The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-07
THE CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER
CATHOLICS SHOULD GIVE IT
SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT.
Bishop Horstman of Cleveland, o.,
Holds Tt Up as Model Before
Convention of Catholic Knights.

! AT the convention of the Catholic
knights of Ohio, held at Columbus last
week, Bishop Horstman delivered the
following notable address, which
/ should be taken home by2 every Catho-
lie in the land:
Il wish to address you, gentlemen, in
/ the name of good, departed Bishop
| Watterson, who 1 feel, were he here,
would give you a cordial welcome to
the diocese of Columbus. l hope that
your meeting here viii be one of har-
mony. benefit, peace and for the future
good of the organization. Whatever is
done should be done very slowly and
you should profit from the experience
of other organizations and from your
own: let candid consideration of all
your actions precede the action that
comes up before you. One great OBJ
iect in your joining together is indie
pendent of your own self-interest. 1t is
that Catholic men should become ac-
uuainted with each other and be united
in Catholic interests. / look over the
world and see that the Catholic men in
Europe. England, Germany and Canada
are seeing the necessity of being united
There are the Catholics of England;
see what they have done. Their Cath
olic Tract Society is enough for any
society to be proud of. We little real
ize what influence the press has but
those outside of the church do. They
realize this fully. But what is the
Catholic press of today? You can hard
". l was going to say, get picayune
circulation for the very best Catholic
paper published. Is not that something
for YOU to take up? L hate resolutions.
Be practical. For instance, you should
take this up and see that every mem
Der of your order is a subscriber to
Catholic newspaper; that would be do
ing something. At one time there were
only eight Catholic papers in Germany;
today there are two hundred and eighty
with a subscription of thousands: and
as q result of that is the constant up
holding of Catholic interests and unit
ing the Catholics in general. Oh, what
a crown of glory there must be in
heaven for that quartet in Germany
Windt,horst. MallinkIodt, and the two
Reicheuspergers Why those four men
brought Bismarck with all his blood
and iron. down to their feet (applause).
They stirred up all Germany; and you
know today that King William has to
hold out his hand to the Catholic Cen
trunn or otherwise he cannot hold his
noWer They thought the last election
would settle it, but the Catholics sent
hack not only their own power but in
creased il by ten. They have now q
surplus of one hundred and thirteen
and nothing can be done without their
consent. That is what united Catholic
Germany can do. 1t Catholics in
France would drop their envy and all
mite together they would have full
control of everything in spite of Ma
sonry and Liberalism. Here we are:
simply because man is Catholic he
has no chance in public office. Now
where is our union?
I'VE think the Church ought to keep
out of politics, and we do thank God
that we are the only Church that has
kept out of politics. We know that
Masonry is politics. and what are the
Methodists, Baptists and others doing?
They are turning their pulpits into po-
lftical platforms. I told President Nc
Kinley once that if a priest would
preach politics he would be signing his
own death warrant. He would be be-
headed at once. But it is a fact that
our people have very, very few men in
public office, and it is our own fault
we can only make it otherwise through
the Catholic press and by being united
Therefore, be united. United Won can
do anything. We have got to unite and
hold up our heads.
''They never had a Catholic congress
in Germany, but some great good came
from it, First it would be the Catholic
press, then q home for the working
men or some other worthy object. Now.
| say l want you to do something in
this convention which win r-~'-o - gn