Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-12
coRRleAN ON SOCIALISM.
Eminent Catholic Divine Discusses the
Problenn Of Socialism,

Eminent Catholic Divine Discusses the
Problem of Socialism.
New York. Nov. 11.-Archbishop Cor
rigan's series of sermons on socialism
has attracted widespread interest in
Protestant as well as Catholic circles
He has given the subject exhaustive
study, and from the pulpit has de-
nounced it as a danger which all men
should shun. In an interview yesterday
he adds to his recent expressions as fol-
lows:
I'm his encyclical on the condition OF
labor his Holiness Pope Leo XIII.
says:
!" To remedy these evils the socialists,
working on the poor mans envy OF the
rich, endeavor to destroy private prop
erty, and maintain that the individual!
possessions should become the common
property of all, to be administered by
the state or by municipal bodies. They
hold that by thus transferring property
from private persons to the community
the present evil state of things will be
set to rights, because each citizen will
then have his equal share of whatever
there is to enjoy.
Dul lHctl picPOsaiS dIC 'so SiSSAi ~
futile for all practical purposes that If
they were carried out the workingman
himself would be among the first to suf-
fer. Moreover, they ere emphatically
unjust, because they would rob the law
full possessor, bring the state into a
sphere that 1t not its own, and cause
complete confusion in the community
Taking these words of the Sovereign
Pontiff as guide, let us briefly consid-
er the condition of the workingman. As
a rational and social being he has an
innate right to life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness right to self-im-
provement and to the development and
persecting of his faculties, whether in
the department of knowledge or Of vir-
tue.
Food, clothing. the shelter of a home,
occupation--in word, the ordinary adj
juncts of civiliZa tion-ali come within
the compass of this natural right. In
deed. without such facilities man would
gradually lapse to the precarious condi-
ton of nomadic life. like the children of
the forest. and to state more or less of
perpetual uncertainty, of want and of
misery.
veloping ones faculties brings with it
the possession of personal and perma-
nent property, for the reason that 9TH
erwiae the attempt at self-improvement
would be hampered at every step. If not
rendered entirely vain and imperative
Think of our attempting our pres
ent social life if we had not fixed
and the countless appliances
which our civilized habits require!
Who for instance, would till the soil.
or care for the growing crops, unless
he also firmly expected to reap the
harvest What man of ordinary pru-
dence would not wish to make some
provision against a season of distress,
against sickness. or old age?
Hence, it is not sufficient to have the
means of labor, or acquiring liveli-
hood for the moment only; but there
is likewise needed the element of sta
bility, that one may reasonably pro-
vide for the future. Hence permanent
ownership.
= in fact, man gives the sweat of
his brow or yields the fruit of his in
tellect that he may dispose of this at
his discretion. Now, suppose by his
frugality he is able TO put aside por-
ton of his earnings and in time to in
vest in modest plot of ground. The
land so purchased is his wages in an
other form and as absolutely his own
in one form as in another