The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-01
DISASTROUS
REVOLUTION
Is Predicted by Father Ducey,
the Friend of Henry George,
Unless the Wrongs Of Cypress
ed and Cheated
OF the United States Shall
Soon be Righted.
CENSURES THE RICH
And Brings Down the COndem-
nation of His SuperiOrs.
May be Severely Disciplined by
the Church.
Unless the Wrongs Of Cypress
ed and Cheated
OF the United States Shall
Soon be Righted.
CENSURES THE RICH
And Brings Down the COndem-
nation of His SuperiOrs.
May be Severely Disciplined by
the Church.

New York, Dec. 1.-ReV. Father Ou-
cey Of St. Leo's church, in East TWen-
fy-eighth street, has been giving utter
ances to sOcialistic sentiments in some
of his recent sermons and now it is de-
cIared these statements are to be con
sidered by high dignitaries Of the
church. -Four stenographers occupied
front seats in the church last Sunday
and took down verbatim all that he
said. As soon as the transcript OF the
notes are made d council OF OIlclaIs VI
the church will be called to CONSIDER
and pass upon the sermons and declue
1lpOn a line of action. Large cOnSre-
cations have listened to and seemingly
approved of the sOcia1stlc OIalloHS-
1t is known that the hlSn OIlAclealS VI
the church are by no means pleased oy
Father Ducey's recent sermon a ana
that they contemplate very declQed
action The outcome is being watched
with great interest by Catholics, not
only in this city but wherever reports
Of Father Ducey's announcement OF the
rich or existing social conditions nave
penetrated
Father Ducey has made bitter at
tacks on what he paints as the SNUG
complacency and egotlstlcaI seI-stIls-
faction OF the rlcner ana oOIliLildllI
classes. While affecting religion, ne
saws many of the plutOcratS seem to
make it their Iife's aim to grind down
the poor and helpless to the further-
most limits of endurance.
Some of the wealthy members of St
LeO's congregation have felt plqued
by the doughty priests determined anu
vivid expressions, and no longer at
tend the church
But more serious is the fact that the
officials who Outrank Father Ducey in
church authority are incenSed to the
point where they demand a full and
rigid investigation of his sayings
Friends of Father Ducey fear serious
punishment is in store for him from the
heads of the church.
Some of Father Ducey's utteranees
from the pulpit in ST LeO's Sunday,
which met with the hearty Endorsement
and admiration of a majority OF the
congregation were as follows:
''As a priest of the Catholic church
I say to you from this pulpit that the
present conditions of the poor of the
United States cannot go on. The
Catholic church in these United States
must lead for the emancipation OF Ihe
people from the present social and
economic slavery; the church must
lead as the emancipatOr of the work
eng classes, and the states, and the
TJuited States, it's senate and its con-
gress must make laws to protect the
peoples right and abrogate the laws
that have been made by bribery in the
interests of fraud.
THE Catholic church's great mission
to the inhuman civilization of our times
is recognized by all thinking men
Men whose minds work in unison
with Gods mind say that the mission
of the church today is the enforcement
of the social question The church
y
manity of man to man must end!
The Catholic church as Gods agent
on earth must proclaim the rights of
the people. tell the peoples oppressOrs
that the vast multitudes have the right
to exercise the liberty of the children Of
God for the simple reason that Gods
truth has made them free
The Catholic church, by its divine
foundation and by its perfect Organiza-
tiOn throughout the whole world has
4he GOd-given right to cry this battle
II ezHaa nil linn
and must continue to do So for wrong,
injustice and oppression cannot pre-
vail against the laws of God and the
rights of humanity.
I'VE on earth. soldiers in the fighting
kingdom of God, want living saints
here on earth; saints to love and to
follow, and we will love them when we
find them, when they lead US with the
battle cry of sacrifice, justice and right
for the masses.
Leo XIII. the head of the Catholic
church, in support of what I have said.
has proclaimed to the civilized world
that AS far as regards the church, its
assistance viii never be wanting, be
the time and occasion what II may be,
and it will intervene with greater effect
an proportion as its liberty of action is
unfettered.'
Every generation of the worlds his
tory is confronted by some important
problem to the solution of which the
best minds and the truest hearts must
lend their energy. Our time has a
vast problem.
The problem before the world today
Is the relief of man from unjust bur
6ens, heaped upon the great mass Of
Ehe people by the concentrated power
of wrong. the combinations of ill-gOtten
wealth and unjust privileged legislation
IN favor of a class against the God
given rights of the great masses. The
social conditions of our times have be
come despOtic and unbearable.
The great mass of the people are in
revolt the world over, and unless the