The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-20
A Daily Catholic Paper.


Great efforts were made last year to start .
Prospectus was written, and copies Of 1t Civ
en- to several influential persons to- procure
stock in the now enterprise. Meetings OF the
wsast sy,S Catholics in New York and S
esch In stock, at o., 600 D share. About, ten
persons put down their names for this amount
ceon, and several othors for lesser Gums but
s sftsr months talk, and efforts made toget the
$500, 00O-the, amount required-the subject
was dropped Indefinitely, as only about 81 900
were actually subscribsd = and besides the
Hecker. broke dowa in health, ana had to 60
south TO recover 1t, where he now 10. But
just think of it here 10 q city in which there
are CatholiSs.-not ono but several-worth
yet the most any of these millionaires put
down was $4,000. Had one or two subscribed
$500 600 piece, and thus have control, tho
paper paper would So have been started, and, no doubt
generation will not SEES such result. Tho
taste, the spirit, the-something is wanting
among our people. Our rich Catholics, with
an institution-never bald an orphan asylum
mover establish home for the aged-never
sendow hospitabie-no, 1t is the small ccllee-
tions that do all these. 1t is not so with those
for the propagation of their ideas-they do all
in that line that our people fail to do. It may
be well to remind ourselves how much ahead
S OF Us the Concentrating CATHOLICS are re, We
ready for the establishment of q daily Catho-
lie paper, to be published in New York in the
German language. 1t will be started very
be success. Hero 10 an example for our rich
Catholics but it will, we fear, have 30 effect
We have plenty of talent, if it could be used
IF there were field for it-but the men who
men who have the money lack the talent, and
the result is that our Catholic English writer's
are necessitated to dispose of their talent in
tho non CATHOLIC market or starve The New
If@es. control excellent Catholic talent, and
why because they can pay for it. We boast
Of our fine NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., beautiful;
say, We have the weakest, the :poorest and
worst supported literature in the country.
Even in books we are behind. Any one of
the large non-Catholic publishing houses in
or the derh than all onr publishing houses put
together, issue for the honor of God!!! This
is fact. Let who will gainsay it.
The above from q recent number of the
Cincinnati Telegraph, is deserving the SER
ious consideration of all English speaking
Catholics. That our German CO. religionists
fully appreciate the necessity of using the
powerful influences of the press in preserv-
ing the faith and morals of their children
and in affording them instruction and am
usemept as. we'll as in securing these to
is evidenced by the number
and circulation Of the Catholic papers,
printed in German, at present pu blished in
this country. There are now daily German
Catholic papers published in Buffalo, Phil
adelphia and st. Louis, all in flourishing
condition and gradually extending in cir
culation and influence. We think that
recently another daily paper of the same
kind was started at Cleveland, Ohio, and,
as the IelegrapNs article shows, $500 600
have already been subscribed for the pur-
pose of establishing another in New York.
OF weeklies, the German Catholics have
one in Baltimore, circulation Is 900 ; one
in Cincinnati, circulation 10000 one in
Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. circulation
$4,000; and two in Buffalo, N. Y. They
doubtless have many other weeklies, but
ing them, we prefer to let the above, of
which we are certain, pass as the evidence
of what the German Catholics, compare
lively few in numbers when compared with
English speaking Catholics generally, are
doing in this line, in behalf of their religion.
If the more serious considerations we have
mentioned have not, SO far, been sufficient
ly powerful to secure the establishment, by
English speaking Catholics, of daily papera,
and to cause them to give generous and
liberal support to the weeklies already in
existence, at least human respect and pride
ought to excite them to some degree of
emulation of the zeal of the Germans.
AleER1NE FAIR When starting to visit this
Fair, last week, we cid not expect to pass such
pleasant evenings as we now gladly aoknow-
ledge to have spent there. OF course, we knew
the trip ON the ferryboat would be delightful,
the hall tastefully decorated, and the tables
elegantly and substan TALLY set of but we did
not expect that cordial and agfSssb1s manner
of the really large assemblage which every
evening throngs the building. Besides, The
selection & incidcntaIk attractions was de-
cidedly in accordance with good taste. Chief
among these was q charming operetta entitled