The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-29

yezrs AFxas - held. w2z SeSSzfe1 To Ct sns
enbaa-e Ct ~ 900 persons who gathered
On TIE issh snss 20 witness the snvssliag
Of the slzsue SO Father nrurarooss =. I.s-
fswetse Isace ard Great ycaes street,
where ssaads ske sen-stcry bassding
erected shro1gh she esorss cf Father
Drunrocie for che prosecsson Of homeless
and destitute eAaE6Fsn-
yadgs Morgan J. o'Brieu ia his address
among ether things said OK Fasher Drura-
scoss:
He n entitled TO TIE credit Of havinr
seen thss tue children bora in poverty and
thrown into TIRE streets 81 al age 80 ten
Ger. unless they are rescued. must OF re-
cesssfy ncs oEty sncanger Their physSea2
a1d ras-si life, bat fail EASY victims 10
vice and crime and become . menace
when grown 70 the welfare Of the state
" hal . service And what q cene,ss has he
whom ve today honor done, rSs only 10
religion and tie state but 10 tire eztlre
human races Whea we thsak Of the
dignity Of q single life whea ws thiak Of
the importance % rescusng from poverty
an6 crime . single nsorsl beng; whea we
think What il means TO have saved bzs
ore OF the human family, then We csa
fuaay appreciate the r1agrssGde 81 the
work ana the grand reszafs thai have
1oun from Father Dram gooEe's mission"
Father D-rngooie IVES not socialist:
Re was better than thousands Of socialists,
tor instead OF attempting the impossible
achievement Of eisva.ing the masses as
masses he believed that 40 get hold Of
che nan Is one mans work, fairy possible
and 70 BE DONE" in short. Fa,her Drum
gooAe succeeded not by trying 20 invent .
new SOCIAL system Of legislative machin-
err -hich should suddenly revolEsionize
the world. but By going right back 20 the
simple methods Of Ch-iss, who walked and
talked sud labo1ed with the individual
man sad woman.
Father Dr1mroole did not believe that
morality could be Iegsslated, which 10 ~
stupid . feminine haiiueina,ion Of the
hour rs the masculine socialissic deiusion
tia: wealth can De; be believed not In So
cialisn. bat in the individuaiism Of Christ,
who personally persuaded his brother man
20 live according 70 the Golden Rule and
10 accept the philosophy of the Sermon On
the Mount.
Father Drumgoole succeeded because he
worked with Christ, while your socialist
fails because he attempts TO substitute
mere machinery for the practice Of the
ethics and spiritual indiviiualism Of
Christ. Getting back to the Golden Rule,
to its spirit in public opinion ana practice
is all thai will ameiiorate the evils of our
modern social system; socialism will not
do il; anarchism will not do it: if modern
society cannot rise nearer TO the spirit Of
the Golden Rule in its government why
then We shall not be saved by any new
machine methods of socialism and pater-
nalism in government: If individualism.
inspired with the spirit Of the Golden
Rule can not govern this republic. then
we shall all go down 10 ruin together IS
did Athens and Rome, and the poetic
vision of Macaulay, where a naked fisher
| man washes his nets on the broken arch
OF London Bridge. may yet be realized.
The salvation and perpetuity OF modern
society rests on the humane faith and
| successful practice of tie Father Drum
COOLIES rather than upon the malignant
| teachings and barbarous. bedlauaite prac-
| tees Of socialists and sandlot,ers.