The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-11-30
Christian Socialist.

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Doctor Arundel, holding up his BIZ
Bile in the pulpit. The society wo-
men We're shocked.
Any monopoly in human neces-
sites is a monstrosity. and the pres
emit unsodly law of demand and sup
ply, which enriches the few and i'm
poyerishes the many, must be wiped
out" he preached, and Pittsburgh's
big business took offense
Pennsylvania has been the fort
ress of tariff protection and Pitts
bursh has been the inner CITADEL"
preached Doctor Arundel ''All our
manifold industries have enjoyed
with al industrial civilization and
the advantages of protection to the
limit. We are an industrial state,
an industrial political conscience
that. on the whole. has not risen
above the dollar mark
The political machine has been
kept going. Quay and his kind
were kept in power: Penrose and
his henchmen are kept in power
Why? Because Pennsylvania has
always put financial economic in
depreciation on its politics. Our in
dustrial communities, with Pitts
burgh at the head, have been care
fully educated to believe that good
law and good politics meant some
thing to make money out of. That
is the whole story.
The Pennsylvania Railroad di-
rector believes that good politics
means something that will enable
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad TO make
money. All the way, from the hum
hia u.h0
tional conscience under pressure of
necessity. up to the capitalist, who
sins with his eyes open or wears
glasses that prevent his vision, this
, has been the estimate put on POLL
! tics in Pennsylvania.
Public servants of every grade.
from the unintelligent and misled
man in the city council up to the
clever and calculating boss, and
even higher still, have measured
| their responsibility from this esti-
mate. We deplore municipal evils
! and denounce the knavery that has
/ fieeced the city and the state; but
these things have been put up with
and winlled at because, up to date,
they have seemed to be part of the
1 price of safety for the sacred ark
Of the protective tariff"
Presently Doctor Arundel found
the 81 900 appropriation for his pa
rochial mission work cut off. He
fought for it and got it back But
the purse strings We're frightened on
him and he was continually remind
ed of expenses. He was again cand
again blocked and humiliated-in the
plans for his church work until at
last he felt obliged to resign. Two
thousand followers signed petit
ton urging him to stay, but tho
resignation was readily accepted by
the ten vestrymen.
He preached his farewell sermon
last Sunday evening. The million
aire members were not there to bid
him goodbye. But the church was
crowded with men and women OF
humber means.
| 1T is no joke to pull up the roots
of twenty years, and I cannot trust
myself to say much: but 1 say to
you all. don't dodge the truth. but
take your medicine, if it comes to
YOU" Doctor Arundel said in part
ing. Eyes, I am a Christian Social
list. because ! find the objective point
of Christianity is also the objective
point of socialism.
eyes, l believe in conversion, but
only If man is converted to man as
we'll as to God. They say public
and selfish interests are one. Self
] ish interest is the one. The true
Socialist and the true Christian Is
the one who never forEets that he
is a member of society and who
never forgets that what he does has
its effect on all men. Benevolencc