The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-09-23

MBER %, 1893.
enjoyment on his way to, his enduring
home. God created plenty for all Hi
children and it is His desire that none o
His creatures shall faint by the way Of
go hungry to their homes. The Church
protects the rights Of property and PRIV
ate ownership, but not SO as to deprive
the poor and dependent Of the actual
necessities of frugal existence.
The memory Of Pope Leo XIII. will
live among men for his personal worth.
his exceptional intellectual gifts and his
religious fervor and stainless purity OF
character. But above all else he will be
remembered. as he desires to be, as the
workingman's friend, the defender Of Ia
Dor. His definition OF q minimum wage,
as sufficient to enable man to maintain
himself, his wife and his children" in de-
cent frugality, shows how clearly the
great rei ious leader Of over two hun
dred and fifty millions Of faithful be1iev-
ers, understands the rights of individu.
ais and the best interests of human So
ciety. Homeless men are reckless .
The homes of the people are the safe
guards of national stability. Religion
sanctifes domestic life by sustaining the
inviolability of the marriage bond, and
by constantly reminding fathers and
mothers of their first and holiest duty to
their offspring, the duty of leading them
to learn the love of God and the love of
the neighbor. Hence the duties of the
wife and mother should retain her at her
own hearthstone In the midst of her
children that she may reign as queen Of
true Christian home, no matter how
humble. Family duties must be neg
lected and home conf rts and happiness
denied to the toilers, when the wife and
mother is forced from her home to aid in
providing the support of the family in
the factory or mill. just wages paid to
the breadwinner of the family would en-
able him to sufficiently provide tor wife
and children and send from every loom
in the world mothers back to their homes
to devote their first, their highest and
holiest care to the nurture and training
~ <bo;r oh;11roo Moclop1, ooo;otxy nor,
never Justly boast of its enlightenment
and progress, while, because Of INSULT
cient wages paid to labor, mothers and
children are 'ehained to the wheels of
industrialism. Other causes, we know,
besides the greed of capital, combine to.
enslave weak women and to deaden the
joys of childhood. The removal of these
causes, especially that of intemperance
anu reckless prodigality, is also the duty
of religion that it may clear away the OBJ
stacles that impede the pathway Ut the
children of toll, but in this connection I
refer only to the inhumanity that with
holds an equitable compensation for
honest labor. The religion of the Car
penter of Nazareth reminds the world
that to defraud the laborer of his wages,
is sin ever appealing TO high heaven
for vengeance. Generous justice, not
ostentatious charity, must be dealt out to
the poor. While the Church shows such
ceaseless concern for the welfare Of labor
and has SO bravely contended for the
rights of the poor, she has not failed to
remind them of the duties that they owe
to capital and vested rights. Through.
out all her contests with barbarism,
feudalism and imperial tyranny, the
Church suffered her greatest persecn-
tions in battling for the rights of the peo-
pie against the encroachments of despo-
tism. But "thou shalt not steal" and
"thou shalt not covet thy neighbours
goods" are divine injunctions which the
Church not only insisted upon with the
robber kings and berons of by-gone
age, but which she also faithfully taught
to all classes of men. BY means Of that
mysterious and extraordinary tribunal,
which Christ established upon earth,
when he gave to his apostles the divine
power of opening and closing the gates
of the heavenly kingdom, the Church
has guarded the rights OF ownership
saved from destruction and caused to be
restored to the rightful proprietors much
of the goods Of this world.
Labor has right to freedom; labor
has also right to protect it's own inde-
pendence and liberty. Hence labor
unions are lawful and have enjoyed the
sanction and protection of the Church in
all ages. Our times have witnessed no
more edifying spectacle than the noble,
unselflsh pleading Of our own Cardinal
Gibbons for the cause Of organized labor
at the See Of Peter. In organization
there is strength, but labor must use its
power for its own protection not for in
vadino the RIGHTS Of others. The strike.