The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Had Rather See Money Spent In Building Educational
 Institutions
EDUCATED PEOPLE ARE
 OUR BEST PROTECTION
Says Question of Equity Between capi- tai and Labor Is of Transcendent mportance-Deplores Influence
 of Socialism.

Chicago May 10.-Vice President Charles Fairbanks was the guest of honor today at the dedication of St Stanilaus Polish Roman Catholic Parochial church. the largest institution of It's kind in the United States.
 The vice president arrived from Wash ington in the morning, attended the dedi- cation exercises in the afternoon and in the evening was the principal speaker at a banquet commemorating the dedication.
 The vice president in hs address said he would rather see the people spend their money in building great schools and churches than to see them spend it in un- duly expanding armies and navies. In referring to socialism, the vice president said that 1t is a sort of principle of so- city that puts a handicap upon genius, ability and thrift.
 In the new parochial school 45O0 pupils will receive instruction from a staff of more than 100 teachers.
 The vice president said:
 "The event we have met to celebrate is evidence of the facts that while we are growing in wealth, in commercial and industrial power. we are not losing sight of those finer things which are the crownlng glory of the highest and best civilization.
 1 In the final analysis the measure of our progress in the scale of the worlds estim9tion is not osp' banks. inersanMis
 houses, manufaetores. railroads aud
 steamships. but our great churches.
 schools, colleges, universities. hospitals 1 and charities.
 Rich Men Help Poor '"Fhe millionaire is touched as never before by sympathetic impulse and is ded- | icating his fortune for the condition of l those who are less fortunate. The peo- pie of all stations are sharing more and more in a widespread effort to uplift the community and advance the welfare of mankind according to their means and opportunities.
 I've hear much of the need of large navy and large army. We all agree that we should provide adequately for the national defense. The money neces- sary for this end should be freely ex- pended but beyond our reasonable needs we should not go. Our national tran quillty is not menaced from without nor 1 is our domestic peace threatened from 1 within I would rather see the people spend their money in building up great schools, colleges and universities, churches | and cathedras than see them spend it in unduly expanding armies and navies. The | armies of young men and young women who are trained in schools, colleges and 1 universities are the armies which shall | most dgnify and glurify American | achievement They are the armies of l peace and in the final analysis the armies | of our enduring national security.
 Labor and Capital.
 "The relation of labor and capital to each other is matter of transcendent importance and it never more im- portant than now. In the presence of this question. others are of essentially minor concern. How to divide correctly the fruit of their joint effort has always been a perplexing problem Political laws do much to solve some of these problems but they fall far short of 8 satisfactory, just and final solution.
 we must look chiefly to the churches and the schools for nelp Teach the new generation the peril of undue eentralza- tion of power. Teach them the necessity of keeping the government close to the people, for power in the hands of the people will not be abused.
 Teach the new generation the pernic- ious effects of socialism.
 "A propaganda is maintained to teach its so-caed virtues. Socialism levels down instead of levellins up It is sub versive of the whole purpose of republic an government. It is destructive of the most powerful factor in our progress and that is individual initiative. Be it said in honor of the great Catholic church that it has no sympathy with socialism and that it inculcates wholesome re- spect for American institutions and that it stands with infiexible resolution for the supremacy of the laws of the land.
 There has been transpanted to our soil an enemy to institutions. In protest against republican government; yes, it is a challenge to all government established by the virtue and pa triotism of men, Anarchy is un-American and un-Christian. The church and the school must fill the minds of men with a true conception of the object of this arch enemy of our most cherished ideas of liberty and law. We have no hospitality for those who seek to raise the red flag above the cross and the banner of the republic"