The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-30
GAMBLERS IN THE
BUSINESS WORLD
DOOMED, HE SAYS
The Rev. Adolph Roeder, of Or
ange, Declares Change for
Better Is Coming.
WALL STREET WILL BE
PURIFIED BY GOOD MEN
"SOwing Wild Oats" by Youth
full Operators Will Eventual
Iy Be Repressed. =

An interesting analysis of the finan-
cial situation was given in the New
Church. Essex avenue. Orange, last
night by the pastor, the Rev. Adolph
Roeder, who took for his topic IAN Eff
fort to Understand the Religious Aspect
of the Present U~pheaval and to Essay to
Eliminate the Gambler and Leave the
Field to the Legitimate Man."
Mr.. Roeder's address was a very
f~orceful one. In part he said:
"There is growing out of the dis
turbance a movement to eliminate the
gambler. For there is a group of oper-
ators in Wall Street which discredits
the functions of honest men there.
There must be some standard of meas
urement whereby it can be determined
whether a transaction is a gamble or
whether it has all the earmarks OF the
legitimate, and il the church waits
quietly until business men establish
such standards is she not acting along
the lines of great wisdom? For who Is
the more competent to say whether a
business transaction is legitimate or
not. the preacher or the business man?
Surely, the latter.
Hence the intelligent preacher waits
for the man whose business it is to
draw the boundary line. And when
that line has been it viii
surely be drawn before we are through
then Legislature. State and church
can assume their proper and approprl-.
ate attitude toward this problem. And
you may trust all three of these agen-
cies to do so right quickly. But the
gambler is to be eliminated, and not
because of himself. but because his
presence and permitted activity taints
honest business.
business In America.
sit seems to the candid observer
that business in America is in a state
of intense and youthful ~exuberance. lt
is sowing its wild OATS as we call II
for the individual. For there seems TO
be an unavoidable period of youth,
when vigor, strength, fendurahee, re-
source seem i~nexhaustible, when young
men soverdo, simply Because Of the
mass Of muscular activity that calls
for exercise.
1.-THE manner in which the American
business man attacks a proposition, the
way in which ne works upon it, the
reckless way in which he c~apitalizes
the pink fringe of his imagination, the
in many cases unreasonable way in
which he overloads the aggregate COR
porate stomach with 'undigested Sc
curities,' seems to point to youthful
exuberance,. a trouble which, while it
has serious features, is not an incur
able i'll. In fact, in the course of events
the commercial and financial system
are sure to outgrow it, as a youth
presently outgrows his e~xuberance and
settles down to the more sedate busi-
ness of actual life.
IF such a thing as this will coma
out of this furry it will have had ore
wholesome effect of which those who
are accused of planning it, for political
revenue only, are and We're
An UnmistakabIe Voice.
1.-THE voice of the people in some way
is and remains the voice of God, even
though we misunderstood it's intuitive
denominations of things for a time. Tt
called these huge ag~gregations of capt.
tai trusts and it builded better than
it knew. For, in the end, that is wha.
they are. They represent capital held
in trust 1t may take the American
business world some little time to get
at the true valuation of the steward
snip involved In this original name and
to live up to it, But ultimately we viii!
! reach a better viewpoint and, succeed
ing that, a better statement from which
men may be true to the trust reposed
in them when they are handed other
, peoples money for investment.
From the very first call for investi-
cation of life insurance companies to
the latest demand on the part of the
people of New Jersey, made upon their
representatives in the Legislature for
the redemption of platform pledges
there is a dominant note growing more
and more insistent every day. 1t de-
. mands that men shall be true to their
trust, and that they shall be so from
c the impulses of the larger manhood
; within, rather than from the restraints
of legislation imposed from without"