The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1900-12-20
coMMnRclALlsm the NATIONS BANn
The Lust ior Msaey, says Bishop Potter
Il Threatening Americas
Na,loasi Lie.

ka,loesi Lie.
Ia an address before the Church
Club at New Haven, Conn, an the
9Th met, Bishop Potter spoke ri length
ON "Wcallh and Commonwealth.
III ehuse this subject becsuse OF It's
patamoun, importance, he said
divorce, crime and corruption In all
our cities have but one root, the lust
for money. The one eager. dominant
hunger which salules Us from one end
to another Of our broad land Is the
passion, the hunger, tho greed OF gain.
challenge what method you win
In tho complicated web Of our indus
trial, political or social life, and you
will find the question Of gain behind
Il. Listen to what scandal you may
10 the hauuts of politicians, IN the
camps Of soldiers, In the halls of fash.
ION, the tinal standard 10 the whole
business may be expressed by Il dollar
mark
Listen 10 tho ialk Of children as
they measure aud compare their elders
Hear group Of young gals, whose
fresh youth ono would lbiuk ought In
the matter If their most tender and ga
cred affections to be rs free from Sur.
did Instinct ~ from tho taini Of God.
less cyuicism, and you will Ind that
they have their price, and are not to
b. bad without Il any more thaH Cir
cas,ian slave In the market Of Bagdai.
Go where you niny. talk With
whom you wili--Nith elergyncn csti-
mating the promise ri "a field for spir-
uual labor, with women rating the
claims Of other women upon their So
Cial recognition, with the heads u
grei, universities, paralyzed with fright
lest tie iudiscfeliun Of some plain
spoken pfuir, sor who tells bis age the
truth 10 an hour when Il sorely needs
To hear IL, shall cut down the revenues
Of the coIlege--it Is no matter, the
commercial question I, at the bottom
Of Il, aud decides usually ~. the others.
ave read the other day Of n woman
al tho horse show whose attire was a
dress made Of the skins Of unborn
lambs What do you think Of such L
lhingi l. not this relic Of bafbarism
1.-The situation, grave aud threaten
ing rs I, Is 10 all that Is best IN a ua.
tiuu's life, Is the result of causes thai
are not far to seek. They are to b.
found in the spiri, Of the age, In th,
conditions of our national life md ii
the standard Of our personal values,
1--WE may shout TIL wc are black It
the face that VIC are the greatest and
the brIyc,t aHd the biggest aud tho
strongest sud the richest nation il
Chriricndom, hut there comes sirHng,
awe In the heart as we turn back ant
read Of what Kind of stuff the lirs
comcr5 10 these shores mainly were.
"ln England man discovers al
aniiseplic dressing for gunshul wound
another discovers star, another lh
mysteries Of deep sea sounding, an,
these are lifted presently to be peer
Of the realm.
with " the scholar, the man q
science, the Inventor, the pioneer i
commerce or the arts, dclye aud dis
cover aud enrich their age, aud "
distinguish thon too often ouly by dis
putting their achievements or by mp
propriating without rewardins then
for the products Of their genius.
eff material wealth be the end @
being, II accumulation DO the WORTHLESS
aim Of human ambition, II the palace
or The buying OF Legislatures be To
iiual aud highest disiiucIion pogsib!
10 modern manhood, then we mus
needs look them in the face.
'In the country 10 which you aud
live, what we call civilization has un
dcrgoue what Is nothing less than
gigantic revolution. The huge az
gressions OF capital, which have prac
ideally taken from the hands of the ia
dividuai the independent disposition q
his labor and havs introduced into b
existence a pAralyzing uncertainty a
to both his comforts and bis future
and a gradual widening Of the breache
that separate clRsscs from classes, M
tho competitions that, while they chea
pen the necessities OF life. increase III
elements of perplexity aud uncertaint
as to how great mullitudcs may obtai
them---all these are features Of gu
modern situation fun Of danger.
"For one, | have no hope that an
mechanism of legislation, any systeI
OF socialism, any system Of agraria
distribution or taxation, will in the re
motest degree rcmoye them. Th
Church Of God must go up, niasl sta
up, upon much higher plane ths
that.