The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-18

| his chair with his slender hands. He
was very much in earnest.
"And the sacred relation of the
family tie," he went on, slowly. "can
best,be brought about by two things,
religion and education. AS We SOW.
so shall We reap!' Sunday schools.
preaching, church services, these are
not enough. We must have educa'
ton.
1.-The American school is secular.
We of the Catholic church have both
secular and religious instruction,
which promotes the welfare of the
community intellectually. IL we don't
SOW the seeds of the right mode OF
life in the young We can't expect them
to live up to il in after years.
THE little child that knows his
catechism is really more enlightened
on the eternal truths than the great
est philosopher of pagan times. He
has mastered the great problem of
life. So religious instruction in the
Sunday schools once a week is not
enough Children should breathe a
healthy atmosphere of religion every
day, in school and at home. The
seeds of sound morality are thus
nourisned and invigorated.
Outside of Catholic schools they
have shut out religion from the
schools of the United States. Now
compare US with Canada. Religion
enters the school rooms there and
we have 70 hide our faces in shame
when we hear of tens of thousands OF
divorces In the United States every
year, while divorce is scarcely known
in Canada. There are 10000 divorces
in the United States to every six IN
Canada,
Catholics pay their share of the
taxes for schools, yet they support
their own besides. There are 1,3eo,
geo American school children today
receiving their education from the
church. without any cost to the state.
Each child costs New York state
alone S3e year for education Count
ing this the average for the Union,
the Catholic church saves the country
$50, 0O0, 600 year for education alone
If ali these Catholic children went to
school next year ii would cost S117,
e00,e 600 fer school houses to hold.
Them"
Education is one of Cardinal Glib
bons's greatest hopes for the good OF
the country. and he was very anxious
to make n appear so. At the same
time he was assea9er for religion with
education as he was for education
alone From education the talk shift
ed to labor, and Cardinal Gibbons re.
marked that he had been impressed
by the condition of the laborIng class.
es abroad.
Better OF in Europe.
The laboring classes in Europe
ne said, seem to be better off than
"a
remuneration for labor here, but, on
far greater in the United States. The
temptations. too. to lure the laboring
men are far greater here than
abroad The wor41ingman abroad Is
more content. more modest in his de
sires, more satisfied with things as
they are than the sAme man ia this
country
For all this, labor has its right
and its privileges. and must enjoy
them. feel just as | did in 1887
when + spoke in Rome upon the
rights OF labor. The prosperity or
labor and capital is interdepe ndent
These two elements in our economic
life must dovetail one into the other.
One cannot suJsist without the other
any more than the brain could livei
without the support of the stomach
the heart, the liver and the other or
gans. Each is dependent upon the
other.
Courts of Arbitration.
II sincerely hope that all future
troubles and conflicts between these
two great economic forces may be
settled peaceably. There should be
courts OF arbitration with perma
nent chairman. The court should be
appointed by the proper authorities, |
with an equal number of members |