The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-20
NATIONS WARNED
BY PAPAL DELEGATE
Sees Materialism and Unrest
Threatening World
Evils of Schools.

CHICAGO. Sept. 20.-Unr'sst and re-
evolutionary tendencies In the indus
trial. political. educational and reli-
gious activities Of many nations were
condemned and the nations warned
against future degradation by Most
Rev. Diomede Falconio. papal delegate
to the United States, upon his arrival
in Chicago.
The papal delegate attributed pres
ent conditions to the increasing ma
terialism OF the age and to the adop-
ton OF materialistic teachings in the
schools OF several civilized nations.
He said that the prevalence OF war
threats and of armed revolutions in
many parts of the globe were symp-
toms of the grave condition in world
affairs.
THE sense of unrest is the chief
characteristic OF our age" said the
prelate. ut permeates the atmosphere
of our educational, political, industrial
and commercial world The distrust
prevailing among nations, which leads
to revolutionary movements and wars,
manifests the extent of the unrest as
does the avidity for wealth which
leads to the accumulation Of colossal
fortunes. to the Getriment Of rational
distribution of goods, and as does also
the abuse of personal liberty. which
leads men to disregard the rights of
others and to neglect the duties con-
nected with their own state.
There seems to be determination
of our age not only to inherit the evils
OF all preceding times but to do away
with the supernatural entirely. New
sophisms of surprising ingenuity are
added and new seductive arts are in
vented to augment wornout arguments
OF assault which were a thousand
times VIGOROUSLY refuted. all In the
hope of bringing into submission the
simple and unwary.
Enemies Have Success.
THE efforts of enemies Of religion
and moral order have in some mea-
sure been successful in some Chris
tian nations and there goddess schools
have been opened, religious practices
discredited, monastic and religious in
situations suppressed and a systematic
persecution is going on even at pre-
sent against whatever is allied with
Christian teaching. What Ia to be the
end of this un-Christian and ungodly
movement? If it be true that history
repeats itself, what a terrible warn
Ing should be for us the downfall of
those nations which, after having beee
enlightened by Christian religion aban-
doned It!
"As soon as Asia and Africa closed
their eyes to the light Of the gospel,
which had civilized and made them
great, they fell back to their primative
degradation and for centuries have re-
NAMED engulfed in darkness into
which they fell. Unfortunate nations.
what has become of their Christian
glory? God forbid that such be the
fate of any other Christian nation"
The prelate gave out the following
message to Germans:
1--WE take the same interest In the
development of the Federation OF
German Catholic Societies as We do
for oil other similar associations
whose aim Is the religious. moral and
social amelioration of the people. As
to the German people in particular. l
do believe that their Unborn respect
for authority and order, their love
of domestic life, their strong religious
sentiment and their earnestness and
seriousness of character are traits
which lead us to admire and to imi-
tate them anw which will prove Of
great advantage to the development
OF the nation in which the Germans
live"