncil, I"., Talks
oG 5uniciDnI Ownership ia Cities
og america.

A union meeting of minister's was held in
the Central Presbyterian church yesterday
morning.
The feature of the meeting was an address
BY Prof. HERON. Of Iowa college.
Previous TO the address the Legislative COM
n.ittee of the municipal league made II re
pert and handed out additional membership
Fled Secretary c. 5. Ward, of the inter-
national committee Of the y. NJ. c. A. was
also present. and occupied Il few minutes
with an outline of the reorganization plans
of the Y. NJ. {. A. He strongly urged tho
minister's to interest the young men Of their
churches in the movement.
Prof. Ierron's subject was Municipal
Ownership in Cities of America" lie said:
Everything possible is being done to OBJ
struct the efforts Of the people to own
and manage their municipal economy. But
you might as we'll appoint a committee
to go and sit down upon the sun in the
morning 10 keep it from rising as to fight
political or municipal corruption itself. The
foundation upon which this thing rests IS
business corruption. 1t is the good cltl-
zens in your churches who are response
BILE for it, whose business rests upon it and
who could not do without 1t. Tammany
hall is the mere agent OF the good citizens
whose wealth is built up by this corrup-
ton. Political corruption IS not to blame;
it IS simply the overflow of tho business
corruption created by the men who sit sun
day after Sunday in the pews before you.
DR.. Ierrons address was enthusiastically
but there were a few who looked as If they
did not relish mis- remarks.
Rev. w. W. Evarts asked the speaker if
there had ever been a nation that amounted
to anything in the history of the world that
had no private property.
DR.. Heron said that monasteries, as hey
were originally founded, were communal
systems where all worked alike, and that
the great cathcdrals OF Europe were built by
them Further. he said that he did not wish
to abolish private property. but that he
wished to establish system whereby all
Prof Heron spoke before a gathering Of
women in the lecture rooms OF the st. Paul
Commons yesterday afternoon.
| always find 1t necessary to say, he be-
gan in beginning to speak on what we
broadly call the social problem, that, put
ting 1t briefly, it is problem Of how to
organize the world so that all may share
the benefits Of the world. This problem IS
coming TO US largely in the shape OF con-
science.
Jesus prcclpitatcd a new kind of con-
science in a programme for making heaven
out Of the world This programme came
in contact with the Greek scientific world,
with the Roman world Of law and politics,
with the great barbarian world. Now for
the first time in human history Jesus Is
really getting chance.
The majority Of rational beings are no
privileges of art. of education, Of dress Of
money that their fellow beings cannot share
with them. All rational beings, all beings
rational enough to have conscience, are
more or less uneasy at having something
that other people cannot have. and are get
ting themselves seriously to inquire if there
is any reason for the lower classes, the
classification of cultured and uncultured.
This classification is degrading TO the peO-
pie in the lower classes. Anything that
disfellows that places one in an atti-
tuIe of superiority TO another is irrational
and blasphCmOus These distinctions that
separate being from being. that put SOME
thing between fellow-son or fellow-daughtcr