The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-27
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Press and the Society of st. Paul" Our
readers will remember that this Society ia
founded for the purpose of publishing Ca
tholic Journals. The great natural potency
of the Church consists in the economy with
which her works are carried on Her mis-
sions, her schools, her Universities, her
charities are all conducted by Religious
who have no families to support, who need
but enough to sustain life, and who for the
most part get nothing more. She can do
more than ten times the amount of work
for the same money that can be accomplish
ed by any sect or merely human organiza-
ton. Celibacy is the great secret of her
multiplied works.
When this irresistible agency is brought
to bear on the Catholic Press, it also, must
soon 60 forth in a strength and develop
ment to extinguish all opposition. Secular
or Infidel Universities can never, on equal
terms, stand in competition with Catholic
Institutions of the same kind, in conse
quence of the mere consideration of econo-
my. The professors of the latter are as good
as those of their rivals-generally BETTER
w biic lEcit lSl lc5S tA-
pensiye. The snobs who do not care to learn
any thing, and succeed accordingly, go to
the high-priced establishments young men
of limited means, but of ambition and en-
ergy, frequent the arenas where even pow
erty can be trained by masters as prof
cient as those of more aristocratic precincts.
Results soon declare in favor of those es-
adjustments which attract the genuine
students, and all rivals pass into insignif-
canoe.
So it would be with primary and inter
mediate schools if left to fair competition.
Our Catholic schools would soon, on &C
count of their cheapness, attract all the
pupils of all creeds. But the State de-
clares against them in the contest and
makes their rivals cheaper still by paying
all their expenses. The beauty of this
arrangement is that the Catholic population
is forced to sustain those opposition schools,
expensive to the taxpayer and ill-con-
Quoted as they are.
This is precisely like the political stir
alton of the people of this State, who are
obliged by superior force to pay for the
Now, though the schools are not on an
equal footing in this country, newspapers
are. But let there be number of papers
equal in ability and merit with the same
number of other papers, yet twice as cheap,
and the second class willinevitably perish.
Get up an order of Religious for publica-
tions and soon bad newspapers and bad
hpol.c wi -ho fyvic
Then they will become Insignificant in
their influence. They will still exist, for
malice and wickedness will be pandered to
ut any expense, but the great, incautions,
half-innocent public which does not buy
such things on account of their being evil,
but rather because they are cheap, will
drop them. The Devil, who has hereto
and built his fortress on the Press, will
then be obliged to find some other ally and
some newer agency.
Let US then invoke for this important
warfare that great potency of the Church
its celibacy. That celibacy gives it an
economy of means which is absolutely ir-
by human agencies because hu-
man agencies will never include celibacy
Before that economy, Professionalism itself
Is perishing. Professionalism . is entirely
based on human resPect,-it is nothing if
not respectable. 1t lives and thrives on
the impression that the world smiles upon
it. 1t cannot exist in the shadow. In this
country it is far wealthier than Catbolicity,
but the superior economy of the Catholic
sy stem enables it to perform wonders with
small means. Its Cathedrals are multiply
ing in number aud magnificence its col
leges and hospitals are filling the land
with splendid triumphs of architecture.
Beside it Professionalism is beginning to
look meagre and shabby. That is enough.
1t is pining to death in the shade. Soon
every body will shnn it as rather Ciilapi-
dated and disreputable concern.
Such is the force OF economy. Let US
have doubly cheap Catholic literature.
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