The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-22
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LABOR AND CAPITAL
Interesting Lecture by Rev.
Father Tighe of St.
Paul's r. C. Church,
Greenvi1le.
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Athletic Contests Will Be the
Feature-News From the
Churches.

FdulS n. -. SAtlSfi
ed his first lecture in his new charge at
the parochial school hall on Monday
evening. The lecture was on the all ae-
sorb.ng topic of Labor and Capital,
and Father Tighe handled the subject
with the same ability that has marked
him as an orator. SECOND to none IN the
Catholic priesthood. The lecture in part
was as follows
In self-respect and dignity We are a
nation of kings. All may wear the crown
and all can WELD the seeptre. Here the
poorest laborer is the peer of the high
est in the land, and here the honest man
is the noble man. The pampered child
of rank and of fortune is no more impor-
tant as a member of the Commonwealth
than the tilier of the soil or the me-
chanic in his shop. The smith at ms
anvil strikes as loudly for his country's
cause as the orator in the halls or legls-
lation. sounding forth with trumpet
tongue the mind of the nation. Never
has a State so large been blessed with
institutions so beneiieent as the Ameri-
can Commonwealth. The progress OF
industry, the Increasing activity OF man.
ufsctures, and the more extensive APP
plicat!on of the principles of science and
all the useful arts are facts winch the
detraetors of the times In Whlch we
live cannot dispute. Without sharing
the enthusiasm OF modern Utopians' II
we consider this vast concourse OF IN
austrial powers, inert nifty years ago,
and now employed in the production OF
all that is useful and agreeable to man,
ana reflect that those forces are daily in
,ereasing, and are directed by knowi-
edge w h is itself increasing, it might
1.@rars1r pat 70 halieye that an
earthly millennium is approaching during
which poverty will be banished from the
earth and misery unknown. Such might
be our conclusion were we ignorant of
the fact that under the very shadow OF
those gigantic establishments which the
genius of Industry has raised proverty
has established its dwelling. Everywhere
today are men whose enforced idleness
and misery are a tax on the superfllities
of their fellow creatures. AS to the
existence of poverty. Henry George is
right. While wealth may increase in
the public treasury, in the vaults OF
corporations. and IN the Golfers of mil
Tonaires, the rank and file Of the peo-
pie have to maintain a strenuous strug-
gle for existence.
"Ie would seem as if there were a
necessary connection between wealth and
poverty. Together they put forth their
powers of increase and faithfully divide
.he coaquests they make; the rsialtonss
and d'sjointed. Though their interests
are Identical. capital seems afraid OF
grinding taskmaster. These are cold and
unwelcome facts, not the offspring OF a
hag-ridden fancy how snah we ac-
cnce of those men whose idleness and
misery is a tax on their fellow creatures
an intolerable burden, and nowhege DO
cept in those very countries to Which
the. genius of industry has carried al
of her riches and which have attained
LABOR RESPECTED HERE.
make it great, and this they can never
do till labor Is respected and rewarded.
The laborer is respected more IN the
rule, they are better fed, housed and
clothed than their brethren on the other
cry exists. Nautilus held that in any
ountr well governed and free from
natural tendency and increased In geo.
metrical ratio; and since, in any such
country. the production of the means
of subsistence can increase only. in arith-
metieal ratio the point must inevitably
come al. which the food will not suffice
to sustain the population, nat the l. M attn IS
AC1l ANOAs - No.
the sense that in given circumstances
the population of a country might reach
that poiat at which they would not
find food enough to eat or space enough
to move in; but it is not necessary to
admit that wherever there is poverty
and misery they are to be ascribed to
overpopulation.
ers would undoubtedly afford relief, and
the reduction of the number of IMPROVE
dent marriages would lessen the sun of
human misery. But it Is making sport
of our credulity to maintain that this
relief will be found in the growing in
~telligence of workn1en, or in the absten-.
ton from marriage which the Malthusi-
should the workman abstain from mar
riage for the love of beings who have
as yet no existence, and who, when they
are born into life, will be worse .condi-
a future life did not intervene it would
be more logical for him to adopt Inger-
soils teaching and commit suicide; for
If he has no right to increase the aggre-
of children, he has no light to exist
himself, as he is one too many on the
earth, and his existence is q bar to the
tel1igence makes growing wants, and the
workman is today doubly q sufferer for
his wants have doubly increased, per-
haps have trebled. while the means of
portionaI. Prosperity is the outcome not
Of intelligence alone, but of intelligence,
Snergy and thrift combinsd
AS TO CORPORATIONS.
lowing to the decay of religious feel
ing men have grown vicious and indolent
on the one hand, or when, on. the other,
they are thrifty, their thrift dsgenerates
soon peryades the laws of a nation, and
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