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Show THE CHURCH KNOWS HUMAN NATURE. Mr. Bedloc. M. P.. recently addressed a large audience in the Alt. Carmel schools. Rochdaleroad. England, on Socialism. So-cialism. Speaking from a Catholic standpoint, he said "The Catholic church was the preserver pre-server and the sustainer of nqrmal human hu-man life, and its history showed that it was right in its judgment of human nature. na-ture. It might be put forward that human hu-man nature was subject to changes, but if that were true, then no particular argument ar-gument could make one scheme better than another. If nature changed, and he was-convinced it did not. it might be possible even to make working men prefer pre-fer modern conditions of industrial life to a free existence away from smoky and unhealthful cities. It was a natural desire of man to own. and the Catholic Church stood very strongly for what man felt privately. Collectivism appealed ap-pealed to the man who had nothing, but w hen put to a body of men already owners It was always scouted. The most secure society conceivable was that in which the means of produc-t;on produc-t;on were well distributed, in which the vast majority of the people were small capitalists drawing their small interests inter-ests in addition to their wages: and to those who contended that if it were so distributed, certain people would soon adopt methods to secure the larger proportion, pro-portion, he would say that could be prevented If laws against it were made sufficiently strong." |