Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-27
The Worship of Money

The Bible says I'VE cannot serve Co.
anu manlmon, and the fall of former.
great nations is plainly traoeable 10 the
service OF man1mon-wealth and what
wealth. STANDS for, 1t is the golden
calf over again since Moses.
"A rev days ago a rich mans daughter
married rich mah's son, I'm New York
city, and every newspaper in the United
states took note of the fact and proceed
ed to adulate as well as advertise II
was the money that made those two
young people noticeable, not anything
they had ever done to be worthy of the
worlds attention. 1t is understood that
j. P. Morgan is the head of finance I'm
the United States. as are the Rethschilds
in Europe.
What does he do to merit worldwide
attention except to exploit his riches col
Letting curious, buying pictures, patron
izing every expensive form of amusement
or heading a well-adveFtised charity list
by giving to the poor, once and OCCASION
ally?
Everybody likes him, of course because
the world worships his money He trav-
els everywhere; he sees all that is worth
seeing, he has the best collection of ar
NOR. maybe the best cook and i'm the
mornings he sits in his counting house
counting out his money and during the
evenings he sits with great people. or
entertains lords, peers, princes and per-
haps kings, for his money is the thing.
1t would take him anywhere, is the open
sesame to the finest things in peIf and
power, and the multitudes stare at him
and the society fanatics cringe before
him like he was the car of Russia
1t is the extravagant worship of his
money that's all.
This great big money fish has eaten up
school of little fishes. The little fishes
disappeared out of sight and the big fish
eVolutes into a perfect whale.
He has gathered in all the banking in
terests of the country, just like the Stand
ard Oil swallowed up all the Independent
oil wells of the country. just as the rail-
road syndicates have swallowed up all the
struggling railroads that have been fro
zen to death by the great big Harrimans.
Goulds and Huntingtons.
The banks the oil wells and the rail-
roads all converge towards these men who
have squeezed the life out of the strug-.
Cling industries that stood in their way
The big fish ate up the little ones and
Great is Diana of the Ephesiansl" The
insane mob, cries "HuTrah!'
All over the country plans are set
going to ruin the small undertakings.
that others have started. and as fast as
the latter go under the magnates buy
them UP on their own auction counters.
And then the masses run after the ban
dts and fall down and worship man.
mon.
It is a safe pillage. because these rich
men make a business of placing their
tools and emissaries In the legislative
and executive departments Of the govern
ment. They spend their money to elect
presidents and have been known to de-
fba nj Of SrIOren0e court Judges
in Washington city.
These people trade in men and worship
their own money. They are now passing
around lies and libels to keep down the
price of southern cotton in the New York
exchange, but if a Gould or Morgan
should travel through the south l know
some people who would fall over them
selves to get near enough to fan down
and worship their money.