The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-11

We sre entering the greatest veal
IN the history of the human race or
This planet. We know not how long
man has been on earth. What we
know is that man never rose to the
heights to which he (and she male
ana femate) Is now rising The an
Client Fystems of monarchy. which
were conquest groups. formed by one
great branch OF the human race put
ting other tribes and nations under
their monarch by force of conquest
TOOK form In many great Kingdoms
rising and falling and giving places
10 others thatgin turn conquered them.
The Roman fem pire. whose rise and
IAN Gthbon treats. gave place to n new
sort o. monarchy. a r,oparchyshcf the
, qn9g, Pr head , slain,w ,s11
TWO swords Of Peter. az clairned by
their defenders on grounds Of Holy
Writ This ecclesiastical tyranny was
/ only rev form OF monarchy taking
! the place OF the older political mon
arches like Assvr'a. Chaldea. Baby
lonia, Media. Persia, Greece and
| Rome, to which we alluded above
as group-aggregates by force of con-
quest.
! Karl Marx iii the last century and
! thousands Of others like him brought
out theory Of socialism that pur-
posed tn overthrow these monarchscal
systems Of the past, and therefore
lantagonized the Roman Catholic
church. the monarchical system of
the present. Marx got entangled with
the red-hot anarchy OF Bakounfn, or
! Russia. and although his theories are
read today. IL must be recognized that
HE bitter attacks on organized insti-
tutions OF society ar most danger
: Gus. destructive and productive OF the
Bo'shevtst error Of the present-day
iawlessness In Russia The socialism
OF Marx Is not only daneerou---it liz
immoral. 1t merely arcuses the poor
against the rich, the workers against
the organfzers. the plain people
against the more highly educated and
privilered. 1t is as bitter, as unjust,
as selfish, as british ne any system
of philosophy can possibly be.
SO far we have seen tI) political.
] UI) then ecclesiastical. and tIfD
then attempted socialistic information
aiism. This big word means simply
getting all nations into one solid unity.
First this was tried by conquest, then
by church authority. and thirdly by
the nntI-eapital theories OF Kari
Marx and his fellow thinkers.
The year Of our Lord 1918. just
beginning, will see a fourth expert
ment in internationalism differing
I from every one OF the three SO far
described. This effort to information
aiize human society, to form a unity
of the nations, to make human sys-
tenn that shall remove inter-r racial
hate and produce International good
will, is to be based on the consent
of every nation. the assent of every
racial group, to set or principles
! that are destined 10 give justice and
| equity to each separatc nation or
group. without asking any nation to
be subject TO any monarch, and with
out expecting any naticn to acknowl-
| edge the authority of any political or
! church emperor or pope. Nor Is any
ration asked or expected to plunge
into any sociaIistic scheme TO destroy
the institutions OF labor and capital
! 10 substitute any rtopian experiment
| In government ownership Of public
utilities. or to rush madlv into the
chaos Of Boishevist, anarchist or
ultra-soctaiist vagueness and vacuity
/ When Lloyd George Baffour, Lord
| Grey. Wilson. Orlando. Clemencenu
| add hard thinking men OF affairs. of
brains. Of leadership and of uneuss-
I toned patriotism and adherence to
! their own respective nations princi-
rles and traditions, are willing to
/ merge and pool national hopes, ambt-
tons ana interests. we may be assured
| that TO mere Utopian dreams, no
mere sentiment and weak and soft
! ideaiiem no mere good natured hand
shaking and superficial aniahtltty are
at the bottom OF this world move
nens Rather the pressing dictates
OF peoples and nations warworn and
! weary OF the waste and blood and
tears of international com petition and
strife, and brutal rivalry and bestial
seifjshness; rather the Christian effort
to put into effect the principles of
the brotherhood of men. the normal
friendliress of humanity when 1t ls
not torn and divided into opposing
cl.ques and parties.
II would seem that the only man
who can blatantiy and persistenffy OPP
pose such a contamination which il
devoutiS tc be wished. are agnoaics.
materiaiists. ekeptics. unbeIteyers In
he God who is good, doubters OF the
! Christ Who Ia the prince OF peace.
and scorners of the possibility OF men
ever being aught but big hrutes and
lighting. clever beasts. Else they
have not thought. Else they have
SKINNED on the surface OF thought
and never reviewed simply and di-
rectly human history as Is here at
tempted
/ AS reported in the Literary Digest
FOR December %, Rt, Rev. Monsigno-
Fay. domestic prelate to the pope, and
chaplain to Cardinal Gibbons, de-