The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-03
DEFENDS THE RICH.
Depew Takes Issue With Hills
and Explains Some Things.

New York, June 3.-Senator Chauncey
NJ. Depew took issue today with the
Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight Hills Of
Plymouth church. who said at the an
nual conference Of Orthodox Friends
that we all go to the devil on $4,000
year-at least a great many men L
know are going to the devil on that sum
and few are escaping It,"
1T all amounts to this" said Senator
Depew, whether a. man has first an in
clination to go to the devil; or. secondly.
VIII power enough to resist the tempta-.
tons that take him here. If a man
possesses the first or lacks the second
condition he can lust as well go to the
devil on $4,000 a year as $4,000 in these
DAYS.
Families of large incomes give sons
liberal education and it is not from
the ranks of these that those are re-
cruited who throw themselves into dis
sipa ton The number of those who at
tend college who go to the devil Is so
is rather those who come to large cities
from the country, sons of families Of
moderate means. who are apt to go to
the devil This is owing to the discon-
forts of boarding houses the attrac-
tons of saloons, and the GOODNESS of the
churches. a young man who has been
accustomed to be aetted in his owl.
town and who on coming to the citN
and going to the church Of his own de-
nomination does not find the conerega-
ton running to greet him is likely to
look for solaee elsewhere, and | tell
you It takes a greater will than most
men are gifted with to resist the social
influences of the saloon
Inc reason so few sons Of families
OF wealth go to the devil is because
family influences hedge them in until
they are old enough to stand alone
which is when they are about IS at
which age there is little danger Of their
going astray. The tone of the COLLEGES
IN Wnich they are brought UP nowadays
a to 4
it was otherwise. A man who is ad-
dicted to drink now is a social outcast
Not one per cent of the sons of those
who have $4,000 a year go to the DEVIL
DR.. Hills remarks in particular to
Which the senator replied were. Il
want to say that we all go to the devil
on $50, 600 a year-at least a great many
men I know are going to the devil on
that suTn-and few are escaping it. Once
a man has an income of that much
money a year he is apt to forget in the
same way that a man forgets to say
grace after he has dined.''
DR.. Hills was speaking on Oliver
CrOmWellS protection of religious liber-
ty, and said: He was the greatest
lover of liberty and righteousness that
ever led troops into the field to enforce
his ideals. Today we are raising pam
pered sons and daughters and surround
ing them with every luxury and idle
satisfaction of desire, and they are rot
ten before they are ripe.
Il repeat it. they are rotten before they
are ripe, and boys in many cases are sinful
before they are bearded Sunday has to
a great extent ceased to be q day of wor-
ship"
Mr. Hills continued: Men rise at 10
o clock and drive until u, eat dinner OF
twelve courses and in the evening hold
reception for their friends.
Women and children follow much the
same plan. They practice the ten com
mandments with the shall nots' left out,
and I warn them that in the end they win
find that God and nature practice the ten
commandments, but the shah nots are
left in
Il can not pick up a paper but that
see the four hundred OF this city engaged
in divorce suits Even the oldest families
Of Boston are in the divorce courts.
tremble for my country when all the work
a preacher does at one end in marrying
the judge undoes at the other end IN the
divorce court
Culture does not stand for all. You
can not make a bad man good by culture
and education any more than YOU can I'M
prove a well of water polluted with ~
phoid germs by painting the pump with
harmonious colors. II the women of my
congregation who are suffering from ner-
yous prostration had the will power to
take nine out of every ten Of their frocks
into the back yard and burn them ] do
not think they would longer be troubled
with their nervous prOStratiOn.'