The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-19

None of these names 10 indicative Of the
distinction alluded to. The nearest ap-
proach that we know of to q descriptive
title in this connection is that of "Paternap'
government as applied to the principles
| favored by the frst clsss. 1t assumes to do
for its citizens as father for his minor
children.
We may therefore call the class who
favor such a government, "Paternalists."
The second class we may as well, for want
of something better, style, "Individual-
ists," that is, men who would leave to ia
dividual enterprise and tffort every thing
that ia not essentially national in its
character.
So much being promised, we come to orr
subject. The Paternalists of this coustry
Tor Republicans) are said to be negotiating
combination with the workingmen's
party. They are liberal of promises to
their expected allies. The government is to
right the wrongs of laborers and make
them happy. It is to project and inaug-
urate vast works of public Improvement
on which laboring man can always get
a Job if he choose. No man in this country
need, in that case, have a moments ap.
prehension on the question of employ
ment.- He msy-leek the faF-ef future
steadily in the eye and snap his fingers at
prospective hard times and business stag
nation. Moreover, government work. as we
all know, means half work with nobody to
watch you, 30 that people will have not
only plenty of work but plenty of time to
do it in.
Truth to cay, the Republican party needs
allies. Its unhappy Southern record has
left it in sorry plight in which to come
before the country, and it's most sanguine
adherents must feel quite uncertain of it's
future fate. The new blood of working
mems party infused into its veins may
give it another lease of life, and probably
will, if the scheme be copsummated 1t has
been excessively the patron of high pro-
tective tariff which the victimiZed sections
will no longer stand, of a run mad Adolf
tionism which plunged the country into a
frightful war, and, finally, of q sectional
persecution which for a time fattered the
bigotry of q powerful majority but of which
they are now ashamed.
Another line of action in imperatively
| needed, and to all present appearances that
line is going to be upon the policy of vast
system of public works. 1t is calculated to
propitiate the South which needs levees,
railroads and steamship lines, and it is q
direct bid for the immense vote of the suf-
fering, starving labor class.
Who shall pretend to say that this new
com bination will not be power. OF course
it will have to change its name, for Gre
publican" stinks in the nostrils of decent
people, not only South but North. We may
| fondly hope, too, that it will give the
quietus to sectionalism, and divide parties,
not upon geographical lines, but altogether
irrespectvely of latitude and longitude.
SO much Of the result we shall gladly
welcome, but as to the final effect upon the
"allies," we have misgivipgs. The only
true friend of labor as distinguished from
real love for the poor and the humble.
1t is always trying to enslave them for the
rich, who are its pets. 1t is Christ alone
who says of them that they are his brothers,
his children, his beloved.
The only real friend and ally of the
laboring class is the Catholic Church. 1t
has always been and must always be such.
We are very much afraid that the ex-Re-
publican party is going to swindle the
laborers out of their votes and pay them in
Dead sea fruit.
The Orangemen in Canada are preparing