The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-04

which the Church has insisted for cen
| turies-these are the ideas which are
at the basis of the whole labor move
/ ment. These are the ideas which
have stirred it to action and crowned
| it with whatever success it has so
far achieved. If it adhere to these
ideas during the war, and if after
| the war it earnestly continue their
| advocacy, labor unionism may become
the most effective agency in world
| soon to be reconstructed to check the
| advance of socialism and to secure
| the reforms which humanity demands.
The Remedy.
The remedy, then, for the social
evils which the Church and her Bish-
ops and all right-thinking men deplore
| just as heartily as do the laboring
men themselves, does not lie in the
destruction of the present social sys-
tenn. The way to clean house is
not to dynamite it. That was the
way of the French Revolution. The
sane way is that of the American
Revolution, which in principle ac-
cepted the old order, purified it of
tyranny and selfishness and adjusted
it to new conditions. To substitute
for the present social system the So
cialistic state would do irreparable
injury to the workingman himself. 1t
would deprive him of that ownership
in land, or in the instruments of pro-
duction and distribution which would
be required to increase his resources,
better his conditions in life and en-
able him to provide for the future of
himself and his family 1t would
take from him that sense of independ-
ence and self-reliance, that ambition
and initiative, that spirit of freedom
which alone conduce to dignity and
efficiency of human life. 1t would
give over to the state the inalienable
rights of the individual and the fam
lily, and would introduce a policy of
state repression, whose end would be
universal misery and degradation"
Social reform, therefore, and not
social destruction, is the remedy Of
..
A living wage, reasonable hours, SAM
tary conditions, work suited to age
and sex, proper insurance and com
pensation laws, cooperative owner
ship, abolition of reckless profiteer-
ing, the use Of surplus wealth for the
common good, the removal of saloons
and brothels, freedom from Sunday
wOrk-these are some of the rene
dies the teaching Church suggests to
the united and sympathetic efforts of
labor and capital, of legislators and
rulers of states. Their cordial adop-.
ton will help to solve class hatred
and to restore the spirit of Justice
and brotherly love, which character
lied the ancient guilds. Their cor
dial adoption may avert the impend-
ing social revolution and secure the
bloodless adjustment of modern soci-
ETY. for which all men of good will
hope and pray.
teacher is today clothed with the
episcopate-a teacher by nature,
training and occupation-an educa-
tional leader who sympathizes with
all knowledge, welcomes the light
WhencesoeVer it comes, rejoices in all
the conquests Of the educational world
"a college president whose example
and kindly manner, rather than his
arguments or commands, drew to his
standard both professors and students
a man who embodies the traditions
OF prayer and study which have al
ways knit together the president, fac
ulty and students of st. Joseph's,
making them one great Christian fam
lily with "one heart and one mind"
These traditions he hands intact to
llis successor. These traditions, stead
tasty held, have with the prudent
counsel, the enthusiastic sympathy,
and the progressive action of the
three great Archbishops of Dubuque
brought in their train numbers, build
1ngs, equipment and endowments.
These traditions have made Dubuque's
College great. 1t is these traditions
alone that will insure the continued
life and permanent growth of Du-
buque College.