The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-03

RICH ARE
SCARED
SOCIETY is SINFUL--EX-
AMPLEs S EFT BY THIS
CLASS BREED SOCIALISM
special to Daily Leader.

Special to Daily Leader.
Now York, Nov 3,--Father Vaughn,
the "Mayflower jesuit" as they cali
him In London, because he is OF the
aristocratic class, but inyeighs against
the smart, stated his grievance against
the merely rich. II is that they seek
to nullify the decalogiie and have be
come a menace BY pretending that
there is no such thing as sin.
u think said he, that really tho
rich are much more TO be pitied than
the poor Their life of perpetua
climbing must be agonzing. The IS
ranny Of their whole position is tor
ture.
"rhe vulgar rich-talk about people
being dull. Why, If there were Z
worldwide competition for dullncs
and arrant stupidity, the prize woult
be carried off by this class.
Smart society Is the same tht
world over Il has no intellectual con
vcrsation OF character. II, has nG
standard BY which to gauge anything
except the standard Of the bank note
"Thelr lives are SO artificial, the.
are such slaves TO fashion, so com
pletely the creatures of routine, tina
they become at length like dumb dril
en- cattle, forced round and round I
the same places like travelling show
What we want today is characte
dominated by lofty and holy prime
pies. 1t Is difficult to grow, charal
ters such as ] refer to, In the herec
lty or in the environments or wit
the education belonging to this inne
circle Of gilded luxury and license.
THE worst about the .uxuriou
class Is that It rather makes boas
that there is no such thing as sin.
Formerly wrong-dolng was secret
something to make excuses for and I
be ashamed of. Now they are nc
afraid to do wrong things in the ope'
as If proud of them.
This class. with such point o
view is menace. Their wrongdoir
Is done before servants who suppl
wholesale TO the shops at which the
4 deal The ghastly story of gilded vice
The salesman in The shops retail th
story to the man in the street till q
4 length find that not merely in Wills
dom. but in slumdom itself all !
known Of the STAINLESS lusts of tn
pampered set
81 think one Of the crying shame
of the day is setting this hideous e>
ample Il is enough of itself to ere
ate Socialism in its most yirulen
form
what can be done about it, wa
inquired.
Absolutely nothing replied Fathe
Vaughn, with people who one
believed in Christ and Christianity
except they return to their forme
selves with repentance at the feet O
the Crucified Savior.
ut is either Catholicism or natural
ism. It's either hand over hand an
foot before foot on and up; or els
it is tobogganing down till they reac
the bottomlcss pit of hell itself.
"You make II plain" it was sut
gested, Why Chesterton said yo
we're making the comfortable classe
feel uncomfortable.
"Two months ago. replied tn
priest. "a woman came 20 me and SAT-
"Father | shall never go to hear yo
again. so to church to be made con
Portable but when ! come out OF you
| church feel wretched'
"My answer was: Madam J mad
Won feel so because, having felt you
pulse, taken your temperature an
looked into your eyes, knew that BE-
fore could start your circulation
would have TO add Jolt, and ! an
glad my battery has had that effect
II YOU come to church often enoug
YOU will finally feel really comfort
able"