Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1920-03-01
Money GETTING IN
NEED OF RELIGION
SAYS LOCAL DIVINE
REV. CHESSMAN CHARGES UN.
ChRtSTiANIZEO WEALTH AS
BEING ONE OF PRESENT DAYS
GREATEST EVILS 49, SUGGESTS
CASTiGATlON or "HiGH VOLT.
AGE" SINNER.

AT the Baptist church last night
Rev. G. W. Chessman spoke ON "1hr
Christianizing of MoneyGetting
Text Luke 3;1.li
John BAPTIST called for repentance
az the requisite of entrance INTO the
new kingdom at hand. Three times
tna question is asked in this scripture
What shall we DOE Note carefully
the answer. He calls for sharing.
business honesty. and indictS the sup
plementation Of wages by grant
Bring forth fruits worthy OF repent
ancp' Repentance has tremendous so
clal implications. Palestine police
knew the art of wnking at wrong TOR
a price even as some police today VINO
guarantees immunity to vice Tor Il
money consideration.
The day Of Christ was not the com
and all forms of Illicit money-getting
has been greatly perfected in the
aweep Of centuries. We have today a
scientifically developed ART OF immoral
money getting from certain Wall
street high finance down to the game
Of craps in the back alley.
There is need today of John Bap-
lists. to indct new fashioned art Of
corrupt money getting. 1t plays ire
mendous part in blocking the coming
Ol the kingdom Of Christ Money get
Ting must be ChriStianized.
The perpetuation of pagan prac.
lces OF finance means calamity for
each new generation Of young men
who leave the idealism Of the home,
the church and the school for bust
ness. ldealiSm suffers decided shock
in the marts where men buy and sell
The divorce Of business and religion
Is made imperative in many instances
if one is to stay In the business.
What an appeal in the form OF
great temptation are the emolumentS
that are offered for the young man
who will capitnlate and smothr his
conscience. Read that articles OF lose
phine Stricken, secretary of the late
Theodore Roosevelt in the February
Delinerat0r She tells of young bus
mess woman as secretary to man
who business was decidedly yellow
At first she rebels against the ugly
thing. Eventually u salary Of $1,000
silences every protest. Money getting
is her undoing morally.
Unchristianized money getting is q
root trouble with the world The
love OF money is the root of all evil
OF course it Is the root OF all good
too All of us must get money The
question is as to the how Nearly all
modern wars originate in cOvetous
ness OF trade and finance. The money
getting factor is basic in the bulk OF
industrial troubles, Greed for fat div
idends is responsible for exploited
workers and on the other hand the
money getting practices of bargaining
labor is sometimes unjust.
"A positive contribution for the
Outstanding of industry is afforded
in the recent example of the National
Cash Register Co. Thy call in an ac
countant from the outside to audit
the books. Six per cent Of profits
rewards invested capital and the rest
is divided fifty-iiity between employ.
ers and employees. Many industrial
establishments are inaugurating new
plans in which the workers are rep
resented Ill tnp management dNU
share more equtably in the rewards
OF the business.
THE matter is complicated by the
superpersOnal element, 1t is is not
always possible to point the finger at
the guilty one. A corporation with its
many stockholders is composite
personality. It has no direct contact
with its enterprise but functions thru
Il manager who is hired to get results
The principal stockholders may be
cruising in the Mediterranean ignor
ant OF the fact their business over
works and underpays three thousand
employees. Or again, they may know
the understanding principles in force
but employ the perverted reasoning
that distance diSinfectS.
"Agtation and public education
created national conscience on the
liquor question. 1t is time to casti
gate the high voltage sinner. It is
time for the spotlight on the vay men
get their mOupv'