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UNIVERSAL WARFARE ON BODIES AND SOULS Public Rally of English Bishops Mr. Hilaire Belloc in Ireland and Laity COLLEGE, DUBLIN PLAIN SPEAKING ON PUBLIC EVILS BY AKU-1131bhOP HINSLEY
TWO LECTURES IN UNIVERSITY
Distributism, Historical Evidence, and Slavery
centuries of the Church he,- - universal tradition says so. Th‘2. Family MaS8 Crusade tradition of the Mass as the cenChristian recent Britain the General in of Elections approach the tral ritual of The Church goes back and back. It was the signal for a unique rally of the hierarchy and laity in is sustained by the bulk and the Albert Hall, Lonon, on the 29th. ult., where the grave the day were discussed. social issues of and oral weight of European thought. m Moral evils and social evils, mass murder by war; The importance attached to monuments, particularly those strikes, lockouts, and housing were all 1.)rought under redug up_ by archaeologists, the lecview—and discussed plainly, and sometimes bluntly. turer considered, is enormously Dr. W. J. O'Donovan, M.P., revealed that in consequence Guild, Doctors' by the Catholic Hierarchy the appeal to exaggerated at the present time. of an He illustrated his point by a Archbishop Hinslev has written to Capt. Margesson, the humorous reference to the monChief A,Vhip, Proclaiming Catholic opposition to sterilisation. Archbisproblems, with dealing many speech ument to Schomberg that formlong In a erly stood on the banks of the hop Hinsley put forward the ideal that every family should Boyne. own its own house. Dealing wth the sending of munitions to General knowledge embraces either or both sides of waring nations, regardless of justice commonsense, which is frequentor humanity, His Grace declared: "This seengs to me a murA new movement, in ly alien to the academic mind. In derous way of making money." this connection Mr. Belloc menwhich it is hoped that every Catholic family in the country tioned the case of a well-known will take part was launched—a Family Mass Crusade. English professor of history who opined that the population of About 5,000 people attended his home should belong to him England at a certain time must the demonstration. The King than it should be an uninterestHilaire Two lectures by Mr. and the Prince of Wales were the ing and perhaps ill-cared-for ten- Belloc, the first on "The Nature have been extremely small judgfirst to grant permission for the ancy for which he pays rent. of Historical Evidence," and the ' ing ,by tho size of the (Catholic) ches at the time, obviously use of private boxes. What a blessing to the nation, second on "Property versus In addition to Archbishop Hin- what a gain to health of body Slavery," delivered at University unaware of or at least making no sley, the speakers were Bishop and soul, if we could procure pro- College, Dublin, on the 21st. and allowance for the fact that sev:\IcNulty, of Nottingham, Dr. W. per homes for all our people, and 28th. ult., respectively, attracted eral Masses might be celebrated J. O'Donovan, M.P., Mrs. by preference houses owned by large audiences—so large indeed in the same church in one day. Laughton Mathews, Property and Slavery. M.B.E., their indwellers ; if, further, we that on each occasion many were chairman of St. Joan's Social and could guarantee a spirit of self- unable to gain admission to the Dealing with the question of Political Alliance, Lord Russell reliance and of due independence lecture theatre. "Property and Slavery," Mr. of Killowen, Dr. Letitia Fair- by giving each man a small proDr. Denis J. Coffey, President, Belloc, in his second lecture, field, C.B.E., Mr. Richard O'Sul- perty which he could cultivate University College, Dublin, pre- dwelt on the calamity that befell livan, and a third doctor, Dr. around his home. sided at both lectures, and the the social order by the religious Genevieve Rewcastle, national A dream, you will say—but a audiences included a large body revolution of the sixteenth cenpresident of the Catholic Wo- dream with much sense and of students, professors of the tury. Until that great breakmen's League. reality in it, a. dream which it College, clergy, and the general up, the possession ot private Points in the Archbishop's would be worth while to make public. property was the normal condiSpeech were: come true. Speaking on the subject of his- tion of things; every man, or alSocial necessarily Exploitation and the Just Wage. tory at his first lecture on Mon- most every man, was a property reform means reconstruction on God's No man or grouP of men has a day afternoon, Mr. Belloc men- owner, and one out of every two lines. right to exploit any other man ot tioned four aspects of historical men died in the house in which God's will is the salvation of group of men—to use other per evidence of which account must he was born. society, of the individual and of sons merely for selfish advant be taken in the study of the subWhen the seventeenth centftry the whole, the happiness of all age or gain. ject; two major and two minor. had done its work, the propormen. Whatever be the social posi. The major aspects were tradition tion was one in four; it is imposThe old utilitarian liberalism tion or plutocratical power of th( and documents; the minor, mon- sible accurately to say what it proclaimed as the aim of life the employer, he has not, or shoule uments (that is to say, human now i , but it must be at least greatest happiness for the great- not have, the legal right to us( f abrics other than documents) one in twenty. In the Pre-"Reest number. But the greatest his employees as mere commodi- and general knowledge. formation" order of things, cusnumber in practice was alas! ties. If there be men or comHe traced the characteristics, tom was respected, it was sacNumber panies of men who seek to mak( and the advantages and disad- red, and custom respected the happinessOne, and the greatest turned out to be mere as much money, as they can ou. vantages (or drawbacks) of rights of the individual as well as Pleasure. of other men—to swell dividend each: the value of the document, the rights of the community, for Invasion of the Family Sanctity. at the expense of the toilers— he said, is that it is fixed. It instance, the opening and closing Man cannot lawfully consent then such men and such com- may be absurd or king. but it is of commons at certain times of to the mutilation of his faculties panies are unjust in their aim unchanging. On the other hand, the year followed immemorial .and members 1, document may be a pure fabrieither by private and actions. custom. 1,11d1viduals or public functionarThe wage system itself is no cation, done with a deliberate Industrial Capitalism. ies: he "And whatever man cannot consent to the in- unjust, but when it exists th purpose. The religious revolution introYiasion of the sanctity of his fam- wage should be a Proper wage, ; does deliberately," he remarked, duced competition, with the re5 37,, bY devices and practices' fair and just wage. And a faii "contains a pretty large dose of sult that property tended more Lvilich, aiming at the roots of life, and just wage should be sufficien original sin." and more to fall into the hands m ean death Value of Tradition. to the very race of to enable the working man, ti ot the few, and the consequent Tradition, which it was consid- creation of a large employee, to live his full hum. proletarian Man, in circumstan- life, sufficient to enable him an ered fashionable by some to sneer class previoUsly unknown, and ctes, has a normal right to a full life. He his family to live in frugal corn at, while it may be exaggerated thus industrial capitalism had its llas a d , right to a home, and to a fort and decency. It may b and warped, was sincere, and was origin. evetoPing family said that as industry is now or enormously valuable if studied He traced the progress of inlife. n This this is not always- pos with reference to the other as- dustrial ganised dear land of England will capitalism in various IP be our England if ever home sible. Then industry should 11' )ects of the subject he had men- countries to-day and the attempts ioned. "e loses its hold eorganised. being made in some countries to on English r 'leans. M Partnership -Employee Employer The lecturer pointed to the fact find a substitute, for some suban has a right to have Some kind of partnership be- uhat as regards the history of stitute must be found alid le with a sense of security by every stabilitythe worker and his em- Early Church, documentary evi- country tween not a precarious sometime. What is callP°sses 'ion from which he may be ployer seems to be called for, a dence was slight and we had to ed the "wage-slave" is a product would be co-operawhich ystem °„usted at short notice and unex- s depend largely on tradition. We Pectedl Y. know there was Mass in the early (Continued on Page 17.) (Continued on Page 16.) Far better, then, that