The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-02
CATHOLIC OPINION.

: CA1HOLIG OF{NEON.
Various leisurely gentlemen ali over
the country have been suggesting new
names for the United States which snail
be short, euphoniouS, more restrictive
than America and better than Columbia.
One amiable person suggests Us, mere
ly combining the initials of Uncle Sam.
He adds that it might sound a little ESQ
tistical Not at all. 1t would express US
very accurately. The country of Us! 1t
has a very satisfying look, and think of
the soothing music of the sound! UsOna
is also suggested. But that sounds ike
somebody's biscuits. Us is decidedly bet
ter.-Universe.
1t will be no surprise if the French
government does penanCe very soon for
it's action against the congregations.
'Twasn't good policy to kill the producer
of the golden eggs. The influence of the
religious upon society will be better UNI
derstood when it can be no longer eXer-
cised. The congregations do not appear
as anxious to remain in France as the
tenor of the hostile laws insinuated. 1t
will now be in order tn increase officials
of public security. Injury to religion and
advance of crime make good company
Union and Times.
According to the estimate of an OBJ
servant contemporary, Rome is an UNI
grateful city. The pope is its glory and
it's life. Yet the Pope has in the most
distant lands legions of faithful support
ers whose love is warmer and whose al
legiance is more uncomDromising than
the love and allegiance OF many within
the walls of the city. The Popes made
popular proverb ran: Rome is dying
with the Popes, but without them it is
dead Yet throughout history Rome and
its mobiles were the most pressing of Pa
pal troubles, and Rome never reverenced
its POpes as did the remainder of the
Catholic world" If it be true that the
further from Rome, the nearer the Pope,
America is blessed indeed. She rever-
ences the Pontiff as the Vicar of Christ
His person is sacred. Only a compare
lively few of our Catholic countrymen
ever see the reigning Pope, and depend
upon the photographer for an idea of his
surroundings. This is we'll Even in
matters as sacred as the Pontiff's per
sonality: Omne ignotum pro magnifico.
Transcript.
The Old Man Eloquent of Massachu-
sets Senator Hoar, in the course of
state convention at Boston. said:
II believe if every Protestant we're to
be stricken down by a lightning stroke
that our brethren of the Catholic faith
would still carry on the republic in the
spirit of a true and liberal freedom.
believe If every man of native birth
within our borders were to die this day,
the men of foreign birth who have come
here to seek homes and liberty under
the shadow of the republic, would carry
on the republic in Gods appointed way
Senator Hoar-Senator Hoar!-know
you not that by such brave words and
true you have incurred the lasting en-
nifty of the old knownothing spirit that
yet fingers in the land through it's vile
bastard brood-the modern Apaists?
But It's little you care for the hissings
of those venomous reptiles. They flee
before the clarion tones of such Ameri-
fled into the sea before the uplifted staff
of St. Patrick. For great is truth and ;
it shall Drevail.-Union and Times.
A circular of a dirty, lying and libel
lous book is being. scattered over the
country by a firm of scoundrels who con-
ceal themselves under the title of the
Continental Bible House.
The circular of four big yellow pages
is one long lie.
1t lies in attributing to George Wash
ngtOn. Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay.
Pope Leo Cardinal McCloskey and others
words that they never uttered.
1t lies in an alleged extract from an
path that it says every priest must take.
No such oath is ever taken by anyone.
1t lies in all the statements about
priests whom it represents to be i'm
moral.
1t lies even in its Illustrations, for they
are not what they are said to be.
The foul-minded. depraved, mendacious
and INSCRIPTIONS wretches who got out
this obscene and fraudulent book deserve
condign punishment. If they escape it
n this life, there is yet hell, and God
IS just!-TranscTipt.
Russia is "a land without strikes" not
because labor conditions are ideal, but
because the government will not permit
the workmen to stop work. This was il
ustr2ted :, not long ago in the case Of
pay and refused to work because they
lid not get it. The government at once
stepped in, arrested the labor leaders,
penalty of exile. and the. strike was over.
Thus in Russia and New Zealand the
same effect is brought about by directly
opposite means. In the one case it is by
other, it is by tyranny. And it is inter-
asting to observe in the one country there
s content and little crime. while the
'ther is known to the world as the nurs-
Try of anarchy.-Universe
he luncheon of the 'King's Royal
Rifles last week. he would not have
made the speech in which he acknowl-
surrender Ladysmith after he (Buller)
lad received so MANY thrashngs from
he Beers at the drifts of the Tugela
liver. In consequence OF MS lndlSCretlOn
-begotten by an overdose. of champagne
he has been deprived of the command
# the First army corp of England and
etired on half-pay The English needed
scapegoat, and Butler came in handy.
yet, he is the best of the whole uniformed
rowd of bunglers and would never stoop
o the cruel methods of Roberts and
<itchener General Butler, like Earl ;
spencer became practically a convert to
he cause of Irish home rule after his
Experiences in the County Kerry in 1880
1.-The Citizen.
Excludes Iadu ChnrnhiII