Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-01
LEO TALKS ON LABOR.
What the Pope Has to Say to
the Nations.
WHEN STRIKES ARE UNSUITABLE.
The EncyolicaI Deals Largely with the So
cIRl Problem-Men Have n Right to Prop
erty and Right to work-Advice to
Representative of Capital and Labor.


cIRl ProbIem-Men Have n Right to Prop
erty and Right to work-Advice to
Representative of Capital and Labor.
NEW YORK. Aug. 1.-The World prints
today the following from Rome:
The pope has been engaged for some
months upon an encyClical to all the rulers
in Christendom.
As previous cncyclicals have shown. his
holiness has the labor question very near
to his heart. lie has long had lively hope
that before the end of his pontiticate he
could be instrumental in bringing about a
better condition of the masses of the people
and friendlier feeling between the CAPT
talist and the operative, 1t is said that this
encyclical will be sent to each OF the various
| Christian powers in the language Of that
power, and not to all in Latin.
Among other things the pope says: Prop
erty is an essential element to social order
for the preservation and development of
| human life, and the divine law has de
clared property sacred and inviolable-
''curscd be he who removeth his neighbours
| landmark"
But the poor have, nevertheless right
| to be assisted by the rich, not by indis-
criminate almsgiving, but by preparing
such employment for them as will be use
full. "If man will not work, neither shall
he eat" But if he have no work it is plain
i ly the duty Of those who can do so to pro
| vide it for him.
This leSitimatiZes property. No called
right has any sanction if not sanctioned by
| God, and no usurpation of others rights
can expect the blessing of heaven.
The Social Question.
The social question should bc placed on n
religious basis if we would obtain at once
philosophical and n practical solution of
| the difficulty. The divine decree is that
man shall eat bread by the sweat of his
brow. and the apostolic injunction declares
that II a man will not work neither shall
he eat.
a strike can be justified only rs a means
of defense, when an individuals interest
is attacked. Never can it be justified rs a
collective arm of aggression.
Man has u natural right to live and to
work. As a means OF procuring living
he has a right 10 remove every obstacle Il
his work and To Ect the value OF his labor
And therefore when his Labor is neither
productive nor remunrrativr he has right
| to refuse to continue it,
But an individual right cannot be trans
formed into collective right. nor can al
arm of defense tie changed into an arm o
| aggression to cause I means OF good to de
| generate into a source OF harm. An ag
| gressive strike is not reciprocal between
operative and operative. but an iustru
ment of attack upon the proprietor ant
property.
The operator on strike is a passive an,
dominated instrument. not an iutelligen
and free being While his action lessen
the capital of the employer it puts IL
| money in his own pocket.
The struggle against illegal coercion i
one OF the glories OF the Catholic churc
and this, as well as the welfare Of the pee
Pile, should always be uPpcrlnost in tn
r minds of every government.
II the discuutentcd operative is to I've dc
tachcd from auarchic socialism. his want
4 | must be- understood Ivy his rulers. VIII
: must not leave to INSCRIPTIONS agitatur
the monopoly Of social reform.
Nor should it I've forgotten that man
| who range themselves under the banner ,
socialism repudiaic everything Illegal i
the programme Of anarchy, accepting oul
those things which regard the resolving
the urgent difficulties 81 economical an
t | political rrfurm demanded Ivy the eNiEvI
cies OF society. The chatr must Ii, Spa
e | ated from the wheat aud just dcmauG
n | must he ~atis fled If a still more terrible NJ
heaval is to Ike avoided
Anarchy Threatens Is.
Nor should this danger h' Con>idrrt
improbable when We STE the rapid strid,
~ anarChiC socialism l. making. The demon
stTations which have taken place and Il
. tumults and riots which have followed a
u most grave symptoms Of the situation an
/ call for the serious attention OF the me-
& aStute economists and lawmakers, wi
must ack nuwledSe that democratic socia
ism has riprnrd INTO 4 power ut which il
necessary 10 take count. and III the face
IA which it i incumbent to adopt wise Al
i, | prudent tactics i'll order TO hriu. abul
Spontaneously those economic reform
Il which are favored by equity. justice, mer,
!! and reli giuu.
O. The right of protecting the operativ
whether in the factory or i'll the feel
should be admitted. And for this purpo
the NAHUM OF labor as we'll a. the mil
NJ mum of labor should be fixed. The hou
of labor should he arranged. giving due i
tention to days of rest and abstention fro
labor.
Institutions should be founded and mai
OF tanned for the sick, the old, the feeble al
lie for thoss who are unav oidab bly, unoccupie
while punishment should lie melted out
the drones OF society.
Laws have been made almost univCrs;
il | ly for the protection of women and ch
" dren laboring in factories and elsewhei
but in how many cases have those Ia,
been enforced? Inspectors Of work shou
ne be appointed everywhere. whose dut
e' should be to see that these laws are not
fringed.
Thus the blessing OF heaven would r,
upon nations, and a more calm and equit
BILE state of things might be expected.
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