Bisbee daily review., 1904-01-14
Pope Sends Ruling
 on Labor Questions
INSTRUCTIONS FROM PLUS ,
 REACH WASHINGTON.
Says All Society 10 not Equal Draws Line Between Justice and charity-Ai! Societies are to Keep instructions Exposed in their Rooms and Read Frequently.

Washington, Jan.13.-The text of an important instruction by Pope Plus x. upon the relative duties of capi' talists and laborers has been received here. It Is not in the nature of en- cyclical, and is headed with the words "Mortu Proprio'' to show that utter ances express the pope's personal views upon this important topic.
 I treduces the various Roman Cath olic teachings on the subject of prop erty rights. and especially the phi iosophy of Pope Leo's encyclieal on labor to nineteen precepts.
 The first four lay down that society is composed of unequal elements, whose only equality is in their re demption by Jesus Christ and their equal individual responsibility to God.
 The fifth precept states that "the right of property, the fruit of labor or industry or cession or donation by others, is an incontrovertible natural right, and everybody can dispose req sonably ot such property as he thinks fit"
 From the sixth to the fifteenth precept he pope draws sharp dis tinction between justice and charity as they apply between employer and employe. These are summed up as follows:
 The following are obligations of justice binding on the proleta-iat and the working man: To perform full ly and faithfully the work which has been freely and according to equity sgreed upon; not ;c inure the property or outrage .ha persons of masters; to abstain ron acts sf violence even in the defense of tle:r known rights, and never D max, mu- tiny of their defense.
 For the capitalist the obligations To pay just wages to their working men, not to injure their jus; savings by violence or fraud or by overt or covert usuries; not to expose them to corrupting seductions and danger of scandal; not to alienate them from the spirit of family life and from love of economy, and not to impose upon hem labor beyond their strength CT unsuitable for their age or sex"
 Other obligations are character ized as charitable, and the rich are exhorted 10 the exercise of this vir' tue The instruction closes with fer. vent admonition to Roman Catholic writers, when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor, not to use language calculated to inspire aversion among the people for other classes of society. Let them refrain from speaking of redress and justice when :he matter comes within the domain of charity only
 The document closes with an order that those fundamental rules be transmitted to all Catholic commit tees, societies and unions of every kind. All these societies are tc keep them exposed in their rooms and to have ,hem read frequently at their meetings. We ordain, moreover, that Catholic papers published them iu their entirety and make declaration of their observance of them, and, in fact, observe them religiously; fail ing to do this they are to be gravely admonisned, and if they do not then amend let them be interdicted by ec- clesiastical authority"
 The document Is dated December IS, 1903, and it is held that it will doubtless work as great ferment Leo's famous encyclicaI On labor.