The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-23
BATTLE FOR GOLD
DEGRADES MAN.
Rev. P. C. Macfarlane
Delivers Sermon on
"Frenzied Finance
MONEY THEIR GOD

ALAMEDA. July 22.-"Frenzied FL
nance" was the subject of sermon de-
livered this evening by the Rev. p. c.
Macfarlane of the Christian Church
Dr. Macfarlane spoke in part as fol-
lows:
struggled for power through official
preferment. but in these days men
struggle for power through financial
preferment. In the old days a man
record was sought in the annals Of the
empire: today 1T is sought in the rec
ords of Bradstreet and Dun. which
measure value by dollars We have
come. to measure mans worth by the
worth of his money, which perhaps is
correct, for often the man who pos
sesses much money is worth nothing
it is well with that man, but when
money. possesses a man 1t is very i'll
with that man. The late Mark Hanna
lionaire. Rockefeller by name, ais
money mad" When he spoke he char
acterized not single man, not a type,
business men in this country. Money
mad" said Hanna; "frenzied finance,
said Thomas w. Lawson of Boston, and
the latter phrase has been caught up
a glimpse of the whirling maelstrOm
of the financial world where mad men
struggle with men as mad in a perfect
frenzy of moral abandon for the paltry
prize of gold
RESORT TO DISHONESTY.
To acquire money by dishonest meth
DDS is to yield to the financial frenzy
which involves the forfeiture of life
though the whole world be gained:
Many vast fortunes are acquired today
by methods wholly dishonest. A com
mon method abroad and one that has
p pr le largely in our own country
down to a starvation wage while
heartless employer fattens OF the re-
other ways in which men are selling
their souls for money. Among these,
for instance, are dishonest practices of
the sellers of patent medicines and the
sins of the patent medicine vender are
many, and his effrontery amazing.
Think of what baseness man has
descended to when he is willing to
traffic in the ills of humanity. to make
barter of the light in dying eyes and
merchandise of the craving to be well.
satisfy. they MI IL their O bottles with
cheap stimulants that bring no lastin e
good. When Legislative effort is made
to protect the public by compelling the
vendors of health nostrufns to place
the formula of manufacture upon the
bottle, these monsters growl and show
their teeth and resort to every subter-
fuge to buy or browbeat Legislatures
into inactivity. To sell false hope to
the dying is to sell ones soul to Satan.
ADULTERATION OF FOODS.
Baser, perhaps, if there be anything
baser than the vending of harmful
the food adulterator. We are at last
arousing ourselves upon this subject.
When we are told that stone dust went
into our -four and red paint into our
pepper, while our coffee was grown on
Ventura County bean ranch and our
nutmegS fruited in a Connecticut saw
mill, we. stood all these things with
eduanimity. But when we learned that
formaldehyde was going into the milk
and arsenic into the catsup and the
offal of the slaughter house into all
sorts of timed dainties for the picnic
lunch basket. a mighty storm was
raised. Long may that storm blow
May it lash the waves of popular pro-
test into a fury that shall sweep the
adulterator of foods into that deep
canyon in perdition which is reserved
for the devil and his chief assistants
FRENZIED FINANCING.
There is no more concrete example
Of frenzied financing in the world than
that. which has been going on in the
stock yards of Chicago. The stock
raiser has complained that the beef
trust robbed him of the fruits of his
that the beef trust forced them to pay
rebates and compelled them to fatten
refrigerator cars, which it operated all
over the country, and in every line of
perishable freight business: the city of
Chicago complained that the beef trust
from its dirty river to make soap or
some less hallowed thing; the working
man complained that the beef trust
compelled him to slave for a miserable
wage under unthinkable conditions
the foreign importer complained that
the beef trust sold him infected meat;
Uncle Sam complained that the beef
for his soldiers was embalmed, and at
last the great American republic dis
covers that the beef trust has been
sending to the general tables a line of
products that ought to be sent to the
garbage crematory.
Ground will be broken this week for
the new Christian Church building that
is to cost $4,000. The structure is to
be located on the site of the present.
church and will be of the old mission
style of architecture. The edifice is to
be finished inside in natural woods and
no plastering is to be used in the struc-
ture. 1t is planned to complete the
church in four months.
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