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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-07-18

The Republican leaders of
Massachusetts sternly demand
the abolition of the tariff duty
on peanuts. This is the great
protective system crumbllng
through peanut politics in its
very cradle. Give US free pea
nuts, and tax all else as the
trusts may desirew says the Re-
publicans. AS to clothing, sew
ing machines. watches, steel
rails, wire, cotton goods. wool
en- goods, carpets, rugs, chemi-
Gals, coal. lumber, etc, let them
all be iHXed; but give us peanuts
free of duty. Truly, Republi
can is peanut retormer @.
H.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-07-18

Misses Mamie Carr and Susie
McClintic were with Quincy
friends Thursday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-07-18

1t has been suggested that
hammocks be called spoon hold.
ers,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

graft and malfeasance in Office and embezzlement
and misrepresentation of money have been made and
denied and iterated and reiterated. campaign IS
naturally productive of such stories But if they
be true false surely the authors of the graft
of the stories are liable to prosecution. But they
will not be punished, for campaign is holiday
from the strenuous work of serving the public, and
the cry of reform has terrors for the men who
know there will be no reform.
In all parts of the country where the people
have approached the problems of municipal gov
eminent with earnestness and sagacity and persist
emily refused to be turned aside by pleadings for
regularity of party procedure there has resulted an
upheaval and some of the more ardent votaries OF
the system have landed in positions where their SER
vices are penal 1t avails but little to elect one
party one year and another the next, and a few
honest and strong in public Offices can accom-
pish nothing of Importance in correcting the evils
The malefactors and billiards may still draw the
salaries and participate in the graft while deputies
do their work The system is wrong, worn out,
pernicious. Voters cast their ballots for party
didates whom they do not know, never saw or heard
of, candidates who may at the time of the elec
ton be living off the proceeds of their wife's en-
ployment-candidates so incompetent in the world
as not to be able to make living. Such cases are
not unknown. Reform cannot come through any
spasmodic effort to purify politics. Experience
has proved such efforts to be failures. Experience
has also proved that municipal administration by
parties is failure too. The boosted intelligence
of urban populations is awakening to the enormity
of the crimes committed in the name of city gov
ernments; is beginning to realize the disgraces
which are suffered by municipalities and the dam
gers which encompass them as the result of uncen-
tered authority. A few cities have dumped the
wornout methods overheard and their experiences
furnish an enlightening contribution to the sou-
ton of municipal problems. No doubt the com
mission system lacks much of perfection but it is
simple and it has been effective for good wherever
it has been tried The people of Salt Lake should
study it. One thing at least, in its favor is that
it is new and the barnacles which hang on so per-
sstently to the ship of state under the present
democratic system in most cities of the land have
not yet attacked themselves TO it 10 retard progress
and prevent the reform which is so sadly needed.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
COMM UNION OF SAINTS.

The Holy Catholic church is declared in the 9th
article of the Apostles Greed to be the "Commun-
ion of Saints" The church on the LIST of Novem-
Der, each year. in every part of the world com
menorates the feast of All Saints 1t is a Won
derful day of Catholic devotion. Look into ordi
nary handbooks of devotion and on each day you
will find two or three or perhaps a larger num-
Der of saints whose commemoration, in this or that
place, is mentioned. But go to the Roman mar
tyrology and how great array of saints there
are for each day of the year. And how many are
there who, every day of the year, have finished
their course on earth and been already received
into the Beatifc Vision who are not recorded in
the Roman Martyrology? All this mighty army of
the saints, the holy ones of God we COMMUNICATED
on Friday morning. Mighty and wonderful are
they, for those who have the faith to invoke them,
because they are dear to our Lord who has ran
somed each of them. Wonderfully great are
the benefits we may obtain by earnestly commend
ing ourselves to each and all of this white-robed
army who through exceedingly great trials have
passed and won their crowns. Bought by the Blood
of their Redeemer, true and heroic in fidelity to him
in the perverse generations in which they lived,
their intercession on behalf Of those who invoke
their aid cannot fail to be eficacious The dogma
of the communion of Saints is a sweet and most
consoling doctrine of our holy religion. By it we
who pursuing our pilgrimage ON earth,
contending with the passions of corrupt nature,
the evil influences of manifold vicious example, and
the snares and assaults of the devil are united in
charity and active sympathy with "the spirits of
the just made perfect" CHeb xiii, among whom
are many of our own dear relatives and friends
We rejoice for their having attained the "unfad-
ing crown of glory" whilst they, from their high
place in heaven, look down encouragingly upon US
and as "great cloud of witnesses over US" watch
with eageness our successes and failures amid the
trials of life, interceding for us all before the
throne of grace.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
REFORM.

For number of years there has been an in
the principal cities in the country. AS result in
some of these cities the reformation has taken the
form of investigating committees and grand curry
nquisitions and some of the delinquents have been
stirred to repentance while others are in the peni
tentiares In other cities the reform of municipal
affairs has been confined to an attempt to reform
lot of petty politicians or to inject into the polt
zeal parties some of the improving virus. But the
parties are immune, and the petty politicians are
inoculated with an anti, and efficient municipal adj
ministration, even if honest, seems welnigh mpos-
sible of accomplishment As long as the citizens
of any city are bound up in partisan prejudices and
are owned by (Which is equivalent to belonging toy
a political party which in turn is controlled by
grafters, plunderers and incompetents what hope
can they have of any effective work in the public
service Political parties in power of course can't
see the necessity of REFORM those seeking the Offices
realize the need of vast reform as to the men in
Office but Of their methods if they are profitable
there needs be no change The reform demanded
by the people which is SO loudly heralded during
the campaign is forgotten between election day and
inauguration day, and the ward heelers and place
mongers who make up the city governments go
steadily on in their earnest work of drawing their
salaries.
Here in Salt Lake we are on the eve of mu-
nicipal election. Charges of incompetency and
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

commissions appointed to formulate and enforce
rules for the protection of the water courses, made
the necessary beginning. The problem they are Il,
solve is a difficult one, brought on through guo-
rance and greed. 1t includes not only rigid reeu-
lation of the disposal of waste materials from man
ufacories but also the disposal of city sewage and
garbage In the solution of the problem lies the
hope of thousands for their health and happue,,
And with the accomplishment of this more practical
work there will be a return of the sparkle to- the
water, and the sunlight will more gIisten upon
the surface and reflect the purity and cIcamss.
and wholesomeness which was there for so man.
years when the glory of the pristine forest en-
HANGED the beauty of the stream. The time is com
ing when man must undo the work of man if he
is to continue upon the earth. With all the prog
ress of the age, the achievements of science, mo
chanics and art to perpetuate his kind, man must
vet follow the laws of cleanliness, and cleanliness
must extend beyond the person to the larger and
more important affairs from which he draws his
sustenance In the restoration in part of the for
ests and the purging of the waters of the rivers
of the great Mississippi basin, laying aside for
time the crude notion that all that is profitable is
good, and in a few years the brotherhood of man
may gain new significance in that the brother
hood extends to generations yet unborn. We live
but day, the world goes on until the fullness Of
time.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

judas the brave commander of the army of Israel,
made collection among his soldiers for sacrifices
to be offered for the sins of their slain compan-
ions at is therefore" adds the sacred writer, ~
holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead
that they may be lOosed from their sins" Gil.
Mach, xiii If this spiritual efficacy belonged 20
sacr fees that have been abolished because of their
impe1fections much more does it belong to the sac
rinr Of the mass, "the better testament" offered by
our priests for the living and the dead.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
A NEW BIBLICAL EDITION.

A long felt want in the Catholic world has just
been supplied by the Douay Publishing Co. of Phila
delphia The type is large the pages are bright and
fresh, the illustrations of various sacred places
beautiful and of a highly educational value. 1t
will undoubtedly have large sale. In these days
of material grandeur and progress every effort must
be at work to counterfeit pernicious doctrines and
this holy book by reason of its readable approach
abeness will fill real void where the bulkiness Of
the old style volumes repealed the seeker after
clesiastical knowledge. It will undoubtedly be
potent factor in encouraging the faithful to fire.
quently read and mediate the inspired word Of
God We sincerely hope that this pious work will
meet with generous response, for after all man
is a scholar who is not familiar with the dynamic
works of the Savior and the eloquent utterances
of his apostles The publishers duly accredited
agent is Mr.. T. Mccarthy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
ANOTHER NATURE FAKER

President Roosevelt is a contributor of an ar
ticle in the October Scribner's on "Small Country
Neighbours" which is interesting reading and dis
proves the assertion of other nature takers that the
president does not observe nature save only as
hunter. With all the regard we have for the pres
dent, regard we have frequently expressed for the
personal excelencies of the man, though not at
all times agreeing with his policies, we must even
with the knowledge that we may be condemned to
that class of undesirable citizens which have been
dubbed mature takers" by no less parsonage than
the president himself question the statement made
by Mr. Roosevelt that chipmunks hibernate If we
understand what Information is, the animal which
enjoys this mode of life at the beginning of winter
retres to its nest and goes into state of torpor
or lethargy from which it does not rouse to par
take Of food or drink If the chipmunk does that,
it hibernaes; if it does not it does not hibernate
All the observation we have made of the ground
squirrel is that casual acquaintance which made
when as a boy we wandered over the hills and
through the woods of our native state (Ohio) alb
sorbing what knowledge of nature was in evidence
there Recollection is vivid of driving the striped
animals from beneath the nut trees where they were
engaged IN eating gathering their winter store.
They scampered away, their beautiful brown fur
ghstening in the autumnal sun. And the dog fire.
quently disclosed the hiding place of store of nuts
which the chipmunk had gathered-for winters use
for that period following its Information in the
spring when nuts would not be available. Then,
too seeing the animals running along the rails of
the fences lining the road and separating it from
the woods at seasons when snow covered the earth
and the coasting season was at its height does not
indicate Information. The chipmunks were out
summing themselves or rustling for grub, we know
not which, but if pursued they were agile enough to
dispel any notion that they we're in lethargic state
From the evidence of boyish observation we are
impelled to the belief that Information is not
part of the life of the ground squirrel the presi-
dent to the contrary Notwithstanding. In the first
place, it lays up a store of food; in the second
place. it comes out on bright days of winter All
of which is contrary to the habits of true hiberna
tors. We are inclined to the opinion that the
hackee has not changed his mode of life. and that
proof thereof may be had in any portion of the
country where the animal is indigenous. With all
due respect for the presidential knowledge of bear
and bobcats and wolves and coyotes and all the
other beasts upon which his trusty gun has been
trained in the matter of the chipmunk until better
authority to the contrary is produced, we must
fer upon him the doubtful title of N. F.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
SOULS IN PURGATORY.

Today where the Catholic ritual is observed, the
affairs clothed in mourning, masses are offered
up and prayers said for the souls of the faithful
departed The church is moved with compassion
for those unglorifed spirits, who though they
passed away from this earthly scene in the charity
of God are still indebted to his justice for venia
faults unabsolved or penance unfulflled and con-
sequently are detained in that prison beyond the
portals of death, of which the Savior said with sol
emn adjuration, "Amen, I say to thee, thou shalt
not go from thence, till thou pay the last farth-
ing" Matt ". 26) When we repeat in the Apos-
ties Creed ~ believe in the Holy Catholic church,
the Church lIilitant-that is those still in
the fesh-the Church Triumphant-the saints in
heaven-and the Church Sufering-those in purga-
tory-a1 three constituting by unity of life in the
mystic body of Christ the one, holy, Catholic
church, considered in relation to the warfare of her
children EARTH the glories of her victorious he
roes in heaven, and the purgatorial pains through
which many of her faithful children are passing,
who fell beside the standard of the cross breathing
loyalty to God and his church in their death strug
gle, but are not yet sufficiently purified for adms-
sion to the Holy of Holes, of which it is said
"There shall not enter into it anything defled"
When Our Blessed Lord had consummated the
work of redemption in the last agonies of his cru
cifxion whereby he made atonement superabun-
dainty to his father for the "sins, ofenses and neg
igences" of all men, both the living and the dead
his first thoughts were directed toward the suffer-
ing souls in purgatory. To them he fastened to
announce the accomplishment of their redemption
and impart to them, the fathers and the doc
tors of the church teach US the first fruits of his
purchased grace by plenary indulgence and a
promise of participation in his triumph. 1t was
then:
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
RIVERS.
throne of grace.

Some brilliant man once referred to the Mis-
sissppi river as "the great sewer of the American
continent" There is a certain amount of exagge-
ration in the name but there is also very large
proportion of unpleasant truth From the time the
white man settled in the great basin of the Father
of Waters in the valleys of its hundreds of tribu-
tary streams In score or more of states, it has
been his custom to dump whatever waste products
may have developed into the river. The custom
grew into habit, and the habit is so fixed that it
is all but impossible to break it. The householder
used the river bottom for everything he wanted to
be rid of; the manufacturer never considered any
other means of disposing of his refuse, and cities
and towns found the streams convenient outlet
for their sewers. Nobody seemed to question the
right or the wisdom of such course until after
the rivers had lost their lmpid freshness and be-
came in fact streams of pollution, carrying filth
upon their surface and the sand and gravel bot
toms covered with deposits unpleasant to contem-
plate.
Anyone who will revisit after twenty years abb
sence the scenes which cling in the memory and
make the days of childhood seem all holiday and
will look upon the old swimming hole, the spot be-
meath the old sycamore tree which has stood
where sunsh bit as fast as the bent pin hook could
be rebaited and cast into the sparkling water any
one who will go back and view these scenes will
be impressed with the mutations effected by the
fight of years. and will wonder at the changes. In
stead of a river of pure water literally alive with
fish there is a stream from which the COWS refuse
to drink, and the sunfsh and bass have given way
to the club, carp and suckers. No longer will the
stream seem an invitation to SWIM rather is it
pulsive to the sight and smell.
The matter of river pollution is not local one
1t is we-nigh universal and it requires consider
able courage to press any measure of reform
against the well-established practice. Aside from
the loss of beauty the aesthetic so keenly regrets
there is distinct danger to the life and health of
the inhabitants of the fertile valleys accompanying
the befoulment of the streams. Sewage from cities
upstream does not improve the quality of drinking
water to the towns downstream. Typhoid fever has
appeared in towns in the central valleys within the
last ten years where Heretofore it was virtually
unknown As result efforts are made to purify
the water for domestic purposes by filtration and
boiling. While these measures add TO the general
safety to health they by means represent an in
telligent effort to eradicate the causes which make
them necessary It will require time and stringent
laws to overcome the evils which have grown up
since the earliest settlement
Happily, the need of prevention of river defle-
ment has been recognized, and few of the states
have through their boards of health OF special
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

There was great and terrible excitement in New
ark n. j., recently, owing to an error in the Mon
ltor. Reporters could be seen hurrying hither and
thither in hustle and haste A copy of the Catholic
Fortnightly Review which discovered the error in
the Monitor was posted on every telegraph pole.
Gaping crowds stood around them in establishment.
1t was current gossip on the streets all day that
the faith had been endangered among thousands in
Camden and Gloucester. The reputation of the
brilliant editor Of of the first Catholic papers in
America, the Newark Monitor is hors de combat
(whatever that means), and all because, while in
hurry, he showed in the word from or showed it out
OF sentence, we forget which. Evidently the Mon
ltor editor needs to go to Wabash avenue Chi
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
CARD FROM BISHOP SEAMAN.

feel it my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time time that person bearing the
name and Rar5 of a priest sister anyone else, is
authorized or permitted TO solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with tbs
Catholic Church without having from permission
in writing, bearing my seal and signature. Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such q document, he or
she as the case may be- should regarded by all
q fraud and imposter. L. SEAMAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
TO DIR SUBSCRIBERS.

The Intermountaln Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home IN this diocese Its circulation In Mon
tena Idaho, Colorado Wyoming, Nevada and many
other states is very large Only reliable firms and
business men advertise in the paper All subscribers
will find It to their advantage when about TO invest,
purchase or consult business matters to read over
the list of advertisers. We not only recommend,
but ask for them the patronage of all readers
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

Pope Plus in his recent epistle makes damaging
charges against some shepherds within the fold
Better for them to honorably leave the church il
they have lost the faith than to poison weaker
minds with their heresies Their damnation at the
! ~ds Of Christ would be less dreadful
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
He captive lead captivity,
He robbed the grave of victory
And took the sting from death.

So it had been predicted by the Prophet Zach
ary apostrophzing the Messiah many ages before.
"Thou also, by the blood of thy testament wilt send
forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein there is
no water" He came, says st. Peter, and preached
to those spirits who were in prison, who in times
past had been increduous, when they waited for the
patience of God in the days of Noe"
The spirits visited by Christ in prison were but
a type of the many millions of believers who die in
every age without having fully satisfied Gods jus
tice for their sins by works of penance Men may
contrive to forget their sinful past, relying over
much on the recttude of their later life But it is
written, ''there just men, and wise men, and
their works are in the hands of God: and yet man
knoweth not whether he be worthy of love or hat
red" Cell, TX, -
No Catholic then, who has friends or relatives
in the church suffering, should forget to have
masses offered up prayers said for the repose of
their souls Sacrifice for the dead was most ac-
ceptable to God under the ancient dispensations
TIE testimony Of sacred scripture is most explicit
onhis subject 1t is related in terms of praise that
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

Oftentimes, when Almighty God desires a man
set apart for some extraordinary work that will
rectify millions of people and rouse apathetic
Christians he looks around the world for the mean
est family in it. and then selects the meanest and
most contemplate, from a worldly standpoint,
member of that household.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

Dives, that ancient uncharitable millionaire
went to everlasting hell and Lazarus full of dis
ease flthiness and rage, because of his patience,
went to paradise. There are in this day plenty of
Diveses but then there is lots of room in perdtion
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

It appears that one of the embarrassed New
York banks held quite lot of diamonds as secur-
ity, but it had never taken out pawnbroker's IL
cense nor hung out three golden balls to attract
such business.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

Some men and women deny the Immaculate
Conception of the mother Of God and also original
sin. Does it occur to them that in denying the
latter they give every child an Immaculate coneep
ton!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

cago, and get his English syntax and grammar in
working order for he certainly lacks nothing the
virility of his articles.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

1t is wise man who makes the necessary re-
pairs to the shovel before the season of cold
arrives, but anybody who did the work in October is
a pessmist.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02

The action of the government in Selling $780,
600 cigarettes last week meets with the approval
of the anti-cigarette league, anyway