The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-27
CATHOLIC OPINION

A current Rome cable has a sensa-
tlonal account of a sermon delivered
by Naples priest, during which. as
eIeged. a man placed behind the altar
ratified chains and groaned to make
more real the effect of the sermon on
he'll which the priest was preaching
In the pulpit The people fled in ter
Tor and the police warned the priest to
De less realistic. The whole is highly
improbable; nevertheless it may have
taken place.
An item in the newspapers last week
announced that at a Methodist assem-
blage in Yonkers, n. Y, Bishop Nc
Sabe made a strong attack on the
roman Catholic church, its defense of
the friars in the Philippines, and Cardi-
nal Gibbons particularly" No further
details are given. This Bishop Nc
Cabe is of the bigoted type of Meth
odlsm His specialties, if we may
judge by the newspapers, are to pro
clalm his patriotism and to attack the
catholic church. Why he should find
fault with the church for defending
the much-maligned friars we know not.
II he spoke I'D for grossly slandered
Methodlst parsons we Catholics would
ho4or him. But he appears to be too
hafroW-minded to act similarly. This
Methodist bishop, we are sure. is alb
solutely ignorant of the friars in the
philippines, their character and their
work. He has read all the lies about
them circulated by men as intolerant
as himself. But ne has never learned
the truth about the civilizers of the
Phlilppfnes. Such men as he do not
n hn1
Harpers Bazaar, a periodical devoted
to women, loudly laments the dwin-
allng' tendency in the families of the
pest American stock. 1t thinks we
shail soon travel the down grade and
perhaps overtake France. 1t is I'M
Iashlonable to have a large family in
lhls country. 1t makes mothers pre-
maturely old, and entails a long sIa-
very at the treadmill of the cradle.
What is the Bazaar going to do about
II! Has it any advice or remedy to
oner! We could give both; but the
best American stock would not lis
ten to us.-Western Waterman.
The cable informed US last week that
distinguished apostate had made his
peace with God and entered monas-
turns out to be Count Campello. who
travelled all over this country delight
ing the preachers and telling such de-
iectable yarns aboIt his brethren in
Rome. He was one of the foulest per
Verts of them all; and we hope the
order he has Joined makes frequent use
OF the bath obligatory. Western
Waterman.
The tragic suicide of a Cincinnati
girl in California was the end of a
short life blighted by the pace that
Kills, Events of this kind are becom-
ing altogether too common to be passed
py without comment. A false idea of
American freedom is being carried into
almost every walk of life. but nowhere
has it produced such lamentabIe ef-
fects as among girls just budding into
womanhood
The good old institution of the chap
eron has almost disappeared. The
young American girl is presumed to be
able to take care OF herself, and it is
not to be denied that in many cases
she IS But in many other cases she is
not, as has been only too sadly proved
by the instances crowding the columns
of the daily press.
The young miss, who chafes under
the restraint Of a chaperon. seems to
take delight in aping the young
oloods" of the sterner sex. She wants
TO be considered a good fellow" She
llkes to be considered chic" and she
regulates her action and speech ac-
cordlngly. She will smoke a cigarette
on dare" and she will give an ex-
hibition of high kicking at chande-
ller or a gentlemans hat, if no one is
about but her own select coterie. After
a little while she will sip high ball"
or dash off cocktail with a cute
little wink. that makes her popular
with 'the boys"
She hears someone talking abous
Why, that's gambling. 1t is
sport? Sue Golden plays it? Then I
want to learn it," She bets on horses.
too, because it's just devilish. you
know. A few wine suppers, attendance
at yellow masque ball occasionally.
a stunning tour now and then because
it's the thing, and facilis descensus
AVernl. Montana Catholic.
.
1t is no use for a number of our
BAPTIST contemporaries to attempt to
hold the denomination permanently to
the doctrine that only those who have
been immersed have right to the
Lords Supper. Those speakers at the
late Baptist congress who argued that
meaning unimmersed, per-
sons should be admitted to the ordi-
1ances as members of the church have
4 large English Baptist practice on
their side; and with them is all the
sentiment of Christian fellowship, and
III the distrust of obligatory physical
religion.
20