The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-23
CATHOLIC OPINION.

Russia is behind France in bringing the
tricky old Turk to time. and England
thank heaven!-has too many troubles OF
her own just now to come to the aid OF
it's tottering partner at the Bosphorus
that has so long defied the decency OF the
Christian world. In cruelty and iechery'
John Bull and Abdul Hamid are pair
of noble brothers that Will live side by
side in the annals of perdition.-Unl mon
and Times.
The best delegates should be sent 10
the federation convention next month in
Cincinnati. Not the men who are most
stuck on themselves" nor the ones who
can speak the oftcnest, nor the parlia-
mentarians who are great on points OK
order. No. the quiet sober, sensible,
prudent, eregetic. tactful and persistent
representatives of Catholic rights are the
men needed for the observation-disclosures.
The government authorities are so busy
watching suspected shipments of war mu-
nitiOns to South America that they can
not see the hundreds of consignments OF
the same material being shipped every
week from New Orleans to the English III
South Africa. We call the attent1Sn OF
cX-POlice Commissioner Roosevelt to TINS
shameful violation of law on a bigger
scale than was ever known in New york
ere he began to put a stop to it.-PllOt
Miss Haley and Miss Goggins, the two
brave school teachers of Chicago, who
unearthed the colossal tax swindles on
the part of corporations there. deserve
to have their public services commem-
GRATED in enduring marble or bronze.
Through the system of robbery that OBJ
tanned in the great city there WASH
money enough i'm the treasury to pay the
teachers. But the cause of the deficiency
was brought to light by those two in
trepid Irish Catholic women. to the con-
sternation of the public plunderers. We
salute them with Standardization and
Times.
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There are many reasons why it is in |
eXpedient for the Beers to 1nflict well
deserved reprisals on their savage en- /
emies, so long as the latter hold in prison |
thousands of helpless women and chill
dren, whom they would promptly |
slaughter If the Beers offered to take
vengeance for Kitcheners barbarous |
women and children are already being
decimated by famine and disease. delib-
erately planned by their jailers, and the
CallOus world looks on indifferently, as
American and French prisoners in the
hell of DartmOor eighty-six years ago
were to be re-enacted in the prison pens
of South Africa.-Piot.
Among the thousands of shining lights
Of the A. p. A. who have been compelled
to hide their brilliancy in the madhouse,
the penitentiary or the grave 1t Is singu-
by their wives before their public col
lapse came. This has been the case here
in St Louis to an astonishing extent.
The A. Il. y. coroner, Wait, was deserted
by his wife. A half dozen German In
fidels with unspellable and unprO-
nounceable names had the same expert
once. Claude Duval shot himself last
week after an unsuccessful attempt to in-s
luce his wife to return to him. Someone |
should write the history of the dispersion
If the A. p. A.-Western Waterman.
The sumptuous feasts given by Mr.
2ierpont Morgan in this city during the
ate Protestant Episcopal convention ,
we're severely reprobated by the Rev. DR..
Hodges of Baltimore in a recent address. !
Or. Hodges was a delegate to the con-
,ention, but was not mentioned among !
hose hidden to the sybartic functions ar {
anged by Mr.. Morgan. That circum-
tance, however, is neither here nor
here. His objection to the lavishness of
hese banquets, at which wine costing 81
glass, wholesale, was consumed by es- a
lesiastical guests, is that It's sensational t
allure diverted public interest from the g
legitimate attractions of the convention,
ust as the assiduous exploitation of the b
lorgan personality focused popular at a
ention on that gentleman to the neg d
ect of the convention itself. DR.. Hodges y
elieves that the church congress would
ave been In every way a greater success,
nder the circumstances, without Mr.
lorSan's presence than 1t was with 1t. I
he famous banker and promoter was al x
)gether too big a feature for such a %
The consensus of opinion +,
mong ordinary delegates who have given Y
uolic expression to their views on the
lbJect since appears to be that. over and "
bove the social eclat of the whole af- "
iir. the convention was a distinct fail
re.-Monitor p.