Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-25

mat 8 Carlsen, the socialistic lead CT. Now you'll hear something.
 This is all hosh, to my mind ;, ha- gan Carlsen, while his great bristling beard shook with the deep, inward anger of the man. 1.-The whole of aur system Is at fault. What we call civil nzatlon Is rotten to the core. There is no use trying to hide it or cover it up. we live In an age of trusts and com plnes and capitalistie greed that means simply death to thousands of innocent men, women and children. I thank uoa, II there Is God, which very much doubt, that I, for one, have never oareo to marry and try to have a home Homei Talk of hell Is there any big ger than the one this man with his three children has on his hands right this minutef And he's only one out of thousands, and yet this city and every other big city in this country has it's thousands of professed Christians who nave all the luxuries and comforts and who go to church Sundays and sing the1r hymns about giving all to Jesus and bearing the cross and following him all the way and being saved! I don't say that there aren't some good men and women among them, but let the minister who has spoken to us here to- night go iss9 any one of dozen aYis- teefatie churches I could name and pro pose to the members to take any such pledge as the one he's proposed here and see how quick the people would laugh at him for q fool or crank or q fanatic. 0h, mol That not the remedy That can t ever amount to anything. We've got to have new start in the way of government. The whole thing needs re- constructing 1 don t look for any re- form worth anything to come out of the churches They are not with the people, They are with the aristocrats, with the men of money. The trusts and monopolies have their greatest men in the churches. The ministers as a class are their slaves. What we need is a system that shall start from the com mon basis of socialism founded on the rights of the common people. =
 Garlsen had evidently forgotten all about the three minute rule and was launching himself into regular ora tion that meant, in his usual surround ings, before his usual audience an hour at least, when the man just behind him 1 pulled him down unceremoniouslY and rose. Garlsen was angry at first and threatened a little disturbance, but the bishop reminded him of the rule, and he s1lbsided. with several mutterings in his beard, while the next speaker be- gan with very strong eulogy on the value of the single tax as 8 genuine remedy for all the social ills He was 1 followed by a man who made & bitter attack on the churches and ministers and declared that the two great obsta cles in the way of all true reform were the courts and the ecclesiastical ma chimes.
 When he sat down, man who bore every mark of being a street laborer sprang to his feet and poured out a per feet torrent of abuse against the corpor- ationa, especially the railroads. The minute his time was up a big, brawny fellow who said he was a metal worker by trade claimed the floor and declared that the remedy for the social wrongs was trades unionism This, he said, would bring OH the millennium for la ho9 more than anything else. The next jman enaeavofed to give some reasons why SD many persons were outlof em- I ployment and condemned inventions as the works Of the devil He was loudly applauded by the rest of the company. Finally the bishop called time on the free for all and asked Rachel to sing.
 Rachel yEinslow had grown into a very strong. healthful, humble Chris tan during that wonderful year in Raymond dating from the Sunday When she Grst took the pledge to do as Jesus would 10, and her great talent of song lad heeE4 fully consecrated to the service of her Master When she began to sing tonight at this settlement meet ing, she had never prayed more deeply for results to come from her yoice-the voice which she HOW regarded as the Master $, to be used for him.
 Certainly her prayer was being an swered as she sang. She had chosen the words
 K. the voice of Jesus calling,
 Follow me, follow mel