Evening star., 1943-06-14


bills. You hear them in their songs
and anthems. But when have the
facts answered to their words, or
reality to their hopes? Deception
and delusion have been and are the
lot OF private individuals and peo-
pies who have trusted them and
followed them along ways which so
far from improving have worsened
and aggravated the conditions of
life and Of material and moral
progress
Such false prophets would have us
believe that salvation must come
from revolution which shall over
turn social order and assume a ma
tional character.
Salvation Does Not Lie
In Social Revolution.
The social revolution claims to
raise the working class to power: an
empty word and a mere show in
capable OF realization, in fact YOU
see that the working class remains
pound, yoked and tied to the force
OF state capitalism; which restrains
and subjects all, not only the family
but even the conscience and trans
forms the workers into gigantic
labor machine.
Like the other social systems and
orders which 1t claims to fight it
CLASHES, regulates and presses all
into a fearful war instrument which
demands not only blood and health
but also the goods and prosperity of
the people
And II tho guiding spirits are
proud OF this or that advantage or
improvement secured in the field of
labor, making use of it for noisy,
boastful propaganda, such material
advantage is never fair recon-
pense for the remuneration imposed
on each one which injure the rights
OF the human person, freedom in the
ruling OF the family, in the exercise
of ones profession, in the conditions
OF citizenship and especially IN the
practice Of religion and even in the
realm Of conscience.
No, your salvation, beloved sons
and daughters, does not lie in revo-
luton. And it is against the genu-
inc and sincere profession of Chris
tianity to drift. thinking only of
ones own exclusive and material
advantage, toward revolution
which proceeds from injustice and
civil insubordination and to make
oneself unfortunately responsible for
the blood of fellow citizens and the
destruction OF common property.
Woe to him who forgets that a
national society incorporates social
justice demands a just and fitting
sharing by all in the goods Of the
country. Otherwise you understand
that the nation would end in SEN
timental makeshift, in nonsensical
pretense which would be an excuse
for certain groups to withdraw
themselves from the sacrifices need
ed to secure public equilibrium and
peace.
And you would then realize how,
when national society had lost the
nobility given to 1t by God. integral
strife and struggle would become a
threat which all might fear.
Salvation Is Found
In Evolution by Concord.
Salvation and justice are not to
be found in revolution but in an evo-
luton through concord. Violence has
ever achieved only destruction, not
constructions; the kindling Of pas
sions, not their pacif1cation: the
accumulation of hate and destruc-
ton, not the reconciliation Of the
contending parties; and it has re-
duced men and parties to the dim
cult task of building slowly after
sad experience on the ruins OF dis
cord.
It Is only a progressive and pru-
dent evolution, full OF courage and
in conformity with nature enlight-
ened, and guided by the Christian
laws OF justice and equity, that can
lead to the fulfllnent OF the hon.
orable desires and needs of the
worker. Not to destroy them but
to build and consolidate; not to
abolish private property, the foun-
dation of family stability, but to
work for It's extension as the reward
of the conscientious toll of every
working man and woman so that
little by little may be diminished
that mass of uneasy and rash people
who sometimes from taciturn de-
spair, at others through broad in
stinct, allow themselves to be carried
off by false doctrine or by the
clever tricks Of agitators who are
bereft Of all moral sense. Not to
dssipate private capital but to pro-
mote its regulation under careful
control as means and help toward
securing and increasing the genuine
welfare Of the whole people.
Not to restrain nor to give pref
erence exclusively to industry but to
procure its harmonious marriage to
handicraft and agriculture which
exploits the multifarious and nee
essary production Of the Nations
soil. Not to aim in the use of tech
nical progress solely at the max
imum profit but also to avail one
self Of the advantages which comes
from 1t in order to better the per-
sonal conditions of the worker to
make his work less arduous and
difficult and to consolidate the
bonds which hold his family to-
gether in the place where he dwells,
in the work by which he lives. Not
to aim at making the lives of indi-
viduals depend entirely on the
whims of the state but to procure
rather that the state, whose duty 1t
is to promote the common good
may through social institutions such
as insurance and social security
societies supply support and COM
plete all that helps to strengthen
workers associations and especially
the fathers and mothers of families
who are earning a livelihood for
themselves and their dependents
through work.
Faith in Christ and Fidelity
To Church Held Needed.
You will say perhaps that this Is
a beautiful vision of the true state
of things, but how can it be realized
and effected in daily life? We need
above all a great Righteousness of