The Irish standard., 1908-10-17
The One Great Black Spot American Civilization"
Declares Cardinal Gibbons, Just Back From
an European Trip
THE SOLUTION OF OTHER IMPORTANT PROBLEMS
That Future Troubles Between the Two Powerful Forces
Capital and Labor, May Be Avoided, He Favors
Court of Arbitration

rhalf stood, grasping both arms Of his
chair with his slender nands. He Gas
very much in earnest.
"And the sacred relation of the fem
lily tie" he went on slowly, "can bes.
be brought about by two things. re-
ligion and education. AS We SOW, sc
shall ye reap!' Sunday schools
preaching, church services, these arc
not enough. We must have educ. l..
ton.
"The American school is secular
We Of the Catholic Church have both
secular and religious instruction
which promotes the welfare Of the
community incalculably. If we don't
sow the seeds of the right mode ol
life In the young we can't expect them
to live up to it in after years.
"The little child that knows his cut
echism is really more enlightened oil
the eternal truths than the greatest
philosopher of pagan times. He has
mastered the great problem of life. Sc
religious instruction in the Sunday
schools once week is not enough
Children should breathe a healthy. at
mosphere of religion every day. ii
school and at home. THE seeds OF
sound morality are thus nourished and
invigorated. ....
"Outside Of Catholic schools they
have shut out religion from the
schools of the United States Now
compare us with Canada. Religion en-
ters the school rooms there and we
have to hide our faces in shame when
we hear Of tens Of thousands of d.
vorces 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 tic
taxes for schools, yet they support
their own besides. There are 10000
American school children today re.
ceiving their education from tile
Church, without any cost to the state
Each child costs New York state alon.
$50 a year for education. Counting
this the average for the Union, the
Catholic Church saves the countr,
s50,000,000 a year for education alone
If all these Catholic children went tt
school next year it would cost $117,.
100000 for school houses to hold
Them"
Education is one Of Cardinal Glib,
bons' greatest hopes for the good OF
the country, and he vas very anxious
to make it appear SO. At the same
time he was as eager 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 classes
abroad.
"The laboring classes in Europe" he
said, seem to be better off than they
are here. True. there is better re-
Enumeration for labor here, but, on the
other hand, the cost of living is far
greater in the United States. The
temptations, too, to lure the laborine
men are far greater here than abroad
The workingman abroad is more coll
tent, more modest in his desires, more
satisfied with things rs they are theo
the same man in this country.
For all this, labor has its right and
its privileges. and must enjoy them.
feel just as did in 1887, when l spoke
in Rome upon the rights Of labor. The
prosperity of labor and capital Is in.
terdependent. These two elements in
cur economic life must dovetail one
into the other. One cannot subsist
without the other, any more than TIE
brain could live without the supper,
Of the stomach. the heart, the liver
and the other organs. Each is depend
ent upon the other.
Il sincerely hope that all futur:
troubles and conflicts between these
two great economic forces may be set
ted peaceably. There should be courts
o. arbitration with permanent chair.
man. The court should b appointed