Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-05

protected at the expense Of labor Capital and
labor should work hand In hand, and proper
tionally share the values they have mutually
produced. Nature gives the raw material
labor and skill give 1t its value; capital gives
direction and advances reward to labor and
SKILL waiting until in turn ir can realize on its
outiays. They are mutually dependent on each
other, ard should mutually labor for each others
interest, capital recognizing the rights Of labor
and labor In turn recognizing the rights Of capt.
tai.
NEWSPAPERS.
With the power Of the press we are all familiar
With the growth OF Catholicity and the steadily
increasing numbers and influence Of Catholics
there is a corresponding increase In the number
and influence of Catholic papers. Yet, notwith-
standing this, it must be admitted that 80 far
the Catholic body has not grasped the value of a
vigorous and well-suppOrted press. There is no
more valuable aid to the pulpit than well-con-
Quoted paper. We therefore most earnestly re-
commend pastors to press this matter Of the
value OF the press most earnestly before their
people, and urge every Catholic family in their
respective congregations to subscribe for good
Catholic newspaper: Let there be also libraries
established. so that the young Of each congrega-
tion can have ready access to useful and healthy
reading. Let there be also libraries for the chill
dren attending the Sunday catechism classes.
and. where possible, q liberal distribution of
Sunday school papers among the children. No
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child with healthy and pleasing reading.
BAD PAPERS.
Of late there has been started class of papers
that. under the plea of patriotism, are advocating
the worst forms CT revolution and communism.
Their editors pretend to be Catholic, but with
unbridled inso.enee assail priest or bishop who
differ from them. Among this class stands pre-
eminent the Irish World. This is a bad paper
breeding insOlence and defiance Of authority;
teaching communism; assailing the rights Of
property, and melting to rebellion that can end
but in disaster. We therefore direct pastors to
warn their people against this paper, and, as far
as in them lies, discourage its circulation among
them. While, however, we thus condemn, as
above enumerated, the perniciOus doctrines of
the Irish World, we wish 1t distinctly under
stood that by SO doing We in no sense sympathiZe
with England in her oppression of Ireland nor
DO We in any way favor a continuance Ofthe pres
ent unjust system of landlOrdism in Ireland On
the contrary, We are ready to cooperate with the
bishops of Ireland in any legitimate effOrtto anne
horate the present unhappy condition Of the Irish
people. What we condemn in the Irish World
are the illegitimate means it advocates, not its
efforts to better the condition of Ireland. Let
the cause Of Ireland be pressed but let the
means be legitimate. Let the rights Of the
landlord be recognized as well as the rights of
the tenant, so that while justice is done the ten
ant justice may also be done the landlord. Thus
the cause of Ireland will commend itself to the
honesty and sympathy Of the world. Besides
the above, there Is also another class Of papers
that, though perhaps not as viciously pernicious
as the above, are yet doing great harm by the
bishops and authority. This class of papers
are constantly dOgmatizing on law and 0ppfes-
sion; how bishops abuse their power and op-
press their priests. Such papers are doing not
only great harm, but deserve the severest cen
sure. Their editors seem to forget that to dis
credit the bishop is to discredit the priest,
and to discredit the priest Ia to injure religion
To the editors OF such papers we most s0berly
present for their guidance the words of our
Holy Father. Leo KILL, addressed last January
to Catholic editors in Italy, who, Hike some edi
tors among ourselves, gravely forgot the respect
due to others, more especially those in author
1ty. Speaking to Catholic editors, the HOLY
Father lays down the following rules for their
guidance: at IN good for the defenders Of Cath
olicity to be guided in their daily writings by
constant and fearless love of truth; but they
ought, at the same time, to be on their guard
against saying anything which might lawfully
wound any good man, and never, under any
pretext, to dispense with that moderation
OF all other virtues. In connection with
these matters, no prudent mind can APP
prove Of immoderate vehemence in style of
words of suspicion, or rash departures
from that respect which is due to others.
Above ALL let the name of the bishops be q sa-
placed as they are at the head Of the hierarchy,
deserve all honor on account of the charge I'M
posed upon them. Private individuals should
never arrOgate to themselves the right of for
mulatlng complaints concerning DEGREES put
forward by the authority of their pastors; this
would cause disturbance of order and intOler-
able confusion. This law of respect, which no
one should violate, should by editors Of Catholic
Journals be considered still more sacred; they
should be living examples of obedience to it; for
lOurDalq arc mn OH cd for no IF
good principles fall into the hands OF all people.
and exercise powerful influence on the Opin-
ions and morals of the multitude
Bad, immoral papers should never be seen In
Christian families.
There is grave cause for dissatisfaction with
much of the music now in use in the service of
the church. Much Of is profaned much of 1t
SO undevotional and secularized that often. IL
the sacred words were withdrawn, one would
fancy he was In the concert room, or listening
to the sensuOuS strains of the opera. We do
not object to the best Ofmusic in the service Of
the church; on the contrary, we hold nothing is
too good for God, but the music of the church
must be in keeping with her seryices-solemn,
sacred, calming the passions purify the heart,
and directing the soul to God. On the subject
of music the church has long since spoken.
She has already created q form of sacred chant,
consecrated by use and hallOwed by age. She
nus CicStIty OIcCUcO Ln8C 0cr liturgy
shall be sung in the Gregorian chant
Her gradual and vesperal, her mass
and lamentations; in a word, all her chant is in
GregOrian music. She permits figured music,
but only where it IL sacred-solemn. The COM
promise offered by Palestrina and the present
CRcilian movement are steps in the right direc-
ton, and as such to be encouraged. Recognize
ing the difficulties to at present render the Gre
gorian and Palestrina chant as also the difficult
ties in the CRcian we are willing to permit
the better class Of figured music while we at
the same time seek to encourage every effort to
return, even in degree, to the recognized music
Of the church 1t is, therefore, not only our
wish, but we hereby direct, that all music that
savOrs of the sensuous or prOfane, as also music
that reminds one Of the theater or opera rather
than the church, shall be excluded from our
chOirs, also all music that attracts the atten-
ton Of the people to the choir rather than the
altar. The duty Of the choir Is to direct the at
tention Of the people to the altar. Music that
fails to do this is not church music, and must be
excluded from the services of religion.
1t has been also decreed that, where possible
the parts of masses and vespers directed by the
rubrics to be sung by the choir and found in the
gradual and vesperal, shall hereafter be sung
wheres0ever practicable. By reasonable effort
on the part of pastors and choir directors, much
more can be done in this direction than Ia pener-