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Show LAVYERS AS CHIEF AIDS TO GRAFTERS Advise Bankers and Corpo-'rations Corpo-'rations floW They Nay Evade Law. BIG MONET BEHIND CROOKED POLITICIANS Rev. W. W. Reese Delivers Sermon on Corruption in American Politics. . "Sine mam ban of th legal prof sail sa-il on har bacon advisers to eorpora-ttona eorpora-ttona and bugs Industrial and commercial commer-cial concerns, th moral too of boai-nna boai-nna haa daclinad. Lawyers ar ready to adtNa how far yoa can go In un-righteousness un-righteousness be for yoa roach th adg whara th law bagina. Th perversion of th law in th interest of mem mon-ty mon-ty getting ll tlia .most, glatly phaaa of moral obliquity In tola generation. Thar la a glad aala of legal kaowladg of how to avada punishment which la deserved and which a kind society ha set as far off in the paths of wrong doing aa it can and yet preserve itself." it-self." Thia was the declaration of Her. Ward W. Reese, rector of 8t. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, yesterday morning in a sermon on tbe relation of politics to busiuesa. Mr. Keeae said in part: A moral miasma haa settled down upon the business and commercial world eo deneelv that most men cannot sea rlxM-eousnets rlxM-eousnets bevond. The' convicted council coun-cil men of Plttseurg wer troven guilty of accepting brlbee for their votea. But the Insplrers and sharers of their anllt wer bankers. They were downright business men. doing Just whst they knew others had don. Tha canltol thieves of Hsnisburg were not politicians, thouxh thst series of crimes waa reckoned against politics! machinery. They too were business men. contractor end manufacturers. man-ufacturers. The men who hold un delphla to odium are not mere politician: politi-cian: they are first of all business men. and thev are In politics because profile therefrom will coma easier and quicker. And If you trace back the scandal of Adams, county. Ohio, and Danville. Illinois, Illi-nois, you will find that con-unt business is the cause of corrupt polltl-s. If you are not c-wivinced go farther, and for example, ex-ample, examine the Insurance Investigation Investiga-tion In the atate of New York. There waa revealed groea dishonesty, practiced for vears. by men who courted and en-loved en-loved rrsnect so long as their alna were i secret. The chesting of the great sugar trustr was a crime not enlr against h majesty of good government, but fair business. Back of these large grmiaa of men whose sins hav found them out and th larger number wh-e crimes have not yet and peruana never will come to light, there la sflll another group of men who stajid. too often, aa tba inspiring genius of unrighteousness. Our. moat glaring tils sopear In ear nubile life, because they seem an offense against each Individual. In business each man la eo distinctly selfish that he doe not feel the pricking that bis neighbor receives. . , Th call to righteousness repeatedly saved Israel. It will save tha people today. But It must be voiced from a deep conviction that It la Ood's order thst men should live Justly by eacn other. Based en oollcv sake. It is too Insecure. We must choose out from th peopl only those to govern who have God for their guide and for their judge, and who - will consequently rule us with the knowledge and in th fear of Ood. NICHOLS GIVES BOLD J AX AT EVOLUTIOBT Taking for hr ubieet. "Judgment." and his text from Revelation ix, IS, which reads, "And another book was onened, which is the Book of Life; and they were judged, every maa according accord-ing to hi works,"" Rev. Ransom P. Nichols preached aa interesting sermon at the Iliff Methodist church yesterday imorning. Referring to thsr higher criticism crit-icism of the Bible, Mr. Nifbsls said: "Our friend of tha higher criticism are carried away with tbel utility ef their on hypothesis for tbe explanation explana-tion of all truth ia th Biblj ia theology, the-ology, ia life. "This hypothesis is named evolution. evolu-tion. I would aot b understood to declare de-clare that muck ef our progress in civi-lixationl civi-lixationl subjected to this historical method, is not best interpreted by some such law. But evolution eanaot ex Dlaia everything. If progveeaioa aa tar-ally tar-ally results, why haa there a ever beea given to the world a book that caa take ita place betid the a written bark ia tbe agea. beyond which the memory of maa runs noil" f TWO APOSTLES TALK. ' - Apoetle George F. Biehayd aad Aatboay W. Ivin were the principal speaker at the regular quarterly Co fereae of tbe Eaaig stsks at the tab-ernaeJ tab-ernaeJ yeaterdav afternoon. The aer-ssoa aer-ssoa ef bets were largely doctrinal with advice to th as embers of the church that thev liv ap to thwteaea-iag thwteaea-iag of the chnreh. p SOm OOIf OEBT AT T. at 0. A. A sacred son concert was given at the vesper ervlc held at tba T. W. C. A. veeterdar afternoon" by a woman quartette. quar-tette. Mrs. Jessie afllla waa th accompanist. accom-panist. Light refreshments wr served following tb concert. . . . OTVa SACKED OOHOEKT. , A aacred enwoert waa given at th Central Christian church last aight under. un-der. tbe direction of aire. Henrr Klr nia Tb Rev. C. B. NeH. pastor c th church, delivered a sermon on asu-tc asu-tc and lu tnnuencee foilowlnc tb eon-oert. |