The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-25

and tacitly approving of attacks upon
religion Now it is the chiefs who lead
the way"
"As a buffer, Fuss-and- Feathers
Funston is not a bowling success. says
the Union and Times. We'll bet a
big apple that threatened libel suit
against the San Francisco Monitor will
! never materialize Funston knows bet
ter, unless he could be sure of getting
an Apaist jury-with whom the more
! the truth, the greater would be the
! libel. Meanwhile Editor Connolly is
not losing much rest He names his
informant, as 10 yestment-g grabbing
| Funston. He is Mr. Thomas .Fox-'a
thoroughly reliable man. according to
! Mr. Connolly-wko Mas with the vol
| unteers and voucheS personally for the
! story concerning Funston and the
church vestments."
Slattery is financially strained down
! in Australia and has given up leetur
ing. He has been literally strapped
many times before, but brief STAY in
sanitarium always enabled him to
take the road again. This time his pc
ROD of retirement means a full stop.
He says he would like to open a hotel.
but two difficulties have presented
iiNAiiSSA lie mas llO lIlOIl6y ana ne
cannot get license. The Antipodeans
would give Slattery license to lecture:
but they will not give him one to open
public house. Any ragamuffin can
rail against the Catholic Church; but a
man must have some character to open
dram shop in Australia.
Cardinal Gibbons started last Sunday
night for New Orleans. La. where he
will officiate at the marriage of his
niece, Miss Katherine Gibbons. a
daughter Of his brother, John T. Glib
pons, who is a prominent resident of
New Orleans. Miss Gibbons was edu-
Gated at st. Joseph,s Academy. En-
mittsburg. Md. The Cardinal left at
1885 o'clock in a private car over the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He was ac-
companied by the Rev.~John D. Boland.
pastor of st. Vincent's church, and the
Rev. William A. Reardon, pastor of st.
Peters church. At Washington Bishop
Van De Vyver of Richmond Va, Join
ed the Cardinal. Bishop Foley of De-
troit Joined the party at Cincinnati. o..
on Monday. The Cardinal and his
two weeks.
Governor Roosevelt of New York.
speaking of Mayor Mcclure of SYRIA
cuse to a reporter of the New York
World, says: Il have been greatly in
terested in the result of the election in
Syracuse. What is the secret of Mayor
McGuire's popularity? Although he
was not backed by the labor element !
this year, as in 1897, he seems to have |
had no trouble in winning. He has i
proved himself to be one of the strong
men of his party, and doubtless win |
receive consideration at their hands |
next year. l cannot understand how it |
is that Syracuse normally Republi- |
can city, selects a Democratic mayor, !
unless it be the unbounded popularity I
of Mr.. MCGUIRE"
The Right Rev. Louis de Goesbriand, |
Bishop of the Diocese of Burlington.
died last Friday at st. Joseph's Provi- i
dence Orphan Asylum, in Burlington, /
VT. The venerable prelate. who was
the oldest bishop in the United States,
succumbed to old age. For several
years he had been in falling health,
and in 1892 gave up active work in the
diocese, requesting that a Coadjutor
Bishop be appointed. Snce which time
he had grown feeble rapidly, until the
end came The cause of the death of
this good man was old age, he having
devoted his life to the strains of mis-
on the western frontier in Ohio.
near Toledo, and in this state
Of building up the Catholic faith. where
aid was scarce and work was arduous.
How well he accomplished his life mis-
sion is attested h. the handsome
churches, numerous costly schools and
arge amount of property in Vermont
now controlled by the Church
Responsibility for the desecration of
Catholic churches by soldiers in the pay
If our government is not to be shirked
1y certificates of good conduct given
by officers of the army:
neither is it met by the statement that
he occupation or destruction of
churches was a necessary act of war
II that the looting of them, which is
lot denied, was the work of unknown
Chinese or Filipinos, says the Monitor
If San Francisco. The patent fact is
hat large quantities of Church furni-
ure. vestments and sacred vessels have
,een brought here from Manila by
American soldiers and on government
without, so far as We know,
my attempt on the part of either the ]
or civil officers to prevent it.
Apart from the saerilege. there is no
question that these vestments and
Church plate are stolen property.