Evening journal., 1911-12-11
GOD AS CURE
FOR LABOR ills
Pastor HOllaway Says Brother
hood Of Man Spirit Will
Route Unrest
UPHOLDS SOME PHASES
OF LABOR UNIONISM


ing cases the lesson of the necessity
for brotherhood of man and the
acceptance of God to clear away the
unrest and discomfort of the times.
Pastor Holloway also upheld many
phases of labor unionism in the
y course of his sermon. His text was
Psalm Z, 16: His mischief shall re-
turn upon his own head and his vio-
= lent dealings upon his own pate"
In part Mr.. Holloway said
=. "A cheap and unwholesome kind
of popularity comes to the preacher
lwhO habitually selects for his pulpit
topics passing events which for the
moment are attracting public atten-
ton Such popularity, or better
notoriety. has never fired my ambi-
ton as 4 minister of the Gospel of the
= Son of God But the awful dis
closures which have come to full light
in Los Angeles within the past few
days | feel cannot be conscientOusly
passed by me without notice and warn
ing. For with the elimination of the
llong drawn-out and terrifcally fought
trial of the Mcnamara brothers, by
their own confession of guilt has come
' TO full maturity a harvest of violence
unparalleled in the United States
hlltt llt udyS VI llt 0lNll WI III
= fact these recent disclosures reveal
a state of warfare against law and
order and the welfare of the public,
in which even the faintest semblance
TO open, straightforward, manly
struggle has been wanting
~ "No man, who has not been deeply
interested in this whole situation and
what it involves, is worthy of the
right of suffrage, and no woman who
longs for the privilege of casting her
ballot in governmental affairs is quail
fled to be entrusted with the respOn-
sibility of the ballot if she has not
followed this matter with unabated
interest.
1T must be realized that those alb
normal economic and social conditions
4 that have aroused such murderous
. hatred between men whose relation
ships in the social organism ought to
produce mutual respect and admira-
,tion cannot for very long be coddled
by statute enactment, and archaic judi
cial rulings. All conditions that fos-
!, ter class prejudice and antagonism arc
wrong, no matter what dignitied
names they may have, or how old they
. may be. Ancient wrongs are not cans
titled by their antiquity.
Sees Good i'm Unions.
"The passions of this whole situa-
ton must not blind our sense of JUS
tice, and distort out sense of moral
proportion. The principles on which
labor unions have come into existence
have not ben invalidated; because
some men in the labor unions have
4 become e. Ntors to the principles on
which true labor unionism rests, and
traitors to all humanity as the Nc
Namaras and their kind unquestion-
NJ ably are In union there is strength
+ and the laboring men have accom-
plished much for themselves through
organization, and so for society at
large, in securing shorter hours OF
labor projections from many unnec-
essary risks in their work, the en-
~ actment of laws favorable to their in
herent rights as men, etc.
1T is only when labor unions per-
nit themselves to be influenced by
demagogues, and give cOuntenance tc
anarchistic doctrines and goddess Soc
ialism i'm contradistinctiOn to Chris
tian socialism that they endangei
their usefulness and very life. 1t
must not be forgotten that great mul-
4',titudes of the members of labor
unions are God-fearing men, who live
wholesome, clean and industrious
lives, and are an honor to society.
Another lesson is that the ends oil
justice are never attained by resort
to violence In the inevitable pro
q cesses of retribution 'an eye for an
eye is the law whose inexorable con-
sequences will be visited upon those
/ who forget justice and mercy i'm tho
purusit of objects. that, in themselves
may be p.aiseworthy.
Industrial Freedom.
La "If labor tries by a reign OF vio-
~ lence and terrorism to destroy the
/ house of its supposed enemies, IL vii
be found crushed and dead in the
% ruin it has caused
Labor unionism must free itsel
from the charge of fighting agains
industrial freedom, for industrial free
d dom isiust as much an inherent righ
Of humanity within its realm as il
capitalistic freedom. If the squeezing
/ process Is criminal i'm high finance
90 its parallel i'm industry is crimi-
nal. that is. the persecution of thu
non-union man. Really, industria
despotism or unjust monopoly Il
L a more of menace to the public wea
than is a monopoly of capital; for tn
unjust monopoly of capital is more In
telligent and sensitive to law thai
u that of demagogues whose lack o
y general culture and ignorance of his
tory give their minds a dangerou
bias.
"The confession made by the NC
Namaras is a most hopeful sign OF tn
times. The punishment meted out I
Harry Thaw and Henry c. Beatue, Jr
for murder, the imprisonment 9
Walsh of Chicago, and Morse of Ne'
York. for deliberate theft in the rank
of frenzied finance, and the convic
tion of the McNamaras, are unmis
taxable proofs of the buoying fac
that the American people are success
II fully demanding that the ends of jus
tice shall be conserved without regar
to wealth, standing, or anarchistic II
timidation.
y. "It is most calming in the time
Of crisis to realize that it is becomin
more and more difficult to blind jus
" tice by the flash of the dollar, G
frighten her by the explosion of dyns
mite.
- "Were we to cease speaking nov
there would remain unuttered th
chief lesson that the final full solI
III tion of all these problems of moder
society will be in the realization
b the Kingdom of God in the souls
4 ali people. Socialism will eventual