Montana labor news., 1932-12-29

~Heiy tHe tIIlStldH uOclTiHe, anu
preaching it in the house of "God''
the faith of the masses could be re-
stored, and democracy and Christian
goodness would prevail. But alas,
fear, servility and luxury have crept
INTO the blood of the breed, and not
the gates of hell, but cowardice and
servility will prevail against it.
There may be excuses for the
rich and mighty, it may be that they
know not what they do, but it is
beyond human reason to hold the
same alibi for those who claim to
speak the voice of Christ whose
doctrine was built on this condition
and Who came to redeem the world.
Christianity, what sins are COM
mitted in thy namel
Can we call all the heroes of his
tory who have denounced usury,
cranks and fanatics? Unlimited
wealth with its accumulative usury
will continue to bring unemployment
to the millions, loss of homes, misery
and distress, business bankruptcies,
suicides, and disorder, that will surely
lead to the overthrow of all free gov
ernment. OF all the lessons history
teaches this is her greatest truth.
Let no man claim the worship of
"Christ" who underestimates the
peril of usury.
There is in this country today not
one man in a thousand who thor
oughly understands the science OF
money, banking or money lending;
few men in the U. S. Congress can
make more than a complex puzzle
out of our universal money system
Of all the problems confronting the
world this science of money is the
most complex, perilous and anti
quated.
Certainly, for many, many years to
come, we must have banks and money
lenders; so it follows that the only
way the nation or the world can
protect itself from this ancient
Frankenstein that has destroyed all
of the civilizations of the past, is by
fixing by common consent, the limit
in private fortune to which any one
individual can aspire.
Could people have had the Chris
tian enlightenment and the Christian
courage in the past to do just that,
in this simple and unfailing manner,
not one single economic cataclysm
would have happened in all history,
and today the world would have
been something near what "Christ"
intended: a Christendom of happy
and contented people, where they
would not be forced into error and
wickedness by an all powerful en-
vironment from which they could
not escape.
| have in my time been all over
the most of this land of ours. 1t
is wonderful country. | have long
since learned to love every foot OF
her precious acres, and the hearts OF
her people. There are no better
people anywhere in the world. Oui
people in the aggregate are kind
liberal, unclanish and faithful. We
are q tolerant and patient; that is
perhaps our greatest virtue. All that
most of our people want is a com
Portable living. There are few among
us who have mania for absurd
riches. 1t seems to me there is
great danger of our virtue becoming
our weakness. We are, in my opinion
entirely too tolerant with the glut
ted few who strut their ill-gotten
fabulous fortunes before us and be
fore the world There is just {
handful of privileged men who have
taken advantage of our kind amiabil
ity and docility, and the opportunity
given them in this land of mos
amiable good-fellowship; men wht
have long since lost all love Of hu
manity and are running amuck witt
covetous minds and souls, constantly
grasping and crying for more ant
more of the wealth Of the world
Even this prolific land of America is
not sufficient to satisfy their rapa-
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