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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
AN UNREASONABLE REASON.

Eighteen miles from Mandan, North Dakota, in
the diocese of Fargo, is Il settlement of Russians
who speak in the German tongue. All are devout
Catholics, and their piey has excited the admlra-
ton of non-Catholics of that part of the state. OF
them the newspaper published at Mandan has this
to say:
One hundred and twenty teams by actual count,
conveying on an average Of five to each team
represents the attendance at church Sunday last,
This told is about the average weekly attend
ance but special occasions the attendance is much
larger We believe there is other community in the
State of North Dakota, of equal population that
begin to show good church attendance This may
may not explain the highly prosperous condition of
the people of this neghborhood the stands out
prominently that the people in this vicinity
prosperous than most of the neIsettled portions Of
our State. They have been favored with rains when
other sections suffered drought; and many
places complained of too much rain this neghborhood
blessed with about the correct amount Further,
this settlement has never had crop failure since
the first settlers located there; and from that day
this they have been very consistent church-going
people,
That excellent publication, the Ave Maria usu-
ally sane on questions Of Catholic practice and de-
votion, explains the reason for this unexampled
prosperity in the Russian colony, at least to its
satisfaction. It's reason is not found in those
laws OF the universe which apply with equal fidelity
to all creatures living this mundane sphere nor
is heed given to the sefevdent fact proclaimed in
Scripture that the rain falls upon the just and I'M
just and shows no partially. To the many super
natural things credited to the interce8son of st.
Anthony, the Ave Maria insists on making him
rain-maker. This is what our contemporary says
by way of comment on the paragraph published
above:
1T will be seen that about the correct amount of
rain is only of many temporal blessings which
these good settlers obtain through the nercession
st. Anthony, TO whom their church is dedicated"
Intellectual Catholics will seek some other
cause for the unequal rain distribution in that part
OF North Dakota before they will yield reason to a
devotion so popular that there is grave danger
of arousing superstition. The writer is not famil-
lar with the topography of Mandan and neighbor-
hood, but assumes it to be region of small and
well cultivated farms and orchards. Mans pres
ence and what he plants in the earth exercises an
influence in the storm atmosphere. Around Salt
Lake. for example, and for miles in the valley rain
falls more times in the year than it falls in the
desert and this is by reason of the vast number
of trees and foliage of every description which
coaxes the rainfall. The same conditions doubtless
obtain in the neighborhood of this Catholic colony
near Mandan prevail in this portion of Utah
And nature will fulfill its laws as punctually
among those pious Russians even should their
church be dedicated to ST. Joseph instead of to ST.
Anthony.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
EQUITABLE SOLUTION OF SCHOOL QUESTION.

y report upon the condition and expense OF the
parOchial schools of the Archdiocese of New York,
and embodylng suggested solution of the public
school problem, as it presents itself to Catholic
taxpayers, has just been issued with the approval of
Archbishop Farley by the executive committee OF
the Catholic school board of New York. In sub
stance the committee declares that the school ques
tion be amicably settled by the parochial school
government turning 10 the state or the boards
of education authorized by it the secular nstruc-
ton of children attending parochial schools the
schools to retain their autonomy IN matters of
hgious training and the state TO pay for the edI-
eating of the children in the branches necessary
to citizenship In presenting its claim to fair
minded citizens the report of the committee says
that 1t is assumed as q starting point that the
parish schools and ought willingly to provioe
for the entire expense OF imparting religious IN
struction. Among reasonable people a basis OF
agreement can~also be made equitable terms b.
which these parish schOol5-without losing their
autonomy-may cooperate with any board of edu-
cation in the teaching of the secular studies pre-
scribed for citizenship The managers according to
this pan legally transfer the control OF the secular
studies to a board, authorized by the state, when
they consent to accept the public standard of ex-
animation and inspection. Between church and
state the present relations could be continued with
out friction, by granting this equitable demand for
recognition, together with payment for results,
strictly limited to the teaching of the secular stud
similar studies does not bring the state outside of its
bounded duty to provide for representation as well
as for taxation. Phantom objections, from bygone
bigots may be placed in evidence, but it is to be
hoped that sound thinkers will now give serious
consideration to the real facts of the case. The
American principle of fair play and no favor can
be applied to remove, in part at least the unjust
burden imposed upon the patrons of parish schools.
Attached to this important report are authentic
statistics relating to the parochial school system
In the ecclesiastical province of New York These
figures show that the total valuation Of investments
in parochial schools for the Archdiocese of New
York City alone, exclusive of the bishoprcs of tho
province, is $1OOO0OO0. There are So, 629 children
being educated in the archdiocese, and the annual
cost of maintenance is about $500,O0O. The entire
province educates 15S052, the cost of maintenance
being the whole in proportion to that for the
archdiocese. 1t cannot reasonably be denied that
the proposals contained in this report are exceed
ingly, fair and ought to be accepted by our non
Catholic fellow DEMONSTRATING Observer.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
JAPAN'S REAL AMBITION.

A recent writer in a leading magazine who had
served abroad in a consular capacity and was capa-
bic Of judging trade conditions in Europe and else
where, declared that the export trade of this ma
ton Is almost entirely in material and that the
day will come when our customers will turn this
raw product into manufactured goods and under
sell US IN this country despite the high import du-
ties. He gave figures to show that of goods manu-
tactured in America comparatively little is sold
abroad while our import of finished articles is
enormous and constantly growing
In line with this theory comes-a graphic story
from Kobe, Japan, where at one time last month
no less than so vessels were unloading cotton at
one time. The warehouses of the port overlooked
with piles of bales which filled the streets and even
might been seen stocked up in the country behind
the city In addition, Japan is importing vast
quantities OF cotton manufacturing machinery with
which to turn this raw material into fabric. Who
doubts that with their initiative ability the Jams
Will make all their own cotton Goods within few
years, and that after supplying Japan they will
supply Manchuria over which their rule will be
practically absolute; and after Manchuria China.
and after China, Asia? The dream of the Japanese
IS Aslatic domination, the races of that continent
arrayed against Europe and America With their
scale of wages and hours of work. the white race
cannot compete. Perhaps the day will come when
cotton, like gold, in time of war may be exported
only by federal order.-Butte Inter Mountain.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
The HOPE OF RUSSIA.

The Russian government and Russian financial
interests have begun to advertise Russian resources
and finances i'll the New York financial journals
with view to bolster up declining Russian credit
at the financial center which now appears to be
Russias last resort for borrowing needed cash to
run the government and Russian business. Lon
don financial interest is in Japan rather than Rus
STA. Paris has had enough of Russian investment
and turned hostile The other European money
markets are staying out Of Russia just now; so
New York is Russia's last show.
The Commercial West thinks that the most in
teresting point in a series of lengthy articles
ming in the Wall Street journal in advertisement
of Russian resources is this, that almost the sole
income of Russia is that derived from the peasant
followers of Tolstoi and the reformers- namely
an annual income of s3,100000,000 from farm
products. In other words, the peasant toiers WIS
are drafted to fight unwilling wars, who pay ST.
0OO,0o0,000 year of unwilling taxes, who are de-
MED constitutional rights who have no love or
patriotism for Russian government, produce pretty
nearly all the national income which Russian Off
cials and Russian financiers can drum up as
basis for Russian credit
Russias national debt has grown from So, 200-
100000 to $3,600,000000 since 1902. and would
have lowered up to far higher figure had not the
bond buyers of the world refused six months ago
to buy Russian bonds. 1t may be that peace nego-
tlatlons will cause rise In the market value of
Russian securities but nothing short of peace will
cause the money of the United States and the rest
of the investing world to flow into Russia-Helena
Independent
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
SKATING OVER THIN ICE.

The Russian and japanese plenipotentiaries dis
cussing at Portsmouth the propositions which
make for peace or failing, continuance of the
war. appear to be skating thin ice and clearing
the table of the minor points in dispute The ces-
sion of Sakhalin to Japan and the amount of in
demnity propositions to come up when the other
articles to the proposed treaty are disposed of
Already M. de Witte has agreed to the Japanese
demand that Russia evacuate Manchuria and that
Russia recognize the 'preponderating influence" of
Japan IN Korea, in fact nearly everything that
Komura proposed and which received considera-
ton SO far, was yielded. The iron must have
burned into the marrow of NJ. de Witte as he re-
Elected that nearly everything proposed belonged
to the catalogue of causes which Japan set up to
begin war upon Russia. De Whites compliance is
tantamount to declaring that Japan was justified
in declaring war;.
The worst is left for the end. If Japan stands
by the cession of Sakhalin and a war indemnity.
negotiations will come to collapse unless the
Russians, finding Baron Komura inexorable mod
ify their position. Why should they not do sol
asks the Chlctgo Tribune. There have been ocA
caslons when Russia has ceded territory Peter
the Great had to do so when the Turks were
stronger than they are now. He yielded to the de-
nauds of Asiatics and unbelievers and his sue.
cessor need not consider it impossible to initiate
him. Russia got back the territory Peter relin-
pushed and the car may take comfort in the
thought that that may happen again.
1T the car can make up his mind to part with
Sakhalin he ought to be willing to hand over some
cash also. 1t is less CALLING to national pride to
part with money than with territory. France did
not feel the indemnity she paid Germany so much
as she did the loss of Alsace-Lorraine That was
the bitter draft As business proposition it would
be cheaper for Russia to pay the japanese rea-
sonable sum than to spend larger amount in going
on with the war-and spend it possibly to no pur-
pose.
Russia is in greater need of peace than Japan is
Notwithstanding the recent utterances of the car
lie may have authorized M. de Witte to make peace
on the japanese terms if he cannot secure a modi-
tication of them in the hope that at some future
day Russia may be the one to dictate terms
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

The News and the Herald of this city offer con-
ISOLATION to the great number who failed to draw
lucky numbers III the Uintah lottery, and call at
tention to the inducements Texas holds out for
cheap homesteads. On Sept area OF six
million acres viii be placed the market and sold
for 81 an acre and higher, with the advantage of
long period of time to pay up All qualities of
land are represented land cotton land
sugar land and fruit and rice land, as well as oil
and mineral land. In the long an investment
of this kind would be found cheaper than getting
land for nothing in the Uintah reservation. Then
to think that you could vote the Democratic ticket
in Texas with some chance of seeing your candi-
date elected!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

Bishop Frank Millspaugh and all of the Eps-'
copal ministers under him in the Kansas diocese
have signed an agreement that under circum-
stances will they perform marriage ceremony in
the future where either of the contracting parties
is divorced. They did this to check the divorce
evil They claim that many people get divorces
in order to remarry, and if they were prohibited
from second marriage there would be fewer sep
arations." This piece of news comes from Topeka,
The agreement as such places the Episcopal bishop
in line with Catholic practice concerning divorce,
and that is all Its effect is mere conjecture.
Among the sects there is a growing disregard Of
orthodoxy and non-observance of churchly dogmas,
that it has become matter of little consequence
what any Protestant believes so long as he opposes
Rome Hence, if divorced Episcopalian wishes
to remarry, and minister of his sect refuses to
perform the ceremony, he may go to the minister
of another Protestant sect and be sealed and sane
titled That being So then who is to say he is not
just as good a Protestant outside as he would be
inside the Episcopal church?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

Probably because of love for the old circus song
of ''Lather and Shave" the Utah legislature Gre
ated state board of BARRIERS to examine candidates
for that trade. This week woman from Los
Angeles passed with honors and was awarded
diploma. She complains that high-toned shops
will give her employment and rather than accept
a position in an obscure shop size Will leave the
city. That speaks well for the high-toned shops
1t is only step from the barber chair to the boot
black stand, and to see woman occupying either
position would jar the romantic idea most men
entertain OF feminine dignity. The line should be
drawn somewhere i'll woman's invasion OF the IN
dustrial field,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
soME EARNARKs OF OUR PROGRESS

Sunday last the president of the United States
conceived the time Opportune 10 preach announcer
sermon and he preached It, lie urged his hearers
to stand not only for morality, but Tor CHRISTIAN
itv Ii is evident he thinks something ought to be
done to STAY the process of dsintegrarlon now per
ceptible to all. ST..
Sure enough there is need for sermons OF the
kind This Is being recognized even by the nItE
million noh-Christians among Us. The other oa%
we read in the Popular Science Monthly, an ar
ticle which was almost q Jeremiad on the failure
of American morality. Here are some earmarks
of our progress:
l. We have more murders than all Europe
combined.
8. We have more great thieves aud embezzler>
than all Europe combined
l. We have more sex-sins (some of them hith-
erto ulheard of ON earth) than all Europe, RUSSIA
in Asia included
This is severe, but it might be added that we
stand on record as having within our confines more
pagans than exist within Japan.
1t might be stated, moreover. that races noted
for their probity and decency In Europe readily
yield to disintegrating influences that obtain IN
the United States. In Ireland the Irish girl usual
1y shows herself model OF virtue, judged By
cessble statistics but here it is unfortunately too
true that the secondgeneraton Irish girl Is often
found where she should not be. 1t Is useless 10
deny this, more's the pity. And III Europe the
Jewish girl has always been pheuOmenaly virtuouS
yet she, too, is going wrong here III America.
few days ago a scholarly young Jew informed US
that the fact that she is falling here III America
is undeniabe. The Catholic Polish girl appears
yet secure, yet wait till she becomes thoroughly
Americanized"
All this is lamentabe 1t 5 alarming as we'll
pathetic. 1t shows that much of our civilization
is like that pot in WHICH the witches brewed before
Macbeth the weird hsath. The process Of as
sanitation of which we boast is composed of vari-
Gus melancholy ingredients No wonder the presi-
dent thinks IL time we should have sermons. We
have much good in Us, and we are sturdy as peo-
pie, but we have shortcomings aud need many
warnings.-New World.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
IRISH FouNDER on ARGENrINE NAVY.

Moved possibly by the controversy about the rival
claims of Jack Barry and Paul Jones to the title
Father of the American Navy" the Freeman =
Journal of Sydney, Australia, prints an Interest
ing sketch of William Brown, ''the Irish Found,
of the Argentine Navy. The career of this valiant
ssilor reads like romance, and his naval exploits
were worthy of Nelson or Farragut, Barry or
Jones One Of his memorable deeds was The thor
ough whipping which he administered in 1872 %
Garibaldi, who. during the little war between
Argentina and Uruguay, sailed up the Parma with
a squadron to the relief of Corrientes. Brown re-
ceived the highest honors in the gift of his adopted
country; and died in 1861, at the ripe old age Of
eighty, type of the many Irish Catholic heroes
who for centuries have displayed in other lands the
masterful qualities for which no fitting field was
offered in their own
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

The shameful conduct of priest in attendance
at baseball game in Pittsburg led to an order
from the chancellor of the diocese forbidding
priests to attend any more games. The press dis
patch announcing it says "the order will affect
about sixty local priests who have been daily at
PENDANTS at Exposition park and great rooters for
the Pittsbmg club Undoubtedly this is an ex-
travagant number. but any number Of clerical
''rooters" for a baseball club is scandal to re-
ligion and notifying to clean Catholics obliged
to read such news in the public prints America
needs priests, but better none than recruits from
baseball "rooters."
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
EVERYDAY CATHOLICS.


The intense struggle for success in business
and professional life that is characteristic of onr
age makes the average man little careless about
religion. For him religion is a thing to be prac
tlced on Sundays only. On week days he is too
busy to think about it, What would become of his
business, he asks were he to devote his time during
the week to matters that have no connection
with it?
This arises very probably from misunder-
standing of the meaning of religion If the prac-
tlce OF religion meant only the attendance at
church there might be some weight to this obiec-
sion 1t doesn't. Attendance at Mass ON Sundays
is one duty that the faithful Catholic does not neg
lect. But that is only very small part of his
obligation Indeed, the positive part of his re-
hgious duty, although important, is not so great
as the negative portion One is known as much
by what he does not do by what he does: and the
man who IN business resorts to questionable meth
DDS to outstrip competitor does not offset that
by going piously to church on Sundays. We have
many men who assist after fashion at Mass ON
Sundays. During the rest of the week one would
scarcely think that they were Catholics at all They
make of their religion mere Sunday affair What
wonder if those outside the Church take them at
their own estimate of themselves and class them
as very poor Christians Everyday Catholics are
the kind that is needed The Sunday variety Is .
very poor specimen.-True Voice
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
IRISH EDUCATION STARVED

Still another proof Of the need of Homo Rnle N
Ireland the steady retrograding of the national
schools under Unionist management This was
the subject OF an important speech in the house Of
commons by John Dillon, M. P, on July 25. to
which, mrch against their viii. the Conservatives
We're compelled to listen. The new school rules en-
body the old story of attempted Protestant end
English aseendancy in Ireland While the rights
OF the humblest Protestant school are respected,
the Catholic schools and teachers are mulcted in
supplies and salaries in the British financial in
terest. The small grant heretofore given for the
announcement OF the Irish language is to be with
drawn The amalgamstion of the schools of small
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
lFRILLs IN CIYIL SERVICE system.

discussing the inadequacy of the civil service
system in the appointment Of policemen, Commits
sioner AlcAdoo of New York, recently declared
that many Of the questions asked in the examina-
tons are absolutely absurd The statement is not
at all exaggerated. We have frequently wondered
at the variety and extent Of the knowledge which
these sapient civil service examiners apparently
deem essential to the performance of even the
most commonplace mental duties And our SYM
pathy has ever been with that applicant for the POI
stion of janitor of congress Who in answer to the
question: How far IS the moon from the earth 2"
wrote, Il don't know but she's far enough avsv
not to interfere materially with my performing
the duties IF lanitor Ave Maria.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
WITHOUT PRECEDENT IN HISTORY.

Throughout Norway the returns from the ma
tional referendum the dissolution of the union
with Sweden show that out of 1855 votes cast
only 161 were against the proposition Thus with
out the shedding of one drop of blood does this an
Gent country of invincible warriors renew its ma
tional life and independence. And the signs are
most encouraging that Sweden will yield to the
all but unanimous decision of her neighbor and
dependency without firing a gun. Friends of
peace everywhere rejoice over conclusion which
makes for the hopes of other nations bound to the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19
CARD FROM BISHOP scANLAN.

feel it my duty TO protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notfylng
them from time to time that no person bearing the
and garb of priest sister or anyone else
is authorized permitted to solicit collect IN this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with the
in writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such document, nc or
She the may be- should be regarded by all as
fraud and an impOster. L. SCANLAN.
Bishop OF Salt Lake
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

boys with girls schools. while anything but advan-
tageous to the children necessarily decreases teach
ers' places; and the whole scheme IS IN ITS iasI
ANALYSIS an attempt to starve out IRISH education.
Strangely enough, Colonel Saunderson, the veteran
Orangenan, agreed with the Nationalist, most
openly and ernphatically. The case is by no means
closed as the government has many forces, besides
the simply political to contend with IN TINS new
injustice to Ireland.-BOston Pilot.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

The Western Christian Advocate rebukes mem
bers of the Methodist church who object to the new
secretary of the navy because he is Catholic on
the same principle of reasoning that Catholics
could object quite as strenuously to the secretary
Of the treasury (Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw because he
Is a Methodist, and asks, Ought there to be any
creed line drawn in the cabinet? 2" To which the
Catholic News of New York adds in comment