The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-04-26

Capital AS "a Menace to society-Flc-
tItious scarcittes Created and the
Weak suffer
The third address Of the series Of
Yale lectures Oh "The Responsibilities
of Citizenship now being given at the
university law school by Bishop Potter,
was delivered last night before very
large audience in Hendrie hall. The
special topic of the evening was The
Citizen and the Consumer During the
course of his remarks the speaker took
occasion to arraign capital and COM
bines in the category of menaces to the
spirit of freedom, which should pervade
our country. He said that the aggre-
cation of forces of what ever kind shall
always be an element Of peril This is
regardless of their nature or purpose.
This Is true of natural forces as we'll
as the aggregation Of wealth. Thus our
moral safeguards are arrayed against
this INSCRIPTIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENT, in
the buying of legislatures, the corrup-
ton of judges and the stealthy move
ments of all forces that answer to the
beck and call of capital. We are I'M
conscious of it's effects or unaware of
its habits, ideals, indulgences, aims and
aspirations. and this is one of the most
pathetic notes Of our system. We do
not appreciate the deadly vapors in the
atmosphere in which we live, This un-
healthy state of affairs by reason of
this accumulation of wealth attacks
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police with the system of organized
bribery and hopes of profit sharing. No
matter what accumulated wealth may
improperly do, whether it is capitalized
shares or capitalizer's cleverness we
are not keenly sensitive and do not
recognize the forms in which 1t is offer
ed to us, whether it touches mems hon
or or women's wanton prodigality of
expense in dress as sensuous often as
it is vulgar. Then highly Objectionable
also is the heralding of questionable do
ings week after week, and month after
month by a still more vulgar press
whose tawdry and meretricious demon
strations will be despised by future
generations. All this is bad enough.
The speaker said that capital was
same law as any other stored force
such as the forces of nature, fire, water
and electricity These are all stored
forces and dangerous forces. They are
good servants, but bad masters. Just
as these stored forces of nature when
and under certain condi-
ton are dangerous to the lives and we'll
being of the members of a community.
so NAV it be said that the accumula-
ton of capital and wealth may easily
be, under certain conditions, menaces
to society. This makes it possible for
the INSCRIPTIONS strong to corrupt and
crush the timd weak The organiza-
ton of capitalists and moneyed men
make it possible, whether under the
name of trust. corporation or combine,
to create fictitious values and destroy
those which are real, and otherwise to
create scarceness of the necessaries of
life when there is none and work great
and wrong
The speaker said that worship of
wealth and the show of it was respon-
sible for the downfall and ruination of
many of our young women of the pres
emit day and that there was supreme
danger in this In conclusion he said
that there was a supreme danger in
capital and that we should seek how
TO disarm and to control.