The Chanute times., 1900-11-02

from those who for ten years have
have been STEPPED in the seething
caldron. Chorus of voices rejoicing
over what they have made; chorus OF
voices waiiing over what they have
lost. This temple of which | speak
stands open day and night and there
is the glittering gcd with his four feet
on broken hearts, and there Is the
smoking altar OF sacrifice, new Vie
tins every moment on it. and there
are the kneeling devotees; and the
doxology of the worship rolls on,
while death stands with moldy and
skeleton arm beating time for the cho-
rus-"More, more. more!"
Some people are very much surpris-
ed at the actions OF people in the
Stock Exchange, New York. Indeed,
il is scene sometimes that paralyzes
description and is beyond the imagi-
nation of any one who has never look
ed in. What swapping of finger and
thumb and wild gesticulation and raw
ing like hyenas and stamping like
buffaloes and swaying to and fro and
jostling and running one upon the
other and deafening uproar, until the
president of the exchange strikes with
his mallet four or five times. crying,
"Order, order," and the astonished
spectator goes out into the fresh air
feeling that he has escaped from pan
demonium. What does 1t all mean?
| will tell you what it means. The
devotees of every heather temple cut
themselves to pieces and yell and gy-
rate. This vociferation and gyration
of the Stock Exchange is all appropri-
ate. This is the worship Of the gold
en- calf.
Day of Judgment Coming.
But every day is day of Judgment,
and God is all the time grinding to
pieces the golden calf Some years
ago in a time of panic we learned as
never before that forgeries will not
pay, that the watering OF stocks will
HOl pay, ludt tHC opNiihih Vi VCNfNSN
on country seats and palatial city
residence when there are only 100000
income will not ay,that the approprla-
ton of trust funds to our own pri-
vate speculation will not pay. We had
great national tumor in the shape of
fictitious prosperity. We called it ma
tional enlargement. Instead OF calling
it enlargement we might better have
called it swelling. 1t was a tumor,
and God cut it out, and the nation was
sent back to the principles of our
fathers and grandfathers, when twice
three made six instead of sixty and
when the apples at the bottom of the
barrel were just as good as the apples
on the top of the barrel, and silk
handkerchief was not half cotton,
and a man who wore S. coat paid for
was more honored than a man who
wore a $50 coat not paid for.
The modern golden calf, like the
| one of the text, is very apt to be made
out of borrowed gold. These Israelites
of the text borrowed the earrings of
the Egyptians and then melted them
into a god. That is the way the gold
en- calf is made nowadays. A great
many housekeepers, not paying for
the articles they get, borrow of the
grocer and the baker and the butcher
and the dry goods seller. Then the
| retailer borrows of the wholesale deal
er. Then the wholesale dealer bor-
rows of the capitalist, and we borrow
and borrow and borrow until the COM
munity is divided into two classes,
those who borrow, and those who are
borrowed of, and after awhile the
capitalist wants his money, and he
rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and
the wholesale dealer wants his money
and he rushes upon the retailer, and
the retailer wants his money. and he
rushes upon the customer, and we all
go down together There is many
man in this day who rides in a car
riage and owes the blacksmith for the
tire and the wheelwright for the wheel
and the trimmer for the curtain and
the driver lot uHpdlu wages anu Cne
harness maker for the bride and the
furrier for the robe while from the
tip of the carriage tongue clear back
to the tip of the camels hair shawl
fiuttering out of the back of the We
hicle everything is paid for by notes
that have been three times renewed.
Idols Demolished.
But, if we have made this world
our god. when We come to die VIC shall
see our idol demolished. How much
OF this world are you going to take
with you into the next? viii you have
two pockets-one in each side of your
shroud? Will you cushion your cas-
ket with bonds and mortgages and GER
tificates of stock? All, no. The fer
ryboat that crosses this Jordan takes
no baggage-nothing heavier than an
immaterial spirit You may, perhaps,
take $500 with you two or three miles
in the shape of funeral trappings to
the cemetery, but you will have 10
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