The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-03-24
THE LECTURE SEASON.
soCIALIsrIc PRINCIPLES DENOUNCED by TH1
REV. A. sCHwENINGER.

soc1AL1srIc PRINCIPLES DENOUNCED by THH
REV. A. sCHwENINGER.
Rev. A. Schweninger, the editor of Roman Catho.
lie German weekly addressed quite large audience
at Cooper Institute last evening the subject Of
Socialism. He maintained that Notwithstanding all
the noise that this question made to-day in the
tries of the Old World there really nothing new
in socialism. Some had asserted that Adam and Eve
were socialists However, we were not living in Par
adise, ana it well to look questions like
these square in the face. Catholics had been charged
with being enemies OF the Republic, so had been the
French priests; but the truth is that there is no
more intolerant party than those very radicals who
insist upon making monopoly Of their own PEI
culiar ideas. The lecturer did not find fault with
every phase of socialism. In times past it had served
its purpose and effected good. In the six
teenth century. for instance when. all
Germany, the industrial classes came into
existence, municipal rights secured which
tended to ameliorate the condition of the
people. Itw only during the French Revolution
of 1889 that the labor question first to the force
ground and since that time simply owing to the out
ragcous manner in which the laboring man had been
treated by some capitalists the labor question had
become indeed burning question, and gave force
and strength the social democracy Had the CAPT.
tasts understood the wants of the masses this labor
question would never have entered socialism and the
latter would have died prematurely.
The reverend gentleman then related the workings
the influence they exercised in their respective
spheres but con.endng that the socalstic principles
tney Preacheu weie oa society ana IN,
thine" were dehed by these men. who to-day had
their followers in the Lebknechts and Bebels of Ger
many, with Bismarck their secret ally. Az, tho
100000 votes cast by the socialists of Germany
the recent election could never have been obtained
but for Bisinarcks secret aid. who used these men
his purposes to defy the Established Church.
which alone could in due time inspire those prnci-
pies of rec ttude among that would lead them to
cised article i'll the North Americdn ReresC..
which attempted to show the danger attending the
and maintained that the SIX millions of German ct
religious and loyal to the Republic.
rRELAND's PATRIOT eRAvEs-LEcTURE By THR
VERY REV. M A. HUNT.
sPatriot Graves the attractive tito Of tho
lecture delivered last evening in st. Teresas Church,
corner of Rutgers and Henry Streets by the Very
Rev. NJ. A. Hunt. of the Oblate Fathers in England.
When "Charles the Fat the grandson oe
Charlemagne, in power, two Irish monks visited
France. One of them persuaded the other to appear
with him in the public market place wisdons
sellers, and having been summoned by Charles they.
announced that their mission to preserve in q.
Collaborating people the law of Mount Sinai There
is glory that is national and a martyrdom that iz
national Ireland is the fruitful mother of martyrs
and heroes One of the things that ireland boasts
of is liberty, which God gave her and of whicn
she deprived but only for q time. The
first grave to be noticed is that OF Brianv
Boroihme. whose struggle was like that in
our times for "happy homes and
affairs Free and whose remains rest in the cathedral
at Armagh. He fell at Clontarf on Good Friday in
the year lola when his army numbering at the COM
mencement OF the battle 900 drove the enemy int
the This battle gave freedom to Ireland. The
men who fell at Clontarf did not die I'm vain M
ms n N vain WI lis 3od orr
period between Godfrey of Tyrconncll and Art
McMurrough was full of great victories for Ire
laud. Then we come down 20 the days OF the Gers
adincs and Silken Thomas. the ancestor of LorV
Edward Fitzgerald situated amid the short grass
of the county OF kildare is the bloody field of Null.
laghmast. name connected with more infamy thar
any in the world Tor centuries. Four hundred o !
the Irish nobility, with exception, invitect
to assemble under the guise hospitality and wcrsi
treachcrously murdered. The who escaped
next grave to be noticed is on the south
shore of Tough Swllly. in the ruins OF
abbey dedicated to 'Our Lady Of Mount
Carmel" Here associated the histories of Hugh'
o'Ncill of the Rod Hand and Hugh O'Donnell. Hugh
O'Neill died In Rome and was buried in the janicu-
lum in the Church OF the Franciscan Fathers. Then
came the plantation OF ireland under Cromwell.
Ireland then gave another martyr in owen Roe
O'Neill ON the banks of the shannon at Thomond
Bridge, in Limerick, is the celebrated treaty stony
that stands as another evidence of English perhdy IL
tells the history OF the wild Geese who fed frons
Ireland rather than submit to oppression. Coming
down TO 119s we find Lord Edward Fitzgerald,
man endowed with the delicacy OF woman and tina
courage OF lion; Wolfe Tone, the men OF Antrim
and Down aud glorious Wexford with its Fathers,
Roche and Murphy, and. towering above all Robert
E,nmet-t name 80 pure and holy to Ireland that
any speaker approaches il with rcvcicntal ave. The
year 1s4S was one memorable in Irish am
nails, when this country earned the last.
ing gratitude OF the Irish by taking
the guns Off the Macedonia and jamestown and
frcighting them with precious burden to tha
starving people of Ireland. The lecturer spoke OF
OConnell, Mitchell. Davis. Meagher Dillon, Me-,
Manus, Doheny and the other noted OF 1884,
after which he alluded to the martyrs Allen. Larkn
o. Bricn and Barrett, in the movement of 1865, and
said conclusion that tho records OF Ireands his-
tory will be consumed to ashes the day OF generul
Judgment before the memories OF these men shall
be forgotten.