New-York tribune., 1900-01-02
FATHER DUCEY ON TRUSTS.
HIS MIDNIGHT MASS SERMON MAKES
A STIR
SAYS SOME MEN HAVE LEFT HIS CHURCH
MONEY POWER. AND HE is GLAD
THEY ARE GONE.

THEY ARE GONE
N a sermon which he preached yesterday
morning in St Ieo's Roman Catholic Church,
At the close Of midnight mass which was held
70 usher in the new year. Father Ducey made
a particularly severe onslaught on trusts, con-
cemnine in emphatic language the oppression
which he alleged they put upon the people,
Father Duoey's attitude toward corporations is
wen known The subject Of trusts is one upon
which he has frequently spoken. and in the
course II his early morning sermon Of yester-
6av he remarked. Some Of our people do not
IKE the way I have spoken about these things.
and they have left Us. and am glad they have
gone"
Yes I did say that" Father Ducey told a
Tribune reporter who saw him at his home
No. ls East Twenty -ninth-st.. last night. 1T
is true that some peope-men who belong to
trusts-have left my church because they did
not like my denunciations Of the aims and
methods Of trusts. But these individuals do
rot number more than half a dozen all told,
and I'm place of them more than three hundred
young people of energy and vitality have Joined
my church. that the church is the gamer
Father Ducey would not say more than this
regarding the secessions from St Leo's Church,
nor would he make public the names of those
who had left the congregation because Of his
antitrust pulpit utterances- The following Is
n ShLJpSlE OF the l&eDtieiH 'rituiE fofl liOAir
IS he called it, which he preached yesterday
morning:
/ nave presented 10 you from time to time the
great demand of humanity IN the cI0slIs qu-- yer
~ me inete6nda ce1ui!i 9u .i ~ I1ncsted bV
our common brother. Jesus Christ, in the interest
Tef5rmers are a%ays despsed factors the social
economy Of this world. but always recognize
question which I have enunciated from the altar
IN the past nine years has been affirmed by the
EffeTauCes dEG En"yCiCalS or mat marvellous GOH-
Far the last twenty years the tyranny Of the
inoHfy p9wer has bee IN morn T rledom Of
enc hsieEg tneff Is P9i m i Ho9se of Com
mons and its House of Lords, than We are allowed
enJ trust newer i'm these I-nifed states i'm my
judgment. In the last " years this power has
attempted to control the educational institutions
sroni rhe larger universities unsefsh and sacriic.
ing professors II has throttied the libeIyi rIid 9I
states the press. with exceptions, has been
dent Of a university and presumed to express con-
victions upon certain public questions was ousted
CSnfro7 the GoveT1ment OF this country the judci-
sTV md even the Very - centres Of non-Cathoic
thoughts in the pulpits and are debating to men %
they must not think or speak as God S wishes shes them
Moreover this power perverts the truths OF
Holy Scripture ana. like the devil. quotes Script
70 te Fca l Iie Of 10 XJ ;s thai "a remedS
people viii be driven into rebellion and violence. "
This closing year Of the nineteenth century must
find teachers OF Christianity keenly alive to the de-
mands of people and to their rights and justice
IN equity. 1 Believe firmly that A great crusade
of moral evolution and development will manifest
stself in the coming decade Of the twentieth
century and win be prefaced in preparation by the
just and fearless utterances of men in public life
and the pulpits Of Cod demanding justice for the
people. The men who are now attempting TO con-
troI the industrial and mental forces will be
pushed to the wall and the rights of the people
VIII be asserted. and that which God has given
them grasped from the hands Of their Oppres~--s
as successfully as Moses grasped 1u-- .e
Hebrew people from the tyrannies expressions
Of the Pharaofs.
viii realize his obligation to live the epistle
directs him TO live, Justly and godly. and to pro-
test against the coVetousnesS and luxury of the
unjust and tyrannleal oppression by the corrupt
corporation powers OF the times IN which live.