MUCH MONEY AND RELIGION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3369, 8 November 1911, Page 7

MUCH MONEY AND RELIGION.

MILLIONAIRES TO REFORM THE MORALS OF AMERICA. A number of New York millionaires are financing a movement having for its object the reform of the morals—political and business — of Die United States. The promoters profess to be alarmed at the widespread corruption prevailing among all classes in America. Everyone has his price. Bankers and politicians are dishonest and immoral. Senators can be bought like sheep. There is scandal everywhere. Religion is believed to be the only euro for this state of tilings, hence the present compaign. The head missionary puts it thus: “The host men all over the country are anxious to co-operate to do something to raise us from the slougli into which we have fallen, but all efforts will ho useless until we employ a dynamic force that is rooted m religion.” - According to the plans of the financiers the missionaries will be divided into teams of ten men, who will hold oight-day revivals in seventy-six cities of the United States. In each of these places they will canvass the churches, business houses, shops, and factories in order to enlist workers, who must arrange similar (revivals in all the surrounding towns and villages. Women will not be allowed to take part in the movement. Tho mission-ary-in-chief does not believe “in this sentimental gush about woman’s influence on man. You must send a real man after his fellow-men if you wish them (reformed. The work we have to do is men’s work, and there will not be a hint of woman in all this vast campaign.”