The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-09-19
CATHOLIC OPINION


that the casualties in the bloody af-
! fray al Beirut which the press "fea-
1 lures with the blacklist of headline
type. were fewer than those of the
! Evansville race riot of n few weeks
| ago. The reflection should tend to all
| lay hysteria.-Monitor, San Francisco.
In connection with the recent Ger
man Catholic congress Car annual
event. at Cologne, there was grand
street parade in which 10000 people
took part. If they had Catholic
congress-. meeting annually. III France.
organizing Catholics in the work of
protecting Catholic interests. there
would be no such infamy there as
the expulsion of the Catholic religious
oders and the confscation of their
property. These outrages are perpe-
trated in France only because French
Catholics have failed in their duty
Freeman's Journal. New York.
Suicide follows in the wake of ir-
religion. Fifty cities in the United
States have $500 murders charged
made infidel France favorite para
disc for the self-destroyer. The moral
is obvious: the difficulty lies in apply
ing the remedy. Religious education
is TO many minds a bugbear, even
where it strives to instill the idea of
responsibility into the mind of Ameri-
can youth.-Transcript, Hartford
Ten residents of Cincinnati, who have
become converts to Mormonism, will
leave that city next week for Utah.
But why move? Cincinnati is fun of
practical Mormons, and those libertines
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one concubine at a time simply apply
to the nearest divorce court-Colum-
bian, Columbus. O.
It is reassuring to learn that modern
scholars, even those of agnostic ten
denotes. are becoming witnesses to the
fact that. the more recent researches
verify the Mosaic account of the Gre
alton of the world. 1t is always pleas
ant to know that men are willing to
admit that God knows something
about his own work even if the pro-
cess of scientific investigation is so
slow that it takes them thousands of
years to do it.-Universe, Cleveland.
The textbook question will be set
tied at our next state election. After
that our future presidents will have
Tree SCHOOL DOOhS, anu IllSh w SeNii
agitate for free rain coats, free UNI
brellas. free lunches and free cigar
cites for them. We cannot do too
much to encourage education.-West-
ern Waterman, st. Louis.
An English view of the American !
attitude toward Turkish affairs as
sumes that the+ government at Wash |
ington naturally" cannot refuse to |
sustain the missionary element in the |
sultans dominions. That depends on !
If the missinory ele-
ment persists in doing things that J
tend to embroil this nation with a |
friendly power. though a despised one, |
naturally must decline !
to become a party to the transaction. |
There is no reason why the country |
should be put to the expense of up |
tents who become amenahle. by their
own officiouS acts to the wrath of the |
under which they elect to
i've. No matter how innocuOuS their I,
Intentions may be these meddling alien
should he made to Shout
Ter the responsibility for performances
which bring them into conflict with
he secular power in their self-chosen
ield of operations. That is their sta
us at home, under their own gov
mment. and they certainly cannot
lain to be entitled to more rights
md greater privileges abroad, under
oreign rule. than they possess and en-
oy in their own country-Monitor, San
Francisco.