The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-12-11

The Lust Of Money is the Root OF Cor
ruption, Crime and Divorce.
WEALTH AND SOCIAL PULL PARAMOUNT
He Slgg.s S That Men Of Und:s2uted Leader
shic Band Themselves Together TO
pi:c3urags "lhe Habit Of tx
cessiye ( ccumula;ions.
Especial to the n. Y. World.)


New Haven, Conn, Dec. 6.-Bfshop
Potter. in an address tonight before the
church Club CT New Haven. spoke at
length on Wealth and commonwealth.
II choose this subject because of its
Importance" he said. d.
vorce. crime, corruption in all our cities
have one root. the lust of money. me
one eager, dominant hunger which sa-
lutes us from one end 10 another OF our
broad land is the passion, the hunger,
the greed of gain.
challenge what method you will N
the complicated web of our industrial,
political. social life and you will find the
question of gain behind it. Listen to
VIA scandal you may IN the haunts OF
politicians. in the camps Of soldiers, II.
The halls of fashion, the final standard in
the whole business may be expressed by
a dollar mark.
Listen to the talk of children 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 sordid instinct as from
the faint of goddess cynicism, and you
will find that they have their price and
are not to be had without it any more
than a Circassian slave in the market
of Bagdad.
GO where you may, talk with whom
you will-with cIergymen estimating the
promise of field for spiritual labor, with
women rating the claims of other women
upon their social recognition, with the
heads Of great universities paralyzed with
fright lest the indiscretiOns of some
plain-spoken professor who tells his age
the truth in an hour when it sorely needs
- 1,ao, - 1LoI1 o,t I1I,r,, tI,o aron,,n of
the college-'tis no matter, the CONNER
cial question IS at the bottom Of it AID
decides usually all the others"
FASHION ASSAILED.
read the other day Of a woman at
the Horse Show whose attire was A dress
made of the skins of unborn lambs. What
do you think of such a thing? Is not
Suppose-and mind | say suppose-a
this a relic of barbarism?
great insurance company or a great bank
ing institution is charged with paying
for the protection Of interests. And the
answer might come that it was for the
buying Of protection of widows and or
phans. Might not the widow and orphan
have a conscience concerning this inter
est n their behalf.
I'VE may shout till we are black in the
face that we are the greatest and the
bravest and the biggest AMI the strong
est and the richest nation in Christen-
dom. hut there comes Il strange awe ii
the heart as we turn back ard read of
what kind of stuff the first comer5 to
these shores mainly were.
with us is the enjoyment of all that
they contendad for, and Of so much more
that if they were to come back today
and see the homes and the dress and
tho manners of thpir IocoanIon4c +boy
would think themselves in London in
the time Of Charles or in Versailles in
time of the Louis, but certainly not in
the Philadelphia or the New York of
their earthly probation
0 A~NTI-WEALTH BAND.
IF material wealth be the end of be-
ing, if accumulation be the worthiest aim
of human ambition, if the palaces or the
buying of legislatures be the final and
highest distinction possible to modern
manhood then we must needs look them
in the face.
For one, l have no smallest hope that
any mechanism Of legislation, any sys-
tenn OF socialism,. any scheme Of agra
ran distribution CT taxation will in the
remotest degree remove them. The
church OF God must go up, must stay up
upon a much higher plane than that.
What would be the effect if a COM
pany Of men and women of recognized
leadership should bind themselves to-
Sether to illustrate in their habit of life
simplicity of attire, Responsiveness in
their dWellings-should further bind
themselves to discourage the habit of ex-
c%essive accumulation? For myself I be-
lleVe that such q suggestion would at
tract far greater numbers than most Of
us believe"
PERSIAN LAMB COAT WORN BY MRS
CLARENCE MACkAY AT HORSE
SHOW.
neither or not this was what Bishon
POTTER had in mind when he referred 70
the custom OF using the wool of unborn
iafnpS, the following appears in one of
me fashion reports of the Horse show.
MIS-. Clarence H. Mackay was wrapped
IN Iur from head to foot. 1t was the ia
nous ferslan lamb coat that she wore.
On TINS the fur, which is jet black. is
very short"