Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-08-30
MONEY A WORLD POWER
ITS DESPOT|C RULE
Although Used Universally Money
is Little Understood.
BY THOSE WHO HANDLE 1T.
A Plea for the Cooperative Common
Wealth.

0ot a cent, SAID little tot OF
girl walking on the State House
grounds yesterday morning. Trium-
phantly she held up the coin to show
it to friend, while the infant mind
rejoiced at the magic power latent in
the little piece of copper. What
would it not buy?-candy, cake, fruit
or toy. Yes, the little one knew
what the cent could do, but 1t could
not tell you why.
Although used universally. monev
is little understood by those who
handle it. They think they know its
power, but the average man fails to
grasp its far-reaching influence. 1t
takes the great captains of finance to
handle it successfully, and even they
cannot comprehend fully the myster-
ious power of this subtle force.
Indeed, strange as it may sound,
money has risen from its original sta.
tion az the servant of man to become
his king. Men first made money as
a medium of exchange to serve the
buyer or seller. By degrees, as com
merce developed, the power of money
become as intricate as the most won
derful modern machinery. Now, not
only the individual man, but the great
governments of the earth, are con-
trolled and actually enslaved by this
strange tyrant.
People are gradually awakening
to appreciate this fact. They are
already opening their eyes to see that
the laws of the land have been large
ly instigated by the tyrant. finance.
Even the church is not absolutely in
nocent, or immune from the perilous
combination.
Indeed, this twentieth century OF
great physical inventions and won
deriul intellectual development must
plead guilty to worshipping the
Golden Calf From the humblest
peasant to the greatest political
power on the face of the earth, all
feel the demand, directly or Indirect
ly. to bow to the shrine of this i'm
plicable god. The world realizes as
perhaps never before the force of St
Johns word (Rev. 18.l2-I3) ia
enumerating the things controlled by
money: 1.-THE merchandise of gold
and silver, and precious stones, and
of pearls and fine linen, and purple
and silk, and scarlet and
precious wood, brass, iron and marble,
and cinnamon and odours, and oint-
ments and frankincense and wine.
and oil and fine -four and wheat and
cattle and sheep and horses and char
lots and slaves and souls OF men.
Souls of men! Yes, this awful
climax tells the true situation. Men
are actually selling their souls to
the money-god. Not only those no.
torious characters who are caught
red-handed in some glaring financial
rascality, but men in the humber
stations of life are often guilty of
connivance. They are afraid to
speak out boldly against the money
powers. They either fear the poll
ticians who hand out favors and with
hold them, or they actually fear that
their very bread and butter is de-
pendent upon keeping their mouths
shut.
"Silencei" is the command cf
King Money, and many an American
in the "land of the free and th home
of the brave bows like an abject
slave. How long can this tyranny \
last? Just so long as men fear to
speak and act their honest convic-
tions. But as soon as brave pa
triotism moves the hearts of a suffi-
cient number, We shall dethone Nam
mon and reinstate Righteousness.
1t may require considerable self-sac-
ricfe to do this, but the Gross of CAL
vary shows that Christ bore the brunt
of the battle against this enemy; iE
the spirit of that Christ we can do
our parts, individually and collec-
lively, to bring order out of chaos,
and brotherhood out of the cruel COM
petition under capitalism.
Then the cooperative common
wealth will flourish. God will reign
in the hearts of men, the Golden
Rule will supplant the Rule of Gold
and money will be our obedient SER
want.
written for the evening Capital
by a member of the Christian So