The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-09

of the year, after having been made
sub-deacon on the 18th, passing
through the Christmas eve vigil on the
24th, and receiving the deaconate.
Pray for me, for I am all I'M
| worthy of this great step. I know you
will not fail to perform this friendly
duty
On Dec. 81, 1897, he wrote to his I'M
/ Gle, Antonio: This morning I received
! the holy anointment; 1 am priest To-
morrow at o'clock l shall be reading
my first mass" So simple was his an
nouncement of his entry into the priest
hood.
THE POPE AND THE PEOPLE.
The blood of Coladi Rienzi, tribune
of the people, who devoted his life to
vain efforts to re-establish the Roman
republic, flows through the veins of
Pope Leo XIII. He refers to this fact
with pride, and it has perhaps had an
influence in making him the most dem
ocratic of all popes. both in his habits
and beliefs. Pope Leo has always been
deeply interested in the social ques-
tions affecting the life of the poor, and
he has always been consistent friend
of the workingman. The encyclicals
which he has issued under the general
subject, THE People," will fill more
volumes than all his other writings put
together. Most of them abound in
good advice, as the following extracts
show:
In December, 1878, writing of social
ISM communism and nihiliSm, as mod
ern errors, he scored those who at
tack the right Of property and with
signal depravity, Whi'A pretending to
feel solieitous about the needs, and
anxious to satisfy the requirements of
all, they strain every effort to seize
upon and hold in common all that has
been individually acquired by title of
lawful inheritance, through intellectual
or manual labor or economy in living.
The church recognizes the ex-
istence of inequality amongst men, who
are by nature unlike in mental endow-
ment and strength of body, and even
in amount of fortune: and she enjoins
that the right of property and of its
disposal, derived from nature, should
in the case of every individual remain
intact and inviolate. She lays
the rich under strict command to give
of their superiority to the poor, i'm
pressing them with fear of divine judg-
ment. which will exact the penalty of
eternal punishment unless they succor
the wants OF the needy"
In 1885 the pope issued a special let
ter devoted to "Working,nen's Clubs
and Associations" in which he said:
"Agitators are aiming at making use
of the laboring classes as instruments
whereby to satisfy their own arnbi-
ton They delude workingmen by
empty promises; flatter them by Pro-
claiming loudly their rights, without
ever referring to their duties; they en-
llindle in their minds hatred of land
owners end of the wealthy classes:
and, at length, so soon as they deem
the moment favorable for their harm
full purposes, they launcA them into
perilCus enterprises wherein more but
the ringleaders reap advantage.
We exhort the Catholic faithful of all
countries to revive the corporations OF
Workinemen. These institu-
lions assure to the workingman assist
ance and charitable aid in case of
sickness. They implant love IN the
heart % all. instead Of hate. which
but too often separates the employed
from their employers" ,
In the letter of Nav Is, 1891,
which probably aroused as much dis
cussion as any he ever issued, Leo
dealt at length with The Condition OF
the Working Classes, Saying: Some
remedy must be found, and found
quickly, for the misery and wretched-
ness pressing so heavily and unjustly
on the vast majority Of the working
classes The worKingmen have
been surrendered. all isolated and help
less. TO the hard-heartedness Of en-
nlcyers and the gra.1 OF unchecked
connection Socialists by en-
deavoring to transfer the possessions
of individuals 10 the community at
large, strike at the interests of every
wage Garner, since they would deprive
him of the liberty of disDosing of his
wages, and thereby of all hope and
possibility Of increasing the stock and
of better his condition in life.
To affirm that God has given the
earth for the use and enjoyment of the
whole human race is not to deny that
private property is lawful. For God
has granted the. earth to mankind in
general, not in the sense hat all with
out distinction can deal with it as they
like. hut rather that no part of II has