The Irish standard., 1910-06-25
EVIL OF SOCIALISM
The Socialist Has Adopted the Old
Pagan Idea That State Owns
Everything.
Leaders of Socialism Deny the I'm
breakable Character of the
Marriage Bond.

chasm which separates Christian and
Socialist, Rev. Robert Kane, S. j., of
Dublip. said the material dwelling
place of home had been transformed
for those Who dwell under it's spell
by the memories that nestle under the
r'of-tree, by the sympathies that draw
cl rser and closer round the hearth
stone, into something more soft than
silk. more precious than gold, some
thing so sacred that it bears within !.
the blessing of Our Father in Heaven.
Twas true there was no place like
home. Could they, then at all, realize
what that strange savage system was
which would ruin and efface the very
idea of home? The old idea that the
State was everything and owns every
thing, so as not to leave the individ
ual man any right except such as is
conceded to him by the State-that
old pagan idea has been adopted by
the Socialist. That idea was distinct
~ contrary to natural law, as we'll as
to the law of Christ. That idea was
absolutely antagonistic to our idea of
home. 1t would change our home in
to a mere clearinghouse, where are fed
and sheltered the submissive vassals
of the State. Socialism had taken up
that pagan idea, and pushed it even
f,,,.
gan left the father homes MASTER
and left the wife and child at home
Socialism would ruin the home, first
ly, because it would rob the father
of the home of his God-given right to
be master in the citadel of his own
home; secondly, because it would
Danish homes queen from what ought
to be her Kingdom; it would break
the marriage bond, which alone could
Safeguard the innocence and the sta
bility of the home: it would make
the wife of the home practically ten
ant at will; thirdly, because it would
kidnap the child. Home had it's rights
even as against the State. Home
held it's rights, not from the State,
but from God. Home was a sanctuary
where the State dare not enter.
Civil society was only intended by
nature to be the helper of the family,
not its master; to be it's SAFEGUARD,
not it's destroyer; to be in right true
sense a servant, but in no sense its
owner. Hence those Socialist theories
which would hand over the family
and the individual to the supreme COM
mand Of the State were false to rea-
son and rebelled against right.
The State also had it's rights, which
In the borderland between these
rights what criterion must we take as
standard of justice between the ma
ton and the home? This first princi-
pie, that the rights of the home con-
Sidered in themselves belong to a
higher order, and are, therefore, SUI
perior to the rights Of the State, but
that when and where the outward So
cial action of family rights would in
terfere in the same order of things
with the rights of the State that ac-
ton must cease and yield to the neces-
sity of the common good.
The marriage bond was the one alb
solutely essential link in the union of
the home. Here we come to the chasm
which separates Christian and So
cialist. The recognized leaders of So
cialism denied the unbreakable cha
racter of the marriage bond, and ad-
mitted that it could be undone at the
mere will of those who have been
married. That brought marriage down
to the level of the dog. Divorce in
its accepted sense was breaking of
the marriage bond, was sin against
God, an insult to woman, step to-
wards her degradation.
Divorce, in the Socialist sense,
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to stoop to be the mistress of one man
after another 1t was shameful; it
was appalling. Was the babe to be-
come the child or the chattel of the
State?
The lecturer quoted the writings of
Socialists on the subject, and so these
writings showed that in a Socialist
State all boys and girls as soon as
they were weaned were to be taken
from their parents and brought up
boys and girls together, first in State
nurseries, and then boys and girls to-
Ygether in State boarding schools, but
brought up without any religion what
ever. Thus the child would grow up
q stranger to its father and mother,
without the hallowed influence Of a
happy home, without any knowledge
sof God or of religion, to become a
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