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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.

Editor lntermoUmtain Catholic:
My Dear Sir:-Replying to your favor
asking my approval of The Intermountain
Catholic since its establishment In tEl5
diocese, ] will state that I 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 a an opportune time. It's zeal, III
propagating 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 tnag
1t will serve as a question boH, III az
times, for anxious inquirers. In my Vlsl-
tations l shall hope to lind The inter-
mountain Catholic in the homes of every
Catholic family. Its mission is to- es-
pouse truth. justice and morality, ana an
devoted priests will find N 1t an able CO.
operator in their missionary work 1t IS
my wish that all my priests and the lalty
entrusted to my charge should encourage
your noble effort and that Of the gen
erous founder of The lntermountaln
Catholic. Yours sincerely,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Salt Lake CITY Oct q 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
The Magazines.

So much is republished from the
Catholic World Magazine in this issue
of the Intermountain Catholic, and so
much that is good. that further com
ment on the excelIepcies of the Paulist
Fathers in literature is bundled in a
list of contents.
impressions of the Philippines" Ed
mund B. Briggs, D. c. L.
Reflections for Ordinary Chris
tians,'' Albert Reynaud
"May-Day in Old England" Nora
Rylman.
THE Akropolis of Athens" GIlus-
trated), Rev Daniel Quinn, D. d.
a Garden Legend (poem-illustrat-
ed). Margaret M. Halvey.
Concerning the Life of Christ Rev.
Walter Elliott, C. S. P.
Mute Moments (poem), A. r.
lis the National Federation of Cath
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
Philippine Bag of Cats.

| 7 INTRIGUE has successfully blinded
mankind for awhile at every period
since the creation of man. But its
reign of rascality and deception has
| been frequently interrupted. 1t dare
not look truth in the face. Alas, truth
only appears after the humiliation OF
national honesty, integrity and honor!
1t comes too late to undo the mischief
wrought
The senate's investigation into the
conduct of the war in the Philippines
dlsclcses a condition scalding the pride
of every American. Cruelties inflicted
by the federal army upon an alien peo-
pie to cOerce allegiance to a govern
ment they hate and have reason to
hate, have no parallel in the wars of
the middle ages. Not without reason
have those who denounced it likened
American warfare to the scourge of
Herod and the exquisite torture of pa
gan Rome. No Christian, no matter
how strong the mania of jingoism has
seized him, can find in his conscience
any justification of further killing in
the Philippines, in the light of testi-
mony already presented to the con-
gress. 1t is not war. 1t is murder.
Just how long this has been going on,
the minority in congress are trying to
find out, in spite of opposition and as
sault, in spite of parliamentary chica-
merry to prevent the presence of wit
sible than General Jake Smith and
Major Waller for making a bowling
wilderness of Saniar and killing all
over 10. A writer in Golfers Weekly,
Stephen Bonsal, who claims to have
the evidence of his own Investigations
behind him, writes:
when the facts are known it will be
clear as day that General Smith and
Major Waller were sent to the island
to carry on campaign the nature of
which had been fully decided and part
ly put in execution. Before either of
these officers reached Samar, Balangi
ga, Kitapunden and dozen other barA
rios of southern Samar had been de
stroyed. There was not a stick or a
stone Of them left standing. The fish
corrals on which the natives of this
district subsist had been destroyed, as
well as the rice patches. And, so far as
I know, the punitive expeditions that
laid waste the country while Waller
was yet in Cavite and Smith in Pan
eastman did not take any prisoners.
when the facts are known it will
be found that others lay over Smith
and Waller in inficting cruelty as much
as Smith and Waller lay over the much
maligned wey1er. When the facts are
known" the American people will dis
cover that in the Philippines they have
nourished nest of corrupt military
and civil officials who hold and exer-
else absolute power over life, liberty
and religion.
Well may we exclaim with Senator
Tillman: How long must we hold on
to this bag of cats!"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
ENGLAND's RIVAL.

II was on April 3d. 1903, that Nap
leon 7 sold the territory kno" a.
Louisiana to the United States. iea,-r
10O wears ago. When the trahsao III III
was completed the first consul u''s .,,,,,
these memorable words, Il ma.
GIVEN England her rival He loI 80 ',.i,
and predicted the greatness oil .tt
country. His motive was not ,5a oGo
for the purchase money, @i''OJ' ~
which the United States PAID lot ii
isiana but to help to raise up d -
In TInpland's power and to place d 20
rier in the way of her aggrd me-
shirt of greed. He spoke emphaI, IN nj
and as the event has proved, tru'lll , Vic
We are Engiand's most Io' !I.I1.,s-
rival. and she eultivates US assn md
Iv in consequence; she fears US eli
she fawns upon us. Cecil hhouV' 1,eeu
is an attestation of England eba
eagerness to be close TO US iOl no
fully understands that we are ~ so
feared above all other peoples Lrav
much politically but IN the IN TO
which awakens British trepiu0 t1..l I'll
the marrow of it's bones, CONNIE .,Is rivaI:
Here indeed we are her ter ~. ,ros-
she knows it and duakes at tIao 70 so
meet Our agricultural resources d.,5.
vast nil
orr industrial resources are de' hin
beyond circulation. We hold the a,, we'I It
handle. and John Bull understands nos Of IF
only too well. The recent pureiit', roeri-
the English steamship lines by Amin him
can capitalists has frightened e him
thoroughly. What is to oecolil :, right
when American capital steps H. .,aet-
under his nose, and buys up ms al
est sbinrine enterprises? He mas t %
ways considered himself IorG Of his
highest Ris. pride, America aggre Ssaster
infrudes with the stride OF a ,n nov over
Surely there is a change col uioo1 pre-
the face of the world. Ndpo'c ,nd this
dicted it a hundred years ago, a', Of the
generation win live to see some some, u that
vide reaching results. of which '''
prophecy was the foreshadoWire
A child without innocence is a NV
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10


Behold the empire opened up through
the contemplated road from Denver to
Salt Lake. Between Denver and Salt
Lake City, and penetrated by the Den
yer & Northwestern, is an area larger
than the whole state of Pennsylvania
and possessing more varied natural
riches. 1t is greater in extent than the
combined states of Vermont, New
Hampshire Massachusetts, Rhode ISL
and. Connecticut, Delaware and New
Jersey. which states contain a popula-
ton of 1866, 00C. Pennsylvania has a
population of $780, 600. In this vast ter
ritory there are now not to exceed TO-
600 people. Its resources consist of ag-
riculture, grazing. COAL iron, asphalt
tum. oil, marble, onyx, granite and 9TH
er building stone, lumber and other
material wealth. The opportunities for
growth and development are vast. In
all this territory there is not mile of
railroad. The new railroad will have
no competition on either side of it for
a distance of 100 miles. No such field
for railway construction exists any
where else in the United States. The
road will penetrate an empire capable
of sustaining an industrious, produc-
tive prosperous population larger than
is found today in Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming combined
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

Those Moros are worth paying spe-
cial attention to. AS fighters they are
the bravest and toughest and Quickest
fellows that our boys have yet encoun-
tered in the Philippines. The battle Of
last week in Mindanao, in which the
Twelfth infantry captured fort and
killed two sultans along with several
dozen other savage warriors, and with
heavy loss to their own number was
desperate and heroic on both sides, and
has been shown in the Philippines-far
better than that Of either Spaniards or
Filipinos. The war in the Philippines
SO far from being ended has just begun
when our troops cross swords with Mo-
hammedans who believe that heaven
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

l feel it my duty to protect Catholics
and the public generally from fraud and
imposition by notifying them from time
and garb of a priest or sister or anyone
else is authorized or permitted to solicit
or collect in this diocese for any purpose
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 be re-
garded by all as a fraud and an iTnposter.
l. SCANLAN,
Bishop OF Salt Lake.
7ono
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

fective way of protesting against rhs III
pheming of the kings oath While Us as
English king is declaring his dfsboIi1ee
in the mass and transubstantiation ~
millions of Catholics i'm England viii b,.A
down in alteration before their U.-.b WV"
istic lerd.-Western Watchmau.
Mischievous reports have been .i~...
lated about the Catholic urlvars--.
the effect that Bishop Conaty irt.rI. ~, ~
resign that dissensiOn reignS auur.s
faculty, and that the institution has T1
sufficient funds to pay its rurr,re- . '
penses. The Rt. Rev. Rector denies rA.N-
stories. Catholics everywhere ,,fr
joiCe at this denial If the uHirgrsi,-
could only obtain the support of the grs'.
religious orders that now keep AWAY fro,,
il and of the influential German arpr,a,..
in our membership, its future would I
much more secure than it is.-pi,-sa.r-
| Observer.
Fresh instances of torture by water
cure" and otherwise by our troops arc
being furnished to the senate committee
every day. The latest is the most fright
full of all 1t relates to the torture ana
subsequent murder of a priest l5~ H9
higher purpose. 1t would seem. than char
of robbery. 1t is an eN-sOldier named
Bertrand of Lynn. Mass. who makes Tho
charge. The priests name Was Father
Augustine. He was seized by men of tho
Twenty-Sixth regiment at place rafatf
.
buried money Of the insurgents, and &c
was believed he knew where lt was Sc
creted They gave him the water torture
after having kept him confined lu Well,
and the victim died from the bar9sricy.
The soldier says his watch and rIa'l.
were taken by an officer, and boz -.vrs
the names of all, officers and pri-Ir--.
who took part in this frIShtful murder.
One is tempted to rub his eyes and ask
himself is it of the United States army
he is reading when such horrors stare
him in the face. Unless they Ctu dis
proved. we stand before the world. for
the first time i'm all our military history,
disgrd and Times.
.
The evangelical crusade agaius. Nor
mOnfsm has not elected the response
among sober-minded Christians which t-s
promoters hoped for. There is % pretty
strong popular conviction of the require
ment of clean hands on the part ut
champions of moral reform. The prI.-
tiCe of pOlygamy, which Is the ground or
evangelical attack on the cult of Prophet
Smith is after ALI very little. If aHr,
worse in essence. than the same practice
among the evangelical masses The only
real difference between the two lu5tltN-
lions is that one is not leEallZed while
the other is. Tandem marriage, COM
mon among sectarian Christians with iag
consent and sanction of the very leaders
NJ the present anti-MormOn movement.
is in every sense as reDrenensl0le IN
character as the more honest custom ~
the followers of Brigham Young. and is
far more hurtful, morally and socially, Iu
its results. Were the preacher 10 Tr-
move the beam from his own eye, before
undertaking to extract the mote from
that of his Mormon neighbor. ne would
evoke more sympathy for his zeal %
saw nothing of confidence in the sincerity
OF his motives.-MOnitor.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

One Of Alaska's two railroads, which
cost $4,0OO.O0O. last year earned SO. DOC. 900
net. The other, which is only five miles
long, earned $4,000 net This is some
thing like the experience Of a man who
a few days ago bought a little house
in the outskirts of Salt Lake for $50
and is now getting for it rental of IS
a month.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

A Catholic newspaper in a parish is
perpetual mission. Let all who truly and
from their souls desire that Religion and
society defended by human intellect and
literature should flourish. strive by their
liberality 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
helps of this kind without which their
industry will either have no results or
uncertain and miserable ones.
POPE LEO XIII.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

An esteemed friend in Ouray, Colo,
Is grieved because the Masons took
charge Of the remains of ex-Lieutenant
Governor Carney of Colorado and the
corpse was inferred according to their
burial rite. This happened, although it
was known by the relatives Of the de-
ceased statesman that Gov Carney
had renowned the order and was re-
ceived into the church before he died.
our friend should cease his lamenta-
tons over what he calls a scandal $
1t is no scandal Rather was it an
object lesson for the Masons who were
unwilling witnesses at the requiem
mass for the deceased, which marked
the church's triumph over a soul re-
deemed.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

An Anti-Beef Eating league in the
General Electric Works at Lynn,
Mass. has 1900 members. This may
read like a joke, but the vests great
livestock industry is likely to feel it if
this keep on. Seven-dollar quotations
for beeves in the Kansas City stock
yards may take a decline.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

In pointing out to congress the awful
evil of polygamy in Utah, the evan
gelists never embraced the sultan of
Sulu and the Moro tribes of the Phil
ippines in the catalogue. That country
ought to prove a good graft for our
local evangelists. providing they could
pluck up the courage of a Spanish
friar
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
PHIL. CoRCoRAN. ...... Editor.

With the arrival of mild weather the
rattlesnales are stirring again, out on
the prairie. Speaking of snakes, by the
way, the Anaconda at Victor has just
struck three feet of eighty-dollar ore,
says the Pueblo Chieftain.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

The Rocky Mountain News does not
think that the building of the Denver
& Northwestern will injure the business
of any existing Colorado road. 1t Will
bring so much more new business of
every kind that the present roads will
be benefited. The Denver & Rio
Grande may have to shorten its
through line by building the cut off
from Acequia, but that is something it
shnnld have done Years arn
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

Answering facetious correspondent
in Colorado Springs: The water cure"
is no part of the belief of the hard
shell Baptists. nor was the water cure
suggested by that old-fashion sect to
make loyal citizens out of rebel Fill
ipinOs.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
THAT REMINDS ME-.

Senator Boies .Penrose of Pennsylvania
is never accused of lack OF gdlldntry. but
the other day, while talking in the senate
antechamber of his early eHOtts IN inc
political arena, he confessed LHdl MS
wounded graCiOusness to the gentle sex
had once been found wanting.
II had to get the support or a rural
assemblyman who was under the sway
of a certain county boss whom we VIII
know as Uncle Jacob, though thaL is not
his Christian name.
1T drove out to the assembiyman's
farm and his wife ushered me INTO tne
darkened. musty parlor and presented her
babies Remembering Uncle JACOB sue
cessfuI tactics-and that 1 had to deal
with his opposition-I began bravely by
kissing the babies.
The mother-a dowdy, not overland
some womau-beamed with what L
Thought was satisfaction, but moment
later | interpreted it as expectancy when
one of the young hopefuls spoke up ana
said: -a r-r,,Io
Jacob always does. ,,
Did you accept the suSsestloH' aSNlN
wei. I didn't get the vote ] was
after" said Senator Penrose, lodging lns
question
This anecdote, told by the late Ie1uloa
B. Vance, at one time governor OF NoILL
Carolina, and afterward united STATES
senator has lust TedCleu tllt llCi tAis
He was seated in his office one gay
when an old negro, one Of his 'CnarlE
clients. came in. Taking OF MS hat, tL5
old man scraped his feet, and. boWins
very obsequiOusly, said: - = ,.,,,
Good mornin'. MarSe ZeD; now Is IUU
and de Mistis dis mornin -.
quite well. thank you, Romulus. no"
are YOU this morning? -
SOS to be about, thank de Loru' ouI
1 still got little misery
Ill always CUM
planning. but what can DO lot Sou '''''
Oats Just what I come to see you
bout. sab You know dat trifiln nlgsel'
Jim Simpson. doan your D.
'tOh. yes: certainly | know jim PU'
what's he done to you? . 10.
"Dat's lest hit, Marse Zeb; dat jest
hit: he amt done noth1n DAT ue i1ors
BILE: dat Niger been OWN me ten uoiiG ~
for nigh onto five or six year, an ne
amt never pay me Gnair cent not nal'
ee We'll i'll have you ever asked him for it,
r' 0hT hin him for it? Cose Ise axed him for
# and OATS how come I come TO you.
'sWeH, when was the last uine S1
asked him for it?' 80 ,,oi,,
"Yistiddy, sab; jest as de sun Was gum
wei We YOU say he didn't nay You ..s+
ono. sab; deed he didn't, an DAT ; J's.
'zactly how come | come to see you aid
''WeH as he dldn Day yOu
ne saw: what excuse did he give,
seM3rse zeb. dat no count. tEltiln me-
ger say he done been OWN me dltI l NO. +
So long sab. dat he intrust done eau ~
ali ups an he didn't owe me nair cent
sab, not nair cent.
REPRESENTATIVE Small of North Carolina ma
called a page. and after giving mn mn ths
rections to bring him a DOOR, asN'-
bow if he knew his name. -.o,,rr-
mo. sir. / don't" replied TIE E YOU,
ster. i.but / know the state you're troli
well, what is it % hare the
ooh. you're from the state VIZ south
governor said to the governor OIL s7i-''
Carolina. It's a long way TO the ereeA
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
CATHOLIC OPINION.


:, We notice that the Ri Rev. Bishop
seaman of Salt Lake City pronounceS
against the reliability of the Catholic
church census as furnished by the Cath
Ollie directory for the present year. He
refers to the fact that fifty-five of the
dloceses In the country are not credited
with any gain whatever. This of itself
would disproye any claim to great re-
liability which the directory might have.
we also made the same claim not more
than month ago. when we Insisted that
the figures given-10, 976, 757-were much
100 low for the total number of Ca.ho,
ilcs in the United States. Bishop Scan
lan's position strengthens our belief in
the claim that the number is more prop
erly between 12,090,0 600 and 15,O00,OO0 This
almost any one familiar with the manner
in which the total is arrived at will read
lily concede.-Church Progress.
The French elections have been the po-
litical sensation of the week. The house
of socialism is divided against itself i'm
France and the ministry of Waldeck-
Rousseau cannot stand very much lon
ger. Not a government candidate was
returned from Paris. This cannot be
ascribed to the fickleness of the Partisan
elector, as he has done this very thine
now the third time. The government of
Loubet has eaten the monks, and already
they have very bad case of dyspepsia.
Soon BOBBY Loubet can go to mass with.
out compromising his political fortunes
Western Waterman.
Cardinal Vaughan has ordered that in
all the churches OF the diocese of West
minister, on the day of King Edward ;
coronation, high mass shall he sung,
followed by benediction and TIE Deunl.
The pope has dispensed the people of the
united kingdom from the Friday abstf-
nence that week This is d very ef-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
OUR BOOK TABLE.

SPIRITUAL PEPPER AND SALT
FOR CATHOLICS AND NON
CATHOLICS. BY Rev. William
Stang, D D.. Superior of the Provi-
renee Apostolate. Benziger Bros.
Price, 80 cents.
In sixty short chapters the chief
doctrines of the church are expounded
clearly tersely and with special refer
ence to the needs of the day, the plan
of the author seems to have been to
provide short, comprehensive readings
on Catholic subjects which would fur
nish the faithful with suitable weapons
for the defense of the truth and at the
same time remove the misunderstand-
ings most frequently met with in the
nom Catholic. In this he has admir-
ably succeeded.
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BOB o. LINK.By Mary T. waggama,

BOB o. LINK. By Mary T. Waggaman.
Benziger Bros. Price, 40 cents.
This is a story for the young. The
scene, laid in the mountains of Vir-
GINA, is most attractive, the characters
are life-like, and the plot arouses in
terest. The author might have been
more diffuse without either wearying
her auditors or eXhausting her material
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The Colorado Catholic
ESTABLISHED 1884.
Consolidated Oct. 2, 1899.
1884

Published Every Saturday by
The Intermountain Catholic Co,
249 Main Street Telephone. 561.
com vEsp TNr AnvANCE
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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

child without innocence rs q
without flagrance.-ChateauplI"NS'
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10
THE GOLDEN LILY. Bv K

THE GOLDEN LILY. BY Katherine
lyman Hinkson. Benziger Bros
Price, 40 cents.
The troublous times of Queen Mary
are drawn upon for the plot and Incl
dents of this book for boys and girls
The story moves freely and holds the
attention to the close.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-10

THE BERKELEYS. BY Emma How
ard Wight. Benziger Bros. Price, 40
cents.
The story of good girl and her self
ish sister and how the first was re-
warded and the second punished. The
author being kind-hearted, the punish
ment is not too severe, and all ends
happily. as well regulated stories
should.
The Catholic Truth society of San
Fransico has just issued two very
useful pamphlets. "A Scripture Life
of the Blessed Virgin" will be found
timely for the month of May "a
Simple Confession Book" is specially
adapted for young people. 1t is sound
and practical These booklets are only
cents each.