The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-25
CATHOLIC OPINION

Father O'ReiIIy of Shenandoah, Pa,
said in sermon in his church on Sun
day last that "Mitchellites and dynamit-
ers mean the same thing" No wonder
he is charged with being IN sympathy
plains as if he felt agsrieved thereby. nor
would it be any wonder if the Mitchell
ties charged him with violating certain
divine command which 1t IS his duty to
obey as well as to teach.-Freeman's
Journal.
While the Methodist papers are warn
ing the president not to ask for red
hat for Archbishop Ireland some Cath
Ollie papers are informing him that such
action would not be without venerable
and respected precedent. The president
does not need either the warning or the
information. He is just now busy nurS-
ing sore leg and has no time to study
questions of religio-political etiquette
Western Waterman.
Who is this man Mitchell who rides to
the executive residence in a street car
to meet the railway presidents coming
in barouches from their private palace
cars. and exhibits forbearance and cOur-
tesy. while the millionaires read out col
umns of abuse Fourteen years miner
in the pits of Illinois, up from poverty,
up from ignorance, self-taught, self
made, he goes into the conference of men
who have enjoyed all the advantages OF
which give the wealthy an opportunity
to become cultivated gentlemen almost
whether they want to or not-he meets
these men and so bears himself in a
the president of the United States, him
self born and bred to the ways of the
gentle, cannot restrain desire to grasp
his hand and thank him for his pa
tience!-The Republic.
A new writer on socialism is about to
enter the field Mcclure & Co. of Chi
cago last Sunday announced Socialism
no less q writer than Right Rev. John
Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria
What position will Bishop Spalding take?
Prominent socialists have been claiming
him at heart a socialist. In a few days
we will see. The publishers state that
the book will excite wide attention We
do not believe socialists will be pleased
with it.-Cathoiic Union and Times.
There has just died over in Indiana a
man who had not spoken a single word
to human being for the past forty
years. And all because woman Tilted
deed. But had he married her, perhaps,
his condition would have been worse.
though he might have died thirty-nine
years sooner.-Church Progress.
Better late than never is the most
fitting thing to say about the new Phil
ippine commissioner. General ]. F. Smith.
He is a Catholic and he takes the place
of Mr.. Bernard Moses, who is, we be-
lieve. a member of the Hebrew commun-
ity. Had such an appointment been
made at the beginning, much trouble
must have been saved the administration.
Bearing in mind that the people over
whose destinieS this commission was to
have control for a long period are nearly
all Catholics. it is not easy to see why
the necessity of recognizing the fact in
the personnel of the commission could
have been overlooked by any sensible
statesman. The services of General
Smith could probably have been as pro-
durable then as they were later on, or
those of other Catholic gentlemen, had
the agitation of the grievance by the
Catholic press, it is not unlikely that
the anomalous character of the commits
sion would still have remained unaltered
Standard and Times.
Edward V. Murphy. chief of the staff
of reporters in the United States senate,
city, to see about the erection of a me-
mortal to Thomas Lloyd, who was official
stenographer of the senate a century and
more ago. Lloyd was captain in the
revolutionary war and is known as the
father of American shorthand" He was
ply, and write among other things a
book entitled THE Unerring Authority
of the Catholic Church. Irish Standard.
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Abiding to the outcry of the W. c. T.
L. provoked by FunSton's appeal for the
recalls the fact that THE ladier-blesS
EN-! never whimpered about the lying
and forgery used by the diminutive hero
to capture Aguinaldo. Monitor.