The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-20

REL. MT. Brown Declares Cap
ij1iist Class Is Distinctly
Recognized by Government.
TK00r2 DURING STRIKES
SPEAKER SAYS THEY ARE At
WAYS WITH EMPLOYER.

brown - a sermon on The Twin TRACE
dies Of the IscCztiial Panic" delivered
yesterday a, tne First Unitarian CHURCH.
he .peaScr defended the working
classes ia inc struggle against capitalism
.,nn t5eA "a briefly eae Go!cficld strike
lie said thai the miners did rot ASK for
Justice or & square dei.l, put only Tor
tne same consideration that IS paid 10
mules that WORK in Chc mines. The re-
suit vas tae closing OF the naincs. tile at
tempt to re-Cpen them with non-union
Labor and the calling in Of the United
States troops
Have our soldiers ever been used IL be-
half of employees asked the speaker.
w nat does this mean? 10 means that tie
existing government distinctly recognizes
that one class Of citizens. the employers.
have rights in defense OF which all the
military resources OF the nation may De
called upon for service. And il means
that the government denies that another
class of citizens the employed, have any
rights which the soldiers may be caiied
upon to defend" The sermon in part fol-
lows:
Concerns Soul and Body.
There is no delusiOn more pitiful or
more disastrous to all that makes Cor
higher things than the delusion that
spiritual interests concern the soul. but
not the body; that they relate to books
or art or imagination or some vague emo
ton. and not to the cOmmonest things or
our daily life; or that mans relation 10
God or communion with God is somehow
ecstasy in dreamy visions. in cOntempla-
ton of fine-spun theories. and not su
premely and vitality in the resolute de
termination to axe this whole Industrial
and commercial machine in which and
through which every decent man among
US must ges his bread and butter subOrdi-
nate to the demands of justice, an instru-
ment by which to demonstrate. as il can
i'm no other conceivable way be demon
Strated. that God is. that love is really
omnpotent. rather than brute force.
Churches After Money.
THE notion that it is the mission of the
minister to soothe and please his congre-
cation and avoid those questions which
may agitate their minds or lay upon their
consclences great moral burdens was
never gained from the life or teaching of
Jesus. Il is the natural product of ma
terialism, the dictated procedure of that
subtle dread of naked moral truth which
has become the very soul of modern CAPT
talism The religion of Jesus doesn
exist at all in the organized activities OF
a single church that processes 10 regard
his as its divine head and moral author
ity, for the simple reason that no such
church is exhibiting any such attitude to-
ward life or having any such experience
as he. Jesus had not where to lay his
head but IL is the supreme ambition of
the average Christian church to have as
: ornate and splendid d shelter as possible,
as il is of each individual member. Jesus
antagoniZed the wealthy and influential
people even in that primitive time when
wealth and responsibility had not become
any such moral menace as they are TO-
day. But there are few things over which
any kind of church today rejOices with
such fervent and pious enthusiasm as
over the capture of some person of large
means to help pay its bills.
The tragic thing in the condition of ar
fairs which exists just now among us is
not merely the fact that certain number
% human beings have suddenly, through
no fault of their own, been brought face
to face with pauperism. The tragedy or
It all lies deeper. Who are these people
TO whom this fate has come in this most
prosperous country on the face OF the
earth and at the period of its greatest
prosperity? Who are these fellow men of
ours who have become objects OF charity
while YOU and | still eat the bread of
plenty and responsibility? What is the
relation which these people sustain 10 so
ciety-these members of the worlds work
ing class?
Bears Worlds Burden.
THE question is a fair one. for when
ever industrial depression comes, the
greatest sufferers are always members or
this one class Indeed. no matter what
the industrial conditions. this class bears
the larger part of the worlds burden or
suffering. Hardly week passes that we
do not read how a score of men here, n
hundred men yonder and half thousand
somewhere else have had their lives
snuffed out in mine explosions or factory
disasters One mar out of every twenty
flEe VINO 90 QOWn INTO tie COAL iitlliNH u
this country is killed and one out of every
three injured
The working class is the indispensable
factor in all society or civilization Were
every member of the capitalist class to
die tomorrow, society and civilization
could still go on without them Were
every member Of the sO-called educated
classes and every church and priest and
minister 10 disappear. the world could stIll
go on But it, by some catastrophe, every
member of the working class should be
destroyed at once, nothing IN society or
civilization as we now know it could so
on for a day. The foundation would be
taken away-the foundation upon which
we build, the ground upon which We
stand
How Workingmen Are Treated.
Think how society and government, as
now organized, treat the working class
There are today, Il is estimated, over 800
600 men in this country out OF employ
ment as a result of this Industrial crisis
These men who have suddenly Decome
wanderers in search Of work are American
citizens They stand on a political equal
itv before the law of the land, IN theory
with John ID. Rockefeller or Andrew Car
negie or President Eiiot OF harvard OF
President Roosevelt himself How does
this government of the people, by the peO-
pie. Tor the people. this government OF the
square deal treat these citizens whom
an industrial crisis has turned into
franps2 Every state has its laws against
tramps. Men come to a city in search OF
work But there IS no work for them.
That condition is itself a degrading one.
There isn't a man in America who could
go through what these men, thrown adrift,
endure without becoming degraded by Il.
But our stupid laws and equally stupid
administration of them sees in every idle
poor man a vicious person. and he must
get out of town so to Jail In other
words after capitalism has produced IL
nanciaI depression and consequent loss OF
empIovment il passes laws making IL d
crime to be unemployed
The GoIdfield Strike.
THE miners al Goldfield went on STRIFE
some months ago. merely for some little
hetterfneBt in their lot. They didn't ask
for Justice or a square deal. but only FOR
about the same consideration that Is paid
To the mules that work in the mines.
What is the result The result is the clos
ing of the mines. then the attempt TO re-
open with non-union labor. and then the
calling OF a thousand United States SOL
diers for the purpose of enforcing the viii
Of the mine-owners. When ii was declared
that the soldiers should he neutral the
disappointment of the mine-owners was
only too evident They had expected that
the soldiers would act as they have usual
~ acted-as they did in Colorado and Ida
no and Pennsylvania and West Virginia
and many othcr StareS-aS a. means of