The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
JESUIT PANACEA
 FOR RICH. MEN
Would Have Rockefeller and Carnegie Join An
 Order

New York, Aug. 1.-The position of the Catholic Church toward Socialism and private propertygwas expounded yesterday at the Catholic conference atf Fordham University.
 The Rev. Dr.. John A. Ryan of St. Paul University, St. Paul, Minn., who was to have outlined the labor prob lems in the United States, was i'll with throat trouble, and so the Rev. H. J. Maekel S. J., of Buffalo gave both lee- lures. Father ,Maekel said that if so many men were unable to make both ends meet they ought to become poor by Joining one of the Catholic orders. and then have all they wanted. He who say they are troubled by appeals for money, and invited them to- be- come Capuchins and end their bother If Capuchine were not to their liking, they might be Trappistss he said.
 "Old maids, of whom there are many" he continued, whose difficult ties, too, are many, might join the sisterhoods and find their troubles at an end. The Catholic Church has solv- ed the problem of community life, made most men and women in it hap py and contented. and made them use- ful to themselves and others besides. This is not always the case when men
 
 Our idle rich, our improvident poor. might we'll take heed"
 Father Maeke1 said the Catholic Church had always stood for the rights of private property and condemned communism. So it condemned the how, as Jesuit. he owned nothing, not even the clothes he wore, and yet how rich he was, having everything he needed The difference between himself, as Jesuit, and the teaching of the Socialist is that he took the VOW voluntarily. The Socialist would compel men to act thus and so re- garding property He wanted the Car negies to act of their own free will if at all.
 At the morning lecture Father Mae keI gave the difference between the Socialism. His points were: The cor rect concept of society is to find out how to solve social questions. Man was not made for society, but society for the development of man. The proper course is to look for the fac 1 tors that make real men. These are the family, the State, the Church, and private organizations formed by men l themselves All of these have their proper places. The Socialists would solve the whole matter by having the State do it all Socialists forget that SO11CLy was uOl IlddG by ul0l1, pOL ny 1 God. The State, even in charge of Socialists, has no right to take away private property without compensa- | tlon. To do so violates Gods laws. The Socialism of the State and the 1 tyranny of the majority are alike to 1 be avoided. If the majority lays down l that which is not right the reply must be that God is above the majority l Father Maekel, defending Pope Leo's encyclical, said he was right when he asserted that Socialism intended to turn over all private property They now say they will allow every man to have l his own home, his own plot of 1and even his own automobile, and then 1 they hasten to say that such allowance 1 leaves some measure of ownership. Father Maekel declared, however, that Socialists in their platform forbade 1 the sales of houses no longer wanted ] of automobiles no longer able to be l used, and said that such prohibition was a violation of Gods laws of pri- vate property, and. of the Catholic Church's teaching regarding it.