The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-08-04

harsh feeling which was so generaH!
manifested against the paid commits
sioners of the United States.
There seems to be no disposition t.
finish the Vincennes portion of the ex'
hibition, which is not worth the time
consumed in visit.
The American railways have no dis
play to speak Of, one American engine
being all that I noticed.
Many Americans express disappoint-
ment at the absence of a first-class
American railway train, such as the
Pullman company might turn out.
shared this opinion also until I visited
the Trans-Siberian train on exhibition
in the Trocadero section, and which is
destined to make the regular run from
Moscow to Pekin. The magnificence
Of this ordinary train surpasses any
thing that 1 have ever dreamed of in
railroad travel It is as far ahead of
the best Pullman trains running in
/ America as the latter is superior to
our ordinary day coaches. The train
was made at st. Denis, near Paris, and
reflects the highest credit on French
mechanical skill. The Pullman COM
PAW was wise in not entering the lists
with the St Denis firm. This is the
only train however, that have seen
in Europe that is worthy Of notice.
The French trains are abominable,
the German but little better and the
English about the same. They make
no pretense whatever for ordinary con-
veniences for travellers, and look upon
them as, suppose, they do cattle. The
rates Of fare are excessive, and they
certainly furnish. in some European
countries at least, a fOrceful argument
in favor of private as against govern
ment ownership.
But then. it is not fair to compare
anything here with things in America,
for we seem to be in an advanced age
in the United States insofar as the
comforts of civilization are concerned.
One cannot stir here without meeting
some old monument, to which we may
well apply the words which Macauley
wrote of the little chapel of st. Peter
ad Vincula in London Tower, wherein
of Sir Thomas More and other victims
of royal perfidy:
I'm truth there is no sadder spot on
earth than this little cemetery. Death
is there associated, not, as in West
minister Abbey and st. PauTs, with
genius and virtue, with public venera-
ton and with imperishable renown;
not. as in our humblest churches and
churchman's, with everything that is
most endearing in social and domestic
charities: but with whatever is dark
est in human nature and in human
destiny with the savage triumph of
implacable enemies, with the inconsist-
ency. the ingratitude. the cowardice of
friends; with all the miseries of fallen
greatness and of blighted fame"
Thank God. we have no such monu-
ments in America; nothing to mark
either the death of liberty or its I'M
due restriction. May God grant that
the United States of America shall
never become anything but a home of
freedom.
And Thou, o God. of whom we hold
Our country and our freedom fair,
Within Thy tender love enfold
This land, for all Thy people care.
Teach us that only they are free
Who walk obedient to Thy will
And slaves are they who follow i'll,
Which is the foe of liberty.
Lift up, our hearts above our fortunes
Let not the good we have make us for
The better things that in Thy heaven he;
Keep still, amid the fever and the fret |
Of all this eager life, our thoughts on
The hope, the strength, the God of all
the free.
As for me, 1 prefer youthful, vigorous |
America to Europe, with its age of CEN
turtles. In it there are no such monu- |
ments like those of Colorado, that lift |
their heads up to the very throne of |
God and down whose sides sweep the
life giving zeDhyrs of heaven.
And now what shall say of London? |
Well, it is tremendous, overpowering |
and oppressive. An idea of the size |
Of London may be appreciated better
when it is said that there are in the |
city more Irish than in Dublin, more !
Jews than in Palestine, more Scotch |
men than in Aberdeen, and more Cath |
Olics than in Rome.
The census of 1891 gave London the !
of 5,633,332 which, during |
the past nine years has undoubtedly |
augmented, so that at the present time
it is probably well over the 5000, 900 |
mark. Here are all grades of human
ity. Royalty abounds, and so does pow
arty in its most repellant aspect. Here, |
indeed, more than elsewhere in the |
world is opportunity afforded to study |
the condition Of the submerged tenth !
and the causes which keep them down.
Between the dates of my lectures here |
it is my intention to devote much time
to the study of conditions in the east
part of London, where humanity in its |
most hideous form predominates. Some
idea Of this may be had from the fact
that there are in London all the time
over 10000 destitute paupers.
This morning 1 was present at st.
Georges Cathedral, Southwark, and
had the pleasure of listening to one of |
the best sermons that it has ever been
my good fortune to hear. The preacher
wa sthe Rev. B. w. Maturin. Father
Maturin is not a polished orator, such,
for instance, as the Archbishop of Phil
adelphia, but do not think that Arch
bishop Ryan, in his best days, had the
faculty Of driving truth home so force
FULLY as Father Maturin did this morn
ng. 1t was altogether one of the finest
sermons that I have ever heard. He
made me feel as I have often felt when
to Bishop Spalding. 1 do not