"That is the meaning of the capitalist system.

And that is what your church is standing for, what you are preaching for every time you get up in the pulpit.
Pig-ethics! There is no other name for it." Bishop Morehouse turned appealingly to my father, but he laughed and nodded his head.
"I'm afraid Mr.Everhard is right," he said.

"LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost.

As Mr.
Everhard said the other night, the function you churchmen perform is to maintain the established order of society, and society is established on that foundation." "But that is not the teaching of Christ!" cried the Bishop.
"The Church is not teaching Christ these days," Ernest put in quickly.
"That is why the workingmen will have nothing to do with the Church.
The Church condones the frightful brutality and savagery with which the capitalist class treats the working class." "The Church does not condone it," the Bishop objected.
"The Church does not protest against it," Ernest replied.

"And in so far as the Church does not protest, it condones, for remember the Church is supported by the capitalist class." "I had not looked at it in that light," the Bishop said naively.