The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-11-23
GOOD SERMON.


people ask. "What Is to be the ulti.
mate effect of the present financial
upheaval?" They refer, OF course, to
the finances, to the effect on legisla.
ton, the changes 1t will make 10 bust.
ness. But there is a more serious
question.
What will be the effect on society?
IL must be kept in mind that before
the final crash came in,New York the
other day thousand fortunes had
been lost, a thousand mIllionaires
made bankrupt. Most panics hurt
the poor first; this one began upon the
rich and worked upon them all sum.
mer until, exhausted, almost the last
one lay down, and then the disaster
spread all over the land. The death
Of the president Of the Knickerbocker
Trust company holds within itself an
impressive sermon. He had been the
envy Of thousands for years. He was
social leader; he was rich enough to
be above any worldly approximations;
he had the perfect confidence Of
thousands and tens Of thousands Of
his fellow men, who had placed more
than $50, 900, 900 In his keeping Today
his dead body, killed by his own hand,
Is CHASTITY reminder to his fellow
mortals, that after all there Is not
money enough In all the world to buy
the peace OF mind which the peasant
in his sheds enjoys, with the vine
growing over the shed and the smile
OF his wife filling with sunshine his
heart. But will it and the experience
of the last six months do any good?
| Or, when matters become normal
again, will the same methods be
adopted once more, the same rage on
the part OF men Guido their fellows,
the same rage on the part of women
to outdress and outshine their sister
women?
Women can perform miracles when
they try. This was never better illus.
trated than by the women Of the
southern states during the great war
Delicately bred and reared, tenderly
loved, unused to hardship, or denial Of
any reasonable want. they suddenly
became transformed. They put away
the last vestige Of false pride, called
up and magnitied their real pride,
went to work with their hands, defied
want and hardship, and with the
smiles they gave to husbands, broth
ers and sweethearts, kept the wal
raging for eighteen months after q
time when, by all the laws OF war, 1,
should have closed. II the women Of
the north would take on that spiri,
now and cling on to 1t for few years
they would ease q transformation Ii
many ways. They could prepare theil
children to be independent by teach
Ing them to work, to plan and to un
derstand that anything worth having
must be earned. They could refuse
respect to wealth unless it carried q
certificate that 1t was honestly earned
or inherited. They could, some o.
them, get along with less clothes ant
gems. They could ignore men WHIT
are not backed by character. They
could make the dearest thing to men
the womanhood OF real women.
4 And the men. They have much
more to do, Some fortunes must b,
restored, but duty in that labor lie,
along the lines Of competency, hare
work and stainless integrity.
And the laws. They should be fear
lessly executed and breach of trus
should impose Punishment. Our
ought TO be the foremost of all ma
tions, for 1t Is the most blessed,
To make II such rests with its mer
and women. Are they great and de
voted enough to make good?