The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-09-19
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| adequate even as to American YES
sells. This is, no doubt, an over
sight arising from the expectation
that European nations would adopt
the safety regulations agreed to at
the London conference. The regula-
lions adopted by the London confer
ence have been adopted by but few
nations and the present condition Of
Europe makes it certain that they
will not be adopted so that in order to
get at least the amount of safety in
foreign vessels that will exist in
American vessels, the regulations
such as proposed for American YES
| sells must be applicable to foreign
vessels in ports of the United States.
Labor Address of Very Rev. J. p.
Chadwick, D. D., in St. Patrick's
Cathedral, N. Y.
Four thousand men and women,
members of about forty different la
Dor unions in the City of New York,
gathered in St. Patrick's Cathedral,
Manhattan, last Sunday evening for
the annual Labor Sunday" services.
The evenings program consisted of
solemn musical vespers, chanted by
the celebrated Cathedral Choir, bene-
diction of the Mass, Blessed Sacra-
ment, and sermon by Very Rev. John
P. Chadwick, DID. Rt. Rev. Mons.
M. ]. Lavelle, Vicar-General of the
archdiocese, presided and addressed
a few words of welcome to the con-
gregation.
Father Chadwick urged the labor
unionists to be thankful to God for
the changed conditions that have re-
suited from their long fight against
the greed of capitalists, and contin-
ued:
''The Church of which you are
members is not responsible for the
hard conditions under which labor
groaned and grieved despairingly.
The present capitalistic system by
which the masses have been exploit
ed and pauperized for the enrichment
of the few was not development of
her spirit nor her history. In the
Catholic days of Europe before the
so-called reformation, there was no
such degradation of labor and tyran-
ny of capital as we see today. In
those days labor and capital, work.
ingman and master, worked together
to the best advantages of each and
with a view to the their dignity and
the good of the commonwealth. Then
the morality of our Church caused
both to be faithful to what justice
called for and compliant to what
charity required. X +
1.-The Catholic Church then says
to you, my good men, blessed be your
organization, and keep true it's aims
and purposes. If in the days when
she ruled the civilization of the
world, she blessed your organization
as necessary protection against the
greed of human nature, which under
other circumstances might have man
ifested itself at that time, she blesses
you doubly and trebly now when re-
ligion has waned in its influence over
man and commercial greed and lust
full passion and luxurious extrava-
gance are characteristic of the day.
She blesses you in the name of re-
ligion, society and humanity. She
tells you to struggle for every legiti-
mate right of body, mind and soul.
She warns you not to be deceived
and beguiled by an evil whose spirit
she has often fought in her long
cours of two thousand years. She
pleads with you not to sacrifice your
faith, your virtue, the virtue of and
care of your children, your personal
rights and liberties. She found you
when she first came forth upon her
mission slaves of the State, and she
warns you not to sell your freedom
to become the States wards and de-
pendents again. She appeals to you
as free men and strong men. She ap-
peals for Gods sake, for the sake
of those who will come after you and
for your own.
"She is said to be the enemy Of
the workingman, to be in alliance
with capitalism, to be opposed to the
progress and aspirations of the work.
ing classes. What a bold, rash and
slanderous charge in the face of his
tory! The Catholic Church has at
all times been the friend of the poor,
the weak, the laborer. the oppressed.
She gave labor the happiest days that
it has ever known. She has filled
every age and every land with hos
pitfalls, asylums. homes, refugees of
every kind for the unfortunate, weak,
injured, impoverished and even out
cast of society.
Another Irish saint, Brendan (of