The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-03
REV. Mr.. FOOTE ON
BUSINESS TYRANNY
Predicts, However,
That Working Man Will
Come Into His Own.

The Rev. Greer Alvin Foote OF the
Westminster Presbyterian church. dis
cussed the oppression of the laborine
man in his sermon at II o'clock yesterday
morning. After declaring that the Fourth
little thought of its significance, Mr.
E'dAle said:
There are two reasons for this. but
the one which | wish particularly to dis
cuss is that we are gradually waking up
10 the fact that we are not so free as
we once thought We're. Dear old
mother England no longer tyrannizes over
us, but another tyranl has moved into
the house OF liberty which our fore
fathers built at so great u cost. That
tyrant, | might as well tell you at once
has for its ministers and executioncrs the
men who call themselves big business
men And now let no man or woman
go out of this church and say that 1
would destroy business. for there is n
sea wide difference. my friends, between
business. which Is an honorable and use
fu vocation, and the tyranny OF the
money power, Keep the distinction in
mind.
This tyrant puts its hand down in a
hundred places and deprIves us OF free
dom. II compels the representatives of
the people in congress TO lcgislate In the
tyIant's interest. In the form OF big
trusts it snaps Its fingers at government
VI tlc peOple; ny Ine people aUG Ior lHc
people II marches the employees OF
big industrial establishments 10 the polls
and votes them In the interest OF The
employer II .throttles the life out of
that a newspaper have almost unlimited
financial backing before II dare speak its
mind II even deprives the people of
adequate educational advantages for the
the present fight OF the people OF the
north bench for a suitable school build
ing, II even stops the mouth OF free
speech, and If were the pastor of some
self to preaching sixteenth century re-
ligion and let these vital modern qucs-
tions alone. which shall not do so long
as ! stand in n pulpit. for II would be
a betrayal of Christ who was deeply con-
cerned with the questions OF his day.
But tins tyrant also oppreses. the
workingman by depriving him OF a Just
wage for his labor, and by denying him
the self-respecting and independent place
in society to which every man who Is
q man Is entitled. Some will say that the
laboring man restricts his own liberty by
his policy Of the strike and closed shop,
but the worlSingman> will tell you that this
restriction of liberty, like the restrictions
which are placed on men in times OF
10 obtain the larger freedom for which
they are contending. In the last analysis.
too. these restrictions may all be laid at
the door OF capital.
But the time is coming when the Ia
boring man will be emancipated. My
reason for saying SO is that liberty is
the outgrowth OF a principle, and that
principle Is that every man is entitled to
his rights as a creature OF God, and TO
the love of their fellow men. That prln-
ciple was taught by Jesus of Nazareth,
and wherever his gospel has gone there
men have risen against the tyrant Slow
ly but surely through the centuries men
have been establishing themselves In So
cieIy on the basis OF this principle. and
never again will ii be possible to op-
press men. The workingman will be the
next 10 come into his own.