Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
HITS IDLE WEALTHY
AS TO|LERS' ENEMY.
Rev. PercivaI Barker Declares
Extravagant Wives Cause
Small Wages.

The idle female members Of wealthy
families who live in luxury and eX-
travagance while the tOilers who are
producing their riches cannot get
living wage, were heavily scored by
Rev.. .Percival II. Barker in his ser
mon at Christ Reformed Church,
Washington and Delavan avenues,
last night.
THE wives and daughters of rich
mem have handsome gowns galore
he said "They chase from one
pleasure to another, spending eN-
rravagantly the earnings of husband
or father
From this class the real foe of our
wage. earners comes. These women
force their husbands to demand larg-
er dividends, which in turn forces the
managing directors to grind the poor
wnrktnen.
'.IfaChrist were to come TO some of
our Big society balls" the minister
continued. he would tap many a
woman on the shoulder and say, That
2own belongs to your husbands work
girls you are wearing a hundred
poor girls dresses in that garment.
If Christ were to come into Ger
tain churches maintained in luxury +
He would say, That money belongs
TO the poor of the city for they have +
BEEN robbed of 1t by those who have |
oppressed them to increase their I
Riches.
Mr., Barker then stated he had read
Of aiwoman in New York who spent |
$4,000 a year for a physician, a nurse. |
a dentist. a manicure. not for her
self. but for her pet dog.
"All this time a hundred employees ,
of her husband, he continued, ARE
starving on the wages paid them By
the husband"
In Speaking OF what constituted a
fair wage to a self-supporting young
woman to start on in Newark Rev
Barker gave 1t as his opinion that
80 was a minimum, and he told that
once when he tried to place q girl in
a position here in large establish
menf he was told that the girl would
get SO, Notwithstanding that he told
of the circumstances of the case,
which called for the support of the
girls widowed mother.
Mr., Barker said that dividends
should be cut and prices readjusted
70 allow of fair wages, and an in
dustry or business that would not
ALLOW of this had no right to exist
enoe.
TO the male audience Rev. Barker
made strong plea that those who re-
ceived a large dividend should see to
it that their BUSINESS enterprise paid
AAli aHdSNos AliSs NIL DuAhCl Allhlh~ /
tanned, was a moral responsibility.
Living wages must precede big
dividends" he added
Il know of nothing more hopeful
or more splendid" the clergyman
than the rising of the peo-
pie of this great republic to do battle j.
against the Goliaths of organized
wealth and industrial power.
1T is the voice of the people de-
something more than life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
they call for justice for each man to
live his own life well and to give J
efficient and faithful service to every a
man. and l tell you unless that call ,
for justice is answered and justice Is ,
done to the common man democracy
Is doomed and the government of the |
people, by the people and for the Q
people for which our Lincoln died 2
must perish from the EARTH
In conclusion Rev. Barker dwelled $
on the relation of the church to the
problem of universal justice and in c
this connection he said:
1T is for the church to bring the |
people back from the worship of {
sordid things in life and to pledge .
their loyalty to the eternal ideals of l
owe for every man, justice for every I
nan in his work, justice for every
man in his citizenship and under our
lag a just opportunity" /