Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — SAYS MAN CORNERING MARKET IS A THIEF [ARTICLE]

SAYS MAN CORNERING MARKET IS A THIEF

Socialism Is Denounced et Epworth League Convention. Seattle, July 9. —The movement to make the Epworth league more democratic and to take it out of the hands of the bishops and other dignitaries found expression in the international convention when Rev. Dr. J. H. Coleman, looking out upon the numerous gray heads in the audience said: “I don’t like this audience. There are too many old people—too many gray heads. The Epworth league should be young people. The place for the fathers and mothers should be in the prayer meetings in the church.” Dr. Choan of Toronto said: “If adopted, socialism would necessitate a quasi military system in industry. Every reform must have a religious basis. An industrial system with a secular foundation must fail. The doctrine that each man must look out for himself is atheism applied to business.

“The man who corners the market or in other ways takes advantage of the necessitites of his fellows is a thief and a robber.”