Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Obstacles Which Retard Progress of the Nation [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Obstacles Which Retard Progress of the Nation

By CARDINAL GIBBONS

June 6 Cardinal Gibbons Wes the Recipient of State and National Honors In Baltimore In Recognition of His Fifty Years of Priesthood and Twenty-five as Cardinal and Archbishop. President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt Attended the C^abration

1 CONSIDER the republic of the United States one of the most PRECIOUS HEIRLOOMS ever bestowed on mankind down the ages and that it is the DUTY and should be the delight of EVERY citizen to strengthen and perpetuate our government by the observance of its laws and by the integrity of his private life. If our government is destined to be enduring it must do away with the following obstacles: f DIVORCE. WHICH STRIKES AT THE ROOT OF THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY. . THE IMPERFECT AND VICIOUS SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. WHICH UNDERMINES THE RELIGION OF OUR YOUTH. THE DESECRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. WHICH TENDS TO OBLITERATE IN OUR ADULT POPULATION THE SALUt TARY FEAR OF GOD AND THE HOMAGE THAT WE OWE HIM. THE GROSS AND SYSTEMATIC ELECTION FRAUDS. lastly, The unreasonable delay in carrying into effect THE SENTENCES OF OUR CRIMINAL COURTS AND THE NUMEROUB SUBTERFUGES BY WHICH CRIMINALS EVADE THE EXECUTION OF THE LAWS. To one of the fire obstacles or vices I have just enumerated may be traced oor insatiable GREED for gain, the co-existence of colossal wealth with abject poverty, the extravagance of the rich, the discontent of the poor, onr eager and impetuous rushing through life and every other moral and social delinquency.