The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-30

cd the honors Of civilization property, whiel
all societies have acknowledged even Will
, appearing to deny Its rights, violating them b.
force; property, In o word, which IL . thing O
familiar to us that the least infraction of IL
S
property; aud shall We believe the teaching o
this new jnrisprudenoe. the propagstors o
these new laws, ~ ho maintain that there 10 M
question of destroying bot only Of reforming
or at most Transforming, the nature Of prop
ertyf
In what does this miraculous, proposed
transfor ma,ion consist Tne expejient 10 very
simple-nAmely, to strip the mass of owners ID
order to constitute one sole and eupreme own
or; for IL 10 obvious, after ell, that some one
must still possess the earth. This legal spolia
tion, no doubt, will be q work of time, but IL
will be sure. Aud
| WHO IS THE NEW OWNER TO ne.
in whom the right Of universal property shall
ee vested, and on whose shou iders sill be
| hupg the burden of universal wealth. The
| state, forsooth the god-stAte, the state
morrow may be rogue; the god-state, whom
infatuated philosophers are constantly work
ing TO aggrandize, to make all-powerful, aud
for whica they strive nigh: and day to win
more worsbippers. This is to be the one own
er and possessor of all; tho state shall have all
organize and work all, distribute and appor-
| the goal Of all; while in this universal domain
! whore the state controls all, this huge arsenal
where the state produces. executes, or orders
| all society shall become human hive, vast 40
the earth iteelf, bot in which every indvidual
| shall be reduced, ss teree writer bas put it,
| to the size and functions of . bee. This 10 the
masterpisoe elaborated by the sooialist idea-
wise . dream of universal levellipg. universal
stuntedness. Individual responsibility or In
itiative is swept away; human kiDgship and
without material basis, and even public 60
ciety without . foundation the right Of all 10
practically tho right of none, and
THE RESULT Is UNIVERSAL SLAVERY TO UNI
vERsAL DEsPoT1sM.
suoh is the miracle Of this Transformation OF
property, 80 glibly promised by the socialist
theory to future generations; and though all
who fight under the banner of legal spolistion
do not carry thus far their social ideal, and do
not look for ward to suoh absolu to commu nism,
all are on the road to 1t by the very fact OF
vestipg in their god state the right of iuoreas-
ing and deor reasipg, making or unmaking, in. |
the rioh and rates for the poor. What aston
isbes me above ell In this respeot 10 to see in !
certain men, the most interested personally in |
the upholdiug of the conservative principle of
property, o certain pandering to, or halfBup. |
port Of, this eminently anti. social idea.
The same socialism which attacks the i'm [
memorial constitution of property attacks
likewise the immemorial constitution of the |
family. The socialist idea attacks specially In |
the family, together with the principle of
property, the three things which are its pride,
its strength, and it's stability-namely, uRity.
individuality. and Inheritance which, it 10 need
less to say, uphold its permaneuoe and perpet.
nity. First Of all, it attacks unity, end unity
In trinity; one man. one woman, and ono whole
family spEiDging from both one life prod uoed
BY two sources fused into one-s unity which.
10 the family as everywhere elsa, 10 the essen
tial condition Of harmony, order, beauty, and
haPpioess. This unity does not please the
love. he prefers polygamy, as allowed by the
Koran and praetised by Moslems, TO the con-
ingai unity eDjoined by the Gospel and sano-
endom. Socialism attacks the indissolubility
that 10, the permenencs-of
THH MARRIAGE TIE.
Suoh an indissolubility before God and sfore
The state is in its eyes only the civil and reli-
sious endorsement OF slavery, the legal and
theological confscation of liberty. The spos-
principle which binds two human beings to
zach other for ever and under no matter what
What revolution allows to
eeiety sociaffsm would fain make accessible
o the family-that is, perpetual change aud
Unlimited option concerning divorce and sep.
ration. Socialism claims unblushinRly, in q
ionary right of husband to send away his .
Wife, and q wife to leave her husband. es easily u
g nation disposes Of it's eovereignB and its II
right equivalent TO o perma- u
ent revelation In the family and the state, :
nd bearing IA it's fruit the abolition OF inbe-
itance. Inheritance means the tradition of o :
1t le the pledge OF the stability and
of domestic or home society; bereft
( II, the family, without moorngs in the past e
r hopes in the future, becomes, like the indi-
idual, an ephemersl phenomenon, gone in
reath and holding to nothing bat the pre-
ant hour.
HIS RIGHT OF INHERITANCE HAS ITS PLACE L
IN GODS PLAN AND MANS Laws;
represents to coming generations the lsbors,
no beuehts. the sncrif fees of their forefathers;
extends the inf uencs of the latter over their
escendsnts. But socialism does not shrink
-om questioning it in theory and attacking 1t A
prectioe. How, 1t asks. should the will Of IL
yiug man be able to Cransmit beyond his II
rave domain to his posterity Down With q
privilege which gives man. when he is u
orpse, post-huDous omnipotence in CONTRA
lotion with the very CONDITION of the dead,
nd ipj nrious to the freedom of action of the J
vingl Socialism thus saps every conserva-
We family principle, and the spirit it instils N
ito the human mind is destructive to the
of home society, in order that it :,
ay prepare clearer path to the eventual :,
sstruction of public society. v
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