The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-30
CATHOLIC OPINION

IS CAIHOLIC OPIItION
The question of child labor is again
coming to the front. as an outcrop of the
great anthracite coal strike 1t is stated
an the authority of the Christian Herald
that around Wilkesbarre and other min
ing centers the coal trust employs many
children of the age of years and up
wards. Such employment being forbid
den by law. 1t follows that the parents
of these children have in every case COM
mitted perjury, inasmuch as the coal own
ers are compelled to have an atnqaVlt
that each boy employed must be u years
old at least. Moreover. in the mills about
Wilkesbarre there are thousands of lit
tie girls employed in the stocking indus
these must be 13 before they can be given
employment. and the real age OF many
of these children is from z TO 10 years,
and their average weight from forty-tlve
to sixty pounds. These miserable chill
dren. boys and girls. have never any
chance to go to school. and. of course,
never to church. So here is vast ,popu-
lation of poor little stunted pagans, know
ing nothing of God or civiliZing influences,
all engaged in making fortunes for
mighty millionaires. What a highly civ
ilized country do we inhabit. and how ca :
pable of teaching Christianity and CIVIL,
cation to other races!-Standard and
Times.
Our attention has been directed to the
International Encyclopedia published by
Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York, as
work no less deserving of Catholic CEN
sure than AppletonS Cycloped1a, and on
the same grounds. We have not exam
ined the work, but learn from those VINO
have competent critics, of its glartng
defects Among the 800 contributors to It's
pages only one Catholic name appears
we are informed, and many of the articles
touching on questions of Catholic doctrine
Cafh icfn OF aV1nGR
almost incredible ignorance of the SUB
jectS treated.-Monitor.
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The pretty Irish name Kathleen has
been growing in favor of late, even among
people who have no Irish blood. Here,
for example is a writer in the London
Strand with distinctly German Hebrew
patronymic, Kathleen Schlesinger. The
same magazine, the August number. has
an article on Dutch humorous artists,
among whom we find the name of Pat
rick Kroon, a native of Gelderland, VINO
signs his pictures orion; and there are
those who say that the original Orion was
an Irishman, too.-P1lot.
We want all of Cuba, but only one-third
of the Cubans. This will make anneXa-
ton a troublesome proposition. To admit
Cuba as a state would be to clothe with
sovereignty a people two-thirds of whom
are the LATEST and most worthless lot of
blacks the tropical sun ever Shone down
n. we might make CuDd anu the III
ippines presidential colonies.-Wes
Waterman.
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Catholics need not be surprised to see
American pacification in the Philippines,
shortly invoking the aid of the friars in
that task. The anti-friar tempest has
exhausted itself and reaction is in
evitabl Monitor.
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Before being reduced to that extremity
No hnvn 10 INIT a1 will raf ont
of the Philippines, bag and baggage. The
political monk is out of place under the
American flag.-Western Waterman.
Heretofore water from Lourdes has
been subject to a duty of "a cents per
gallon. Now it has been put on the free
list. My patience! This administration is
certainly going over to Rome body and
Dissatisfaction and Times.
A great many. non-Catholics are coming
to think, as the Brooklyn Eagle declares,
that if morality cannot be specifically
taught in the public schools without adj
hitting religious dogma, then religious
The same journal remarks that any
school which permits pupil to be in it
for six months without seeing to it that
he has learned essential morality has
shown its unfitness to be a place of
training of future citizens. For holding
precisely this principle, Catholics have
been denounced bitterly before now as
enemies of the public schools. It is sig
goes Observation-Disclosures.
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In cutting out street fairs from the list
of their activities, the Elks have done a
prudent and meritorious thing. BY all
accounts, some of the entertainments in
this line held in certain eastern towns
under the orders auspices were thorough
ly demoralizing in character and an af-
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ton which taboos such revels is in the
interest of the society itself, as well as
to the advantage of public morals.-Mon-
itor.
1t is said that the pope is going to do
what he can to arrest degeneracy in the
royal families of Europe He will grant
no more dispensations for consanguineous
princely families. They will have to seek
matrimonial alliances with strangers It
would have been better for royalty If this
prohibition had been enforced centuries
ago. The scions of royal families have
been continuously knocking at the door of
the vatican for dispensations. 1t would
be interesting to know just how much
moral and, physical degeneracy has re-
suited from these irregular and odious al
liances. The pope's voice will not be
needed in many of the courts of Europe,
and it is to be hoped that his hand will
not be forced even by those who should
lay to heart his salutary ruling. They
ana not ne would De the DenetlClarieS.-
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Messrs. w. Bourke Cochran and John
e. Milholland, two prominent and public
spirited frish-American citizens of New
York, have presented Tuskegee institute,
Alabama, with two handsome dwelling
houses, which will serve as model object
lessons for the negro pupils of the insti-
tuition. The gift is all the finer for the
fact that the givers are, respectively a
Catholic and Protestant, Democrat
and Republican and both stanch
friends of humanity and freedom.-Pilot
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Give the boys chance. Send them to
college. They have the most need of
Let them be thoroughly
schooled in the practice of their faith.
Do not drive them out to work while their
sisters are educated above them. Give
the boys at least an equal chance. When
there is opportunity for only one, give it
to the boy.-Columbian
General Miles is to be the grand mar
shall of the Grand Army parade during
the Washington encampment in October
How the president will be able to review
such spectacle and curb his strenuosity
is something beyond answer.-Church
Progress.
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