Show GOLD AND IDOLAtRY Gold is te the god Of our civilization it itIs is worshiped with ih mili l the e ferar fervor of religious enthusiaSm It Is an Idolatry mare molo than thau eVer este be before tar fore because it i is blending itself wih and mets meets no na rebuke from modern madem ChristianitY Avarice vace is the paton of f this genera generation Men talk tion gold Is its is ton Of it a a a a as an a and t trY to beleve believe i it Is not nothing more but In their h heart rt of hearts they covet it and worship it wih with an IntensIty whIch hron is a power oer for foz good Or for far evil If used for the of f evi I us natures resources for far te the Improvement Of the vr a a medium 0 pf exchange it capable of doing a aast ast amount Of o god good I In te the hand hands of t the usurer In I the the control of it is a menace to fr freedom om and to hone honest government Thre There Is no na god so so m merciless cne a as the god of gold gald rio no tyrant so sa cel cruel n no In fluence so corrupting I It Is i not the fault of the men who hO have it so 50 much as it is fa error of f the government whIch enthrones it This idolatry has been brought about by the Insidious steps which have marked the he approach of ever every oiher form of Idolatry Idol Idols were made Of gold gald ad and i ithe the Idea Idea of power w wan associated slated with that ot of vue value Mone Money wa made of gold and nd this use enhanced It Its value Then i it w was ordained that gold bing being subject to much hordIn hoarding should circulate wih with silver sHyer in the channels of trade trad But the were jealous The There was not the clao clamor for their god when business could be transacted without paying const constant homage hamage at hia hi shrine So Sa It was decreed that money cud could be ob tamed Only in exchange for gold To Tono no flo other ather create thing was this power delegate delegated I It wae waxed stran strong for tor it ye re regulated values and controlled corn com mere merce It wa was ples pleased or a angry as the h gh prIests Of the money power ower deemed essential to is its own awn aggrandize met mont I It threatened or promised sied smiled or frowned crate created or r destroyed according to the whim whims or purposes of the mone money changers in is Its temple It terrorized the public with th panic panics drew the therm in dread and in supplication to is its alar altar and loosened Is its gam grasp on an ther their liberty when they appeared t to have embraced it is cree creed There is nothing to be sad said against gold as a metal No Na objection c can be raised to it as a a money except when it claims to be the only mone money I It is the mot most dangerous of all s sI I If the power Of gold wre were stationary tee there would not b be such daner danger in it ita a as exists tody today But it is 19 not staton station arYit is aggressive Instead d of being a a servant Of cm corn mec memo is s It was intended to ta be i It has become the mater master Instead of being an agent of at industry i it i Is the stave save driver whose whip Is felt by sal small ep em employers and by aU all employees alIke alike In Instead stead of bein being an ai aid to ma man as it was obviously intended b by the Creator i it itha has ha heroine a truel bruel det despot aiming at universal dominion domini an In England i It is proclaimed the Messiah of Progress In this country it Is the Prince of Peace wih with a mor mort gag gago in one hand and a bloody sword sward In Inthe Inthe the othEr other Leaders ot of political OpInion refer tO it a as Our government bows baws at the shrine of at gol gold and ofes offers up as sacrifices the manhood of the ma masses e the lve lives of r our sOldier soldiers the spirit Or o freem freedom set forth in the declaratIon of our liberties the constitution itself and the legitimate mate credit which springs front fram and is dependent upon the ony only surce source f real we Te The dr dry and dismal abstractions of political economy te the goi tipped In Interest Interest terest of f modern modem have not yet et probed the wounds of at thIs r re republic public to ta the bottom Disguise ise the truth a as we may fater flatter ourselves upon the assumption of superior ethic ethics ot of lof lofty pu o Of Christian cha char Is 19 the god of thIs genera generation tan tion a the lut lust Of covetousness in 1 high places is so fer fiere e the passIon to hoard haard money so consuming that al altre all tre true principles of cameral commercIal and finan cia honesty laye have ben been subverted ad and the truths ad and traditions of OUI our n mm tona history are made jokes and by bywords bywords words in the haIS halls of feeal federal legislation Thea There ith is a tendency and It i is found in the centralization of wealth and power in trusts and In conquistadors In erS a and in mone money sharks of ever every descriptIon to Ignore the In 9 the alms aims the he the pretensIons of f thIs thin republic to jeer at atthe atthe the rules ot of action which belon belong to ta the thep p patriot trot a and an and to tc main ain tain tam tle political re reby by reciprocal pilfering rather than by y common comman efforts to do the greatest g good ad fal for the greatest numbe number and to bund build buildup uP the thc om a Of the b people peaple I |