The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-12-26
The body, but not the mind, is re-
pressed by violence.
OS0OW W N1UIC4NOs
Employers and Workers.

Inc QuaI element OF COneSlOn OF
| every social body, namely, the union
OF the members amongst themselves
| by mutual charity and the union of
the members themselves with the
head by subsection to authority, being
removed or weakened, what wonder,
venerable brethren, that modern socie-
ty presents itself to us as divided into
| two great armed forces that contend
against one another fiercely and siren
uously? Face to face with those to
whom either fortune or their own &C
tivity has brought an abundance of
wealth stand the proletaires and the
workers, inflamed with hatred and
| jealousy because, although they share
the same nature, they are not in the
same condition. infatuated as they
are by the fallacies of agitators, to
whose guidance they are ordinarily
most docile, who could persuade them
that it does not follow because men
are equal by nature that all ought to
occupy the same grade in society, but
that everyone holds that position
stances permit, have procured for
him? Wherefore when the needy
struggle against those who are we'll
to do, as if the latter had taken pos
session of property that belonged to
others, they not only offend against
reason, because they also, if they de-
sired, could, by means of honorable
| labour, succeed in improving their
condition. What consequences, not
less inconvenient for individuals than
for the community, this class-hatred
begets it is needless to say. We all
see and deplore the frequency of
strikes, by which the course of civic
and public life is wont to be arrested
even in the most necessary functions;
| also the threatening crowds and tu-
mults in which, not unfrequently, re-
blood is shed.
We do not desire to repeat here
the arguments which prove to dem
onstration the errors of the Socialists
and others of that type. Our pred
ecessor Leo XIII, treated of them
most learnedly in memorable Ency-
clicals; and do you, venerable breth-
rem, see, with your habitual care, that
these authoritative teachings are not
| forgotten, and that in Catholic associa-
tions, in congresses, in sermons, and
| in the Catholic Press, efforts are
| D1Ir A.
and inculcate them according to need
But, in particular manner-We do
not hesitate to repeat this-With all
the force of the arguments which the
| Gospel and human nature and public
and private interests supply-let us
be Jealous in eXhorting all men to
love one another in brotherly spirit,
in virtue of the divine law of charity.
Human fraternity, indeed, will not re-
move the diversities of conditions and
therefore of classes. This is not pos
sible, just as it is not possible
that in an organic body all the
members should have one and the
same function and the same dignity.
But it will cause those in the highest
places to incline towards the humblest
and to treat them, not only according
to justice, as is necessary, but kindly,
with affability and tolerance; and will
cause the humblest to regard the high.
est with sympathy for their prosperity
and with confidence in their support
in the same way as in one family the
younger brothers rely on the help and
defence of the elder ones.
The Root Of All Evils.
But, venerable brethren, the evils
We have been deploring have deep
er root, and, unless all the strength
of the well-disposed is used to extir.
pate it, it is vain to hope for the
attainment of the object of our desires
that is to say, stable and enduring
peace in human relations. What this
root is the Apostle teaches: For
the desire of money is the root of all
evils" q Timothy vi, 100. And, in
fact, If we duly consider the matter
we find that from this root spring all
the evils from which society suffers
at present. When, by means of per
verse schools, in which the heart oil
the young is fashioned like wax, and
also by means of writings which daily
or at intervals mould the minds of the
inexperienced masses, and by other
means by which public opinion is di
rected-when, We say, the destructive
error is thus made to penetrate into
peoples minds that man should not
hope for state of eternal happiness
that here and here alone one can be
happy i'll the possession of the riches
of the honours, and of the pleasures
of this life, it is not surprising that
human beings, naturally made for hap
piness, cast aside with the same vic
lence with which they are attracted
to the acquisition of these enjoyments
every obstacle which restraints OF
binders them. Since, however, these
enjoyments are not equally divided
, amongst all, and it is the duty of so
cial authority to prevent individual.
liberty from exceeding bounds and ex
tending to what belongs to others
there arises hatred against the public
powers and jealousy on the part of the
unfortunate against those whom for
tune fayors; hence, in fine, the strug
gle between the various classes of citi
Zens, some seeking to obtain at any
cost and snatch to themselves wha
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