The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-01-09
GOMPERS AND MITCHELL AGAIN.

Editor Intermountain Catholic: In your edi-
torisl on Gompers and Mitchell you seemingly de-
fend the boycott which was condemned by the late
Pope Leo XIII. and our own Cardinal Gibbons
Your language against Chief Justice Wright is, if
not harsh, at least severe. You seem to profess
profound respect for the dignity and majesty of
the law, yet you lack respect for the solemn posi-
ton of those whose duty it is to command respect
for its majesty and dignity. VIII you explain your
Inconsistencies LEGIS DOCTOR
Salt Lake Jan. 4, 1909.
If our correspondent will peruse the editorial
in question more carefully than he has apparently
done he will quickly discern that the accusations
brought against us in the above contribution are
extremely unjust and uncalled for The writer of
the letter says: "In your editorial on Mitchell and
Gompers you seemingly defend the boycott which
was condemned by the late Pope Leo Kill, and
Cardinal Gibbons" If our memory serves
Faithfully, and our information was correct
which impaired to us, what Pope Leo con
demned was not the boycott itself but the brutal
folm of carrying it out whereby it not accom-
panied by passive measures as was the case of the
federation the Buck Stove q Range company
In that dispute there was violence resorted to
whatsoever. Regarding his eminence Cardinal
Gibbons. he has the natural and constitutional lib
erty to take sides on any public question What
the cardinal really meant in all probability was the
Just use of the boycott. While we cannot recite
any specific case wherein the utilizing of the boy
colt was abused and unjustly appealed to it has
been SO few times, but it may be affirmed on the
testimony of all history that the employees in la
Dor controversy rarely if ever in the wrong.
There is either partial fault criminal indifference,
or absolute responsibility the
side of the employers. We know positively by per-
sonal observation and from the scriptures that
men devote themselves exclusively to accommodating
money, they become selfish and misery, especially
where fear of eternal hell exists deterrent
and as force for righteousness. Therefore, as a
material perception of life, which recognizes
God, devil bishop is penetrating the consciencas
of many individuals who compose great corpora
lions it is easy to that they will look upon la
BORING men as so many beasts of burden, and the
principle adopted Isl Get all the work out of them
ycu possibly can at the smallest wage and longest
hours The above intention is logically true. Ever
since the reformation of Catholic Martin Luther
the pride of the industrial world has not been keep
ing time with the precepts of Christ, our future
L
atheism. The vital principle of Pro-
testantism and fundamental principle is the unre-
stricted right of private judgment, which is simply
the denial of all authority and the assertion of the
absolute moral independence of the individual
That is atheism pure and simple, and nfdeity
must follow it as inevitably as smoke from fire
Now all this pertinent the labor question. For
400 years multitudes have been following the above
principle. Children have been nourished on it.
Not long since the president of Cornell university
maintained it, Many of judges saturated
with it. Now, according to Atheism have nc
stern and crucifed Christ to demand just account
of our stewardship We are in fact no better than
the horse Consequently life becomes selfish
struggle of a chaotic mass for individual aggran-
disement Every man for himself and let the grave
of the suicide take the who fail in the stormy
battle Under this conception of existence, why
should those men who endowed with greater ener-
gies for the industrial battle, after reaching the
eminence of success, give just treatment to their
employees They have neither the grace nor the
fear of God to move their bowels with compassion
for the toilers of the earth. But you may say to
me- They should do it from humanitarian feel
ing of brotherly love. Then l answer you that
there can be real compassion and love where
there are infdelity, and no grace of God. Human
nature is too powerful in its weakness and selfish
righteousness ever to rise without supernatural
assistance to the real heights of the golden rule
Judas Iscarot could not rise above detestable ma
ture in the association of the Prince of Peace and
Virtues. Again correspondent says: Your
language against Chief Justice Wright is if not
harsh, severe" We said nothing about him which
others did not say. The Salt Lake Herald con
tanned an editorial far harsher than ours. Human
reason and common sense tell us that Judge de-
parts from his legal latitude when he descends to