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Wherever he taught, he would refer to it.

I remember reading the Rerum novarum in the New York Times and not having much concept of what its significance was, but I was very much interested that the Pontiff was laying out what were the duties and rights of employers and employees, and what were the rights of labor unions. The right to organize was all spelled out.

So in all these social things Al had a religious feeling towards them. They were moral. Whenever you did a thing, it was on moral grounds. While, as I say, I think he was only vaguely aware of the encyclical Rerum novarum, he was fully aware of the teaching of charity, the duty of man to man, the duty to be fair, to help your neighbor, which the church taught. He could see that when you took little children and helpless women into a factory and worked them fifteen hours, otherwise they couldn't have their living, that was not what his idea of a good Christian man should do.

His social consciousness really came to him after he went to the Legislature. I don't think he had any before. It all seemed natural to him before, but after he went to the Legislature and these bills began to come up, which he had to study, he didn't just jump out and joyfully greet the first legislation that was brought up to ameliorate the