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

5 CATHOLIC OPINION.
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The statement that the Mormons are
| finding many converts in Denmark con-
firms belief that Joseph Smiths SAINTS
have excellent judgment in choosing fields
| of operation. They would rather assail
| Christian EndeavOr society than at
tempt Catholic country.-Union and
| Times.
Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky 'Iet
! loose in the house last week on Paunce-
| tote, Hay and Prince Henry. The first
! two points were well taken, for both
| Pauncefote and Hay are a disgrace to
manly diplomacy, but why should the
Kentucky man have assaiIed Henry of
Hohenzollern? The young man comes
here to put Pauncefote and Hays nasal
organs out of joint. Kentucky Wheeler
can only tolerate scions OF the house of
Bourbon, and even then he may 90 a
little a-rye.-Chicago Citizen.
The notorious Mrs Margaret l.. Shep-
pard, who has long been before the pub
lie as an escaped nun" lecturer. was
arrested in Columbus, o., last Saturday
for disseminating obscene literature She
begged off and promised to lecture no
more In that city. On her promise to bid
long and last farewell, the pending
The lecturer for revenue only was
never nun, but she has often escaped.
The best way to treat such leprous aux
ifiaries of the A. P. A. is with silent con-
tempt. The devils agents should not get
grat,litous advertisements from us while
the play Is on" The Church should be
respected for the enemies She has made
Catholic Universe.
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The last number of the San Francisco
Monitor received shortly before the OBJ
server went to press announces that the
book called Bible Readings was taken
out of the High school of Oakland. Cal.
as soon as the protest of the priests of
that city was submitted to the school
board. When will the Catholic citizens
of Pennsylvania insist that public insti-
tntions shall not be, Protestantized?-
Pittsburg Observer
On Saturday. Feb Is. the fourth ami
versary of the sinking of the batlleship
Maine, Mrs. Susan Anthony, aged 70
years, mother of Corporal Bill Anthony
(who bore the notable message to Can |
tain Sigsbee), was forced to seek work |
to keep herself from starving. Corporal
Anthony committed suicide after a siege |
of hardship ashore. and now his aged |
mother is on the way to the poorhouse |
while thousands of dollars are being |
squandered in luxurious entertaining by |
the nations representatives: Is this |
the way America remembers her heroes? |
Michigan Catholic.
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A movement is on foot, it seems among
the Protestant Episcopal clergy of the |
middle west to establish Gin their midst
an order of Paulist Fathers. The idea. as
by the author of the scheme
is to have the rectors of impecunious
parishes engage in some secular business
as a means of livelihood, that thew NAV
be enabled to discharge their ecclesiastical
functions without remuneration, as sort
Of spiritual recreation, as it were Why
the promoters of the plan should think ii
necessary to form themselves into a re
lg1o-commercial guild to carry this pur-
pose into effect is not quite clear. These !
prospective "Paulists' evidently do not |
uphold the dietum of their patron apostle
hat they who serve the altar should live
Oy the altar.-Monitor
AS an evidence of the progress of pact-
1cation of which Judge Taft speaks so
hopefully in his statement to the senate.
% the war department by General Chat
ZEE, military head of the Philippines
raft's views and Chaffees appear to have
,een widely divergent ever since the two
irst met in Manila.-Monftor.
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The Anglo-saxon here or elsewhere
lever let's go of a foot of soil of which
lie has once had possession" This was
ne proud boast of one of the tribe. Chair
nan Cannon of the appropria tons COM
nittee, the other day, in a place which
lands a living memorial to the emptiness
u the Drag-the congress of the United
states OF America. II the Anglo Saxon
ad not possession of this soil in the full |
enSe OF ruling 1t, and if he was not made
TO let go of 1t, whether he would or no.
IL our history is a huge fraud and CON t
ection. II he was not also chased out {
I France by Joan of Arc, we are also s
ictims of another imposition. There !
,ere many other places where he was
kewise made to scuttle with more haste
nan dignity. And now, in order to give {
more modern point to Mr.. Cannon's c
Fostering, here is the case of Wei-Hai- c
wee, grabbed from China couple of f
ears ago with mighty barnyard chorus
lubilation. What was then given out =
$ great diplomatic triumph is now d
onfessed to be a costly bargain. and SO t
ne thing is given up. Wei-Hai-Wee is {
'und to 9e OF no more use as a maritime +
-ronghold than Coney Island and there q
broad grin on the face of the Russian +
rizzly Standard and Times.
The ondon Spectator thinks that the {
rench religious orders should have acted -
'gether. 1t was their obvious duty to y
,me 20 - an !, UNI. understandings Nothing =
as to be gained from separate action Z
some orders could conscientiouslv t
poly FOR authorization, why could not T.
~ II some orders thought it wrong
J, make such application. why We're Il
hers less scrupulous?" The Spectator -
sclares without hesitation that the or II
ers have been the prey of divided n
'unsels. The reason of this lis believed Il
be thai. while the more dernocratic or 8"
srs have tried to remain in France. the
ders that are specially associated with
ee great royalist families have become
,iuntary cXiles-in the hope virtual ex- =,
ilsion would damage the republic" If u
is charge is true, the orders are given Il
,er to political game, and are only F
king their chances. They can get along pl
Ithout the sympathy of transatlantic q
iends.-Catholic Transcript -
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The other day some of the Catholic u
embers Ct parliament voted in favor of q,
he Deceased Wifes Sister Bill which M
axes 1t allowable for widower To ~
arrv his wife's sister, in defiance of the ~
" both of the Anglican and of the Cath "a
C Church. which places such unions nm
T the ban The measure has long been ca