Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-13
SOCIALIST CREED
PERIL TO NATION
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND ATTACKS
"UToPIAN DREAMS" OF MEN
WITH SCHEMES
Says Wen Are Not and Never VIII be
Equal In the Power That Builds Up
Property-ls Against Doctrine Of
Common Ownership of Utilities.

and the agitation in favor of common
ownership through city, state, or ma
ton of public utilities were denounced
here last night by Archbishop Ireland
as the twin menaces of the republic
and the liberties of the people.
The venerable prelate, who spoke
at the annual dinner of the Society
of the Army of the Tennessee, in re.
spouse to the toast, "Our Country"
startled his hearers by the earnest
ness of his warning.
Men are not and never will be
equal in the power that builds up pro-
perty," declared the archbishop.
The preaching of Utopias in rem
edy of this inequality" he continued,
the proposal of schemes which ignore
the nature of men and vital condi-
lions of human society, are an insult
no less tnan an injury to the individual
whom they fain would beguile by their
will o the wisp deception"
PeriIs for America.
After a splendid eulogy or America
and her free institutions, the archbish-
op said:
Her profuseness of favors begets
perils for America unless her people
be taught to use them well and wisely.
Through her recognition of manhood
In every man the multitudes becomes
rulers, and at times the multitudes
bend too readily to monetary excite
ments, hence the extreme need of the
proper formation OF the popular mind
so as to correct thought and righteous
acting.
1T has become almost public axiom
that the whole people will not be
wrong the whole time, but the whole
people may be wrong a part of the
time.
THAT the whole people may he
wrong part of the time we must
ever strive to prevent. Injury, IRE.
parable injury, may be done during a
brief interval of social or political in.
sanity, and a frequency of such Goa.
ditions, however brief each one may
be, too easily degenerate into abiding
habits.
Too Much Worship of Wealth.
In our material prosperity there is
a danger from which we are not hold
ing sufficiently free. We worship
material prosperity, material wealth
and In doing so we are losing tn;
sense of the spiritual and moral. Re
ug1on does not retain among us the
supremacy 1t once had. Here Is 6
national evil which forbodes disaster
Il again extol the material prosper
1ty OF America. but as one of it's acct
dental consequences l note the spiri
OF social restlessness which now agi
tates the country. 1t is said too mucl
prosperity comes to some, too little t,
others, hence new methods are Gale,
for in the distribution of wealth.
THAT all is perfect in present cond
should be said or done subversive O
public order, destructive of the spiri
of the country and of its institutions.
Enemies Of Society.
"The wild anarchist and the would
be assassin are the public enemies q
society. whom to tolerate is to toierat
open sedition
An enemy, too, of the public is tn
workman who, refusing to labor, deter
by violence brother workman fror
his Offering of his labor, as are even |
greater degree the strong and tn
powerful who override the law of til
land in carrying out the schemes {
their ambition.
Private property, the right of ever
man to own and dispose of the fruit
of brain and of hand, must ever be r.
garded as sacred and inviolable. It
the corner stone of the social structur,
THAT in the holding of private pr
perty there be inequality is Inevitable
Men are not, and never will be, equs
in the power that builds up propert,
in the economy that preserves and II
creases it; hence. they will never b