The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-02-23
WHAT THINK YOU OF THIS?

The facts and circumstances revealed by the ev'
idence in the notorious Thaw trial are so morally
filthy and shocking that the postmaster general OF
the Dominion of Canada has shut out from the
mails the yellow Journals and all newspapers print
inc the details of the trial The Canadian govern
ment some years ago passed a law for the protee-
ton of the morals of its citizens and under that
law all newspapers. magazines and pamphlets pub
fishing filthy evidence of trials or printing mde
cent or questionable advertisements cannot eros
the frontier and if Canadian publications violate
the act they become guilty of mlsdemeanor under
the law. The Police Gazette. McFaddens Phys
cal Culture and similar publications cannot enter
the Dominion. The law holds up a prohbitiva
hand against all lewd photographs. paintings and
illustrations: against suggestive theatrical posters
and plays and forbds entry to atheIstlc literature
and certain publications of the radical socialists.
Any newspaper agent or boy on trains operated do
or passing through Canada convicted OF sureptI-
ciouslv selling or giving away immoral books or
nictures /. sentenced to Jail without the option Of
a fine.
The Dominion Of Canada is the best governrd
and most law abiding nation on earth Divorce Is
practically unknown and the only body in Canada
authorized to give a bill of divorce IS the Domm
ion Senate at Ottawa A divorce iii that country
costs anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000. The Cath
Ole senators take no part in divorce proceedings.
and when an application for divorce is to be con
sdered they leave the chamber masse. The Do
minion has population of 100000. an energetic.
Industrious progressive and religious people. and
from statistics annually published there less
III ordp
ted in Canada from ocean to ocean, than in any
territory or state in the union. The laws are en-
forced the Judges ineorruptible and the members
of the juries with rare exceptions, are above pur
chase Only short time ago a who attempted
to- bride a member of jury was convicted and sen
fenced to six months in the central prison, Toronto
Murderers when convicted by jury of their eoun-
trymen are hung There is no motion for al new ,
TRIAL An appeal lays with the minister of Justice
only. Ninety per cent of murderers hung.
The state does what it can to cooperate with the
churches to protect and safeguard the morals of
the young. There are no saloons. they are hotels
or inns. and must have four or FIVE rooms for the
accommodation of locals travellers. From 7
o'clock Saturday evening until Monday morning
all places where liquor is retailed are closed and
closed fast. Any hotelkeeper convicted of selling
liquor to a minor to a woman looses his license
on the second conviction There is no established
church in Canada. no legal union of church and
state, but there is a moral union of men of sense
and experience between the church and the parlis
ment, by which each in its respective sphere works
with the other and both together for the temporal
welfare and salvation of the people If the state
does not cooperate with the church. the right arm
of the church at once becomes paralyzed. So long
the men. who are elected by the people to speak
for them and represent them in the framing of
laws for the preservation of order and decency in
society, say we shall have prize fighting, gambling
halls, wide open saloons. day and night. Sunday
and Monday the influence of the Christian pulpit
can reach those only who listen to Its voice Every
sane man. every man who knows something of the
past history of our race and has at heart the moral
and physical health of the people will admit to
himself an dspeak it from the house tops that the
church and the legislature must work together and
stand together-unite even-for the protection of
the state and the preservation of the people With
out this union or understanding there can be No
discipline, no order and without order there is law
lessness. And the fruit of lawlessness are the
Whites the Browns, the Thaws and the whole
wretched gang of murderers seducers and adulter-
ers