The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-23
MILLIONS FOR
CHURCH while
TO|LERs STARvE
Bulwark of Capitalism
Gets Blessing from Cal
tspeoIaI . rhe paIIy worksrl

NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 21.-
Twelve thousand people were
seated snugIy inMadison Square
Garden Sunday listening to APP
peals from the fundamentals
bishop of the diocese of New
York for a donation of SIS, 000,-
600 to complete the cathedral
of ST. John the Divine, while
multitudes of cold and hungry
women and children of the
working class were shivering in
rickety tenement houses thru
out the city and all over the
country, victims of capitalism
and destined to lifelong exploita-
ton and suffering.
A United Front Of ExpIoIters.
Never in the history of New York
has there been such complete coop
GRAFTON between all sorts and condi-
tons of men to carry out the program
of combined religion and commercial
ism as when the array of representa-
tives of greedy and tyrannical capital
ism swung into line for the building
Of one OF the most elaborate cathed.
rails In the world.
Bishcp william r. Meaning was the
high priest assisted by notables
among whom were Mayor Hylan,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elihu Root
Nicholas Murray Butler, Justice Finch,
George w. Wickersham, Hugh Frayne
and about 200 bigger and lesser
lights of this city.
II at any time there has been any
doubt that capitalism is using relig-
ion. as a handmaiden the Madison
Square Garden meeting dispelled that
doubt. From the brains Of Wall
Street to the strikebreaking president
at Washington loud voices sounded.
Forgetting the depths of moral OBJ
liquity to which oficialdom Of the ma
tional capital has fallen and the utter
disregard for. everything that savors
Of common decency, Justice Finch
said:
ut gives me great pleasure to rea6
to you the telegram which l have re
ceived from the man who more than
any one else has called us back to
the faith Of our fathers and reminded
us that the well-being of our country
ourselves and our children must rest
upon morality and religion"
He then read the presidents mes
sage, as follows:
WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. IL, 1925.
Hon Edw. r. Finch, appellate division
supreme court, Twenty-fifth street and
Madison Ave-, New York, N. Y.
at is gratifying to know Of the in
terest of the American people in the
construction Of the cathedral for re
ligious worship. I trust the effort,
being made for this purpose will meet
with the success its Importance war.
rants. Calvin Coolidge. I"
Whereup q special selection was
played. by the Police Band, which, in
addition to donating its service as
musical entertainers. gave one hun.
dred bucks to show that the blue.
coats were not going to bear any
grudge against the man who had bro
ken the strike of their brothers in
craft some years ago in Boston.
OF Course They Attack Russia.
Elihu Root was the next speaker
who combined a warning against the
workers republic Of Russia with o
mastery, dose Of American hypocrisy
rs follows:
I'VE are here TO make an open dem
onstration in behalf of public ex-
preston OF faith. We represent
widely differing opinions on religious
questions. but we are not here to pro
mote any one OF them. We see about
US world in which attention is en-
crossed by controversy regarding ma
terial things and non-essential differ
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