The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-13
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE

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SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
SUNDAY Observance" was the title oI
q paper by Manly B. Tsllo, Of 0leve'
land. He took tue ground that in deal
ing with the question the Catholic has
10 do with the rights OF others, and has
to take into practical consideration the
state Of American society in which he
lives.
Catholic exposition In mere theory
will not altogether avail Catholic action
on the Sunday, Is whstAw most tell
and particularly public acts, outside the
walls OF churches.
The prevailing manners OF our country
in kind, though uot always In degree,
arc to be supported. The dominant
manners OF our country are the manuert
OF Americans and We are Americans
The tendency Of Catholics Of German
extraction here, like Germans OF other
religions aud no religion, to insist on
old country Sunday customs was
touched upon, and the embarrassing
position in which he said 1t placed
other minded Catholics he pointed out,
He urged Catholics TO become Of one
mind. "What we should seek, said he,
"is an en- rapport with the Protestant
Christians who desire 10 keep the Sun
day holy. We cannot 90 over 10 the
Judaic rigidity OF the Puritan Sabbath,
but we eau bring the Protestant masses
over to the reverent moderation Of the
Catholic Sunday. To effect this,
though, We must set our faces steInly
against the foreign license and open
saloon features nov 80 largely defended
or praCtiCed by Catholic adherents.
Catholic socisties should never make
Sunday day for useless public demon.
stration, and when they do march In q
body with music To corner stone laying,
or for other unobjeCtionable purposes,
care should be taken not to disturb non.
Catholic services. l advocate, then, that
Catholics, despite rebuff and injustice,
overlooking zealotry, seek alliance with
Protestant Christians for proper Sunday
observance.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
The next paperwas Labor and Capi.
tal,p by Mr.. William Richards, Of Wash.
ington. He announced It's purpose as
being to contrast the social condition ol
the time when the mission Of charity
was acknowledged and accepted by all,
and the present, when free competition
has been substituted ior charity. Ant
wetp, when that city was the CONNER.
cia capital OF the world, and the 0atho.
lie religion held sway with It's great
safeguards, the confessional and charity,
was instanced as an illustration and
dwelt upon elaborately. The speaker
unhesitatingly asserted that notwith.
standing sophistiCal collation. Of iactS
and figures the comparatively few rich
are getting richer, the multitudinoue
poor are getting more numerous and
poorer, and that pauperism ID
more general, more wretched and
more rapidly increasing than In
any prior age Of the world. Thank God
however, there Is hope to-day for bet
terlnent Of our condition, It e the tend
enCy to recombine the isolated particles
into q union cooperating harmoniously
once more on the pritnordial principles
OF the brotherhood OF man; ae, for ex
ample, In the powerful organization o.
Knights Of Labor. But such voluntary
associations are only partial remedies
They do not include all the people anc
they mmst fail to accomplish the grea
end Of human society simply because
they do not embody or make place fOl
divine principle ofcharity. There car
ben real mitigation OF pauperism unit
The whole system OF modern thought Il
reconstructed aud we come 10 some
OF what the eternal verities really are.
Mr.. Campbell, Of Philadelphia, movet
that the convention be held at Wherevei
the Worlds Fair is located, The reao
luton was adopted.
Aa Archbishop Ireland, of ST, Paul
closed the Congress he said with fery
emphaAis, "Go 10 your homes followed
with the enthusiasm Of the Convention
and spread II through the Unioi
that there is d new departure fO
Catholics In this country, q lnisslon io
Catholic laymen. The day Ahall come
thank God, when all Catholics will rls,
up andsAy.we are worthy Of our religion
The country 10 be conquered 10 Heaven
Don't 20 home 10 sleep but 10 work
Act lkO tue Catholics" Adjourned
sine die.