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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18

life would lead them to give verdict
in favor of capital. One of the posi-
tions selected was to be judge in the
anthracite coal district. God help the
miner awaiting a conscientious verdict
from such a Pennsylvania judge!
In such form came the proposition for
arbitration from the operators, behind
it the desire to get out of the hole in
which they were placed by the manly
conduct of Mitchell and reverse popu-
lar opinion against themselves should
Mitchell refuse to abide the decision
of a tribunal of their own composition.
They knew Roosevelt, but now they
know Mitchell. In spite of the implied
insult to himself, the president would
have yielded to this gold brick propo-
sition if he could persuade Mitchell to
chance the loaded dice. Anything to
end the strike before the November
election, was in the mind of the poll
tician. Mitchell won by insisting that
the president should have free hand
and by insisting that representative
of labor should be on the commission
he named. He also insisted upon the
selection OF a judge outside the an
thracite region Both were conceded,
and it is Mitchell, and not Roosevelt,
who is master of the situation. Among
the names included is one not contem-
plated by the operators. His position
is that of a Catholic bishop. The sixth
arbitrator named by the president is
Right Rev. John L. Spalding of Peoria.
1t will take some time after the fires
are lighted in furnaces before the fire
OF resentment against the operators is
suodued. Out here in this mountain
country, free from all danger of a fuel
famine, we could only offer sympathy
and aid to the sufferers without YIELD
ing to the wrath which needed only
organized action to bring about revo-
tuition. How near the American people
were to a crisis which would upset
written law for the law of necessity.
Is told in the strong language used at
public meetings in which timid men
found voice and conservatives became
radicals. The strike may be off in a
week, but the lesson of it will be en-
grated into laws which shall endure
forever, or so long as man is allowed
TO enjoy the fruits of labor and have
free access to the things which God
created for man alone Unless such
become written law, history will be
repeated
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18

is about to retire from parliamentary
life; and, of course, they recall some
of the chief incidents of his past
career as an Irish Nationalist. From
his placid, patriarchal and benevolent
countenance, says the Daily Chron-
icle, "a stranger would swear he was
Quaker, whereas he is an Irish rev.
olutionist of more than fifty years
standing, and was in 1867 sentenced
to be hanged, drawn and quartered for
leading a Fenian attack on police
barrack. He imperiled his own life in
saving the women and children, of
whose presence in the building he was
unaware, and the fact was favorably
commented on by the judge. His SEN
tence was committed to penal servi-
tude for life and he was offered the
alternative of going to western Austria
liza (then a penal colony with other
Fenian prisoners, or of remaining
in England. The former was the freer
life; he chose the latter. Like his
brother Nationalist, NJ. P, Mr.. j. ].
O'Kelly, he has seen some fighting in
Cuba.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
HIS NEW RELIGION.

A physician sat one evening in a
Washington hotel entertaining a choice
group of friends with tales of the far
east. In the edge of the group sat a
man from Pennsylvania, who had come
over from Fottsville on some govern
ment contracting business. He was all
ears and eagerness. His name was
St~2uss. Finally the restraint became
too intense, and he broke loose
"Toctor" said he, what is dot new
relichun L hears off apout China? My
wife has got it ferry bad, und 1 don d
understand it,
Tell me the name, - said the doctor.
rs it Mohammedanism, Buddhism,
Shintoism, Tauism, Confucianism, or
what?"
mo. it is no isms; but der name is
like tramps migrashun of der soul,
aind it?"
"Oh, you doubtless mean transmigra-
ton Of the soul"
Yah, OATS it. Yust dell me about
dot"
Certainly Transmigration of the
soul is very pretty poetic doctrine of
metempsychosis, which our friends of
the Theosophical society have borrowed
from the far east"
Here, here, toctor, tell me vot dot
means so 1 can understand what you
vas talking aboud."
All right, 1 will tell you in plain
language. Take yourself, for instance
You live to the allotted age of three
score years and ten. and then you pass
away. Your soul goes into the body of
bird. canary. well say, and from
our gilded cage you fill lady's boudoir
with melody, living life of luxury and
fed from the dainty fingers of beau
ty-'
"oh, dot is beautiful, beautiful. I
like dot"
And then you die again and your
soul goes into a lovely flower in a gar
den, and you fill the air with fragrance,
and delight the eye with your exquisite
color and delicacy Of petals"
"Ah, dot is fine 1 like dot relich-
un."
las I was saying when you inter
rupted me, you live the life of a flow
er, until one day a donkey gets into
the garden, and. attracted by your
loneliness, he eats you, and your soul
passes into the donkey"
Yah, yah
When some former acquaintance
comes along. strokes your long ears,
and says: Why. Strauss, is it you!
How little you have changed
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18

Marquis de Fontenoy contributes This
piece of news in his interesting Eu-
ropean gossip: "Sir Wilfred Laurier.
the Canadian premier, has given greab
offense in government circles at Rome
by his Difference to that strict rule
made by the vatican to receive no
Roman Catholic parsonage who had
held any intercourse with the kings Of
ficials. Although 1t was reported in all
the Italian papers that the object of
Sir Wilfrid's visit to Rome was for the
purpose of comforting with the italian
minister Of foreign affairs on the ques-
ton of Italian emigration to Canada
and of discussing the tariff with the
object of increasing Canadian exports
to Italy, and although the minister
awaited Sir Wilfrid, the latter never
went near him, and, indeed. the only
notice that Sig. Prinetti and the Ital-
ian government received to the effect
that Sir Wilfrid had been in Rome at
all was an announcement in the Off
cial organs of the vatican to the effect
that Sir Wilfrid and Lady Laurier mad
been received by the pope and by Car
dinal Rampolla, the papal secretary of
state.
1T seems that the Italian govern
ment made representations about the
matter to the English embassy, and
was informed by the latter that it mad
been in ignorance of Sir Wilfrid's stay
in Rome, and that he had never gone
near the embassy. As some As per cent
of the population of Canada are mem
bers of the church of Rome, Sir Will
frid's action in pleasing the vatican by
pointedly ignoring the italian govern
ment was perhaps good policy from a
Canadian point of view. But 1 under
stand that it has created some annoy
ance in England, where just at present
the government is particularly anxious
to remain on friendly terms with Italy"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
What Labor Has Learned.

Under this title Mr.. Ralph NJ. Eas-
ley, secretary of the National
Civic Fedora ton, sketches in the
October McClure's the progress OF
trades unionism in the United States.
and sums UP the most important les
sons that have come to the organizers
of labor through hard experience. The
first system of regular annual confer
ences and joint agreements was ar
ranged in the year 1865 by the United
Sons of Vulcan, employed in boiling
pig iron. The present rapid advance of
organized labor is shown by doubling
in membership within the past three
years. Mr.. Easley sees, too. marked
Improvement in the character of the
unions, their broadening policies. the
conservatism of their leaders and the
resulting joint conferences and agree
ments with employers based on mu-
tual concessions. He gives many re-
cent evidences of this Improvement in
the situation, such as the recent Joint
agreement between the American
Newspaper Publishers association and
the International Typographical union
and the Printing Pressmen's union for
five years. He shows how the presi
dent of the International Longshore-
mems union, Mr.. Daniel ]. Keefe. ac-
tually hired non-union men to replace
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18

strikers who had broken union con-
tract. Mr.. Easley says that non-unlon
prejudice. is dying out. In the Iron
Molders' union, for instance, only
twenty five of the 1890 agreements to-
day restrict employment to union men.
The characteristics of the walking del
egates are improving, the best labor
leaders are resolutely opposing any
breaking of labor contracts. and they
are, too, denouncing the sympathetic
strike.
Mr. Easley gives what he calls "the
revised creed of organized labor" con-
structed from the lessons of practical
experience.
q. Strikes are bad. and should be
the last resort.
''2. Scales of wages should be deter
mined by mutual concessions in con-
ferences with employers rather than
by demand submitted by the union
as an ultimatum.
SO. When thus determined, this scale
becomes a contract, which is not only
as sacred as any business contract, but
the violation of which by the union is
also the most disastrous blow that can
be struck at the principle of unionism.
a. Sympathetic strikes are unwise,
because they violate contracts, bring
injury to friendly employers and the
friendly public, and arouse public opin-
ion against the organization.
IS. 1t is not essential to contract
that non-union men should be excluded
from employment along with union
men, provided they receive the same
pay.
''6. The union should attract the nom
unionist by persuasion, not force, into
membership.
81. Violence in conducting a strike
alienates the public, brings the courts
and the militia to the support of en-
ployers and reacts disastrously upon
the union.
IS. Unionists should welcome new
machinery
20. Unionists should abandon arbi-
trary restrictions on output, and direct
their attention to questions of hours
OF labor and rates of pay"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
LET THEM ANSWER.

This week there came to us a set of
circulars telling about 1.-The greatest
selling book of the twentieth cen
tury." Perhaps it is in certain quar-
tiers and among a certain class of peo-
pie. But as decency does not permit
their mention in our columns, readers
must surmise where and who these are
Suffice it to say that the work is an
other of those scurrilous and sensay
tional attacks upon the church and
its priests and religious orders. 1t is
called THE Devil in the Church.
We have no desire to refute the at
lacks. Such a task would be useless,
even for the benefit of intelligent non
Catholics But we have. again laid
the matter before the proper authori-
ties, as we did in a similar case about
a year ago. The result of this action
we shall make known at the proper
time
There are one of two things, how
ever, to which we desire to call atten-
ton. One of these is second circu-
lar addressed to members of the Royal
Arcanum. Now in this organization
there are many Catholics, and it be-
comes them to speak out emphatically
in response to this insult offered them
by the American Publishing compa-
ny, WHICH mas issued the work. Let
them answer the appeal therein made
of their great interest in the work. AS
Catholics this is their plain duty.
But we are further assured that the
work has the endorsement of the An
eient Order of United Workmen, the
Elks, the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Royal Arcanum. We do not
believe it. Yet blue lead pencil marks
before these names on the circular so
state. The public has no information
on the contrary. Now, then, let us see.
To our positive knowledge, in all
these organizations named there are
many persons protesting themselves
practical Catholics. If they are, let
them prove it. Let them answer wheth-
err or not their organization has taken
such action. If it has, then they are
cowardly to continue their affiliation.
If it has not, then it becomes their
duty to see that such misrepfesenta-
ton is stopped. If it has not, they
should see to it that their organiS~-
ton make a public disavowal of the
fact. If needs be. they should publicly
resent the insult and take steps to pun
fsh such unwarranted use of their
name. But whatever other action may
be taken in the premises, Catholics in
the organizations named must in JUS
tice to the same, as well as to their
religious convictions. make answer to
the accusation that they have endorsed
this vile and filthy attack on their
faith.-Church Progress
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18

Evidently there is a decided differ
ence between the policy of the German
socialists and that of the socialists in
France and Italy. Every opportunity
of displaying hostility to Christianity
is seized by the French and italian
socialists, and the cruel expulsion of
nuns from the schools in France has
been DANGEROUSLY approved of by So
cialistic bodies. The German socialists,
who have just been holding their an
nual congress at Munich, took pains to
assure the public that they do not in
terfere in religious affairs, and that
they have no sympathy with the impo-
sition of penalties on account of re-
ligious opinions. In their programme
they manifestly prefer practical re-
forms to chimerical schemes. The main
feature of a series of resolutions which
they passed at Munich was a demand
for the extension of municipal power
They advocated the acquisition by mu-
inequalities of building land for the
erection of workmen's houses, generous
support of the poor and the unem-
ployed, public baths and parks, an
eight-hour day, the wages to be fixed
according to the trade union scale,
the establishment of special schools for
backward children, public libraries and
meeting halls and free burial The OPP
position to the socialists would be
quickly reduced were they to confine
themselves to proposals of this char
acter.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
Have You Observed 1t?

n CToBER, the month of the Rosary,
" is now in its third week. How
many have availed themselves of
the opportunity which Our Lady of
victory holds out to her children
through her powerful intercession? NOT
very large number of men in this
city nave given evidence of their dev6-
ton. Is it through any ridiculous no.
tion that beads were intended only for
women and such things are against in
teliectual piety?
some people sheer at the practice of
using beads, etc., as "memoria tech
MICA in saying ones prayers: but the
practice has existed long in. the church
ana we find it mentioned by a writer
even in the fifth century. We NAV tax.
II for granted, then, that it is not with
out good reason that the holy church
so strongly recommends its use on all
possible occasions, and especially this
month, says writer in the Pittsburg
Observer. r-
Young men, as a rule, say they can
md but little time for pious practices.
what with their business occupation
and what with their evening engage
ments, or the wearied condition in
which they find themselves at the
close of the day. But here is a devo-
ton which by no manner of means in
terIeres with their daily avocations.
You need not enter a church to saw
the Rosary or any part of it. 1t would
be indeed wrong to utilize any part of
your employers time for this purpose.
out there is plenty nf other time dur
ing the day which can be used. For
instance, the journey in the morning
to the city is not usually OCCUPIED
with conversation. Here is one op-
portunity of saying the beads or a GER
tain proportion fixed on. You are NOT
required to ostentatiously display your
beads, and the devotion NAV be en-
ployed sitting, standing in company or
alone.
What is recommended, then. is this.
Resolve from this day to the end of the
month to say some portion of the
Rosary, one decade, two decades. or
as your devotion leads you to deter
mine. But do not throughout the re-
mainder of the month on any occasion
allow yourself to neglect the obligation
you lay upon yourself 1t is so absurd
~ easy, apparently, to say one decade
day, and surely not much harder to
say five. But stick to it with deter
mination for the two weeks of October
left, at least. In the street car or
walking home, or during the few spare
moments after meals-theres your
chance.
Just think about this and start in
today. Remember that in the various
mysteries we find most powerful mo-
tives for the practice of the virtues cor
responding to them, and appeal to
heaven for all our wants and necessi-
ties, and there is little doubt that we
shall receive copious blessings from the
Father of mercies and the God of all
consolation. 1t is certainly worth try
ing. and surely there is nothing to be
ashamed of in it.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
A Badly Mixed-up Family.

When Brunetiere was in this country.
about five years ago, he complained bit
terly, in his lecture on lola, that the
latter did not present a faithful pic
ture of the French people. They were
not so gross and so hopelessly buried
in vice as the realist painted them.
lola had overdrawn his picture and
pretended to lift the nation from a
slough into which it had by no means
fallen. AS might have been expected
the prophet climbed down in the pro
cess. The respectable admirer of this
depraved writer will find it difficult to
abide the conditions of their darIings
will. Men reveal themselves in their
testaments. BY the terms of NJ. lola S
we learn that his wife was not the
mother of his children. His fortune
goes to his barren consort, but his
mistress is not forgotten. If Nine
lola wishes to befriend the children
of her husband, she will have to be-
stow her wealth upon the offspring of
her outlawed and guilty rival. 1t will
be difficult for decent worshippers to
keep among the gods the author Of
this family mix up.-Catholic Trans
criDt
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18

Idaho is coming to the front and
is already well advanced. A gentleman
who left Cripple Greek for Thunder
Mountain saw Boise on his way thither
and concluded to plant his fig tree in
the valley and leave the gold in the
mountain for others. This is what Mr.
Jones of Cripple Creek said of Boise:
Boise is a good town and I intend
TO settle I'D my affairs and return
there in about two weeks. There is
not a cottage for rent in the whole
town and although three business
blocks are now in course of erection
there every Office has been spoken for
1 regard Idaho as being the state IN
the Union which has more opportu-
mites for the young man than any
other, and intend to make it my fu-
ture home.''
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
Can't Paw Much Pew Rent.

A Chicago newspaper is mistaken in
saying that Christian science and faith
cure doctors are new things in re-
ligion." The Waldenses and Mora
VANS in the middle ages were faith
curists; George Fox, the founder of the
Quakers, was another; and the prin-
ciple of immediate cure by spiritual or
psychological processes was an ar
ticle of faith among the Jumpers, the
Shakers, the Jerkers, the Mormons.
and even the sober Methodists in the
days of their first fervor. An old
Cremwellian soldier, Valentine Great
rakes by name-and the name may not
be without significance-set aside three
days each week to cure the ailments of
the people by the imposition of hands.
His success was so great as to win for
him the title of the "Stroker." There
is nothing particularly new about the
faith-cure fallacy except the perennial
ly new gullibility of men and women
Ave Maria
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
AMERICA WINS IN
THE Plus FUND CASE
THE HAGUE, Oct. 1.-THE arbitra-
ton court in the Plus fund case
has condemned Mexico to pay tn

THE HAGUE, Oct 1.-THE arbitra-
ton court in the Plus fund case
has condemned Mexico to pay the
currency. The tribunal finds:
''First-That the claim OF the United
States in behalf of the archbishop of
San Francisco is governed by the prin-
ciple of res judicata in virtue of the
arbitration decision pronounced by Sir
Edward Thornton, Nov. IL, 1875. and
amended by Sir Edward Thornton, Oct.
"a, 1875.
'Second-That in conformity with
this decision the government of the
United States of Mexico should pay the
government of the United States ST.
420,6S2 in money of the legal currency
of Mexico within the period fixed by
article 10 of the protocol of Washing
ton. This sum will cover the total pay
ment of annuities due from and I'M
paid by the government of the Next
can republic, namely, the annual pay
ment of $43,050 in Mexican currency
from Feb. 2, 1869, to Feb. 2, 1902.
''Third-The government of the
United States of Mexico will pay to the
government of the United States, Feb.
2, 1903, and every following year for
the same date forever, an annual pay
ment of. $43,050 of money of the legal
currency of Mexico"
The decision of the tribunal was read
by Secretary General Ruiyssenaers in
the presence of the members of the
special diplomatic corps, their wives
and representatives of the litigants. Dr.
Matsen, president of the court, who
declared that a revision of the sentence
was possible only in event of new facts
coming to light thanked the repre-
sentatives of the United States and of
Mexico for their assistance in enlight-
ening the arbtrators. He added that
while no single judge was infallible,
the unanimity of the arbitrators who
had so closely examined the whole
question at issue was guarantee that
no mistake had been made.
President Matsen concluded with ex-
pressing the best wishes for the health
of Queen Wilhelmina and the prosperi-
ty of her people, who had welcomed
the members of the court so cordially.
Mr.. Ralston of Washington, one of
the lawyers in the case, and Senior
Paredo in behalf of Mexico, thanked
the court for the care it had given to
the case. Senior Paredo said he was
sure that so soon as his government
learned of the courts award it would
accept it. He must, however, reserve
for his government the right to avail
itself of the provisions of the protocol
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
Not at All New.

The allegation that the coal miners
average only $50 month wages has. it
seems, been disputed. The difference
OF opinion is occasioned by the fact
that it is assumed, on one side, that the
miners work all the year around for
S1.5O or 81 per day, but as matter of
fact, they work only about two thirds
of the year. The following is a sum
mary of the operators own figures. as
published in the census of 1890:
Above ground-564 foremen and over
seers, POI days, at $2.71-$7SS. 81; APO
mechanics, 257 days, at $1.91-S4sO 81 .
2S,779 laborers, 1913 days, S1.29-$255. 42:
L. 191 boys, 185 days at 81 cents-S114. 70.
Underground-737 foremen and over
seers, 291 days at S3.O5-$SS7.55 per an
mum; 1858 miners, 179 days at S2.3e-
S4e~S1; 1876 laborers, 1874 days at s1.s4
-$3O1.76; 4,77O boys, $50 days at So cents
Total employees about mines,
1855. Average earnings of all en-
ployed, $31421.
1t is very clear that men who have
to support family on an. income of
$500 or $3.50 per year cannot pay much
pew rent.-Catholic Citizen.