The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-13

| pledged in all ways tending to effect any
Improvement, physical or moral, in the con-
dition of the negro trade.
The platform favors Catholics taking
greater part than heretofore in general
philauthropic and reformatory move
ments. "By mingling more in such works
of national virtue as non-Catholic citizens
are engaged in and taking our proper share
in the management of prisons and hos
pitfalls, we might exert Catholic influence
outside of our own body at the same
time we are solacing the unfortunate and
reforming the erring. We should be able
| TO insist on Catholic inmates being freely
ministered to by their own clergy, and we
must assert and secure the rights of con-
science of Catholic in all institutions
under the public control. There are many
Christian issues in which Catholics could
come together with non Catholics and
shape civil legislation for public good. In
spite of rebuff and injustice, and overlook
ing zealotry, we should seek an alliance
with non CatholicsI for the proper observ-
ance of the Sabbath. To effect this
we must set our faces sternly
against the sale of Intoxicating beverages
on Sunday. The cerrupting influence of
saloons on politics, and the crime and pau
perism resulting from excessive drinking,
require legislative restriction, which we
can aid in procuring by joining our influ-
perance. We favor the passage and en-
forcement of laws rigidly closing saloons
on Sunday, and forbidding the sale of
liquors to minors and intoxicated persons"
The platform recommends Catholics to
subscribe more generally for Catholic pub
LEGATIONS, and looi.s with eagerness for the
establishment of daily Catholic newspa-
pers in the large cities, and Catholic as
ISOLATED press agency; recommends the
work of Catholic circulating libraries and
reading circles, and the efforts to have the
best Catholic books and periodicals intro
duced into the public libraries as fast as
practicable.
1--WE hope for the introduction of proper
church music in all our churches where
other music is now heard Music should
help devotion at divine service, and not be
heavenly thoughts. Efforts should be
made to have the congregation join in the
singing"
The platform concludes: "We cannot
conclude without recording our solemn
conviction that the absolute freedom of the
holy see is equally Indispensable to the
peace of the church and the welfare of
humanity. We demand in the name of
humanity and justice that this freedom be
scrupulously respected by all secular gov
ernments. We protest against the as
sumption by any such government of the
right to affect the interest or control the
acts of our holy father by any form of
legislation or other public act to whichlhis |
full appreciation has not been previously !
given, and we pledge to Leo XIII, our |
worthy pontiff, to whose hands Almighty |
God has committed the helm of Peters |
bark amid the tempest of this stormy age,
the loyal sympathy and untainted aid of all |
mis- spiritual children in indicating that |
perfect liberty which he justly claims as |
his sacred and inalienable right
AS Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, had |
opened TIE congress, it was desired that |
he close it. he SAID with fiery |
emphasis: $50 to your homes filled !
with the enthusiasm of this convention |
and spread through the union that this is a |
new departure for the Catholics in this
country, a mission for Catholic laymen
The day has come, thank God, when all |
Catholics will rise up and say we are |
worthy of our religion and the country to
be conquered is heaven. Don't go home to
sleep, but to work. Go back true Cath
Olics.n
Adjourned sine die