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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-14
Vaccination.

Herbert Spencer is always looked
upon as an excellent authority on all
subjects. Had his last work, Facts
and Comments" appeared in print a
few years earlier he would serve as a
supreme judge to settle the yexed ques-
ton of vaccination, in which all Salt
Lake took deep interest. He tells of
a conversation with a distinguished
friend and learned biologist, who used
these words: when once you inter
fere with the order of nature, there is
no knowing where the results will
lead"
Commenting on these words, Mr..
Spencer says in his last work:
1T is clear that far more we're killed
by these other diseases than were
saved from smallpox
Then he concludes that if vaccina-
ton should produce the desired results,
it will inevitably lead to a change in
the components of the body which rem
ders it less able to resist other all
ments. His ardent admirers among the
medical faculty Jswill not be pleased
with his deductions. They may call
him an old fossil, but he shows by
statistics that vaccinated infants are
more prone to other diseases than chill
dren who are not vaccinated. Appeal
ing to facts, his position is impregna-
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THE nTERMoUNTAIN AND COLORADO JUNE a. 1902

proclaimed and heavy fines imposed on
those who were unwilling to submit to
the iron law of the czar. A correspond
ent of the Independence Beige tells
that Hammerford paid $4,000 marks,
Helsingfors 10000, and six other cities
| from $1,000 to 10000 marks. These fines
greatly exasperated the people. In
some places the boards of medical ex-
aminers refused to assist in a system
| of recruiting which they consider I'M
lawful. AS usual. the Cossacks We're
on hand to handle the refractory re-
cruits. At Viborg $50 young men were
called by the military authorities; thir
ty-two only came. At Nikarleby sin
gle man presented himself; he was
crippled. Besides, not single recruit
would take the oath. The measures of
repression were in keeping with Rus
sian methods. At Helsingfors the Cos
sacks rode into the Protestant church,
chasing everybody They broke also
into private houses, fogging the inhab-
itants, sparing neither women nor chill
| dren. Convalescents were whipped in
attempted to protect a young girl was
beaten to insensibility by an officer. The
opposition TO the military law is uni
versal
The Russian empire is, in territory,
larger than any European power. Her
ambition to extend her temporal power,
together with her fanatical zeal for the
Greek schism, has made her a menace
to all Europe since the conquest of
Ivan the Terrible. Her empire on the
north nearly covers the globe; she
touches Norway, Sweden and Den
mark in the west; on the east, China ;;
and on the south Germany and Austria
She has been always despotic, and in
Poland her power has been always ex-
ercised with tyranny and persecution.
Adopting the same policy in Finland,
the paper already referred to says, in
its editorial columns:
1.-THE Firms will not be brought to
terms by the Cossacks; any kind of
brutal action will do nothing but ex-
asperate this prudent and wise nation,
which would never have rebelled open
ly, but which protests against the il
legal acts already committed with
dignity and self-respect worthy of the
greatest praise. The government at st.
Petersburg could formerly rely on the
loyalty of the Finn; through its stu
pidity it has made of them rebellious
people, the resistance of which will
prove unconquerable. What reliance
can Russia place on these Finnish re-
cruits, incorporated by force? Is it
good policy to supply internal enemies
with weapons, while organizing an
army against the outsiders?" In the
opinion of the same paper, if the gov
eminent at st. Petersburg persists in
its unfortunate policy" in the grand
duchy0 Of Finland. the only result will
be to give a large impulse to Finnish
emigration. At the present time 1000
Firms leave their country each week,
and if this state of affairs keeps up,
Finland will be deserted in very short
time.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-14

1.-The Beers insisted on having their
language taught in the public schools
as one Of the conditions of peace. 1t
is said these farmers are not educated
men. If that is so they know truth
which the Irish are slow to learn. They
know that their nationality would pass
away with their language and they do
not wish to lose easily that for which
they fought so bravely and we'll Can
not the editors of Irish papers in the
United States see anything worth re-
membering in this language condition
of the Boer peace terms?''-San Fran
cisco Leader.
The editors of Irish papers in the
United States can see no parallel in
their case with that of the Beers, nor
did the whole Irish nation see any
great necessity of retaining their
mother tongue till within the last de-
cade Of years. when the revival began.
A quarter of a century ago it was
considered a disgrace among the cod
fish aristocracy and Shooneens of Ire
land TO speak their native tongue.
Fifty years ago children attending the
hedge schools We're warned by the old
pedagogues not to speak or express
themselves in Irish from the time they
left school till they returned next day.
Of this fact the Leader is fully cogniz-
ant and should direct his fiery arrows
TO the home teachings of years past and
not to the editors of Irish papers in
the United States" All efforts to sad
die the difficulty on editors in this coun-
try is mar. eadh. There is an old Irish
poem which is very applicable to some
editors. One verse is sufficient to
quote:
They spout patriotism, too.
But faith between me and you
They have something else in view.
Says the Shan Van Vocht.
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TEMERITY, TIMIDITY AND
SANITY

I'VE are narrow if we do, or certain
to get the church into trouble, or sure
to injure other Catholics chances of
success in some way If we find our
co-religionists deprived of their civil or
political rights. because of their faith,
we are urged to say nothing. If, as in
the Philippines, we find systematic
effort made to deprive hundreds of
thousands of our fellow Catholics of
their faith, we are still urged to say
nothing lest we may get ourselves
talked about, or, in some way, involve
the church in politics.
So says the Catholic Telegraph.
This is true And'it has always been
so, not only here, but in England, Ire
land and other countries. O'Connell
in his struggle for Catholic emancipa-
ton was referred to as that rash
young man. by Lord Fingal and other
Irish Catholic peers.
Temerity is rash; timidity is coward
ly; but sanity is what we want. We
have all three dispositions present
among the Catholics of the United
States. We prefer temerity to timidity,
but we prefer sanity-the sanity OF
moderation and wisdom-to either.
1t is probable that back of much of
the timidity we complain of in Catholic
opinion we may find sheer Indifference
to Catholic interests. The remedy for
this, of course, is largely through the
Catholic press. Without a Catholic
press, Catholic public opinion is a
shorn Samson. The Catholic press
not only educates, but it represents and
gives force to Catholic opinion.
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Finland RevoIts.

II INLAND, which has been under
Russian rule for more than a
quarter of century, is striving
to obtain its independence. In this age
when Accommodation between ma
tons, no matter how far distant from
the great centers of civilization is not
only possible. but easy, it is not sur
prising that the spirit of democracy
which tends to the amelioration and
the 'secialsand political elevation of the
people, would find its way into Finland.
Against this liberal principle the Rus
sian government has now to contend.
The Novosti, an official organ of the
Russian government, published in st.
Petersburg, states editorially that the
home government has been deceived by
its own military representative who
wrote that Finnish people had accept
ed the new military law with entire
satisfaction" Commenting on this, the
Noyositi says: 1T is through such
mendscious reports that the Russian
authorities have been deceived con-
corning the true situation of the coun-
try which they govern against the
wishes and against the interests of the
people" Russia, always despotic and
cruel, wanted the Firms to take an oath
of allegiance to. the czar. At Helsing.
fors the edict was not carried out. Only
fftysseven out of $50 obeyed. The Cos
sacks were called to administer the
oath to an unwilling people. The result
was that revolutionary movement
spread everywhere. Martial law was
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-14

Bible reading, in these much ma
hgned ages of faith. This holy monk
of the archdiocese of Cologne made for
himself manuscript copy Of the Bible.
Like Bede. he found great pleasure in
reading and teaching and writing and
TRANSFERRING what he found best in sa-
cred and profane literature. In. the first
book of the Imitation he gives some
useful directions for the reading Of the
holy scriptures in his day. He says:
All holy scripture should be read in the
spirit in which it was written. Our
suriosity is often a hindrance to us in
reading the scriptures when we wish to
understand and discuss, where we
ought to pass on in simplicity
II thou wilt derive profit, read with hui
mility, with simplicity with faith, and
never wish to have a name for learn
ing
In the 18th chapter of the fourth
book, he says: L shall have for my
consolation, a mirror of life. the holy
Bible, and, above all, thy most holy
body, my especial remedy and refuge.
Whilst detained in the prison
of this body, 1 acknowledge that need
two things, food and light. Thou hast
therefore given to me, weak as 1 am,
thy sacred body for the nourishment
of my soul and body, and thou hast
set thy word as light to my feet.
Without these two | could not live;
for the word of God is the light of the
soul and thy sacrament is the bread
of life. These also may be called the
two tables set on either side of the
store-house of thy holy church.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-14

There is but one solution that we
know of for the religious situation in
the Philippines. Catholic newspapers
are, we know, the most effective branch
of the ecclesia dozens ct pugnans. Next
to the papers come Catholic societies.
Why not send a few shiploads of lay
editors and federated Catholics to Ma
Mia? OF course this would be a heroic
remedy and would be rather hard on
the Filipinos. But then it is said that
the Filipino on his own native heath
can stand a great deal.-San Francisco
Leader.
AS the Leader monopolizes all the
theological lore that could be known,
the LAY editors must take a back
seat and depute the editor Of the
Leader as their representative in the
"ecclesia dozens His pugnacity viii
supply the heroic remedy which the
Filipino on his own native heath can
not stand"
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this object was to show that talth de-
stroys freedom, and is therefore UNI
reasonable; that Christianity, as de-
manding this faith from its adherents.
is irrational ana inhuman, and that all
Christians are slaves.
Now, faith is, as st. Paul tells US,
the evidence of things that appear
not" 1t is the acquiscence of the mind
to stated proposition on the evidence
of competent authority testifying to its
truth. Faith must be a human act,
and Christian theology teaches that for
every human act three conditions are
necessary, coglition or advertance of
the intellect, volition, and freedom of
action for the will. Faith, therefore, in
the Christian sense, can exist only
when the intellect has recognised and
accepted the article or dogma as true,
and the will has given its consent with
out coercion. And therefore again
Christian faith does not mean human
slavery" Christian faith, to be of any
avail, must come spontaneously.
Faith is generated in this manner:
dogma, or article of faith, is pro-
posed to us; our intellect examines the
authority, testimony and evidences on
which the dogma or article is pro-
pounded and rests. If the authority,
testimony and evidences are strong
enough to convince the intellect of the
truth of the dogma, it accepts it as
true, and then submits it to the will for
its approval. The will approves it;
why? Because the object of the will is
the good" (bonum) and that which is
true must also be good. The intellect
proposes the truth. the will accepts it
as good, and it becomes an act of faith.
With this process fixed in the mind,
it will be readily seen that the second
example given in the discussion al the
dinner table is false: II believe my
brother is dead, not because l will, but
because / must The must has ref
erence TO the convincing nature of the
evidence, and not to the act of the will.
And when he added: Il believe it
against my WILL he did not mean it.
He meant to say that he believed it
against his wish or desire, but not
against his WILL for he certainly
must have ''willed' to believe it first,
or he would not have believed it at all.
In like manner, all other examples of
this kind can be shown to be false, and
with them Ingersoll's maxim.
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Imitation of Christ.

After the holy scriptures, there is no
book that has been more universally
read and from which greater spiritual
consolation has been derived than the
Imitation of Christ" Not only Cath
olics, but many Protestants read a
part of it daily. It's frequent appeal to
and quotations from the scriptures
show the attitude of the church at the
time the author wrote-irteenth cen
tury-towards The Bible.
In the supplement of Donohoe's Ma
gazine for June, Rev. John F. Mullany
says of this book:
One of the greatest books ever writ
ten is the Imitation of Christ by
Thomas a Kampis, published about the
year l425. We find in its inimitable
pages the best evidence of the attitude
and practice Of the church in regard 70
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-14
WOMEN TO BLAME.
Bishop Spalding Says Improper Home
Influences Are Responsible for Pow

Influences Are Responsible for Pow
erty and Crime.
In a sermon before the national con-
ference of Charities and Corrections at
Detroit, few days ago, Bishop Spalding
of Peoria, Ills, preached to 1000 people
and laid two-thirds of the sin and de-
pravity, the crime and Indulgence. and
poverty of America at the door of the
women of the country.
In the course of his address he said:
If the women of the land were more
large-minded, more thoughtful, more
intelligent, three-fourths of the deprav-
ity and sin that curse present-day life
would disappear. The seat of the de-
velopment of the child is in the home.
To her man must leave the training of
the boys and girls that are to be the
fathers and mothers of the future.
Shall women be false, ungrateful and
traitorous to the trust that man has
reposed in her?
1T is more than pity that we need
to have for the poor and unfortunate.
we Hceu " give tHeIl justice, winch
is the first and greatest charity. Evil
in this day has it's source in political
corruption that taints our whole pub
lie life.
I'm municipalities particularly this
influence disheartens the most coura-
geous and makes reform seem impossi-
pie. 1t thrives in the saloon, the broth
ell and the gambling hell, and perverts
the public conscience. If in the home,
the school and the church. where wo-
mans love is potent for good, the SEN
timent were implanted that corrupt
politicians are more dangerous to the
nation, the state and the city than are
the convicts of the penitentiaries, what
power for good the woman of the
land might be-
Later, in his sermon, Bishop Spald-
ing argued for forcible restriction of
marriages among reckless and too
youthful persons.
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their deadly pastime. Last Saturday
one of the machines at Staten Island,
while trying to beat the worlds rec
ord" for a one-mile run. dashed into a
crowd of spectators, killing one man
and wounding ten or eleven other per-
sons. The only legal penalty for reck-
1essness of this kind is a money fine or
an indemnity to the family of the slain,
which is nothing to the rich homicide
The automobiles are not wise, and the
lawmakers are no more so; that is, If
both desire to make themselves and
the law respected and safe.-P1lot.
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Bishop of Salt Lake.
SAT- Lake CITY, Oct. 2 1900.
CARD FROM BISHOP sCANLAN.

1 feel 1t my duty to protect. Catholics
and the public generally from fraud and
imposition by notifying them from time
to time that no person bearing the name
and garb of a priest or sister or anyone
else is authorized or permitted to solicit
or collect in this diocese for any purpose
whatever connected with the Catholic
Church without having from me permis-
sion in writing bearing my seal and
signature. Should any one be found en-
collecting without such document he
or she. as the case may be. should be re-
garded by all as a fraud and an imposter.
L. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
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40, The Intermountain Catholic does
| not discourage legitimate mining

40, The Intermountain Catholic does
not discourage legitimate mining.
On the contrary, we have every
admiration for the brave, enterprising
men who have made fortunes by delv-
ing into the bosom of mother earth
We admire also those who work pa
tiently for years and never realize any
thing They are entitled to just as
much credit as the men who are lucky
enough to strike it rich. Their bravery
is shown in the fact that only about
one in a thousand does strike it rich.
In the article referred to, we merely
pointed out the folly and danger of
trying TO make money by buying stocks
on the exchange, which are put up to
fancy prices, and unloaded on the pub
lie. People who do that are not enti-
tied to any credit whatever. They are
merely trying to get something for
nothing, and that kind of traffic does
not help legitimate mining particle
On the contrary, it hurts it.
For the benefit of our correspondent,
we submit list of stocks, showing
prices three years ago and prices now.
The figures are taken from actual quo-
tations of the Salt Lake Mining and
Stock Exchange. The losses shown are
startling. Who lost this money? Sure
ly not the nimble promoters and organ
izers of the companies? 1t was the
parties who bought the stocks, and who
were expecting to double their money in
a short time. Does not this bear out
what we have said?
The following table shows money
lost in mining stocks during the
last three years. Figures are
from official report of transactions
oil the Salt Lake Mining and Stock Elk
Change. The first column shows the
amount bid for the stocks May 20, 1899,
the second column shows the amount
bid for the same stocks May 90. 1902.
The third column shows the net loss.
Who lost the money?
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THE ROPES AnMoNITIoN.

A Catholic newspaper in a parish is a
perpetual mission. Let all who truly and
society defended by human intellect and
literature should flourish, strive by their
liberality to guard and protect the
Catholic press, and let every one in pro-
portion to his income support them with
his money and influence, for to those
who devote themselves to the Catholic
press we ought by all means to bring
helps Of this kind. without which their
industry will either have no results or
uncertain and miserable ones.
POPE LEO XIII.
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SATURDAY, June IA, 1902
oFr1c1A1 ENDORSEMENT.

Editor Intermountain Catholic:
My Dear Sir:-Replying to your IaAor
asking my approval of The Intermountaln
Catholic since its establishment IN thls
diocese, ! will state that I consider the
founding of a Catholic paper In salt Lane
not the least of the many blessings pc
slowed by Providence on the Church mere
during the past two years. Its birth oc-
CURED at an opportune time. It's zeal, N
propagating Catholic truth. has hai,
since its Inception, my hearty. though
silent approval. l believe with Our Holy
Father that "a good Catholic journal is a
perpetual mission in a parish; and tn i1i
1t will serve as a question box, at az
times, for anXioU inquirers. In my visl-
tations ] shall hope 20 find The inter-
mountain Catholic Ia ne homes of every
Catholic family. It's mission is TO es.
pouse truth, justiC and morality, and al
devoted priests ii lind IL it an able CO
operator in their missionary work IL IS
my wish that all my priests and the lalty
entrusted to my charge should encourage
your noble effort and that of the gen
erous founder of The Intermountain
Catholic. Yours sincerely,
l.. SCANDAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Salt Lake CITY. Oct q 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-14
CATHOLIC OPINION

Inc Boer war is over and the Trans
vaal republic" is no more. A noble
people have given up the right for lib
erty. But they did not fight in vain.
They have made England second rate
power, and the United States of Africa
a possibility of the near future.-West-
ern Waterman.
1t is sometimes a hardship that an
innocent party is compelled by the
church to be true to the marriage Yow
made with party who has been false
to It. But better that few should
suffer than that the monster of divorce
should be let loose and the act of God
in making matrimony indissoluble, ex-
cept by death, should be defiled. Be
sides, to them who must suffer, grace
is given according to their need.-Cath-
Ole Columbian.
The rumor that the dowager queen
of Italy is to enter convent is again
revived. Should she quit the court for
the cloister she will experience little
consolation in meditatinG upon the
scenes which she will have abandoned.
In her position and with her ac-
knowledged piety. it must cost her
endless pain to note the drift of events
In her country. But there rs yet some
hope for a nation which can produce
such splendid types of womanhood
even while the worthless are seated in
high places.-Catholic Transcript.
%
! The rich and "aristocratic" fools who
make practice of driving automobiles
at full speed through crowded streets
and roads in New York and vicinity are
inviting trouble which will not be long
in overtaking them if they do not heed
the murmurs of the people. Several ac-
cidents and some, deaths have occurred
within a few days, the reckless drivers
cheerfully paying nominal fines for
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Mining Stock investments.
Butte, Mont, June II, 1902.

Butte. Mont, Junee7 1902.
Intermountain Catholic: l have read
in your paper an account of the -four
ishing condition of Salt Lake City, and
the safety of the investment of money
there. From the suggestions. made by
you, it would seem that you are still
a back number in this progressive age.
L have known more money made out
of a small capital in mining stocks in
one month, than, could be realized in
years by the slow process you suggest.
1t was only by courage and grit that
our rich men, who directed their atten-
ton to mining enterprises, became
wealthy Would you discourage such
brave, enterprising men, who have
made fortunes by delving into the
bosom of mother earth?
AN OLD MINER.
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Our prayers are ships. We send them
to no uncertain port. They are des-
tined for the throne of grace; and while
they take a cargo of supplicatiOns from
us, they come back argosies laden with
the riches of Divine grace.
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HAPPY THnuGHTs-

Adapt myself to the thing with
which thy lot has been cast and love
those with whom it is thy portion to
live, and that with sincere Affection
Emerson.