Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-14
Gold Overshadows All.

Gold is the power that is riding today
rough-shod over love, law and liberty;
killing romance and destroying a love
for better things. The lust for gold has
killed other nations. Is 1t not possible
that we. too. are approaching the time
when by digging for gold we will dig
our own graves? Gold is in everything
in the church. society. politics; all. /
verify believe that If the American peo-
pie went to heaven they would dig UP
the golden streets of the new Jerusalem
and levy a tariff on the harps of the
angels to prothect American industries.
IL Carnegie and Rockefeller would
really help US, why do they not send
their missionaries to-<he slums and alleys
OF great cities. Why do not the churches
assist in carrying little children away
from the abiding place Of vice into the
broad green country, where the fields are
the poor today are barred from the
churches of the rich and false society,
composed Of giddy swells, OF fcicles and
spectacles. of side-whiskered Apollos and
painted Minervas has risen among u.s."
Senator Taylor spoke to the toast, THE
President and Our Country" Explaining
that he had misunderstood that he was
to speak as to the President, the senator
paid his compliments to President Taft
in characteristic vein. He felt that no
chief executive could smile, and he ex
pressed the hope the smile Of the Presi-
dent might long continue, "at least until
1872" when perhaps another smile might
supplant Ii.
Senator Owen spoke for a broader. bet
ter brotherhood of men. Criminals, he
thought, needed not so much condemna-
ton as commiseration. He did not re-
gard the sins OF the poor as crime, but,
rather. as due to ignorance and the rigors
Of condition. We cannot have an earnest
patriotism" he said "uniess men will re-
member the commandment of the new
law, Love one another, and acknowledge
that they are their brothers keepers
Thousands Go Hungry.
Referring to corporate greed and what
1t had done for this country, he said ten
thousand children in New York city were
known to have gone to school I'm the
morning without their breakfasts. Thou
sands of women, he said. were toiling
there, replacing men in the labor mar
ket. instead Of being at home rearing
children and making happy homes that
their employers might fatten upon the
toll. There are ten million men in the
country, he said, without property of any
kind enough to last them twenty -four
hours.
Deserving men today do not want
petty chdTIty. 1bcy want eQual Opp0r-
tunity, and that equal opportunity Is
being cut of by q craft so slow in its
operation that we scarcely notice it,
There Is nothing today that we wear or
own that Ii not In the hands of some
well organized well developed monopoly"
But he felt there was a remedy at hand
for this state OF affairs. AS matters
stand. he said. the government cannot
control the trusts, because the trusts
| control the government. and mot only
are the legislatures controlled by cor.
porations. but judges are appointed that
are favorable to their interests" There
must be q return Of power to the people,
he declared. and he saw In the new DO
lifical doctrine OF the initiative and refer
endum, with the right to recall judges,