Why, we know the
very names of the prelates with whom the master-cynic of the
Junkerthum made his "deal." He had tried the method of the
Kultur-kampf, and had failed; but before he repealed the anti-Catholic
laws, he made sure that the Church had learned its lesson, and would
nevermore oppose the Prussian ruling caste. We know how this bargain
was carried out; we have the record of the Centrum, the Catholic party
of Germany, whose hundred deputies were the solid rock upon which the
military regime of Prussia was erected. Not a battle-ship nor a
Zeppelin was built for which the Black Terror did not vote the funds;
not a school-child was beaten in Posen or Alsace that the New
Inquisition did not shout its "Hoch!" The writer sat in the visitors'
gallery of the Reichstag when the Socialists were protesting against
the torturing of miserable Herreros in Africa, and he heard the
deputies of the Holy Father's political party screaming their rage
like jaguars in a jungle night. All over Europe the Catholic Church
organized fake labor unions, the "yellows," as they were called, to
scab upon the workers and undermine the revolutionary movement. The
Holy Father himself issued precise instructions for the management of
these agencies of betrayal. Hear the most pious and benevolent Leo
XIII:

"They must pay special and principal attention to piety and
morality, and their internal discipline must be directed
precisely by these considerations; otherwise they entirely
lose their special character, and come to be very little
better than those societies which take no account of
Religion at all."

It is so hard, you see, to keep a man thinking about piety and
morality while he is starving! I am quoting from the Encyclical Letter
on "The Condition of Labor," issued in 1891, and addressed "to our
Venerable Brethren, all Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops and Bishops
of the Catholic World in Grace and Communion with the Apostolic See."
The purpose of the letter is "to refute false teaching," and the
substance of its message is:

This great labor question cannot be solved except by
assuming as a principle that private property must be held
sacred and inviolable.

And again, the purpose of churches proclaimed in language as frank as
any used in the present book:

The chief thing to be secured is the safe-guarding, by legal
enactment and policy, of private property. Most of all it is