The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-11
CATHOLIC OPINION

Possibly the best thing for Catholics to
do is to buy no encyclopedia until new
editions of Dodd. Mead & Co $ and u.
Appleton Sc Co.'S are on-the market
Columbian
Making a mans fire" says the sun;
Directing to state ownership of the coal
mines. is no more public purpose thah
building his house.
What about carrying mans letters! =
Freeman's Journal
The latest Kansas freak is legislator
who wishes to force an American flag TO
be hung on the pulpit of every priest anu
preacher 1t is no wonder Kansas mas
ard Carrie Nations. Why the Splrltlsls
and Christian Scientists do not invade
the state is a rnystery.-Union and Times
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An old favorite,-of the Protestant pni-
pit of this city (St. LOUIS, has just re-
turned here TO die. 1t is the boast OF our
day that the modern world is in the con-
troll of young men; business today mas
no use for old men. Certainly the Pro
.teStant world has no use for old predCh
ers Young men fiji all the important
puIpits everywhere. This is but right.
voting preacher, if unmarried, may think
of the affairs OF his parish Even LOa
years after his marriage he may nave
some time to devote to IL. But wneh
there are half dozen children to pro-
vide for and crusty wife to SATISFY
what can a poor preacher do for his
church ?-Western Waterman.
President Roosevelt stood the operation
on his shinbone without the aid of an
anaesthetic. But the real test OF hlS
backbone will come when his fancy priced
physicians present their bill.-Church
Progress.
Importing fuel from the Cornish mines
for use i'm Pennsylvania is something
like carrying Goals to Newcastle. There
is a plan on foot in New England to de-
velop the Canadian peat industry in the
absence of anthracite. Here is d mint
for the vociferous advocates in this
country of the Irish industrial revival.
Irish peat as a substitute for coal ought
to appeal to the sentimental as wei as
the practical interests of a large num-
Der of consumers in America--MOnitor.
A new religious cult. known as the Liv-
ing Waters different in creed and prac-
tice from any other body of .wOrshiperS
known in this country, has been uiscov-
the society believe that a life of celibacy
will not ONLY assure heaven to the per
son who lives it. but will also release
from hell the souls of any of that per-
sons relatives who NAV have been con-
demned. Bachelors and old maids are
seeking membership at lively rate
Irish Standard.
There is duty of 81 cents per ton on
imported anthracite coal. Up to the
time the Dingley tariff was enacted, hard
coal was admitted duty free At least
this schedule of the tariff ought to be
revised. and nine-tenths of the people, |
irrespective of party. will say So Why
should the coal barons be protected? |
What are they doing for the country?
Their past record is illustrated in their |
fEo Lob
Hungary Their present attitude is one |
of callous indifference towards nation |
of freezing freemen.-Catholic Citizen.
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NJ Combes has not vet retired. His |
strenuous measures against the sisters 4
have not vet proved fatal to his pOlit- |
cal ambition. The women of France I
stood between the soldiers and the sis |
bate and have no voice in the council /
chamber. The mothers of France are |
on record as reprobating the repression 4
of the premier, but the fathers of the /
nation seem to eschew all interest and /
in educational matters,
albeit it is said thew are somewhat con-
cerned about the religion and morality |
Of their wives and Enthusiastically
The English government. as bitterly as
sailed by the Irish landlords on the one
side as bv the Irish natiOnalists on the
other, begins to realize that land law re-
must De TdulCdl, IndL coercion mas
failed for the hundredth time and that
the Irish leader in prison is more power |
full than the Irish leader at large. The |
London Times, writing on the cold re- /
ceDtion accorded to the Earl of Dudley,
admits that it might. after all. be better
to abolish the lord lieutenanCy and. gov J.
ern Ireland on the same lines as Scot
land. When the Times can concede so
much as this. it is not beyond possibility |
that it will vet counsel irish home rule
and compulsory purchase. the only rem
edies for Ireland's dsaffectiOn.-Pilot.
Our esteemed contemporary the Cath
pic Universe of Cleveland. o.. in a
thoughtful article on present unhealthy
conditions. political and social, in the
United States, says:
I'VE have walked into our present
DEPTHS Needless of the warnings that
have met US at every step. There is not
L feature of industrial distress and in
Justice before us at the present moment
hat was not foretold years ago by men
ike Frank Hurd. who knew too much Of
he worlds history to be duped by any
present exhibition of wealth that wOuld
pc swallowed uD in the deluge of misery
md disorder that was sure to follow
Injustice can produce. nothing but IN
Justice. Sooner or later it works the
confusion that is its logical result. 1t
he causes of the French revolution were
less of dominating wealth care for the
uture?"