Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-08-08

rights against the rights of the
dollar
Abraham Lincoln in 1860 said that
the issue of his day was the issue Of
the rights of human beings as
against the rights of the dollar. More
than that, Abraham Lincoln said,
speaking of the Republican Party of
1860, "The Republican Party stands
for the rights Of human beings and it
stands for the rights Of the dollar,
but when the rights of human beings
come into conflict with the rights of
dollars, the rights of human beings
comes first" And in a very simple
way that is what the progressives
stand for in this country.
A Great Moral Issue
The one thing that / would like to
leave with you today is just this: |
believe from the bottom of my heart
that the progressive side-and l am
not talking partisan politics-in this
country today is the right side, and l
believe that it is the Christian side.
May | just state this one thing from
the Bible? Go back to old Ecclesias-
ticus, and this is what you will find.
You will find this old patriarch, after
he has seen somebody who has prob
ably been juggling with the price Of
grain or with the price of gasoline of
that day, and has made himself a
large amount of money and then
turned around and given them ! Ii
braries out of their money-thisE is
what that old patriarch said, and l
can see his eyes glistening with the
fire of indignation:
Think not to corrupt God with gifts
and trust not to unrighteous sacri-
fees. He that sacrifices a thing
wrongfully gotten doth offer a re-
proach unto God. The Most High
hath no pleasure in the gifts of the
ungodly; neither is He pacified for
sins by the multitude Of the sacrifices.
AS one that killeth the son before the
fathers eyes is he that taketh away
his living, for the bread of the needy
is the life Of the poor, and he that
depriveth him thereof is a man of
blood.
wish every man and woman, when
they go to the polls to vote, would
think of this statement by one of the
greatest judges the state of Wiscon-
sin ever produced. In 1873 Chief
Justice Ryan made this address to
the graduating class of the law school
of the University of Wisconsin:
There is looming up new and dark
power. | can not dwell upon the
shocking omens of it's advent The
issue will arise in your day, though
perhaps not fully in mine, which shall
rule-men or money? Who shall fill
public stations-patriotic and educat
ed free men or the futile serfs of
wealth?
The district attorney of the city of
New York not long ago investigated
and he found that the milk combine
of that city was keeping out of the
city by artificial methods of combi-
nation enough milk to have given
every family in the city of New York
a quart a day. The health reports
showed at the same time that little
children were dying for want of milk.
The official reports showed also that
the farmers on the outlying skirts of
New York were compelled to feed
that surplus milk to hogs. Now,
ladies and gentlemen, if being oppos-
ed to a monopoly system that is
crushing out the lives of little chill
dren, if being opposed to monopoly
system that takes milk from babies
and forces it to be fed to hogs, if be
ing opposed to a monopoly system
that is crushing out the life of the
American farmer, and crushing down
the lives of workmen and their fam
lilies, if being opposed to a monopoly
system of that kind and trying to
substitute for it some better system
of distribution makes you a radical,
then by the living God, am a radical.
want to say further that we peo-
pie from Wisconsin and the people of
the United States who belong to the
progressive faith are not going to be
stopped by boots and Kisses. We
have gone through period of fight
in that state that has trained us, and
great many of you people have been
in it in the various parts of the coun
try, and that fight is going on We
don't make quitters in Wisconsin.