El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-30
FATHER MALONE, OF DENVER,
Explains Conditions and Sets his
Hearers 10 Thinking.

Explains Conditions and Sets his
Hearers 10 Thinking
Father Malone, a noted Catholic
divine, delivered lecture on socialism
in Denver on the oath inst. Ia report
ing his address the Associated Press
said:
1.-The Tabor Grand Opera House
was Grove ed to the doors this evening
with people TO listen to the eloquent
clergyna an, Rev. T. H. Malone,
deliver his much discussed lecture,
"Socialistic Fallacies."
$50 great was the demand for admis-
sion that hundreds were turned away
and for the benefit of those who were
unable to hear Father Malone tonight
consented to deliver the lecture again
next Sunday night.
"Father Malone's criticism of the
numerous theories at present advanced
for the betterment of mankind were
well and favorably received"
We give below a few excerpts from
his address:
"Tne wild and senseless attacks
which the demagogue makes upon
capital and legitimate corporations in
behalf of the laboring man are to be
deeply deplored by honest, law-abidiDg
citizens. 1t is unfortunate for labor
that irresponsible blatherskites are al
lowed to inject themselves into labor
difficulties ard to misrepresent the
position of honest labor toward capital
The demagogue would make it appear
that class is naturally hostile to class:
that the rich and poor intended
by nature to live at war with one an
other Both the rich and poor must
be made to understand that capital
cannot do without labor nor labor with
out capital
II am opposed to socialism, first, be-
cause its vOtartes chiefly engage them
selves in I'M ust and senseless attacks
ON corporate wealth; second, because
it is untenable from a religious,
philosophical and economic point of
view.
'sIntelligent citizens should firmly
oppose a system that would destroy
esta blished institutions solely for the
purpose of arranging a more general
distri button of wealth.
In entertaining these convictions !
am not unmindful that great corpora
tions representing as they do millions
and sometimes hundreds of million OF
dollars may use the power this capital
gives them to the injury of particular
classes of private individuals or small
but this l am satisfied is the
{ reception, not the rule. When corpora
lions have been given unjust priv
leges, then these privileges should be
curtailed. 1t is because the masses of
the people fail to distinguish between
privilege that are just and those that
are unjust that corporations in gener-
al are COMPOUNDED with trusts and mo-
nopOlies and made the object of demag-
ogues' rantings, as long as competition
is free it is essential 10 rail at cOrpo
rate wealth as individual endeavOr
Corporations owe their existence to
the law; it governs them. They are as
amen able to existing laws as any indi-
vidual in the land. To assume thai
those who execute the laws are dishon=
est and the governments servants,
once the government has assumed con-
troll of private industry, would be dis
honest in the administration of the 60
vernment's business, is a prepOs5erOus
assumption. To argue the laws cannot
be enforced against corporations is to
argue that the race is depraved and to
Omit that there is no hope for civili-
cation.
''If it be impossible to elect honest
re representatives. and judges, would it not
be the height of folly to place the vast
interests involved in co pOratiOns at the
mercy of men who are said to be ire
claimably corrupt? But it is argued
that wealthy individuals and powerful
corporations corrupt our legislatures
and debauch the peoples representa-
tives. This, indeed, is a most serious
charge. Think of it. Our manly, pure
and spotles representatives, men whose
egrity and honesty are as immacu-
late as virgin, are dead: and as the
agents of corporations, they become
forgetful of the peoples interests and
are willing to barter them away for
few patry pieces of silver. Really, 1
do not know what punishment should
be melted out to the corporations and
the men of wealth who soil the pure
and spctless doves that compose our
city councils and average state legis-
latures!
st must be an awful power that
these men WELD, that me1 who have
never tarried in the primrose path of
should forget their Sunday
school teachings aud for bit of shin
ing gold betray themselves, their state
and their country.
''But what are the facts in the case?
The facts are that, generally speaking,
the corporations are forced in self-de-
Tense to keep leg islation within proper
limits and defeat the schemes of un-
scrupulous lobbyists ard wire pullers
whose main object is to fleece both the
public and the corporations.
IF corporations have their agents to
ward off legislation in their affairs
that be productive of serious conse-
quences; it must not be forgotten that
the legislatures have their agents and
go-between who serve the purpose of
carrying their Doodle to their lamb
like and spotless creatures, whom, we
are told, capital debauches and cor
rupts, Every session of the average