Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-10-17


forever. But beware of society's right.
eous anger if thou hast espoused radi.
cal ideas concerning the reconstruc-
ton of our social life, thou shalt be
cast into outer darkness, where the
worm OF lost prestige dieth not.
| As a WoFkingman you may be what
you will, union man or non-union
man, horny handed son Of toll" or
capitalist a la bluff, because you
wear a white collar to your work;
you may be a replutocrat or a demo
can or any other kind of man de-
scribed in Psalm 1:41, all this shall
the powers that prey overlook and be
gracious unto thee, but if thou art
even SO entirely too radical,"' as to
believe in one big union, thou mayest
well pray to be taught to number tne
days of, thy job, and thus apply thy
heart unto wisdom.
AS a preacher you may be what you
will, an orthodox or liberal, synod
zeal patriot or an Independent free
lance-you may countenance gambling
at church bazaars, the selling of
chances and the practice of bookmak-
ing, the playing of euchre for Gods
sake and the sake of His church, you
may be puller of political wires in
the election of brother preacher or
jobber in fat parishes for your friends
and lean ones for the undesirables, all
this shall the church people overlook
and remember you not in their anger,
but if you have become. entirely too
radical" in matters pertaining to, JUS
tice and righteousness, then may you
well call your son Joseph and make
him swear unto thee that he will bury
thy bones in the land of the fathers.
Little wonder that being entirely
too radical is worthy of lcondemna-
ton. Behold the worlds radicals:
Moses, who in the face of the uncon-
querable divine right of kings called
labor strike in the brickyards of Gosh
en- and dared assert that soulless slaves
were the children of great God!
And then behold, Moses believed in
conf1scation, and told the slaves to- de-
spoil their masters.
Nathan, who at the risk of his job,
dared to face the most powerful king
in civilization and tell him, ''Thou art
the man." after having led the unsus-
pecting king into well laid trap, was
another radical.
Think of such characters as Isaiah,
Amos, jeremiah and others who dared
cry out against the rich and the pow
erful, whose religion waspelitics, and
whose piety consisted in championing
the poor and the oppressed, the wild
owed and the orphaned in the capital
istic courts of their day, they who
mathematical those who builded
house upon house and took in
terest and securities, they who
took interest and securities, they who
dared promise the common people a
government under which they, should
build houses and inhabit them and not
another, and held forth to every man
the full product of his toll, think for a
moment of these terrible actions, these
soul and home and religion and God
destroying principles, and do you be-
gin to understand why the pillars of
society and the church and the. gov
eminent condemn the red specter of
radicalism?
Stand for. moment at the side of
that giant clad in the rough hide OF a
camel, laundering through the recep-a
ton hall of Herod the libertine, that it
was wrong to live with his brothers
wife, losing his head because he called
a rake rake, and a spade spade,
the radical forerunner OF the worlds
Great Radical.
Think for a moment of Luther at
Worms, of Huss, in Bohemia, OF Sava-
norola at Florence, these men who de-
fed the very handiwork of the powers
who undermined the church, caused
the "divine" institution founded by the
Cb,.;st IJioar himcn1f tn hacOme worm
eaten, these were radicals. Little won
der that organized religion to this
very day has gone on record as: Radi-
cal, 1 have hated thee with an ever
lasting hate.
If your delicate constitution can
endure the sstrum and drang thereof,
think for a moment of Patrick Henry
who spoke treason; of John Brown and
Lovejoy and Wendell Phillips and Will
liam Lloyd Garrison, these desperate
characters of American history, who
actually placed human rights above