The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-08
BREAKERS AHEAD!

There are dangerous innovations Ieavening our
social life today and, if the men behind these in
The future history Of our country like the annals
Of the French revolution, will be written in blood
If the doctrines preached on our street corners by
demagogues and agitators calling themselves So
cialists ever be incorporated into our Bill of
Rights we may begin to dig the grave of our
Republic.
To one who thoughtfully examines the condi-
tons of society today, or integently reads the
signs of tie times, the outlook for the future is
Portentious The radical Socialist seems to be
persuaded that Christianity, that is, the Catholic
Church. is the mother of European and American
civilization so-called This civilization, the Social
st believes is responsible for the oppression of the
masses and until this senile and oppressive civiza
ton is destroyed new civilization cannot appear
upon earth. 1t is impossible, the Socialist main
tans to dspossess this order of civilization while
Its mother and founder, the Catholi: Church, con
tinucs to exist and to control the thoughts and
deeds of men and women. The advocates of So
cialism are not now fencing and beating about the
bush a. in the days of Carl Marx and Pierre Las
sale. At last they fearlessly and openly confess
that until the Catholic Church is buried their creed
most can achieve but temporary victory. They
have come out Of their rife pits, from behind the
rocks, they have abandoned their ambush and have
marched into the open to give battle to their nat
ural enemy. Protestantism2 They have no quar-
rel with Professionalism. Professionalism they will
tell you. is not Christianity If you ask for proofs
supporting their charge, they Will uncover them.
They viii tell you they have no quarrel with the
sects; their fight Is against Christianity, with
Christian civilization, with the Catholic Church.
which alone is Christianity and stands for Chris
ton civilization. Berger, the broad-shouldered
missionary of Socialism, not long ago in Nilwau-
kee publicly confessed that the Catholic Church
stood between Socialism and so-called constituted
authority and that Socialists, the world over, were
prepared to grappe with their foe.
Il predict declared Berger according to the
Philadelphia Public Ledger" Il predict that in
the final summing up it viii be fight between the
red international and the black International"
Asked what he meant by the black International,
Berger aswered without hesitation: ''rhe Roman
Catholic Church The Catholic religion alone
has real enemies Other religions differ from each
other only as one heresy differs from another; but
the Catholic Church differs from all as truth does
from falsehood All falsehood is opposed to truth
hence by a simple law Of gravitation, when it is
question of attacking the Catholic religion, an
archy. Socialism and heresy are allies. The Cath
Ole Church has enemies essentially the others only
accidentally 1t is passing strange that the low ruff
fan of the Paris Commune and the educated An |
glican bishop recognize common enemy in the |
Catholic Church.
So it comes to this, the war now on is between
the forces of social and family order condensed |
into what is Christian civilization and the forces
opposed to this civilization. Socialism. Modern
ism and Sillonism are evasive words, difficult of |
examination and almost impossible of definition |
We know what Anarchy stands for Its advocates
from Marat to Louise Michel, have been insolently
and their revolutionary statutes are
codified. Until now there has been no unanimity
among Socialists as regards the doctrines of Social
ISM there has been no fixed creed, no DEGREES of
the Council of Luceme to which we could pin
down the street Socialist preacher or the Socialist
professor Of University. If Berger speaks "as
one having authority" now know that Social
ism is absolutely and without equivocation the en-
envy OF Christianity. Bishop Spaulding ordinary