The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-27
BUSINESS CLOSE
KIN TO POLIT| les
Rev. w. W. Reese Discusses the
Two as Going Hand in
Hand.
THOUGHTFUL SERMON BY
THE RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S
Members of the Legal Profes-
sion Come in for Share
of Criticism.

The Rev. W. w. Reese, rector of st.
Paul IS Episcopal church in this city,
preached a thoughtful and interesting
sermon Sunday morning upon the re
lation of business to politics. He said.
in part:
Let lis 60 back and glance for mo-
ment at few political situations which
YOU probably we'll know. At no time in
the history of our country has thcre
heen such n succession OF revolving and
stupendous crimes against good govern
ment as IN tho last decade. In your
haste you may say that political life Is
essentially corrupt. and thai II stands
alone. lleld for base men 10 forage ai1 am;
plunder. Not so. y deeper insight Will
convince YOU these derelicuons are
simply the zlarine. public manifestations
OF s. fundamental pcrversity in social nc.
A moral masma has settled down upon
the business and commercial world so
denEelv that most men cannon sec rent-
eousness BEYOND. The convicted coGa
ciimen Of Pittsburg we're rruFeh gunN
OF accepting bribes for their votes But
the nspirers and sharers OF thclr gun
were bankers. They were do"nrlSnt
business men. doing Just what they knew
others had done. The capitol thieves 4t
Harrisburg were not politicians. though
that series of crimes was reckoned
against political machinery. lheF TOO
were business men. contractors ana man
ufacturers The men who hold up Phi,a-
deIphia 10 odium are. not mere pollti-
clans. they are first Of all business men
and they are in politics because pronts
rberefrom will come easier and quicker;
And if sou trace hack the scandal OF
Adams county Ohio and panville. llii-
nois. YOU will find that corrupt business
is the cause OF corrupt politics. II YOU
arc not convinced 20 farther and FOR eN-
ample. examine the Insurance mvestga-
ton in the state OF New York, There
was revealed gross dishonesty. practiccd
for wears by mon who courted and en-
jored respect so long as their sins were
secret The cheating of the great sugar
trust was a chime not only against the
majesty OF good government. but fair
men whose sins have found them out
and the larger number whose crimes have
no; Vet and perhaps never VIII come 10
lisht. there is still another group oi men
who stand 100 often. as the inspiring
genius of unrighteousness.
Lawyers Are Blamed.
Since members OF the legal profession
have become advisors to corporations and
huge industrial and commercial concerns
the moral tone of business has declined
Lawyers are ready TO advise now Tar
YOU can 20 in unriehtcousness before
YOU reach the edge where the law be-
gins The perversion Of tho law in the
interest of mere money getting is the
most CHASTITY phase OF moral ooliqniiN IN
this generation. There Is glad sale OF
legal knowledge OF how TO evadc punish
ment which is deserved and which
kind society has set as far OF in the
paths of wrong-doinG as it can and yet
preserve itself.
Our most glaring ills arpear in our
public life. because they seem an oftense
against each individual. I'm business each
man is SO distinctly selfish that he does
no, feel the pricking that his neighbor
receives.
He is he and am I is the very os
impulse so strong in human nature has
been so enlarged with the development
Of modern business, that It's III effects
now appear on the surface OF politics.
II is good that il is so II thus becomes
every ones business 10 help destroy the
wrongs In government. But the monster
OF evil must first he tanned Business
men recognize the plight into which the
unerestrained desire FOR wealth has
unite on a basis of right and conscience
10 eliminate In part the evils The pre-
vsiling general effort for good govern
of their desire and the show of their
hate for the things which they must in
varying degrees practice 10 win.
Business Conditions Blamed
Every community that is afflicted with
bad political conditions are so because
business conditions arc equally bad and
have made politics vicious. This com
muniiy would have an Improvement. II
needs il badly. The liquor question and
the unrestraint Of the Sabbath are two
enormous immoral machines for the un-
making OF manhood and womanhood.
Both are elements In the business OF the
community long as men living on the
low selfish plane OF money getting are
tine controlling factors in these two ques-
tions-polltics Will not remove them. !
Why? Because the brambes have be-
come our rulers,
What shall he the salvation of ma
tional and social life. which 30 many
seems extremely deplorable? The history
Of ancient Israel as recorded in the
Bible and which Is too little read and
known, will give the only stable
remedy When the Hebrew people l1o
departed far from right living. when
some became enormously rich. and
others extremely poor. there arose the
prophets 20 recall The waVward people
back TO God s law and 10 warn them Of
the coming OF the lord OF hosts. who
would avenee the expressions of the
unjust.
The call tu righteousness repeatedly
saved Israel. il will save tho people
today. But il must be voiced from a
deep conviction that II h Gods order
that men should live Justly by cacu
other. Based On policv sake. IL is to"
insecure We must choose out from
thc people oidv those TO govern who
have God for their guide and for their
judge. and Who will consequently rulc
us with The knowledge and In the fear
Of Cod