WHAT A PRIEST SAYS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 25.

WHAT A PRIEST SAYS.

CATHOLIC priests are generally optimistic, but often startling facts appal the most optimistic. Said "Father" Hayes, of St. Louis (quoted in the Catholic Mirror of May 20):—

"This is a fast age. We are on what we might term the toboggan. The labor unions are teaching men the power they possess, capital is combining, aristocracy is becoming more exclusive, and the masses more excluded. If events move as rapidly during the next century as they have since the civil war in this country, there is no telling where it will all end. We are like a great wheel, and once we get started on the downward road, it will be almost impossible to stop. There is danger in it."

And it will not take a century.