The Irish standard., 1908-10-17

by the proper authorities, with all
equal number of members from both,
the ranks of capital and labor. If
not this, then the members should tie
citizens of a high standard of moral
integrity. They should be fully able
to understand and grasp both sides
of the questions that might be pre-
sented to them, and both sides be-
fore the issue is Joined should agree
to acquiesce in any decision that tho
court of arbitration might hand down.
Many blessings would result from
tho adoption of this method. While
strikes are aggressive and drastic and
destructive, arbitration is conciliatory
ard constructive. The result in the
former case is determined by tn.
weight of the purse, in the other by
the weight Of the argument.
remedy for the redress of labcr's
grievances. They paralyze industry:
they foment fierce passions; they lead
to the destruction Of property. But,
above all, they infiict grievous injury
upon the workingman himself, be-
cause they keep him in enforced idle
ness, during which time his mind is
clouded with discomfort as he brocds
over the situation. Not infrequently,
too, his family suffers for the neces-
stiles of life during his term of idle
ness.
ION the other hand, no friend of
the race can contemplate with calm
ness some of these heartless monorc-
lists. Like the car Of Juggernaut, they
crush everything in their way. They
endeavor-not always, so it is said.
without success-to corrupt our ma
t:onal and state legislatures and n;u-
nicipal councils. They are so intolcr-
ant Of honest rivalry that they use un-
lawful means in driving from the mar
ket all competing industries. They
compel their operatives to work for
starvation wages, especially in MR.
ing districts and factories, where pro.
tests have but a feeble echo.
"The supreme law of the land should
be invoked and indicated. Ample
protection should be afforded to legiti-
mate competing corporations, as wei!
as to the laboring classes, against ur-
scrupulous monopolies.''
Now the talk shifted to prohibition.
Cardinal Gibbons frankly admitted, as
he has before, that he is against abso-
Lutte prohibition. He Is opposed to ex-
cesses on either side; prohibition, he
insists, is an excess as much as in
temperance.
Liquor" he said, earnestly, would
be sold just as much under prohibition
laws as under we'll regulated license.
The consequence is that liquor would
be sold contrary to law, instead Of in
accord with the law.
when a law is 1agrantly violated
it brings legislation into contempt. It
creates spirit Of Hypocrisy and de-
ception; it induces men to do ins;d-
iously and by stealth what they would
otherwise do openly and above board.
Yet all good men. all good citizens,
are in favor Of temperance. But you
cannot by legislation or by civil &C.
tion compel any man to the perform-
ance of good and righteous deeds.
LET the virtue of temperance be
proclaimed in all the churches. Let
the family inculcate in the children tho
spiritual and temporal blessings which
spring from a life Of temperance and
sobriety. Let the father and tie
mother impress upon their children lie
terrible consequences Of drunkenness.
I'VE might learn lesson from tie
cid cities Of Europe, which for 1000
years have been agitating this ques-
tion. There is not single city III
Great Britain, Ireland or on the con-
tinent which attempts by law to pro-
h;bit the sale Of liquor. They have
learned by long experience that tile
best method of regulating this article
OF commerce is to impose licenses, to
maintain good order for the protec-
ton of the citizens and to punish the
viclators Of the law.
High license, think, is the only
solution of the liquor problem. The
iafliction Of fines upon the violators
of the law for the first offense and
tie withdrawal of the license or even
Imprisonment for the subsequent in
fractions would be proper punish-
mcnt.''
During his stay abroad Cardinal
Gibbons was quite i'll at one time, but
rapidly recovered his health and to.
day looks better than he has for years.