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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
THE SAINT NEEDED FOR TURKS.

The amiable Father Deepen, editor of the Rec
ord of Louisville, surprises us with paragraph
suggesting the need in the Turkish empire of St.
Peter the Hermit. For France he selects St. Vim
cent Ferrer and for the United States Bernardine
of Sienna. Peter the Hermit was an altogether
different character from the two last mentioned.
His connection with the Crusaders proves it. For
this reason, undoubtedly Father Deepen, alive to
the fitness of things, believes that sword is
mightier than breviary some times, but at all
times fin the Turkish empire We agree with him
if that be his conclusion.
The Turk gets his vices as we'll as his virtues
from the Koran Vice and virtue are interchange
able features of the Moslem creed both of the same
essence. At least they seem so from the Christian
standpoint. The virtue of temperance which
Father Deepen i'll another paragraph points out in
the Turks favor Gas if to atone for suggesting
Peter the Hermit) is greater godlike act to
their vision than the slaughter of a "Christian
dog" Neither is the act of charity through aims
giving, which the Turks practice to a greater ex-
tent than most Christians, to be regarded as vir
tue when its compliance is through law rather than
through custom.
A, strange mixture of vice and virtue is leav-
ened into the Mohametan loaf and called religion
It is only little milder than the mixture upon
which the Puritans fed-those old colonists who
considered it sinful to kiss wife on Sunday, but
godlike to burn a witch.
We agree with Father Deepen A St. Peter
the Hermit is needed for the Turkish empire.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

actually gained clear view of the nothingness of
their own communion and the reality and the di=
vinity of.the Catholic church, yet delay to act on
their knowledge"
The Deseret News, in editorial review OF
Dr. Briggs article, agrees with the author in so
far as 'the Roman church comes pretty near being
the true successor of the church founded by the
apostles of our Lord" and that other division
of Christendom has any claim to historic or geo
graphic connection with the primitive church,
equal to that of Rome" However, the Mormon
contention is that Rome" did not keep the trust
handed down by the first apostles but apostatized
and abandoned Christ. The point of cleavage, where
primitive religion ends and apostasy begins, IS
fixed at the time of Constantines reign, according
to the News. 1t came about through disputes over
Ariansm in the council of Nice, A. d. 325, into
which the pagan" emperor Constantine intruded
his authority. The News cites many departures
from the primitive church which began and con-
tinued from this time until "the true church of
Christ was again established by the Prophet Jo
seph in this age" All of these historical facts
more or less distorted, are set up to advance the
argumnt that the logical tendency of the
''sects" is toward Rome, that III the end Chris
tan supremacy must be fought out between the
true church of Mormon and the false religion of
Rome
A fine rhetorical house is this, but built upon
sand. The easiest and quickest way to demolish it
is to ask, Which is the true church of Mormon!
The one entrenched at Salt Lake or the one estab-
lished at Lamont Iowa
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
DRIFTING TOWARD ROME.

Extracts from the remarkable article presented
by DR.. Briggs in the Journal of Theology clearly
show the drift of logical religious thought. Com
ing from one outside the church. its language is
strange Some years ago Dr. Briggs severed his
connection with the Presbyterian church because of
the utterance of views which were condemned &c
theoretical" No doubt they were hereticaf from the
Presbyterian standpoint. DR.. Briggs then ioined
the Episcopal church. If the views expressed ON
our first page proceed from sincere conviction and
we see no reason to doubt his state of mind. DR..
Briggs feels no more at home in the Episconal
church he joined than he did in the Presbyterian
fold he abandoned. Yet he seems to be one Of
those whom Cardinal Newman thus describes IN
his sermon on "Invncible Ignorance and Anpli-
canism:"
There IS one set of persons in whom every
Catholic must feel intense interest; about whom be
must feel the gravest apprehension; viz those who
have some rays of light vouchsafed to them as 70
their heresy or to their schism. and who seem
to be closing their eyes upon it. or those who have
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT.

Editor mtermountain Catholic:
My Dear Sir-Repying to your faver asking my
approval of The Inlermountain Catholic since its
adjustment in this diocese will that consider
the founding of Catholic paper in Salt Lake not the
least of the many blessings bestowed by Providence
on the Church here during the past two years It's
birth occurred at opportune time. Its prop
agatng Catholic truth has had, since 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 question box at all times anxious inqurers.
In my visitations shall hope to find The Intermoun
tain Catholic in the home of every Catholic family.
Its mission is TO espouse truth justice morality
ana all devoted priests will find it able co=opera-
tor in their missionary work 1t is my wish that all
my priests and the laity entrusted to my chargG
should encourage your noble effort and that of the
generous founder of The Intermountan Catholic
Yours sincerely, 1. SEAMAN
Bishop of Salt Lake
Salt Lake City Oct 2 1900
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

The Hon. Bill" Devery is the originator of the
word "ehesty," which has appeared in recently
published dictionary. Now it is suggested that he
be made professor of the vernacular in one of the
more advanced colleges. Here is an example of
language which might be set to ragtime music
"Bill' is speaking of a candidate for the mayor
atty He's gettin' gay, but he won't hurt anybody.
He won't break the scales If you should take him
TO the top Of the Fairon building an hitch him to
the loose end Of spool of fine cotton thread he'd
drop all the way to the curb without puln the
kinks out of the thread"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

Not many patrons of the theatre concern them
selves about the religious beliefs Of actors. assum
ing that the general hostility of 'hardshello sects
toward the drama has soured those who reproduce
Its corporal characters upon the stage. hence ac-
tors and actresses usually without religion of
any kind. The prevailing impression meets with
exceptions, Of course, yet there are few in tbis
city who would have picked out Joseph Hawortb
as one of them; few who witnessed the Mormon
play Corianton,7 who saw in its leading character
me deFout Catholic-devout without ostentation
but he was that kind of Catholic, and we learn
mat side OF has life through warm eulogy of the
late Joseph Haworth, published in the Catholic
! inverse OF Cleveland. Commenting on this eulogy
the Ave Maria reminds us that, like Madame de
Navarro MARY Anderson), whose triumphs he
shared for at least one season, Mr.. Hawortb found
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
KEEP THE IRISH AT HOME.

letter has been addressed to the editor of this
! paper coming from Margaret O'RieIy honorary
secretary of the Immigration society Dublin.
1t is tender appeal, therefore a strong appeal to
arouse those of Irish birth parentage in this re-
public against the practice of sending money over
to Ireland to enable relatives friends to leave it
and come to this country "The one great fact
concerning emigration is obvious" runs the letter.
"The Irish in the graveyards will soon be the only
Irish left in Ireland if the outflow to America be
not checked"
Think of it a moment. The data is not at hand,
but less than century ago the population of Ire
land numbered ten or twelve millions. Then came
the famine, followed by the sacrifices made by the
poor Irish in this country to bring their own into
land of milk and honey We needed the sturdy
faith and manly muscle of the Irish then We
would not reject them now. Their presence helps
to neutralize the effect which those of foreign
tongue impart to our body polite Yet we bid them
remain in Ireland for Ireland's sake
Less than four million souls occupy the soil
that once supported thrice the number The ac-
tive and strong anxious to 60, and leave behind
them the weak and the aged Think of it, Irish
men, can Ireland become the Ireland you won from
tinue? What sort of a nation is it whose popula-
ton is numbered by the tombstones in the ceme-
terry, and whose youth has left it to decrepit old
age? How soon will it be before the Sasenach
chases the fox over fields as wild as the sagebrush
of the American desert! What think you of an
alien race taking the place you left and speaking
a tongue your fathers never lisped? This is the
fate that stares Ireland in the face
When intending emigrants contrast Ireland
with America, they consider only the higher re-
muneration for labor in America and the prosperity
of many of the there. But they do not realize
the difference in the purchasing power of money:
they not of the price which has to be paid
for success; they are ignorant of the failures thew
are ignorant of the grinding toll of many; they do
not appreciate the different climatic conditions:
they do not know that their chances of advance
ment or even of work other than the most Ia
borious, have been essened of recent wears bv the
increased immigration from every country in En-
rope, as well as by the perfection of American edu-
cationa systems, and by the development of modern
lndustrlahsm Moreover, people are brought up in
expectation OF emigrating and they leave the coun-
try as matter of course often without MAKING
any effort to find work at home. Meanwhile there
Is scarcity of workers in many departments of
labor, and foreigners taking the places left va
cant by the deserters.
These facts should sink deep into the hearts of
those aiding the depopulation of their native land
by forwarding passage tickets to Ireland. IF
you have any love left for the old land, for Gods
sake, keep your relatives at home to work out Ire
lands destiny.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

a correspondent of the Freemans Journal sug-
gests the desirability of having a Catholic me
mortal church at Gettysburg as a monument to the
Catholic soldiers who died on that famous battle
field in defense of the Union. He says: Chou
sands of visitors from all parts of the world come
to this famous field every year, and among them
many Catholics who when they see other memoir
ial churches there. surprised that the Cath
olics of the country have not also erected one to
commemorate their dead" A good suggestion and
that naturally inclines TO the memorial work
of the knights of Columbus. Many poor souls in
Purgatory without kindred to pray for their
release; many whose crumbling bones lie beneath
the soil of this sanguinary battlefield now trans
formed into national cemetery. We go out to
these cities of the dead on Decoration day and
strew flowers upon the tombs, but the act is infu-
enced by some kind of patriotic emotion, in order
to conform to a general observance of custom orig
mating in the state. An excellent custom It Is but
Its excellence could be made edifying by prayers
for the souls of those departed soldiers offered up
in the holy sacrifice of mass. No Catholic memoir
ial church at Gettysburg is an admission as pain
full as the omission is conspicuous
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

The friends of DR.. Michael Walsh. the former
editor and proprietor of the Sunday Democrat and
Catholic Herald, have made up and presented a
testimonial to him in the shape of a check for S2O
600. good lump of money, but no more than DR..
Walsh really earned 1t is pardonable envy which
voices the complaint that an editors labor is only
repaid and fully appreciated after he has aban-
doned The sanctum
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

How Not to Do TT was again enacted before
the district court last week. The head of collec-
ton agency, against whom nine indictments were
found by the grand jury, escaped through some
technical omission in the form of complaint sub
mitted Verify it Is easier for criminal to evade
punishment througha clerical blunder than to risk
chances on proving an alibi
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

What has become of the proposed crusade of
10000 knights Templar of Chicago to rescue the
Macedonians from the infdel Turk? The propo
sition was electrifying-really sublime Was it
simple talk! "Con" O'Keefe. the once old-time
owner of hack line here, was right when he said:
Talk is chape" Cheap as it may be. it is one
great asset of the Windy City.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

feel it my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time to time that no person bearing the
name and garb of priest or sister or anyone else
is authorized permitted solicit or collect in this
dloceSe for purpose whatever connected with the
catholic Church without having from me permission
IN writing, bearing my seal and signature. Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful work
or collecting without such document he or she as
the case may be, should be regarded by all as fraud
and mposter 7. SEAMAN
Nov 2OS 1899 ~
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
Archbishop Kahn Has Appendicitis.

Louis, who came here to the St. Agnes sanitarium
several years ago to recuperate, has attack Of
appendicitis, and an operation probably viii be
performed at an early date The archbishop had
made arrangements to go to his home next week
but has, upon the advice of Cardinal Gibbons and
others, changed his plans.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

cat has nine chances of life. Likewise a
criminal, with nine indictments against him, may
escape Justice before a Utah district court. The
connection between the cat and the criminal NAV
not be altogether clear; neither is the interpreta-
ton of law which clears the criminal.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

NAUTICAL DISTANCES AND HOW TO COMPUTE
THEM BY Rt. Rev. John j. Hogan, Bishop OF
Kansas City, Mo.
This little book, which contains but forty-eight
pages is of the most comprehensive treatises on
the subject of distances and seafaring knowledge ex
tant 1t is dedicated by the venerable author the
president of the United States and is designed for the
of schools.
Tables of latitude and longitude are given in this
little work the longitude being given from Greenwich.
Formulas given for computing marine distances
in practical manner which. when understood by the
student. enable him to find the exact distance to or
from almost any prominent seaport in the world.
If one desires to travel from the United States to
Manila. the learned prelate points out this little
work the choice of ten routes courses. with table
of miles and from London Melbourne seven routes
In fact you can arrange for trip around the world
from Bishop Hogan's Nautical Distances, and by his
simple yet accurate system of computing tell just
how many miles you must travel to reach your des-
tnation.
The work is strongly endorsed by the New York
Marine Journal and by Superintendent of Public
Schools Greenwood of Kansas City. who hopes to see
it introduced in the public schools
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

it possible to combine the best traditions of the
stage with the life of loyal, practical Catholic
During the last dramatic season" says our con-
temporary, she played Cassius to the Brutus of
Mr.. Mansfield; and the critics were practically
unanimous in bestowing equal praise himself
and his great principal. Yet Mr. Haworth never
became too busy or too distinguished to organize
church benefit whenever a struggling priest APP
pealed to him for help and only a week before
his death he had appeared in entertainment for
the benefit of needy and indebted congregation.
Though Comparatively young man, he was one
of the few remaining links between the day of
Booth and Mccullough and the contemporary
stage"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

statistician informs the public that in the
poor section of New York City child is born every
four minutes, while in the rich portion Is born
only every month. If there be truth in the figures
the lesson is sad and most distressing Catholic
Progress.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

This nice saying is attributed to Pope Plus X:
AT Venice l had to pilot little gondoIa on the
canal; now have 20 command huge battleship
But trust in Gods help" he added, feelingly.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

The story told in our Denver correspondence
carries moral. 1t points to the inevitable result
attending speculation in mining stock by those
who know little or nothing of values of that de-
scription, especially priests, who should know
nothing, and usually do know nothing, of the gam
bling features of stock markets.. The shock to the
Catholics of the Denver diocese is grievous one,
and the loss through the priests misfortune is
that cannot easily be recouped If it had been
fire, earthquake, anything but the thing it is,
Catholic endeavor would hasten to restore the loss
and repair the calamity. As it is, the fruit of
thusiasm is Dead Sea apple. The only hope arts
ing to cheer dependency is the one that Father
Callanan's unfortunate investments may turn out
better so soon as the miners strike is ended iii
Colorado and conditions are settled at Cripple
Creek Even should this come to pass, even should
the investment double in value the folly of using
church funds, the peoples money, in visionary
schemes TO create four dollars out of dollar is
not absolved from the person who commits the err
In building churches, as in other things, the
germ of wisdom is found in making haste slowly.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
Nov. 20S 1899.

An Irish artist, Mr.. Thaddeus has the honor
of being the first to. whom Plus Y has given the
honor of sitting for his portrait.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03
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THE HOLY ROSARY. By Very Rev. Arthur Canon
Ryan. San Francisco: Catholic Truth Society.
Cheap in price Git is sold for nickeD yet rich in
the treasure affection meditation brings to
the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. 1t helps TO over
the distractions which usually assail the Or
binary mortal at devotion by impartng interest to
every climax in the life of the Savior and his blessed
mother.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

Don't keep. trimming the lamp too closely, or
you may trim it out.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-03

1t IS funny yet true that he who advertises his
charity has none u
The Republican journal., 1903-07-09
DOWN TO THE SEA AGAIN

We are bound for blue water, where the
great winds blow,
It's time we got our tacks aboard, time for
us to go.
The crowds at the capstan and the tunes
in the shout,
A long heave, a strong heaye, and warp the
hooker out.
Cast the turns off, sonny, stretch the rope
along,
Sway taut handsomely, n some one give a
song.
Astern us are the Welsh hills; the lights o.
the town
A long pull, a strong pull, and "roll the cot
ton down."
The bow-wash is eddying, spreading from
the bows,
Aloft m loose the tops'ls m some one give
a rouse,
A salt Atlantic chanty shall be music to the
dead,
A long pull, a strong pull, and the yard to
the mast head
comes cold,
SO it and strong and pleasant and worth a
mint o gold,
And she's staggering, swooping, as she feel,
her feet,
A long pull, a strong pull, and aft the main
sheet.
The blocks are piping; the weather gear
strains.
Such clatter of chain sheets; the devils in
the chains.
Over us the bright stars under us the
drowned,
A long pull, strong pull, and we're out
ward bound
Yonder, round and ruddy, is the mellow old
moon
The red-funneled tug has gone, and now,
sonny, soon
We'l be clear of the channel, so watch how
you steer,
Ease her when she pitches; and, so long,
my dear
London Speaker
The Republican journal., 1903-07-09
THE LITTLE COUNTRY PAPER

It's no sXteen-page edition that expresses
big mems views,
And it's not filled up with pictures, nor
with telegraphie news;
1t isn't printed daily, With an extra every
hour,
And the editor is not Dragging of his in
tiuence and power.
1t may have its faults ana errors, but all
these will forgive,
For it's printed in the country way back
where used to live.
1t is only issued weekly. and it's not made
up for style,
But when it arrives l gladly put the daily
by awhile.
| don't read i'll It's pages what the wise ana
great ones say,
But l see that ''Sias Jigger brought some
wood to town today;
And that sGrandma Parks is BETTER or
that "Old Bill Jones is dead
And it tells Just what the parSon in his Sun
day sermon SAID.
| can see again the faces Of the friends |
used to know.
In the dim and distant fancles of the happy
Long Ago;
And read 10 in one corner that the fall
winds howl and blow,
And that 81 ncle Nathan Smith predicts an
early fall of snow
Or that "Our debating club will give a
socable next week,
At which our fellow townsman, Abner
Brotherton, VIII speak.
There are never learned essays on the ques-
tions of the day,
But it SAYS s'that folks are looking for an
other rise in hay
| can see no glaring headlines of the last
election hight. ~
But it says that tom Shaw marres Ella
Edgerton tonight
And my thoughts somehow grow fonder
when the old folks names | see
Telling that "The Reverend Tompkins was
invited there to tea.
1t NAV be crude and homely-that same
little country sheet,
And the makeup of its pages may be rather
obsolete;
1t is damp when l unfold it, and the print
is sometimes blurred;
Yet it's always more than welcome and l
read it every word.
And no reading to city man a greater joy
can give
Than the little country weekly, printed
where he used to live"
Rochester Democrat