The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-08-21

greater Catholic unity and asked
for more help in the work OF SUE.
tanning public morality among all
people.
A great mass meeting was held
Sunday night In Madison Square
Garden
The address .: Cardinal Farley.
archbishop OF New York. At the
lows
The world does not understand the
idea OF solidarity as we do. IL looks
upon solidarity as meaning no more
than natural sympathy, community
OF Interest, vague fellow feeling
for our kind But TO us, solidarity 10
a supernatural and revealed law, not
a mere natural sentiment or emotion;
We cannot separate our individual
interests from the interests OF
others The law OF Christ forbids IL,
the great world-embrscing law OF
II Is common opinion OF the
times that morality can be main
tanned on a high plane without be-
lief In the positive truths or the
prevsient that culture is 5" IN that We
need for self-restrsint We find this
idea creeping into education and en-
pressing Itself In variety or forms
The child. we are told. should not be
taught any negative commands, but
left 20 and out by himself from eN-
perience.
Against any such narrow conoep-
ton OF education. we OF the fedora
pr 9n srf is xi9s ,hs SnS fp
school system which the church has
established. 70 give the child the
saving benents OF the Christian ira
lsN ANak &c 81 ha- "a
or man We do not believe that the
individual should stand alone. All
that the past has OF good, all that
IL has OF wisdom must be taught and
Assimilated. II true progress Is 10 bo
made.
Besides the school. there are two
other agencies in which the tend n
cies Of the age are rejected. the
theater and the press In the mind.
of many men who have the interest
OF the public at heart. the tneater
has departed from the best traditions
OF the dramatic profession, and be-
gun openly In some cases to panaer
10 lower tastes. This Is due 20 the
loose moral convictions Of the times,
and also 10 tho fact that people of
floating belief and practice patronize
dranatized The officers and mem
bers OF the federation have done a
good work in trying 90 correct this
evil. not only by not lending tho APP
by taking positive steps 10 have the
competent authorities put. such pub
lie indecencies under the ban.
The press. too. could stand cons'd-
cradle cleaning. The public mind j.
undergoing sort OF unconscious de-
tails OF evil-livtng served up to 10 In
the public prints. II "a very doubt
ful n this description % crime In
minute and sugEestive detail has any
.H a IA 2
haps. arc attracted by such descrip-
tious. - rrpcllCd. ana certainly there
Is nothing uplifting in IN" process.
50 long as the public desires low
news p1pcra VIII continue 20 furnish
II supply Is here as elsewhere pro-
portinuatc tu demand. II is the pub
liz which IS really at fault In de-
furnished. and u IL needless TO say
that We 81 the federation should
form no part OF that public or In any
way promote enterprises that pand"r
To II.
His Eminence William Cardinal
O'Connell. Archbishop Of Boston. de-
cllred religion has Away been the
main tav of government and urged
American 10 guard against atheism
and 'lroe thought and religious in
y
ed. that as there can he no liberty
without law. there can 10 no Law
without God"
The presence Of The three Car
dinals resident In the United States,
John Bonzaro. Archbishop OF Mil.
tcne and Aposol Ollie Delegate "a the
United States. in addition TO priests
and prclatCs from foreign lands AMI
every quarter of tho United States.
made Yesterday service one ncvar
10 be forgotten Then thousand per
sons crowded into 81, Patrick :
Cathedral while 10000 waited out.
side
Tho RI Row Bishop Hickey, Of
Rochester, y. Y, one OF the best
known orators IN tho Catholic
church, struck a keynote of Amer
icnnis,n" when he said I'VE want
no Catholic party in this country"