The Nome daily nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1906-1918, 1910-11-18
COM N uNtcATED.
BY j. Forhan, S. J..

'"Pidiieu the present Official y. .dIca
ments Of Spain. and explained then
with striking originality. The reyolu-
tionary hubbub in Alfonso's kingdom
II appears. merely develops a phrase
of 1.-THE bread and butter question
Just that knavery i'm the application of
anti-Christian principles. has nothing
10 do with ii; ii is purely a matter of
economics. The Spaniards are "des
perately poor" and must remain So in
"ehhiteIy' unless socialism gets a
chance To help them out. of course
atte original sin, no worse evil than
poverty ever befell mankind or any
portion thereof. Religious orders. too.
the article vouchsafes To explain arc
drain on the Spanish kingdom. and arr,
an element of discord the. oby. Monks
engage In business. make money. fab
rioate cough medicines and things. do a
hustlinS trade. work at high prassura
in tilling the soil. swamp tn. markets
WIN masses of farm produce. and bv
their disastrous activity and farco
competition. upset the Industrial emil
lbrIum. No wonder CanaIeias Worries,
In tact, the anti-clerical policy of Al
t"hSo'S cabinet is a policy dictated
solely by commercial viralrv, you
may not believe it. yet according to
'h'S wonderful editorial. SO it is. Spaip
is actually plunged into the throes of
revolution, because few Thousand
monks insist on energeticallv earning
their own living! Discoveries like these
are worth recording. Time was Of
course. when the tune of our sociaIistic
vanters was piped on another ,,o,. a,
present religions are reproached with
helhg altogether too strenuous WHARF
as during the good old medieval enocb
"i the dark ages" friars and hermits
ny all accounts. devoured the fat or
the land. and waxed corpulent in tbe
disorders of stagnant idIeness Every
body is familiar with REPRESENTATIONS
"i those worthless Of whom JoviaI Friar
lhck was the pototpye. Rubicunc
muscular and pot-belIied. the monk Of
the cartoon leers ecstaticaIIv into tho
'''ii"W OF a beer mug. the depths of
which his nose would he almost fam
inE enough to illuminate But religions
who formerly worshipped at the shrine
III g"od cheer are now replaced by
breed of lank and lantern iawed
ascetics. who draw up a balance sheet
with phenomenal accuracy. and soon,
!" trahlc with the shrewdness of
= imhle -rigge. But clcricals of no mat
Ter what girth or caliber-fat. lean
rushful or easy going-must always he
at cross purposes with our socialistic
fraternity. So observers remarked
even in st. Matthews time. "Rut
Nhereunto shall steem this genera
ti"r To be like" Christ asks. at is
Ike Ia children sitting I'm the market
llac" Who crying To their compan.
IONS. say: We have piped Ia YOU. and
N"r have not danced: we have Ia
mented and you have not mourncd
For John came neither eating nor
drinking. and they say: He hath a
devil. The Son Of Man came eating
ahf drinking and they say. RrhnId .
man that is a glutton and wine
di'nker. An old story. that of the
Tax monk and the lean one, Throupb
Saiphias its hierophant. primitive So
ciHlism voiced an effective protest
AGAINST the "glutton and wine drink.
er-ultimately squared accounts with
the Christ. through the nimble agency
o. its executive. Iscariot. And mod
en- socialism follows faithfully i'm the
wake Of its forbears.
The rupture with the Vatican" saws
our scribe of last week. grew out of
the desire of the present premier To
limit the commercial expansion Of re-
lslous orders" Like good many
other statements made i'm socialistic
editorials that is not true. The run
ture with the Vatican grew out of a
'"hteHlptlDlS tricky breach of contract
deliberately planned by Canalejas. the
spanish premier Ii results from an
open violation of the concordat freely
entered into by Spain i'm 1851. Certain
terms of that agreement. a royal de-
cree recently issued quietly sets aside
and ignores. Until such time. there
fore. as the decree in question is with
afa"h' the Vatican must decline to
negotiate with the Spanish ministry.
As the Chicago Inter Ocean of August
j explains the action Of Canalejas
made a diplomatic rupture with the
Holy See unavoidable. Rome had to
stand by the well-known legal princi
pie that when one party to a contract
permits the other to abrogate any of its
terms without itS eopaant IL ,o,,..a