The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-10-07
Archbishop Glennon Believes Much
Energy is Misdirected in Solv-
ing our Problems.
Social and Economic Questions, he
Thinks, are Less Important
Than Education.
The Institutions and Government of
Nation Reflect the Teach
ing of the Schools.

While we are confronted bv social
and economic problems in many waya
distinct and apparently independent.
1t is the opinion of Archbishop Glen
non that all such problems are in
reality closely related and referable in
a large degree to a common origin. He
believes that in dealing with questions
concerning capital and labor. drink,
immigration, ETC., that too often the
mistake is made Of removing the effect
without removing the cause. Educa-
tion. the Archbishop thinks, is by far
the most important question of our
day.
"In America" says the Archbishop.
"the matter of education is even of
more Importance than elsewhere. AZ
the people are so will their govern
ment be and their nation. And, as the
people are trained in early years, SO
they will be in the later years of man.
hood.
"There were those who thought that
all great people needed to be great
was that they should be educated; and
hence the supreme purpose Of educa-
tion was directed to the intellectual
development Of the children. But 1t .
has become long since apparent that
mere intellectualism of itself is totally
inadequate, either to make a nation or
save a people.
tellectualism gone made on the wor-
ship of reason, given by the revolu-
ticnaries Of Paris in the closing years
of the Eighteenth Century.
"roday many Of our troubles may be
traced to the same source. 1t is in
tellectualism with nothing else to re-
strain it that is the noted character
tic of the illegal trust creators on the
one hand, and the leaders of the mob
on the other. They are smart men,
but quite unscrupulous.
a training Of the whole man his
mind and body. his intellect, conscience
and soul. Tho Catholic idea is again
the teaching of truth-placing be-
fore the mind Of the child these truths
in their relative Importance, giving to
them logical sequence and showing
the form of their unity (for truth after
all is one) by naming as the first word
in all life study and work, the sacred
name of God, the creator and father.
1.-The Catholic system is unwilling to
divorce natural from supernatural
truth. On the contrary, it realizes
that one explains the other. and one
IL necessary to the other.
"Nor may it be said that our sys-
tenn is secretarian. Our purpose Is be-
yond any sectarian lines. We aim to
bring into the curriculum not alone
intellectual training, but moral train
ing as well.
"There are some who conclude
therefrom that it is possible to bring
all these into a child's life and leave
religion out. That morality, duty
/ conscience, character, all the natural
virtues are easily taught and easily
practiced without any formal sanction
from religion, and they are prone to
remind you of the brave days of old
whence Greece and Rome gave the
world the high type Of citizen, honest
| brave, moral and free-who defend
eo his country and his home and fur
nished an exemplary citizen should be.
"These men-the citizens Of the an
| cient Republics Of Greece and Rome
| were devout believers in religion. and
! though we may believe their religion
false, it didn't appear SO to them.
"And again it is after these Repub-
lies fourished that there arose that
new light which was soon to envelop
the whole civilized world-the Christ
who stands the head and the cause OF
our Christian civilization.
ut is His life-His teaching-His
civilization that we have to deal with
today. You cannot ignore it-for you
have no other to fall back on.
J "But if you speak Of Pagan Repub-
lies of the long ago, would say that