The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-14
CATHOLIC OPINION,

| A romantic couple waited through
the night into the early morning hours
for marriage license recently at
| Clayton. Other nights will come to
them when the waiting will not be so
pleasant. Such marriages usually run
through two short chapters-honey-
moon and divorce.-Catholic Progress.
The exodus of young girls from Hun
gary has assumed such alarming pro-
portions that the government has taken
steps to check it. Come on, girls We
shall welcome you with new brooms
and clean kitchens. We are tired doing
our own homework and Disguised with
our own cookery.-Western Waterman.
@
Judge Burns Of South Dakota never
tackled a more hopeless case than when
he attempted to defend his states scan
dalous divorce record against Cardinal
Gibbons criticism. The South Dakota
divorce industry IS simply indefensible
from social or ethical viewpoint. 1t
is national disgrace; a horrible ulcer:
a stencil in the nostrils of decency; a
crime against Christian civilization.
And yet South Dakota is not really
much worse in this respect than many
other states.-The Monitor.
The Catholic Citizen of Milwaukee
has this, very pertinent comment on
the partial and sectarian character of
nearly all of the gifts" made by Mr..
Carnegie and Mr.. Rockefeller to edu-
cational institutions: People of all
creeds buy steel. People of all creeds
use OIL Therefore these wealthy men,
in making a sort of public restitution,
ought TO consider the creeds of all the
population. "-Pittsburg Observer.
This is really the happiest day of my
life" So the Holy Father is said to
have exclaimed on reaching the years
of Peter. as pope And hundreds of mil
lions of Catholics shared his joy
Catholic Columbian.
Professor Loeb of Chicago announces
that he has found a cure for. nervous
prostration. This will be glad news |
for the rich. Poor folks cannot afford |
to have that accommodating disease
The Pilot.
Just now Chicago seems affected by
a sudden spasm of fear because of the
existence of hospitals within the city
limits. Sensitive people, it is claimed.
shudder at the thought of living near
1ne of them and move away. This may
De trus of course. Yet in other cities
we have known such people to move off
and locate next door to an all-night
saloon. bowling alley or sanctified
meeting house. 1t is a wonder that
some people Will enter a hospital when
hey set ill.-New World.
Mr. Dooley'' also has his say on the
question of small families. 1.-The Amer
can people is becoming as unfruitful
Is an ash heap" is his sententious
Judgment. But he has no fear of the
aces dying out, so long as "a man
With tin dollars a week will have tin
hildher, a man with wan hundred
VIII have five, and man with a million
viii buy an automobile The selfish
ich may die out. but the poor will take.
heir places. and the country will be all
he better for the change.-The Pilot.
Our Methodist neighbor, the CaIifor
ia Christian Advocate, unable to
make good" it's efforts to disfrancbise
enator-elect Smoot, loses it's temper
nd proceeds to say false and foolish
hlngs about the Catholic priesthood.
my hoodlum can profanely asperse the 4
air name of good people out of hearing
1 his voice. That proves nothing
galnst anybody but the cowardIv fra
ucer himself. When the Advocate ed
or makes sweeping charges against
ne moral character of the Catholic
riesthood in some Countries NOT
AIMED, he initiates the blackguardisn9 !
the social outcast who recklessly be-
nlrches his reputable neighbor with
ut cause. The Advocate asserts what
not true, and what, we suspect. If
hoWs to be untrue. We do our neigh
or the credit, however, to believe that &
VIII De ashamed of the performance
hen 1t RECEIVERS from it's present acute
tack of smootphobia-The Monitor