The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-10-15

That this was nevertheless, the case, had several
opportunities to discover. One case was especial
notworthy being that of Dr. j. Il. Wines, assistant
director of the census.
DR. Wines is highly educated and cultivate
gentleman of the Presbyterian persuasion, and my
visits TO his office when in search of matters,
were always agreeable. On one OCCASION however,
Dr. Wines asked me what | really thought OF the
Philippine friars and the charges OF mmorau'-
against them | told him that | had it on the high.
est authority that not one of the charges mad
against them had ever been substant1ated.
.eIIc then told me highly favored story of three
friars and rubbed it in by giving as his authorlr
a friend of his who had bceen III the islands In
official capacity. l naturally asked him what ha
wanted TO prove by these stories, even if they
well authenticated In reply he suggested that Tho
rest of the friars werp probably not any better adj
hitting, of course. that there were some good one
/ saw that the doctors Presbyterian blood was mp
and that | had TO bring him back to America r1
look at things a little nearer home than the Philip
pines
Il drew his attention to the numerous misdoing,
of Protestant ministers as reported In the dali
press and tried before the courts of this couHtr.
| asked him, if / took these court records of oul
a few years and published them In book form, and
represented these offenders as types of PrOtcstar
ministers in the United States. and sent these book
to the Philippine islands for sale gratuitous d
tribution whether | would not, in his opinion. br
doing a most contemplate business; And yet, h-
simply publishing the court records, without any
comment, the readers in these distant islands would
be led to the same inference.
ut is needless to say that Dr. Wines saw the
point and attempted to gloss over the real intent
of his stories. But Protestants, no matter how well
educated and enlightened, have this one faculty
of swallowing almost any story so long as 1t is
against Catholics.
Only short time ago missionary was here
from somewhere in South America He needed
money and delivered lecture on the Catholic
church in South American countries The lecture
financial success. To the credit of the Pro
testant ministers of this city. it can be said that
their sermons usually free from any unfriendy
illusions to the Catholic church 1t Is always the
missionaries from distant countries who have these
marvellous stories to tell and the greater the dis
lance of the country from which they hail the moro
marvellous the stories.
"One missionary who lecturcd here told how in
the town where he had lived the Mexican priest
had gathered together 10000 Bibles and burnt them
In the public square. Catholic. who happened tn
be at the meeting with lady asked him the name
OF the priest but he could not tell. He then asked
him the name of the town. and he would not tell
''Men in official life here are generally of a
broader gauge. Some time ago the attention of
the postoice authorities was called to vile sheet
published in the South, and filed with the lowest
abuse of the Catholic Sisters. The knights of CO.
lumbus. of this city, took the case IN hand and had
the paper excluded from the mails. The matter was
then referred to the department of justice as to
whether the editor could be prosecuted for sending
obscene literature through the mails