The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-12-07
Drawbacks Of Socialist Unions.

tutions, but they have their draw
backs. 1t is terrible thing for the
working standard to have to work
down to the worst man instead Of to
the best. 1 would consider 1t bad for
my character not to compete for my
work.
1T is impossible unless you put
your heart in your work and do your
very best, ever to be satisfied in any
thing. Some people are trying to run
a republic without God. 1 want to
tell You that you cannot run a child
without God, except to hell. Do not
try to be great before God, because
You cannot manage it, You are only
the servant, and you have got to work
for the Master until He releases you,
And when He does you will have to
give an account of your stewardship
whether You be Judge or q sloeless
lad selling the evening paper in the
street
What is going to be the motive
actuating your Socialism? don't
know. Work for the State they
would say. What is the State. The
State is only thing. Did the State
create you? No. But man created the
State. 1t was the servant and had to
Keep Its place like every servant So
cialism would find that it would never
satisfy the citizen.
Socialism would create a sameness
SO that we would not be interested in
going to one another. We want to
give equality and opportunity to ev-
eryone.' Well, I am one of fourteen
children and we all had equal oppor
tunities.
Tho Example Of the Twins.
Il have known twins born Of tho
same mother, had the same education
upbringing and opportunity and one
went to the right and one to the left
1t Is not what you have, but what you
are that matters. cloud cheers.)
I'VE will take a little set of wooden
figures and put them on the chess
board-to play the game of chess but
socialism says We don't want the
king and queen and bishop; we lust
want the pawns. No more can we
play the game of life with pawns than
you can the game of chess. We must
have what represents the king, queen
and bishop, and when the game is fin
ished You put them all in a little
wooden box and lay them aside. .
The married man is no man at all
VINO does not want to build up a for
tune to make his home comfortable
an ideal home for the queen of his
heart-his wife. She wants her home
to be magnetic to attract the husband.
And the father wants to found a little
fortune to set his children out in the
world with, and to live on when he
Is old. II that is not the meaning OF
life, ask God what it u.s. I am GER
talnly not going to ask the comrades.
Why Socialism Is rather an econom
1cat problem than the ethical one is
because it starts out with a new view
of life from Christianity. 1t shifts its
heaven from beyond the stars to I'M
der the moon. 1t makes its virtues not
with God in Heaven, but with man on
earth, and it works for no draft upon
the Kingdom OF God, but draft upon
the Socialist bank.
Il am born for better things than
to be their third rate plant, Il IL nor
good enough. 1 am here to work.
am here because this is dull ground.
This is not the termination-this is
the outward voyage. This is not the
book, it is the preface; 1t is not the
play, 1t is the prologue. the introduce
ton, and We are here to build up an
active. energetic noble manhood. For
that 1 am born, for that you have
come into this world. Such is your
mission. It's a noble mission.
socialists are off their guard when
they are among their own and they
have no use for the Christianity, Of
Christ. How can they, if this world
is to be the 'be-alr and the end-alr
of life. Read the Socialistic papers.
their daily press and books, and YOU
will find that Socialism is going back
from Christianity. One thing is GER
tain, you cannot read Socialist books
and have tho same views of Chris
tianity as formerly. Your views about
marriage and offspring would be al
tered, and your views about the Chris
tan Church would be gone. I have
studied them with an open mind and
1 find that what they believe to be
the great panacea for the troubles of
life would but aggravate them-make
them far worse. make them incurable
rs there to be no remedy? Are we