New-York tribune., 1908-06-01
DAMPER FROM BISHOP
cR1TIcISEs WORKTNGMAN.
Letter from DR.. Spalding Dispteases
Christian Socialists.

The largest most enthusiastic aa. the speak
ers pronounced Is: the most inspiring meeting OF
ire National Conference OF Christian SOCIALISTS
was held Yesterday at Carnegie Hall. 1t was the
last meeting Of the conference and the hall was
crowded with and women The speakers
were mostly ministers but the principal attraction
was Eugene y. Debs, who again. or. perhaps IL
should said. still IS the socialist candioate LOT
President OF the United States.
The crowd greeted their leader boisterously- Ed
win Markham presided and read poem deolcated
10 the occasion entitled The Muse Of Brothe!-
hood which was redolent OF promises. On the
platform also sxty-ive vicepresdents. All
preachers, representing thirty states and fifteen de-
nominations who the Rev. John D. Long, vice
chairman said were willing that their names
be used in public as working for socialism
The Right Rev. Franklin S Spalding. Protestant
Episcopal Bishop CT Utah. who has been elected
honorary chairman. expected at the meeuns.
but he a letter from Salt Lake City saying
that his diocesan work prevented him from oelns
present Bishop Spaldins's letter did not arouse
the general enthusiasm that Eugene V Deoss
speech Cid. u indorsed the plans for co-opera-
system, but the displeasing thing about IL 10
the audience was that the Bishop pointed out, 1t
was Unsocialistic in spirit TO make him honorary
chairman because he happened 10 be an eccleslas-
tical plutocrat' He also called attention TO the
fact that there existed little difference in the So
GEOLOGICAL makeup of the American workman ana
the so-caled plutocrat-
The workman. he said, ceases 10 be class con-
scious when he gets small account in the bank;
snd the Bishop added that the most ardent social
sst when he struck il rich in Nevada. urged the
Governor to send troops 10 quell rioting miners
Bishop Spaldng said in his letter:
would give q good deal if could attend the
approaching conference, though am in no way
eligible for the post Of honorary chairman To be
an ecclesiastical putocrat- if that is not calling
a bishop by too hard name. is anything but
If were there and permitted to speak think
should Ike say something about the oppor-
tunity and duty the 'inteilectuals. or paIlor
conscious re11ember years ago hearing '4hn fha
Anerican FEDERATION ef Labor upon the Td es sa
Think of it, /. John Burns, simple stoker sitting
on the London County Board with the Duke OF
There are suspicious that John Burns is not as
eass 60 f fbea9Te nGT we're DenTer most wealthy
citizens. and twenty years before every one OF
ably 30 per OF them were ashamed OF it The
american laborng man ceases 10 be GHass o0n
in the savings bank and he becomes capitalist
very little social recognition and he assumes the
ciaiist in the Western Federation Of Miners strike
send in troops to keep the lawless miner in order
socialist Fellowship if understand it Alright.
do good deal Of missionary work here; ana d Tor
the great cooperative conlmonweaith can be must
effort
in introducing Mr. Debs Mr.. Markham said that
niretenths Of the Christian Socialists were in SYM
rathv with the politics of the Socialist party Mr.
I1ebs's speech was fierce arraignnent of Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. employers Of labor and
even workmer who were socialists.
The two principal parties he suggested ought TO
ADOPT the sveatshop as party embienns. for they
were responsible for it He invited his hearers to
call on him at the White House after March T.
1863
The Presidential candidate SKINNED over the
subject OF woman suffrage. endearing himself 10
the suffra gettes by asking: II woman has no
right to vote. where did you get your right?" No
body present carried copy of the Constitution of
ire United States Mr. Debs also attacked the Su-
rrer1e Court. saying that lapor had no rights be-
fore =.
Edwin Markham pleaded -or the secularization
ot religion. Jesus. he said, must be seen as the
Saviour of business Competitive industry he con-
sidered pagan He said:
The old idea Of the antagonism between the
se6Sr seeIeG o IS not @ opposed to God fhe secular is
re ground and the 2nx gronnq; nbn nor cs s9S hut
sin nothing secular but robbery, and t!e ROB-
.baS worst form of robbery Indeed the secular
the only ground for all sacred activities
Jesus left the one great command 10 puild the
kingdom OF order on earth We must find our heaven
5 te j, - noere ,s We are all here in the midst Of the
materials OF Paradise. What shall we do with
ngi7n i heaven building Her chief business is to
rnast search for the economies that will furnish
basis Io- new society. Religion has talked for
her pressing business TO discover the economies of
brotherhood Religion must be secularized On this
depends her life.
I believe that Jesus is the supreme Saviour of
But his Saviourhood must descend into in
dusrrv Jesus be the Saviour OF bust
Until business is saved, lifted up into
the spirit of brotherhood. not saved.
Competition and seeking in business pagan.
Rusiness be made cooperative and Chris
tian. Jesus appear the Saviour Of industry.
His spirit be heard singing il all the wheels
Of civilization.
All THAI I have said shows. the close union
between the spirit Of Jesus and the spirit of the
cooperative commonwealth, toward which many
hearts turning the last great hope OF
humanity. A and better order is certainly
1t will evolution rather than a revolution.
II will with the spread of thought and with
the growth OF idea that the Golden Rule
nishes only the working principle Of harmonious
and happy social life
Edmond Kelly said that socialism taught the
abandonment OF fake gods. He argued for the
cooperative system, and against the competitive
system.
The Rev. E. z Carr. Of Chicago, said that Moses
was the first political labor leader and referred in
eulogistc terms to Gene Debs, who, he said,
could not be bought intinidated. DR.. Carr de-
clared that socialism better than anarchism
any time.
The Rev. Charles H. Vail said that could
be free who must depend another for op-
portunity q living. Socialism, he said, had
created the class struggle. but would end IL
Trusts, DR.. Vail said, socialism for the few.
Mrs. Rose Pastor-Stokes spoke "A Word OF
Cheer"
PATERS0N'S MAYOR VEXES SOCIALISTS.