The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

DEMOCRACY
Bishop spalding Says Episco-
pal Church Must Awaken,
But Some of His Hear
ers Got up and Left.

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NEW YORK, Oct 16.-A demand /
from Bishop Franklin Spencer Spald.
ing Of Utah that the church join in the !
movement for industrial democracy
aroused the greatest discussion today |
In the protestant Episcopal convention
hbre.
Il hate this system which gives t.
the greedy and takes from the meek. 1t |
is unchristian and ungodlike," Bishop
Spalding told an audience at the Cathe-
dral OF St John the Divine last night.
"The system must be ended. The
church must awaken and the church
must ally herself with the movement
for industrial democracy"
Bishop Spalding's audience was a
fashionable one. There were many f.
nanciers and their wives among those
present Some of them left before he
had finished his address but the bishop
continued, even declaring the present
Episcopal convention "capitalistic
convention
''The men who attended this conven-
tion made their money from profit, in
! terest and rent, he declared. They
care not how they get 1T. They have
not a particle of feeling for the work
men beneath them. The wealth of this
country is created by the laboring
classes, yet they are suffering unteA
tortures from poverty. They do not get
1 the wealth. In this country "a percent
of the population own but four percent
of the wealth. That shows where 1t
goes.
IF the church is supported by prof
/ It's, the worker knows that 1t is sup
ported by that which is taken from
1 him. He is forming his own religion
4 away from the capitalistic religion. just
as he is forming his own politic1a party
/ away from the capitalistic parties.
4 1--WE ought to accept the truth which
/ the Industrial democracy movement IS
trying to teach the world" continued
Bishop spalding, THE worker must be
rewarded on the basis of what he rem
j ders. Every child must have a chance
for life,
! st. Louis was today chosen as the
4 city for the protestant Episcopal con
vention in 1916.
October II was named as the date
{ on which the 1916 convention Will
4 open.
/ resolution condemning the ritual
! murder" trial OF Mendeil Bells, the
!. lew in Kieff, Russia, will be urged
!, before the house of bishops In the
|, protestant Episcopal convention here
; this afternoon. The house OF deputies
, has already unanimously approved y
) Rev. John Howard Melish, rector OF
, HOLY Trinity church, Brooklyn, tol1
Z the United Press correspondent TO-DAY
! that he would personally bring tne
> matter to the attention of leading
j. bishops, firmly, he said, that they
: would pass it unanimously AS soof
E as action is taken he will cable the
I resolutions to the metropolitan Office
s of the eastern church at Russia ane
9 telegraph it to the Russian ambassa
e dor at Washington. I'VE call upol
!. the bishops. bishops and mothei
Q bodies Of the Holy Orthodox Eastern
n church of Russia" the resolution
8 reads. "to make formal pronounce
Il rlent that charges Of so-called rituals
g tic murders are without foundation o
justification in the teachings ant
h practice Of the religion of Israel. Ant
8 remind them that in the early days Q
Q christianity similar charges wer'
t made by ignorance and superstition
d against our own religion.
n "Give the poor Jew chance, that
= sll we ask said the Rev. Melish to
a day. "He is not getting square dea
d now. That is the reason for this res
/, olution l introduced in the house 0
D deputies; that Is the reason expec
s to bring 1t to the attention of five 0
six bishops this afternoon and as
It them to press Its passage in TN
d house Of bishops feel certain ina
o when 1t is considered 1t will be pass
T. ed unanimously"
"a All sessions of the house OF bishop
are secret and 1t is not expected an