Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-04-02

HOW IT COMPARES WITH THE Cos
PEI AZ GIVEN BY JESUS.

UOW ~ VOMPAHES WIN tVe GOS-
PEI AZ GIVEN BY JESUS.
Social BanAitism and What 1t Feeds
On-The sordid Spirit In Church
and Nation-wrong Will Perish
From Its Own Excesses.
Especial Correspondence.l
Most people Of our nation have heard
Of certain Gospel Of Wealth." writ
ten some time ago by certain man
who at the time had only managed to
accumulate the bagatelle Of $4,000
900. Only a few weeks ago the world
heard that in single industrial con-
Germ the same man was worth $685.
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 INDUCED in by some
in regard to that gospel, while other
people consider that gospel about as
good as the one preached in Judaa 10
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 COS.
pei on q level with the old one, and
all because the former exhorts the
rich people to occasionally drop a mill
lion dollars or 80 for some public pur-
pose out Of every ten or more millions
piled up and snatched from the wealth
producers under laws Of monopoly
and injustice, and hence piratical in
the highest degree.
The gentleman who stands for his
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. Ali! So it is
dangerous for some to have great
wealth, and yet 1t ID 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 its own incompleteness,
its own force. That alone condemns
the Gospel of Wealth" as one Of the
greatest alterations Of the wise and
the powerful-wise after their own con-
ceits, powerful because Of the oppres-
sions of wrong Industrial system
which repudiates the order of Gods
universe and all principles Of human
Social banditism on a scale never
seen before, legalized by human enact.
ments, by agreements in legislative
halls, agreements among men who
don't know and don't want to know
anything about conscience, human
duty, love toward all, peace on earth
or anything else; social banditism
and charity or philanthropy with
which to hide the gangrene Of vitiat-
ed social Observation-Disclosures we have
the alpha and omega of the modern
gospel of wealth, gospel which is
bound to destroy civilization and is de-
stroying 1t as fast as it can or else
reaction with which to
save civilization from it's own excuses
Is soon as we have enough brave men
10 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
nave eternal life? As that fellow was
satisfied with his own Righteousness
Ind 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,
AIKEN all in all under such peculiar
mental conditions Jesus could only
ind a remedy for that dreadful sick
'ich man. sick in mind and SOUL the
worst kind Of sickness we can have.
The remedy was that he should get
i'd Of all his wealth right of and
hould stand by the brotherhood of
nen-that is, by the sound. honest,
ocial conditions embodied in the gos-
vel Of Jesus. That was the spirit of
Fesus' answer, to abandon all wealth,
r, rather. all desires for wealth accu-
mutation, and to work not for the con.
Of injustice in wealth pro-
|uction and distribution, but for con-
itions which would give wealth to
II, and hence practically wealth to
10 one, because what is wealth to-
lay but the power to keep most men
q poverty?
1t looks, then, as If there was con-
difference between the gos-
'el Of Jesus and that farcical gospel
( wealth approved by our modern
lutocracies. And the worst is that
UGH plutocracies control the sordid
pirit Of churches and nations. The
7eekly above mentioned approving
be gospel Of wealth is principally
by an eminent divine. Most
I such eminent fellows seem to be
old to Mammon In our days Of aber.
alton, in politics, religion, Industrial
SIN, etc.
Never mind, wrong cannot last for
yer. Sooner or later 1t must perish
trough its own excuses. In the
1eanwhile there IL q great work that
must try to do-the work Of
through correct processes.