The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
Weeks Gossip
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BY c. HAMILTON RHODES


 London. Oct. sl.-The Bishop of Lon don delivered a remarkable anti-so- cialistic address, characterized by deep sympathy for the poor. at Christ Church, Mayfair. this week, when tne Rev. Eric M. Farrar was indueted as the new vicar of that church. The Bishop began by referring to the fact xhat the new vicar came to Mayfair from Hoxton.
 'Tf you look round London" he said. you will scarcely find a poorer part than Hoxton or a richer part than May fair. and that faces us with this dif- ficulty: Why should there be rich, ana why should there be poor? Why is 1t that God. although He loves the child born in Koxton as much as the child born in Mayfair gives such an unequal lot to the children whom we are taught He equally loves?
 T left the Church Congress at Man chester discussing the great social problem, and 1t opened up the question: What is the Gospel of the rich7 <As the Pan-Anglican Congress speeches were made declaring that the whole of the present system was wrong, and that society should be reeonstructed-that land and the means of production should be owned not by individuals, but by the municipality and the peo- pie. Those who hold what are called Socialistic views or the problem are perfectly justified In spreading their views if they can see system of spreading the postoflce system to other industries. If they can change the present system without interfering with vested interests and without rob- bing single person of anything he rtghtfully possesses. then that solution is an economic solution which any Christian may hold if 1t comments It. self to him.
 Rich and Poor AIlke.
 What protest against Is approach ing the solution as the only one b.nd- ing the Christian conscience. Before I can take on economic grounds that socialistic solution of the problem which is ever present to me as I try to E work day by day among the rich and poor alike. ask why 1t is that the old American colonies never succeeded on such lines. It was only when each man got something for his labor that those colonies became what they did. Tn Russia find that one of the great causes of poverty and misery is that the villagers own land in common.
 "If on economic grounds we reject that solution of the problem. what is the Gospel for the rich? believe there are i've points about 1t. The first is justice It was the Christian Church which, by It's insistence on justice, abolished slavery in Rome. There should be justice for the poor man who gets 3f Ia cents for making an ar ticle sold for $5. The rich have great power in their hands, and in making their purchases do they inquire as to the conditions under which the articles they buy are produced? If they hurry on their orders do they realize the ex- tra work and hours they are giving to some poor seamstress?
 The second great thing is equality N@ ffu fPd Es- .s for the rich there must De emphasized tn 6 supremacy of righteousness. What does so much harm in the East End are the stories which reach them from West London What the rich have to understand is that the only true aris- tocracy Is the aristocracy of charac-
 Fourth. we have to preach the real fly of religion. Last. there, muse be in the Gospel for the rich more insisteuce sata on the great brotherhood of the ehurch. !" zPeE
 Winston Churchuf speayxa.
 Tn q speech at Dundee, Mir. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade declared that unemployment was not confined to periods of trade depression and would not be solved by trade revival. As President of the Board of Trade, it was not yet possi- ble for him to say thst the end of the depression was In sight. But there were indications which Justified the hope that the depression would be less severe and prolonged than in other trade cycles.
 discern. he said, in our present in- dustrial system three vicious condi- tions:
 First-The lack of any central or- ganization of industry or any general and concerted control either of ordi. nary Government work or of extraor- dinary relief works.
 Second-The second vicious condi- tipn Is the increasing evil of casual labor,
 Third--The third vicious condition is boy laboNr--the. competition of boys or young persons who do mems work for boys wages and are turned off as soon as they demand mems wages for themselves.
 It is no use abusing capitalists and rich people. They are neither worse nor better than anyone else. Nor do think the wealthy people of Great Britain would be ungenerous or un- willing to respond to the plain need of this nation for a more complete or elaborate social organization. be- 1leve that if large schemes properly prepared and scientifically conceived for dealing with the evils have men, toned were presented, there would be fhoukands of rich people who would