The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-21
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BUSINESS AND RELIGION.
The Rev. Mr.. Swaffield Tells
Merchants That Each
Needs the Other.
| REVIVAL OF PATRIOTISM.
Brewers Censured For Max
ing the Consumer Pay
Their War Tax.
REVIVAL OF PATRIOTISM

The first of a series of lectures arrang-
ed by the ember Of the Merchants
Protective Association, of Hudson County
for the edification of themselves and their
employees. was delivered last evening, at
the Avenue House. by the Rev. w. ].
Swafield, of the Summit Avenue Baptist
church. The attendance was quite large.
A regular meeting of the association was
held, and the lecture was given under the
heading of good and welfare" Mr..
Swaffield's lecture was of a patriotic ma
ture. It was e~loquently delivered n list
ened to and appreciated by all present. Mr..
SwafIlel6s theme was concerning the adj
vantage of mixing religion and patriotism
with business.
During the business meeting a commit
tee consisting of James ]. Waters and
William Rollins, from the Travelling Mar
ketmen's Protective Association was re-
ceived. The committee asked for and
was accorded cooperation in the efforts
of the Travelling Marketmen's Associa-
ton, in securing the passage of ar ordi-
nance, recently presented by e to the
Board of Aldermen, regulating the
peddling traffic. The proposed ordinance
prescribes that licenses to peddle Shall be
issued only to responsible persons, and
that the cost shall be SIS. The applicant
must be twenty-five years of age, a resi-
dent of Jersey City. The application
must be signed by at least six reputable
tax payers in the ward or district in
which the applicant lives, and a number
ed badge given the applicant for each Ii
cense issued. The ordinance aims at all
existing abuses, including that of allow
ing peddlers to employ any number of
men to work under one license. Messrs.
j. w. Black, ]. Sc~hellenberger and Henry
Lane were appointed by the Merchants
Association to cooperate with that of
the Travelling Marketmen.
The latter were recognized through mo-
pressed the opinion that the cost of the
license should be $50. Ex-President Meyer
said that the association could do no less
than grant the cooperation asked for.
Promiscuous peddling, he said, should
be done away with.
The Merchants Association decided to
invest the S. which it recently offered to
the National Government, through Cover
nor Voorhees,, in a Government war bond
of that denomination. 1t is proposed to
establish a fund to be known as the As
sociation,s War Fund.
When the Rev. Mr.. Swaffield was intro
duced under the heading of good and
welfare hi said, he was glad of the OPP
%portunity of talking to business men ex-
clusively. Christianity. he believed,
should extend to business. While he
knew that a great nan things done in
business transactions was not in accord
ance with Christian ethics. he thought
that there was also great need for bust
ness in religion. 1t was not possible, 1t
was not honest, he said, to attempt to run
a $4,000 church business on a capital of
$3.50, and trust to luck in carrying it
through. Such methods had caused the
church to lose much of it's grip on BUSH
ness men. They were not always con-
Quoted on business principles, and were
thus sometimes obliged to out-run the
constable.
So much by way of Introduction. Then
the reverend gentleman branched out on
a patriotic theme. He pictured to he
merchants what a splendid opportunity
they had at present in showing their pa
triotism in providing .'sinews of war"
and warned them against doing SO and
expecting to get their returns by unjust
taxation of articles sold their customers.
In eloquent language and logical argu-
ments he told them of the practical re-
suits which will follow the great a "
Of patriotism which is now sweeping
over the country. He pronounced it a
revival of patriotism" He scored the
rich brewers for their action in immedi-
ately putting up the price of beer 81 a
barrel as soon as such a war tax was
imposed, and making the consumer, who
gets nothing but froth, pay the war tax.
Not a single leaf of laurel hould be all
lowed to rest for a moment on a brew
er's head during revival of patriotism.
The speaker warned his hearers against
such tactics and said If they did resort
to 1t their customers would, sooner or
later, get square with them. All should
pear the war tax in proportion to their
individual means. The merchant should
bear his share as we'll as the customer.
pose as a hero along the line of patriot
ism at his time in furnishing sinews of
war.
Zone of the practical results of this
wave of patriotism" said the lecturer,
twill be the development of a better,
nobler type of manhood that will greet
the dawn Of the twentieth century. They
will be stronger men, with truer hearts
and stronger minds, men whom the spoils
of Office cannot SPOIL"
1t would result, he said. in the consum-
nation of the Anglo-Saxon alliance,
along the line of biblical prophecy, which
was being fulfilled as truly as vas the
advent Of the Messiah or the downfall of
Jerusalem. The mingling of the Stars and
Stripes of the United. States with the
folds of the Union Jack meant more han
the unfurling Of a flag Of peace. When
such comes to pass the other combined
fleets of the world might as well go into
their drydocks for the remainder of their