The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-15
MODERN CAESARS
BAD AS ANCIENT
Pilates Answer Favorite With
Trust BaronS of Today,
Says Minister.
BLOOD MONEY OF CARNEGIE
SPEAKER SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD
FIND If HE HAS A RIGHT TO 1T.

In the course of his sermon in Unity
church yesterday the Re-. William
Thurston Brown said:
Here are two distinct ways of look
ing at life, two distinct judgments on
human action-the ideal of Caesar and
the ideal of Jesus. Caesarism declares
that force is the only God. We have
the power TO enact our will. We will
therefore, enact that will. Caesarism
in the first century said: The Ideals
taught by this Galilean are inconsistent
with the maintenance of existing gov
eminent If this man is permitted To
live, the empire cannot stand. There
isn't loom in the same world for Caes-
arism and the ideals of Jesus. Jesus
must die: his ideas be rooted up
Later on that same Cassarism, en-
bodied in d powerful church, declared
exactly the same sentiments il had eX-
pressed by the mouth of PLATE.
"Caesarism again found itself face to
face with Jesus in the time of George
III. Ii declared that all virtue lies in
obedience to existing government. II
branded as rebels and traitors all who
disputed that dictum. And Truth, in
the persons of our heroic fathers, de-
clared its dissent.
Where now are the battle lines
drawn between Caesarism and Jesus
y
cation of which we boast is still de-
claring the stupid and devilish creed
that might makes right. Here is the
universal cry of the worlds working
class for justice, for a decent living, for
what by every law of God or man be-
longs to them-the latest and most sig
nificant struggle that human history
has known That cry is being met here
exactly as the cry of the American
.frrFe~ il,
and his tory sympathizers.
''Caesarism is as really enthroned in
commerce and industry as IL was in
the Roman empire. Commerce today is
government-imperia autccratic, ire
sponsible.
Think of the spiritual significance
of our commercial and Industrial COM
binations. They stand for brute force.
They do not argue; they strike. They
do not rest their cause on justice, but
on might They are as remorseiess. as
an earthquake. They are saying TO
the rest of US; We don't care whether
your cause is just or not You are
not dealing with a soul when you deal
with US, You are dealing with the in
eXOrabe'
a man retired from the iron business
ten years ago with a fortune Of two
hundred million dollars. This man re-
tires from all productive activity and
receives for the rest of his lifetime
one hundred and fifty times what is
paid the President of the United States.
We want to know where that wealth
came from. If it belongs to this man,
no one viii disturb him in it's posses
sion But if it means robbery, priva-
ton, want, poverty. the stunning and
Gwarfing of thousands of other men
as the recent examination of conditions
in Pittsburg by a body of unbiased men
proves beyond question or doubt-we
want TO know that, and we are going
To know it and force the people of this
country TO know exactly what it means.
when we make that proposal, what
Is the answer we receive? We are told
1t is not our business. We are met with
the answer of PLATE: 'KnOwest thou
not that l have power to let you live.
and / have power to crush your We
are given TO understand that our one
chance of living on this earth depends
on our keeping silent on these QueS-
tiOns. Says the man who fears to have
men know the methods of acquiring
property: I will pay my money to
men who preach the simple, old
fashioned gospel