The San Francisco call., 1906-11-10
ARCHBISHOP NAMES
PUBLIC ENEMIES.
ireland Denounces Work
ingman Who by Force
Deters Another Laborer
1T BARBARISM

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Nov. a.
The Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee reelected General NJ. Dodge
president today and selected Vlcks-
burg, Miss, as the place of meeting In
1907.
A resolution was adopted strongly
denouncing the statement OF an orator
at the recent function at General u 3
Grants monument TO the eHect tnat
General Grant aspired to dictator
ship at the close of the Civil War.
General o. o. Howard, General John
C. Black and Mrs. John A. Logan joined
in the denunciation of this asperslon
as calunnny and General Frederick D.
Grant took occasion to declare that IL
was without the least foundation IN
fact: that his father never thoughI OF
such thing.
The closing event of the reunion was
the banquet at the Grand Hotel 10
night The most notable speech was
that of Archbishop Ireland in response
to the toast, "Our Country. After
paying a glowing tribute to the Won
derful growth in all that makes for
greatness in the nation and to the
patriotism of the people, and especially
of the veterans of the Civil War, Wh1ch
have made that growth possible, Arch
bishop Ireland said:
THAT all is perfect in the present
condition we must not assert; but this
we must assert. that nothing should
be done subversive of public order or
destructive of the spirit of the country
and of its institutions. The wild an
archist the would-be assassin, are pub
lie enemies of society, whom to toll
crate is to tolerate open sedition- An
enemy, too, of public order is the work
ingman who,. refusing his own labor.
deters by violence a brother workman
t
! emy is more guilty than the 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 inviolable. It Is
| the cornerstone of the social structure.
Destroy 1t, weaken it, you arrest am
bition and effort; you give room to
carelessness of the morrow, to indo-
lence and idleness; you establish bar
| barism. Barbarism is that state of So
ciety where men, having nothing which
Is the exclusive possession of any, prey
upon the strength and the labor OF
others.
THAT in the holding of private prop
1 erty there will be inequality is a fact
that is inevitable. Men are not and
i
builds up property. in the sacrifice OF
self, in the economy that preserves and
increases it. The preaching of Utopians
in remedy Of this inequality, the pro-
posal of schemes that ignore the ma
/ ture of men and the vital conditions OF
human society. are an insult no less
than an injury to the individual whom
they would fain begufle.
"A chief panacea put before us is
1 common ownership, through city, state
or nation, of productivity and Of trans
1 portation hither and thither of the
products Of this productivity. Let US
be on our guard; common ownership In
one direction leads to common own
ership in another; all the more sc
when the purpose really held IN mind
by the many is to grasp wealth without
much personal effort. to make up fol
ones deficiency by despoiling others.
/ Large fortunes are not necessarily
an evil. They are necessary to the
marvellous growth so characteristic OF
American life. They must not, how
ever. be allowed to violate law or op-
press the weak"