The representative., 1901-05-30
The Love OF Money Is the Root of All
q Tim. 6: 10.)


U Tim. 6: 10)
Never was this saying of Paul more
true than today, for the man who has
millions is as anxious to make more
millions as the man who has but a dol
lar day is, by necessity, anxious to
make another, and all intermediate links
between these two extremes seem to
lie in the same direction, namely: for
the almighty dollar.
And so the question how to make the
almighty dollar has become the upper
most question of our day and civiliza-
tion.
But if this continued to be the only
question, it will not be long till it will
break down every barrier of virtue and
honesty between nations as well as in
dividuals in their public and. private re-
lations to one another, making every
mans sword against his brother fu-
ture possibility, and all because men in
high position are binder than ever in
the proper use and limit of both land
and money, following blind demagoges
in politics, who are always learning but
never able to come to the knowledge of
the truth, because they will not go to
the source from whence all truth comes.
For if any man will speak let him
speak as the oracle of God" and not
from the vain fabrication of his own
mind deceiving not only himself but the
people who put their trust in him.
In the Jewish body polite given by
Moses, the Man of God and maintained
by all the prophets, Christ Himself, al
ways confirming the same, as in the
parable of the rich man and Zaccheus,
out on interest are most emphatically
condemned. This can be seen in the
example of wicked Jezebel and of the
Jews under the leadership of Nehemiah,
who threatened the whole Jewish no.
bility with complete determination if
they took but a penny of interest for
the loan of their money, and that, too,
at time when money must have been
in the greatest demand.
And for this very sin the Jews are
deprived of their country and kingdom
rid themselves of this accursed principl.
of usury taking, on account of which
Christ drove them from the temple
which they, in his own words, had turn
ed into a den of thieves and which He
predicted would not only be destroyed,
but not one stone be left upon another,
as was verified by Titus, and later by
Julien. the apostate.
Now, if all this means nothing, then
truth and honesty means nothing, and
we had better put each other to the
sword at once, and thus rid the world
of it's so-called rational creatures; but
ever irrational and incorrigible as if
some flat-headed old fogy had made
man and not made him WE'LL since the
whole animal creation without mans
boasted knowledge and power is far
more free and better provided for than
he. If, therefore, we wish to settle the
question of money as to it's material
volume and use, let the government
which is the God-overment and, there
fore, no respecter of person, pass law
to destroy the hydra-headed monster,
namely, usury, in all its forms, private
and public, which are now but sores and
cancers on our body polite; and the
foolish question of gold, silver and pa
per money will be settled forever by the
government stamp alone that consti-
tutes the right to call anything dol
lar and make it payable for all debts,
private and public, as the government
and not as the individual, or any set Of
individuals may dictate. Money is but
the governments word. not dependent