The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-08-07
(Ry MAN EASTMAN

little morality play or last winter.
How perfectly was the historic attl-
tudc of churchdOm portrayed On That
chilly day when Il lew hundreds or
the weary and the heayy-ladcn came
and asked the Church Of Christ for
bread, and tn, Church OF Christ, III
person Of an irute pretare, sneuked out
the NcStry door and summoned the po-
lice. They asked, none TOO humblN,
hope. 10 be allowed to sleep on thc
WS.-thoSe clean new plush and vel
vcty cushions cOnSecrated to the plouS
II sOmonlent bottoms of the lords OF
the land. Think OF that. It Was Of
course an outrage in face Of which
the Jesus prCtenSe tell utterly down,
an outrage against property. And
there was unholy JOY. | suppose, in
some pagan hearts to see this proud
merctriX OF history, with ali her sac
red piumage and language Of love. 50
backed up 20 the wall and compelled
70 show who Is her master. Ii was Il
perfect incident, symbolic Ul an era.
Indeed. Us | observe The doubts and
divisions OF churchdom in the present
controversy. am driven to think ii
Was q little TOO perfect. The position
CT the church is not 50 unqualified as
that. Institutions 10 not live ~ so
beautifully to their economic inter
nr.tution." Their idcologics are ncv-
C. quite broken through. For instanc"
only live out Of eight churches IN
Trinidad arc openly against the Str.k-
crS. and one or these is still saying :.
iitc!e about justice and mercy. One
of the NATIONAL organs Of tn" EplSc"-
pal church recently published an an
iicie explaining, ii not indeed 0c;rH''-
iny. the principle Of sabotage. | an.
disposed to look. then. for some Spe-
cial reason. besides the economic one.
why Tan2nbaumS army created such
I panic among the godiy.
You can kill me before | viii let
Won dcSecratc this house,. was the
Shrek ri two prelatcS. Il Protestant
and Il Catholic. to that boys unusually
gentle and tentative request: and tn
Shri, K was re- ech0ed upon the editors
Il pugr Of every capitalist newspaper
IN New York. and almost every on
throughout the country. There WAS
hate in the ink Even ;ne n"wS-r"I-
umnS were VcnOmOus. he whole
(,'.,,,,,,,,,;,,. .aamaL tn he irGulm;nm in
,'' iai'."ai ~ jo,.nrt indirmnrinn. and
d ,''.D ,'.;a - T,nonha,r1, ronvirrinn
90. 'i,'> ~, ;rn,.;t.,LIo r,,Ir,in,,ion If
WA, Only '''' '''' ''''''>
that.
OF course q rising OF the uncmpl"y-
ed. boiling up from The very bottom
is an exceptionally dire thing 10 the
powers, The unemployed arc hungry
. .b;,,: ~ lose, not even their chains.
~. avon 20 susncct that the church
v.r1,lJ have carried forth her prctcnce
If h,nfhnrdnrn. the press would have
hnon moro amused than angry, even
The rourts might have been content
- o,Jin,r,. n iusticc. had il moi been
tbat +h;, ,.i:inr ocrurrcd under the
I S''',. ~, ! " W anL tho churrh
''' .hn r Va rho stare The host Of the
,,-, >,aS - H., co,,n1r,, h.tc The "
Il: and +boI. rrio;rr in every occas-
49,, ,,.hn,, tbcv can snit nnon Il They
hnto i u.ith = hn,rod bcyond all pro-
r ,<,r - i,s rrnnre against privi-
fngc o., arainst property. or against
i>,I,, .,nL or,Inr
The agaitators Of the |. ". W. have
conducted the two most peaceful big
.t.;!.os ,bot nur industrial history re-
.,,,an,hrcy While The / ". ". WAS
,,..,a,3i2inp non-rcsistancc in Paterson.
,5S j'm;,rl Nine Workers ware way
S ,''I .,rnI.I war; in West Nirginia.
' ~, v; " ,noiainrd last fall only
'',,.,',,., ,bnr..,rG naid-,io members
io ~, '. ,r,,,. n;nn years or nronaranda,
',, - 49,, ', n,."ali r. ,n,na bio indus