The herald., 1896-10-26

less a person than Jesus Of Nazareth,
onr Redeemer, whom his eminence
serves. Jesus also included the priests
and Pharisees in his denunciation, be-
cause they acted as If they could serve
God without helping the people.
If his eminence's apprehensions that
one half the American people are social
istic in spirit are well founded, then the
quality of the socialistic spirit must be
such as to recommend it to the Ameri-
can people and if this spirit Is desperate
ly radical, thHn a great deal in American
conditions must be desperately radical
ly wrong and requiring desperately
radical remedies. His eminence appears
to hold that these appeals and denuncia-
tions have set class against class, that
they are the causes of class hatred and
angry passions. Immoderate language
addressed to people under sense OF
being wronged Is at all times to De dep
recated But no effect can be without
adequate cause and surely wordy cam
paign appeals and denunciations, utter
ed by excited demagogues. cannot con-
stitute adequate causes for hatred and
angry passions between classes closely
united in productive operations. The
causes must lie deeper and required a
long period to grow in. Has his emf
nence been SO absorbed IN religious work
as not to notice the tremendous changes
in the conditions of the producers dur
ing the last thirty years? Does he not
know that American is no longer the
paradise of the worker? That the
suualor and misery of the slums of New
York and Chicago, the suffereing OF the
great mass of the degraded. would-be
workers of America, in amount and de-
gree far exceeding anything now exist
Ing in London. Lancashire. Vienna or
any of the worst human cesspools in
Europe?
Woe to the land to lingering ills prey,
Where wealth accumuiates ana men oe-
Has the archbishop failed to observe
that the sufferings of the toilers and
would-be toilers have multiplied even
more rapidly than the colossal fortunes
of the few and that the causal relation
between the latter and the former has
been clearly demonstrated by econo-
mists and sociologists? Has the arch
bishop failed to perceive that this alb
normal growth of suffering on the ono
end and of wealth on the other and Of
vice, degrade ton and crime on both, has
been fatally accelerated by the gold
standard? IT, as seems from his letter,
he has missed all this, why should he
not now devote himself to the study ana
observation of these facts and when he
has found the truth and the facts to be
as here stated, then, lover of humanity
as he is, he also will support the free
coinage movement; not as cure for all
the ills of society, but as first step in
the right direction, as the first ray OF
light in the darkness and confusion OF
industrial conditions, which may enable
mankind to find it's way to a brighter
day and a more just distribution of the
products of labor.
Then to side with Truth Is noble, when We
share her wretched crust.
Ere her cause brings fame and pronts ana
it's prosperous to be just;
Then 1t is the brave man chooses while the
coward stands aside,
Doubling in his abject terror. I'LL MS LoIo
be crucified
And the multitude makes virtue Of the
faith they have denied.
Yours trIlIv II. w. II.