The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-09-26
Catholic Opinion.

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Down with Combes." cried the in
! dignant Breton Catholics at the despot
/ prosecutor of their church when he
/ went into their province the other day
! to unveil a memorial to an infidel like
himself. Ay. down him, but the right
place to do it is at the ballot box
Freeman's Journal. New York.
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The secretary of the navy has issued
! an order that the Star Spangled Pan
ner' shall pc recognized as the national
, tune throughout the service. all Off
4 GERS. and men being required to stand
a. attention Whenever il is played. This
is as it should be. and does away with
the absurdity of having God Save the
hiEg" disappearing under the title of
America" at public and semi-publfc
functions.-Pilot, Boston.
A good deal Of fuss has been raised
by the refusal of a confessor up north
to give absolution to those who have
taken the printers oath" If the
printers We're all theologians we should
think that oath Objectionable. Being
only printers they mean no offense 10
religion by it. The oath assumes that
there could be such thing as con-
fiict of duty. Type-setters are seldom
troubled with perplexed consciences.
Some one has asked the question: eff
our Lord were shown to have taught
heIeSy what action should be taken by
the Christian body?" We refer the
case to the aforesaid confessor.-We
ern Waterman, st. Louis.
There is a fierce dispute going on
over the French Concordat. We know
that it is against the generally accept
ed opinion; but we are convinced that
if the French clergy were once turned
adrift by the state and made to shift
for themselves they soon would be the
best supported priests in the world
This opinion is based on our knowledge
of the generosity of French Catholics
Where the state undertakes to support
q priest the people refuse to support
him beyond paying their taxes If the
government of the United States under
took to pay every priest in these states
500 year we priests would soon have
to economic so as to live on it.-West-
ern Waterman. st. Louis.
May church edifice be properly re-
garded as a nuisance, like an oil refin-
cry. a gas works or anything of that
This seems a strange inquiry, but it is
suggested by the fact that citizens liv-
ing in an aristocratic part of the south /
west recently subscribed $4,000 to in |
duce Catholic church that was about |
to be built to move on into another !
nei2hborhOod." A Catholic church edi- !
flee certainly cannot be regarded as a |
nuisance in the sense specified by the |
Times but it may become something |
worse to the mind Of social sybarites /
who dread to be aroused from the COM !
Portable stupor' of spiritual forgetful- |
ness.-Monitor, San Francisco.
We have at last found out where the
dea dheads go after leaving this world /
According to the Rev. j. ]. Reed. who I
preached in the Washington Square |
Methodist Episcopal church, mo dead !
heads go to heaven; they go the other
way" Wonder what will happen when
they put up the sign. Free list entirely
5ustended? ''-American Herald, New
York.
A fitting tribute has been paid TO
Judge Denis O'Brien of WATERFOWL in
his unanimous denomination by the
Republican and Democratic parties to
he high office of judge of the court of
1EpCdlS. %AllIuuSH the judge VIII De
forced to retire from the bench in 1907
~ the inexorable. though absurd, pro-
vision that judges must relinquish the
ermine at the age of 20, whether they
are physically or mentally incapaci-
ated, it is a matter of satisfaction that
he state viii have the benefit of his
'ipe judicial erudition for three years
nore.-Catholic Citizen, Rochester.
Bishop Joyce Of the northwest Indi-
ina conference wept while denouncing
he commercial spirit evinced by cler-
~ men of his sect in seeking appoint
nents. There is a growing tendency,
le declared. among candidates for pas
oral incumbencies to select those
which pay the largest salaries rather
han places where they be of most
,QOd Not one minister, the bishop
-dded, came to him during the entire
conference and asked to be sent where
lie could best serve the Lord. No Won
Ter the prelate is grieved. Unfortu-
lately, however, this spirit is not con-
iEed exclusively to ministers of Bishop
oyce's religious Observation-Disclosures,
IAN Francisco.
AS a leader. Dr. Brownson was not
lways popular, even among his own
o-religlonlsts. He received many kind
esses from the clergy; and not a few
Limitations. He was not always right,
e was not always great. But in the
UNI total, he was that type of layman
in his character as pub
cisD, that makes among the masses
or higher intelligence, greater power
f initiative, more thoughtfulness and
eeper sincerity: the kind of layman
hat we should like to hold up to the
public as a model.-Catholic
'itizen, Milwaukee.
Not Assigned.
Miss Clara Barton, the founder of the
.merican Red Cross. narrated recently Mt |
.tlantic CITY an episode in which she