The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-12-08

gressors. For whatsoever shall keep the whole law,
and yet offend in point he is guilty of all. For
he that said Do not commit adultery, said also, Do
not KILL Now if thou commit adultery, yet if
thou kill, thou are become a trsnsgressor OF the
law So speak We, and so do, as they that shall be
judged by the law of liberty. For he shall have
judgment without mercy, thatihath showed no mer-
cy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment What
doth it profit, my brethren, though man say he
hath faith and have not works. Can faith save
him? If brother or Sister be naked and destitute
of daily food, and one of you say unto them, de-
part in peace, be ye warned and filed notwithstand-
ing we give them not those things which are need
full to the body; what doth it profits Even so
faith, if it hath not works. is dead, being alone"
That this condition of respect of persons exists
today goes without saying. ltNseems to be the
spirit of the twentieth century Nor do say that
all Catholics are clear of the charge any more than
Protestants. Men devote their energies to accu-
muatng money and they feel grieYed when they
see nomad who couldn't keep dollar in his
pocket to save his soul, but would spend it with
the first good-natured fellow he should meet, salts
fed with bite of food to keep alive, wandering
from city to city over hill and dale. The rich man.
on the go for more wealth, knows in his heart
and soul that the careless tramp has the true idea
of life. God intended men to food and
clothing, but that He desires His creatures to de
vote night and day to earning money as well the
Holy Sabbath. which millions are violating, is no
wise provabe.
Decent hours of employment proper kind OF
foremen who will not curse and rave at their fell
low humans from morn till night, and who will not
be selected because of their power as slave drivers
and of getting the most work out of the smallest
body of men, foremen who will permit the toilers
to sraighten their backs and wipe the Precipitation
from their furrowed brows will go far to limit the
evils of trampism. But jail punishment and penal
colonies never will. In fact trampism is one of the
evils Of human life, just much as blindness, deaf
ness and leprosy. 1t can be confined within GER
tain bounds, but never eradicated. If you should
use your great efforts, doctor to bring your coun
try back to the despised days that before King
Henry Wits time, when monasteries dotted the
land caring for travelling king and beggar, you
might root out and destroy the bread and water
iails the thousands of amshouses that now dot the
land and which had their origin in the days of
the reformation God forgive us for using this
much misrepresented word III speaking of Henry
apostasy) and do much for the lessening of the
tramp evil But any man who says that the home
less wanderer because of his shabby clothes and the
marks of the brutality of gritty toll his form,
for even living III this world in poverty is toll,
looks like an irrational beast does not insult the
wanderer but that crueifed Christ who created the
marvellous mechanism of mans form, body and
! soul Industrial conditions with all its newly in
vented labor-saving machinery makes tramps. How
| trade by the linotype machines, at an age when
! they were too old to learn another. Thousands
And so it is il all lines. We defy any doctor 10
| produce ten tramps out of a hundred without any
signs of toll upon their hands and countenances
| There are hundreds of judges throughout this
achs, good clean linen and splendid homes, casting
men into prison for no crime but pennilessness
and homelessness, but Christ said before He was
spiked to His wooden cross that He would damn
forever in a hell of fire and demons those who dc
such things. There are men well stocked with th:
worlds goods who, if they had retribution giyel
them for their secret crimes, would be blind ant
leprous beggars on life's highway and these mel
not only refuse corporal assistance, but visit thu
needy with corporal punishment But we ar,
afraid that beyond the dark portals of the grave
when they meet raging Christ face to face, the,
will curse the wombs that bore them and the pap
that gave them suck.
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