Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-04
Father Quinan Tells How Inter-
national Socialism Dies
Pacifism to Be but Beautiful
Dream.
UNITED STATES JUSTIFIED
Entered Conflict and Fought for
just Cause Many Turn
Back to God for Direction
Catholic Church and Follow
ers Patriotic.

Atheism. pacifism, international So
cialsm ana many other false theories
of life met death in the world war of
1914-1s1S, Rev. Guy T.. Quinan of the
Paulist missionary band of Portland
told large audience gathered in st.
Johns cathedral Friday evening to lis
ten to his lecture entitled, The Great
War, the Slaughter Field of Theories"
The statement sometimes made SIN
cerely and often maliciously that a
Catholic, because of his allegiance 20
the Catholic church, cannot be a pa
triot, said Father Quinan, also met it's
demise during the war. And then he
told how, according to United States
government statistics American Cath
olics out of all proportion to their
number in the United States, and
Catholics of other lands served their
countries and the world in the great
conflict, from Marshal Ferdinand Foch
a French Basque, the great leader of
the allied armies, down 10 the least i'm
portant doughboy. He asked those
who doubted his statements to get
the records from the United States
government at Washington. that they
might know that in the war with the
central empires as in every other war
In which Americans have engaged
Catholics have stood shoulder to Shout
der with those of other church mem
bership and did their full duty.
Father Ouinan said in part:
THEORIES LIKE MEN, SLAIN.
Il am to speak to you this evening
not OF the dead and mangled humanity
not of landscapes made sad by the
bodies and graves OF men who once
pulsated with life, not of once peace
full countrysides which are frightened
only by rows and rows of white crosses
which symbolic faith in the life to
come. l shall speak to you, rather of
a world stricken with dead philoso-
phies, for this great war has been as
fatal to vainly cherished human the |
cries as it has been to mankind in aw-
ful casualties. An American diplomat |
Is credited with the statement that |
the bodies of men slain in the world |
war; If laid in a straight line, would !
reach from New York to San Fran
cisco, back to New York, and again as
far as Denver. 1t may be that this
good man was INDUCING in the public
speakers privilege, hyperbole; but l
tell you that If the theories slain in
this war were laid In a straight line
that line would extend from here to
Jericho and back, and if all the books
and articles and pamphlets that have
been proved foolish by the great war
were assembled and burned, the fire
would be as great as the san Fran
cisco conflagration, and If all the
speeches wasted on those theories
could be spoken again, in as loud a
voice as when first delivered, the noise
of them would drown the booming OF,
the guns from the North sea to the
Swiss border and from Riga to CALI
poll.
PAciTiSM A DREAM.
we shall consider few of these
theories. The first of them to fall I'M
der the fire of the great war was
pacifism. Pacifism is a beautiful dream.
but too filnly to endure the wear and
tear of our present day commercial
ism. AS long as two men will fight
over a mining claim, and commit MUIR
der over the possession of a poke of
gold, SO long too will nations war for
the commercial supremacy of the
world. Please understand that | am
not praising this quality in human
kind; l am simply appraising it. / re-
mind you that it is not for money. and