The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-15
CATHOLIC OPINION.

The New Jersey mosquito is doomed
| The assembly OF that state naS Apply
| Driated $lO.O0b.G99 to scientifically lnFeStt
gate his habits. origin and other peeull-
! aritiee OF all the jokes perpetrated on
the Jersey mosquito TINS Is posluVelS lIie
| most wretched. Who OF US Is not Ia
| liar with his habits and other pecultaFl-
| ties? What the Jersey mosquito needs Is
| determination, not estlgation.-ChurcH
| Progress.
The courts have been invoked to decide
| which of four royal personages will be
valet to King Edward during the corona
ton Uncle Sam might take the hint ana
! employ the same means to ascertain
which of the powers held off the mon
during the recent ''unpleasantness- -
Catholic Progress, Seattle.
Mr.. John Wanamaker writes very elo-
quently concerning the pope's jubilee Gel
ebration at St. Peters, but ne rams INTO
an error very often observed in the com
ments of Protestant writer's on CalnoHC
functions. He speaks of the alteration
offered the pontIff by the people. CaIho-
lies adore only the one supreme Coo.
There is no Catholic, however humble,
who does not know how to draw the dls-
-inction between The homage of divine
Worship and that offered to the saints
and images and the homage due to the
sovereign pontiff and other diSnitaries
Of the church. A similar error is often
found in the descriptions of the ceremo-
served in the popes slipper This is
allied kissing the pope's toe 1t is the
relic which is thus saluted, not the artl-
lie of footwear.-Standard and Times
Nearly half a million of citizens of the
British empire have petitioned the house
Of commons in London against any |
change in the Statutory declaration OF /
under the bill of rights The statute
~ declaration referred to is the oath |
which King Edward VII took on his &C
,ession, and which he is again to take /
most sacred doctrines of the Catholic
hurch are described as "superstltious and
Of course, the oath Is out
.ageously insulting 10 the millions OF
catholics of the British domionS, and /
through their press and representatives,
hey have repeatedly and Indignantly
protested against it and demanded its
abolition or modification. Il is an out
age without parallel in the whole world.
No other king nor head of a state IN any
and on earth is required to take an
,ath offensive to any section OF the peo-
lie. England stands alone In this par
ocular of bgotry and intolerance at the
anne time that Englishment boast OF !
themselves and constantly pose as the
pecial champions and eXemplars OF civil !
nd religious liberty. The petition against
change in the oath, and the recent dec
lratiOn of Mr.. Baifour, speaking for the | /
that no change is Intended,
re q good object lesson of what relig- {
,i:s liberty really means in the mind of !
No majority of Britains.-Freeman's ;
o'rnal
We must love our Protestant neighbors q
nd do them all the good we can. We o
nould pray for their spiritual and tenn
oral welfare; we should set them a good U
xaInple of the Christian life, and we :
Mould aid them to the extent of our y
bility in their needs. How can we say
lat we love God unless we love our Z
eighbor? -Pittsburg Observer. =
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O'Donovan Rosa read his own obitu-
y. 1t was his son who died at Colo q
do Springs after an amputation of the :,
2. We hope the old rebel Will live for
any years to cOme.-Irish Standard. n