The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-04
Barometer of Public Opinion
socialism From a Tulsa Pulpit.


Editor world: Allow me to raise my voice in
protest against soclalistic doctrines emanatng
from the pulpit OF a prominent church In Tulsa,
which | heard from very prominent minister
In Sunday morning sermon January ~.
win the gentleman from public mention
OF his name, but wish to point out to those
who heard him and to the public In general the
destructive trend Of such doctrines The preach
ing of the economic Interpretation of history
came to us from socialistic agitators and has
been preached repeatedly. first from the street
then In books appearing later In magazine artl-
cles and finally filtering into church life and
thought.
The statements that this minister made were
In reference To the causes OF wars. He said
that the cause of the Revolutionary war was the
price of tea, that the cause for the war OF 1912
was American commerce with France that the
cause for our civil war was that Britain dis
covered that cotton was king, In other words
the hish price or cotton was the cause OF Ue
Civil war. Again he quoted some author as
saying that future history would show that the
cause for the last great war was railroad
building from Berlin to Bagdao. now, Mr.
Minister, II economic conditions are the causes
for war, since oil is now king why don't some
one kick up war that2 Because cotton
was king YOU say the Civil war developed. as
matter of fact and OF history record not only re-
corded In the histories but handed to US by
the words or fathers. the Civil war was
fought, not because cotton was high In price
hut because northern .agitators who received
their propaganda from the slums OF New York
were preaching that propaganda for 20 years
prior to the Civil war. Cotton had no more
Influence on the Civil war than the price of
oil at the present time might have IN develop
ing some other kind OF
our American revolution was not fought over
the price of tea The agitation which made
this revolution possible was started long before
the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party
was merely II lighting OF the fire that had
was not merely because Americans wanted 10
trade with Frenchmen, hut because of the CEN
turies- old racial trouble and strife that had ex-
listed between Anglo Saxon England and Latin
France. England knew that should America
continue friendly commercial activities with
France, the doom OF England would be certain.
For that reason she sought 70 put stop TO
such relationship between Anglo Saxon Ameri-
cans and Latin French,
The past great war was not fought because
Germany and Turkey wanted railroad from
Berlin to Bagdad Such n teaching Is nothing
less than soeialistic lie based ON mere pre-
sumption without any foundation whatever in
fact. The truth IN that the last war developed
out OF complication OF relationships between
the nations OF Europe,
This prominent minister also mentioned
Americas war with Mexico ana said Il due
to our desire for more territory, This | know
personally to be the basest lie ever told by a
socialstic agtator, Twenty-eight years ago this
lie was taught by the Appeal to Reason and
other soclallstic papers. In fact 1t was hRtched
up about that time according to my own father
who watched those matters and had never read
nor heard that subject mentioned prior to 2S
years ago. My grandfather fought in that ex-
lean war, and the sentiment OF the people whivh
caused the boys 10 go to war with Mexico was
not that the nation wanted more territory, for
they had plenty Of unsettled territory then, bu
II was the way that Mexicans were killing white
people
All OF this soclastic doctrine that Is creepins
into our churches and finding expression from
our Iulpits s due TO drag down American
thought and change absolutely American Chris
tian teachings until we in America will be labor
ing under the influence OF a strange philosophy
and religious thought within short period un-
less the ministers OF this nation awake a :
begin TO preach good common sense and TO de-
fend the old principles OF Christianity against
this new socialistic evolutionary thought
Tulsa, Jan. 50, EARL NORMAN.