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Show VOICE OF THE PEOPLE BY SYLVESTER EARL A government founded upon the principles of competition cannot endure. Competition is the feculent fecu-lent parent of Capitalism; Capitalism Capital-ism is that soft bed of luxury upon which Nations and Kingdoms King-doms perish. Where trods the fiendish feet of Capitalism there follows in its wake the horrors of poverty, crime, wars, desolation and every manner of ungodliness-cause ungodliness-cause and effect on natural principles. prin-ciples. Where the health of a Nation is controlled by the few, the few invariably control the economic, social and spiritual lives of the people, and the old master-and-slave ogre is the inevitable consequence. conse-quence. Man cannot serve God and mammon; to the one he is a slave to do the bidding of master; to the other he is a free, independent, happy, contented soverign over all that is good and pure and lovely. The aim and policy of capitalism, capital-ism, monoply, centralized wealth, is autocratic in its very nature, hence, sacrilegious, and history abundantly proves that where a Nation or a people forgets its God or its religion, in that very hour decay sets in, and the decline i is swift and destruction is certain. Down through the cycle of the ages governments and kingdoms' have amounted to the zenith of their glory, yet history fails to recount one single instance where a capitalist autocracy has not crumbled to dust beneath the j ponderous weight of its own cor-: ruption, then passed out into that j vast inane of infinite oblivion. 1 leaving but a scrap of half-intelli-: gible history a a reminiscence of; its once proud heritage. I A government to endure the ! ravages of time must be grounded upon the principles of true reli-1 gion: its palladium a body of laws! simple and perfect in the making and exercised in the spirit of truth; and justice, equity and brother-! hood. Any government that reaches beyond the pale of religion is like a house built upon the sands. Let us not. therefore, glorify ourselves in the illusion that ours is a government that can end only with time. Far better, before it is too late, we repent and pay our devotions to that God of the Cosmos and tune in our souls to the spirit of Christ. |