The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-02
TEST OF MANS
LOVE TO GOD
Standard Oil and Water ct
Life Will not Mix.
WHERE INJUSTICE is DONE
MIR. BRYAN DISCUSSES CHRIS
TIANITY APPLIED TO HUMAN
GOVERNMENT"
WHERE INJUSTICE is DONE
A GOOD SUNDAY SERMON FOR ALL
The Duty of Man Toward God and his Duty
to His Fellow Man Defined by The
Great Nebraskan.
New York Journal.)

IF a man say. | love God and hateth
his brother, he is liar: for he that
loveth not his brother whom he hath
seen, how can he love Goa, whom he
hath not seem
Thus does John, in his first epistie.
denounce those who pretend to love
the Heavenly Father while they hate
the earthly brother
Christ condensed the Ten Command
ments into two when he usaid: Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart. and with all thy soul. and
and great commandment. And the
second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as myself
The first defines mans duty toward
the Almighty; the second. his duty to-
ward his fellowmen. The fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood of man are
parts of the same gospel and cannot
he separated We have no way Of
measuring mans love toward the Crea-
tor except by the good will which he
manifests toward his fellow creatures.
There is a wide zone between the af-
firmative beneyolence which religion
commands and the rectitude which
government compels. The Christian
cannot content himself with a life of
negative harmlessness: the fruits of the
spirit must manifest themselves in posi-
tive helpfulness.
The object of this article. however.
is not to point out ways in which the
Christian may aid his brother. but rath-
err .to Indicate a few of the ways in
which he may, be doing injustice to
him.
The subject of taxation is an ever
present one: other questions may come
and go, but this question. like Tenny-
sons brook, goes on forever. 1T is an
admitted proposition that each citizen
should contribute to the support OF his
government in proportion to the protec
ton enjoyed by him and the benefits
received. If, because of a bad system
of taxation or because of the faulty adj
ministration of q good system. taxes are
collected iazssAeif. a why that some pay
more than their share and other less, In.
justice is done TO those oyerburdened
and Partially shown to those too lightly
taxed. An unjust system, In effect col
lects from those overtaxed and gives
to those undertaxed or. in other words,
transfers money from one mans pocket
to another mans pocket.
The wrong done in this way ap-
proaches, if it does not reach, the pro-
portions of grand larceny. If the un-
just law is the handiwork of those
who profit by it, and is enacted because
of the advantage which it brings to its
authors. how shall we describe the
moral character of the act? The wrong
consists in the fact that money is TAX
en- from one person without an eqlliva-
lent being returned by the government
and given to another without a consid-
GRAFTON being demanded, the method
being immateral. The person who
robs by force or by fraud is no more
guilty from a moral standpoint than
the man who purposely secures legisla-
ton which transfers to tine shoulders
of others the public burden which he
himself ought to bear. The advocates
of an income tax believe that taxation
involves a moral as well as political
question and. believing in equality be-