The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-29
Grade Guilds in The
Z Golden Hge Of Labor
(Concluded.)

(Concluded
We witness the self same phenomena of human
effort in France as described in England under
the old trade guilds They were brought into exist
ence through the instrumentality of the same
forces; and it will be sufficient for the present
just to give a description of of the public pro
cessons held i'll the City of Paris by the trade
guilds when they were i'll their glory, 1t is never
theless worthy of notice how thoroughly organ
lied were all the trades of this age.
I'm all the sacred professions artisans walked
under the respective banners of their trades,
representing the patron of the fraternity. thus
in Paris, France. silversmths and founders, black
smiths and cutters carried the banner of ST. Eloy;
masons and stonecutters that of st. Faicre; car
penters that of st. Joseph; GLACIERS that of st.
Mark; harbers that of St Cessna; brewers that of
st. Armand; bakers that of St Honore;
chambers that of st. Nicholas; farrers that of
S. Sohn Baptist; shoemakers that of st. Crspln;
diapers that of the Annunciation; weavers that of
ST. Arregonde; clothiers that of Our Lady, silk
MERGERS that of Our Lady-the-Rch dyers that of
st. Maurice; tailors that of St. Lucy; singers that
of ST. Cecilia: makers of amices that of St
Severus; embroders that of st. Clair; weayers of
tapestry that of ST. Francis; rope makers that of
st. Paul; paper-makers and book-binders/that of
St. John-port- Latin. The fraternity of each trade
where there was an abbey of their patron in the
neighborhood used to dine there on the saints
festival. Thus at Rouen the brewers used to dine
in the refectory of the abbey of st. Armand on
their patrons festivaL"-Digby's ages of
Faith"
The University of Paris was at this time IN its
glory. In order to help out the funeral cortege
of friend formerly connected with another in
stitute the faculty agreed to dismiss some of the
classes in order that $4,000 of its pupils might at
tend the funeral.
Conditions of the Germans
Before we close our task in reviewing the CON
dition of affairs on continental Europe when by
reason of the 'so-called Reformation, the monk
was no longer charged with the caretaking of the
society we will consider the condition of the Ger
man people. Professor Johansen's "History of
the German People quotes Martin Luther on this
subject, giving his (Luthersl idea of the state OF
society in Germany ON the eve of the Reforma
ton, as follows
amy one reading the chronicles Will find that
since the birth of Christ there is nothing that
compare with what has happened i'll our world
during the last hundred years. Never In any
country have people done much building, so
much cultivation of the soil; never has such good
drink, such abundant and delicate food, been
within the reach of so many. Dress has become
so rich that it cannot in this respect be improved
Who has ever heard of commerce such as we see
it today? 1t circles the globe; 1t embraces the
whole world Painting, engravng-all the arts
have progressed and arg. still improving. More
than all, we have men so capable and so learned
that their wit penetrates everything III such a
way that nowadays a youth of twenty knows more
than twenty doctors did in days gone by"
Reluctantly we will part company with
the trade guilds and their founders, the monks of
old Yet often in our better moments, when the
quiet and repose of evening replaces the noise and
care of business memory viii bring us back to the
days when mankind lead natural lives and
consequently were, in great measure, free from
Yes will i'm thp with nile mi
memories.
"Thus shall memory oft in dreams sublime,
Catch glimpse of the days that are over.
Thus signing, look through the waves of time
For the long-faded gories they cover"
The Church Today.
The past history of the Church has been one of
intimate connection, fostering and caretaking of
the working people. But the question may be
asked: Where does she stand today? The answer
can easily be given Today, as in the past, she
demands the doing of justice. Were justice to be
the law of society all would be well.
Alasl the Church cannot now, as of yore, en-
force her mandates. Leo NIL could write his i'm
mortal encyclical on the Dignity and Condition of
Labor, but he had not the power to make wrong
doors cease their ungody work.
1t is to be regretted that the governments
which the Church called into being had become
ike dlSobedlent ana u1lgfate1ul cnldfell. lney
refused to heed the mothers voice and give her
that allegiance that was justly hers.
For the present the Church exhausts all her
powers when the pontitf speaks words of advice,
warning or condemnation.
Pope Leo XIII. diagnosed the diseases from
which society suffered and he prescribed the
remedy. For the present we viii follow him while
he discusses, in his own inimitable way, the fol
lowing propositions:
The Right to Organize
particular societies. although they exist with
in the state are each part of the state absolutely
and as such For to enter into society of this
kind is the natural right of man, and the state
must protect natural rights not destroy them;
and if it forbids It's citizens to form associations
it contradicts the very principles of its own ex-
istence, for both they and it exist by virtue of the
same principle, viz. the natural propensity of men
to live III society.
"Hstory attests what excellent results were
effected by the artifcer's guilds of former day.
They were the means of not only many advan-