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Show An Archbishop on Class Distinction. Archbishop Maguire, among the good things .said in a sermon before the Vincent de Paul society of Glasgow, uttered the following: "The poor man drinks too much! Does the rich man not drink too much, the business man, or the professional man? But their position is such that it does not necessarily run them at least, not immediately. When the poor man ha3 a bout of intemperance it is immediate beggary.. The poor man is stupid. He has not friends to get his faults overlooked. He shows himself him-self incapable; his next step is dismissal dis-missal and beggary. A general shows himself incapable. He retires on a pension. A statesman proves himself inefficient. He goes into the house of of lords. A Christian soldier was done to death in Egypt by the folly of a statesman and the lack of strategy in a general. Both showed incapacity. One of them now lies buried in Westminster West-minster Abbey; the other got a further chance of showing his incapacity. But on the very poor thera is no mercy. Every one criticizes him, every one finds fault except two classes those who flatter them, the other their true friends, who do not flatter. The false friend flatters, makes us believe wa are without fault, that all our misfortunes mis-fortunes are due to curcumstances over which we have no control. It is only by throwing away class distinction that fair play can be done." |