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munists let us be. Neither do we deny that the needy are oftentimes to blame for their condition, but God forbid we should trouble poor Lazarus about the mote in his eye as long as Dives' sports such a monstrous beam. Most of the poor man's vices are superinduced by his very poverty, and are in a measure attributable to those who could afford, but refuse, him relief. All men have faults, but the wage-earner has this to his credit that his life is one long purgatory. Though the rich man's wealth results from the poor man's toil, yet how often the toiler's fate is little better than that of the fowl that laid the golden eggs. -Society is like a tree of which the laborers are the roots buried in the soil, deprived of the joy, the light, the liberty of God's fair creation, but sustaining withal and nourishing the upper limbs with their gay blossoms and rich fruits. They are the feet of the social Colossus, indispensable alike to the stomach and the head; yet how often do they go bare and bleeding! What wonder that the cold rises betimes from them to the entire body politic, and works the death of society through some mad revolutionary upheaval! For if the poor have their duties toward the rich, the rich also have their sacred obligations toward the poor that cannot be ignored. They should do on earth what the sun does in the heavens — diffuse the light and warmth of worldly comforts among the lesser bodies. They should be the great arteries of society conducting God's munificence to every dependent member of humanity. Such must have been the Creator's social plan;