The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-16
BISHOP POTTER'S NEW BOOK
Tells of Some Capitalists With Whom Honest Men
Can Hold no Intercourse. The Industrial
Situation.

! sciences; and these they must bring to
the standard of a divine righteousness,
to be touched by it's quickening hand, to
be illumined by its spirit, and then to
bear witness, in kings palaces, at board
meetings, at directors meetings. not
fearing the face of man, because they
have heard the voice of God
OF the various theories that have been
| advanced to better government the
Bishop has this epigrammatic word to
says:
You may constitute social order in
which there shall be no rough angles,
no unguarded pitfalls, no summons to
privation or hardship; but when you
have perfected it, where will you find the
men to administer it? These are not
made that way; and the automatic social
order remains yet to be discovered.
He has words of praise for trades
unionsm and trades unonists as when
he says:
ut has been my great privilege &C.
count it one of the chiefest of my life-to
come into frequent and intimate CONTACT
With men who represented trades unions
in great variety, which We're inclusive of
individuals who ranged, in their culture
and attainments, all the way from the
humblest day laborer to the most skilled
craftsman, artisan, and all but artist
and | have found in all of them qualities
in which. far more than in any written
covenants with their employers, lie the
| highest hopes of the future
Il am constrained to say that the sus.
/ IF Of fair in
telligence to dispassionate reasoning, and
! his readiness to be influenced by the
| force of it, are quite as great as | have
ordinarily found in employers or others
of their class, though the latter were
! often persons of much higher culture. "
| He points out that nothing was ever
granted by the power of wealth that it
was not compelled to give up, and so
welcomes the advent of the trades I'M
| ionists into politics.
| On the excess of luxury among the
rich the Bishop is particularly emphatic.
| He answers the specious argument that
| luxuary encourages art by a cutting ar
! gument. Says the Bishop:
! '.Of the effect of luxury upon those
who indulge in it the pages of history,
| from the time of Heliogabalus down anc
| on, are full As enervating character, as
| debauching morals, as threatening--nay
destroying-the purity of the family anO
| the integrity of the individual, there Is
no other single influence that can sur
| pass it, if there is any that can equal it.
! Ask any experienced worker among losl
| and outcast women what, in the case OF
| young girls, has been most productive il
| inducing those awful lapses that consist
| in the prostitution of the human body
and they will tell you what madness
seizes upon the young when the lust OF
personal display is appealed to by gcld
brooch or a pair of diamond earrings. ."
| 1t is a good thing for the world that
| such a man as Bishop Potter lives anc
writes. There is no class in our country
that does not need the strong truth he
| has made of modern thought on the plair
| conditions that are bewildering and dis
| turbng the life of the present.
| Time will tell-but the woman with a
| secret never gives time a chance.