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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
Robert Emmett.

| n OBERT EMMETT No name but his
IN to fire the Irish heart to dare the
impossible and give joy to death
for country! No other name can van
! quish sluggish caution and lead an
Irish pickeman up to the mouth of a
modern cannon
On Tuesday next, March 4, Irishmen
| throughout the world will celebrate the
memory of one of Gods noblemen. If
! you open the broad folios of history
! you will not read that he founded a
( state. nor that he established a relig-
/ ion; it is not written there that he sang
any sublime chant that goes echoing
| through the ages, nor that he wrought
a breathing statue, nor flung upon the
| canvas the rarest fancies of the imag-
ination. He scrutinized no depths of
nature, and he laid bare by incisive
thought no innermost folds of the hui
man mind. He touched no secret KEY
of invention, and he opened up to civ
ilization no continent long hidden in
obscurity and forgetfulness. His title
to eternal fame and the imperishable
gratitude of his ancient race rests on
other foundations. but not less solid
nor less glorious than those on which
repose the memories of statesmen and
philosophers. poets and artists. invent
ors and pioneers. Robert Emmett died
for his country-that is his title to
fame and gratitude; so much and no
more, as was sufficient to crown Har-
morius and Aristogeiton with undying
glory; so much and no more, as en-
throned Arnold Won Winkelreid in the
fame and gratitude: so much and no
more as lifted AndreaS Hofer out of
his obscurity and made him one of hu-
manity's shining ideals; so much and
no more, as twined immortal bays
about the brow of Nathan Hale. After
the sacrifice of life for ones religion.
there is none more glorious and more
fruitful than the sacrifice of life for
ones country. SO the philosophers have
decreed and the poets sung; so the
people from time immemorial have be-
lieved, and so each individual soul is
from that fine old heather
who says that ''it is a sweet and a
decorous thing to die for ones coun-
try to the modern singer who tells us
in 40 less sententious verse that
Whether on the battlefield
Or in the prison van
The nohlest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man
in splendid eulogy which we find !
in the National Hibernian. /
Rev. DR.. Shahan speaks of Robert EN- !
met as the perfect and centennial |
flower of Irish life in the eighteenth
To understand his career.
and the passionate fondness with
which his countrymen cherish his
memory, we must go back to that
eighteenth century, that crucial period
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
NIERMouNlAiN COLORADO CATHOLIC: MARCH 1902

! of transition in which Ireland learned
for the first time the full bitterness of
hopeless political degradation. To us
of the twentieth century he is like
some brief but splendid meteor that
flashes across the opening of our epoch,
a red levin that tears for moment the
black mantle of night, and serves only
! to divide the monotony of political
darkness. But such was he not to his
contemporaries. Like them he was
child of the agitations and struggles
that had gone before; he resumed in
himself all the varied life-history of
Ireland in the days that interviewed be-
tween the succession to the English
throne of the house of Hanover, and
the triumph of the French revolution.
He mirrored in his person the elegance
of social refinement, and the exquisite
ness of literary formation that stamp
ed the Irish gentleman of those days
as foremost in Europe. His soul burned
with all the noble enthuSiaSms that
had so often echoed through the halls
of parliament and in the public press.
The political struggles of the century
were the uninterrupted theme of his
thoughts, and his heart cherished no
hopes or affections so holy as the lib
erty of his country and her elevation
to the rank of a nation whence she had
been so recently. so unjustly, and so
wantonly thrust down. In Robert EN-
met appear all the graces of Irish life
in the last century, all the national as
pirations. the longings of oppressed hu-
mainly, the ambitions of science and
a pure sympathy for men
of every faith, a generous devotion to
the ideal in thought and conduct, and |
an admirable manliness in which were
reconciled the tenderest feeling, iron |
energy, and answering fixity of pur- |
pose. This may appear a high esti-
mate, but it is borne out by the evil |
dence of his contemporaries, and above
all by the perenduring testimony of the
Irish heart which has too much eXpe-
rience to cherish so universally and so
tenderly one who did not fill the meas
lre of the highest national ideal.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

Gent history. but on the events OF the
nineteenth century. England set her-
self I'M in strong antagOnism TO the
German national feeling over the Du-
chies question in As, and lald the ioul-
dation of the idea that Germany must
look upon England as an enemy. III
the last thity years that idea mas deep
ened and broadened. Both In the mat
ter of her navy and her colonial policy
Germany encountered English hoStll-
ity. Her great merchants VINO go III
for export business run UP against
English competition in every foreign
market. and cannot resist the mean but
all TOO human feeling of trade jeal-
ousy." The writer disposes of other
nations more quickly. For some he
says. do not hate England at all, and
in the case of others their hatred ana
sympathy are both equally unimport-
ant. Russia has not yet forgiven Eng
land the Crimean war and Lord Bea-
consfeld's policy al the Berlin con-
gress Spain feels Gibraltar as a thorn
in the sole of her foot. Denmark has
not got over the bon,bardment of Cop
enhagen and the destruction of the
Danish fleet in 1907. The Dutch have
a natural solidarity with the Beers,
and feel themselves virtually at war
with Great Britain. Italy alone has
the common fairness not to JOIN IN the
general chorus of abuse of England"
NJ. Nordau. having touched frankly
on the hostility provided among Cont
nentals by personal contact with Eng
whose pride in their relations
with foreigners easily develops into ar
rogance which naturally arouses re-
sentiment" sums up by saying that the
causes of the Continental hatred are
partly historical, partly personal. The
Boer war was not the origin of Anglo
phobia, it only served as an excellent |
opportunity of making a noisy and lus- |
ty demonstration of it. Finally he |
says: Every people ought to be just |
and, if possible. generous. The great
er it's power the more easy it is. But |
as regards it's actions, it should con- |
suit only its own interest, under the |
guidance of its own conscience. 1t has |
no need to consult foreign opinion, |
which is neither well-informed. nor
lust, nor sympathetic. and the interest |
Of another people is to it matter of |
complete Indifference. If you are
strong you have no cause to fear for
sign antipathy. The important thing,
therefore,, is to be strong, and not to
strive to win the sympathy of foreign
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

ono defeat Leo XIII has expressed ms
desire I that no Catholic should support
the bill, The Catholic members explain
their action by saying that they yto, voice fe1.
Ri ~ .' co-raIigionists who have already
entered eilffT the marriage state with persons
rnIated in the first degree of affinity by
virtue of dispensations received, o ron I, !
Rome although allowing such unions at
tfr,as foI. Very grave causes. the Catholic
Church 'I cordially reprobates them, and Is
thankful for any civil legislation when when
would support her position ana re aIter
them. 1t is loyalty of certain kind TO
stand by co-religiouists whose feelings
are liable to be smoothed by, TO theIn'
favorable legislation. Such loyalty. now now,
that which would give an unquestlonlhS
obedience to the solemn and expressed
desire of the Father of the falthIu III
Catholic Transcript.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
WHY EUROPE HATES ENGLAND

The February number of the Nation
al Review contains an important arti-
Gle by Max Nordau on Continental An
glophobia, in which the famous author
of Degeneration" traces and explains
the causes of anti-British feeling in
Europe He points out that 500 years
of English history is the mastery of
the seas, the possession of the greatest
colonial empire the world has ever
seen, the astonishing expansion of the
Anglo-Saxon race, and the resentfuI
hatred OF the nations from whom Eng
land has once or oftener had to exact
respect for the English flag, or whom
she has had to drive from the sea or
from various shores. Dealing with
France, DR.. Nordau says: Every mis-
fortune and humiliation which that
country has had to bear since the mid
die ages reminds French patriotism of
England. Moreover, legends creep into
history, actually is tinctured with ro-
nance. The English burned Jeanne
dare, who is the personification of
France. and of the noblest qualities of
mankind. French Anglophobia is an
unreasoning instinct-it is a precipitate
of history, of legendary lore, of relfg-
lous, aesthetic, and patriotic emotions.
In the case of German hatred of Eng
1t is in general not nourished on an
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.

Editor Intermouutain Catholic:
My Dear Sir:-Replying to your FAVOR
asking my approval OF The IntermOuntain
Catholic since its establishment in this
diocese, ] Will state that Z consider the
founding OF a Catholic paper in Salt Lake
not the least OF the many blessings be
slowed by Providence on the Church mere
during the past two years. Its birth oc-
Cured at an opportune time. Its zeal IN
propega ting Catholic truth has had
since its inception, my hearty. though
silent approval / believe with Our Holy
Father that "a good Catholic journal IS a
perpetual mission in a parish and that
II viii serve as a question box, at az
times, for anxious inqui~ers. IN my visi-
tations ] shall hope to find The Inter
mountain Catholic in the homes Of every
Catholic family. Its mission is to es-
pouse truth. Justice and morality. and all
devoted priests Will find IN 1t an able CO.
operator in their missionary work II Is
my wish that all my priests and the laity
entrusted TO my charge should encourage
your noble effort and that OF the gen
erous founder OF The Intermountain
Catholic. Yours sincerely,
l. SEAMAN,
Bishop OF Salt Lake.
Salt Lake Citv Oct o 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
Senatorial Dignity Disturbed.

THE PROPERTY and dignity of
the senate of the United States,
which has always been maintained
as rigidly as that of the supreme court,
received a severe shock in the fistic
encounter between the two senator's
from South Carolina the other day.
Pending action thereon, it may be re-
marked that the power of the senate
to punish the action of both senator's
is complete, and may take the form of
reprimand, a suspension until the
senators have purged themselves of
contempt, or the expulsion of one or
both.
Recalling similar occurrences, there
are only two of which there is any rec
ord. One was the Benton Foote incl
dent when Benton, during an exciting
debate, started threateningly down the
main aisle toward Foote, who, retreat
Ing few steps, drew revolver. Other
senators got between them, but Benton
exclaimed: Let the assassin shoot"
This occurred during session of the
senate, and was made the basis of a
committee report, in which both SEN
ators were mildly reprimanded. An
other incident was the attack of Rep
resentatfye Preston S. Brooks on Sen
ator Charles Sumner in 1856, which was
not during session. The senate had
adjourned and Sumner sat at his desk
writing, when Brooks approached and
struck him over the head with cane.
Technically, this was not an act Of con-
tempt of the senate, but the cowardly
manner in which the assault was made
excited the whole north and added fuel
TO the fame of sectional strife that
even then was beginning to envelop the
nation.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

One might almost despair of the flu
ture, so far as American freedom is
concerned, We're it not for the speeches
Of such men as Senators Hoar and
Teller, and a few others, on the Phil
ippines, says the Catholic Standard
The venerable senator from Massachu-
sets has no uncertainty in his opin-
ions. They are those of the founders
of this republic, and not those of its
modern betrayers. He occupies just
the same position in present American
politics as Edmund Burke did in Brit
ish while America was battling for
freedom; but his words carry far more
weight. They may not affect the
banded conspirators against the constf-
tuition who have the upper hand in the
government. but they must sink deep
into the minds of the people and in
time bear good fruit, like the words of
Lincoln.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

! There are many points of dissimilar-
! ity between King Edward and his
! nephew, the kaiser-some in favor of
one. some of the other. But it is a
curious fact that while King Edward
has recently been bitten by the Chris
tan Science humbug. the kaiser has
determined 20 deal with it as a social
disease and stamp it out The cult
has made great strides of late in Ber-
lin, especially in court circles. and the
Christian Science professors have been
making piles of money. In London
society it is also gaining firm hold.
The leaders of the movement there are
Lord and Lady Dunmore. while the
young Marchioness of Bath is also very
prominent at the seances held every
Wednesday at the meeting house in
Bryanston Square. AT these meetings
the faithful stand up and relate the
marvellous cures effected through their
agency or that of fellow Christian Sci
entists, and some of these achievements
are strange enough in appearance to
battle the colleges of physicians and
surgeons combined. The king had
heard of some of these wonders, and
he has had several conferences with
Lord Dunmore and other members of
the sect He has not committed him
self, for. as head of the established
church. it would be rather awkward if
he took up with Christian Scfentism.
But he has caused it to be known that
he is interested in the doings of the
faitk healers
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
Pope Leo's Jubilee.

TWENTY-FOUR years ago. on the
twentieth day of February. Joa-
chin Cardinal Pecci was elected
bishop of Rome in succession to the
Iate Plus TX, taking the name of Leo
XIII. With the exception of his i'm
mediate predecessor he is probably the
only successor of st. Peter. of whom it
viii be said that he saw the years of
Peter" All reports from the vatican
represent his holiness as in perfect
health and bidding fair to outlive his
jubilee year.
These twenty-four years says Fa-
Their Phelan in the Western Watchman.
have formed a distinct epoch in the
history of the church and will imprint
a. character on the coming century.
The years we live in may be known in
the general history of the world as the
age of Leo XIII, 1t has been an era
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
TEE PoPE,s ADMoNITIoN.

A Catholic newspaper i'm a parish is 4
perpetual mission. Let all who truly and
society defended by human intellect and
literature should flourish. strive by their
liberGlity to guard and protect the
Catholic press, and let every one in pro-
portion to his income support them with
his money and influence, for TO those
who devote themselves to the Catholic
press we ought by all means TO bring
industry viii viii either have no results OF
uncertain and miserable ones
POPE LEO XIII.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

! feel it my duty to protect Catholics
and the public generally from fraud and
imposition by notifying them from time
to time that no person bearing the name
and garb of a priest or sister or anyone
else is authorized or permitted to solicit
or collect in this diocese for any purpose
whatever connected with the Catholic
Church without having from me permits
sion in writing bearing my seal and
signature. Should any one be found en-
gagged IN doing this unlawful work OF
collecting without such a document, he
or she. as the case may be. should he re-
garded by all as fraud and an imposter.
+. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake
Nov % 1870
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

Nothing is more certain that in Butte
copper circles a more friendly feeling
is in existence and that low-priced cop
per has had a tendency TO bring all
conflicting interests together, says the
Inter Mountain. Nothing is surer than
that the only way to stand off low
prices is to eliminate the tremendous
cost of litigation and the dead work
it entails. Self-preservation and self
interest all indicate an early and per-
marent settlement Of the present con-
flict on some basis that will restore
peace, good will and prosperity in
Butte. In the meantime, however the
yarns sprung on the Boston curb should
be discounted. AS jokes, they are ex-
cellent, but the victims are the news
papers which print them, not the ex-
cellent gentlemen who figure in copper
litigation in Butte
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

It must be difficult TO persuade Mrs.
Ellen Devine, widow, of No. sos Ave
nue. A, New York, from attaching I'M
due importance to the number - The
reason is this: Her husband received
13 fractures Of the ribs in the accident
that killed him. He died April 1S. His
wages We're $1S a week. On May IS
action was brought for damages. The
case was No. Is on the calendar and
was tried 10 months after the accident.
But Mrs. Devine recovered damages to
the extent of $500, SO that $500 is a
significant number. too.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

The police judge of Lynn, Mass,
fined IL men S15 each FOR playing the
game called policy, to teach them
that no man had a show for his money
in such q game. Nov, a man playing
poker has some chance for his money"
said the Judge before imposing the
fines. That remark would go as sound
Jurisprudence in Montana.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

Patent medicine vendors. who appeal
to Catholic patronage with a picture of
a holy % nun, dressed in all the re-
gala Of a cloister. should be discour-
aged. When a religious community
permits one OF its members to don the
holy habit and have her charming face
and coarse dress used as an advertise
ment it becomes a gross burlesque
upon religion. Catholic instinct nat
urally revolts at such degradation Of
religion. What will not people do for
money?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

The hundredth anniversary of Victor
Hugo's death was celebrated with great
brilliancy in Paris. The Parisians are
certainly loyal to the memory of their
literary celebrities. How few Irishmen
remember the birthdays of Maria Edge
worth or Gerald Griffin-the authors of
Castle Rackrent" and 1.-THE Collie
gians" respectively, Yet Hugo never
wrote anything better. from literary
and national standpoint, than these two
works.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

dispatches from enthusiastic subalterns
out on petty Boer hunting raids, who
have wired him at Pretoria that dur
ing the action several Beers were seen
to drop from their saddles" The
phrase became the consecrated one
when there were no important results
TO chronicle-and those seen TO drop"
rarely proved to be seriously dead.
Kitchener, wearied of the vain farce,
adopted the plan of telegraphing his
sarcastic hope that when the Beers
fell they did not hurt themselves"
Several subalterns are feeling distinct
~ more hurt than the willy Beers, and
the weekly bag" does not total up so
high as of old. The anecdote is sug-
gestive: Continental critics have long
been wondering how the Kitchener fig
ures of Beers killed and captured"
tailed with the numbers that still re-
manned to fight another
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

The people of the United States, ma
tive and naturalized, are apparently
well pleased with the visit of Prince
Henry. except the Englishman. The
German is crazed with enthusiasm.
The Irishman is delighted because of
England's yeXation over the affair.
The American likes Prince Henry be-
cause of the absence of snobbery and
the presence of democracy in their
royal guest
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

mountain of arsenic has been
found fifty miles outside Tacoma,
enough to extinguish the demand here
tofore supplied by Cornwall, England.
One by one importations from England
are dropping off, and soon nothing win
be left but Bass ale John Bull beats
the Yankees brewing ale, SO long as we
aven't got the ops.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
Cardinal Martinelli and the Indians

His Eminence, Cardinal Martinelli,
commends the work of the Society for
the Preserva ton of the Faith Among
Indian Children, as appears from the
subjoined letter:
Apostolic Delegation,
Washington, d. c., Feb. 4.
REV. William H. Ketcham, Director
Bureau Catholic Indian Missions,
Washington, d. c.:
Rev. Dear Sir-I am grateful for
the information you have given me
concerning the work and nature of the
Society for the Preservation of the
Faith Among Indian Children. 1 do
not see how such work can fail to
enlist the jealous cooperation of the
clergy and religious institutions of the
country, and the charitable aid of the
faithful. 1t is the proud boast of THIS
nation that the Indians are its wards,
and that it feels itself responsible for
their care and protection. But, owing
20 the lack of religious profession which
IS universal among the people, the
country finds itself utterly unable to
fulfill the first of all the duties of
guardian to his ward-the enlighten-
ment of his soul by divine faith. Upon
Catholics, then, who, better than all
others, understand the value of soul
and the necessity of faith for it's saliva
ton. devolyes a duty of supplying by
their own zeal and charity that which
the nation cannot give to the Indians
Il hope and pray that the work of
the society may prosper more and
more, and that Gods richest blessings
may descend on all it's efforts. Most
faithfully yours in Christ,
SEBASTIAN CARDINAL MARTT-
NELLI,
''Pro-Delegate Apostolic
number of promoters have taken
up the work of securing members for.
the Society for the Preservation of tba
Faith Among Indian Children. At the
present time the society has membar-
ship of 1000. But it needs 400. 001 ana
thinks that it should not be difficnlt ~
obtain that number in Catholic NON
1lation of over 100000 souls. We bae-
our readers to apply at once for infor97
nation and blank certificates of rnan1
,s1 '3n TO Key. William H Ketcham.
AL F street, Washington, ID. @, -'''i'i'
The society has memberships .4,s
,ates and circulars in English. Ger
nan, French, Spanish and Italian
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
PHIL. coRcoRAN Editor

Mrs. L. L. WILDER of Dolores. Colo,
writes to The Intermountain Catholic:
REV Father Carroll from Telluride is
building a fine Catholic church here,
and expects to have il ready for SER
vice by April"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01

TO put a stop to further noise about
Noyes. President Roosevelt bounced
the corruptible judge from the bench
Of Alaska. What relief viii be given
to poor miners whose claims We're adj
Indicated by this same Moves?