The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17

caratlon for OF against any political
party. or occlcsiastic system, or social re
form or revolution. It usually stirs no
psrtisam or scClarian feeling.
These statements arc so obviously true
SO trirc so matter OF course. that read
cra might De inclined To ask why any
one should, e. 10 the trouble of making
them at all. Such Il question would have
it's value. IT would serve TO show with
what facility people adapt themselves to
5hc good they inherit. thinking liiue OF
the source, and paying slight heed To
tho trying position Of others who are
struggling To acquire like good. Amer
leans have inherited with thcly govern
mcut certain principles which when they
were invested In our political Institutions
set us in advanc" Of the rest Of the
world. One Of these principles is
lSinus freedom carried 10 n point al
which the right or the church as an in
stitution To Interfere In governmental az
fairs or the right OF the government to
interfere in religious affairs. no LONGER
exists. no chmchmen st: as church
men. III our senate: no enforced contri
button from tho Jews goes TO spread
Christianity: none Of the taxes OF tho
Catholic citizen are devoted To the sup
port oi an established Protestant church.
or Iice versa. Ia no wise does church
man take precrdcuc" over the luyman in
any branch OF our government. These
are assertions which uutU very recent
IL could no, bo made Of any other na-
ton In recognizing tgclr force the
reader VIII sec now much less compii-
Gated in imcr'ca than IN Europe is the
subject Of The Wage Farmers and the
Church. Hero. W We tAkc account OF
the facts as they arc and the subject
as n practical one To us. We find our
starting point to he far ahead of what
Il is wiih many other nations. With us.
no rclgiu- political question IS involved,
nor any religious division between ciU-
ZFns "xc"nt sUrlI as voluntary. If
the wage -cGrncTs have any question to
PROFOUND 70 the church they bring il up
ms from body OF equal citizens TO
another. and not Il LEGAL or political
grievance 10 b~ rcmcd!cr; through civic
r. forms In TACT. what our wage work
crs can juStifiablv ask OF the church is
nothing NOR" than that The church shall
support those righteous reforms which
are SO necessary TO the DEVELOPMENT of
the vaRe- -earngrS. or that tho church f
st would speak 20 the workingInan on
cconomic questions. sh"uld speak for the
workingman on such questions.
The church in all TING has invariably
emphn sized 10 the wage Garner one fun
damentsl economic prlnciDlc-thrlft TO
be Industrious TO be saving, TO be steady
.-nl the rules and practices By which
the Individual might avoid povcr,y-havc
been regularly nculcatod from the pull
pil and TO this day tho theological mind
Is often promo 10 attribute the entire
scope III economic virtue TO personal
thrift, and is slow to sec i,s insuffcicn-
| lcy. Tho church has not assisted In
throwing all the light possible on the
comma ndIpcnt. Thou shalt not steal
II has been "a duty of The trade union
| TO bring forward for the consideration
OF tho church thai same virtue thrift,
but adapted to to5ay's needs and cir
cumstdnCcs. Individual THRIFT has not
Ucen enough; conditions have imposed