The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-22
CATHOLIC OPINION.

* NH HVANS UT A4EAON"
According 10 the Springfield Republican,
! Eugene V. Debs seems to have made
foolish attack on the arbitration commit
| tee of the national civic federation, as
! sailing Mr.. Cleveland Bishop Potter,
Archbishop Ireland and other d1stin-
| guished members personally, and deClar-
ing that any agreement between capital
and labor is ridiculous. because there Is
no land in which capitalist masters and
working claVes can abide in peace; the
war is on, and the conflict Will grow
tiercer until the crash comes and wage
slavery is wiped from the EARTH Now,
Debs may be q prophet, and yet be eX-
| tremey unwise as to the present. To
damn without trial effort which is
certainly meant for the betterment of re-
latiOns between members of common
state is not philosophic or effective. Bet
ter poised socialists regard these tenta
tive experiments as part of the road
cleaning that must come before the right
thing is found out. Whatever they do
of good-and they may do much-they at
least indicate the vital interest there Is
in these veXed questions. and the mutual
recognition that something must be done.
More thoughtful socialists believe they
have reason enough for cheerful waiting.
Catholic Transcript.
Archbishop Keane, ais noticed in last
weeks issue, is preaching some sturdy
Christian politics at Dubuque that have
no compromise in them. Archbishop
Keanse evidently believes in making the
Church moral force and its members
the moral example that they ought to
be in every community.-Iowa Catholic
Messenger.
In a recent issue of the Boston Pilot
we read "a summary of an excellent ser
mon dealing with the financial relations
between pastor and people The preach
or rnTa tn iTiI of g
that priests are n1oney-grabbers, but
pointed out that the charge should De
met by fuller explanations on the part
of the clergy of the reasons why money
was needed Children, he said, should
be trained from their earliest years to
give something to the support of the
Church and its pastors, and this habit
being once formed will remain with them
for life.-Casket.
In bank failures there is always either
clique of knaves or a knave and fool.
The latter juxtap' on occurred in the
failure Of a DetP-,. savings bank this
week The knave was q speculator The
fool was a cashier.-Catholic Citizen
.
The worst and most dangerous citizens
are not the poor devils in the ppeniten-
tiary, brught there by ignorance or de-
bauchery. but the rich and educated and
respectable scoundrels who corrupt
politics, bride juries interfere with jus
cape taxation. and otherwise defile the
public life. They may dress finely. live
in mansions, have front pews IN the
church, and hold their heads high in the
community But they are more wicked
and noxious than burglars. or drunkards,
or even murderers. The grand jury in st.
Louis has indicted a number of high
toned citizens for municipal corrouption.
they get a salty sentence!-Cathoiic Co
lumbar.
Another of those wonderful English
men who are so unfortunate as to be en-
tirely Irish has just passed away. The
Earl of Dufferin and Ava, who for many
years filled the highest posts in the Brit
ish diplomatic service, has Just died at
the family seat, Clandeboye. Ulster, once
the ancestral home of the great O'Neills.
Lord Dufferin was of the lineage of Rich
ard Brinsley Sheridan, and his mother in
herited much OF that great mans genius.
He himself was also highly distinguished
in literature as well as in craftsmanship
and wit His death was FASTENED by the
humiliation of being mixed UP innocently
in one of those huge, financial scandals
that often convuSe the island that dis
honestly claims him as one of her own
Standard and Times.
.
For 300 years the Presbyterians have
taught that the Pope was 'Antichrist.
the man of sim Now they say he is no
such thing, and that it was never teach
ing. but always and ever a very ugly
nickname. Now let them unite in let
ter to the Holy Father aDologizing for
the insult. since they have recalled the
expresson.-Western Waterman.
The legislatures should lose no time
in passing a law making it a misde-
meanor to impersonate person over 600
years dead We do not mind If preachers
give themselves out as resurrected In
Sersolls. but we draw the line on Our
Lord and the prophets. preacher up
pretends to be them the MESSIAH a third P' hss
got himself into trouble with married
man by playing his David to his wife's
Bersabee.-Western Waterman.
A REQUIEM Mass" for the repose of the
soul of the late Queen Victoria was cele-
brated in the Anglican Church of ST.
Matthew. Westminster, on the 4th inst.
The publication of the Requiem Mass"
bigotry in the English metropolis, and
for a week the dailies have been filled
with protests from all classes of ner-
vous Protestants. These spasms are the
sure forerunners of death to the estab-
lishment.-W Waterman.
Between the government and the dis
honest white man the Indian has been
f1eeced out of almost all he ever had.
And now the bureau of American eth
nology has robbed him of his name. To
scientists he will in future be known as
"Amerino." and not Indian, using the !
first two syllables of America with the |
first of Indian to coin the word This |
leaves him with nothing but his life
Church Progress.
England has sprung a great political |
coup on the world-an alliance between
herself and Japan. 1t is an alliance for |
war as well as for peace and is intended |
as a makeshift against Russia's influence |
in China. An edifying spectacle it surely |
is this compact between d Protestant |
power and a heather power. all the time |
the Protestant power is engaged in the |
determination of whole honest Chris !
tan people, also Protestant, in another |
part of the world.-Standard and Times
Let US again repeat that the Catholic |
paper is one of the greatest allies that |
Catholic parents can have il safe |
guarding the faith and moral of their |
children.-Sacred Heart Review.
According to the United States GEN.
sus one in every three protesting
Christians in the United States is a |
Catholic.