The Washington herald., 1907-03-25


parte. Attorney General of the United
States. delivered a lecture on the sub
iect Of Socialism and Charity at
Carnegie Hall Tonight The lecture was
under the auspices of the Society of St
Vincent de Paul. which viii devote the
s2,O00 realized from the sale of tickets 10
the societys fresh-air farm at Spring
Valley. n. Y, its convalescent home at
the same place and to its various
charitable works in New York.
Archbishop Farley, who introduced At
torney General Bonaparte as the FIRST
Catholic citizen of the United States, q"
presided During the vocal and instru-
mental programme that. preceded Mr..
Bonaparte's lecture the speaker of the
evening sat st the archbishop's right, and
President Patrick McGowan, OF the board
of aldermen, sat to the left and repre-
sented Mayor Mcclellan.
Among others seated on the stage were
Mgrs. Mooney, Layelle, and McKenna;
President Thomas Alulry. of the So
ciety. and Secretary Mullowney; Seth
Low, Edward NJ Lauterbach. John ].
Delaney Charles Y Fornes. DR.. Fran
els J, Quinlan. George J. Gillespie.
Judges O'Suliiyan. Blanchard, Gieger-
ich, and Hendricks. Magistrate Mayo,
Thomas I. Feitner; Dr. Lee X Frankel.
of the United Hebrew Charities; Rev. Dr.
d. j. Mcmahon, supervisor Of Catholic
Charities Of New York, and Rev. Dr. WI
liam J. White. who is at the head Of the
Catholic Charities Of Brooklyn; Hon. NJ.
J. Scanlon. OF the State board of ehari-
ties Robert ". Hebberd, commissioner of
charities Of New York; Gen. James
O'Byrne, DIT. James J. Walsh. and large
number of Catholic priests.
Archbishop Farley thanked the great
audience that had assembled. and told of
the work being done by the Society OF
St Vincent de Paul during the summer at
Spring Valley. and Of the further work
of the placing of bureaus in this city.
Real Socialism Here.
The society is the paragon of social
ism continued the archbishop, and its
efforts do not tend to humiliate its bene-
hciaries, but to lift them up morally and
physically. We're this principle Of socials
ism universally known and practiced. we
should hear far less of complaints that
from end 10 end of the world.
Il was speaking to the President Of the
United States one day shortly after Mr..
Bonaparte had accepted the portfolio of
the Secretary OF the Navy President
Roosevelt (applause) said then. while
speaking Of the recent appointments in
his Cabinet. My reason for choosing
these gentlemen is that 1 wanted the ris-
ing generations of well-to-do young men
TO have before them the examples Of self
sacrificing men who are giving up a great
part of their income and other interests
that they may serve the state
This testimony of President Roosevelt
is as creditable to him as 1t Is to Mr..
Bonaparte. It goes far to show that
our Chief Executive is indeed a states
man. (Applause) The same spirit that
actuated Mr. Bonaparte 10 make the sac
Tifice the President spoke of led him 10
make the sacrifice to-day, to come here
from his home 10 speak in the cause of
charity. 1t is his interest in the public
good that makes him the first catholic
citizen OF the United States. whom 1 nov
have The pleasure of introducing TO you. %
(Applause.)
After that very complimentary intro
fore he took up his manuscript. Il trust
the audience viii take home another
moral lesson. 7 mean that if your sacri-
fice in coming here, for which the most
reverend archbishop has just praised
you, is no greater than my sacrifice in
coming 90 speak 10 you. and If we all re-
ceive so much complimentary thanks from
50 distinguished "a source, then We must
ali realize that virtue is indeed re-
warded' Uaughter)
Attorney General Speaks.
The Attorney General then said in part:
"A European is said 10 have expressed
10 an educated Hndoo his surprise that.
Notwithstanding the immense benefits
conferred upon India by its English con-
querers, he found the latter unmistaka-
bly, unpopular there. The Hindoo replied.
We know the English are just to us, but
they are not kind to us.
There is great deal of human ma
ture in the Hindoo's alleged reply. Those
who deal justly by all under them. but
make each individual feel that, for them.
he is a mere unit in the undistinguished
mass. treated fairly as rebels are treated
fairly, but regarded, as are all like under
him. with, in last resort. an impartial in
dinerence-such rulers as these may be
respected and feared; they viii never be
beloved on the other hand. men have
often repaid with an enthusiastic loyalty
no small measure of oppression from a
sovereign who while he III treated them.
yet showed that he felt himself one OF
them. They viii forgive a failure in
duty, but they viii never overlook a
lack OF sympathy.
1T has been said on high authority
that the poor need not aims. but a
friend / should say rather that they
need both. Aims TO do good must come.
and be felt to come from friend. Tn
less charity be free it is not charity; If
what We give We might not also with
hold, we make no gift; and in a society
where private property was unknown.
charity, al least in the form the Lord
ioveth, would be unknown also.
As I have said on another occasion,
the root Of socialism is the doctrine that
all men of right ought TO be and should
therefore be made and kept precisely
equal This doctrine is really a wholly
arbitrary dogma. a pure assumption JUS
tined neither by reason nor by history,
and. in fact, cOntradicted by the daily ex-
periences of all mankind; but it was so
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