The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-12
CATHOLIC OPINION.

Miss Ellen NJ. Stone. the ransomed
missionary, writing to tell her mother of
her release from captivity" remarks the
Sacred Heart Review. begins her letter,
My Own Blessed Mother Yet this is
style of address which Protestants deny
to Mary, the mother of God
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Cecil Rhodes died saying: so little
soul he did everything; if ne lost it, he
did worse than nothing. That is the one
thing cessary.-Pittsburg Observer.
o
y recent dispatch states that King Ed
ward VII has decided to dispense with
the kings jester (alias court fooD at the
ceremony of his coronation. There will
be enough Americans there in knee
breeches to afford all the merriment con-
slstent with the solemnity of the Occa-
sion.-Freemans s Journal
Bombastes Furioso Funston, who cap
tured Aguinaldo by treachery of the
meanest kind. and who has amazed the
river with a Calling gun between his
teeth to attack the enemy, is a kind of
hero" in Washington just now And
what lot of heroes our little war with
Spain has produced. Heroes garruous,
heroes osculatory. heroes quarrelsome,
heroes absent in the hour of danger and
present in that of prize money, heroes of
the pen and of the tongue, from Miles all
SDdDldrQS
gained one other thing besides getting
rid of the Philippines for 800, 600 900: they
are not saddled with a brood of tin
heroes.-Pilot.
A Muncie Qnd9 man charged with
grand larceny and obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses has had the proceed
ings interrupted in novel manner. At
a spiritual seance the prosecutor was adj
vised by the spirit of a departed lawyer
tO Dismiss he oh he
though 1t Is the first time on record that
a lawyer has ever been heard from after
death, it might be well for some OF our
boodlers to note the fact If they could
induce some of their spiritualistic friends
to get them in touch with the gentleman
it might save them a trip to MN~'0o.
Switzerland or some county with which
we have no eXtradition treaty.-Ghurch
Progress
If the influence that the Catholic press
exerts on American public opinion were
obliterated by the disappearance of our
publications, the authorities of the church
would find their difficulties with public
officials multiplied and intensified But at
present that influencesis not recognized
or DDreciated.-Columbian
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The scandal of licensing slavery under (
the stars and stripes has at last aroused
legislative Indignation. Senator Patter- !
slave trade in the Philippines, and at the
same time cancel the Ubiquitous treaty
made between General Bates and the
Moslem sultans-as they are called +
whom we subaidiZe to violate our laws
on slavery and polygaufy Though the
bill may have little chance of being en-
acted, its Introduction will serve the ex-
cellent purpose of showing the sincerity Z
which have served as an excuse for bare
faced rapacity and despotism.-S
and Times.
Marconi, the great electrician. is the
latest illustration of THE Celtic fire that
rarely flags and never wholly flags" An
Italian on his fathers side. on his moth
err he is Irish-"kindly Irish of the Irish.
neither Saxon nor Italian" The Celt and
the Latin make a splendid combination
a combination that, because of distance
and difference in language, does not oc-
cur as often as it should In the good
old days when the Irish brigades cam
paigned over Europe. the officers inter
married with the danes of France" the
Spanish senoritas, and the languishing
beauties of sunny Italy. From these
unions sprang the gallant O'Donnells of
distinguished in field and forum
from sire to son; the MacMahons and
Niels of France; the OHigginses and
Lynches and Donojus of the South Amer
can republics.-Chicago Citizen.
Apropos of the poor opinions expressed
If the Filipinos by certain inflated heroes
among us, the Mexican Herald suggests
hat while the natives possibly are not
exactly heightened in their methods. il
S their own country they are fighting
or We used to boast in this republic
hat no people could engage i'm a higher
)r holier cause than the defense of their
country. The example of our forefathers
n resisting the rule of the British crown
vas held to be about the proper model
or other people aspiring to govern them
eiVes. These views applied to the course
u the tllipinos has become Constructive
reason in the eyes of the new ma
r1otism' which came into vogue with
Monitor.
1T is the honor of Christian mind to
low low itself superior to, every false