The Delirious Scramble for Gold
By Editor
The most conspicuous item in regard to the news concerning trusts, as recorded in our "News and Notes" (page 14) of this issue, is the astounding fact that during the month of March alone $1,111,750,000 were incorporated into these combines in the one State of New Jersey. If the men who are forming these colossal aggregations of capital would stop their work and spend six weeks in a careful study of the history of the declining years of Rome, also the conditions that led up to the French Revolution, their faces would turn white, and their hearts almost stand still at the thought of what they are doing. But they are intoxicated with the idea of grasping gold. Nothing seems to arrest their attention, or cause them to realize the awful condition into which they are driving the world. They are conspicuously acting their part in bringing about that time of trouble foretold by the prophets such as never was since there was a nation. It will be fatal—yes, eternally fatal—to be found engaged in that awful strife. God has deliverance for every one; but it is not found anywhere in connection with this delirious scramble that is breaking up the tranquillity of the whole world. In another column will be found an article entitled, "Waiting for the Signal." We notice it because it is a general question, and the book referred to is a typical book of a large class, with the important points more emphasized, the salient points more prominent. We believe that there are honest, earnest, just men of wealth, who long to do right. We believe there are many labor leaders and socialists who are longing to know the truth. To both classes and to all we say, "Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils;" go not down to Egypt for help; look to the Lord God, the Creator and the Redeemer. His Word, which has infallibly predicted, is mighty to save.