Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-10
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND
ON JOUR COUNTRY"

Council Bluffs. Ia. Nov 9.--The
Society OF the Army OF the Tennessee
reelected Gen. q. NJ Dodge as pres
ident this morning, and selected Vicks-
burg, Miss. as the place OF Meeting
In 1907. A resolution strongly de-
nouneing the statement of an orator
at the recent function at Gen. u. S.
Grants monument to the effect that
Gen Grant asplred TO dictatorship
at the close OF the civil war, was
adopted
Gen. O. o. Howard. Gen. John q
Elack and Mrs. John A. Logan joined
IN the denuaciation Of this aspersion
as calumny. and Cen Frederick ID,
Grant took occasion to declare that
IL was without the least foundation In
fact; that his father never thought
OF such thing.
The closiag scene of the reunion was
the banquet at the Grand hotel to-
night.
The most notable speech was that
of Archbishop Ireland, In response to
the toast our Country" After paying
a glowing tribute to the wonderful
growth In ell that makes for great
ness In the nation and to the patriot
ism Of the people. and especially Of the
veterans of the civil war, which have
made that growth possible, Archbishop
Ireland said;
THAT all is perfect in present con-
ditlons we must not assert, but this
we must assert, that nothing should
be done subverslVe OF public order de-
siructiye Of the spirit OF the country,
and It's Institutions The wild anarch.
list, the would-be assassin. are public
enemies of society. whom to tolerate
is to tolerate open sedition. An enemy,
too, Of public order Is the working
man who, refusing his own labor,
deters by violence brother workman
from his Offering OF his labor, is even
In greater degree, tho strong and
the powerful who override the law
OF the land IN carrying out the
scheme OF their ambition.
Private property and the right of
every man to own and dispose OF the
fruits Of brain and hand must be re-
garded as sacred and lnviolable. 1t
Il the cornerstone OF the social struc-
ture Destroy II. weaken It, you ar
rest ambition and effort; you give
room TO carelessness of the morrow,
TO Incidence and idleness; you estab-
lish barbarism. Barbarism is that
state of society where men, having
nothing which Is the exclusive posses
sion OF any, prey upon the strength
and the labor OF others
THAT In the holding OF private pro.
perry there Will be inequalities is n
fact that is inevitable. Men are not
and never will be equal In the power
that builds up property, in the sacrifice
or self. In the economy that preserves
and Increases it. The preaching OF
Dtopias In remedy of this inequality
the proposal " schemes that ignore
the nature Of men and the vital con-
oitions OF human society, are an in
suit no less than an injury to the in
dividual whom they would fain be-
guile.
"A chief panacea put before us il
common ownership. through city, state
or nation, OF productivity and OF trans
portation hither and thither OF the re-
suits OF this productivity. Let us be
on our guard; common ownership in
one direction leads to common owner
ship In another, all the more so when
We purpose really held In mind by
the many is to grasp wealth without
much personal effort; to make llp for
ones deficiency by despoilIng others"
Large fortunes. logically obtained.
declared the speaker. are not necessar-
lily an evil They are necessarily TO the
marvellous growth characteristic of
American life. They must not, how
ever, be allowed TO violate law or op-
press the weak.