Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-12
STANDS FOR A
 FREE MANHOOD.

ANUS FUN H
 FREE MANHOOD.
 Rev. J. J. Wilkins, D. D., rector of St Pauls parish and dean of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral in Los Angeles, deliy- cred sermon Sunday night on ''Prac- tical Christianity" which struck at the evils of the present day as found in the tyranny of the trust and monop- olies of wealth on the one hand, and of labor unions on the other.
 Among the sound doctrines preached with vigor and eloquence were these wise sayings, the preacher prefacing his remarks with the announcement that his is no partisan pulpit, but that he stands for the rights of all men, and free manhood on the part of all men: itsH lt .
 The kingdom of God must exist within men and women before its counterpart can appear in the world brotherhood except among company of brothers. It cannot be created by Legislation, by organizing syndicates and trusts, by establishing labor un- ions. or by putting men fn prison. Neither combinations of capital nor labor unions have hastened the com ing of the millennium by a hairs breadth. Rather, they have obstruct. ed it. There is abundant evidence0f this in the conditions of American in dustry today.
 "A widespread distrusta of wealth prevails on the one hand, and a tre. mendous fear of labor organizations on the other. Labor unions have wrought great good, and done much to improve the working mans estate, but they have also done great harm. They have lost friends, and have made enemies. They are making enemies now. They have made mistakes throughout all this land. and they are now making mistakes in this city of Los Angeles, that not all time will be able to undo. And hard-thinking and clear-headed men among them are be ginning to recognize this, and to see that labor's millennium is no more likely to come along the path of tyr amy of labor than along the path oi tyranny of wealth. 'It was found many years ago, when experiments were tried in ecclesias tical government. that My lords, the brethren were harder masters than even My lords. the bishops;' and the working men are making the same dis covery. The skilled mechanic-thaI whom there is no more useful member of society-the printer, painter, the plumber, carpenter, conductor, motor man, mason, and all the rest, has learned in many instances that he has not only lost his liberty, but even his Individuality; that he is no longer a man, but a mere cog in stupendous insensate wheel, which revolves oi stands at the nod of walking dele gate,' master workman or a 'laboI president who exercises the powers of a Czar in setting order at naught in winking at the wanton destruction of property, in laughing law, the only sure defense of our rights and liber ty, to scorn, and ruling his subjects
 with the ruthlessness of the grim
 nest tyrant that ever sat upon 2 throne.
 How long or how short the hours of labor shall be, how much or how little shall be a days fair wage whether he shall work at all, or allow his brother man to work. is settled fol him as absolutely assthough he were the merest child. And if he attempt: to assert his independence, and tC follow his own honest will as a mar should, his lords, the brethren" hoot him on the streets, waylay and stone and perhaps beat him to the death And I ask, is this the way to hasteI the dawn of the millennial day? No. It is the surest of ways to uproot al this from among men. It is one oi the most effective of ways to retarC the dawn of the golden age. It is one of the most unreasoning of injustices and one of the most insane of tyran nies; and men, mark my words. not wealth. but. men, freemen. win rise lin their might one day and sweep il forever from the face of the earth