Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
HOW TO USE FAvoRs
Extolls the Material Prosperity Of the
United States.
ALI Private Property Owners Must
Regard Law as Invincible,
He Asserts. -

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. PAUL December 1.-Archbishop Ire
land has dictated to the correspondent of
The Washington Star the following state
ment in elaboration of his views on the
dangers of anarchy. a subject on which he
touched, awakening wide interest, in his
address at the reunion of the Army of the
Tennessee at Council Bluffs:
1.-THE very profuseness of the prosperity
of the United States begets peril, unless
these favors well and wisely. Through
her recognition Of manhood in every man
the multitudes become the rulers, and at
times the multftudes bend too readily
to momentary excitements. Hence, the ex-
treme need of the proper formation Of the
popular mind. SO as to correct thought and
righteous acting. Injury irreparable may
be done during a brief interval of social or
political insanity. and a frequency of such
conditions. however brief they may be, too
easily degenerates into abiding habits
II extoll the material prosperity Of Amer
quences I must note the spirit of social
restlessness which now agitates the coun-
try. and in the appeasement of which the
stanchest forces of patriotism must be
steadily invoked. 1t is said too much pros
perity comes to some. too little to others;
hence new methods are called for in the
distribution of wealth and the enjoyment 1t
procures.
Question Of Progress
THAT all is perfect in present conditions:
that there is no room for progress; that
there is room for reasonable discussion as
to what Is and what ought to be, we must
not assert. That nothing should be said
or done to subvert public order destructive
of the spirit of the country and its institu-
tons; that in the discussions taking place
and the acts following them. the funda-
mental principles Of right, reason and the
Constitution and laws of the public be not
forgotten or set aside: that nothing be au-
thorized or permitted which fans passion
and renders difficult the composure of mind
needed in such discussion. we should insist
upon.
The wild anarchist the would-be ass2s-
sin are the public enemies Of society. whom
to tolerate is to tolerate open sedition.
AN enemy, too. of public order. .s the
workman who. refusing his own labor. de-
tiers by violence brother workman from
Offering his labor as is. even In greater
degree, the strong and the powerful who
override the law of the land on carrying
out the schemes Of their ambition. '5-'.-7fs
Private pEoperty.th right Of every man
to own and dispose of the fruits of brain
and hand. must be regarded as sacred and
inviolable. 1t Is the corner Of the social
structure. Destroy it, weaken it, you ar
rest ambition and effort; you give room to
carelessness Of the morrow to Incidence
and idleness; you establish barbar!sm. Bar
barism Is that state of society where men,
having nothing which is the exclusive pos
session of any. prey upon the strength and
the labor of others. Stability Of possess
sion and stimulus to ambition and effort
resulting from it are vital requisites for
progress and civilization.
That in the holding of private property
there be inequality Is a fact that is In
evitable. Men are not and never will be
equal in the power that builds up prosper
ity, In the sacrifice of self and the economy
that preserve and increase 1t; hence they
never will be equal in the amount of prop
erty that they do or can possess. The
preaching of Utopias in remedy of this in
equality and the proposal Of schemes that
ignore the nature of len and the vital con-
ditonS of human society are insult no
less than an injury to the individual whom
they fain would beguile by their will-of-the-
wisp glamour and deception.
Day Of Utopias.
'It is the day of Utopias. Seldom if ever
before in the history of human society was
there greater need Of prudent wisdom on
the part Of would-be teachers, of patient
reflection on the part of listening audi
ences. The gravest responsibility rests on
all to move slowly. to think wisely to
avoid all perils of leaps into the dark
"a chief panacea before us is common
ownership through city, state and nation.
of the transportation hither and thither,
on the results of this productivity. Let
all be their guard Common ownership
in one thing leads readily to common owner
ship in another-although the more so
when the purpose really held in mind is
to grasp wealth without much personal eff
fort, to despoil others to make up for ones
own deficiencies by despoiiing others, and
weakening individual ambition-which has
been in America particularly the great
stimulus to the wondrous material develop
ment with which the country has been
blessed?
ITO the poor man. to the wage Garner
I should indeed preach the doctrine of am
bition and energy. Let every one aim to
secure a competency for himself and his
his right it is his duty. But all this he
must do by means that fair and just
without ever infringing the rights of
others, be they his fellow-Iaborers or
those whom he and they call the rich OF
the land.
Doctrines Of Justice.
ITO the rich and the more fortunate I
should preach increasingly the doctrines of
justice and charity. just they must be all
depriving none or their God-given rights
and of the opportunities which should be
open to abiding their best that the laborer
may acquire, through his industry the de-
cent and BETTING livelihood which human
dignity demands.
Unreasonable querulousness among the
poor senseless extravaganza among the
rich are equally to be reprehended, and If
one Is to be reprehended more severely
than the other. 1t is the senseless extrava-
gance of the rich.
at is crime against humanity: 1t is
madness itself to squander money in mere
reckless ostentation. Now and then we
hear of people SO insane in wild extrava-
gance as to clothe dogs and horses in pur-
pie and fine linen, and to feed them from
golden platters. Are not such people the
enemies of the country-by the hatreds