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 perceive, is the complete thesis of the present book, which
therefore no doubt will be entitled to the "Nihil Obstat" of the
"Censor Theolog.", and the "Imprimatur" of "Johannes Josephus,
Archiepiscopus Sti. Ludovici." No wonder that the "experienced
leaders" of America, our captains of industry and exploiters of labor,