The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-08-07

Vi = at anu lue national govern ent
should go out of tae business.
The United States government
has no right to license what the state
forbids
But looking on the brighter side
evil breads nothing SO much as light
and when you turn publicity on graft
1t wants to get away. Political is
sues are growing chiefly moral be-
cause of much preaching and pub
licity. Our popular ideals of politi-
ties and politicians are too low. We
must purify the stream at it's source
by regeneration of life, religious ed
ucation of the children and by the
complete overthrow of the unscrup-
ulous rich. 1t will be done. There
is no wave of reform sweeping over
the country. 1t is permanent re-
vival of common honesty
The Rev. Mr.. Stelzle. superinten-
dent of the Presbyterian Board of
Home Missions, told of life as a child
in the tenement house and employed
in a sweat shop for large part OF
his youth and how his mother made
wrappers for 50 per dozen and went
without food that her children might
have bread.
"On account of this experience. .
he says, 81 believe in evangelistic
work, but no amount of evangells-
tic work engaged in for the purpose
of reaching the masses can ever take
the place of some other things that
the church must do if it would cap
ture the labor movement for Chris.
One certain fact in my mind is, that
either labor will capture the church
or the church will control labor.
Some day the church will awake to
the fact that the labor movement is
the most significant problem of mod
ern times. Fundamentally the la
Dor question is moral and religious
problem. If every labor union in
existence today coald be wiped out
today the problem would remain in
more aggravated form.
"The problem for the church is
whether is will assist the laboring
man in the movement or allow him
to win without it's support If he
conquers alone he will go to nobler
and better things without the church
Sometimes the workingman has
become suspicious of methods. In
case of the city missions we are only
folding him. The average paternal-
ism and patronage associated with
the mission work does not appeal
to this class of people. The church
must preach clearer social mes
sage. The pastors are educated in
the problems of the people centuries
ago as related in biblical history.
The workingman does not care a
rap for our traditions. He wants
to know what the church is doing
today and what is being done in the
world today"
One of the most important per-
sonages at the convention was Vice
President Fairbanks The press
said: "Ten thousand American
hearts beat faster, 10000 hands beat
one upon the other in the most dem
ocratic of American salutes when c..
w. Fairbanks walked slowly up the
aisle in Tent Williston and took his
place on the speakers platform. Tier
on tier the crowd arose while the
vice president bowed and waved his
appreciation America, England,
Canada and Japan, With all the ma
lions that grid the seven seas, gave
this second official of the land they
are visiting, due honor"
DR.. Clark, in introducing him.
said that never in the history of tn I
nation had there been a man occu-
pying a high political position who
had not been a Christian.
Mr.. Fairbanks said, in speaking
of DR.. Clark: at is given TO but
comparatively few men to impress
themselves upon their time and upon
the history of their nation. All hon
or to DR.. Clark and to the society
that has been so important factor
for good throughout the world. Fur
thermore, the strength and honor
and perpetuity of American institu-
tions depend more upon the influ-
ence and teachings of the great
Christian church than upon all other
influences combined. and many times
multiplied.
I'VE love and honor the flag, not
because it a symbol of mighty pow
er, not because it is the emblem of
victories in the right upon land and
sea. but because it stands for the
justice and righteousness of a great
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