Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-11
SOCIAL JUSTICE
ANT|DOTE FOR CRY
OF BOLSHEV|sM
Professor Hoff of Mount st.
Charles College Discusses
National Catholic War Coun-
Gil Work in Lecture.

Rev. Norbert c. Hoff professor of
philosophy and biology at Mount st
Charles college, Helena, Mont, stated
In an intensely interesting address at
ST. Johns hall Thursday night when
discussing the attitude of the National
Catholic war council relative to prob
lens that confront the world, that So
cial justice is the answer to Bolshe-
vism and one of the strongest things
to counterfeit it. His address con-
stituted a mastery presentation of the
rights of labor in the reconstruction
program and of the need of league
of nations. He appeared under the
auspices of the Catholic Woman's
league, the members of which together
with those who heard Father Hoff,
regret that he could not have been
given the opportunity of appearing be-
fore larger audience at the Pinney.
Father Hoff said in part:
1T is indeed a privilege to speak
word on the social reconstruction pro-
gram of the executive committee of the
National Catholic War council. So
remarkable is this document that it is
little wonder that Frank p. Walsh,
chairman of the United States COM
mission on industrial relations. should
America will hail it with heartfelt en-
thusiasm. 1t Is triumph for true re-
ligion, as it is triumph for economic
democracy. The heart Of organized
labor believes that it is working for
the same cause of human brotherhood
to which the church is pledged In
a similar vein writes John Fitzpatrick.
president of the Cnicago Federation of
Labor, saying, 1t should be printed
In it's entirety in every labor j)urnal
Of the country Equally emphatic is
the statement of j. w. McConaughy,
assistant secretary OF the war labor
board, who says, In providing for an
immediate and gradually increasing
participation of labor In the manage
ment of industry the reconstruction
program of the Catholic bishops points
out the only visible method of saving
our industrial civilization.
MUST BE FOR THE PEOPLE
"The advocates of the nationaliza-
ton of the means of production, the
Socialists of the world, believe that In
the supposedly unanswerable query
How can the toiler ever become pos
sessed of the ownership Of the tools
whereby he tolls in society as now con-
ment of the present industrial system
Somehow the conviction has been
deepening that our business, like our
government, must become increasingly
more and more of the people, by the
people and for the people, but Social
ism does not furnish the means for
accomplishing that end. Well do the
majority fear that that cure would be
worse than the disease. Other objec
lions apart. Socialism would mean
bureaucracy, political tyranny, the
helplessness of the individual as a
factor in the ordering of his own life,
and, IN general, social inefficiency and
decadence. Lenine, we are told, more
than a year ago, instructed the Soviets
that they must have labor discipline
and scientific management and Russia
got them. scientific management
bureaucracy run by Lenine & Co.
and labor scipline-insufferable tyr
amy. The dire fruitage thereof has
been starvation, pillage, riot and
murder.
MUST BE GIVEN INTEREST
"A trades union philosophy, to-
gether with dogmatic Socialism, Is the
only formulation that American work
ers have had to guide them. Now the
Catholic bishops program gives them
q safe ard sound and workable philos-
ophy. 1t is refreshing to hear Mr..
Raymond Swing, examiner of the ma
tional war labor board, state that the