This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...refused to answer any questions, reasonable or unreasonable, which were put to them. In fact, the conferences became celebrated as social symposiums, and their effect might even have been more far-reaching had not the outbreak of the war diverted attention to new issues which overshadowed and diminished any ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...refused to answer any questions, reasonable or unreasonable, which were put to them. In fact, the conferences became celebrated as social symposiums, and their effect might even have been more far-reaching had not the outbreak of the war diverted attention to new issues which overshadowed and diminished any effort that did not touch on the immediate saving of the country and the world. The result of Mr. Collins' tours, extending, as did Mr. Goldstein's, over four years, was the accumulation of five thousand questions and answers dealing with almost every phase of sociology and political economy having relations with our modern conditions of life. The struggle against the destructive tendencies of Bolshevism, to use a title which covers nearly all the dangerous social tendencies known to civilization, was resumed by the Knights of Columbus just as soon as the actual war ceased. At a time when certain extremists had evidently determined to silence by violence any form of protest against their activities, Supreme Knight Flaherty enunciated, very frankly and boldly, the ethics on which the position of the Knights of Columbus was founded. The Knights, he declared, did not feel it their duty to take sides in the matter of healthy differences between employers and employees, but they were opposed to the bitter end to the dangerous principles of a clique which, dominating the ignorant, the vicious and the discontented, had made itself appear as if it were a universal voice. He added that the Order would use every resource at its command to defeat the forces of anarchy, which, under language both intended to deceive and deceiving, are leading the world into absolutism and despotism. A great force on the side of right thinking and right living was The...
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