The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-09
REV. DR. MUNGER'S ADDRESS
B EFORE THE MEMS CLUB 1T
 UNIFIED CHURCH LAST NIGHT
On "sOme Aspects of the Presidents Message-A Profound Moral Sense Evtdenced-Ma atertalfsm National Growth With Civilization


 Growth With civilization. At United church last evening Rev. T. T. Munger D. D., pastor emeritus of the church, spoke on Some Aspects of the Presidents Message before the
 Mems club. Dr. Munger said that never
 since Jesus was reviled on the cross had sin and goodness been so put in con- trast as at the assassination of Presi- dent Mckinley, and that never had party lines been so obliterated for the 1 time as by that event. He spoke of
 President Roosevelts recommendation
 of measures for punishment of anarchy and said that this recommendation re-
 veals the heart and profound moral sense of the president. In President
 Roosevelt he said we have a distinct andpronounced personality to deal with So far we need have no apprehension that justifles fear of his policies, but at the same time we must realize that we have unique type of man in the presidential chair. He has one quality in more marked degree than our for mer presidents, and which differen- tiates him from his predecessors. It is a moral sense that is guiding sense in execution and force of the most ag- eressive character.
 Dr. Munger thought that we would discover that we have for president a moral reformer, and this quality he thought was not an idiosyncracy, but deeper, more intelligent dominant sense of morals in all human affairs In line with that sense of morality which is creeping through human affairs.
 Dr. Munger thought that the message showed that the Philippine question was to be treated with mercy and ten- derness. In his discussion of the Mon- roe doctrine he emphasized the fact that it was a sure means of preserving the peace of the western hemisphere, and throughout the message runs deep note of peace and, said pr. Nun ger "The true end of every great peo- pie should be self-respecting peace"
 Dr. Munger thought that that portion of the message relating to the Philip pines showed hat the president was far removed from imperialism. He spoke of the treatment of the Indian question as humane. He said that the empha- sis of this important state paper fell on what the president says of the trusts, and as he terms them "the cap tains of industry" He recognized the 1 trusts as inevitable and necessary, and | yet amenable to law. All the message | on this subject is to the effect that the 1 of the counry should not be | shaken.
 Dr. Munger said that there had been | In the last few years a note of alarm l sounded in great public journals in ref erence to the great increase of wealth, | and said that there could be no doubt that wealth often works all the evils attributed to It. Grant that the charge that the country is running to commer- cialism Is sincerely said and that there S good deal of truth in it. Whatever | evil there be in materialism let 1t be There are certain evils in the world. These per nanent evils belong to things funda- mental and essential to society. Every lge has been materialistc age, or worse. This growth of ma- erialism is a growth of civilizatio md there is no more of it to-day than n the past. The immense volume of production and of trade benefits the ,oor the world over, The accumulation If capital, whether in the hands of cor ,orations or of individuals, is for the benefit of all and we should not think o much of whose hands the prize first allS into