Monsignor John A. Ryan: American Social Gospeller: 1900-1945

Author

Paul Albert Gopaul

Publication Date

6-5-1967

Abstract

With the publication of "A Country Without Strikes" in 1900, describing the enactment of a system of compulsory arbitration in New Zealand, John Augustine Ryan, thirty-five years old, a Roman Catholic priest, student at the Catholic University of America, and middlewestern-reared Populist, joined the lists of the Social Gospellers who were trying in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to bring America to grips with an industrial and economic situation that left 71 per cent of the wealth in the hands of 9 per cent of the families. This condition threatened to scar the United States permanently with a social cleavage between classes based on the "haves" of monopoly and large corporations and the "have nots" of the ranks of labor and farming.

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

American Studies

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

American Studies

First Committee Member (Chair)

George Winston Smith

Second Committee Member

George Warren Arms

Third Committee Member

William Miner Dabney

Recommended Citation

Gopaul, Paul Albert. "Monsignor John A. Ryan: American Social Gospeller: 1900-1945." (1967). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/157