The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31

land perhaps this was to have been
expected) by certain reactionary in
fiuences which would breed great mis-
fortune If permitted to increase in
power. and simultaneously (and be-
lieve this actually was expected by
most intelligent history students)
by certain radical tendencies which
are even more dangerous.
"As the Catholic Church always has
| felt it a duty to combat by every
means which has been within its reach
such evil thought as that which ami
mates the propagandists of what we
now call 'Bolshevism.' such evil i'm
| pulses as guide to bomb throwing and
other violence against God and So
ciety, those who are dubbed 'anar-
chists and claim that their lawless i'm
pulses are dictated by scientific prin-
ciple, such dangerous incorporating
as that of those who pose as honest
labor-unionists but instead have Gre
ated and fostered the I. w. W., a pure
| ly revolutionary organization. such
| mistaken reasoning as that of those
who foster the socialism which
| spreads among the less informed OF
our citizenship and can lead nowhere
/ save to disaster-as it Is the time
| honored and inevitable impulse of the
Catholic Church to strive against such
evils, 1t is natural that the church
organization should feel deep interest
in that stimulation of patriotism to
which I have referred as one Of the
essentials of all national progress.
| Hence see as a gratifying sign the
preparation of eight patriotic societies
linked for the purpose and aroused to
! work by no motives other than the
/ good of the nation, to educate the
| ignorant among us and stimulate the
more fortunate among US by formal
commemorative exercises on that al
lotted day. The real good Of any ma
ton must influence the world for good
Such internationalism holds no dan
gers. Hence it Is obvious to me that
this movement merits all support.
"I very much hope that this will be
the attitude Of the Catholic clergy
throughout the country, and not only
that of the Catholic but Of the clergy
as a whole. Surely no work could be
more truly that OF the clergyman than
the furtherance of knowledge and APP
probation of the American Constitu-
ton and a sense of each citizens obi
cation to understand it, support it, live
his life in full accordance with It.
Destroyed Military AutOsracy.
For four years and more the ad-
| 49, Ia ctr roll
TO destroy the menace of military au-
tocracy. By power of arms in the field
and by power of sacrifice at home they
achieved that for which they strug-
gled But a great task still lies be-
fore us. It is the holy task Of pre-
serving to the future the fruits OF
these great labors-fruits grown in the
soil Of glorious battlef1elds, nourishe6
by the blood Of heroism and damp
ened by the sweat OF truly super
human effort
at is clear that the future of hui
manity depends in a large degree upor
the fulness and exactitude with which
all the people, everywhere, understand
the, meaning OF that which has beer
saved, and our own particular bust
ness is our own particular under
standing. Therefore it is true that
we cannot too fully enter into sucl
enlightening proposals as those which
have been made for this day of gen
crsl education on the anniversary Of
the Constitutions birth,
Such occasions must be recognized
as part Of our national mental ant
psychological development and 1t Il
essential that this education should bt