The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-10-21

be of vastly different ca1ibac than this little bisot
but am inclined to think tfat this Is the hrst time
you have heard anything whatever regarding some OF
them. happen TO know thet some of these same
have learnt something since the resolutions were
passed that they did not know before, ana were II
not for making themselves more ludcrouS "ouiu
move to rescind the vote passed by the conference.
AS matter of justice feel sure that you Will give
this letter place in your next issue
Yours for the things that best
NATHAN BAILEY.
Peabody Mass. Oct u, 1905
Rev. Bailey's explanation is just as contempt
bic the objections he made at the conference III
Boston. He says that "the late Mayor Collins
failed to come up to what is generally conceded
outside the Romish faith, to be the measure OF
Christian--at least that standard which w put
before young men" Evidently the large majority
of those present were not Pharisees in sympathy
with Rev Bailey's marrow standard" Rather did
the Baptist heart beat with the great soul OF Mas
sachusetts which, smiling through its tears.
hearkened to the eulogies of nation. Were Pat
rick Collins other than he was, were he what this
Peabody preacher would mold hin, to be, neither
Massachusetts nor the nation would have heard OF
Patrick Collins.
did Mayor Collins ever subscribe single
penny towards q Protestant cause~ the preacher
cause" contemplated broad, non-sectarian charity
Patrick Collins undoubtedly as free with his
money as any other public man of limited wealth
If Protestant cause" means missionary exploita
ton, then it would be safe to say he did not con-
tribute penny. Are Baptists in the habit of con-
tributing to the support of Catholic missions?
Confessing our inability to keep tab what
others bestow to charity, except is given osenta
tiously and with the bare of newspaper publicity,
we come to the next query propounded by Rev.
Bailey: 'Would you hold up as a model for young
men man whom you know of your personal
knowledge to be addicted to the of Intoxicating
liquors?
That depends whether the man is moderately or
imrnoderately addicted to the use. The preacher
does not qualify the word addicted" but mentions
in the beginning that mayor Collins was not even
a total abstainer' Hence we conclude that the
total abstainer is the man to be held up as the
preachers model for young men, all others to be
excluded
If this be his meaning, if this is the meat of his
inquiry, we answer in the form of question: How
many senators from Webster to Hoar were total alb
stainers! How many total abstainers among the
governors of Massachusetts, excluding the Puri-
tanss How many among the number that made
Massachusetts, intellectually peerless and still hold
it in that proud position in the galaxy of states?
How many among its noted inanciers, its prom
nent barristers, its merchants and manufacturers?
Count them, Rev. Bailey, and you could comfort
ably seat the whole bunch in your study room at
Peabody.
This is no fling at the virtue of total abstinence.
1t is merely taking the world as we find it, from
the time of the wedding in Canaan to the present.
Taking people as we fnAesaepH and not as mar
row-minded preacher would make them. The mod
crate use of stimulants is no sin against God or
man, no ofense against law morals. If Rev.
Bailey insinuates by his form of query that Patrick
Collins was habitually addicted to liquor that Pat
rick Collins was drunkard, then it is for him to
explain how drunkard could attain the promn-
ence he achieved III public affairs; how drunkard
could win the applause of the whole people and
the eulogies of the best among them
We have no patience with such bigots. Neither
had the Baptist ministers at Boston, Disguised
with the lonesome delegate from Peabody.