The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-12-30

support on the ground Of merit alone
We have no particular inducements tc
offer other than the worth of the paper
No effort will be made to force a. cir
culation which the merits and worth
of the journal will not sustain. The
management of The Intermountain
Catholic has in mind only the devel-
opment of Catholic journal for the
Catholic home. but particularly for the
Catholic home in this western country
All matters affecting Catholic life in
the west will find place in it's columns.
while in addition no Catholic news of
general interest will be overlooked.
The price of The Intermountain Catho..
lie is 81 per year, payable in advance
We have no inducements to offer
aside from the paper itself We can
not furnish the paper thirteen weeks
! for a. nickel, nor can we give to each
subscriber a, sewing machine. a watch.
or house and lot.
We take it for granted that every
Catholic family in the West desires a
Catholic paper and therefore we be-
lieve the best Catholic paper for them
is the one most intimately connected
with their social, material and religious
life.
1t is the spirit of the Church that
every Catholic family should subscribe
to a Catholic paper. The Father of the
Baltimore Council most emphatically
recommended to the heads of families
that they subscribe for one or more
Catholic papers in order that they
themselves and their children may
have untainted and profitable reading
matter.
The Bishops and Priests individually
have for years been making every eff
fort to gain the much desired end
They have often at their own expense
issued journals, and very often at a
great loss kept them in existence for
years in hopes that the people would at
last awaken to sense of their duty.
Ho woften they waited in vain, and
in despair allowed their journals to go
into the newspaper grave, is sad, to
relate
The history of Catholic journalism in
America is not one to make Catholics
proud. Why it should be so is due to
the apathy of Catholics more than to
anything else. Catholic journalists hold
the highest places among members of
the public press; they are sought for
by leading journals, and their success
is gratifying. These same brilliant men |
and ready writer's have tried time and
again to give our people the benefit
Of their talents-haye edited Catholic
papers with more ability than they law
shed on the secular press, and, strange
TO say, they failed nearly In every in
stance.
The fault is not, therefore, with
Catholic writers. Who then is to
blame if Catholic journals appear and
disappear like the flowers of summer?
t certainly belongs to the people, who,
a paper is Catholic, think it
s not worth reading. They say when
IsSed to subscribe for Catholic pa
,er: ''oh! 1t is no good; there is
90 much religion in it, and it contains
% Interesting news,'D
If these people expect to find in it
record of horrible murders, cowardly (
uicides, abominable out-ages, unholy '
ivorces, and the store of filth IN I
arthed in public courts, they will be /.
sappointed.--there VIII be no news 6
Or them s
The great majority of Catholics 1
eretofore have shown no pride in 0
heir own press, but have even been
ne very ones to cry it down and dis :
ourage it. r
This is all wrong; for Catholic pa c
er, no matter how poor it may be- is ct
stter for Catholics than the best sec ii
lar journals in the land. They will p
nd in it a record of the progress their -
,ligion is making; they may in it f.
.ad the glowing words of truth ut hi
red by their Bishops and Priests: they w
i'll find the sneers of their neighbors - !,
sented; the calumnfes of their enc in
les refuted and they viii be educated tn
explain and defend their religion ~
Catholic paper they can safely allow a
cir children to read; for they will =,
erein meet neither descriptions of u,
sin, not witching induce TO
ents to evil. nc
The Catholic parent who does not 60
mself read Catholic papers and will be
t put them in the hands of his chill al
en-, is before God guilty of grave m
glect. 80