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VOL. I. JANUARY 15, 1913. No. 3

The “Lazy Monks and Priests.”

Adapted from a sermon preached at St. Mary’s, San Jose, Cal., Nov. 17, 1912.

JOSEPH P. FRANCIS, S. J.

When the northern barbarians came

down upon the flourishing provinces of

the Roman Empire, they destroyed

countless treasures of classic art and lit-

erature. We owe it to the monks that

not all was lost, that we still possess the

immortal works of a Cicero, Horace,

Virgil, Caesar, Livy, Homer, Demosthe-

nes, Sophocles, Aristotle. It was the

“lazy monks and priests” who saved

from fire and pillage those precious

manuscripts. As the art of printing was

not yet known, these good religious

spent years at the dusty parchments and

copied them by hand in great numbers.

They devoted to this work all the leisure

time that was not occupied with the edu-

cation of youth, the clearing of waste

land, the draining of swamps, and the

erection of grand cathedrals. The ra-

tionalist Gibbon does not hesitate to

declare that a single convent of religious

men probably rendered greater service

to letters than the two universities of

Oxford and Cambridge combined.

Priests and religious were the first and

only teachers of the people in the Mid-

dle Ages. Old pagan civilization had

been swept away by the wild hordes of

the north, except the remnants of letters

and sciences saved by the Church and

her monastic orders. Whenever the

Church has erected a temple, she has al-

so built a school. As early as in the

T is a well known saying of

Goethe:
‘

‘Since falsehood is

always repeated, it is neces-

sary to tell the truth over

and over again.” The ene-

mies of the Church have

made serious charges against

her, which have been proved to be false,

and yet the same false accusations are

repeated to-day. Take e. g., the fables

of Pope Joan, Galileo Galilei, the Jesuit

oath, the Spanish Inquisition, the sale of

indulgences. In our days it is quite

popular with our adversaries to repre-

sent all good Catholics as narrow, ignor-

ant, weak-minded men and women.

Reading their writings you cannot but

notice that Freemasons, Jews, editors of

newspapers and magazines, look upon

themselves as some higher intellectual

beings, whereas every Catholic, by the

very fact that he is a Catholic, is en-

dowed with an amazing amount of sloth,

ignorance and stupidity. Hence, it is

necessary, from time to time, to call at-

tention to the great intellectual deeds ac-

complished in the course of ages by

Catholics, in particular by priests and

religious. For more details see the

excellent work entitled, “Christian

Apologetics, ’’Devivier, S .J., Peters,S .J.,

Sasia,S. J., English, and German Catholic

Encyclopedias; Brennan’s “What Catho-

lics Have Done for Science,” etc.



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first Christian centuries, episcopal

schools were erected in each bishopric,

as is proved by English, French, Ger-

man, Catholic as well as Protestant his-

torians: Later, when dioceses were di-

vided into parishes, parochial schools

were added to episcopal schools. M. Al-

lain remarks with truth that: “The

history of instruction in all degrees in

the later Middle Ages, is solely and en-

tirely the history of the efforts made by

the Church to preserve science and civi-

lization, threatened on every side. From

the fifth to the twelfth century the

clergy alone interested itself in matters

of education." Many ecclesiastical coun-

cils of France, England and Germany

imposed upon the priests as a most sa-

cred duty to teach school in towns and

country districts, and for this not to ex-

act any salary, nor to receive anything

except what the parents might voluntar-

ily offer. The solicitude of Charlemagne

regarding the instruction of his subjects

is well known. This great Catholic Em-

peror decreed “that there should be

schools in all monasteries, and in all

bishoprics, in order that all the children

of freemen as well as the childreyi of serfs

should learn grammar, music and arith-

metic.” M. E. Rendu, Inspector-Gen-

eral of the University of France, speaks

in these terms of the times preceding the

Reformation; “ Catholicism had filled

Germany, as well as the rest of Europe,

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with popular schools; it had decreed

that the clergy should admit to their

schools the children of serfs as well as

the children of free men; that every

priest having care of souls should give

instruction himself or through a clerk;

that bishops, in their visitations, should

see to it that schools were opened where

none existed; that the pastor of each

parish should supply the poor with pop-

ular instruction The father of modern

pedagogy is St. John de la Salle (1651-

1719); but three centuries before him

the disciples of Gerard Groote taught to

poor children, reading, writing, religion

and some mechanical arts. From the

Low Countries, where their order was

founded, these brothers, in the XIV

century, had carried the light of knowl-

edge and charity into the whole of North

Germany. Thus Catholicism had laid

the cornerstone of education for the

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Compare with this solicitude of the

Church the ideas of Voltaire, concerning

popular education. This great light of

modern free-thinkers and infidels says:

“The workman does not deserve to be

educated. It is enough for him to han-

dle the spade, the plane or the file. It

is essential that there should be a class,

of ignorant people. It is not the com-

mon laborers but the citizens that should

be educated.” As to the ignorant peo-



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pie, “they must be contented to bear the

yoke and feel the goad.”

Colleges and academies owe likewise

their origin to the Church, as they grad-

ually developed from monastic and ca-

thedral schools. Almost all the teach-

ing in colleges was done by the clergy,

who had, moreover, the recognized right

of inspection. It is a known fact that

all the universities in the Middle Ages

were, as early as the eleventh and

twelfth century, founded by the Catholic

Church, or had sought her sanction and

protection In the bulls instituting

them the Popes give as one of the mo-

tives for their foundation, the duty im-

posed upon them of dispelling the dark-

ness of ignorance and encouraging the

teaching of all the sciences. Compare

with this “Catholic narrow-minded-

ness,” the “intellectual greatness” of

the founder of Protestantism. Luther

insisted that the universities should be

destroyed, because, according to him,

“they are the ruin of youth,” “worth

to be reduced to powder,” as “there is

not nor ever will be on earth anything

more infernal and diabolical than the

universities
”

Monks and priests have done much

for the advancement of arts and sciences.

In a lecture before the Catholic Literary

Society of Leeds, England, Feb. 8, 1853,

Cardinal Wiseman proved the following

proposition: “Science has nowhere

flourished more, or originated more sub-

lime or useful discoveries than where it

has been pursued under the influence of

the Catholic Church.” We shall men-

tion only a few names of monks and

priests who have done noble work in

arts and sciences, and refer for more de-

tails to the above-quoted authors.

Who does not know Rhabanus Maurus,

abbot of Fulda, Germany, from 822 842;

his was a mighty mind that mastered

the whole field of knowledge of those

times. His principal work, “Twenty-

Two Books of the Universe,” is even

now highly esteemed by learned men.

Walafrid Strabo, abbot of Reichenau

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(f849),laid out the first botanical garden

in Germany. To the same monastery

belonged Hermann Contractus
,

whose

writings attest to his profound knowl-

edge of astronomy, mathematics, nat

ural sciences and history, and whom the

Protestant historian Giesebrecht styled

the first German scientist par excellencef

A monk of Tegemsee
,

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painting. With the greatest physicists

can easily bear comparison the priests,

Nicolaus Cusa (tl464), John Regiomon-

tamus (t1476), and Joh7i Trithemius

(tl516). The modest canon, Copernicus

of Frauenburg, proved about 1507, long

before Galileo, the rotation of the earth

around the sun, and thus became the

father of modern astronomy.

The first to assert that the earth is a

spherical body, was the learned Bishop

of Salzburg, St. Virgilius
,
a contempor-

ary of Venerable Bede
,

himself a great

mathematician. To the Franciscan

monk, Berthold Schwarz
,

is attributed

the discovery of gunpowder and the in-

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vention of firearms. The Mariner’s

Compass was invented, or at least per-

fected by the deacon, Flavio Gioia
,
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1302. Clocks are the joint invention of

three monks, Gerbert
, 999; Pacifico of

Verona
,
and abbot Willia?n Hirschau.

Music gamut scale and laws of harmony

discovered by Fra Guido of Arezzo
,

1124. Father Kircher
,

S. J., is the

inventor of the Magic Lantern and a

new reflector in 1680 The first aero-

naut was canon Bartholomew Gusmao
t

who gave a public exhibition with his

airship before the Court of Lisbon in

1709. The first lightning rod was

erected in 1754 by the Premonstraten-

sian monk, Procopius Diwisch) this reli-

gious was also one of the first to apply

electricity in the treatment of disease.

To the Jesuits of Stonyhurst, England,

belongs the honor of producing the first

illuminating gas from coal in 1794.

Father Secchi
,
S. J., discovered spectral

analysis, and was considered one of the

greatest astronomers of the last century.

The Spanish Benedictine, Ponce de Leon

(1520 1584), was the first to teach deaf

mutes to read and write and speak. The

French Abbe de VEpee, is the father of

the sign language and founder of the

first school for the deaf. He died in

1789, leaving as his successor the Abbe

Sicard, who made important improve-

ments in the system of del’Epee. Father

Lana-Terzi
,
the same Italian Jesuit who

anticipated, by more than a century, the

system of lip-reading for deaf mutes,

describes in his “Podromo” an ingen-

ious and yet simple invention of his own,

by which the blind may be taught to

correspond with each other by a secret

code.

Much praise is given by men of sci-

ence of to-day to the Augustinian monk,

Mendel (1*1884) for his achievements in

biology. Bateson claims that “his ex-

periments are worthy to rank with those

which laid the foundation of the atomic

laws of chemistry;” and Lock, that his

discovery was “of an importance little

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inferior to those of a Newton or a Dal-

ton.” T. H Morgan does not hesitate
to say that Mendel’s laws give the final

coup de grace to the doctrine of Natural

Selection. A public monument to his

memory was unveiled at Briinn, Aus-

tria, October 2, 1910.

The classic historians of geography,

Humboldt, Ritter and Peschel, never for-

got to acknowledge how greatly their

science was indebted to the Church. Of

course, the beginnings of all profane

knowledge can be traced back to the time

when “priest” and “scholar” meant one

and the same thing. But with geogra-

phy, especially, the Church had very

close relations— relations which are

readily explained by the words of Our

Lord to His disciples: “Go ye into the

whole world and preach the gospel to

every creature” (Mark, 16. 15). The

disciples and their successors, Catholic

missionaries, fulfilled this command to

the letter, for “their sound hath gone

forth into all the earth, and their words

unto the ends of the whole world.” To

these missionaries we owe the earliest

geographical accounts of the countries

where they preached the Gospel, and of

the customs, religions and languages of

their inhabitants. Thus the mighty

growth of geography and allied sciences

is largely due to Catholic missionaries.

Before the first quarter of the thirteenth

century, they had visited and described

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all the countries of Europe and even Ice-

land and Greenland, and toward the

middle of the same century, Franciscan

and Dominican missionaries had written

detailed accounts of Mongolia and Tar-

tary. And Sprengel said at the end of

the last century: All that we know at

present of China has come to us from

the 200 years old reports of Jesuit mis-

sionaries.

The most eminent representative of

physical studies was the Dominican

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ter with whom, in the universality of

knowledge, only Alexander von Hum-

boldt is comparable. He opened up to

his contemporaries the entire field of

physiography, laid the foundations of

climatology, botanical geography and

geology. He furnished proofs of the

sphericity of our planet that are still

popularly repeated to-day; he calculated

accurately the duration of the day and

the seasons in the different quarters of

the globe. Still far more reaching in

their results were the labors of the Fran-

ciscan friar, Roger Bacon, the “Admir-

able Doctor” (1214-1294); many discov-

eries in physics and alchemy are attrib-

uted to him. Columbus was emboldened

to carry out his great project on the

strength of Bacon’s assertion that India

could be reached by a westerly voyage

—

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1425), whose “Imago Mundi” was also

a favorite book of Columbus’, founded

it on Bacon’s works. The most cele-

brated of all medieval maps was drawn

up by the Camaldolese Fra Mauro (1457).

Even on their earliest voyages the Span-

ish and Portugese discoverers took with

them learned priests. These men wrote

glowing accounts of the wonders they

saw in the newly discovered lands to their

brethren at home, so that they might

spread the information broadcast. We
cannot set down here the names of

priests and missionaries engaged in this

work from the time of Columbus to the

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this short paper. Their chief usefulness

lay in the contributions to the general

knowledge of various countries and

races. But they also made contribu-

tions of the greatest value to the theo-

retical development of geography. They

were the first and foremost promoters of

many studies auxiliary to geography,

such as ethnology, meteorology, volcan-

ology, etc

It is hardly probable that any of our

opponents will dare to question the

Church’s ardent love and fostering care

of the fine arts. A single glance at our

magnificent cathedrals would give him

the lie. “All religions nourish art,”

wrote the great modern sculptor, Can-

ova to Napoleon I, “but none in such

measure as the Catholic Church.” In

his beautiful church the Catholic finds

all the fine arts represented, architecture,

sculpture, painting, music, in their

noblest form, and their sublime charm

must have a beneficial effect upon his

soul. The highest and noblest ideas are

put vividly before his mind: God,

heaven, sin, and redemption, time and

eternity, the life of the Savior and His

Blessed Mother, and of all the Saints,

with their struggles and victories, their

sufferings and joys. Seeing this ideal

world as it comes before him in the

works of art of his church, the fervent

Catholic feels his soul raised from this

mournful valley of tears to a higher,

pure, spiritual region, and is filled with

truly great, noble, sublime thoughts.

Here forgets the lowly his lowliness, the

poor his poverty, and the wretched his

misery, for he can enjoy all this sublime

beauty to his heart’s desire, day after

day. And here he celebrates his feasts,

grander and more glorious than the

kings in their palaces.

Thus have the “benighted” monks

and priests filled the world with sanctu-

aries and other monuments of highest

art. And hardly had the “enlightened”

reformers appeared on the scene, when,

like the Vandals of old, or rather worse

than the Vandals, they destroyed these

priceless treasures of art wherever they

could.

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allowed to draw the following conclu-

sions:

If the Christian nations of Europe and

the New World stand to-day at the head

of civilization, they owe it almost en-

tirely to the Catholic Church, and in

particular to her monks and priests. It

is the Catholic Church which, even in

our times, spreads culture and enlighten-

ment in heathen countries through her

pioneers of Christian civilization, name-

ly, her devoted missionaries. No call-

ing, no state of life, can boast so many

and so great ornaments in the cultiva-

tion of fine arts, sciences and literature

as the Catholic priesthood.

Thoughts for the Workers.

By Peter W. Collins.

Any alliance between Labor and So-

cialism demeans labor and injures its

cause.

We have any number of splendid pro-
grams but what we need is practical ac-

tivity that knows no let up.

While we do not underrate the aca-

demic when we insist on the practical,

and while we appreciate the importance

of the learned treatise, we want the men

from the work-shop and the factory

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The remedies offered by Socialism for

the cure of social ills lead to the cemetery.

Socialism has taken workers from the

workshop, the mine and the factory, and

made tramps out of them.

The most difficult thing in the world

for the average Socialist to do is to tell

what “Socialism” really means.

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The Need of Social Study.

The word “study” may possibly

alarm my readers, and their alarm may

be increased when the word “social” is

prefixed to it. They will picture a for-

midable array of Blue Books, or a row

of the stodgy volumes on Sociology

which pour almost daily from the press.

“We have no time and no inclination for

social study,” they will protest: “We

have our work to do all day, and our

few spare hours are needed for rest and

relaxation. Let the experts fight out

the social problem amongst themselves

and leave us in peace.”

Now, my dear sir or madam, there is

no cause for dismay; neither is there ex-

cuse for inaction. You are not called

upon to line your shelves with Blue

Books. No serious encroachment is sug-

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8 BURNING QUESTIONS.

to social study in one of its many forms

you are called. You are called to it by

the voice of the Holy Father, by your

principles as a Catholic, and by any in-

stincts that you may possess of common

commiseration for the miseries of your

fellow-men.

As to the Pope’s view of the matter

there can be no doubt. “The social

question,” says the present Pontiff, “de-

serves to have all the Catholic forces ap-

plied to it wfith the greatest energy and

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constancy.” This involves study, and

study not only by the experts and lead-

ers, but by the rank and file. Catholics

in all the various conditions of life must

learn to take an intelligent interest in

the social question. Otherwise, their

“energy and constancy” will be aimless

and even harmful. All can and ought

to contribute to what I may call the cor-

porate Catholic social experience. The

priest and the layman, the worker and

the student, rich and poor, all can help

to throw light on this most difficult of

problems.

“it is for Catholics to take the initia-

tive in all true social progress, to show

themselves the steadfast defenders and

enlightened counselors of the weak and

defenseless, to be the champions of the

eternal principles of justice and Christian

civilization.” So wrote Leo XIII to

Cardinal Langenieux in 1896. But

enlightenment on social questions is not

a gift infused into us at baptism, or con-

ferred upon us at confirmation. It has

to be worked for, and worked for, not

by our leaders alone, but by us all. If

the general body of Catholics is not an

enlightened body, it will be no champion

of the eternal principles. “I forbid the

Catholic laity to be inactive,” wrote

Leo XIII to the Bishop of Terragona.

But activity, to be useful, must be based

on knowledge; and knowledge implies

study.

To the same conclusion we are driven

by the principles of our religion. To be

a Catholic is something very great, and

splendid and responsible. It is not a

mere name to be worn lightly. It in-

volves a new way of life. We cannot

take our standard from the people about

us, for we have divine standards of our

own. And we are “standard bearers”

in every sense of the term, for “the

charity of Christ urgeth us” not only to

school ourselves in the Divine law, but

to impress it upon all about us. Society

is badly out of joint and we must “take

the initiative” in the task of resetting it.

This involves preliminary study.

“But you are mixing up two distinct

things,” it will be objected. “The char-

ity of Christ urges me to bring men to

Him, to save their souls, to spread His

supernatural religion. These things are

on quite a different plane to social ques-

tions, which are concerned with mater-

ial things. I am told to save men’s souls,

not to cater to their bodies.”

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The objection is plausible, but un-

Catholic. It rests on a false view of the

supernatural. While it appears to ele-

vate the supernatural, it really degrades

it. Be sure of it, we shall not work for

men’s souls unless we work for their

bodies also. If we are not actively

seeking to relieve the material sores of

humanity, we cannot have much concern

for its spiritual sores. That lesson is

written in the gospels, plain for all to

see. Upon the degree to which we have

succored Christ’s poor for Christ’s sake

will our service of Christ be measured.

Care for our suffering fellow-men is a

condition of our salvation.

Catholic social action is poles asunder

from mere philanthropy. It is lit up by

a motive which raises it to snpernatural

dignity. We must not keep our Catho-

licity and our social action in water-tight

compartments. The former must ex-

press itself through the latter. The two

must be intimately blended. Our reli-

gion should urge us to strenuous and en-

lightened efforts on behalf of the poor

and suffering. It should lead us to avail

ourselves of the very best and most ef-

fective mehods, and it should prevent

our being content with that slip-shod and

indiscriminate charity which in these

days may do more harm than good. If

we really love the poor for Christ’s sake,

we shall take pains to relieve them ef-

fectively; and to relieve them effectively

involves careful study.

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poor, supposing we have the half crowns.

It is easy, but it is futile. If our char-

ity takes no other form, several very ter-

rible things will happen. In the first

place we shall find that our poor are be-

ing drawn away from us, and lost to the

faith. For we with our half crowns can

not compete against the growing organi-

zations which are attempting to deal with

the problem of destitution and unem-

ployment on wider lines. This move-

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place mere indolent philanthropy will

but increase the appalling number of

our own destitute. Anyone who knows

the legions of“submerged”Catholics must

feel that the problem cannot be solved by

indiscriminate alms-giving. We have got

to build these people up, and to do so

must begin by a concerted study of their

conditions. At present we are half-

strangled by the dead weight of our dis-

organized poor. The spectacle of their

misery should stir us to businesslike

action, based on careful study. That

may do something to stop the leakage

which is due largely to economic pres-

sure. Our charity will be none the less

meritorious for being enlightened.

Our faith provides us with sound

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10 BURNING QUESTIONS.

social reformers feel the lack. But it does

not provide us with ready-made meth-

ods of giving effect to our charity. This

demands study. We should take pains
to equip ourselves with the very best

scientific knowledge, and to attack the

problem at its very roots.

Let it again be repeated that this is a

matter for us all to take to heart. Both

in social study and in social action, we

have each of us, our work to do. We
want Catholic workmen to watch the

labor movements from inside, and to

keep the Catholic body informed of their

tendencies. We want Catholic priests
to make available their enormous expe-

rience of the lives of the poor. We
w'ant Catholic women to realize their so-

cial mission, to study conditions, and to

give constructive suggestions like those

of the Women’s Industrial Council. We
want Catholic professional men to give

us new light on the various aspects of

the social question; we want Catholic

business men to help introduce business

methods into our social activity; we

want Catholics of leisure to give us

assistance in organizing; Catholic writ-

ers to give us their aid in propaganda.

Again, there is work for all, once the

call to it is realized. There is work for

any willing helper who can give the

smallest amount of time to the cause.

Let us not be backward in following the

noble example of our Belgian and Ger-

man brethren who have reduced social

work to a thoroughly scientific basis,

and by earnest study and strenuous

labor have accomplished marvels in “re-

storing all things in Christ.”

Charles D. Plater, S. J.,

St. Beuno’s, England.

Moving Pictures in German

Education.

The use of moving pictures in educa-

tion has had a real impetus in German

official circles, according to information

recently received at the United States

Bureau of Education. The Prussian

Ministry of Education is now consider-

ing the feasibility of employing cinema-

tograph films in certain courses in higher

educational institutions, and a number

of film manufacturers are being given an

opportunity to show the authorities what

films they have that are adapted to edu-

cational purposes.

A well-known philanthropist has re-

cently donated two fully equipped mov-

ing picture machines to the schools of

Berlin. One is to be used in the Con-

tinuation Institute for Higher Teachers

and the other in the high schools of

greater Berlin.

Moving picture films are now avail-

able in Germany for anatomical, biologi-

cal and bacteriological courses.

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—From “ SocialJustice”

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BURNING QUESTIONS. 11

The Central Verein’s Proposed

School of Social Science.

The Central Verein’s plans for the

erection of a Catholic School of Social

Science are getting nicely under way.

For the benefit of those who read only

the English section of the C. B. & S. J.

it may be well to outline briefly the plan

and the work accomplished. The erec-

tion of a Catholic School of Social Sci-

ence under the auspices of the Central

Verein was definitely decided on at the

convention held in Cleveland in 1908,

after previous conventions had taken up

the suggestion favorably. The Indian-

apolis and Newark Conventions (1909

and 1910) had declared in favor of the

project. The plan provides for the

erection of a building which is to be the

home of the Central Bureau and of a

Catholic School for Social Science. From

the very beginning it was thought de-

sirable to have the school located near

an established institution of learning,

preferably one conducted by members of

a religious order.

After several conferences, much cor-

respondence and personal investigation,

and after being duly authorized by the

convention at Toledo (1912) and the

Executive Committee, the Committee on

Social Propaganda has recently pur-

chased a lot of 120 by 254 feet on the

Take front at Chicago adjoining the

property of Loyola University. The

purchase of the property means that a

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very definite step has been taken in the

matter and that the project is definitely

launched. Donations have been given

for this purpose as early as 1907 (Du-

buque convention) and subscriptions

have been signed at the Toledo conven-

tion, the Chicago convention and on

other occasions and in other places. The

delegates present at the meeting (1912)

of the Minnesota State League signed

$2000. In Toleda something like $12,-

000 was subscribed. Some of this money

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288-290 S. Market St.

has been paid up, other sums are promis-

sory and will be paid up gradually. All

in all the special fund created for this

purpose, paid or promised, totals about

$17,000.

It is very desirable that funds be gath-

ered for this purpose—that those who
conveniently can, make payment on

their notes, and that new funds be gath-

ered by cash contributions and by sub

scription.—From “ Social Justice

’

More than Fighting Socialism

Needed.

There are those in our ranks who still

believe that the keynote of social propa-

ganda must be the fight on Socialism;

and there are those who would have you

believe that fighting Socialism is all that

is required for social reform. The late

Msgr. W. J. White of Brooklyn points

out this fallacy: “We have been train-

ing our guns, big aud little,” he says in

the paper read before the first National



12 BURNING QUESTIONS.

Conference of Catholic Charities, “on

Socialism and crying out with delight

when we have seemed to show its im-

practicability and its irreligious charac-

ter. Criticism has its function. It is

necessary to show our Catholic work-

men that Socialism is more than an eco-

nomic program; that it is an ethical

movement and by some is considered a

substitute for religion. We must be
ready with a more practical program of

reform; one that “does not imply any

excessive trust in human nature nor

contradict the laws of economics or the

lessons of history.”—It is our purpose,
the purpose of Christian social reform,

to supply this program. And the pro-

gram is that of Christian solidarity.

—From “ SocialJustice"

A New Dictionary of Economics.

Socialism—A hypothetical and incon-
ceivable condition involving a complete

revolution in the social system and de-

pending for its establishment and con-

tinuance upon a world wide and corres-

pondingly complete revolution in hu-

man nature and ideals.

Socialist—One who believes or pro-
fesses to believe the above condition

possible and desirable, and who thinks

it only necessary to tear down the exist-

ing social structure to have the hypo-

thetical one spring up spontaneously in

its place.

Pink Tea Socialist—One who is hor-
rified at the idea of violence or class

hatred but is prepared to be one of ninety

million to put his little all into the com-

mon fund when Socialism arises upon a

foundation of universal brotherly love.

Philosophic Socialist—One who be-
lieves that the aforesaid hypothetical

condition will come about by gradual

degrees in the course of a thousand

years or so, and who consequently does

not count.

Pseudo Socialist—A foolish person
with a kind heart who thinks Socialism

is some sort of a charitable propaganda

for the relief of the poor and distressed.

Socialistic—An expression frequently
used to frighten people who are afraid

of Socialism, but signifying nothing

more than the performance by the gov-

ernment of any function not concerned

directly with safeguarding the life and

liberty of the citizens. Also any com-

bination of individuals on equal terms

to secure mutual benefits, as a club.

Social—Gregarius, disliking to be

“Famous Since 1867.”

Because of it’s Distinctive High Qualities



BURNING QUESTIONS. 13

alone; prefering squalor in the city
to

making a living on a farm. Illustra-

tion, “The cook was so social that she

would not go with us to the country,

because there was not enough company

there.”—Young Husband.
Sociable—Obsolete—An evening party,

not necessarily for Socialists. Formerly

much in favor with Brooklyn churches.

Syndicalism—A simplification of So-
cialism. A combination of working-

men to render an industry unprofitable,

take possession of it, build it up again

and take the profits themselves. The

An Old Friend ——

.

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idea is believed to have originated with

the late Jay Gould, a capitalist, who se-

cured a valuable collection of railroads

in this way.

Working man—The only person a
real Socialist or a candidate for office is

interested in. The producer and right-

ful owner of everything; invariably hon-

est and singularly intelligent.

Profit—The surplus value which the
capitalist steals from the working man.

Loss—The surplus deficit which the
working man is too honorable to steal

from the capitalist .—Brooklyn Life ,
May 4, 1912.

Socialism and Social Reform.

I

Some people are under the mistaken

impression that Socialism is a “reform”

movement! It isn’t. You cannot re-

form that which is totally and funda-

mentally wrong, and Socialists believe

that the present industrial system is to-

tally and wholly wrong. If your house

is built upon a foundation of sand you

cannot “reform” the foundation; you

can only build a new foundation of rock.

So Socialism does not propose to reform

the old decaying system of capitalism.

It proposes to abolish the system—wipe
it out of existence and establish in its

place an enlightened system based upon

the true principles of economic justice

and social righteousness.

—

Miner' s Mag-

azine
t
September 19, 1912.

II.

There is the widest difference between

Social Reform and Socialism.

Social Reform means to amend, So-

cialism means to end.

Social Reform means to build up, So-

cialism means to pull down.

Social Reform means leveling up, So-

cialism means crushing down.

Social Reform can be taken into your

homes, it follows the teachings of the

old church, that marriage is a sacrament

and does what the Father intended by

building up the home, while Socialism

disintegrates the home and by its

teaching that the State is a little father

tends to cause the family to separate as

individuals .—Archbishop Glennon.

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14 BURNING QUESTIONS.

What Happened in Massachusetts.

Socialist writers in various parts of

the country have been doing a lot of

speculating since election day. The

question that bothers them most of all is

what was the matter in Massachusetts.

While the party made a good showing

in some States, and more than held its

own in other places, in Massachusetts

its vote showed a falling off of about 50

per cent, since 1908. Moreover, the

party, by failing to cast 3 per cent,

of the total vote this year, loses its iden-

tity and ceases to exist as a political

party in that State.

It is not easy to imagine why Social-

ists should find it so difficult to account

for these circumstances. One fact made

clear by the last election was that the

greatest, decrease in the Socialist vote oc-

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curred in sections where the party

had heretofore developed the greatest

strength. In this particular Massachu-

setts was no exception to the rule. This

State was among the first in which So-

cialists succeeded in electing their can-

dates for municipal offices and the sorry

failure of these administrations has not

and will not soon be forgotten.

It is also evident that the people of

Massachusetts have not neglected to

profit by the lesson taught them by last

year’s experiences at Eawrence. There

they had an opportunity to study the

prominent Socialists at work and the dis-

covery that so eminent a party leader as

William D. Haywood was willing to

stand for the “No God! No Master!”

banner in the parade which he directed,

did not tend to make the American

voters more willing to entrust their fu-

ture to the hands of these advocates of a

Red Revolution.

There are other reasons which might

be cited, but these are sufficient to estab-

lish the fact that we desire to emphasize;

that one of the strongest arguments

against Socialism is that which is af-

forded by its few sample administrations.

— Commoji Cause
,
December, 1912.

Better Still.

The teacher—Why, Jimmy, Jimmy!
Have yon forgot your pencil again?

What would you think of a soldier going

to war without a gun?

Jimmy—I’d think he was an officer.

—

Boston Record.

“it would be difficult, indeed, to over-

ate the importance of keeping a hold on

the young after they have left school.

Their entire future, perhaps their salva-

tion, will depend on the impressions made

at this time. The man and the woman

can be made when a child, but can never

be remade at a later period.” - Cardinal

Vaughn,

telephones:

Office, S. J. 2808. Res. S. J. 3304

OFFICE hours:

10 to 12 A.M. 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P.M. Sun. 10 to 11 A.M.

Fred C. Gerlach, M.D.

Physician and Surgeon

Office: Residence:

Rooms 4-7 Tetitia Bldg. 223 S. Third Street



BURNING QUESTIONS. 15

Dumb Boy Who Saved Sixty.

Fred Evans was a boy who worked in

the dump in an Illinois coal mine. One

day there was cave-in, and the earth and

coal in settling imprisoned sixty men.

The foreman of the rescuing party saw

the small opening that the cave- in had

left between the places where these men

stood and the outer world, and he spoke

to this boy to know if he would care to

help him. “The hole is just big enough

for you to crawl through,”’ he said,

“and to drag a hollow pipe after you.

You’ll have to be mighty careful, or the

coal will settle and crush your life out.

But if you can get it through to them,

then we can pump air enough in to keep

them alive till we can dig them out Are

you willing to try it?”

All Fred answered was, “I’ll try my

best.”

It was a 600 foot crawl, and many a

Phone, San Jose 888.

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time it stopped, and those outside gave

up hope, but at last there was a faint

call through it that told them he was

there; they began pumping air and water

and milk through the pipe, and kept it

up for a week, when Fred and the whole

sixty were safely brought out and given

back to their families.

He trespasses against his duty who

sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that

goes over to the enemy.—Edmund Burke.

The Gospel of Destruction.

“Smash the machinery!” cry the I.

W. W, leaders.

“Smash the courts!” yell the Socialist

agitators.

This gospel of destruction appeals

strongly to those who have nothing to

lose, or who think they have nothing to

lose. Yet this is the very class that will

lose most if we ever reach the point where

the machinery of the factories, and the

machinery of our social organization, is

smashed

—

F. G. R. Gordon.

Sent His Daughter.

A gentleman who was once stopped
by an old man begging, replied: Don’t

you know, my man, that fortune knocks

once at every man’s door.”

“Yes,” said the old man, “he knocked

at my door once, but I was out, and ever

since then he has sent his daughter.”

“His daughter,” replied the gentle-

man. “What do you mean?”

“Why, Miss Fortune.”

For Family Beer—Call for

Rainier Beer

C. J. VATH, Agt. San Jose, Cal.

Phone, San Jose 23.



16 BURNING QUESTIONS.

WHAT THE SOAP-BOXER
MEANT.

The Soap-Boxer — Why don’t you
vote the Socialist ticket? . . . Because

deep down in your heart there is the

lingering hope that some day you will

have some of these wage-slaves work-

ing for you! But, when the time

comes and all hope is gone of having

wage-slaves under your domination,

then you will become Socialists!”

The Statement Analyzed—In other
words, when man acknowledges to

himself that he is a failure, when hope

is dead, when despair sets in, then So-

falism holds out its hands and cries,

“Accept our creed, the creed of de-

spair.”—George B. Hugo, in debate
with James F. Carey, Boston, Mass.,

March 22, 1909.

Going Back.

A farmer one day noticed two boys

looking with covetous eyes at his tempt-

ing fruit, so he ordered them away.

Sometime afterward, when he returned,

he saw the boys astride of his orchard

fence.

“Didn’t I tell you,” he roared, “that

you couldn’t come in here?”

“We’re not coming in,” answered one

of the boys, whose pockets were bulging

suspiciously, “we’re going back.”

Notice to Members and Societies Affiliated

with the Catholic Federation of

Santa Clara County.

*1 It is now time to get a receipt for your dues for

the coming year. The same can be paid to Wm.

J. Powers, Secretary, or to J. L. Lightston,

Treasurer. Meeting nights — Second and Fourth

Mondays of each month at St. Joseph’s Hall,

opposite St. Joseph’s Church. Annual meeting

Monday Evening, February 10, 1913,

Election of Officers.



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