The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-10
WITNESSES.

A writer 1--WE believe Ernest Crosby
In The W1im, says that the National
Economic League, founded for the pur-
pose Of heading off the labor movement,
has issued the first number Of it's
organ, Laobr and Capital. 1t contains
an article by the Rev. w. M. Kellogg,
D. D., Phi. D., of Maltby, Washington,
which stamps the. whole journal as a.
fraud. I quote the following illuminate
ing passage:
What Jesus Taught.-When Jesus,
the founder of Christianity, came, He
declared that God had unequally dis
tributed the wealth Of this world. He
said that to one he had given ten tai
ents, to another five, and to another
one. Every Intelligent person knows
that talent was certain piece Of
money and but for the shallow preach
ers it never would have meant any,
thing else.
IF Jesus did not teach that God had
unequally distributed the wealth Of the
world then he did not teach anything.
Moreover, he taught that men should
increase this wealth by all honora BILE
and honest methods. The only one Of
the lot condemned by him was the fel-
low who did not increase his holdings,
by burying his money in napkin. Ac-
cording to the parbale he was stripped
of what little he had and it was given
to steward who had shown his ability
to- increase his wealth.. There are some
very profound LESSONS in: this parable:
Socialists must openly discard the
teachings of Christ or forever abandon
the claim that their teachings are ap-
piled Christianity. If God has no over
ruling oversight by which he. directly,
unequally distributes the wealth of the
world; he at least certainly permits it,
and has sanctioned it in this parable.
false *
;:>This.is. certainly HSh! Jesus taught
them = j.. by this that we 4 are:Ito
;gets;n mi hundred on our money t]1e1
when :weSe 7 who said that
nothing short of, a miracle could get 4
RICH man into the Kingdom of heaven
who said, Lend, <hoping for: nothing
again, and Give tn him that .asketh.
and who never owned a dollar scr a
place to lay his head! And It is Asha1-
low preachers forsoofh who have. :ap-
piled the. lesson II *ta14s*talents to any
thing but pawhbroKe fs:: and MORTGAGE
foreclosing! 1t - Isl difficult. to, speak
with measure df suoh in1pudent faa1sity;:
Fortunately it is: tooShare faced is mis-
lead anyone. This: reaV1fered false pro-
phet has overdone his'% employers be-
hests.: The edftor>of ia obr and Capita]
must choose his. !: tools more skillfully.
Surely capital can find less clumsy in
stru1nents in: the :1mafKet;> even if they
come high. 1t Is ;;to:*the credit Of the
clergy that he had to push his search
into a remote;froonftiet: settlement to- find
D: d. to do this, dirty work. -,
Which reminds ME e$ dtf a verse of Scrip
ture: "Ye haYes profaned me among
my people for handfuls of barley and
for pieces of bread, to STAY the souls
that should not die, and to save the
souls alive that should not live, by your
lying to my people that hearken unto
lies" And here is another worth quot.
ing: "A wonderful and horrible thine
Is come to pass in the land the pro.
phets prophesy falsely, and the priest:
bear rule by their means; and my PEG.
pie love to have it so; and what will
We do in the end thereof2n