There is an order of priority in nature. The earth and the fullness thereof were here before man appeared on the scene. Man was endowed by nature with reasoning power. This made him inquisitive, and his curiosity led him to manipulate the things he found in nature. He discovered that by rubbing two dry sticks together he could make fire, that subjecting other materials to the heat so generated changed them into forms, and that if the heat were made sufficiently fierce he could even melt stones and abstract metals therefrom. Thus modern industrial civilization was founded. After a time man invented symbols to represent the realities he was manipulating; and so reckoning with figures was evolved. Note well that reality was here before the symbols which man devised to help him to manipulate the realities. These symbols were meant to serve, and certainly never to dominate man in his activities.
Nowadays, by some curious twist of mentality, man has grown to accept the domination of his activities by symbols; thus money, which should serve, now dominates life. This reverses the natural order of priority of things; it is an inversion of the truth. A good definition of the Devil is God upside down. Man has accepted the domination of the devil, and Hell is being let loose. It is necessary that this order of priority should be reversed, and when this is done the Devil will be inverted and God will prevail, thus making possible the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, which man's ingenuity in harnessing the great sources of power in nature could make physically possible.
W. A. WILLOX in Credit Notes, Dec. 1960
The State
It is the duty of the State to watch over, guide, stimulate, direct and restrain the activities of the various sections of the community. Its function is to ensure justice for all, especially for the weaker members of the community. The State should guard against the excesses of economic Liberalism which puts man at the bottom of its scale of values. This system, in the past, placed an unbearable burden on the working man. Its modern version, though less harsh, retains an undue stress on the profit motive, to the detriment of the true welfare of the community. The errors of atheistic Socialism must also be avoided. They are those which have resulted in the brutalities which have been witnessed in Communist-dominated countries. They may also be the outcome of an erroneous concept of the true functions of the State. The tendency to increase State control over the lives of the people paves the way to Communism by stealth. If allowed to continue, this tendency will lead to the domination of the community by atheistic Socialism. The yard-stick by which all social policies may be judged is that man should be master of the social organism, not its slave.
FIAT, number 49
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To create unemployment is the first principle of Communism.
Rev. Charles E. COUGHLIN