The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-05-07

pamphlet on the International Associa-
tion Of Laborers, 1871, p. 1G4. Meeting
one day a number Of laborers, he ex-
pressed his regret over the scarcity Of
labor. $50 much the BETTER" answer
cd Meunier and Genton 1.-TWO Socialistic
leaders,, $50 much the better; the
greater the misery of the laborer the
happier we will be. We could wish
he were no longer able to make a liv-
ing; hunger would then accomplish
what our arguments cannot You
others, co-operators," they added,
"strive to palliate the sufferings of the
mborcrs and that is the reason why we
(Socinlists) hate you. Were you to
succeed in making the laborer content
ed, the revolution would never come,
What we want, above all, is the revo-
llltion."
Here is something for our labor or
ganiZations to ponder over. Not only
they have nothing to gain, but every
thing to lose by espousing the cause
of Socialism, which will make of them
the arm Of the revolution Socialism
is contemplating. If they succeed, they
will reduce labor to q condition of de-
pcndcncy equal TO slavery; if they fall,
they will abandon these poor unfor-
tunate dupes to the civil power, while
they themselves will try to escape.
leaving the labOrcr in the lurch. An
illustration in point: The Paris Com
munc, the most nearly successful So.
cialistic attempt in our day, was the
tool Of the Grand Orient of France.
which openly received the Communists
In solemn session. After the restora-
ton Of order, these unfortunate dupes
were, by this same Grand Orient, not
only abandoned, but actually betrayed,
and some 10000 of them were either
killed or condemned to penal servitude
for life. But we need not 90 so far.
Idaho Springs and Globeville, Cripple
Creek and Telluride, can furnish you
with other illustrations
If these are the fruits produced by
Socialism, you will have to agree with
me that the tree is rotten. Now, we
know for fact that it has never given
| any other kind of fruit. How could
it be otherwise? Socialism denies the
existence Of God; the creation of man,
whom, with Darwin, it proclaims to
be merely more perfect ape, with no
more responsibility, nor any higher un-
derstanding than the brute; it denies
the redemption of Christ, whom it
| holds to have been q mere man, an
impsster, who worked upon the credu-
lity Of simple-minded people, proclaim
ing Himself the Son of God, and who,
therefore, deserved to be crucified; II
hates the Church and her ministers
with all the hatred its satanic heart is
| capable Of; hatred which 1t never
! failed to evince when the occasion for
doing so successfully presented itself.
1t denies mans future destiny and pro-
! claims the Catholic doctrine of any
! hereafter to be mere inventions Of de-
signing men, who, for personal mo-
tives, resort to such doctrines US
heaven and hell to allure the ignorant
and frighten rebels into submission to
their explorations. It protests that
man must create his heaven on earth
by means, right or wrong, that might
insure success.
When we go to the bottom Of Social
ism here is what we find: A mad
dream Of pleasure and earthly happi-
ness, focused in its still more mad
earthly paradise, wherein all men will
be perfectly happy; wild rush for
wealth, the only means capable Of pro-
curing this happiness, and a desperate
conspiracy to overthrow the existing
order of society by the wholesale con-
\ fiscation Of all personal property, and
all the means of production, in the in
terest Of the Socialistic state. Social
ism is sworn to accomplish this, even
though the realization of it's program
were to involve the ruin of society. We
have shown all this in our course Of In
struction on Socialism. On this point
II stands diametrIc ~ AZ sSpp0s 10