The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-14
CATHOLIC OPINION.


CATHOLIC OPINION.
Some one has introduced a bill in
congress denying the privileges of the
mail to those newspapers which print
lurid accounts of suicides. The only
objection to this is that it is too linn
tied in it's scope. 1t should also include
the lurid accounts of murders and di-
Yorces.-Church Progress.
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Mrs. Katherine Tingley of Point
/ Iona fame has secured an award of
$500 against the Los Angeles Times
for libel. The case is, however, to be
appealed and it is doubtful whether the
decision will be upheld in the higher
courts. Certain it is that existing con-
ditions in Mrs. Tingley's institution are
such as would warrant its suppression
by the state.-Catholic Herald.
.
Libraries are all very well, but nearly
every city worthy of the name will
sooner or later provide itself with
books, and besides, ten books owned by
a man who has bought them himself
are worth more to him than hundred
that belong to somebody else Mr..
Carnegie would publicly admit this, if
he is of his countryman's Carlyle's,
way of thinking. Hospitals-free hos-
pitals-and homes for old persons, who
would rather die than proclaim them
selves paupers, are much more needed
than libraries filled not wholly with the
intellectual wealth of the ages, but
with much undigested trash. If Mr..
Carnegie and st. Vincent de Paul could
only communicate with each other!-
New Century.
ces were held on a limited train be-
tween Chicago and California. 1t is
now proposed to make these devotion
al exercises a regular feature of rail-
reading. This seems to be a pretty
good idea. Considering the wholesale
slaughter of passengers that has re-
Gently been going on all over the
country, there is no place where
chaplain is more needed than on a fast
train. The companies should, at least,
provide their victims with the consola-
lions of religion. Killing them without
benefit of clergy seems rather harsh.
But Clergyman is not the only neces-
sary appendance. There should also
be a coroner on board and an under
taker and a few gravediggers. There
does not seem to be any need of a
crematory for those who prefer that
method of disposing of their mortal re-
a few telescoped cars do the work eff
ficiently, with dispatch and in hygi-
enic manner. But do give US the
chaplain to carry a message to mother
and soothe our dying hours!-The
Leader.
The Catholic Union and Times of
Buffalo, n. Y, thus comments on the
fair mindedness of some few Cali
TIvhn fn JOTipG
appointed regent of the state uni
versity:
THE appointment of the Rev. Peter
C. Yorke as regent of the state uni
versity by Governor Gage of Cali
1ornia has uncorked the walls of the
little bigots wrath in that Golden
state. Especially is the ire of one
Rust aroused at the dreadful thing.
Rust is the pin-headed editor of an
obscure little sheet published at Jack
son, Cal. who substitutes copious
supply of ignorance and spite for his
notorious lack of brains. Father Yorke
is recognized as one of the ablest
priests in the United States. whose pen
has long been terror to bigots along
the Pacific slope.
What business had Governor Gage
to appoint Father Yorke. to such a
position, anyway, no matter how bril-
priest. That's sufficient! Were there
not preachers enough in California
from which to choose without select
ing this strenuous idolater?"-TThe
Leader.
1t ought to be a dreadful shock to
those non-Catholic friends who are
scandalized by the enormous possess
sions," aggregating less than 100000
of the Philippine friars after three cen
turtles of supreme power" in the
to learn that Protestant
church property in the United States
increased in fifty years from 1850 to
1900, from SIS, OO0, 900 to $4O1 100000. The
vast belongings of the Inscriptions
and avaricious religious orders dwindle
into almost ridiculous insignificance by |
If the accumulation of |
were the principal business of |
the religious orders. as has been some |!
times positively asserted by their crit |
les, the result of three centuries of la !
Dor and opportunity proves either that !
they lack the skill in that line ascribed /
to them, or else they committed a
grave blunder in the selection of their
field of operations.-Th Monitor.