The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-07-25
CARDINALS 85TH
BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATED ATT THE SHRIVER HOME
STEAD UNION MILLS-THE DAY WAS
SPENT QUIETLY.

We are duIClSu Will q VOL VA
races i'm the National Capitol, where
much blood has already been shed
and lives sacrificed. Alas, it is proof
that legislative suppression Of in
toXicating drinks is not as it was said
it would be-a panacea for all social
and moral evils
This was one of the striking points
in an interview given out Wednesday
by Cardinal Gibbons on the anniver-
sary of his eighty-tifth birthday. The
prelate celebrated the event at the
home of his dear friend, Robert L
Shriver, at Union Mills where he has
been stopping for the past several
days.
After speaking of personal matters
the Cardinal was asked to give his
views on some of the more important
public questions, and he responded
by saying:
On this, my eighty-fifth anniver-
sary, the first thought and inspiration
that comes to my mind is an express
sion of thanksgiving to Almighty Goa,
the Lord of Hosts, and to our brave
soldiers for the close of the World
War and the success of our arms. A
wear ago we were in the midst OF
hostilities, our noble boys were still
in the trenches and we had no abso-
lutte assurance as to when ana now
the war would end. On the eleventh
day of last November the blessed mes
sage was flashed across the Atlantic
that the armistice OF peace was Sign
ed. On that very day | was in Camp
Meade and made an address to twenty
thousand soldiers, expressing the
hone that the blessed sun of peace
would soon dawn upon us. On the
afternoon of that day we were gratl-
fed to hear that our prayers we're
fulfilled. 1t is hoped that such mea-
sures will be adopted as will secure
lasting peace and which will deter
any ambitious power henceforth from
disturbing the harmony OF nations.
In response to the question: NOV
that peace has been declared, nave we
ANYTHING to fear, and what OF the
race war in Washington? the Cardi-
nal answered:
"That is a fair vital question. II
would be very small comfort to us tc
be delivered from foreign enemies, Il
we we're afflicted with domestic strife
which is worse than war with Other
nations. Our own Civil War, which
remember So we'll, and in which j
was chaplain, just because 1t was
fratricidal war, was more destruc'
tive of the peace of homes and hearts
and left more painful wounds than
our contest with a European nation
I'VE are now afflicted with wal
of races in the National Capital
where much blood has already beer
shed and lives sacrificed. Alas, 1t II
nroof that a legislative suppression
of Intoxicating drinks is not as 1t was
said it would be-a panacea tor AZ
social and moral evils.
"There are many other kinds Of in
Temperance; intemperance by eatlnS
I:by gluttony; intemperance in speech
by slander and defamation of char
iacter. intemperance of liberty itself
t,by lawless license; intemperance m
our Unsuitable search for weal.n
which dries up in many hearts the
foundations of benevolence and stlhes
the gentler feelings of sympathy fOr
suffering humanity,
"The war of races is all the more
threatening and ominous, as 1t Is
carried on i'm the very capital OF TIE
nation, under the eye OF the Ch!el
Executive and Commander-in-chlet OF
our Armies, in the shadow OF the
halls of Congress, where the natlonal
legislature is in session. 1t is an act
of defiance to our national laWgiVefs
and an insult to their constituted au-
thority If we are to retain the t:'n-
fidence and esteem of nations abroad
and to enjoy security Of life and
nroperty at home, this lawless up
rising should be summarily and
thoroughly suppressed.
"This chronic hostility between Ia
bor and capital is to- be deplo ored:
The laborer and the capitalist should
he warm allies instead of enemi IS, as
their interests are closely inter-
twined and inseparable. Some thirty
wears ago I contended in my Feeble
wav in behalf of labor, when | saw II
threatened with oppression and chn-
demnation. But times have changed,
and labor il now hOnOred and well
remunerated, as it should be- Nc
chanics and workmen are at this me
ment in some places receiving as much
wages i'm an hour as they received
fifty years ago in day. Capital has
its rights as we'll as labor. Without
capital labor would find no adequate
compensations."
Strikes are drastic, wasteful and
hazardous, only to be resorted 70 10
extreme cases, only when arbitration
fails. | have known capitalists 70
have been impoverished and their COL
poration dissolved by reckless strikes.
Those who rae making exorbitant and
impossible demands upon capitalists
and corporations, are milking the COW
dry, are killing the goose that LAID
the golden egg"
It has been teh cusom or the Car
dinal for many years past to spend
his birthday in Carroll county, either
at the home of B. Frank Shriver and
his family or at the home OF Mss
Mollie Shriver, the sister, and Rob srt
Shriver, the son of the late Gen. T.
Herbert Shriver At present the
Cardinal il spending few days i'm the
latter home, where Bishop Mcconnell,
of Richmond, Va, il also a guest.