The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02

| occupied with it-and there Is moth
ing winch has deeper hold on public
attention. Of course, there is nothing
/ which has a deeper hold on public atten.
tlon. Proper understanding of the rights
/ o. class and mass, OF the obligations of
capital ana the Just rights of honest labor
| means the peace, order and perpetuityt of
/ governments, be they the government of
/ empires kingdoms or republics Wisely
! tnen has Leo XIII. thought it useful to
! speak on the conditions of -abOr He sees
/ clearly that IL is not easy TO define the rel
! auVe rights and mutual duties of wealth
/ and labor, but he recognizes that we are
I race 70 lace with the condition all over the
/ world, and he insists that all good Just
/ ana wise men agree that there can be no
/ question Whatever-uhat some remedy
| must be found for the misery and wretch.
/ euness which press so heavily at this
! moment on the large majority of the poor.
/ The Sovereign Pontiff further sees that
! the contract system of labor is radically
/ detective and that the concentration OF so
| many branches of trade in the hands of a
/ lew individuals, is radically wrong,
1or such systems create corrupJing
| monopolieS and trusts by concentrating
/ with the small number of the very rich
/ great powers of oppression that enable
/ them to practice injustice and may,
| through the agency of corrupt legislation.
/ lay upon the masses of the poor a yoke
| little better than slavery ITSELF would
| say, with all due respect for the Holy
! Fathers words, yoke worse than sla-
/ very which was known in this country
before the famous emancipation procla-
nation of Abraham Lincoln. The indus
trial slavery of to-day Is in many re-
spects a more heinous crime against
the law of God than was the
chattel slavery of the south.
The master in slave days looked
after his chattel servant very much in
the same way that the rich, dishonest,
legal robber of the trust and monopoly
looks after his valuable horse. 1t cost
him so much money, it must be cared for,
fed and housed that it may give pleasure
and create other beings to add to the
! pleasure and luxury of the master. The
! trust and monopoly robber of to-day, who
will give $4,000 and more for a fast
! horse, would not dream of giving $1,000
for human being endowed with intelli-
| gence, willing and able TO labor,
| possessed of an immortal soul, that
| bears the image and likeness OF
! God. On the contrary, he believes in
/ the few hiring brains and muscle at the
| lowest possible figure and using the crea-
| lures life blood for his own security and
| luXuriant indulgence. 1t is this system
| and acts like these that make tine Holy
| Father Leo XIII. say: Therefore these
whom fortune favors are warned that
| freedom from sorrow, and abundance of
earthly riches, are no guarantee of the
beatitude that shall never end, but
rather the contrary; that the rich should
tremble at the threatenings of Jesus
/ Christ, threatenings so strange in the
mouth Of our Lord; and that most
/ strict account should be given TO the Su-
preme Judge of all we possess"
You have here facts and sentiments
i coming from the mind and heart of the
I head of the Catholic church, appealing to
the clergy and laiety throughout the
world to take a deep interest in the
greatest question of the hour for the
safety of society-the labor question
Leo XIII says: Every minister of the
holy religion must throw into this conflict
of capital and labor all the energy of his
| mind, all the strength of his endurance"
| and he warns the bishops throughout the
church that they should be the leaders
in tins movement; that the priests, sup
| ported by the authority of the bishops
and encouraged by their example, should
never cease to urge upon the high as well
as the lowly, the gospel doctrines of
Christian life, and by every
means in their power strive
to bring about the kingdom of God S JUS
/ tice upon earth, and seek tC have Gods
! will done in JUS lice in the midst of men,
! Now, there are, l think, over 10000
] priests III III = I ullGu States. II all LleSe
| men, led by the bishops, sounded this war
! cry of the holy father all along the line,
! do you not think they would make the
! sugar trusts and the whisky trusts and
/ all the other trusts utterly unworthy of
! being trusted? And no matter how much
| money the sugar modgers might have,
when they acknowledge as +. .. Mathies-
sen, one of the principal promoters of the
sugar truSt-for number of years have
! made DOD cent least n
amount of my investments. Seven per
,ent. is an illegal rate of interest
in the state of New York, usurious
and dishonest. What can the country
think of man who has the enrontery to
boast that he has made 200 per cent. of
this same trust of which Mr.. Wilson said
! few days ago: The sugar trust has
| the country by the throat" In a Sun
day edition of a New York paper of Feb
! IL, 1890, we read these words: when
the inside history of the sugar trust
| (Which refuses to publish any report is
| brought to light--as it surely will be one
| of these days-a most surprising chapter
will be added to the annals of specula-
i tom Might-it not be added to legal
| highway robbery! The Messrs. Have
meyer received about S16.000,00O of
the $4,000 900 of certificates issued
! by the trust, and, moreover, held the
| highest position in the board of trustees,
! it may be now asserted that the whole of
/ the Havemeyer Sl6,000.000 of certificates
! were sold out last summer for from 500
! to SIPS per share. and that they did not
/ begin buying them back until a few days
! ago. By this act of the Havemeyers one
! of the most gigantic turns of speculation
| on record is presented TO US, turn which
| shows them a profit of something like
| So COO, 900, which they regained upon their
! entire Sl6,000.000.
| To quote from Mr.. Cleveland's letter to
! Mr. Wilson of West Virginia on the Sen
| ate's tariff bill. "how can these men with
/ their millions and their agents in the Sen
/ ate and congress face an honest and in
| dignant people after indulging in such
! outrageous Determinations and violations
| of principle" ] thank God that | have
/ no trust corruptors and monopolstic out
/ laws in this congregation. ! would much
| prefer being the pastor of the muCh-con-
| demned and Censured Tum-shop keepers
rejoice at the approach of Labor DAY. The
! laboring men who assemble and march,
! directed by law ard order, are a grand
! protest against the combinations of cor
! rupt capital, corrupt trusts and the dis
! honest legislation of Senate and House
! for the past twenty years u certainly
| is now high time for the 10000 priests of
] this country 10 follow the direction OF the
| Holy Father and protest from their pull
! pits Sunday after Sunday against the
| corrupting use of dishonest riches. IL