The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-12

The ReugiOus Ercss'
The election being over, and the infrmities
and corruptions of our municipal government
having been pretty fully ventilated, our reii-
gious contemporaries this week find time and
space to discuss other topics.
The Freeman's Journal-Catholic organ
discourses upon the subject of the Calvary
Cemetery, and in answer to the interrogatories
of correspondent who wants to know
whether the statements made in daily paper,
to the effect that the revenues coming from
the Calvary Cemetery are not faithfully ap-
Piled to the building Of the new Cathedral,
says emphatically, ''We fervently hope that
not one stone in the new Cathedral owes Its
place to any revenues coming from this conse-
Grated cemetery" The earnestness of this
hope, no doubt many Of our Catholic fellow
citizens will fully realize and endorse.
The Independent gives dish of politics,
and talks about ''Tweed as Moralist." 1t
says
sNo man Ia perfect maunders our Imperat0r.
True o Tweed; but in view OF your enormous theits,
your ~ SrS Gs 9n and foreery surely
your modesty will not deny US the right 10 say mat
you come about as near as mortal may W Demg
perfect villain
The Independent might have quoted in this
connection the words of the celebrated
Western divine -
And he played upon the harp Of q thousand
strings; the sperrts OF jest men made perfeck.
The 7d6let-Catholic organ-quotes an
article from the Catholic World, in which it is
denied that there is any Catholic party in
politics in this country or any Catholic vote.
1t says there is foreign vote,' German
vote," an 'Irish vote" but no ''Catholc
VOTE" And in this the Catholic World Is
right-although a good many exemplary
Christians may think otherwise.
The Tablet gives an account of an imposing
ceremony which took place November in the
Church of St. Cesaire, Canada East. The
Rev. j. A. Provencal administered the sacra-
ment of baptism to, as we are told, "a young
infdel, eleven years old, by the name Of Am
mon Frey, native of New York city, and at
present pupil in the Commercial College of
St. Cesaire. Is not an eleven year-old
''inadel" rather cheap capital for great
Church nearly two thousand years old2
The Golden Age has a very seasonable
article on Evenings at Home" 1t says -
AS the evenings lsngtnen the question nasu,
The question is A felt oitener than It is asked
Perhaps 1t would be better were it asked
Sea and %s1 non more
OF evening entertainments, giving one to read
ing; another 70 music, third to CONVEX ssss
to miscellaneous playss why not import
into the home circle some or the talent to amuse
for the invitations And what one family cannot 40
alone two or three together can easily effect
This is very good suggestion. By making
the home circle cheerful and happy it might
prevent many of the young people from at
tending certain class of lyceum lectures not
calculated to do their religious principles
much good nor elevate the tone of social mo-
rality.
The Eoangelist devotes an elaborate article
on the ''Eight Hour law, announced as
''Plain Talk to Workingmeu." Says our
Presbyterian contemporary
To invoke the aid OF legislation to nx both the
hours and the wages OF labor Is simply to reduce the
normal relations OF labor capital to utter chaos
But what legislation whether that OF the state OF
organized labor associations cannot effect, can be
eected by labOrers themselves. Let them so qualify
demand as 10 give assurance that Il viii not Be
abused, and capitalists themselves with all the
nnjusty credited, will find it for their interest to
adjust their requirements to the demands OF labor,
ana VAN Re o Is WITH
skill nNd orderly habits.
There are some wise words in the above
extract which it would be we'll for our honest
workingmen to ponder.
The O6serOer gives an editorial on
s'Morality of Polygamy," and with singular
bad taste adopts the popular slang term by
suggesting ''what to do about 1t IN Utah."
The O6server concludes that
II special legislation should require OF every pc.
lygamist tnstead OF going TO state Prison, as ne
he has hitherto pretended to call his wives, the
punishment would pc IN some good measure suited
r. sne the sudden disruption Of the system would
thus be avoided and the evil extirpated. No COM
promise Of the matter ought TO be entertained, and
Mr.. Hoopers proposal namely, to )egitimatize the
present Mormon marriages and admit the Territory
to the Union as State on condition that polygamy
repugnant to the civilization Of the age. Its adop.
ton would bring DISGRACE upon us In the eyes OF
strong with politicians Of the period.
The Boston Pilot gives "a nut for Brother
Fulton to crack" but where, when and how
the anti Catholic Fulton became brother of
she prof. Catholic Plot does not appear. The
nut-cracking process, however, may 60 on,
and ''may the best man win"
There is nothing startling in our country
religious exchanges this week. Why do they
not start up revival Of some sort9
THERE WILL BE REJoIcINGs in the ranks
of the strong minded sisterhood as they read
our Washington dispatches this morning. The
sages who compose the District Court Of the
District of Columbia have for some days been
celebrating the question Of woman suffrage,
and yesterday delivered their opinion, which
was that the fourteenth and fifteenth amend