The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-04-11
The iNIERMouNrAlN AND COLORADO 1903

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attack us at home. But since we have
become an imperial power we presume
we shall have to have a great navy.
One objection we had to a navy was
its fondness for kicking up a fuss in
foreign waters. To this has been added
the danger of our old tars going off at
half cock whenever they get a few
drinks in them. We hope something
will be done to eliminate both these
menaces to the peace of the world
! Western Waterman.
The New York Tribune strongly COM
! mends the righteous severity of a
Brooklyn judge, who instead of merely
filming two women found guilty of the
public use of bad language, sent them
to prison for a considerable term and
announced his intention to impose like
heavy penalties on all persons convict
ed before him of like offenses. Says
the Tribune:
The use of profane and obscene lam
guage in public is a great evil. The
streets, the parks and all places of
popular resort are infested with it.
There ought to be protection against
indecent sounds as well as against in
decent sights and acts.
Nor is the evil confined to ruffians
and harridans. 1t is unhappily true
that there is a considerable prevalence
OF bad language among men-and Wo-
men, too-of otherwise decent morals
and of much refinement and culture.
Especially has there been in recent
years a reallystartling increase in the
use of one certain eXpletive, to the
thoughtful and reverent mind perhaps
the most shocking of all. To take the
name of God in vain in any form is
bad enough. But worst of all, and now
unhappily most common, is it to take
it in vain in the form of the name OF
Him whom even a sometimes rihald
playwright described as
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil
spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever
breathed.
1t would be in the interest not only
of piety, but of common decency, to
put check upon this incessant pro-
fame bandying of the name of Jesus,
and upon all evil language.
In the Catholic church societies of
the Holy Name exist now in almost
every parish, not only to check the
temptation to profanity among men
and boys, their members, but also in
protest against this awful sin and in
A Protestant clergyman, Rev ]. r.
Wakeford, speaking recently at
meeting of the English Church union
at Liverpool, said this about Orange
men:
The knowledge that William III
won the battle of the Boyne is the en-
tire theological knowledge of Orange
men. Orangemen have changed their
religion but never their character-that
of truculent rascality.'
With the character of the Orange
men as thus emphasized there is moth
ing in conflict in the entire history of
the brotherhood. They have been
bad lot" from the start.-Western
Waterman.
Under the heading. This We for
Rome" a staff writer in Reynolds
Newspaper Oondon) makes interesting
remarks as to the tendency of ritual
ism in England. He says:
Many good people are unaware that
the established church in England is
drifting rapidly into the bosom of the
Roman Catholic Church. 1t is known
that at least half the state supported
clergy are what is called ritualists. The
Interiors of the state churches where
these gentlemen officiate, are hardly
distinguishable from those of the Cath !
olic church. Indeed, they repudiate the
term Protestant and now call them !
selves Catholics that ie r,o.,7he--~ ~f
the universal Christian church, which,
of course, is the Church OF Rome. me
so-called Church of England, which en-
braces not third of the population of /
the Kingdom. is purely an article of /
parliamentary manufacture. The state |
made it, the state rules it. the state !
can unmake it."
And he says thai the ritualistic |
clergy are being constantly received |
into the Catholic Church. noting the |
fact that only the other day one of |
this proselytizing band, in charge of an !
Anglican church in the east end of {
London, went over to Rome with about !
hundred members of his former Pro- |
testant congregation"
The same writer, while emphasizing
the danger" pays tribute as follows |
TO the work of the Catholic Church:
There are Protestant societies alive !
to the danger, but they err by being
too much of zealots. They can see no !
good in church which, whether or not |
one agrees with all its dogmati tenets |
has the everlasting credit of preserv-
ing art and learning through the dark |
ages and standing as the protectors of '
tllC pCOpie against the TdpdclOuS ana !
mobiles Of the feudal pc !
Rod. The very cathedrals, which are |
the glory of our country, were built by !
Catholics, and in all the Protestant |
period there has not been erected even !
one church building to equal any of |,
these hymns to God in stone"
The Protestants had no need to build |
cathedrals. They stole what they |
wanted from the Catholics, and in Ire
land they seized and held all the noble |
church fabrics erected by Catholics |
and they hold them still, without even |
the excuse they had in England that !
the mass of the people had become !
Protestants.-New York Freeman's |
Journal.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Cardinal Vaughan recently wrote
from Germany to the London Times