The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-07-25

there has appeared one of the rank
est growths that has yet appeared
in political society. This rank growth
may have it's rankness attributed to
the pools of filth, abandonment and
rowdyism around which it flourishes.
We speak of the Industrial Workers
of the World. Their campaign of
blasphemy and violence prohibits
them from being laughed out of ex-
istence because they lack sufficient
moral stamina to appreciate any
sense of the ridiculous. Imagine
this so-called organization declaring
that the bounteous fields are to go
unharvested. 1t being their purpose
to lay waste the land and to invite
famine rather than toll with their
brethren. They have no hesitancy
OF desecrating churches and Destroy
ing property or arguing that even
they themselves whose dreaded row.
ings are scourge to every COM
munity through which they pass, are
opposed to work and the organized
laborer and at the same time declare
that those who feed them are not
entitled to the food which they offer.
Such are the people who started a
riot In the Catholic church in New
York City. such are the people whose
bombs destroyed a tenement house
In New York recently, such are the
people who are and have been de-
nouncing every form of organized So
ciety. who declare that the crops
will go unharvested and that all
those who assist in gathering food
should cease such employment.
Their latest efforts are directed
against the farmer, who by the ma
ture of his occupation is among the
hardest of workers and who, because
of his condition, is unable to live bv
any prescribed hours of labor. The
farm has been the Mecca of every
broken-down idler who insists on in
fiictfng himself upon an agricultural
community and it is the farmer who
will suffer through any radical
change. There is no class of people
whose unhappiness, Inconvenience
and discomfort is so liable to develop
disorder than disturbances among
the agricultural interests. Trouble
may foment in social centers but it
| is only when extended to the rural
community that the distemper be-
comes aggravated. A most recent
exhibition of the I. w. WIS violent
methods was given in Aberdeen. s.
D.. last Saturday and Sunday and in
! fact continues to the present time.
denouncing law and order. and an
peal1ng to the vicious elements
which make up the Industrial Work
ers. Serious trouble results from
their opposition to organized labor
and an agreeable manner is opposite
TO the program of the Industrial
Workers. Thus it is that the public
is too patient. Any situation that
fosters the growth of Socialism will
soon find itself in the throws of vio.
lence. Disrespect for law and orde,
themselves does not differ in kind: II
differs only in degree. The expert.
ence of the Catholic Church teaches
That dfsrespect should be given nc
quarter. The discipline of the
church is strict and inforcable: its
DEGREES are mandatory, and for that
reason it has maintained Itself
through the ages while others have
passed into history. The Catholic
church was the first to recognize the
evil OF the modern social troubles. tc
take the hand of the laborer and tc
lead him to the light, to pronounce
against ungodliness and the awful
effect of leaving the Divine Founde,
out OF consideration socially. edu
cationally and politically. Where it,
teachings have gone unheeded chao:
Is supreme and those who are bur
dened with political responsibilit,
will find that simply analyzing an,
scheme that has for its purpose tn,
satisfaction of the disgruntled will
find that the only true scheme lead,
towards teaching the Fatherhood O
God and the Brotherhood of Man
that earth was not designed as DO
litical and social paradise and tina
to be at peace with God is a salts
faction which tho world cannot give
which the Industrial Workers do no
promise and that consideration o
wealth and earthly happiness estab
fishes the truth of the lines, I'll
fares the land to fastening ills .
prey, where wealth accumulates ant
men decay" The cityward trend /.
one of the biggest social problems o.
the day and those whose program
includes agricultural disturbanc,
should he given M nuo rfor