JUST now the sensation of the country is the confession of the two McNamara brothers in Los Angeles. The country is scanning the papers eagerly each day for the accounts of the promised arrests of others "higher up" in the labor world.
It is averred that the evidence is in hand to show that a great conspiracy has been formed among labor leaders to intimidate capital by a wholesale use of dynamite. The confessions of the McNamaras clinch the evidence, and the United States Government is to step in to stop "the conspiracy to advance crime."
The McNamaras have confessed to one of the most dastardly wicked crimes that could have been conceived. When they planned the exploding of that bomb in the Times Building, they had no means of knowing how many lives would be sacrificed, and perhaps they did not care. Other bombs were placed to explode at the same time, and it is evident that they were designed to destroy the lives of other men who had been active in the capital and labor controversy.
Now that the McNamaras have confessed their guilt, and, as is stated, "have involved a lot of the higher ups," there seems to be a disposition on the part of capital to push the prosecution hard in order to take advantage of the strong sentiment that has been aroused by the confessions that have been made. But it must be apparent to any one that this will make the controversy only the more bitter and determined.
The discussions that have centered around this case, and the light that has been thrown on it by these unexpected confessions, incidentally show some conditions in the country that should cause men to think. It has been proved and also admitted that wholesale bribery has been resorted to in this McNamara case. Money running up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars has been placed at the disposal of those who were making their defense. This shows a shameful condition of corruption. But it must be admitted that the briberies that have marked this case are only a sample of the conditions that are coming to obtain all through the country. Bribery was one of the great features of the notorious cases that so recently attracted the attention of the world to San Francisco, and it crops out in all parts of the nation, and is no worse in this nation than in the other nations of the globe.
Greed for money and for power is cursing the world, and it is getting worse and worse, and will continue still to get worse as the days come and go. Capital has organized and combined so as to squeeze out of the people every dollar that it possibly can. And labor has followed the example of capital and also perfected colossal international combines, and the rank and file of laboring men place hundreds of thousands of dollars in the hands of their leaders with which to wage their wars. The conflict has become tense, and between the leaders of both capital and labor the common people are continuing to be ground as between the stones of the mill, and the end is not yet. There is an abundance in the world to supply the needs and give comfort to every individual. But greed, greed, greed, is clutching at everything of value, and the scramble grows in intensity.
Hanyang iron works, the largest in China, and a great help to the revolutionists, who early captured it; Hanyang arsenal, in possession of the revolutionists, now turning out arms and munitions of war
What is the meaning of it? do you ask? Let a word of Scripture make the reply: "But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money." 2 Tim. 3:1, 2. Love of self and love of money, says Inspiration, are to make grievous times in the last days. And farther on in the same chapter the same apostle says, "Evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."
Things are bad enough now. What will they be as they continue to "wax worse and worse"? The one bright ray of hope is that when crime reaches the point that it seems about to engulf the earth, then the blessed Jesus of Nazareth will come in person to put an everlasting end to it. Nothing could be clearer than the prophecies which show it. Are you studying them?
