p. 8 | Money Is King

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 12, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 19.

Money Is King

The following parody on the hymn of America, “My country, ’tis of thee,” strays across our path without the author’s name attached:—

“My pocketbook, it is of thee, sweet means of liberty—of thee I sing. I love thy bulging sides, where my loved wad resides. My love in thee abides, great purse, my king!”

It is becoming more and more manifest that money is “king,” not of America alone, but of all the world. And, notwithstanding the boasts of nineteenth-century civilization, all the wars that are talked of to-day are not in the interests of humanity, but of commerce. Even the present United States war with Spain, while it presents its humane side, has a commercial side also. If men would stop scrambling for money that they can never use, should they get it, how much better the world would be off in these times!