Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-25
CARDINAL HAS NO
FEAR Of SOCIALISM
Prelate Believes That Good
Sense Would Check Any
Upheaval.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Md. December 25.-
Cardinal Gibbons, in a statement
had no fear that socialism would be-
come an issue to be dreaded in the
period of reconstruction, and that the
good sense of the American working
people would check any social up
heaval. He said:
We ought to rejoice particularly
on this Christmas occasion. because
it is the first Christmas festival in five
years that we have had the happiness
of celebrating in the midst of univer-
sal peace, either actually attained or
dawning upon us.
''And 1 think, too, that the example
of energy we set in the prosecution
of the war is a matter for rejoicing,
for it has shown the world the capac-
ity of America and Americans. We
have sent to the fighting forces pro-
visions and munitions of war in enor-
nous quantities; we have sent billlPnS
of money and millions of men, and Tor
this tremendous effort on the part of
America we ask, so far as I can learn,
no compensation. We ask neither an
inch of territory nor dollar in
money. Our only reward is to be the
consciousness OF having done our
duty, of having helped to make the
world free. and having helped to win
a just and glorious peace.
"Mightier Than Sword"
Il earnestly hope that this peace
has come to stay, that we will know
no more war and that in our day. and
for all future generations, disputes
between peoples will be settled. not
by the sword, but by the voice and pen
of Cancellation. which are mightier
than the sword.
"As for the outcome of the negotia-
tionS now about to begin in Paris. 1T
is hard to express an opinion. We
can only hope that they will be di-
rected by wisdom and justice and that
SelfshneSs may be subordinated. Ma
tons are like men; they are selfish.
and they oftentimes let their own in
terests blind them to the rights of
others and to demands of fair deal
ing, but we may hope that, in the
light of what we hope is the dawning
of a better day for all humanity, wise
counsel and justice and fair dealing
may prevail over the interests of in
dividual nations; and that the peace
negotiations may be ended at an early
day:
Ieei no anxiety WIFI regard 10 the
future of our own country. l feel that
We will go on, that we will make prog
ress toward far better understanding
among all our people; that our accom-
plishments in the war will be as a light
to guide us to the accomplishment of
better and finer things of peace; that
our people as a whole, after their ex-
periences in the last couple of years. will
be of a broader vision in the future
and of higher courage, and that the
soul of the nation will be more alive
and more responsive to the higher ap-
peal. Much concern seems to be felt
about the labor situation throughout the
country, and there are fears as to the
outcome of the readjustment period. 1
feel little troubled about that 1 am sure
the working people of the country are
men of intelligence and common sense );
they know full well that their condition
here is better than men in similar sta
tons anywhere else in the world and
that the disposition Of those who employ
them is to treat them justly and gen.
erously. They know these things, and
they know. too, that any social uphea val
would bear more heavily upon them than
upon any other class and would hurt
them more than it would hurt any other
class.