The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-29
CATHOLIC OPINION.


General Funston thinks that the people
who signed the recent petition to con.
gress, asking that we confer with the
Filipino leaders in an effort to secure
peace, ought to be hanged. This gentle
man would be invaluable to Dublin castle
as coercion court magistrate in Ire
land.-F'reeman's Journal.
! David B. Hill represented the true
| American spirit of the best times of the
republic when, in his admirable speech at
ST Patrick s day dinner at Albany, he
| noted and emphasized the strange and
remarkable fact that aside from the ten
der of its friendly offices at the beginning
OF the Boer war, which were quickly
rejected by Great Britain, the United
States has never manifested the slightest
interest in the outcome of the contest.
nor has congress, representing the great
est of republics, ever passed any resolu-
ton of sympathy with the two little re-
publicS OF the east in their heroic effort
to maintain their independence"
NO such dishonoring situation as this
could have been possible before pluto
c cly became the power. behind the
throne" and Anglomania the dominating
influence in the cabinet at Washington
Freeman's Journal.
A history of the scotch-Irish by Charles
A. Hanna has been published in two vol
ullicS ny SOnS. A review
OF 1t by Martin 1. ]. Griffin of Philadel-
phia would make interesting reading
Irish Standard.
Fifteen thousand Irishmen, headed by
the mayor of New York CITY marched in
line st. Patrick's day In that great me-
tropolts. II was sight never to be for
gotten, when maybe for the first time in
the history of the city the mayor turned
out in the march to do honor to Ireland's
n9frOn saint -MiChioan
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irresponsible politicians over in Ohio
are striving to tickle Catholic favor by
putting bill authorizing the paid en-
state penitentiary, through the Iegisia-
ture. Very few Catholics in the state
desire such one-sided law, it is safe to
say, and, ultimately, the passage of the
than 1t would help her. Indirectly it is
limited that the Ohio knights of Column
bus, by vote, refused to countenance the
Dill when the matter was brought before
them FOR consideration-Union and Times.
writer in the Pilgrim who undertakes
TO explain Bishop Potter's personal posi-
ton on prohibition which he denounces
as "a fraud and failure" asserts that as
head of the corpora ton. of Trinity nor1
ish Bishop Potter is perhaps the great
est saloon landlord in America 1t is up
to the bishop to prove that his senti- |
ments are not influenced by this peculiar
circumstance-Monitor
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WHY does not the Review support the
Catholic Columbian in it's plea to have
Corpus Christi raised to a holyday of !
obligation in this country? We have too |
few holydayS and the contamination OF |
the Columbian's wish. which is shared |
by many pious Catholics would redound !
greatly to the honor of our eucharistic |
ord''
While We would be glad to see Corpus
christi made HOLIDAY of obligation and
observed as such throughout
he country, we believe with the fathers
If the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore
v. Acta ct Decreta, No. I09) that ''it is
lot advisable for the present to multiply /
he holydays of obligation for the rea-
son that sit is the sad experience of mas
ors that few even of the small number.
u such. holydays we now have. are
1ghly observed, as many of the faithful
10 not attend mass on them. and a still
;reater number fail to abstain from SER
lie labor; indeed the great majority of
ur people cannot keep these holydays
properly without endangering their only
louis.