The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18

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In reply to a request from New York
for permission to use his name on a Pc
tition urging President Mckinley to
offer the friendly offices of the United
ment of the trouble in South Africa by
arbitration, the Right Rev. Bishop
Ryan of Alton, Ills, wrote:
To the Editor of the World:
An administration inflicting the hOr-
rors of war upon the Philippines in the
face of the constitution and it's own
basic principles cannot with grace or
truth intervene for the Transvaal
JAMES RYAN. Bishop of Alton.
In addition to the expressions of re-
great for the insertion of the adver-
tisement of Doctor Kings malicious
book in their columns publicly made by
McClure's and the American Review of
Reviews, we learn from the Standard
and Times that Munsey's Magazine
sent the following letter to a New York
physician who had protested against
the advertisement: Dear Sir: The
advertisement referred to in your favor
of Oct. II, was admitted to our pages
inadvertently. We presumed that a
work vouched for by men who have a
reputation
Vincent has or Doctor Vandewater,
could not possibly be narrow or pre-
JUDGED. The advertisement will not
be inserted again. We thank you for
calling our attention to it.
One of the most popular DilgrimageS
of northern Italy is situated on the
rocky heights of Monte Baldo, which
towers above the romantic valley OF the
river Adige.
To this shrine of Madonna della Coro-
nam the inhabitants Of Trent the city
where the great council was held. ana
Verona wend their way when
seeking aid of our Lady. Two
thousand feet high and cling
ing to the cliff like a swallows
nest to the caves a chapel. d monastery
and several outbuildings have been con-
structed, which are reached only over
long, tortuous path, over steps hewn
into the rocks along the mountain side.
Once in ages past the ledge which now
bears the chapel and sacred shrine was
fortified by the Venetians. who defend
ed the valley from this point. u
ir< . q
The Rev. James A. Doonan, S. j., 81
long of Boston, now of Philadelphia, re 8
Gently addressed in the latter city az
branch of the Irish Catholic Beneyolen ~
Union. We quote these eloquent anGS
suggestive words: "One has but to re-g
call the history of this forlorn nationI
for 800 years gone, to see how truly
all that is Catholic finds emphasis in
the nation of Irish. That religious be-
lief and national sentiment have been
welded in the fire of persecution, so
that separation seems impossible, is
fact to which the civilized world bears
testimony to the uttermost parts of
the earth. Would that truth per-
mitted to cintinue the eulogy and say
as much for the terms Irish and union.
The interests involved are too mighty.
the sacred character of pulpit and
preacher forbidding the language of
flattery compel me to utter here a
word of warning. If Ireland is today
q land whose fate arouses pity in the
breast of every man whose heart is not
of stone, it is due to the fact that irish
and union, as sentiment and method,
have not been welded. Discord, dis
sension and disunion have been to Ire
land foes more cruel than any that
marched across her valley and field
beneath the folds of English red.
.
After considering all the accounts
that have been written about the desc
Grafton of Philippine churdches by Am
erican soldiers by their fellow soldiers,
the Catholic Transcript arrives at this
'If there has been no
church vandalism by our troops in
take strange and reasonable liberties
with the truth. They perpetrate wan
ton Islander against their companions
in arms. for which crime they should be
and degraded. for there
is nothing meaner and more degrading, |
nothing more guilty in the sight of
heaven, than the placing of hideous
crime upon the conscience of the inno- |
cent. For our part, it is far easier TO !
believe that individuals of our army |
nave so far forgotten themselves as to
sacred vessels. than to seriously enter |
ain the notion that an American sol |
Iier could sit down in cold, deliberate |
malice. and write out false and degrad- I
ng charges against those who share
With him the hardships and the honors
If the field
The much-mooted question of buying
duckross Abbey and the Lakes of Kill
arney is but small portion of we'll
lefined effort to bring the beauties of |
Ireland before the tourist public. Ire
and is undoubtedly advancing from a
point of view, but to stimulate
hat progress still more it is necessary
o have an abundant and easy supply
If money. 1t may appear to be small
tenn. but when we consider the Stats
les that are published IL is quite re-
narllable what a large stream OF gold
s left behind by the passing tourist.
Ireland wants to harvest little bit of
his just now. 1t is curious to know
hat the little Isle of Man has main
aimed an advertising bureau in the
ity of London, and the thousands OF
ourists that this bureau has directed
o the Isle of Man are considered one
f the sources of wealth of the place
Ireland has a great deal more to show
he stranger than many of the much
dvertised localities. The effort to
ring it before the public needs only a
arge infusion of well-directed business
nergy. There is a beautiful illustrated
rticie on this point in the Catholic
World Magazine of October. entitled