The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-01
Mr.. Kearney.


tor. As mere items of news We published
en- ,ugh Of current Kearneyism to keep ouI
readers informed on the facts of the case
1t is true that we did not at fret comment
upon them, for we preferred waiting tc
hear of Mr.. Kearney from bis own lips and
through q reliable report. The Boston
Pilot gave Ms that opportunity, and very
probably the malls had not brought oul
remarks on the subject to our quarantined
correspondent when he wrote the follow
ing structures
lido not understand how yoa show 30 much
shss AieSSshop He@sny found !. neoss.ssy
| to action Catholics against bis association,
and that Kearney spoke very extensively to the
Archbishop.
II this is not true. 1t ought to be very clearly
| and abundantly shown false, before Catholic
paper should advocate his cause.
His speech does not disown Communism.
On the contrary, he maint aims that Commun-
ism prevails In France. and that France 10
prosperous on that account.
There are terrible evils working in society,
| bnt the fault 10 not all with the rich, nor all
with the poor. The disease peryades all
classes.
The only adequate remedy is restoring the
knowledge and observance Of Gods laws,
through the Church.
Partial remedies may be devised by states
men, but it needs great prudence and fore 81 ght
to determine whether their good efforts will
not be overbalanced by the bad ones. Only
judge Of this.
When g man without education and deep
abuses ali who do not adopt his notions, all the
probabilities are against him.
Such men-even IL some of their ideas are
easily mingls right and wrong together, and
advocate one as strongly as the other.
They become much more dangerous il good
men fall in among their followers.
The reflections contained in the above
communication are entitled to the highest
respect and he most attentive considera-
tion both because of their intrinsic value
and because they emanate from one having
a right to speak with authority in such mat
ters. The times are evidently disjointed.
There is great laxity in the moral sense,
not only of one class in society but of all
classes. High and low, rich and poor,
seem to feel emancipated from the strict
obligation to do right; they seem to be
cultivating an inclination to do as they
please, provided they can. In healtbfol
so, as q rule. Society does not then
appear to be seeking an opportunity
of license, but seems determined to keep
evil in check, whether the law has pro-
vided sufficiently for it's repression or not.
Why ia this7 Because society, as a
whole, is generally under the il fiuence of
faith-perhaps mutilated, very imper-
feet faith, but still faith in future re-
sponsibiity.
Fortunately for the buman family but
unfortunately for this particular gen.
GRAFTON, we are just now in tie
very epoch of the dissolution of Protes-
tantsm. 1t has succumbed to dry rot
All life and substance are out of it, go far
as the controlling elements of society are
concerned. Both leaders and masses are
thoroughly divorced from it's influence ard
treat it's teachings as preposterous super
stitions. They don't believe in God they
don't believe in He'll or Heaven they
don't believe in honesty for its own sake,
nor in conscience as divine tribunal, nor
in right as totally distinct from might.
They ore watching for a chance to do
wrong-watching on both sides, the strong
to oppress the weak, the weak to get even
and little more 80, the rich to enslave
the poor, the poor to pull down the rich,
and, If occasion serve, dance around their
corpses.
And the reasoning leading to this con-
clusion is not altogether priori We not
only know that the people in every 30
called Protestant country must be ready
for anarchy and fearful excesses of every
kind, but we plainly see the working of
that spirit in effects that it has produced.
The tree has already borne sufficient fruit
to show its quality. Poverty, degradation
and enslavement of labor are seen on the
one hand, on the other Socialism, Com
munism and organized vagrancy. This
country is by no means exempt from the
infection. Certain philosophers have been
in the habit of considering all such dis
eases as the result of an overcrowded pop