The Irish standard., 1913-03-22
LIKES THE WORD
49,
"REsTORAT|ON" =
49,
Analysis of the Presidents lnauf-
ural Shows Christian Senti-
ment Pervading 1t. T..
Rev. Peter E. Dietz, From the Cath.
olic View Point, Discusses ,
Many Points Made.
New Note to Capital Ears, One That
Marks the Advent Of the Phil
osopher Statesman.

We like the word "restoration' In
President Wilson's Inaugural address,
writes Rev. Peter e. Dietx in the Chi
cago New World.
Our work. he says, is work of
restoration. This reminds US Of the
Inauguration Of the Pontificate OF
Plus X. who in his first encyclical let
ter summed up his program in the
motto: To restore all things in
Christ.
The Holy Father speaks in the name
OF religion authorized by God: Presf-
dent Wilson In the name of the stats
and with the sanction Of democracy.
The two documents complement each
other from opposite angles; the spir-l
itual and the temporal.
No temporal sovereign has ever is-
| sued a manifesto moro in accord with
Christian philosophy. The Christian
world-view stands out plainly in the
background and in the final paragraph
1t forges to the front and kneels rev.
crently to God with a prayer for help.
President Wilson's social philosophy
is organic. We became agrceably
conscious Of this when reading his adj
dress to the graduating seniors OF
Princeton In 1870. 40 '".we have ',.-jit I. -jil,st
passed through an era" he says. 'in
which men kept their legal obliga-
tions as well as usual, and Yet came
near running the country; piled up
wealth, and forgot to use it lonora,oly,
built up business and came near ruin
ing nation. The men who bring
disaster upon us, do SO because thcy
run with binders upon their eyes;
they see only the immediate task un-
der their hands, volunteer no look
around, pay no call Of thought or
wish upon their fellow-man, leave
statesmanship TO politicians. and pub
lie morals, and attend wholly to their
own business. But the business Of
hfe is a. bigger thing than they think
it is.''
| We are glad that President Wilson
has the opportunity OF adding pro-
gram Of executive action to the at.
tainmcnts of a scholastic philosophy.
His program IL not catalog of polit-
ical eXpediencies, but based upon the
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which shalt search US through and
through.
Not Absolute Dictator, But Psepls's
| Spokesman.
Letat c'est n1oi,r Il am the state"
said the kingly head Of = modern gov
eminent hundred years ago. There
is no such pretension Of absolutisr
here but desire to understand the
time and the need of our people; to
be their spokesman and Interpreter"
There is absent the political economy
Of the Manchester School which tells
every man to look out for himself, and
the devil take the hindmost; while
] VIC iS"Aoo 9AoAI AidIHlleTy WQlCn
made 1t impossible that any but those
! that stood at the levers OF control,
should have chance to look out for
themselves. We miss too the hall
marks of the dollar aristocracy Of
modern capitalism; which has not
stopped to count the human cost. the
cost Of lives snuffed out. Of energies
over-taxed. the fearful physical and
spiritual cost to the men, women and
children upon whom the dead weiSht
and burden Of it all has fallen pitt
lessly all the years through.
A strong word T. rade-unionisn
is not wanting. at least impliedls,
'"rhere can be no equality or oppor-
tunity, the first essential OF justice, in
the body polite, If men and women
and children be not shielded in their
lives. their very vitality. from the
consequences Of great industrial and
social processes, which they canpot
alter. control, or singly cope with
Government must not restrict the lib-
critics and opportunities Of labor.
II Neither does President Wilson II.
more the significance Of Socialism: Il,
is inconceivable that we should per-
form our task in ignorance Of TIE
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