The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-10-28
WORLD CRISIS APPROACHING
Will There Be Riot and Bloodshed
When Wages Tumble After War?

/ Will There Be Riot and Bioodshed
When Wages Tumble After War!
To the Editor:
Sober thoughts fill the minds of
many of the worlds best thinkers as
they look into the future. Tremen-
dous changes have occurred the past
two years. The times have been vi
brant with intensity. The wheels of
industry have, in this nation, whipped
up their speed.
America is enjoying the most
Astounding prosperity in her history
of century and half" Never have
such high wages been paid to the
workers-two dollars a day for the
cheapest form of labor, and up to for
| ty-fve dollars day for workers in
some of the munition factories. Yet
grave apprehensions are felt over the
industrial complications that will in
evitably follow the present war.
asssssprding to Current Opinion for
JufSrg there is a cloud on the horizon.
1t is no bigger than a mans hand, and
yet it is cloud that may wreck Amer
lean prosperity"
Will there be tumble in wages
when the war is over? And will the
multitudes of workers accustomed to
big wages stand idly submissive under
the very shadow of the fabulous war
fortunes heaped together by the finan-
cial reapers from the wars harvest?
There is an undeniable feeling of
Suppressed anxiety over the outlook.
There is strong presentiment that
somehow human history is approach
ing a crisis. But who can throw light
on this difficult problem? Who can
read the future? Surely it is beyond
the ken of the human mind. Yet
there is One who knows the end from
the beginning living God.
And ''we have also more sure
word of prophecy; where unto we do
well that we take heed, as unto a light
that shineth in dark place." 2 Pc
ter 1:19.
In this sure zassHd, even the fore
SseeEold. After delineating those
signs" which were to serve as pre-
cursors of the second coming of King
Jesus-the distress of nations, with
perplexity," and so forth-the in
spired description continues, linens |
hearts failing them for fear, and for
looking after those things which are
coming on the earth"
We have reached the time foretolu. /
We have reached the time of the dis
tress of nations" pictured in advance
and now mems hearts are filed with
forebodings over chose things which /
are coming on the earth"
- We are approaching crisis-the
worlds crisis. It will be felt in every
sphere of human activity 1t will belt
the globe.
We are swiftly approaching the
time foretold by the apostle James in
these significant words: "Go to now,
We rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your
garments are moth-eaten. Your gold
and silver is cankered; and the rust
Of them shall be a witness against you,
and shall eat your flesh as it were
fire. Ye have heaped treasure to-
gether for the last days. Behold, the
hire of the laborers who have reaped
down your fields, which is Of you kept
back by fraud, crieth; and the cries
Of them which have reaped are enter
ed into the ears of the Lord of sab
aoth. Ye have lived in pleasure ont
the earth, and been Wanton; we have
aourished your hearts, as in a day Of
slaughter. Ye have condemned and
1illed the just; and he doth not re-
'ist you. Be patient therefore, breth-
'en, unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for
he precious fruit Of the earth, and
hath long patience for it, until he re-
.eive the early and later rain. Be We
'lso patient; stablish your hearts: for
he coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Irudge not one against another,
brethren, lest We be condemned: be-
lold, the Judge standeth before the
[oor." James 5:1-9.
But above this dark international
Industrial storm, with all its rum
lings and mutterings of hate, with its
urid flashes Of violence, is seen the
ainbow of promise. "The coming OF I
he Lord draweth nigh" The worlds \
adustrial strife will end at the sec
nd coming of Christ. It can never \
e settled by human wisdom. Social 4
'm can never bring about settle \
lent. I
This is not pessimism. Earnest,
aoughtful men everywhere see the
Anglers that threaten. It is we'll to /.
ace facts squarely. The student of
.od's word looks above these dark,
scenes, beyond these
ashes of might against might, and
xes his hope on the return of Jesus.
his will be the Christians anchor in
inning industrial storm.
Veffayys5 saa rtssn .ua,ars,
SOLOMON BROUSSARD,
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