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Show 1 BREAKERS AHEAD! There arc dangerous innovations leavening our ; soci.nl life today, and, if the men behind these in- ; n-ivatiotis ever possess the power to make our laws, . ; the future history of our country, like the annals ' of the French revolution, will he written in blood. If the doctrines preached on our street corners by i .' demagogues and agitators calling themselves So cialists ever be incorporated into our "Bill of , " . '' Bights," we may begin to dig the grave of our K( public. Ti one who thoughtfully examines the conditions condi-tions of society today, or intelligently reads the I i signs of the times, the outlook for the future is j portcntious. The radical Socialist seems to le persuaded that Christianity, that is, the Catholic . , Chimb, is the mother of European and American i civikaiic.ii so-called. This civilization, the Social ist believe, is responsible for the oppression of the masses, and until this senile and oppressive eiviliza-. eiviliza-. tion is destroyed a new civilization cannot appear , .' upon carlli. Jt is impossible, the Socialist main tains, to dispossess this order of civilization while its mother and founder, the Catholij Church, continues con-tinues to exist and to control the thoughts and deeds of men and women. The advocates of So- icialism are not now fencing and beating about the bush a in the days of Carl Marx and Pierre Las-Kalle. Las-Kalle. At last they fearlessly and openly confess that until the Catholic Church is buried their creed ' at most can achieve but a temporary victory. They have come .:t of their rifle pit?, from behind the rocks, they have abandoned their ambush and have t marched into the open to give battle to their nat ural enemy. Protestantism? They have no quarrel quar-rel with Protestantism. Protestantism, they will tell you. is not Christianity. If you ask for proofs supporting their charge, they will uncover them. They will tell you they have no quarrel with the sects; their tight is against Christianity, with Christian civilization, with the Catholic Church, which alone is Christianity and stands for Chris-tiou Chris-tiou civilization. Berger, the broad-shouldered missionary of Socialism, not long ago in Milwau-' Milwau-' kee publicly confessed that the Catholic Church . ! stood between Socialism and so-called constituted . . authority, and that Socialists, the world over, were , prepared to grapple with their foe. "I predict.'7 declared Berger, according to the - I Philadelphia "Public Ledger," "I predict that in ' the final summing up it will be a fight between the red International and the black International." Asked what he meant by the black International, Berger aswered without hesitation: "The Koman Catholic Church." The Catholic religion alone has real enemies. Other religions differ from each other only as one heresy differs from another; but the Catholic Church differs from all as truth does from falsehood. All falsehood is opposed to truth, hence by a simple law of gravitation, when it is a question of attacking the Catholic religion, an-! an-! archy. Socialism and heresy are allies. The Cath- olio Church has enemies essentially, the others only J l ' accidentally. 1 1 is passing strange that the low ruf- i fian of the Paris Commune and the educated An-1 An-1 ' gl.'ca" bishop recognize a common enemy in the . : Catholic Church. So it comes to ibis, the war now on is between t .' the forces of social and family order condensed ' ! . into what is Christian civilization and the forces opposed to this civilization. Socialism. Modernism Modern-ism and Sillonism are evasive words, difficult of examination and almost impossible of definition. We know what Anarchy stands for. Its advocates, from Marat to Louise Michel, have been insolently outspoken, and their revolutionary statutes are i . , codified. Until now there has been no unanimity I, among Socialists as regards the doctrines of Social ism, there has been no fixed creed, no decrees of lhe Council of Lucerne to which we could pin down the street Socialist preacher or the Socialist professor of a University. If Berger speaks "as I one having authority," we now know that Social- I im is absolutely and without equivocation the en- I cmy of Christianity. Bishop Spauldiug, ordinary t . . . I - ' ; of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Utah, in one of his public talks last winter, claimed to be a Christain Socialist, repudiating at the same time his affiliation with radical or collective Socialism. "Christian Socialism?" There is no such a thing as Christian Socialism. One might as well speak of Christian Paganism, of Christian Budh-im Budh-im or of Christian Mahomcdanisiu as of Christian Socialism. |
