ere Cardinal Farley to visit an American man-of-war,
he would be entitled to the salutes and to naval honors
reserved for a foreign royal personage, and at any official
entertainment at Washington the Cardinal will outrank not
merely every cabinet officer, the speaker of the house and
the vice-president, but also the foreign ambassadors, coming
immediately next to the chief magistrate himself.

Incidentally, it may be mentioned that when a royal
personage not of sovereign rank visits New York it is his
duty to make the first call on Cardinal Farley.

#Knights of Slavery#

Such is the worldly station of these apostles of the lowly Jesus. And
what is their attitude towards their brothers in God, the rank and
file of the membership, whose pennies grease the wheels of the
ecclesiastical machine? His Holiness, the Pope, sent over a delegate
to represent him in America, and at a convention of the Federation of
Catholic Societies held in New Orleans in November, 1910, this
gentleman, Diomede Falconio, delivered himself on the subject of
Capital and Labor. We have heard the slave-code of the Anglican
disciples of Jesus, the revolutionary carpenter; now let us hear the
slave-code of his Roman disciples:

Human society has its origin from God and is constituted of
two classes of people, the rich and the poor, which
respectively represent Capital and Labor.

Hence it follows that according to the ordinance of God,
human society is composed of superiors and subjects, masters
and servants, learned and unlettered, rich and poor, nobles
and plebeians.

And lest this should not be clear enough, the Pope sent a second
representative, Mgr. John Bonzano, who, speaking at a general meeting
of the German Catholic Central-Verein, St. Louis, 1917, declared:

One of the worst evils that may grow out of the European war
is the spreading of the doctrine of Socialism, and the
Catholic Church must be ready to counteract such doctrines.
We must be ready to prevent the spread of Socialism and to
work against it. As I understand, you have a society of
wealthy people in St. Louis ready for such a campaign. You
have experienced leaders who are masters in their kind of
work. They are always insistent to show that this wealth was
and is in close touch with the Church, and therefore it will
not fail.

This, you perc