A Gatholic's Timely Warning.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 33, 20 October 1911, Page 7

A Gatholic's Timely Warning.

WE ARE READY TO ARGUE POLITICS. DON'T INJECT RELIGION INTO THE DEBATE.

Last Friday this paper published a speech by the Hon. Charles Russell, a leader of the . Catholic Church in England, 'in. which he declared that membears and representatives of that denomination had made a mistake- in denouncing Socialism on the ground of religion or morality.

It is unfortunate, as much so for the Catliolio Church as for the Socialist Party, that some of the former's representatives ill this country have attacked Socialism in the very unfair way described by "Mr. Russell:. They have endeavoured to make it appear that a Catholic. could not consistently be a Socialist..

Many of their followers have been misled by such utterances, not knowing that THERE ARE MANY CATHOLICS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY, and thousands of them who vote the Socialist ticket.

The Socialist Party has no quarrel with the Catholic Church. It has a quarrel with those who attempt to use faith in a particular religious creed to becloud its adherents' minds tipon economic or political subjects. The Socialist writers, generally hold to the opinion that religious institutions conform to the existing economic order, and that they will change with changes in the economic order.. When Socialism has . supplanted capitalism,