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_005197505	Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII)	Rerum novarum : encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII on the condition of labor.	1900		.txt	text/plain	14718	498	64	Doubtless before we can decide whether wages are adequate many things have to be considered; but rich men and masters should re- member this—that to exercise pressure for the sake of gain, upon the indigent and destitue, and to make one’s profit out of the need of another, is condemned by all laws, human and divine. Those who rule the State must use the law and the institutions of the country; masters THE CONDITION OF LABOR 35 and rich men must remember their duty; the poor, whose in- terests are at stake, must make every lawful and proper effort; since Religion alone, as We said at the beginning, can destroy the evil at its root, all men must be persuaded that the primary thing needful is to return to real Christianity, in the absence of which all the plans and devices of the wisest will be of little avail.	cache/_005197505.txt	txt/_005197505.txt