The Irish standard., 1906-08-04


Or plain. and white buttons
MEN WHO LABOR AND LIVE
In Rented Homes Often Become Haters
of Property Owners.
For years the policy OF the Catholic
church in Italy, Austria, Belgium,
Chile and other lands has been 20 make
1t possible for workipg,nen 20 own
their own homes. The Belgian Cath
olic government, indeed. ana that OF
Chile. advances money to worthy la
borers on their toll by means of which
they may build homes anc gradually
pay for the same. The church believes
that the man with a home invariably is
Il more conservative man than the one
who is without. Apparently some
American publicsts are on the point
of seeing the same thing Says Don
aid H. Maxwell in one OF the magazines
of the month:
A>' ''AS"uS "olhcI Silouli De ttIll-
PEELED to rent dwelling through sheer
Inability financially to own home. 1t
should be made possible for every man,
however humble his position in life,
to acquire by purchase ana own Il home
of his own, and worthy in every re-
spect of the word ownership by the
parent there cannot grow in the family
that respect for property which is the
only guarantee we can have of the
pernanence of our own property.
Destruction of property by human
hands is Il much more terrible thing
than mere obliteration of property at
the hands of nature. When nature
swoops down on the ting Institutions of
man we may feel awed and powerlesa
for time, but the visitation is not
curse and reproach. Destruction
at the hands Of our fellowmen, which
blackens the pages of the history of all
nations. our own not excepted and
which periodically breaks out in all
ill-Or1ered but virile countries of the
world. is a social plague, the banc of
the citizenship it infests. 1t is the
price exacted for unnatural greed, and
1t Overtakes us with all the lwe-in,
spring inevitablencss of a sunrise OF
q tide. 1t is terrible and thrilling he.
E"nd either of these in degree as we
nave failed to perceive it's periOdicity,
and seem powerless to avert the de-
StructiOn ii entails. We have sOwn
sedition among our own kith and kin,
only to succumb later to the disrup-
/ tive force of a social craze. The most
| culpable suffer first, but all society is
/ disjointed beyond immediate recovery
I'VE study water supply, and have
learned over again the lesson the an
| clients knew SO WELL not to depend on
the uncertainty of the weather for the
| water that is necessary If we are to
| be assured of our crops. Likewise In
| the field Of social science we must
study the causes Of eyils We seem un-
| able to shake off or get away from. 1t
Is well for us to remember that what
ever the future has in store for us is
| brewing today. If it is social disoltler
we should not have far to seek to find
| the places where life is being wrongly
lived. Me must see that disorder nrsea
from discomfort discomfort from dis
comfort. that the discomfort can be
traced to injustice and that the injus-
tice falls at our door.
"Packingtown is one Of those brew
ing cauldrons that will one day reach
a critical point. bounds will be broken
and whirlwind of maddcncd human
beings turned loose on society. Nor will
| 1t be the stock yards alone When
water has passed the boiling point all
| of 1t boils. The thoughtful American
must remember the oppressed mil
lions of foreign birth, as well as the
less advanced of our own blood, who
| toll and sweat through a terribly severe
Pennsylvania, in the great mills and
| factories of the cities that line our rail-
| roads, and where the industrial forces
| are at work to supply our needs and
broaden the scope of our life. And he
| must also give thought to the average
| home Of this class Of citizens. Do we
| adequately appreciate the significance
! and portent Of these unpleasant facts:
| No man but has observed them Let
| the thoughtful citizen remember that
| they are not local but universal-not
; excrescences, but at the root of society;
and then let him decide whether 1t be
time for wise and sweeping and i'm
| mediate measures for regeneration"
Troubles daily seem to thicken,
Life's a melancholy song,