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No. 2,815
PERTH, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1934
Not God, But Mammon In a scathirss indictment of the modern methods of society, in its worship of the "6. ,;rlen Calf," and its pagan outlook , os. ,n the realities of life, His Lordship Dwyer, Bishop of Wagga, in his i. ten Pastoral Letter to his people, wiites: When we wseo. baptised, we were branded with L'H' '.7-oss of Christ, and the Cross is no snly safe passport to Heaven. Tit; e where you Fke, you cannot avoid sss in this life, and if you wil1 them willingly, you must bear th inwillingly You cannot escap, or mental crosses because you .ii • f-willed and spoiled. If you of one cross you will soon find s. Ti you have
the moth and the robber break the hearts of the avaricious, rich man by stealing his wealth away; the Lord can load the di:e against the greedy gamblers and speculators, be they men or s yndicates of men, and make them share the graves of paupers. The world is full of fools in the guise of wise men: as it is full of wolves in the clothing of sheep. The know-ails of this world pretend they are wiser than God, but their wisdom is so much folly. They have succeeded, by their apparent cleverness, after nineteen centuries, in filling the world with unemploysd and unemployable paupers, because they showed men how to enrich themselves at the expense of their brethren. Soience and inventive genius
magnates are often dishonest. The "Bulls" and "Bears" of the Stock Exchange should be behind strong bars in some zoo or gaol, while many traders and merchants are dishonestly using the law of supply and demand to rob the helpless people who buy. Monopolies exercised by powerful companies, the packing of annual meetings of company shareholders with selected shareholders readied up at the "club" to carry unanimously whatever resolutions dishonest directors wish, are some of the tricks used to defraud people in business matters. These things are not published in the Press, which is partisan and knows the "Grip." No w onder then that men cannot earn their bread in the sweat of, their
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The Governments enforced secular education allegedly to kill religion, and specially the Catholic priesthood, while they pretend to be Able to guard moral behaviour by Act of Parliament, but they allow the picture halls and. press to become a university for the dissemination and propagation of immoral practices which have destroyed the sanctity of homes. Unless the real C hristian home is restored to its pristine influence in human life, then this depressed world is going to go farther into the filthy mire of wickedness, and Christian civilisation will soon be at an end in spite of Rotarians, Apexians and other brands of clubs which are going to make the world into a Utopia of human delights. .
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not one of and friends your own. your neighbours have done away with human labou r will soon supply you with and Plenty of with the labour of the domestic Peace of them, and if# you want ;iny animals to a large extent, but they soul You must learn to bear have tilled the world with communistic all You get with. patience. Cannot We sorely demons, whose hordes will overw helm escape what even the chose s n civilisation and wreak the vengeance on .aints of instead God could not avoid. They, slave-driving company directors and th5m, of avoiding crosses, longed for shareholders as the Bolsheviks wireaked Divineso that they might imitate their (m Russia Czard om. God decreed t hroughMaster, who Himself had to go that man n should eat his bread in the the sufferings of the Cross to sweat: of his brow, but syndic the triump ate magh of His Easter tints Resurreo nates try often to decree that they themselves shall cat bread and sate We not forget. the injuncti, iii themselves by the sweat of others given must without thte to Adam, to earn his bread by and to giving them a decent wage, prevent the sweat of his brow, and that is one ting enough to buy workers from get°` the daily bread for themselAnd cros the life of ses we have to bea7. ves and their dependents, they have of man is a warfare, full introduced mach inery which has largely labours, full versitY• Even of croses, full of ad- deStroyed the rights of the unemploythe earth must great ones of the The bear their cross. The Lord ed to earn their daily bread. itllais dr banking hoarders of wealth, and agged down mona rchs from their speculators, are their aiders r'lles; the And abetLord has let the rust and tors. The standards of the financial 411140-41.-11041.-
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brow, and they have nothing left but The world of to-day has nothing to the dole and become burdens on the lift it up except the stubbc,rn refusal if the Catholic Church to accommoState which taxes those who can pay date its Faith to the false tenets c". to feed those who are workless. If pseudo-scientists, or its moral code to Governments were composed of the neo-pagan immorality which is straight men who were unable to be being supplied from Hollywood and bribed, and acted on Christian principother kindred factories by the merliunc les, they would make laws to regulate of the picture theatre and the scllr•:i! , t he use of machinery and the distribu(- 11,: Make your how . tion of wealth, and-give every man a bret press. hren, as they once were, sanctuao chance to work and gain his bread. ,s of the Cross, where, by prayer and They would then not let one man or self-den ial, by labouring and dealing f amily own thousands of acres of good honestly with your neignbours, by land which would give a living to hun- being clean and charitable in rolls dreds. But modern Governments do thoughts, words and actions. even tonot run their part of the world as God wards your enemies, von will educate wishes it to be run, but they work it your children in God's love and fear. to snit shareholders in banks and other and defy the efforts of the devil's big financial and industrial concerns, agents to paganise you or them. Imi which can afford to pay a bribe, in a tate discreet way, of course, so as not to up Our Lord—denv Yourselves, take the crosses He sends you. and fo:have their usurious practices disturblow Him through life, that you may ed. . . . live with Rim eternally after death. 111101 4141. 41,41.-
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