The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-12-22
THE GREED FOR GAIN.

Unless the supreme coura upsets the
administration policy in Porto Rico and
the Philippines, by its decision in the
cases before il, the war OF determination
or suhjngation now being carried on in
the islands will be continued to the bitter
end, no matter how many thousands OF
lives it costs or how many millions OF
dollars. The edict has gone forth that
in order to make dollars for few mil
lionaires, the slaughter must continue.
he1dollar is placed before the man; it
is worshiped before the God OF creation,
and is made the standard BY which a
man is measured. Bishop Potter, Of
New York, covered the whole matter IN
few words in n recent public address.
when he said: Challenge what method
you will in the complicated web OF our
industrial. political or social life and you
Eill find the question OF gain behind il.
Listen 10 what scandal you may in the
haunts oil politicians, in the camps OF
soldiers, in the halls OF fashions, the final
standard in the whole business may be
expressed by dollar mark" The Fill
Pine war is being carried on for the dol
lar. Stop the possibility Of wealthy
syndicates expoliAting the islands for
what money there is in it and the war
would cease immediately: our I'M
bounded anxiety to christianize and civ,
ilize the inha bitants by benevolent assim
ilation would fall to a point below zero.
The same Is true Of the war now being
waged in South Africa by the mother OF
American Civilization. The cause, as
bishop Potter plainly puts it. is ex-
pressed by the dollar mark. The same
greed that brought about the overthrow
al the money-changers in the temple is
taking deep root in American and Eng
lish commercial, social and religious life.
The greed for gain is Wrecking the nation
commercially, morally and socially. The
eager. dominant hunger for the dollar.
which ore sees in all phases OF life is
saPping the better instincts OF man
and making OF him machine for grind.
ing out money. Bishop Potter shields
not these evil tendencies. for the sake OF
religion or policy, but speaks plainly the
truth when he saws: Listen to the talk
ofchiidren as they measure and compare
their elders. Hear a group Of young
girls whose fresh youth one would think
ought, in the matter OF their most tender
and sacred affections, to be as free from
soriid instinct as from the faint OF a
Goddess cynicism, and you will find they
have their price and are not to be had
without it any more than Circassian
slave in the market OF Bagdad. Go
where you may, talk with whom you will
with clergymen, estimating the prom
Use OF a field for spiritual labors, with
wGmen rating the claims Of other women
upon their social recognition; with heads
OF great universities paTalyzed with
fright lest the indiscreticn Of some plain
spoken professor, who tells this age the
truth in an hour when it sorely needs to
hear it, shall cut down the revenues oil
the college-it is no matter, the com.
inerrial question is at the bottom Of il
and decides usually all the others." lie
is not "Brysnite" nor an Anarchist"
as the Republican leaders were in the
habit Of calling all those who believed in
the ideas eet forth in his plain talk ol
present conditions. He 10 not talking
from political point Of view; but as a
citizen who sees the danger ahead. lie
will be clsssed rs All Anarchist by the
money changers-by the greedy whose
standard is the dollar.