Good Advice by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 37.

Good Advice.

By Editor

The following from Archbishop Ireland, anent the labor troubles and recent great strike, is worthy of reproduction. It would be well for some of our Protestant clergy who have been giving utterance to anarchistic sentiments to take lessons from this Roman prelate. He says:—

"Labor must learn that, however sacred its rights may be, there is something above them, and absolutely supreme,—social order and the laws of public justice. There is no civil crime as hideous, as pregnant of evil results, as resistance to the law and the constitutional authority of the country. This resistance is revolution. It begets chaos; it is anarchy; it disrupts the whole social fabric.

"Labor, too, must learn the lesson that the liberty of the citizen is to be respected. One man has the right to cease from work, but he has no right to drive another man from work. He who respects not the liberty of others shows himself unworthy of his own liberty, and incapable of citizenship in a free country."

Next week we may print more from the same prelate in this line.