Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-22


 greater magnitude than now? It seems to me that would leave men in a short time devoid of employment. am not advocating the crushing out of smaller concerns by means such as are attributed to combinations of railroads and Standard oil. It would appear from recent agitation and in- vestigation that the state as such IS considerably to blame Tor the present
 condition of affairs. Laws seem to be abundant enough and sufficiently explicit to remedy the evils and the
 non-success of the state argues but poorly for the state as general over
 seer of everybody's business.
 Much has been written as to the
 means of regulating the relationship
 between capital and labor. Social
 ism with this radical measure and its
 extreme opposition to Christianity
 for it is the enemy of religion, no
 matter how cleverly later-day social ists may mark their design-can
 never be the panacea for social and economic ills. The state can and
 ought to do much by the enactment
 of just laws, laws that would defend
 the rights of both the capitalist and
 the workman, especially of those who because of want cannot prosecute
 their own rights. And in this con
 nection MT Taft, though not original in the idea, has struck the right key
 in his advocacy of change in judi cial proceedings by which processes
 of law will not be so long drawn out
 to the disadvantage of the poor man.
 Both capitalists and workmen can
 do much If they will deal with one
 another in a spirit of mutual forbear- ance and desire to settle amicably
 their various difficulties that arise.
 But in the long run it is religion
 that must effectually deal with the
 vexed question. The root of the diff ficulty is the false liberalism that is
 the outcome of the atheistic writings of Voltaire and Rousseau and the
 school of socialists and philosophists
 of the eeighteenthIcentury. They under mined the foundations of the Chris tian commonwealth and engendered in mems minds false ideas of the true
 end of life. The supernatural was
 eliminated and mans rights preached from platform and defended in spe-
 cious writings whilst the right Of God were placed in the background.
 Society, especially in Europe, broke , away from its Christian moorings and
 there ensued the horrors of the , French revolution and the quas. atheistic stand of so many civil gov ernments which has resulted in our
 day in France in the open casting out
 lof God. Nearly twenty years ago the . grand old man of the vatican, looking across "tottering thrones and
 dropping scepters," saw.as if in vision
 what one of his contemporaries, Car |, dinal Manning, prophesied, the twen, l. Itieth century would be "the peoples century" He clearly understood that 1. l if society Is to be cured, it must bt . recalled to the principles from which 1t sprang, that it must return tt ' Christian institutions. He would re- D call to all mems minds the fundamen !. tai teachings of that great lawyer Jesus Christ: What doth it profit ,
 man if he gain the whole world ant . lose his own soul?" and Seek ye frs . the kingdom of God and his jus .S tice." And building on this founda . tion he will remind men that by na ; ture not all are equal, that there ar v manifold inequalities and that 0 ID necessity their earthly fortunes mus
 be different; that labor Is the resul Y of the primal fall and of necessit
 arduous and to be borne in patienc v with the prospect of reward in }, higher and happier land; that ricl - and poor are all members of one so ciety and should act as the member s of our one physical body, each c D. which sympathizes with the other u' He would recall to mans mind tn 7, ieternal and fundamental principle ~ of, justice and charity, inculcatinI .s upon the workman to deal fairl 7i with his employers and upon employ CTS to remember that workmen ar
 not their slaves, but fellow creature Y made to the same image and likenes ~ of God to be held in esteem as such le that just compensation should b ;. given them for their labor, no bur as dens placed upon them greater tha VI they can bear, and their labors S " arranged that a reasonable time ma oi be given to religion and recreation. Ie Many volumes have been writte p- ion the subject but nothing has al oh proached in sublimity or compreher IT. siveness of view the effort of Le h XIII who from a lofty citadel an nu with an eagle eye scanned the evil UT of society and saw the weakness "i Ie- these degenerate days" Apologies lS Carroll D. Wright) and knowing tn; aS the nineteenth century needed Chri sl- as much as did the world when pi Fe gan Rome was the cultured but co as rupt mistress of the nations, gave ite the world that masterpiece of ec ln- monies wherein he harmonizes tl ao teachings of the gospel with the a ne tual necessities of the modern worl ger and made his encyclical "0n the Col ne dition of Labor" veritable messal es of arbitration. Passing years ha' la. justified in some measure his view [, It is an oft-expressed opinion that | 'n- future will still more manifest the JUS necessity, their justice and their a N-