The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-07
And His Utterance Starts :
Widespread Controversy
in England.

PSAAoPs lhG SiAbSSN Va All AetlSuCp
seriously worshipped among us.
This utterance of DR.. Inge, Dean Of
ST. Paul's before an audience Of
women at Sion College, has started a
widespread controversy in the pull
pit and press OF England. The state
ment was made. during the first of a
series Of lectures on The Co-opera-
ton of the Church With the Spirit of
the. Age"
DR.. Ings, after referring to the
great achievements OF the nineteenth
century said that that great epoch
was now over, and civilization was
sitting pensiyely in the midst Of her
aecumulations like the figure of Mel
ancholia. Tie speaker declared that
the era Of scientific discoveries was
happily not closed, but in all other
fields signs of exhaustion were very
apparent.
For the man in the street. said
the speaker, the lettering of the
great Industrial fabric of the nine
teenth century dominated all other
issues. A population of forty-eight
millions had been massed on two
small islands. while Englandmen
were making England the workshop
Of the world" He then explained
that the natural advantages which
had made Great Britain master Of the
commercial world had either passed
or We're passing and that America
had now become the natural center Of
commerce.
In this country he continued,
the twentieth century is the spend
thrift heir of the nineteenth. The
working man seems to have resolved
to make himself comfortable by tax
'ng capital,-n plain terms, by loot
ng the accumulation of Queen Vic
toria's reign and living on the rates
and taxes He would have a short
life and merry one An even worse
ate will probably overtake Australia,
nearly empty continent within easy
reach of the industrially far more
Efficient Yellow races, guarded gratis
BY the British Fleet for a mere
handful of inhabitants. For these
reasons / cannot join in the chorus
If lay and clerical advocates, who,
When they tell US to cooperate with
ne spirit of the age, really mean
hat we should cooperate with the
abor movement and the spirit Of So
tiaIism, Socialism or almost any
Their experiment might answer in
lew Zealand till the British feet
eased to patrol the ring-fence, after
which the Yellow Man would make
hort work of the pampered trade
lnionist, but IN England the cond.-
ions, fear, are ideally unfayorable
or those who hope to see dense
population with high wages and short
lours Our soil will not support
hem. When We cease to outworN
md undersell other nations the work
ng classes must emigrate or starve"
DR., Inge said that the belief that
he ballot box decided questions wise
y, was only the old superstition Of
he divine right OF kings standing on
IS head. He also decried what he
leclared to be the soft and flabby
,ide of modern humanitarianism. The
resent horror Of taking life, he said
eemed unnatural and was probably
My temporary. The state Of the
uture, he believed, would kill more
lercifully, but more freely.
Dr.. Inge deprecates the storm
which lecture delivered before a /
modest Organization OF women has
lroused, but he is standing by his
uns, although fellow churchmen
ave denounced his statements re-
arding democracy in unmeasured
erms
eese
That the work of smoke abatement
md fog prevention is well beyond the
experimental stage, is one Of the
hings which sanitary engineers will
attempt to prove at the International
;moke Abatement Exhibition which
will be held in London next March.
Politicians and medical men. as
we'll as engineers, have interested
themselves in the exhibition and arc.
actively at work on the various com
nittees. The demonstrations viii
show how much shoke is formed and
no loss 1t entails on the householder
N wasted fuel and the need for con
slant renovation. Flreless cookery
will be feature Of the demonstra-
ions, and the promoters promise to
explode the theory that steel cannot
"a rnunnfoc tured without on,nl.a