Douglas Island news., 1907-08-28
As It Looks Today.

Some joker gave to the News, i'll its babyhood days the name of "The Great Religious Weekly" We ehaye struggled along with this incubus in the same patient way that many man and wo' man has had to with long -winded, high falutin', unseemly names tackled on to them in childhood; but at this time and in connection with a movement in which this paper has taken part, we are going to inflict on our readers a homily on religion.
 With us, the word religion is synony- nous and interchangeable with moraIi- ty. Now the world of today is deluged with discussions of, and suggested remedies for, the so-called economic" problem. It is the paramount issue in the world of thought, at the present moment. The SAHIBS of Alaska, one of whom the editor is proud to name himself, rise to remark as follows:
 Gentlemen, change your name and viewpoint in this burning question, that like Banco's ghost, will not down. Call it the moral" question, and look at it from the viewpoint symbolized by the clasped hands at the apex of the triangle in another column-"the brotherhood of man."
 Religion, as we understand it, is plainly and tersely stated in the little couplet of the old song we used to sing in our youthful days, "Lore your neighbor as yourself, and paddle your own canoe" Although we are well aware that this is too simple a creed for most people to dignify with the name of religion, it is, as far as we can see, the all and only religion that IS written in every atom and fibre of this universe with indelibls ink, in large letters; the tiniest invisible molecule and the stars that sang together when a Good Man was born all tell the same story. Every act we do, every word we speak, every thought we Shink, whether as individuals or as corporations, Is either a moral or au immoral one. Just as the little moth, attracted by the glitteriug of the nightlamp, ven lures too near and either gets his wings singed or is exterminated altogether, so with that puny and powerful thing called man" forgetting that he only has the use of this earth "as tent for a night" he has piled up his shekels, more and still more, at the sacrifice of his "brother's" life and wellbeing, and with total disregard of this plainly writ, earth, heaven and history-written moral law.
 Mir. Corporation, when you were bringing in hordes of Asiatics and men of inferior civilization to our own, to "sweat" them in your greedy lust for gain, in mills, factories, mines and farms, in order to pay an extra divi dend to your stockholders, you were doing an immoral act. Mir. Moneybags when you drove that hard bargain with half d dozen of your poor half-starVed neighbors, hired them to work for you at less than going wages, and then paio them in merchandise at an advance oI 25 to 50 per cent over going prices; be- cause they were hungry and must eat to live, you were doing an immora act. You thought you were great "economist," had a reputation for being such, didn't you? But, God bless you we want to call things by their righ' names, and therefore tell you, you were a violator of the moral" law; a poor blind, foolish man, who did not believe that the sins of the father should bt visited on the children even to the third and fourth generation. Perhaps you were excusable-but, men of today we are not.
 The latest science provings tell us 1T unmistakable language that no mar can live unto himself, no matter how hard he may try or wish so to do. "A chield's amang you takin' notes, and faith, he'll brent it" is the law of life St's against the constitution of the