The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-04-11
Quotes Scripture On Economic
Conditions.

Predicting that a war between CAPT.
tai and labor is imminent, and that this
will be a signal of the near destruction
of the earth, and the second return of
Jesus Christ, Elder w. r. Burrow of
the Seventh Day Adventist church, who
resides at Lefore, Miss, referred to
many existing conditions in the COM
mercial world to prove his statements
in an interview. He spoke of the great
wealth in the world, and declared that
there is also increasing poverty. He
stated that not a hundred years ago
practically every man in the United
States was a landlord. while today the
industries are controlled by a compare
lively few.
Speaking further on the subject Elder
Burrows said: 1.-The world today is
filled with wealth and princely ~splendor.
This condition is fifty described by the
prophet in the words, Their land also
is full of silver and gold; neither is
there any end of their treasures lisa.
81" ''And this" he said. was to
Come to pass in the last days.
''In a striking manner this has been
fulfilled, as may be seen from the fol-
lowing statement of facts: In 1900 this
worlds gold supply was valued at ST.
$50, 900, 900. In 1890. only ninety years
later, it had increased to S., 700, 900, 000.
The increase, therefore, during the
ninety years, gave us nearly five times
the amount possessed at the beginning
of this century. The phenomenal in
crease of gold has been made possible
by the discovery of rich mines in diff
ferent parts of the world.
william E. Gladstone, in speaking
on this subject a few years ago, said:
There are gentlemen before me who
have witnessed a greater accumulation
of wealth within the period of our lives
than has been seen in all preceding
times since the days of Jul. JUS Caesar.
"Of the worlds annual output of
81, 500, 900, 90 gold, the United States
contributes almost $1,000, 900, 900.
'In James 5:3 we read that the rich
men will heap treasure together for the
last days. This has been made posi-
BILE by the formation of trusts. The
trust is a monopoly with power to fix
prices in any Industry or group of in
dustries. Altogether there are some
thing like one thousand trusts in the
United States, controlling nearly every
commodity, from the least to the great-
est, including passenger and freight
traffic. James A. Garfield, in speaking
of the railroad peril, said: The modern
barons, more powerful than their mill
tary prototypes, W our greatp st high
ways, and levy a tribute at will upon
our vast institutions.
That which constitutes the chief
peril here, as with great corporations
in other lines, lies in the fact that rail-
road corporations have such a strong
hold upon the legislative and judicial
powers of the government; and the
general public entertains the grave
fear that these financial governors of
the arteries of m car mold
legislation as they will. The senators
at Washington who were most active
in opposition to President Roosevelt's
plans for railway rate regulation. came
to be regularly referred to as the rail-
way senators.
"The marvellous prosperity Of the
United States in the past has been due
in a large degree to the fact that the
masses of the people have owned and
controlled the wealth and our of
the country. That our present social
conditions are productive of anarchy is
evident from the fact that everywhere
it waves its red flag. Anarchy is GRIM
inal in its nature. and is opposed to all
law and government. Great throngs
gather at some points of disturbance in
almost all the cities. Railroad trains
are hurled over the rocks; workmen
beaten to death in sight of their wives
and children; factories assailed by
mobs; and the whole country asking
the question, What next?' Anarchy
is abolition of the rights of property;
it makes your store and your house and
your family mine, and mine yours. 1t
is wholesale robbery. 1t means hell let
loose on earth, and society a combina-
ton of devils incarnate.
THE present condition of things, and
the worse condition to which they are
tending, clearly indicate to observing
minds that some great change, up
heaval, or revolution, is near at hand.
The gulf between the rich and poor is
continually widening; the outlook for
harmony between capital and labor is
anything but r~eassuring. With a rest
less, dissatisfied, and often rebellious
people, the nations Of the earth at the
present day are full of distress which
was predicted by our Lord as one of
the evidences of His second coming"