The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-05-30
WHO ARE INToLERANT?
A Fairly Direct and Conclusive An
swer Given by a Non-Catholic
Newspaper Man.


In a recent number of the Ladies
Home Journal the editor treats frank!
a question which is frequently the sub
ject of newspaper mems talk (amons
themselves), but of which they nevel
write. 1t is one of a number of sub.
jects which the profession has labeled
loaded" and which are not to be
touched (for publication with forty
foot pole, not TO speak of pen or pencil
! That is true of the editorial profession
| in general but the particular editor
| here quoted is rather partial to topics
of the loaded variety, and seems to
care little whether they go off" in the
handling or not. More interesting,
therefore, than surprising, is the fol-
lowing comparison of the respective at
titudes of the Catholic and Protestant
patrons of magazine under given
conditions:
This expression of both points of
view takes on curious study of hu-
man nature when one sits in an edito-
rial chair and watches the effects. We
may publish, for example, a pictorial
article describing the life of Pope Plus
Y at the vatican. Immediately there
issues stream of letters from readers
Of all shades of Protestant beliefs pro-
testing against what they call our in
dorSement of Roman Catholicism ;
Yours is a Protestant magazine, mind
you, 1--WE have never said that it wash
says the writer, and you have no right
TO enter our homes and advocate a re-
ligion in which we do not believe. But
suppose we turn the matter around.
and how about the scores of articles
voicing Protestant beliefs entering the
homes of our Roman Catholic sub
scribers? Yet it is a significant fact
that never a word of protest comes to
US from the thousands of our Roman
Catholic readers with regard to a sim
gle article that We have ever published
voicing Protestant beliefsr'
And such, it may be safely asserted,
has been the experience of every mag
azine and newspaper editor in the coun-
try. Take as an example. Philadel-
phia's daily papers for the past month,
with their columns upon columns of re-
ports of Union Evangelistic" services.
Catholic readers have not been protest.
ing to the editors. 1t is not the ''voic-
ing of Protestant beliefs that moves
them to action in that line, but the
of Catholic beliefs
But if they have not been writing
they have been doing some hard think
ing, those Catholic readers. and with
good reason. They know that stimuli
taneously with the widely advertised
'evangelistic services" there has been
within many of their own
churches a special work of conversion. |
which has taken thousands of worn
-oilers from their beds at dawn for |
mass and instruction, and assembled |
hem again in the evening for a SER
non and more prayers. They know
hat this is the kings business" in |
earnest; that it involves labor and ia
igue on the part of priests and people: |
hat it is vastly more effective, more |
beneficial to the community than any |
,ther religious activity possibly could |
)e, and they know that it is ignored by |
he papers whose pages are bursting
lnder the pressure of matter setting
orth to the last detail the incidents of |
campaign conducted by sectarians.
What If our daily papers devoted
hree, four or five columns every morn
ng for a month to reports of the ex-
rcises, sermons and results of mis-
ions in Catholic churches canadian
freeman.