The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-01-19
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you ask that any government tolerates this license
of the press. Ny dear sir for 100 years the reptile
press of France has been manufacturing votes for
the French assembly and the assembly by bonusng
the press gets the manufactured article. In the
language of the betting ring it's "a stand m The
infdel paraments of Jules Ferry of NJ Combes
and Clemenceau owe their existence to infde votes
manufactured by infdel newspapers Nothing but
a great and prolonged national calamity will turn
the soul of France back from the precipice 10 which
it IS blindly drifting. | have not interpreted he
history of the past Alright if the calamitous cloud
is not showing above the horizon # The
French sky. for ii is as automatic today rs in the
days Of the Caesars that those whom the gods wish
to destroy they first make mad" Separate and
distinct from the ordinary newspapers are the il
Illustrated journals and magazines. Those OF your
readers old enough to remember ''Harpers Has
tTated' and PUCK" thirty years ago viii also re-
member the low carcatures and lampoons on the
Pope and the Irish which disgraccd these vile and
bigoted sheets. | call back to my memory one If
these which appeared in Puck" The artist threw
upon the paper the conventional Irish peasant of
Anglo-Saxon bigotry, the frieze coat. the caubeen
with the dudtheen pipe in the band, the monkey
face with its prognathous jaw. pug nose ard re-
treating forehead. This Hiber1ian nondescrpt
stood by the harp of Erin. he blind and held
out an old hat with a large hole in the crown. An
Irish priest resting one knee catching the pen
MES thrown into the hat by Irish servant girls was
silhouetted against the harp. Well a French art
ist paid $4,000 year for this kind of work on
some of the illustrated weeklies of New York in
those days Contemplate this caricnture was.
ii was decent and mild when compared to the car
toons which are now appearing and have for years
appeared in the French illustrated papers. ] have
seen at the Folie Bergere one of these libeliOus Il
Illustrations acted ont on the platform when a maud
liu dirty and haf-drunken priest was represented
pouring the waters of baptism on the head OF an in
fant held in the arms of a tipsy mother There are
many-I do not know how many-illustraed Jour
nails published in France but ! think | an not far
wrong if | catalogue twothirds of them as anti
Christian Mr. j. G. Bodley the English writer
in lecture lately delivered at the Royal Instit-
ton London, on the Church of France said: "Of
the ia daily papers published ten years ago in
Paris Gin FranceO no fewer than 100 were dis
tinctly hostile to Christianity" If not sat
istied that Mr.. Bodley knew what he talking
about / would be slow to believe these last figures
Some of those $50 daily papers | would be disposed
to classify as lukewarm, but Mr.. Bodley is better
informed than | and | canont dispute his figures.
In any case it is a terrible arraignment Of the
French press. And now let us what the Gath
Ole clergy and laity doing by the agency of tlle
press to meet this organized campaign OF the m
fdel. Cardinal Lavigerie the black cardinal he
was called by reason of his love and sacrifices FOR
the Negro race, remarked many years ago that the
support Of newspapers intended to enllghten the
public mind and lead back to the faith and virtue
those who had gone astray, is mertorious 10
build churches THE press said Plus TX, Eis
double edged weapon, as invaluable for the diffusion
of good it is terrible for the propagation of evil
good journal is worth more than good preach
err" lie Kill. Plus x, and almost every bishop
have at one time or the other spoken out on be-
half OF Christian press. The present lustrous
Pontif, before his elevation to the chair of Peter
Is reported TO have said that to support good
journal he would even sell his pectoIal cross. Not
outstanding these appeals and encouIag cement iie