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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
SUPERIOR PEOPLE.

Professor Barrett Wendell, professor of English
at Harvard university, went to Chicago last week
and delivered startling lecture to the Twentieth
Century club of the Windy City. At least it was
designated as a startling lecture by the newspa-
pers, and the, awful revelations of the gentleman
from Boston concerning the "despotic laboring
classes entitle him to a steady job chief purveyor
of sensations for the Chicago university. How he
can content himself at stad old Harvard with Chi
cago and Syracuse gasping for new thrills and an
awakened public conscience crying out for more
revelations is question which can be answered only
by himself and the men who are creating deficit
annually in the operation of John DIS school for
the preservation of the cream of society"
Professor Wendell speaks very plainly. He says
the upper classes are absolutely the superors of the
people they have passed. He of course, is one of
these superior people. He has exhibited high de-
gree of ability worth and character and is entitled
to great respect Common folks take their hats off
to their superiors and bend their knee before the
mighty who declare themseles great and good and
noble and of passing fame.
But while the despotc laboring classes are put
ting up fight for existence and bringing down
upon their heads the anathemas of the high browed
defenders of the silk-tiled and ght-fngered arts
tocracy who steal millions in life insurance compa-
MES from the savings of those low-browed labor
ers who wreck whole railroad systems by clever
fnancering and who fix up trade agreements to
amerce the dear public, the Thaw trial continues
fitting tribute to the high morality and superior
virtue of the Cream of society"
Professor Wendell is simply mistaken in his mar
row view of humanity. The laboring people are not
all good, and neither are those who work.
Sloth, degeneracy, drunkenness, profigacy and in
competence are not the common heritage of either
class though no doubt these things may be found
more perfectly developed among the upper; they
have more time for such things The jails are full
but there are mighty few laborers measured by
percentage of total population, unless all those I'M
tutored savages who never work and have no honest
means of earning living be classed as SUCH The
upper class furnishes enough and so many are ex-
cused with fine. And even college professors have
been known to be in jail. Glittering generalities
and wholesale condemnation of any class for the
of few of its members is so child
ish as to be hardly worthy of consideration-even
if it comes from university professor from Bos-
ton
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
FATE OF TW0-CENT LAW.

The railroads seem to be having their inning
now after year or SO of hostile legislation by var
ious states. Last week federal Judge at Kansas
City declared unconstitutional the Missouri law
that prohibited the removal of suits against rail
roads from state to federal courts The Pennsyl-
vania supreme court also declared the Pennsylvania
2-cent-fare law unconstitutional. These two deci-
sions, together with the United States supreme
court decision recently handed down that "scalp-
ing" railroad tickets was illegal, must give the
railroad companies new hope. The disclosures of
graft and dishonesty in high places made popular
the demands for restrictive measures to be placed
on railroads, and number of state legislatures
passed laws in response to the overwhelming sent-
ment in favor of railroad rate reductions. There
was no very close study of the subject but the laws
were popular, the people demanded and the legis-
latures did the rest.
The state of Pennsylvania is the first to have
its 2-cent-fare law tested in the courts The trial
court studied the enactment the constitution of the
commonwealth and the charters Of the railroad COM
panies, and declared the law unconstitutional The
supreme court affirmed the decision upon appeal
Now that the 2cent-law of one state has been
declared void, the sober sense of the people will be
needed to preserve faith in the Judiciary. There
will go up wild cry of bribery, whereas the deci-
sion seems to rest sound principles of law and
equity, as recognized by Governor Hughes of New
York when he vetoed similar enactment by the leg
islature of his state. The legislatures in about all
the states which enacted laws simply jumped to
conclusions, without any careful study of the sub
ject. In some states, the great properties of the
railroads handled by the Legislators with the.
nonehalance of boy who, having built big block
house. knocks it regardless. There was no pre-
tense of any knowledge of the most elementary
principles of transportation. The problems to
which the railroads had given years of study were
neither complicated difficult for the legislators
They had the single idea that the railroads were
charging too much, and they needed to be disci-
plined.
In the Pennsylvania decision the court holds
that the 2-cent rate amounts virtually to a confs-
cation Of the property of the roads If this is true
of thickly populated state like Pennsylvania, it
woEld seem that 10-cent rate would be no more
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
D. J. HENNESSY.

News from Butte that D. ]. Hennessy died sud
denly last Monday will cast a gloom in every min
ing camp in the intermountain region where Butte
miners are to DO found. His friends, who are
legion will deplore his sudden death They, who
shared in his hospitality and generosity, will find
a missing link in the social circle that cannot be
replaced.
Mr.. Hennessy was born at Fredericktown, n
b., in 1854. He came to Montana in 1879. and
commenced his successful business life in Helena
Three years later he moved to Butte, where he
established his store that grew to such gigantic
proportions that it became the largest store in the
west. The reason of Mr.. Hennessy's great sue
cess was due to his business level head generous
impulses and big Irish heart which won for him
the confidence of the community in which he lived
for twenty-nne years. The last act which he per-
formed is an index to his religious character. He
was returning to his home after hearing mass.
Could his thoughts be reduced to words he was
doubtless contemplating the vision of Calvary re-
viewed in the bloodless sacrifice of the Altar He
was active member Of the different Catholic So
cietes in which he held the highest offices at times.
The real mourners, who have the sympathy of num-
berless friends. are his widow and three children
Their great comfort and consolation are that he
died at peace with God, man and the world and
that as he entered the Beyond he received the
reward melted out to a well-spent life. The Inter
mountain Catholic extends its coincidence to the
bereaved wife and children.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
THE TERMoUNTAM AND COLORADO CATHOLIC: FEBRUARY 1908

than fair price for some western states Ihe TACT
is that the fixing rates for passenger business ey
legislation is very complicated matter-one which
will probably be never satisfactorily adjusted There
is no doubt very good cause for the public ndlgna-
ton against the railroads, but whether that cause
is not the result of abuses of power by other cor
operations rather than of the misdeeds OF the rat
roads themselves has never been analysed. And 1t
may be only reributive justice intended to be doed
out for ofenses by the companies in years gone by
when railroad fnanciering more of land grab
The decision in Pennsylvania naturally pleases
railway officials all over the country. They have
won in the first legal battle, for they have consist
emily asserted that the rate confscatory. and
the court upholds this contention. But this decision
can in no way be considered as foreshadowing the
defeat of 2-cent laws in other states. The courts
and conditions are different in each
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
PREVALENCE OF SUICIDE.

One Of our dailies in large captions last Sunday
announced to its readers the sudden departure from
life of three individuals "by three different routes"
gas, frearm and hanging. They had all shut
fed off the mortal coil at their own votion at the
time and in the manner selected by themselves In
a word, they had committed suicide. Suicide-man
robbng himself of what is accounted dearest
his life, in contravention with the expressed com
mands of his Creator and in violent opposition
TO his most powerful instinct, that of self preser
walton. The act is so unnatural, so utterly at
lance with the general conduct of all living beings
that struggle so hard and fight so obstinately to
preserve that which, such as these cast away with
sense of ease and relief: that it leads one to be-
lieve that in SO acting contrary to a most rooted
instinct not only in human beings, but in the vast
kingdom of living things. they manifest a de-
rsngement in the intimate workings of their ma
ture
We are inclined to pity more than to condemn
him whom we know has under terrific mental ten
sion tension at least too great for his power of
resistance, permitted the reins Of right reason to
slip so disastrously from his control There is
something III the mental and moral state of such
man that resembles the condition of sweet toned,
deep sensemoving violin when it lies in speech
less confusion of struggling and twisted strings
that have slipped from their moorings in the head
We then have compassion on this semblance of
human being that is unable not only to recog-
nize the law of God but who is in revolt against
the most intimate laws that control his being.
Then it were ncharitable, unjust and senseess to
attach moral obloquy to an act for which an in
dividual is not responsible We believe that in
very great number of cases suicide is in this sense
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

wrote such books would hesitate TO give my name
to her Children This is not nice thing to quote,
but the women-authors of Ouida's type merited it.
Her "Under Two Flags" was not fit to be read
by man or woman. and her Moths was in plot
of the nastiest books printed in the English
language. The heroine is a woman who sinned
with man to whom she wants to marry her daugh-
ter.
The real name of "Ouida' Miss De La
Rama. She and Rhoda Broughton were turning
out smutty books at the same time, and were most
dangerous writers for the young.
Only of her books, "a Village Commune"
had genuine and not an immoral interest. All
her other novels Shiny with the trail of the
serpent She prestituted her talents for the money
that her stories of vice In high society" brought.
She represented men and women of the upper CLASS
as leading lives of open shame, and taught that
any attempt to be pure in this world is useless.
Her motto was, "Let us live and have good time;
there is no devil" Abandoned in her declining
years by human beings, she cempaniened with
dogs, and the faithful creatures were the only pail
bearers and mourners which followed her solitary
hearse to the grave.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
CARD FROM BISHOP soANLAN.

feel 1t my duty TO protect Catholics and the pub
Ifo generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time Co time that bearing the
name Earb Of priest sister, anyone else, IL
authorised or permitted to solicit collect In this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with tbs
Catholic Church without having from permission
n writing, bearing my seal and signature. Should
anyone DO found engaged In doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such document, he or
She as the may be- should be regarded by all
q fraud ana irnpostHr, Ia SEAMAN,
Bishop Of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

Tne Trtermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home this diocese ITS circulation In
tana 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 their ADVANTAGE when about invest,
purchase consult business matters. read
the list of advertisers. We not only recommend,
but ask for them the patronage OF all our resde-B
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Regret for the past and hope for the future are
both eleyating and ennobing, but ambition to
make the present year atone for the mistakes of
those which have preceded it drags out of the
rut and lifts him up. The past is done, the future
is ever before us; the present alone is all have
to work with Get to work, then. And when the
calendar is replaced by taat for 1909, it will be
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Following in the lines drawn by oar own Bb5.
on Seaman in his admirable greeting 90 his rIero-
and people ON Christmas eve, Bishop McFaur q
Trenton has this to say of the duty OF Catholic
toward their own press and literature:
"McFaul-Bishop McFaul of Trenton. \. /
addressing $4,000 members Of the Holy Name 8
cieties. said. NO people can assert themselves, nm
less they manufacture public opinion. Read Won.
Catholic publications. If YOU don't support
Catholic paper. how are you going to bc abreast a.
the times ON Catholic questions
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Temperance in all things as principle of hu.
man conduct is unassailable. When a large portion
of a people become Incorporate in anything they
need to be saved from themselves. That is why al
coholc wards maintained in hospitals, and tina;
is why we need so many policemen to take the poor
deluded nebriate in out of the wet, 4 great many
people do not believe in prohibition, but when In
temperance becomes too general, to save the state
and to preserve society there seems no alternative
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Graduation essays are now being considered by
the school boys and girls, and there seems still,
small voice coming from somewhere, saying, "Some
one has said"-, ''And as we 70 out into the great
world, "The real battle of life. But who
would not have such touching phrases preserved.
Didn't we use them once ourselves?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

The courage to begin great task is not so mucD
to be commended as the courage to finish it. IL p
not very hard to throw out the first shoveltul o.
dirt, but when the ditch gets deeper the work =
more difficult. The man who realizes that every
hour is gain, every day victory. with the nsp
of God will know the meaning of triumph IN ~
end.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Cashiers checks disappeared so silently from
general circulation that the souvenir fend can't find
one to preserve.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

A father giving advice to his son starting out
in the world told him to keep his head COOL his feet
warm, his heart open and his mouth shut and he
would get along all right in the world. All of which
advice is especially applicable to young men of to-
day.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

found that fewer mistakes have happened and B.,
ter results been accomplished than ever befo..
The future must look brighter if not dimmqd H.
the knowledge of wasted opportunitic~
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

A wooden leg factory down east has been struck
by the financial panic and is offering its prod.
uct at 50 per cent of former priccs-vooden legs
half off.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

If man has any automatically expanding emer.
gency currency about his clothes. he is entitled to
she heard OH the financial bills before congress.
Otherwise he should go out and get some.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

boarding money is awful. Why, we never
hoard more than enough to buy meal ticket ana
know lots of others just like us.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Banker Walsh of Chicago can be sentenced to
$40 years inl5ail for his peculiar financial opera
tions. That is at least forty years too much; tie
courts should be reasonable under all crcums ance
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

1t seems great deal harder to get fanancia
bill through the heads of congressman than through
the head of the average man.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

This kind of weather leaves the poet 10 doubt
as to whether he should peetize on the beautiful
snow or the beautiful spring.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

A Chicago alderman is said to have gone outoi
the saloon business but then one must not belie7s
all he sees in the newspapers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

who car save the big casino in seven-up gan'
certainly knows the cards
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

One idea of an elastic currency is that OF the
man who passes worthless checks.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

However, the limitations of the newspapers will
soon have to be considered by prospective cand-
dates for the presidency.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Missouri editor has made list of thc I'm
best poems. We said Missouri-net Indiana
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
DEATH OF AN IMMORAL AUTHOR.


Florence, Jan. 21.-The funeral of Ouida today
most pitiful epilogue to her pitiful end. She
died amid squalor and poverty, and her body was
followed to the grave only by dozen dogs she had
starved herselfto feed, and her faithful maid, to
whom she left her last manuscripts. The body was
buried in the English cemetery at Bagni di Lucca,
and the spot is marked only by a wooden cross.
How did this woman squander her money!
Many of our readers can remember when her novels
were as popular as Jack London's lurid works are
now. Her novel, "Under Two Flags" passed
through forty editions, and her "Moths" sold up
into three hundred thousand. For eleven years she
was the rage, and her immoral and foul smelling
writings must have realized for her half million
of dollars. For ten years she has been speaking
terms with poverty, and at times, for year or
two before she died, she was an object of charity
She was one of the worst of Louis Venillot's
"femme-auteurs," of whom he said; "If my wife
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

However, there is no photographic record Of the
words of wisdom spoken by money when it talks.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Being tghtwad is forced upon the man whose
income doesn't include even cashiers checks.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Still, the man who is a public servant doesn't
waste much time doing more than bossing the JOB.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Many man in building his air castles neglects
the important detail of figuring on the cost Of
brick
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

One would hardly expect a bachelor to be
very enthusiastic advocate of the single tax theory
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Brain fag is when man has only one idea AID
it won't work out
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Sympathy is fine thing for your fellow men,
but square meal is more substantial.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

A man who puts his ear to the ground is usually
trying to take his nose from the grindstone.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

When man attains unto supreme wisdom he's
likely to show what a fool he can be.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Maybe we all so poor because fool and his
money are soon parted.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Pugilism consists of much talk, together with
fighting chance.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

Sometimes things which cost pretty penn
would have been expensive at half price.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
CORRESPONDENCE soITCTTEp.

The Reverend Clangy are requested send 60 THE
INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC news contributions
Of interest to their respective par4shea.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

CEatared IN the POstotfoa at Salt Lake as Second.
Class kaSterl
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01
$500 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
CHANGING ADDRESSES

Subscribers removing from place to another
and desiring papers changed should always give for
well present address.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-01

:, :, ooo ,ao,,,bors o.f tho .tr,I- ". a.
81. No raonIo car, assert +bl,...r... ~.
49, 41,o,. r,o,,,,facture public opinion. Read
L,,, arc ,o,, ooirr 10 t .,-.
-. - -, Ca+boIi, ouestions1'"
--s-D-.---
host roons We said Missouri-not Indiana
-...
This kind of weather leaves the poet u doul,
snow or the beautiful spring
--.-"-----
A wooden leg factory down east has been struck
by the financial panic and Is now offering its prod.
uct at 50 per cent of former prlces-7oedeu egs
half off.
If a man has any automa1lcaIF expanding emer-
gency currency ABOUT MS - ''''I'leo To
ebe heard OH the nhancl'l O"l' ''NS'e'5'
Banker Walsh OF Ollcago can oe sentenced to
$40 years ln>sall TOT MS peculiar HI'''''' opera
courts should be reasonable under all circumstance
A Chicago alderman IS SAID to have gone outd
the saloon business, but then one must not believe
all he sees in the newspapers
bill through the heads of congressman than through
the head Of the average man.
-
Cashiers checks disappeared so silently from
general circulation that the souvenir iend cam find
one to preserve
Temperance in all things as a principle of hu
man conduct is unassailable When a large portion
need to be- saved from Themselves. That is wbv a.
cobolic wards are maintained in bospitals and tb,
5111 e -i'',t p ~ - 'o nv pY.
,o..Io H. - LII :, -oL;bit.au b,s.
temperance becomes too general to save the state
anu " 'o0i0'S 'Loi0 '0'n9 io "i''iia''''
however the limitations OF 'ne newspapers VIII
soon nave 10 Ut conSluereo Vy prospective esnu'
dates Tor the presidency.
a I9'ne[ giving ADVICE 70 ms son starring Out
III tue WORTH IOlu Hul W htep HIS Htdu COOi HIS leu
warm his heart open and his mouth shut and he
would get along all right IN the world All OF which
day.
Beng q tlghtWad is forced upon the man whose
income doesn't include even cashiers checks.
MANY q building his castles neglects
the important detail Of figuring the cost Of
brick.
When attains unto supreme wisdom he's
likely to show what fool he can be.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-19

Women S $500 Waists
Another lot Of Waists. only of a better
lot-the kind that sell regularly at $500.
These Waists have JarbOe fronts and are
handsomely made Many different pat
terms to select from, and every one d big
bargain. Monday only at