The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-29
ANOTHER HELPER.

little weekly that has just come to our
desk. 1t is published here in Mime
apolis, and it's editor is Rev. S. w. Sam
pie. If the paper shall be up to the
standard of Mr.. Samples preaching,
we do not hesitate to say it will be a
power for good. Mr.. Sample is a re-
former of the broadgauge type. We do
not know what political party he has
voted with, but many of his pulpit ut
terances would not be Objectionable
even to the socialists. Every reformer
who lives here, or who comes to this
city, should go to his church, regardless
of what their religion may be. The re-
forms he advocates reach into the realm
of the religious, moral and social life,
as we'll as into the domain of industry,
economics and politics. He is magnetic
speaker, and his efforts are sure to
count for much in whatever part of the
reform work he may engage.
To illustrate the trend of Mr.. Sam
pies thought, we quote from his paper
the following anent the donations of
John D. Rockefeller to the Chicago uni
versity:
"But some will say that it is nevertheless
a grand, good thing that this money should
be given to support education and promote
learning. We gravely doubt it. We believe
that the fact that so many churches and col
leges and charitable institutions are found
ed upon blood money, is not only their dis
grace, but also their lightweight. 1t turns
them into stifers, not supporters. of the
education the world most needs; it makes
them promoters of death, not life. AS Will
liam J. Bryan says: Standard Oil and the
Water of Life will not mix Certainly up
to date the Chicago University has done
more to mislead the mind and corrupt the
educate the intellect. So far as it's in
f1uence has worked, it has biased not only
its own students, but also the general pub
lie, against all reform, and has held up for
adultation and imitation parsonage be-
side whom the robber barons of the Middle
only the rich and gave to the poor, while
the modern monopolist robs the poor and
gives to the rich.
''Is not all this simply the unacceptable
Karma attached to ill-gotten gains? We
pass judgment upon no mans motives or
Intentions God only reads the heart. But
if wealth is wrung out of the sweat, tears
and blood of despoiled and crushed lives,
doubt it's real helpfulness to either
church, school or charity. If what is given
in donation has just been stolen from those
bruised and beaten in life's unequal fray
there is blood upon the hand still, and all
the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten it. -
Our best wishes go with Mr.. Sam
pie in his new enterprise.
We believe his heart is in his work,
and our sympathy goes out to him and
his little family when we think of the
thankless task he has undertaken.
We are moved to pity when we realize
how insignificant are the results
wrought out by the efforts of any sin
gle reformer, however able he may be-
We are forced to feel many times that
the efforts of all reformers are vain eff
forts. The people like to be skinned;
they will not read reform papers; they
will not go to hear reform sermons
they are not ready for reform; they are
not yet ready for another step in the
evolution
The thought comes to us, Would it
not be wiser for reformers to reserve
their efforts for their own little fami-
lies, and let the merciless waves of greed
and plumber roll on? Years of resist
ance have proved our inability to check
the irresistible.
The formation of a single trust that
shall embrace all American railroads
will do more for mankind in one year
than all the reform preachers and
writer's in this Union can do in ten
years. The great American trust is the
mighty engine of reform; human greed
is the motive power, and if we would
make quick trip to the haven of re-
form, let us throw wide open the
throttles of greed, remove the fric-
ton of calamity agitation, and on the
ball bearings of monopoly; money roll
the quicker to our destinations Corpora
ton is the first station on this line.
The small trust unites corporations;
the large trust binds together lot of
small ones, and when all trusts shall
thus be bound together into one great
American trust, the people will have
sense enough to nationalize it, and the
thing is done, reform is realized and the
goal is reached. E. A. t.