The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-07-21

Dean Worcester may enllghten the be-
nighted people. The official programme
contained the names of all the Protest
ant ministers. but not a Catholic chap
lain. Where is there one Of the official
orators who have been as much in the
field as Raney-even though his terri
tory was Dewey with brine-or Mck1n-
non. the first to enter Manila? winch
of them compares with F'itz Gerald
under fire? How many of them would
be here working for nothing as Glea-
son. the volunteer priest OF california.
No; heroes do the work, cold IeeC GET
the glory. Yet all these priests were on
hand. and none was even asked 10 par
tiCi9dte.
The campaign in LuzOn has cost tho
people of the United States hundreds OF
lives and millions of dOllarS-and hale
the energy expended has been used to
pave the wa for Professionalism and
Paganism.
The CRY may be free religion" or
anything else. but it is notorious
fact that Professionalism and unbehef M
one form or another are forced upon
the children attending the public
schools With a graduate of a lundtIG
asylum at their head and well known
anti-CathOliC acting superintendent,
American Catholics can form an idea
how things are run. Anybody connect
eQ WIN IIie VI, &. y. vi any b'''AF
recommended by that organization, can
get any privilege and go anywhere at
government expense. Officers all along
the line are instructed to extend cour-
tesieS (Which means house and food.
and all missionaries" and the members
of those living on government grub,
would feed a small regiment. From
barrio to barriO they go, distributing
Bibles and tracts. cajOling the natives.
IL sion
not hesitate to publish stories about
the immortality and RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
these proteges of the friars.
PROTEs TANT CON SPIRACT
AGAINST THE FRIARS.
Day after day the newspapers are
yelling at the apostolic delegate that
the people do not want the friarS-aud
on the same page or issue are several
articles figuring the friars as insti-
gators of the rebellion.
The Times. Freedom and the Ameri-
can are alike in this. Chaplain Pierce,
before he went away, was very active
in procuring jobs for his perverts He
comes back here with wife and daugh-
ter, plus a bag Of money, from New
York, to build up an American mission.
This religious chameleon is generally
to be found on the side of the fence
with the money, and there are not a.
few who think-with good reasOn-that
a certain nurse did not know that he
had d wife and child in the States.
A SPECIMEN PROTESTANT CHAP
LAIN.
A beautiful specimen to talk about
friars! He has been tapping around the
Jesuits and other religious orders since
he first came here. For effect, he went
10 the Jesuit Observatory several times
TO bring Father Doyle, S. J., to the bed
side of dying Catholic soIdiers-aud
then has been heard to jeer because
Catholic soldiers did not think himself
good enough to confess to. 1 know of
his tricky actions around the First Re
serve hospital: his morality is not
above par. and at times his converse
ton regarding the Tenderloin districts
has been anything but edifying. From
what he spoke of he did not gain his
information from a motive as laudable
or questionable as did Parkhurst, in
New York.
DEGRADED WOMEN AS -'HOSPI-
TAI NURSES
As for hospital nursesl Whoop, The
press in the United States cannot be
any too strong in assertions that many
are kept here to crafty the lust of So
called doctors and officers. True. there
are virtuOus women among them, but
the prime motive is cOncubinage Cor
wOrse)-and not protection for the SOL
diers. Neither the good nor the bad are
confined to any one religion. 1 am sorry
to say. Time and again they may be
seen on drunken Carousals at night in
carriages. We have had a bubOnic
plague scare. Is it bubonic? The doc
tors say yes-and everybody else must
take their word for it. However. if it
is, the so-called quarantine is a farce;
for men have been going in and out
OF the corral, with teams and wagons.
The bunk house of the teamsters has
been burned. Perhaps motive for the
plague was a $500 (MeXican) shed,
which cost the government IS. 900: or
somebody may have seen a chance
FOR promotion in having found
a cure and preventive" for
the plague. But every civil
ian doctor here is laughing at the
army scare. The new commission is ex-
pected tomorrow. and it is perhaps we'll
for the Otis administration that the old
bunk house is out of the way.
RULERS LIVING LIKE
PRINCES.
Again, the people of the United States
are paying four times the former rent
OF houses, and nearly every decent
house in the Walled City. the Ermite.
Malate and Lampalos districts. is
occupied by army officers at
government expense. An American
dollar is worth no more to an
American than is a Mexican peso
to a Spaniard or native. Perhaps this
Is intended as an object lesson on the
question. Then the drives are
filled with quartermas ters' carriages
night and day, and the people of the
United States are furnishing horses
and carriages for the sisters. cousins
and aunts of every shoulder strap that
is over here. AS one of the females
was heard to remark on the Luneta the
other night: THE army would be a
beautiful thing if it wasn't for the hor-
rid enlisted men,