“The International-Communism.”
In a lecture under this title, by F. P. Garesche, of St. Louis University, delivered in the Hall of the Mercantile Library of that city, the doings and intentions of that powerful and dangerous International organization are clearly set forth. Mr. G. seems to understand fully whereof he speaks. These things are full of significance for those who are watching the signs of the times. The following are extracts from the lecture:— “It is not new to the world—not the creation of our generation; it was born in 1789, when men enrolled the long chart on which they said were inscribed the discovered ‘Rights of Man.’ . . . That revolution was engendered, even as the one that is impending, of profligacy and tyranny, in that previous age of corruption, which was the effect of a tyrant State, wreaking its power upon an enfeebled but protesting church. . . . That revolution, born in blood, arose, shaking its gory locks, and astounding the world as it gazed upon the monster that it had itself engendered, and which it could no longer control. “In our day, it has enlarged its sphere, multiplied its organizations, and withal, bound them so closely together that it seems already the universal republic which it desires to found. “The purposes of that Internationale—that league of associated workingmen throughout the world—of which they tell us there are eight hundred thousand members in this country alone, and from six to seven millions in all Europe and America—the purposes of that Internationale, or Communism, are the abolition of all religion, and all individual rights of property. How do I know it? Because they have told us so. They are no cowards; they dare avow what they strive to maintain. In their infidel congress at Brussels, at Geneva, and in that other of Naples, in their official papers, the Egalite of Geneva, and generally throughout the world—London, France, Germany, and America—they assert plainly that they will not have a God who is the God of the rich as well as of the poor; they will not have a religion that speaks of meekness and of suffering; that bids them hold their hands back from the property of those who have, while they themselves have not. They will not hear of virtue: they will not hear of vice. They will not admit any restraints on those passions that are boiling within them—on the greed that seeks its sensual pleasures; on that anger that creates its victim. They have acknowledged it, they have printed it, they have never denied it.”