Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-07
MEN WHO PROFIT
IN CONFUSION OF WAR
Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D. D., in Mitantly Patriotic Ser
mon Calls Them Selfish Traitors
to Their Country.
t is both fearless and

truthfulness that is both fearless ant
alert.
'Slimy things crawl and foster like
sluGs underneath Il stone. and will con.
tinue to do 80 until the swift hands
of public indignation lift the cover and
in America who seize the opportunity
OF government contracts to trade upon
their couutrys need to furnish dis.
honest supplies or TO wiring cNtortion-
ate profits. they could be made 10
know that whoever they are. and what :
ever name they bear. and whatever
part of their corrupt gains they may
give in ostcntatious charities, they bear
on their brow in the sight Of honest
men Il mark as black as Gains II
there is in this city. or in amy other
city. Il man who tries to corner food
supplies, who conspires 10 raise the
price of coal for his own profit. or
buys up -four and holds it until the
pinch Of need forces up the price, he
should he made to feel. i'm its most
swift and wrathful power. that one
weapon, he Will fcar--thc blaze of a
public scorn aud indignation which
holds HIM to he no less an enemy to
his country than the skulking sub
marine. and, like ii. the more pcrilous
because his work is hid.
MUST RI;STRICr OUR LIBERTIES
TO CONSERVE; FOOD SUPPLY
Thus far we have thought more
especially Of those things which must
be accomplished by the nation through
the action OF its government. We pass
OF now to consider some Of the ways
in which more directly as individuals
we may help use our privilege in the
spirit of those from whom much shall
be required
Take one special instance-the re-
stricting Of our own special liberties
which shall help conserve the food
supply We are all familiar with the
recent appeal Of the President. Since
the English and French commissioners
have come to Washington. we see more
clearly than ever before the oEinous
shadow of hunger that hangs over Ina lr
the world. Famine joins its CHASTITY
hands with death 10 threaten with
desolation the coming years. Two
days ago Mr. Herbert Hoover landed
from abroad. and brought back tho re-
port that in Belgium and Northern
France tho death rate among the wo-
men and children il three times what
II is In years of normal food. Or
CARNATIONS are being perfected to in :
crease the acres that shall be planted
with foodstuffs, to make our methods
of production more intelligent and cf-
ncient. 10 prevent waste everywhere
In the face Of these appeals stands
me great tact that 6.0op.000,00u pounds
of grain arc used every year in Amer
lea in the manufacture Of liquor.
equal in value TO 100000 loavcs Of
bread day.
Then in regard 10 our expenditures
in general We have heard "A great
deai i'm these last two years Of the
suferinGs OF the people at war Ap-
peais have come TO US so often. and
from SO many sources that we arc in
danger of losing that first acute aensi-
tNencss with which generous hearted
people rae" the fact Of human pain
IL all grows so familiar that we take
II as matter Of course. Sometimes
we may even grow inpatient and al
most resent the continuous and never
resting demands. Yet how can the
appeal cease when the need continues?
inc awful facts go on. What can they
DO who know them, but give voice to
the reality? What shall we do who
near. but pray God To keep our hearts
tender and our Wills generous to an
Swer?'