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Graham guardian., 1909-06-04

Make carpet sweeping a pleasure
by buying a Carpet Sweeper at
Olney-Ijams Furniture Co. 15-2t
Misses Essie Houck, Ada Thors-
tensen and Maud Wellborn are at
tending the teachers training school
in Thatcher, which is being conduct
ii by Miss Viola Freefand.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
DO FIGURES LIE?

The bright and breezy Ogden Journal, when re-
viewing the work of the last session of our Legisla-
tive Assembly, claimed that Figures do not lie"
That may be true in the hustling and picturesque
city of Ogden, but in Salt Lake City figures lie
shanefully and not to be trusted For instance,
two women last Thursday sold thirty chickens each
market. They met together early in the
morning and after talking matters over agreed to
meet after the sale of the chickens and divide
equally the monies they received,
One sold her chickens two for 81, getting for
her thirty chickens SIS. The other sold hers three
for 81, getting for her thirty chickens $40 This
made So realized from the sale Of the sixty chick
ems.
Mr.. Richards, one of our enterprising mer-
chants, who was called on to divide the money did
and said: Hand me the money; you sold your
thirty chickens two for ST. and you, your thirty
chickens three for 81. That makes sixty chickens
at the rate of FIVE for 50. Well, into so goes -
times-twice u is "a. That makes $24 your sixty
chickens have brought"
But shown above the women actually gave
the merchant $25 which they received for the sale
of their chickens and while they admit the mer-
chants figures were all right, they are yet won
dering what became of the odd dollar Now, what
does the Ogden Journal think of this when he
reads his own words. Figures do not lie"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10

violinist anything to fiddle few tunes or tue pan
list or organist to perform their instruments
Which is true But those fifty thousand hours OF
toll. those days of despair when some peculiarly
difficult passage seemed impossible OF accomplish
ment those hours of scale studies, those years OF
preparation should be remembered and the musr
clan should in justice be paid literally. generously
and by literally we mean with largeness OF spirit
and by generously with a nobleness of soul appro-
pirate to the high calling of the musician whose
happiness is in giving happiness to others
There is. of course, no real necessity for music
or the musicians The world can get along wlthout
them. as it can without pictures and flowers and
house decorations. Butgwe would not like to 1--we
in world without these things; we would not ike
to associate with people whose ideals were Ell"
tirely of the earth earthly. But there is no danger
of such condition coming. for nearly all men ana
all the women like pretty things; they like music
and pictures and flowers. even if they do not know
one note from another. or cannot draw or paint,
or do not know carnation from a chrysanthe
mum or the moss rose from the lily of the valley
All these things serve to make beautiful the world
about Ms and of them all music is the most IN
tangible and yet the most beautiful we cannot
carry it away with from the concert as we can
flower it is here for moment and it is gone yet 1t
leaves its impress upon the nearer which cannot
be overestimated in its effect upon his character
Music softens the hard spots in mans heart II
creates and nourishes into fullness higher ideal
than can be attained without it. Let us have music
and lots of it. and the best get but let US be
willing to pay a price that will encourage those
whose lives are wrapped up in dreams of melodies
and harmonies. and whose lives are given to an art
that makes the world more enjoyable place OF
abode
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
R00SEVELT''S AFRICAN TRIP

The itinerary of ex-President Roosevelt fur
nlshed story for the newspapers long as the
Hamburg was in communication with land by wire
less and at each port the details of the visit were
told. When the vessel reached Gibraltar we read
of the brief visit at that British stronghold and
there an interesting story of his warm reception
by the people of Naples. 1t is hardly necessary,
however, TO wait for a complete schedule Tor Mr.
Rocsevets trip planned and announced be-
fore he left, and the press dispatches are of inter
est only from the fact that they show those plans
being successfully carried out
Before the party sailed these facts were given
OUT The trip will cost about $4,000, half of which
viii be borne by Mr.. Roosevelt, and the other half
by the Smithsonian institution His hunting trim
in Africa will occupy about fourteen months and
it is thought he will be absent from home about
twenty-five months, as he has engagements to lee
ture in England and several of the continental
countries of Europe. From Naples he took the
steamer Admiral of the German East Africa line
direct TO Mombasa, by way of the Red sea. which
he expects to reach by the Dist of the present
month. Railroad transportation from Mombasa will
take him some 325 miles from the coast to Nairoba
which will be base of supplies for about SIX
months while the hunting party cleans up that DOR
ton Of the country.
The part of the journey which has been the
cause for many warnings to him will then be COM
menced He will go by rail to Port Florence on
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING

Twenty years of progress in the United States
reads like fairy story. The strides in commercial
and industrial advancement have been so large that
New York Sun in a recent summary of our ma
tiona development and progress for the past TWEEN
ty years furnishes some striking figures.
According to these figures the United States is
far outstrippng every other country the face of
the earth in the production of wealth from the
ground. We raise more than half of the combined
wheat and crops of the world; we produce
more than half of the worlds cotton and wool ;
nearly half of the worlds supply of coal oil, iron
and copper. Our gold supply is twice what it was
twenty years ago; farm products three times as
large as they twenty years ago; steel output
doubled; copper production increased 70 per cent in
ten years; bank deposits four times as great today
as they were in 1883, and railroad earnings doubled
and dividends trebled in ten years.
There are lot of other figures in the summary
some probably striking than those we
have mentioned, but those we have enumerated
serve to show the immensely of oun country and
give us some vague idea of the rapidity of our
growth. The figures are probably too big to be com
pretended by the ordinary mortal, but they serve
to show that our national growth has been marvel
Gus, and there seems to be no reason why the next
twenty years will not furnish even more startling
evidences of national wealth Not the least in
terestng feature of such figures is a comparison of
ones earthly possessions with the national
wealth. and by system of analysis to arrive at Just
what proportion of the wealth has come our way.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10

ance have we that prohibition will be efective We
contend that bartenders should be licensed, for bar
tenders frequently break the laws without the con-
/ sent knowledge Of the proprietor, who suffers
I for his bartenders rascality.
Good liquor like good tea and coffee is gift
Of God. 1t may be used or abused If human
creature is SC little of a man that he must abuse
it. if he uses it at ALL let him strive to make him
self more of man. The sin lies in the action of
the mans viii, not in the liquor.
We understand that this is we'll enough in the
DRY; but it is cold comfort to the mother who suf-
fers from the brutality of drunken husband, to
the children who feel the scorn of the world upon
them to the sisters who suffer pangs worse than
death from the vice and selfshness of besotted
brother. Nevertheless, the theory is true. Any
law which, in conformance with public opinion,
makes for high license and tends to lessen the temp
tation to drunkenness by decreasing the number of
saloons will meet with our cooperation and sup
port. But prohibition is only form of abortive
fanaticism, delusion of volatile enthusiasts who
"Condone the sins they feel inclined to.
By damning those they have no mind to-"
There are three deadly sins in the moral the
oogy of the prohibitionists, particularly the fe-
male prohibitonists: Card playing, drinking and
Sabbath breaking. Our Lord tells us, as recorded
in the fifteenth chapter of st. Mathew the things
that de6le man or woman, and in the commission of
these sins the American people stand reeminenty
guilty. Protestant ministers, fearing to give of
fence to their listeners carefully avoid referring
to the fifteenth chapter of st. Mathew and the
shameful sins denounced by Our Lord and to which
Americans. young and old, are abandoning them
selves.
We have no sympathy with that form of fanat-
icism which drinks strong coffee, claret and cham
payne at its own table, but raises It's voice and
walls the unhappy miner, or laborer or drudge
who uses coarser stimulants. We have lived in
countries where sumptuary laws we're passed
against all forms of innocent amusement on Sun
days and, returning to the same lands many years
afterwards, these laws were indeed still unrepeaed
but ball-playing, horseracing and prize-fghting
had supplanted the innocent Sunday amusements
and the law was as dead as corpse.
A law that is not or cannot be enforced or
that casts out devil and opens the door to
seven other devils more wicked than the first is
not law framed by experience, unimpassioned
judgment common sense.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
PURE FOOD LAW.

Before the pure food law went into effect there
was no law against formaldehyde. boric acid ben
zoate of soda, coal-tar colorngs potassium nitrate
and burnt lumber on the menu card Almost every
body who used prepared foods from sausage to
syrup got his dose of these delectable foods. and
every manufacturer of foods in which they entered
up in when the pure food law was under
discussion some three years ago. And they have
been opposed to the pure food law ever since.
The great meat-packing industries, the glucose
makers, the Gamers of fruits the dealers in stale
eggs and meats, the misbranders of foodstufs short
weight thieves, and all the others who were eager
to cheat if not to poison the consumer were rni+ed
In their denunciation of the pure food law. But
we have the pure food law and the way of the Of
fender against its provisions is hard wav and
the consumer is placed under the protection of
vigiiant government to keep him from being cheat
ed and poisoned
1t is certainly very sad state of affairs when
good housewife buys ten-pound sack of cornmeal
and only receives nine and half pounds The fell
lows who put up that kind of short weights, how
ever. are angels compared with the manufacturers
of cider and blackberry wine and vinegar and squire
old port" out of little refuse from the molasses
AS VIII sallcS TIC dclu glucose, anime coiorlng
and little wood alcohol
The pure food law has the almost unanimous
support of the medical profession and the public
while It's enemies may be numbered only among the
prisoners or cheaters in food or drink products. and
profit seekers by means of fraudulent limitations
The world should be too small for the modern Bor
glas who pose as respectable manufacturers of high
grade food products, with handsome homes. auto.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10

Lake Victoria Nyanza, from which point caravan
of a hundred more carriers and guides will set
forth the Uganda the fever-infested district
at the northern boundary of which are the head
waters of the Nile. Five months will be occupied
in making the trip down the Nile to Khartoum
which point it is planned the party will reach about
the first of April next year. At Khartoum Mrs
Roosevelt and their daughter Ethel will meet the ex
ploring party, and will continue the journey with
them to Cairo, which is the end of the exploration
and hunting trip.
1t has been given out that Mr. Roosevelt's chief
object IN making this trip is to relieve the admins
tration of Mr. Taft of any suspicion that he
influencing it. However this may be- there are two
objects officially announced the first that Mr. Roose
welt wishes to the Smithsonian institution as
faunal naturalist, and second to gather data for
a series OF magazine articles at dollar word
great deal has been said about the mighty slaugh-
ter of native animals and birds which will take
place. but it is announced that only enough ami
mails will be killed to keep the party supplied with
fresA meat. and for supplying the Smithsonian in
stitution with specimens of animals and birds which
are not much known
Returning to civilization, Mr. Roosevelt will de-
hVer three lectures IN Europe; one III the German
language at Berlin, one in French at Paris and
in English at Oxford Just what he will do when
he returns to America has not been stated officially,
but there will be warm welcome for him when
he lands on his native shore, and if he is not too
busy writing stories of his African trip at 81
word. he will doubt find something of interest
in the political field which will keep him from be-
ing forgotten. In the meantime the whole country
joins in hearty good wishes for successful trip,
safe trip and many years of usefulness when he re-
turns.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
Reply

Reply:
LIST. To the first query: 1t was the second
Commandment of the Mosaic Law that ordered the
observance of the Seventh day. This observance
of the Sabbath day, along with the New Moons
Days of Atonement etc, were all abolished by the
Christian Dispensation as is LUMINOSITY set forth
by the Apostle of the Gentiles. St. Paul. in his
Epistles The ground of the observance of Easter
Sunday, and of the first day of each week like that
of Christmas, Corpus Christi, Feast of the As
sumption and others, is the institution and COM
mand of Holy Church. of which Our Lord said:
IF one hear not the Church, let him be to you as
a heather"
The reason that Catholics prefer the first day
of the week is not of preference but of obiga-
tory obedience to the Church.
The reason that men not Catholics prefer" or
observe the first day of the week-in the rare cases
in which they do observe it religiously is not from
any treason" at all, but from an honest and lau-
dabe superstition
End There is not single text in the Bible to
warrant the change from the Sabbath to Sunday
that is from the last day of the week to the first
The observance of the first day or Sunday, on the
part of those who continue it. but reject the Cath
olic Church, is simply praiseworthy superstition
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
OUR POSITION ON PROHIBITION.

horrible rumor last week reached the ears of
the manager of The Intermountain Catholic that
paper must be a warm friend of the saloon
since it had word say in support of "Pro-
hibition," when the resolution in its favor was up
for discussion in the Legislature. We are en-
phaticay opposed to prohibition; to vote for it is
to vote for a dream. We honestly believe that
fanaticism on the question of temperance is a
sign of failure. Particularly when this fanat-
icism is partially assumed to convince our neigh
bours how strictly we observe the ten command
ments and the ''holier than thou" 1t is an OBJ
noxious phase of that form of spurious enthusi-
which induces some of us to indulge. at times
in kind of spread-eage patriotism There are
well-meaning people whose rendering of the Com
mandments is-"Hate whiskey and love the Ameri-
can eagle" This is a mood 1t will pass in time
and lead to more reasonable frame of mind
Our position the liquor question is this:-
We in favor of High License the higher the
better; of granting saloon license only to man
of good standing in the community and whose ap-
phcatlon for license IS signed by ten educated and
respectable rate-payers; of making the saloon de-
cent by putting ii under the control of decent men,
Many Of saloon proprietors are as clean decent
and respectable any class of men in the State
Of Utah. But there are Others who ought TO be
in the penitentiaries. These are the men who
have no consciences; disreputable and degraded
class whose unclean lives and repeated violations
of civic ordinances, have made the saloon re-
Proach and prohibition dismal necessity. Be
tween the members of the City Council who per-
init these men to dishonor the liquor trade and the
seoundrels themselves the line of decent separa-
ton IS almost obliterated. The honest and self
respecting licensed victualer holds these volators
Of the law, these keepers of low groggeries and
dives IN great contempt as do doctors and
clergymen the wretched derelicts who disgrace the
medical profession the priesthood and the ministry
Again, are in favor of reducing the number
Of saloons in our city. of establishing board of
license commissioners composed of three independ-
ent and honorable men, and of appointing an in
spector who should report to the commissioners
twice q month.
The bylaws of this city and Ogden framed for
The regulation of the liquor traffic are not enforced;
they were not intended to be enforced They are
mockery, delusion and a snare. What assur-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
CARDINAL GIBBONS.

The announcement that Cardinal Gibbons will
be present at the dedication of the cathedral
August Is gives special interest to the solemn SER
vices that will take place on that occasion. We
are told that he is the first Prince of the Church
10 cross the Missouri river and, as a consequence
Salt Lake is the first city in the great west to be
honored with SO high a digntary. The Cardinal
holds very high rank among the literary church
men of America. His first work to attract atten-
ton was "The Faith of Our Fathers" one of the
simplest. cearest and most lucid expositions of
troverted Catholic teaching written in English. He
has contributed articles from time to time to our
best and ablest magazines, which show that he is
one of the most remarkable men of our time and
country. His talents of the highest order, and
reading his productions fail to be af
fected with the warmth and instructive manner of
his simple style. There is no truer lover of his
race and frmer friend of liberty and equality than
Cardinal Gibbons. To be honored with his pres
is indeed great honor and we congratulate
Bishop Scanlan in securing his presence for that
suspicious occasion.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
MUSICIANS.

1t Is an old saying that what is worth doing at
all is worth doing well, but there are great many
people who can do great many things passably
yet do not one thing really we'll For instance
there are thousands of persons who can play the
piano or the yioin yet there are only few really
great performers these Instruments and these
have regulations all over the world and wherever
they go people will pay good prices to hear them
play. Music is natural gift in great many cases.
All great musicians were born with the peculiar
endowment, but their talents never would have been
developed without such vast amount of labor as
would appal weaklings and cause them to give up
their ambition if it we're not the impelling force
OF their life. There is probably no field in which
there are more mediocre performers than in the
musical field, hence it furnishes good example of
what can be accomplished by hard and intelligent
work and what tiresome failures come when the
person whose desire it is to be musician is not
endowed with the talent and the grit to work out of
mediocrity and into the artistic division.
1t is no exaggeration to say that those men and
women who have attained great proficiency ON
musical instrument have practiced and studied fifty
thousand hours and to maintain the fexiblity of
muscles they have to practice several hours day
regularly as the day rolls around Fifty thou
sand hours is equivalent to fifteen or sixteen years
of work, with the day not limited to eight hours.
either. And the practice and study must be done
with intelligence, directed by intelligence, else the
effort will have been wasted and whole ifes work
lost. We know of no field in which there are more
sacrifices necessary to attain perfection and where
there is so little appreciation from busy world
A pretty good musician has to work long hours to
make living, and for all social functions where he
is hired to perform, there is invariably desire ON
the part of those hiring the music to get it Just
little cheaper than the first price offered by the
musician. 1t is reasoned that it does not cost the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-10
CARDINAL MORAN ON "SPORT."

A very interesting interview with Cardinal Mo
ram on manly pastimes. especially on boxing. IS re-
norted in the columns of the Sidney Daily Ieie
grapb. Il like to encourage manly sport. the car
dinaI said land | do encourage 1t IN every way
so long as sport is pursued for the pure love OIL
sport but when disputes. dishonesty and Drutsht%
ntor into athletics when sport is INDUCED IN mere
IL for the sake of the money it brings m then IT.
i 70 he highly censured Besides the cardmai
,yant on 70 saw .sport nowadays is taken too much
seriously and the pursuit of it has developed INTO
;dolotrv or mania. The time of the young Peo-
rIo i taken ND completely with it to the exclusion
Of the other important affairs Of life. and things
which would bring honor and advantage to the
country are neglected When Rome entered INTO
her period of decay, fell from the pinnacle OF her
ancient glory. the youth of Rome were pursuing
the same sport and after the same methods as the
voutb of today" The cardinal prophesies ruin to
any country if this modern mania Is allowed 10
continue and it is the duty of law abiding eltl-
zens citizens who have the welfare OF the father
land at heart to draw the line between sports that
should be encouraged and those which should NOT
Not long ago somewhere in the columns or Inc
Inter Mountain Catholic we drew attention TO the
evil of gambling especially in England. rance
and America There is scarcely pastlme nova
DAYS but gambling enters into. On the day OF
boxing contests. football matches, horse racing.
YOU will find thousands and thousands of peope OF
all walks in life. those to whom shilling means
food and shelter stake their all the issue OF
those events The Legislators of England are at
their wits ends to stop gambling in connection
with sports of all kinds. We have instances before
our minds where the fathers and mothers so
fascinated by this evil of gambling that they
pawned their own clothes and their children's In
order that they might have the money to put on
certain race football match or boxing one. IL
is not the mere love of the sport that today fasc
mates people, but it is the money that such contests
brings in and we all know that where money enters
into any contests sport becomes vtiated. there IS
corruption. bribery and all forms of unfair play,
and consequently those manly games which IN
themselves are good and for the welfare OF the
youth of any nation become on account of this
money spirit mighty evil. and the spirit of fair
play and purity which should characterize them are
totally absent. 1t is to be deplored that such
state of things is the case. and it is about high
time that those who guide the helm of state should
do something to root out from all manly sports this
evil and put into practice the saying of certain
English nobleman, by George, 1 race for the pure
love of the thing, and when | knock man out
do it for the pure love of the thing, too"