Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-07

are thousands of men living To-
day who cannot be bought, bribed or
lh11uenced in any way to sacrifice their
honor and integrity. before God.
Every man should seek first the
klngdom of God and his righteousness.
and then all things shall be added unto
him. In other words, no man is safe
for public office or otherwise unless
he is truly born of the spirit. and
faithful obedience to the laws of
Christ. Show the writer one man who
has ever been in public or private Of
fice that was a God-fearing man, who
loved and obeyed his Lord and Christ
and lived after the order of Christ and
his example, that ever Stunned his
duty In office or failed to see the civil
or criminal laws executed so far as
his judicial authority permitted him
to go.
But, on the other hand, the writer
can produce hundreds of ungodly men
who have been in public and private
office that not only failed to discharge
their official duty, but directly and
indirectly have Stunned their duty and
knowingly and wilfully allowed the
civil law of our land and country to be
trampled upon by the grafters, bribers,
boodlers, sharks and all kinds of covet-
Gus, ungodly, said-to-be business men.
Where is there millionaire who has
ms de his fortune by the sweat Of his
brow or by hard labor? Rather they
got their millions either through mining
developments, railroad schemes. such
as stocks and bonds, combining capital
against the weaker industries, forming
trusts and combinations, destroying
competition and in a general way using
the devil as their agency and legal adj
wiser to accomplish all their ungodly
deeds. Not following the golden rule
of doing unto their neighbor or fellow
man as they would have their fellow
man do unto them, but rather do their
fellow man up if they can, and get to
themselves all the glory they can to
their fellow mans destruction and ruin.
Such Is the commercial interest of to-
day, and has been for twenty-five or
more years past. Is it not cog against
magog-that is to say, perversion or
corruption used only in such express
sions as gog's wounds?
We have a slight illustration of this
evil now being tried in the San Fran
cisco courts, where the mayor and other
officials of that city, railroad corpora
tions and others, are now being prose-
cuted, tried. and convicted for extor-
tion, grating. bribery, etc. Is it not
time the voters and taxpayers of our
United States should wake up and OF
a certainty know that we will be robbed
of our liberty and freedom, as inau-
gurated by our forefathers and prede-
cessors more than three hundreds years
ago, If better men do not come to the
front?
Our city of Los Angeles, California,
has just voted bonds of $23,0O0.OO0 TO
build an aqueduct which will give US
an ample supply of water from owens
river, and it is to be hoped ana Iully
expected that this new and expensive
enterprise will be intrusted to men Oh
honor and Christian integrity VINO WI WI
properly appropriate these FUNDS 70 s4,s
industry, so as to economize every COL
lar of expense that is possible ana allow
no man, or even themselves, to extort
from the people anything In any way,
nor allow any favorites to be appointed
at the expense of the city, put setect
such men and means as will Judlclousiy
expedite matters and get the water TO
our city at the earliest possible tlns.
So. in conclusion, let us II possipie
not allow our. business relations with
the world be separated from Cod put
rather let our godly life go and be with
our business.
And now may our beautiful city OF
Los Angeles be wholly sheltered and
protected by our mayor and all other
officials. SO that no stain or blot what
ever may hang upon her skirts.
JOHN COCHRAN.