Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
RELIGION 10 CURE SOCIALISM
JUSTICE o'BRIEN PLEADS FOR
THE WAYS OF THE FATHERS.


JUSTICE o'BRIEN PLEADS FOR
THE WAYS OF THE FATHERS.
Meeting at Carnegie Hall in Aid of
the Work of Mrs. Lathrop for the
Cancer Sufferers-Alton B. Parker
Presides and Pays High Tribute
to Her.
Carnegie Hall was filled with an
audience assembled to show its in
terest in the effort of Mother Alpnon-
sa Lathrop TO raise money for the
hospitals for incurable cancer with
which she has been identified for
several years. The feature of the
evening was an address by Presiding
Justice Morgan ]. O'Brien of the APP
pellate Division on Civilizations of
the Twentieth Century" Alton B.
Parker presided and Archbishop Far
ley, in his robes of office, sat beside
Mr. Parker. In presenting Justice
O'Brien Mr.. Parker said:
ut is a great relief from the naus-
SOuo SAulDttAOu lndt Ids DSSA lC-
yealed recently in this city, involving
in many instances men in whom the
people have had confidence, to look
upon very different picture, one
that is represented by the cause for
which we are assembled tonight"
Then 1Ir Parker paid tribute to
Sister Alpnonsa, and he added:
IF there be anywhere in this world
a charity more deserving of support,
have not heard of it. If there be
anywhere a body of men or women
who are following the scriptural in
junction to give all they nave to the
poor more faithfully than the band
who are working for this cause, am
not aware of it. I know they do all
this work for the love of God They
are following the precept to love their
neighbor as themselves. 1t is to ex'
press our heartfelt appreciation of the
work and to help along little that
We are here tonight"
Justice O'Brien's address was
plea for religion to overcome the dan
gers of socialism with which he said
the new century was threatened The
feature of the nineteenth century, he
said, was its materialistic growth,
which resulted at its end in the great
migration to cities. the civilization
of the twentieth century will be the
product of the city, and the cities will
eventually dominate the Government,
State and national" he declared.
The American city, he said, was
such a heterogeneous mass that it
was hard to govern, and no fixed pol
icy had been agreed upon to suppress
the three great social evils of gamb-
ling, intemperance and immortality
but the battle between religion and
morality on one side and socialism
and materialism on the other" he de-
clared would be fought out in the
cities
On the other hand, Justice O'Brien
said some Of the noblest traits were
revealed in city life 81 should not
look for the truest heroisnl in the
forlorn hope or in the nigns watch
on the tented field, but in many a
garnet and workshop right around us.
And there, where woman works face
to face with death, or patiently plods
in the weary routine, yet keeps the
heart untainted; there where toll
bears on its sturdy shoulders the bur
dens of the aged and sick; there
where the course fare is consecrated
by family affection and eatePs with
stainless hands-there do l discover
the real greatness of our nature and
rejoice to find amidst the guilt of the
city proofs of beautiful, immortal
love-"
The speaker asserted that fact
which stands prominently forth in
our history is that virtue has de-
creased in proportion to the destruc-
ton of the religious sentiment among
our people. 1t requires no prophet to
tell what must be the inevitable if
some check to the rapid inroads of
socialism and materialism be not
found"
Justice O'Brien called attention to
the rapid growth of socialism in var
ious countries of the world and said
the age was marked by unrest THE
people of Russia have arisen and
threaten to oyerturn the throne of
the Cars because of it's persecution
and butchery of Hebrews on account
of their religion and Of defenceless
Russians who were seeking relief
from injustice and oppression"
In concluding Justice O'Brien said
that American civilization had been
established by severe men of religious
bent and that if we followed where
they lead the twentieth century
would exhibit the highest achievements
of man.
IF there should be a failure to
realize this seeming destiny it will
be due to socialism, irrehgion and
the inordinate growth of the vices
and tendencies TO which we have ad-
verted, but which as yet because of
the prevalence of right principles a.
mong our people, have had no serious
effect upon our growing civilization,
and which, though they are menaces,
and like the spots on the sun may at
times produce a shadow, can never.
unless they assume much larger pro-
portions, obscure the splendor of our
civilization, which is the highest and
best the world has ever known. y
New York Sun.
Tired of Sight Seeing.