The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-10-19
SCORES SAN JONES.
Why Does He Defend the Trusts
From the Pulpit? Is There
Money Consideration in His
Talk for the Trusts.

Sam Jones boldly stated i'm his lecture
in Union that he was heartily in favor
Of trusts, and endeavored to show that
they were blessing instead of "a curse to
the country, and drew several compari-
sons between corporations in and out of
the trusts. The editor of the News and
Courier takes him to task, and shows AS
strong authority as Jones in denuncia-
ton of the trusts.
The News and Courier says:
''In his speech in the Methodist
Church i'll Union, last Saturday night,
the Irreverend Mr.. Sam Jones surprised
his audience somewhat by defence of
monopolies. AS reported, he said that
he "believe in trusts" compared the
service of trains in and out of the
trusts, the prices of sugar before and
after the trusts showing every thing in
the trusts favor" and wound up with
the comprehensive declarations: ~ like
'em.n
1t scarcely requires to be said that Mr..
Jones erred ilfclassiDg railroads among
trusts, of the order of those which are
the subject Of current and proper denun-
citation, for the single sufficient reason.
not to mention many others, that the
prices charged by these corporations for
their Vice-tranSportatiOn of freight
Eand passengers--is regulated by the pc ppe
dhrOugh the agency of the Governments.
while the mOnopolies under condemna-
tlon are superior to governmental control
and fix their prices at their own arbitrary
pleasure. Nor was the speaker more
fortunate in alluding to the Sugar Trust
as beneficial institution as proved by the
prices Of sugar under its management.
Every house-keeper in the country
knows that the concern has repeatedly
raised the price of sugar for no other rea.
son than that of increasing its own profits
regardless Of the cost of the product, the
latest instance being raise of nearly so
per cent. within the past few months.
He did not specify other concerns, SO
that others need not be especially con-
sidered, but his general declaration that
he ''likes 'em," likes 'em all, serves to
make his attitude pretty plain. The re-
ligious weeklies of the North, it appears.
are of the same mind with him, AS it is
reported that they all favor the trusts
administration of the Government and
advocate their continuance in power.
Mr.. Jones and the religious weeklies of
the other section do not, however, repre-
sent the sentiment of all the preachers
of the country, nor even all those of the
other section, as is proved by the very
plain and earnest denunciatiOn of the
evil concerns by the Rev. DIR. Ward Gam
bier. in a sermon delivered last Sunday i'm
the Methodist Church, ut Vineland, New
Jersey, in which State most of them have
been incorporated. DIR. Gamble, speaking
in the very headquarters of the trusts,
declared that the monstrous growth of
such combinations of capital ''for the pre-
vention of competition" is undermining
the Republic, and he urged the voters OF
the county to rise and smash !them be-
fore it is too late" BY way of explain
ing his position and justifying his advice.
he said:
"When four or five men get together
and place the price upon labor for pro-
ducing the necessities of life, and then
dictate the selling price of the finished
productions, it is most wicked conspir-
acy against the welfare of humanity, and
no punishment is too severe for the scoun-
drels.
81 say that hanging is too good FOR the
trust magnate that stands on a mountain
of coal in Pennsylvania that God meant
for the benefit Of all his children, pays
starving wages to the miners who risk
their lives to go into the bowels of the
earth, and then dictates the price of coal,
so that it robs all the people and couses
untold suffering among the poor for the
want Of fuel.
81 say, with full realization of my
utterance and with my blood running
warm when think of it, that hanging
is too good punishment for such a
man.
WITNESS the deplorable situation of
applying like fawning supplicant to
one man in Wall street, as was done a
few days ago, to stop strike of such
large proportions that it becomes of ma
tional Importance. Yet such is the pres
ent situation. If one man has the power
over railroads and trusts to stop a strike
of ouch magnitude, he has the power to
bring on strike of such gigantic pro-
portions by robbing and starving the
| workmen.
81 have been to the anthracite coal
| region of Pennsylvania and investigated
the conditions which brought on the
strike, and when say that the minrs
are paid staving wages and treated more
like dumb brutes than men, l know
what am talking about"
The good and great George Washing
| ton, it will be remembered, was of Mr.
Gamblers mind as to the proper punish
ment for the "scoundrels,' as Mr. Gam-
bic Calls them, and the "murderers, mo-
nopolizers and forestallers, :" "the greatest
enemies to the happiness of America, "
as Washington himself styled them, but
hanging them is out of the present ques-
tion apd need not be discussed.
J The point is that quite as good a
preacher as Mr.. Jones, and a much more
logical one, finds nothing in the conduct
of the trusts to make him ''like 'em, :"
and much to lead him to denounce them
as "wicked conspiracies against the well