The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-09
DOLLAR MARK COUNTS
The Lust of Money is the Root of Cor
ruption, Crime and Divorce.
WEALTH AND SOCIAL PULL PARAMOUNT
He Suggests That Men Of Undisputed Leader
ship Band Themselves Together to
Discourage 'The Habit of Ex-
cessive Accommodations. "
Especial to the N. Y. World }


New Haven, Conn, Dec. 6,-Bishop
Potter, in an address tonight before the
Church Club of New Haven, spoke at
length on wealth and Commonwealth.
Il choose this subject because of its
paramount Importance, he said. "Di-
vorce, crime, corruption in all our cities
have one root, the lust of money. The
one eager, dominant hunger which sa-
lutes us from one end to another of our
broad land is the passion, the hunger,
the greed of gain.
Challenge what method you will IN
the complicated web of our Industrial.
political social life and you will find the
question of gain behind it, Listen to
what 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
group of young girls, whose fresh youth
one would think ought in the matter of
their most tender and sacred affections 30
be as free from sordid instinct as from
the tant of goddess cynicism, and you
will find that they have their price and
are not to be had without 1t any more
than Creassian slave in the massW
of Bagdad
GO where you may talk with whom
you will-with clergymen 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
to hear it shall cut down the revenues of
the college-'tis no matter, the CONNER
cial question is at the bottom of it aid
! decides usually all the others
FASHION ASSAILED.
| I'VE read the other day of 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 l say suppose-a
this a relic of barbarism?
! great insurance company or 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 tnelf DendII
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 but there comes a strange awe III
the heart as we turn back and read of
what kind Of stuff the first comers TO
| these shores mainly were
with us is the enjoyment of all that
| hcv n nd af
that if they were to come back today
and see the homes and the dress and
the manners of their descendants they
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
FOR ANTIWEALTH BAND.
"If material wealth be The end of be-
/ ing. IL 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, | have no smallest hope that
| any mechanism of legislation, any sys-
tenn of socialism, any scheme of agra
| rian distribution or taxation will in the
| remotest degree remove them. The
church of God must go up, must stay up
| upon 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-
gether to illustrate in their habit of life
simplicity OF attire, Responsiveness in
their dwellings-should further bind
themselves to discourage the habit of ex-
cessive accumulation? For myself l be-
lioye that such suggestion would at
tract far greater numbers than most of
US believe.
PERSIAN LAMB COAT WORN BY MRS.
CLARENCE MACKAY AT HORSE
SHOW.
Whether or not this was what Bishop
Potter had in mind when he referred to
the custom OF using the wool of unborn
lambs the following appears in one of
the fashion reports of the Horse Show:
Mrs. Clarence Fl. Mackay was wrapped
in fur from head to foot 1t was the ia
nous Persian lamb coat that she wore.
On this the fur which is jet black, is
very short"
When sure thing man takes another
in out OF the rain it is apt to be ques-
/ ti0nable transaction.