CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. 
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midst of the immoral surroundings of the factory, is to destroy 
the Christian family. 
The union of all these measures should constitute the 
“Labour Code,” just as there is a commercial code, a 
maritime code, and a civil code. It should regulate the 
relations between apprentices and masters, manufacturers 
and workmen. The existing anarchy would then cease. A 
social order, not exactly identical with that which formerly 
existed, but based on the same principles, would be re 
established. Is it to be wondered at, adds the orator, that 
the demands of the people are sometimes unreasonable, and 
their accusations often too violent, when we reflect that nothing 
whatever is done for them ? 
(2) Like Lassalle, Canon Moufang demands that the State 
should advance money to working men’s societies. When rich 
capitalists make a railway, the State often guarantees them 
interest or subsidizes the undertaking. Why should it not 
give the same advantages to working men ? They have even 
a better claim ; for, with them, it is not a question of aggran 
dizement, but of life. “ I am no partisan of M. Louis Blanc’s 
Workshops,” said Herr Moufang, “ but when a sound associa 
tion of working men is in need of aid, I cannot see why the 
State should refuse to grant it. What is equitable for the 
rich is equitable for the poor also.” The Canon of Mayence 
cathedral omits to mention in what respect his associations 
differ from those of M. Louis Blanc. The difference probably 
consists in the fact that the associations proposed by the canon 
would be founded on a ground work of Catholic principles ad 
niajorafu Dei gloriam. ’ 
(3) The State ought to reduce the taxes and military 
burdens which weigh so heavily upon the labourer. The 
independent gentleman, with thousands in his purse pays 
Hardly any taxes, while the worker, who has only his scanty 
J^age, sees it still further reduced by direct and indirect 
axation, to say nothing of the fact that the best years of his 
for ^Grvice in the army. Distributive justice calls 
radical reforms on this point. Militarism is the curse of 
'-»ermany.