The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-11-07
RETRi5uTioN PROMISED TO
THE UNJUST CAPITALIST


the great judgment day God cannot
De bribed by gold. fiattered by rank.
nor terrified by threats. 60 to now,
ye rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon YOU. :"
are the sure and unfailing words Of
Holy Writ. The miser shall have
abundant misery. when his golden
Key tails 10 unlock the pearly gates OF
the Wonderland.
Thus IN part spoke Evangelist Cook
last sunday night 10 large audience
at the ). ID A. church in his stirring
sermon on Capital and Labor. TAX
ing the Golden Rule for text, "Do
unto others as you would have others
DO unto YOU In the phraseology OF
the modern avaricious proflteer, IL
seems 10 be. DO others before they
doyou, or DO others before they do
you. or do others because they do
YOU Many rich men today live more
by the rule OF gold than by the Golden
Ruie and vainiy endeayor to set even
the tune OF America 10 the dollar
Get all you can and can all you get I"
Is the slogan of the measly miser.
whose wretched life has become a
vortex instead of fountain.
The present accumulation of vast
and prodigious wealth Is one of the
surest signs OF the end of the world
James says, I'VE have heaped UP
treasures together for the last days"
Chapter 5:3. According 10 recent
compilation, there are now over 40 600
miiiionaires in the United States. an
increase OF 1000 over the total mum
Der OF the previous year. Ten of these
have an estimated fortune of 1880,
100000 and an annual income OF Sl2.
600 900.
Such gigantic pyramids of wealth
have never been erected before
Again James says (5:3l Your gold
and silver is cankered."
This has been literally fulfilled In
many instances where vast sums OF
money have been stored in vaults I'M
til II has actually rusted In one in
stance some workmen were employed
In recounting the money in vault
In New York City when they narrow
ly escaped being drowned In a food
of cankered silver.
The sacks containing II had been
eaten through with rust and on their
touch il rolled together In a mighty
mass. Your gold and silver liz can
kered and the rust OF them shall be
as a witness against you. and shall
eat your flesh as II were fire." are
burning words of inspiration.
However. God does not measure q
man by the size of his purse but by
the sincerity of his purpose. The mil
lionaire and the mendicant are the
same to Him. There are rich poor
men and poor rich men. A man who
has no money is poor indeed. but he
who has nothing but money Is poorer
still. Money. in itself. Is neither good
nor bad. Not money. but the love OF
H. is the root OF evil. Lucre is not
in itself filthy. but ii Is the way II II
obtained and used that makes Il a
: curse. A man is not good or bad be
: cause he is either poor or rich. The
very best man that ever lived was
about the poorest. Judas also was
poor. yet he sold his blessed Lord for
the price Of slave. On the other
hand Abraham was rich. yet the faith
err of the faithful; and good old job
managed TO pull six thousand camels
through the needles eye. But the
trouble with most rich men Ii that
they are. as the wise old farmer said
better at rakin in than scatterin
abroad
No cry that has ever waited heav
onward has been more desperate and
more piteous than the hunger bitten
wall of the wretched for bread II
lis cry that will not, like the sob al
an angry child. be hushed into forget
full slumber God hears II. and men
must The poverty-shackled MASSES
who toll and MOL. and who have pro
duced the worlds wealth. are utter
ing a pathetic, irresistible appeal
which Is being heard AMI may be
slightly answered.
II seems that this doleful cry for
bread will not be stilled with any.
thing else but bread. Matthew says.
III man ask bread Will We give him q
stonee" The hungry cry To the monop.
olists for bread and they give them #
brarfes. parks. club buildings. etc. by
raising the price OF commodities Of
life. and yet withhold bread. They
cry TO the churches for bread. and
like the turkey they are stuffed with
Thanksgiving dinner. and left with
an aching void the rest of the year
These are all most excellent things
in themselves. and may Gods bless
lngs rest on the donors We would
not decry them for one moment. But
the hireling's stomach cannot be fill
ed BY naughty subterfuge. nor by II
braries and club buildings.
The rich man mentioned In Luke
L.: 1921, who planned 10 pull down
his barn and build greater. did not
realize that that very night God
would write the word Fool above his
door He made a mistake In reason
ing that barns were the only place
in which to store surplus goods: sto
machs OF the hungry. mouths OF the
orphans and hands Of the widow are
far better places. Full barns may BE-
a paradise for the timld mouse. bat
not for toilinr men. unless the kes
is thrown on the threshold. Hts quss
ton should not have been. "Nhai
must do to save?" but What mus
| do 10 be sayed7''
The rich are getting richer ane
many OF the poor are getting poorer
They mingle, but DO not mix Th'
millionaire and mendicant. the prodi
gal and paaper. walk our streets 70
gether yet have very little in com