Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-10

WYE understand the Bible meaning of
| wv the "Mammon of unrighteousness,
also eye cannot serve God and Mann
mon" These are two of a multitude of
warnings about the greed for gold. We
recollect the servant Gehaz who went
backwards and received money after Naa-
man had dipped in the waters of Jordan and
thus was healed of leprosy, and Naaman was
satisfied even grateful, to give money if the
prophet had need of it. The servant did not
make his master acquainted with his own
unholy greed for gold. The corrupting pow
er which Mammon sways will always be in
evidence until the reign of the millennium,
when old things will thus have passed away
and new thoughts are elevated in the great
peace system of divine rule and manage
ment.
The senate investigation of former Secre-
tary Fall is being advertised in both CONT
nents, and while there may have been many
such falls from high places that have es-
capped notice and condemnation, the time is
ripe for public anathemas against man
who is obliged to admit his overgrown
greed for gold in handling the business of
the government intrusted to his custody and
management.
1t is only fair to President Harding to say
that he has been more greatly deceived than
all other persons who believed Hon. Mr.. Fall
would be proper person to appoint as sec
rotary of the Interior The dead president
believed in Mr.. Falls integrity. There was
no apparent reason for doubling it. They
had been acquainted during many years OF
senate service together. There are every
day occurrences of betrayal of confidence by
men who have Incorporated trust funds,
who have broken banks, and robbed widows
and orphans of their money. There always
will be such occurrences while human ma
! ture is like it is, weak under sudden temp
tation.
1t begun in the Garden of Eden. Like
| I'LL 1I1o n iotn
provocaton and opportunity. Ex-Secretary
Fall would not do it again, but alas! he has
done it once too often His political enc
mics having the time of their lives.
They are demanding his head and are shout
ing Tin reYenge) for the humiliation of the
offender. Sometimes these big men get
away with it and escape political execration
and the bowls for the punishment of the
guilty.
| There a time in congressional affairs
when the Pacific railroad lobby bought and
sold senators and congressman like "sheep
| in the SHAMELESS" 1t was notorious shame
less, also odious. Exposures came along in
| California courts, where the headquarters of
| the corrupters were well known, because a
railroad director was elected to the senate
to hold whip hand" over the people who
! traded their votes for railroad money. 1t
was discussed in the cafes and hotel gath
erings in Washington City. 1t was narrated
in newspapers from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ocean The number of the troitors was
SO great that there strength in their
union. 1t took in Republicans and Demo
Gratis, south as well as north New York
papers detailed the testimony, copied from
San Francisco court records. We lived
| through that awful time, and public opinion
was so lax such offenders that these
guilty ones died in their beds without being
dismissed from their high places.
! We are advancing, progressing; and while
Hon. Mr.. Fall resigned his office, more than
a year ago, for reasons best known to him
self and has doubtless laid away enough
money to live in ease and comfort, it is a
| healthy sign that his resignation did not
save him from public exposure in this good
year 1924.