A Sermon on Coxeyism and Industrial Slavery

The Jewish Synagogue, at Seneca and Eighth streets, was crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday to witness the commemoration of the festival of Shebuoth. The intellectual treat of the occasion was the lecture delivered by Mr. Melvin G. Winstock on 'Universal Law.' Mr. Winstock declared that because the nation was falling away from justice and equity, the American people are suffering from an industrial revolution. Materialism has become the idol, and when for millions of honest men there is no work, the people are hardly blamable who turn to a Coxey as a modern Moses, who might perchance lead them out of the wilderness of industrial slavery. He realized man’s natural greed for power, and thus once in every fifty years he declared that lands should be restored to their original owners, thus preventing the aggregation of wealth in the hands of the few. Thus Moses checked the encroachments of the strong in his age. So surely in this age there should be some limit to the power of man to absorb the product of labor.