The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-03-30
GOSPEL G OF VEAL I'll 1
HOW IF COMPARES WITH THE Cos.
1.-.-~ PEI OF JESUS 81 3 r. j

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Foods of Social Randition-Pluto-
racy Controls the S6rdid Spirit In
| Church and Nation-SOoner or Lat
er Wrong Will Perish From Its
i Own Excesses-In J. the Meantime
There is a Great Work to Do.
Most people of our. nation have heard
OF certain Gospel Of Wealth." writ
ten some time ago by a certain man
| who at the time had only managed to
accumulate the bagatelle Of $40,000,-
900. Only a few weeks ago the world
heard that in single industrial con-
Germ the same, man was worth $215;-
100000. Besides that snug sum, it is
we'll known that he has immense terri
torial possessions in Great Britain,
some in this country, and no doubt he
owns piles Of millions of government
bonds, English consols, etc. Considera-
BILE fun has been indulged in by some
| in, regard to that gospel, while other
people consider that gospel about as
good as the one preached in Judaea 19
centuries ago by Jesus. A certain
weekly that halls from New York city
contains an editorial in the issue of
March 9, which in forms most en-
phatic, again places that modern gos-
pei on a level with the old one, and
all because the former exhorts the
rich people to occasionally drop mil
lion dollars or so for some public pllr-
pose out of every ten or more millions
piled up and snatched from the wealth
producers under laws of monopoly
the highest degree. -, .
The gentleman who stands for this
Gospel of Wealth. recognizes that to
bequeath large sums in favor of wives
and children is often injurious to them,
| hence it is better to scatter the wealth
in charitable purposes. All! So it is
dangerous for some to have great
wealth, and yet it is all right for some
to pile it up in hundreds of millions!
And what about the social system un-
der which the piling process goes on ?
Is that all right? That Gospel Of
Wealth. does not say anything about it.
That alone proves it's own Incomplete
ness, it's own force. That alone con-
demns the Gospel of Wealth. as one
| of the greatest alterations of the wise
and the powerful-Wise after their own
conceits, powerful because of the op-
pressiOns of wrong Industrial sys~
Item which repudiates the order of Gods
universe and all principles of human
brotherhood. Ill.,. ! :
Social. baptism on scale never seen
before legalized by human enactments
Thy 4 agreements aInong men no dom
i know and dor, ant tD NOW ailyt
NJ
I,Ward al1 peace OH eaf th sof any thins
lelse;; social band ton and charity OF
philanthropy with which to hide the
lgangrene Of a vitiated social organiza-
tion there we have the alpha and
Iomega Of the modern gospel OF wealth
Ia gospel which is bound ! to destroy
lciviliza ton and is destroying it as fast
as it can or else preparing reaction
with which to save civilization from
it's own excesses as soon as we have
enough brave men to stand by right
and truth, by the gospel of Jesus.
And what did Jesus say to that rich
man who wanted to know how to have
eternal life? AS that fellow was salts
fled with his own righteousness and
could see nothing wrong in the social
fabric that gave him piles of wealth
while the producers Of all wealth got
simply piles Of poverty, taken all in
( all under such peculiar mental con-
ditions Jesus could only find a remedy
for that dreadful sick rich man, sick
in mind and soul, the worst kind OF
sickness we can have. The remedy
was that he should get rid of all his
wealth right off and should stand by
the brotherhood of men-that is, by the
sound, honest, social conditions EN-
bodied in the gospel of Jesus. T. That
was the spirit Of Jesus answer, to
abandon all wealth, or, rather, all de-
sires for wealth accumulation, and tc
work ont for the continuation of in
justice in wealth production and dis
tribution, but for. conditions which
would give wealth to all, and hence
practically wealth to no: one, because
what is wealth today but the power tc
keep most men in poverty? $3.50.
1t looks, then, as if there was con:
lsiderable difference between the gos-
pei Of Jesus and that farcical gospel
Iof wealth approved by our, modern
|plutocracies. And the worse is that
such plntocracies control the sordid
spirit Of churches and nations. The
weekly above mentioned approving
the gospel of wealth Is principally
controlled by an eminent divine. Most
Of such eminent fellows seem to be
sold to Mammon. in our days of aber.
ration, in politics, religion, Industrial.
ism etc. i. ~ ..-,,t 5.;, ...at.&
Never mind, wrong cannot last for
ever. Sooner or later it must perish
through it's own excesses.: In the
|meantime there is a great work that
somebody must try to do-the work ,ol
|reasoning through correct processes
but with one grand aim in view-viz
to. place civilization on a, basis thai
should make life worth living to al
! and not a mad hunt after wealth as il
is today. .s i,>. JOSE GROS. zA
/ d: WASHINGTON LETTER. >:s
Eva Va1esh shows How Congress,
Loves the Workingman-Nit.
,l@9It had been the intention in these