Show I 1 11 black corroo within a week the three principal houses ill ia this country engaged in the coffee trade ins with liabilities estimated in this aggregate at morn more than three mil millions lions of dollars one upset the alio other and all toppled over through thron gli tho the sudden death ur provided for or ot of ono one of 0 tho the members of one firm 11 this be 10 any indication of tile alio union bobsin bially I 1 I 1 rickety antl and Unsun unsound tid trestle corli or k or credit orothy on which the wheels wheela of business amerun atio ran iu in checo theco dadd itis very ery certain that the whole system is untrustworthy and unwholesome again this coffeo coffee selems to have been conducted by rk ft few uw persona who ly by superior enterprise awl aul espial cn pitAl into ceedee in getting it substantially under their control hut but not jack with monopoly they determined to so BO 11 rot roc ner the accumulated ani un 1 up op tho the supply that they could the price producing im an artificial sear city ot of a common article of el food and in addition to a iw fair remuneration of their services as distributors the producer ond and conen mer a tux tax upon the breakfast tables of tho the world the iho fact that nature blindly striving for hor her children was liia too much tor for these would be dictators unil null raised Is a crop too enormous for their grasp oleo also that we the artif loial scarcity Bo nerved tergei 1 to stimulate production so BO as to reduce the price instead of raising iiii eing it also alno that these were not exceptional methods of 0 bu business lusi sinews but recognized anil and lefiti mato tho the sympathy of commercial men and tho the labored 1 defense of 0 leading lea diot journals all these things do not cot alter but aggravate the startling glimpse which we wa hero hera get of the iho thing called 1 I commercial morality we aga again n pronounce proa eunce it to bo be elio heinle of 0 sok deceit deception on it if regarded us as anything moro than a out and merely human standard tile iho morality of the now new testament which wo we as aa 11 christiana profess to accept is tho morality of loving ozo ones a neighbor as himself of the strong bearing lieari nf tho the infirmities of the weak wo can ana ind no tl 11 carriers in tho the hormon on tho the mount no forced levy in the golden blula no 11 specula lion antho in tho single oye eye no monopoly except that of joseph in egypt we have bavo no harsh words worda for the fallen kings ot of trade not nor iny any pera personal onal reference rete renco to them except as illustrating tho the immense ira distance di yet to bo be traversed traver soil before the daily lire life anil ami relations rola tiona of civilized and society uro are co w with till tho the kingdom of god it anny well bo be asked ly by the tha church itself Is ig christ or capital the ting king Was wo shall liall by gaas clods storn mercies mero ios hail flad it to bo be a question between christ anil and i nathl |