The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-16
MINISTER CRITICISES
 OFFICIALS
Rev. MT. Bullock Scorches Politicians from Stratfond
 to Washington
FACTORY CONDITIONS EVIL

At the Neighborhood church, in
 Stratford last evening, Rev. c S. Bull lock preached sermon on "The Men
 With Marks Upon Their Foreheads.' g
 The text was taken from Ezekiel 9:4 and was modernized by the pointing out of some of the abominations of
 to-day over which ''the people for
 whom God has fellow feeling sigh and cry. Think of the abomination in our political life: don't believe there ever was a nation anywhere in all the his tory of the world so thoroughly rotten as is our nation to-day. From the smallest hamlet on up through the towns and counties to the States and the nation itself. corruption is found everywhere. We read of San Fran cisco graft and Pittsburg graft and Of Chicago graft and of Denver graft everywhere the searchlight falls we see rottenness and the traces of graft.
 You will remember that short time ago spoke of the box out wonder that. is unfit for a pig pen and yet we call it the lookup and I then called one man or any number of men get ting fat off the earnings of other mems wrong doing. It was a live up- to-date subject and one of the report CTS asked for data for his paper but the editor threw it out because it was too personal.
 We can rant at the Mormons, damn ths Mohammedans. work ourselves in to frenzy over the sins of the Esuui- maux at the North Pole but we mustn't say anything about the abo- imitation of the fee system1 for pub lie servants in Stratford nor point out the disgraceful state of affairs when we are content with such hovel for a lookup.
 'It was not long after I pointed out the conditions in our town before every eye was. focused on Washing ton to see what would be done there In revising the tariff downward only to see that the 'downward' revision was on the luxuries of the rich while the poor man must pay more for what he eats and what he wears than eyer before in times of peace, and then we turned half-sick toward Hartford, who would be true to their trust, and were disappointed when we saw the things the people wanted denied them by the servants they had chosen.
 But it is not only politically that we need a reformation. Think of our economic conditions. Let, visitor from Mars come to us in his airship and visit some of the tenement house districts in Bridgeport. Then let him go through the shirt factories and the corset shops and the plush mills What would he think oe our Christian civil lfzation in which the many toll cease Iessly to buy horses and carriages and automobiles for the few?
 We teach boys and girls to pray that Gods Kingdom may come to earth but our votes give the lie to our prayers and we perpetuate the devils kingdom in our midst.
 we tell them that they must ask God for their daily bread but we make 1t impossible for their prayer to be answered and they turn into other ways and the prayer is answered by theft or lust
 sI believe to-day as in those former days the men and the women for whom God has fellowship are marked in the forehead-those who sigh and cry over these wrongs that should be lighted, and these marked people are not all in churches, they don't all be- lieve in churches, some of them who are in the church are not orthodox but they are signing and crying over the things that are wrong and for them God has a fellow feeling demanding that they shall not be harmed by the averaging messengers of his laws"