The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-22

! not among US as people that purity Of in
/ dividual life, that love OF home, that re-
! spect for justice between man and man,
| that sense IF honor and honesty Ia CONNER
| cial life, that appreciation of the political
| suffrage as q sacred trust, that high patri-
| otc sense In official public life, which
marked what We might term the heroic age
| of our country.
"Our fathers started with this correct
! principle that liberty is founded in justice,
| justice in morality and morality in religion.
! and the erroneous principle which We have
! TO fear IS that morality as our fathers under
stood il can be taught and maintained with
! out religion.
1.-THE moral sense is the religious sense,
I and the religious sense once lost the fOunda-
| ton of civil liberty is gone.
1.-THE most evident characteristic devel-
! oDed among as is greed Tor wealth, and
| this greed has introduced new and doubtful
methods OF obtaining II. Wealth will cor
Tupt the heart when not Influenced by re-
"Whenever the great masses of this
! country shall come to distrust religion as
! the source Of their hope then shall wants h
| the brightest dream that men have ever
! had Of civil freedom.
! Church and state must here have the
! same message 10 their people, and that
message must be that religion is the basis
| of all they may hope for.
mo one can deny that at this moment
the relations between the poor and the
wealthy are strained to almost the swapping
point. And no legislation that men can
enact, no understanding that men may
come to, viii bridge the chasm or assure
tranquility that IS not based on the priD-
ciples Of equity which religion alone iBcul-
Gates.
"These principles are necessary In every
government, but doubly necessary where
the masses rule. In popular governments
strong public conscience must control.
But the public conscience is simply the
sum If the individual consciences of tie
people.
There have been critical moments in our
nations history, but hitherto these diff
culties have been local and sectional; to-day
there is a discomfort reaching from end 10
end of the richest country in the world.
Hitherto one Of the great elements Of
our success, of our peace and prosperity
has been the extent OF territory far in ex-
cess Of our population and possessing re-
sources sufficient to maintain great popu-
lation.
Fifty years ago population reached our
extreme western boundary and the waves
begin to recede and the interior is fast fill
ing up.
THE present Prime Minister OF England
predicts that the next century viii see here
a population Of 600.000. COO.
with Increase of population has come
an increased manufacturing power of
machinery, adding new sources of wealth.
BY whatever law these things are governed,
the fact is the great body feel that they
have not had fair share of the wealth
which they have helped to create. The re-
| suit Is a few great fortunes have been
| amassed. The power OF these fortunes has
| been enormously augmented by c0mbna-
| tOns and these combinations are believed
| by the many to receive an additional in-
| fluence unfavOrable to the great body, by
corrupting legislation against the less
| favored.
Here the issue is plainly made and the
! future;must solve it.
"In all this the only solution is upon
! Christian principles And here we say is
! the duty OF church and state clearly marked
| out.
Whatever the state may do the church
will be true to her mission. Her action in
| the future is written in her history of the
past. She will be found pleading for the
| rights OF all, rich and Door, and for the du-
ties of all. She will be found on the side Of
the oppressed wherever found.
sit is Christian faith that teaches the
dignity of man; IL is Christian faith that
teaches the principles Of justice, that regu-
| late conduct; it is Christian faith that
teaches human liberty and civil liberty. iand
upon these principles they must depend
Let the state as such feel that this is
| the basis OF its safety and let the multitude
| know that in this alone will be found the
| adjustment OF wrongs, aud the future of
| our country shall be more glorious than our
| past.
But let the state forget this and the
multitude lose faith in it, and then when
the work OF years shall be swept away by a
resisiless mob, il will then be seen. when
too late, that the Catholic church is the
only absolutely loyal element to our coun.
try's interests. loyal in heart because loyal
in principle.
"If the 65,0O0.00 of our people who to-day
rejoice with common joy, and vie with one
another in doing honor TO Columbus, shall
learn the lesson tn return in full measure to
the patriotism of 100 years ago, TO a sense of
religion. which is sense OF justice in which
liberty resides. then this day shall be glori-
Gus in the annals Of the nation.
History seems to teach that every nation
must have its heroic age, its age Of develop
ment and that of its decline. We have
passed through our heroic age and are in
the midst OF that of our DEVELOPMENT. MAY
God grant that that Of cur decline be far
removed"
The music was grand and especially ap-
propriate TO the memorable occasion.