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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.

Editor Intermountain Catholic:
My Dear Sir-Replying to your IA
vor asking my approval of The Inter
mountain Catholic since its establish
ment in this diocese, will state that
| consider the founding of Catholic
paper in Salt Lake not the least of the
many blessings bestowed by Provi-
dence on the Church here during the
past two years. Its birth occurred at
an opportune time. Its zeal in propa-
eating Catholic. truth has had, 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 that it will serve as a question
box, at all times, for anxious inQuir-
ers. In my visitations l shall hope to
find The Intermountain Catholic in
the homes of every Catholic family.
Its mission is to espouse truth, justice
and morality, and all devoted priests
will find in it an able co-operator in
their missionary work. 1t is my wish
that all my priests and the laity en-
trusted to my charge should encour-
age your noble effort and that of the
generous founder of The Intermoun-
tain Catholic. Yours sincerely,
L. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
Salt Lake City, Oct 2, 1900.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
THE INrERMouNrAIN AND COLORADO CATHOLICS TO- 1908

in fact, his chances of winning a ia
vorable verdict are probably better.
But when the verdict of the jury has
been rendered and sentence has been
pronounced, it is all over. There are
practically no appeals in criminal
cases in that country, and the SEN
tence, if death, is executed within
sixty days. The confidence thus in
stilled into the hearts of the people
that the laws will be administered
promptly and without fear, favor or
affection makes them patient and
willing to trust to the machinery of
the courts for justice, no matter how
strongly an awful crime may cry to
heaven for vengeance. The mining
camps of British Columbia and the
Yukon district are peopled chiefly by
the toughest class of miners from
this side of the line, but they re-
spect and uphold the law because
they realize that the accused will get
fair and speedy trial, to be followed
by swift and satisfactory punishment
if he be found guilty.
Our judges and lawyers have en-
grated upon the procedure of our
criminal courts system of endless
appeals and delays not natural 20
them, which need to be pruned away.
Starting from the same point it is
curious to see how the two countries
have diverged so widely in this re-
spect, and it is exceedingly difficult
to explain why it should be. A com
mission of able jurists could easily
draft a code and rules of procedure
which would put us back in the posi-
ton from which our neighbors have
have not departed, and thus check the
growing form of anarchy which is
rendering this fair land a by-word
amongst the other civilized nations of
the world.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
AN EXPLANATION WANTED.

One of the stock arguments which
Professionals are fond of using when
the spirit moves them to take fling
at the Catholic church is that litter
acy is more prevalent in the Catholic
and Latin countries of southern Eu
rope than in the Protestant and leu
tonic north. There is a good deal to
be said on the other side of this ques-
ton, and there is one phase of it to
which our evangelical friends might
devote little time and thought.
Just now the Mormons are holding
the center of the stage. There is
scarcely a Protestant preacher or
editor in the land who is not telling
all he knows and great deal he does
not know about the Latter Day
Saints. How would it do to say some
thing about the places these Nor
mons come from? Why not discuss
the why and wherefore of the sue
cess of the Mormon propaganda in
the chief strongholds of Protestant
ism, in which we have so often been
told the light of knowledge had dis
PEELED the errors OF Rome which could
linger only amongst the comparative
ly uneducated Latins and Celts?
Converts to Mormonism are drawn
almost exclusively from the New Eng
land states, England the south of
Scotland, Scandinavia, Denmark,
Holland and the north of Germany.
This belief has gained no foothold IN
Ireland, France, southern Europe or
any other Catholic district. In the
last named countries Mormon mis-
sionaries have totally failed to make
any impression or create any excite
ment. Protestant Germany is trying
to expel and exclude them, but Catho-
lie Spain is not worrying about them
According to our Protestant
friends, these Mormons are an ex-
ceedigly bad lot-much worse. in
fact, than the Catholics, who used to
come in for all the kicks and cuffs.
Before the Catholics are altogether
lost sight of in the dust of the fray,
will not some good evangelical divine
rise UP and explain why all these hor-
rid Mormons come from the lands
where progress and education, as
they have been telling us all these
years, have proved too much for
Rome?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

The governor of Pennsylvania has
signed the bill mHzling the press of
the state, whose greatest honor is
the record of freedom of worship and
speech granted to all at time when
bigotry and oppression prevailed in
nearly all the other English provinces
of the new world. No doubt newspa-
pers often go to an extreme and vel
low journalism is a serious scandal;
but the enactment of such a law is a
dangerous experiment. 1t will be
broken and it will fail when an at
tempt is made to enforce it. The first
results will be to bring into still
greater contempt the lawmakers and
administrators of justice, an evil les
son for the rising generation.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
The PoPE,s ApMoNIrIoN.
L. SCANLAN,
hon of Salt T.obo

A Catholic newspaper in a parish
is a perpetual mission. Let all who
truly and from their souls desire that
religion and society defended by hui
man intellect and literature should
flourish, strive by their liberality to
guard and protect the Catholic press.
and let every one in proportion to his
income support them with his money
and influence, for to those who de-
vote themselves to the Catholic press
we ought by all means to bring helps
OF this kind, without which. their in.
dustry will either have no results or
uncertain and miserable ones.
POPE LEO XIII.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

A hundred million dollars a year is
the tribute paid by the United States
for the privilege of marrying some CT
its fair daughters to members of the
nobility of England; and this vast
sum is certain to be increased as time
goes on. England can well afford to
look complaisantly on the great
strides made by American commerce
and industry when so large a share of
the net proceeds falls to her lot with
out expenditure of toll or the invest
ment of a single dollar. No wonder
the mother country is growing richer
year by year in spite of the fact. that
the balance of trade is heavily
against her. We talk about absentee
landlordism in Ireland, yet the sums
collected and spent by these land
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
BOOK REVIEWS.

The Catholic Truth society of San
Francisco has published a timely
booklet, ga Life of Our Lord" 1t
was prepared for the London Truth
society by Lady Amabel Kerr, whose
name is a guaranty that the work
has been well done. The pamphlet
will be found useful for young and
old. 1t is one of the best short lives
that has come to our notice. The
society also has published "Why |
Am a Catholic" by Rev. Charles A.
Ramm. Father Ranm is convert
and gives sound reasons why he EN-.
braced the Catholic doctrine. His
argument is convincing and the book.
let will be found useful The works
may be had at the rate of So per hun.
bred.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

1 feel it my duty to protect Catho-
lies and the public generally from
fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time to time that no per
son bearing the name and garb of a
priest or sister, or anyone else, is au-
thorized or permitted to solicit or col
lect in this diocese for any purpose
whatever connected with the Catholic
Church without having from me per-
mission in writing, bearing my seal
and signature. Should anyone be
found engaged in doing this unlawful
work of collecting without such a doc.
ument, he or she, as the case may be.
should be regarded by all as a fraud
and an imposter.
L. SCANLAN,
Bishop Of Salt Lake.
Nov. 20, 1899.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
LYNcHINes AND ANARCHY.

Cardinal Gibbons speaks of the pre-
vailing contempt and disregard for
the laws of the land as one of the
five great evils of the day affecting
this country, the causes of which, he
points out, are the trivial grounds on
which appeals are granted and the
interminable delays in the admins
tration of justice. No better example
of this could be chosen than the con-
dition of affairs prevailing in the
state of Utah. Here we have men
in the penitentiary under sentence of
death, the date of whose execution
or release from prison no one can
even guess at. This is not a call for
blood, but there must be something
wrong when, in the face of all the
homicides that have been committed,
not a single murderer whose trial has
taken place since Utah became a
state has paid the penalty imposed by
law.
The prevalence of lynchings in
many states can be traced to no other
cause. Lynch law first came into be-
ing in consequence of the outrageous
manner in which criminals were per-
mitted to escape their just deserts
in California; and the practice of the
remedy, which is worse than the dis
ease it was designed to cure, has
spread over the greater part of the
country. 1t is the worst form of an
archy and will eventually destroy all
regard for the government and courts
of justice unless something is done
to check it.
An atrocious murder was recently
committed in the city of New York,
and the police find it impossible to
gather any information as to the
of the murderer, even
from the relatives and friends of his
victim. "The law is too SLOW" they
say, and they are biding their time
to wreak personal vengeance on their
enemy instead of surrendering him to
the officers of the law. The vendetta
in its worst form prevails in the me-
tropolis of the new world because the
of the courts is entangled
in mass of red tape. Lynch law in
the south and west and the vendetta
in the north and east make up the
fearful harvest we are reaping from
the seed sown by our judges and law
1t is not necessary to go far afield
to study an effective cure for these
ills. Immediately to the north of US
lies a country Of vast extent peopled
by race identical with our own, in
which the administration of justice
is terribly swift and sure, and where
a lynching or even an attempt at one
has never occurred. That Canada
has nominally monarchial form of
government does not explain the diff
ference. The Canadians, as far as
the administration of justice is con-
erned, make their own laws and gov
ern themselves as freely and indie
pendently as we do. The definition of
the various degrees of criminality is
almost precisely the same there as
here, and the pains and penalties I'M
posed by law do not differ from ours
in any material respect. AS far as
an examination of the statute laws of
the two countries is concerned, even
the most astute lawyer cannot point
out any dissimilarity worth mention.
ing. But when it comes to the admin
istration of those laws, we are as
far apart as the poles.
In Canada the accused has just as
fair a trial before jury of his peers
as in any part of the United States;
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

ruses it in prayerful spirit must of
necessity receive great benefit. 1t is
translated from the German OF Rev.
Joseph Schneider, S. J., with addi-
tions by Rev. Ferreol Girardey, c. SIS.
R. Published by Benziger Bros, New
York. Price, $1.25.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

lords is insignificant when compared
with the golden tide we are pouring
into the Golfers of a few British aris-
tocrats This is great and rich
country. 1t would have to be to
stand such drain.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

1t did not take William of Germany
long to follow his uncle, Edward of
England, to the Vatican. The visit
of the German emperor was attended
with much greater pomp and display,
but he has much bigger political ak
to grind just now.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
The Colorado Catholic
ESTABLISHED 1884.
Consolidated October 2, 1899.

Published Every Saturday by The In
termountain Catholic Publishing
Company, 249 Main Street, Salt
Lake City, Utah. Telephone i567.
$500 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

The Wonder Millinery company is
now permanently located at 50 Main
street. The display of Easter goods is
attractive and up-to-date. Visit before
you purchase. To see is to be con
vinced.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16
REMITTANCES.

Remittances should be made by
post office or express money orders,
drafts or registered letters.
CHANGING ADDRESSES.
Subscribers removing from one
place to another, and desiring papers
changed, should always give former
as well as present address.
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to send to THE INTERMOUNTAIN
CATHOLIC news contributions of in
terest to their respective parishes.
(Entered in the postoffice at Salt Lake
City as second-class matter.)
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

To the person DESTROYS of living a
truly Christian life nothing will he
found more edifying than Helps to
Spiritual Life" The work is in
tended for religious and all persons
IN the world who desire to serve God
ferVently, and he who carefully ne
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-05-16

'The Sacred Heart Book" is a re-
cent addition to Benziger Bros pro-
llfic list. The work is by Rev. F. K,
Lasauce and comprises instructions,
suggestions, meditations and rehec.
lions on the Sacred Heart Devotion,
the Apostleship of Prayer, and kind.
red subjects. Price, 757 cents.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-22
S, D. CROPS HAVE
PLENTY or MOISTURE
Condition Of Vegetation in
the State Shows Much
improvement.
TOO MUCH RAIN IN HILLS
Small Grains Have Recovered From,
Severe Frost of Last Month
Fruit Damage Was
Small.

huron, S. D., May 15.-The crop re-
port for the past week says:
Much more seasonable temperature
than prevailed last week, with bene-
fetal rains over the greater portion Of
the state, caused marked Improvement
in the condition Of all vegetation from
what prevailed at the close of the pre-
ceding week. Except that some fields
OF oats and barley We're to some extent
reduced in stand, in scattered localities,
small grains have generally recovered
well from the effects of the frosts Of
the last days of April and there was
practically no permanent injury to the
wheat crop. The permanent injury to
fruits was mostly confined to the small
varieties, and was less than anticipated
and fruit trees are now general bios
soming. In Day county there is some
report of reseeding of oats being neces-
sary. Although growth has been com
paratiVely slow, wheat, oats, barley,
speltZ, and spring sOWn rye have made
healthy root and are looking well. Win
ter rye is in promising condition.
Rains have retarded field work in the
Black Hills region, but the sowing Of
small grams, except lax and mlllet. is
practically completed. In the northern
counties there is still little oats and
barley to be sown. and in some north
ern counties more rain would be very
beneficial.
Preparation of ground for corn, flax,
and millet has progressed favorably.
Corn planting has begun in the middle
and southern counties, and flax and
millet seeding was also in progress but
were interrupted by rains.
AS a result of the frosts Of the last
days of April. the replanting of much
early garden stuff became necessary
Grass has improved considerably,
and though still more backward than
usual, Is affording fairly good pas
turage, especially on the ranges west
of the Missouri river.
!. Potato planting has progressed ia
vorably, and it appears that the early
planted sustained no permanent in
jury from the cold weather of the pre-
ceding week.
& Reports indicate that live stock on
the ranges is in improved condition.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-22
SEEKS HUSBAND IN
SOUTH DAKOTA
Gay Partisan Believes Errina
Spouse Is Seeking a South
Dakota Divorce.
WOMAN is DETERm!lV ( .
is Swinging Round the Circle Looking
for Hubby, and Declares There
Will Be Things Doing When
the Two Meet.

Canton, S. D., May 14.-The divorce
colonies located at this place and other
South Dakota points are being agitated
by handsome and we'll dressed wo-
man Of French parentage, who comes
all the way from Paris looking for a
truant husband. This woman is the
wife of M Isaac Ilanter, we'll known
IN Paterson, N. j., where they were
prominently engaged in business for
many years.
Mrs. kanter carries with her photo
graphs of her husband, which she ex-
hibits extensively among people with
whom she comes in contact, in the faint
hope Of finding a clue to her husband
whereabouts. So determined is Mrs.
kanter in finding her husband that she
has placed a liberal reward upon his
head and engaged the services of a
Plnkerton detective to assist her in
the thus far fruitless search for her
estranged and miscreant spouse.
Having visited Yankton, Sioux Falls
and other places where popular divorce
mills are located, Madame Kanter Wis
tied Canton yesterday in the hope of
driving her husband to cover in this
city. she tailed, however, In doing so,
and in her consequent disappointment
she gave way to an exhibition Of angelic
sweetness which led her listeners to
understand that when Madam Kanter
and her husband meet again, If they
ever do, there will be lively times in
police circles, for at least one day, and
that possibly the divorce courts may be
cheated out of liberal patron.
The couple were married. the woman
says, In Paris, France, fifteen years
ago, and afterwards moved to Pater-
son, N. j., where they were extensively
engaged in the confectionery manufac-
turing business, in which they accumu-
lated considerable OF a fortune and be-
came prominent in society, in business
and in politics. Two years ago the
husband became infatuated with a
young society belle. The wife was sent
to Paris on visit with friends and re-
latives, while he soon after wendell his
way to Dakota seeking q divorce, os-
tenslbly to wed the object Of his adj
miration No. 2.
The woman in the case has been
found at popular boarding house in
Yankton, and it Is thought that the
m1screant husband is keeping himself
IN hiding either in that city ,or in
Sioux Falls, and that he is kept posted
by friends regarding his wife's move
ments, While the latter and a force Of
P1nkerton detectives are vainly seek
ing to locate his trail.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-22
HURON GIRL ELOPES.
Miss Halle Elrod Marries in Spite
of Ali,

Huron, S. D., May 14.-Quicl1ly fol-
lowing the sensation attending the
marriage and divorce proceedings of
Professor Baldwin, of which much has
been said comes news of another sem
sation in which former Huron young
lady is a prominent figure. It is tho
elopement Of Miss Halle Elrod, &C.
credited belle of North Fon du Lac.
Wis, and G. w. Rogers, son Of we'll
to-do farmer living near Oshkosh
Miss Elrod lived with her parents
In this city for a number of years, and
with them went to Wisconsin about
tWc years ago. She was fine looking,
well educated, a good singer and an
elocutionfst Of no small merit In So
ciety she was favorite, and her read
lngs always attracted attention. It APP
pears that she fell in love with Mr..
Rogers some months since, but her
parents were opposed to her marriage.
A few days since she decided to no
longer heed the remonstrances of ia
Their and mother, and accordingly left
the parental roof, with wedding gown
secreted beneath her cloak, and met
her devoted lover at a given place,
and the two were married, much to the
surprise of parents and friends. A re-
cancellation was had after much con-
sultation. People here are not sur
prised at Miss Elrod's action, as she
was always on the alert for something
out of the ordinary, yet not disposed to
be sensational.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-22
OPPOSE EDUCATION BILL
Rev, r. j. Campbell, Prominent Non.
Conformist, Advocates passive
Resistance" Policy.

London, May 16-There was remark.
able scene in the City Temple today wher
the pastor, Rev. r. j.. Campbell, successor
to the late DR.. Parker, announced his ad.
hesion to the passive resistance move.
ment against the new education bill.
S When Rev. Campbell, who may be re.
garded as the head of the non-conform.
lists in this country and as voicing the de.
termination Of the non-conformists, sale
he would tender a payment Of portion OF
the rates which was not devoted to sec.
tartan purposes, but added the collector
would have to seize his hall clock anG
other chattels for the balance.
Il. The audience, numbering about 300 per.
sons, stood up and cheered Justify for sew.
eral minutes. The pastor added he haG
heard that Colonial Secretly Chamber.
lain was likely to advocate imprisonment
for those who participated in the pas.
slve resistance' movement, but he be.
lieved that II Chamberlain imprisoned him
his days as colonial secretary would b.
numbered for nonconformity represented
half the religious life Of England.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-22
G. a. r. ENCAMP
Annual Reunion Will Be Held at Big
Stone in June.

Annual Reunion viii Be Held at Big
Stone in June.
Huron, S. D., May 16.-Old soldiers
throughout the state are quite inter-
ested in the approaching Grand Army
encampment to be held at Big Stone in
June. Committees, with the council
of administration, have completed all
arrangements and if the program is
carried out the encampment Will be
one of the best ever held in the state.
AT this time there is interest as to
who will be chosen department COM
mander, with chances strongly in favor
OF Captain Thos. Reed of Arlington. He
was a strong opponent of Captain
Blanchard at the Brookings encamp-
ment, and the boys generally feel that
he deserves the honor and will doubt
less confer it upon him at Big Stone.
General Maris Taylor is planning to
remove to Everett, WASH, Where he has
business interests. He has sold his
residence here, and is arranging his
business matters to allow him to de-
part about the first of June. General
TAYLOR has been a resident of the ter
ritpry and state for more than thirty
years, and has filled many places of
trust and responsibility; his departure
will be deeply regretted here and in
every part of the state.