The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-25

Rev. Frank Fay Eddy breaches
Sermon on Present Day In
duStriaI Conditions.
HE WARNS TRUST BAR0NS
DECLARES IT is TIME FOR THEM
TO BECOME RIGHTEOUS.

Rev Frank Fay Eddy preached yester-
day at the Unitarian church on Men
Of Might" referring especially to the
menace TO the nation caused by the mas
sing Of great wealth.
Mr. Eddy spoke from the text II Cor,
flesh we do not walk after the flesh: for
the weapons Of our warfare are not car
nal, but mighty through God TO the pull
ing down of strongholds."
The sermon IN part was as follows:
The real men Of might are those who
WELD ideas and make themselves car
penters of history. They are OF ali men
most blessed in their toll. Strive as they
will all men who work on the carnaI and
material plane must either build under
the orders of the man with ideas or else
build something which ruthless fate will
undo. OF all men Of might Jesus was
perhaps the greatest There are at least
only few comparable to him such as
Socrates, GautaUma and Confucius And
OF all these none welded any weapons
except those Of the spirit of truth
1T is to be said, however. that there
IS no reason why men who seek the ac-
complishment of practical reforms should
disdain the material or hold aloof from
the use of force. Yet at the same time
the imperishable influence will result
rather from the intangible things of the
spirit that inspire them to their task.
It has been thus with the work of Wash
ington, Lincoln and all our great national
WORTHLESS.
monSJ IS supreme.
In modern life money is supreme on
the plane of force. It is the great tool
with which to accomplish Immediate ends
especially material ends. Kings and gov
ernments no longer make war for ca
price because they must first consult the
money changers 10 see if their wars can
be financed It is an Industrial age and
money as the medium of exchange is the
factor of chief Importance In a war
Ike time the men Of might will be great
= nd -1rf~r1 de- tn
dustrial feudalism our men of might in
material things must be cotton kings.
insurance magnates, oil mOnopolists and
beef barOGs.
I'VE appropriately use the phrases Of
feudal age to describe them The Unit
cd States has OF all countries apparently
more Of these men or carnal might than
IS her just due. But the type is common
10 all countries with an Industrial CIV
ilization. These are the men of the
mighty dollar and the modern crusade is
against their tyranny"
Mr.. Eddy then went to declare that the
Vaccinations and exsctions of these mod
ern barons OF the dollar were possible
only because of the patience and long
suffering Of the masses and that once the
common people united on a radical pro-
gramme OF action their power would van
ISM Inc sacredness Of private property
IS Tor instance purely a legal Invention
ana can only be justified as the most prac
ucable principle to use in our community
life. But II by abuses the great cap
invention into an instrument of misrIIe
there is no reason why the people cannot
abTogate or limit the right of private
property. In fact he said. there is a dis
tinct growth Of sentiment perceptible in
that direction already.
The Weapons of Democracy.
In regard to the men and weapons of
democracy Mr. Eddy spoke as follows:
In modern life money has come 70 he
the emblem Of material power But with
the Decentralization Of life the demo-
cratic spirit has waKed quite as great
Never was il so easy to wage a hattie
for ideals and in no country in the world
are these democratic principles so univer-
saliy accepted. We have free speech and
a free press. It is true the press is some
times subsidized and too often owned bv
great interests, but so long as any man nr
set OF men can start a paper of their own
is practically free.
There are a great number of publica-
lions ct the present day having individ-
ually small subscription lists which SivA
every crank and every reformer and every
kind Of faddist forum And these
papers and obscure magazines ALI have
their influence, an Influence often unduly
large IN proportion 10 their subscription
lists Besides the average NEWSPAPER
reader has disCernmeht enough In take
into account the facts in regard to the
ownership and editorial policy Of a pa
per he habitually reads.
1.-THE only safety for a rewsDaper biR
or little is in honesty in the course it has
chosen I believe there has been de-
cline in influence among the large dafiies
since the policy has become ANYTHING to
sell large editions. The business office
has dominated the paper and the edi-
torial page has. been cut down and worse
than that has become .colorless. But nm
der our free institutions the freedom of
the press is assured for whatever radical
sentiment Of reform sWelIs i'm Strong
current of public opinion it will create
a press of its own
Ballot the Last Resort.
Besides we have the ballot and bov,-
ever machine politics may breed parasites
that feed upon their strong trunk of the
tree Of liberty, their power is onlv great
in times Of Indifference and apathy. Fl
nallE we have the fmm eaSurable power /
which resides in numbers. The power of
q great mass Of men once aroused is az
ungovernable and resistless as the tides
Of the sea Come what will thev viii
have their way in one wav or anof her
''The temper OF the public mind is he
coming such that il is a good time for
millionaire trust-makers. and especially
the little group Of men who from New
York assume the right to rule the des-
TIMES OF the nation to turn righteous
and cease their piracy in interest of their
future.
This is our next battle. It is as holy
struggle and as important ss ever en-
gagged the attention Of men. 1t viii draw
TO itself the good and the bad alike to
whrl in the maelstrom of strife. But the
end will show that as Of old the men of
might are those who fight with the wea-
pons of the spirit of truth, for such wea-
pons are mighty through God for the pull
ing down of stronghOlds.
SHOPS ON FIRE.
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