The Irish standard., 1907-03-02
WHAT A COMPARISON REVEALS S

would be better for all concerned.
WHAT A COMPARISON REVEALS.
The "Intermountain ana Colorado
Catholic" which is one OF the atAest
and best edited papers that come TO
our table has the following interesting
and pointed editorial comparing the
administration of law in the Dolnn-
ion OF Canada with the disregard of
law in the United States:
The facts and circumstances re-
vcaled by the evidence in the notori-
GUS Thaw trial are so morally filthy
and shocking that the postmaster gen.
eral of the Dominion OF Canada has
shut out from the mails the yellow
journals and all newspapers printing
the details Of the trial. The Canadi-
an government some years ago passed
Il law for the protection of the morals
of its citizens and under that law all
newspapers, magazines and palnph-
let's publishing filthy evidence of tri-
ais or printing indecent or question:
able advertisements cannot cross the
frontier and if Canadian publications
violate the act they become guilty Of
Il misdeameanor under the law. The
Police Gazette. McFaddens Physical
Culture and similar publications cam
not enter the Dominion. The law
holds up prohibitive hand against
all lewd photographs, paintings and
illustrations; against suggestive the
atrical posters and plays, and forbids
entry to atheistic literature and cer-
tain publications of the radical social
lists Any newspaper agent or boy
on trains operated in or passing
through Canada convicted of surrepti-
tiously selling or giving away immoral
books or pictures is sentenced to Jail
without the option of u fine.
The Dominion of Canada is the best
governed and most law abiding nation
on earth. Divorce is practically un-
known and the only body in Canada
authorized to give bill of diverce is
the Dominion Senate at Ottawa. A di-
vorce in that country costs anywhere
from $4,000 to $4,000. The Catholic
senators take no part in divorce pro-
and when an application for
divorce is to be considered they leave
the chamber en- masse. The Dominion
has a population of 100000, all en-
ergetic, industrious, progressive and
religious people, and from statistics
annually published there are less nur-
ders and crimes against law and order
committed i'll Canada from ocean TO
ocean, than in any territory or state
in the union. The laws are enforced,
the judges incorruptible and the men,
bers Of the juries, with rare excep.
tions, are above purchase. Only a
short time ago a man who attempted
to bribe a member Of a Jury was con-
victed and sentenced to six months
in the central prison, Toronto. MUIR
derers when convicted by a jury Of
their countrynaen are hung. There is
no motion for a new trial. An appeal
lays with the minister of justice only.
Ninety per cent Of the murderers are
hung. The state does what 1t can to
cooperate with the churcnes TO pro-
tect and safeguard the morals of the
young. There are no saloons, they are
hotels or inns and must have four or
flve rooms for the accommodation Of
locals or travellers. From z O'Clock
Saturday evening until 6 Monday
morning all places where liquor is re
tailed are closed and closed fast. Any
hotelkeeper convicted of selling liquor
to a minor or 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 parliament. by which
each in it's 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 SSoeA>a!
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