Show jf e Fie He Being Dead Yet it It was two years ago last Monday that Franklin Sp Spencer ii er Spalding inn ing Episcopal bishop of Utah was suddenly run down by an automobile automobile automobile automo automo- I bile bile and crushed to death In that length of time many m men n are forI for for- gotten It is not so with the good bishop who was taken so suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly from a community that had learned to love him and appreciate his works Today his influence is being felt all over the state and will Fill continue to make men less greedy and cold toward their fellows t S A man who had been privileged to know Bishop Spalding intimately intimately inti inti- tely arid therefore understood the bigness of his affection and sympathy for the masses brought to our attention a few days ago a publication containing some of the splendid addresses delivered by Bishop Spalding in the thc course of his steady labor in behalf of the poor and the discouraged A man cannot be a Christian said Bishop Spalding unless he is convinced that human rights come before property rights right and aria he cannot qualify for the ministry unless he is resolved to persuade other ther men to help put them there yA A man so strong wrote the bishops of the fifth province int in t their ejr memorial at his death and yet so gentle so positive yet J-et so charitable so careful of the rights of men and so careless of self may mar may die and yet have his work go on an A And Bishop Spaldings Spalding's work is going on on Because he taught many men less less capable than himself to think thin his good deed are are bearing fruit How his sympathies ran toward those thos bearing a i wearisome oine burden Durden is shown by Bishop Spaldings Spalding's own story of his conversion t to Socialism He said o CI I became parish priest in a manufacturing town and for the first first time was confronted with the actual working of the competitive system I was Sf forced force to realize that thousands who had as good right to fullness of life as I had did not have a ghost of a chance I saw that the i possession of the self respect and ambition I had thought would save I 1 them really disqualified them because even though a few might fight their way out of the ranks of manual workers the system required others ethers to take their places who were not ambitious and therefore dis- dis contented The statement of Jacob Riis RUe that the environment counts for 90 per cent cent he he afterwards told me to change it to 99 per cent cent cent- epitomized the conclusion to which I was forced the forced the truth of which is is formulated in in the doctrine of economic determinism But I still thought that the creation of the right environment for every human life depended on the churches persuading the rich and I mighty to be kind and generous and public spirited A further acquaintance acquaint acquaint- ante ance with the rich refuted that theory I was forced to realize that the power to make and save money carries with it the destruction of the I impulse to give it away It only takes a minute for luxuries to become necessities and one millionaire makes all the men feel poor I saw that large wages of superintendence and profits could not be made except by exploiting human labor and that thal an employer could not rob i i. i a man of the product of his labor and still respect him |