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Pope Leo and the Labor Question
Cincinnati, July 26. At the Vine
Street Congregational church, the pas
tor, Herbert S. Bigelow, took for his
theme, Pope Leo and the Labor
Problem.
Text: "For the needy shall not al
ways be forgotten: the expectation of
the poor shall not perish forever."
Psa. 9: IS.
Mr. Bigelow said in part:
The graceful and kindly expressions
of love and praise which the death of
the pope has called forth from the men
of all faiths are a tribute, not only
to the pope, but also to that growth of
Catholicity among men which makes
the Protestant world proud of the
glories of the motner church, and sin
cerely mournful of her loss.
It was the good fortune of our Cath
olic brethren to have had for their
head a man whom the world loved,
and it is good to know that there is
fcardly a Protestant heart anywhere
which does not cherish his memory as
With filial affection.
This morning I desire to remind you
of the pope's contribution to the dis
cussion of that all-important problem
of labor. His attitude upon this ques
tion should not be overlooked in the
enumeration of his services to man
kind. Unfortunately we have some Protest
ant preachers who defend the existing
social order as ordained of God, and
deprecate as harmful any discussion of
proposed changes. This is not the
teaching of Scripture, neither was it
the teaching of the pope.
Protestants who have substituted the
authority of the Bible for the authority
of the church ought to be influenced by
such words as these of pur text. They
ehould be hospitable to every sincere
effort to improve social conditions and
ehould never be reconciled to the pres
ence of wide-spread and galling pov
erty. "For the need shall not always
be forgotten: the expectation of the
poor shall not perish forever."
Catholics for whom the pope speaks
&s one having authority should give
heed to these words of Leo: "At this
moment the condition of the working
population is the question of the hour;
and nothing can be of higher interest
to all classes of the state than that
it should be rightly and reasonably
tieclded." These words were written
twelve years ago in the pope's famous
encyclical letter on the "Condition of
Labor."
This letter solemnly declares that it
is not only the duty of citizens, but
especially the duty of the church to
discuss this most momentous of ques
tions. The third paragraph of the let
ter begins with this emphatic sentence:
"But all agree, and there can be no
question whatever, that some remedy
must be found, for the misery and
wretchedness which press so heavily
at this moment on the large majority
o the very poor."
Much is said today, concerning the
unjust distribution of wealth, which
seems severe and revolutionary. The
street corner agitator talks of "wage
slavery" and some will say that such
talk ought to be suppressed as calcu
lated to set clas against class. But
listen to these words of the pope:
"A small number of very rich men
have been able to lay upon the masses
of the poor a yoke little better than
slavery itself."
The spirit of this letter gives am
ple encouragement to these who would
so change society that it shall not be
possible for "rich men and masters,"
to use the language of the pope, "to
exercise pressure for the sake of gain
upon the indigent and the destitute,
and to make one's profit out of the
need of another."
It is true that in this letter the pope
failed to discriminate between the doc
trines of socialists and single tax men
and those of communists. And it was
because of these misconceptions of the
single tax movement, that Henry
George wrote an open letter to the
pope setting forth In a reverent and
forceful way the claims of his school
of political economy.
There is not wanting evidence that
the pope was led to modify his views
of the single tax movement. The man
who persists in error after new light
has come to him sacrifices truth to
personal vanity. A great man will
change his mind on occasion. This
the pope seems to have done. This
seems to be a legitimate inference to
be drawn from the history of the Mc
Glynn case.
It will be recalled that Edward Mc
Glynn had been excommunicated for
publicly advocating the election of Mr.
George as mayor of New York. This
was in 1887. Four years later the
pope's encyclical was published which
contained some strictures upon the
single tax theory. Two years after
this McGlynn went to Rome and had
a personal interview with the pope in
which he explained the opinions of
single tax men. Previously to this
the pope had received a copy of Henry
George's letter and also through the
papal ' delegate, Satolli, he had re
ceived a statement of the single tax
position which McGlynn submitted to
Henry George for his indorsement be
fore it went to the pope.
With these documents before hira
the pope received McGlynn at the Vati
can, and hearing his case he lifted the
ban which had been placed upon him.
Therefore single tax men will cherish
the memory of Leo XIII. because it
was he who gave justice to their be
loved McGlynn; for they feel that the
church in America has had no more
honored name since the days when
the noble Las Casas plead for the West
Indian slaves at the court of Spain.
It is my understanding of the Cath
olic doctrine of Infallibility that it Is
not held that the pope is above the
possibility of error in secular matters,
but that in church matters his author
ity is not to be questioned. Therefore
I assume that it is entirely consistent
with orthodox Catholocism to admit
that in the formation of his views on
politics the pope, like any other man,
would necessarily be influenced by his
surroundings. But when we remem
ber ths environment of a pope I think
we may say that Leo XIII. was re
markably progressive and took ad
vanced ground In his discussion of the
labor question. It will.be a groat bless
ing to the world If the church should
secure a successor to Leo who shall
be as nearly abreast with the best po
litical thought of the twentieth cen
tury. As greeting to the new popo may we
not repeat those words with which
Henry George closed Lis letter to Leo
XIII.?
"Servant of the servants of God! I
call you by the strongest and sweetest
of your titles. In your hands more
than in those of any living man, lies
the power to say the word and make
the sign that shall end an unnatural
divorce, and marry again to religion
all that 13 pure and high in social aspiration."
Under the single tax a man works
for what he gets, and ho gcta what he
earns.
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