The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-13
Philippine and Boer Campaigns
Wagsd for Money.
THAT IS MODERN EXPANSION.
Rev. Alfred W. Martin 0uotes From
Support His Clatm That DlumRn-
ity In Not Cause Of Expansion
End With Talx OF Thclr wealth.

That mammon worship Is the cause Of
the two great campaigns being carried
on In the Philippines and South Africa
was the position taken by Rev. Alfred w.
Martin in his discourse on Modern Mann
mon Worship" at the G. a. n. hall last
night After briefly contrasting ancient
and modern idoiatry, MIR. Martin pointed
TO the signs OF the prevailing ascendeney
of the spirit OF gain and greed over every
other human passion ard pursuit. Turn
ing to England he said this spirit was i'll
concealed In the oratory that tried to
make IL appear that humanitarianism was
the moving force and motive in England
foreign policies in India, Egypt and At
RIGA. He quoted from the speeches Of
Mr.. Chamberlain In confirmation of his
contention that hypocrisy characterizes
this glib talk about taking up the white
mans burden
There gloats behind IT, ne said. 1.-The
spirit of commercial seifishness. 1t is a
moral anti-climax for a speech to begin
with sympathy and pity for the Beers.
and then end with descriptions of the gold
fields of Cape Town and the diamond
mines of Kimberley. But let us not for
get to cast the mote from our own eyes;
for We In America must plead guilty TO
the same charge of being controlled in
though often processing to be al,ruistic
and to be eager to take up our share OF
the white mans burden
AT this point Mr.. Martin quoted from
several speeches delivered In Chicago.
Minneapolis and New York by leading
statesmen. journalists and f1nanciers. ''all
of which,, he said. like Chamberlain S
speeches. begin with processing sympathy
for the uncfyiiized and desire to edu-
cate and uplift them, but end with ac-
counts OF the mineral and agricultural re-
sources. the opportunities for syndicates
and expioiters. The men actually In the
HI q
care to be eoft-sawdered and dubbed with
sanctimonious epithets. They know what
they are there for They frankly admit
II Is for more money, for new markets.
not to uplfft negroes or dagoes or the
slant-eyeA people of Cathay.
"All this demonstrates the mammonic
spirit OF our time. articulated very plain
ly by great orators. expressed less clearly
by hundreds OF busy folk, accepted by
thousands of men and women In all
classes OF society. This commercial self
ship Of mammon. is the supreme danger
in America today. We see 1t in our do
mestic relations fully as much as In our
foreign foreign relations Men aawn W.T., before fore
or and the happiness OF themselves and
their families for II.
What Is the cure for this idoiatry
There is only one 1t Is the substitution
OF worthy object of worship for that OF
mammon. And this cure works very
slowly: 1t Is matter of education. of
culture. OF moral evolution. and that pro-
cess Is very slow. requiring generations
upon generations TO accomplish II. But
every good man and woman can help the
process on by setting an example OF this
higher kind Of worship. the worship of
manhood and womanhood. Of personal In
teErity and character, which all the
wealth In the world cannot buy. II a
mans character is offensive or objection
able his wealth will not wipe IT away.
Only moral quality Will tell in the end.
only on that ground can we claim respect,
be our bank deposits great or small. The
only temple worthy for worship Is the
eternal temple of sohriety and simplicity,
of Justice and love"