The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-04
IS 1T WISE?

The Catholic Record of London, Canada is the
ablest defender of Catholic doctrines and interests
published in the Dominion. Its editorial columns
bristling with argumentative strength, and the
paper itself is Catholic military fort efficiently
manned, and from which shot and shell are weekly
sent with precision into the ranks of the bigots
and fanatics for which Ontario and Manitoba, like
many of our states, has an unenvable notorety.
It's circulation is the largest of any Catholic
weekly printed in Canada. 1t was said of old that
the great Homer himself sometimes nodded and
of the opinion that at times the editor of
the Record occasionally forgets the amenities of
journalism
The organ is the enemy of the saloon-an I'M
compromising enemy-and when its editor enters
the arena he calls for a twenty-four-foot ring, a
bareknuckle fight and London prize ring rules. In
a fierce onslaught, which he lately made upon his
enemy, he is charged by a spectator of the fight
with striking below the belt. To give himself time
to answer the accusation of foul fighting, he asks
the umpire-while still in the ring-for sus-
pension of the rules and here is his indignant re-
pudiation of the spectators charge:
"a communication penned at high pressure is
sizzling on our desk It is document of adiectiva
splendour and of nvectve to warm the heart of the
rost rampant ward heeler. But tie writer is using
good paper to purpose, and this for several rca
SONS While he may consider that our ,ienllrciation
OF tile saloon and criticism of its owner are nwar-
ranted. he may grant the privilege of being able
not to see eye to eye with him on this question We
admit that the SALON. of the greatest curses in
the world, will not be destroyed by verbal on
slaughts However, he must see that the saloon is
and hiatt 1o
from it, mode of livelihood as he would from .
pestllence AS for the saloon-keeper he is merely
paid indeed with money. but with
tears and maledictons"
6reat as is our admiration and respect for the
editor OF the Record, of the opinion that he
has not been trained for long fight, that he will
lose out and will IMPURE the cause for which he l.
SO valiantly fighting.
Was 1t not in answer to notorious bgot Rev
Ray Wilson, that Thomas Hood wrote his NOM
orable lines:
Mild light, and by degrees should be the plan
10 cure the dark and erring mind
For who would rush at a benighted msn
And give him two black eyes for being biind2,
We are not very DID, but we vet remember tho al
ice that eloquent and sanity prelate R;sbor
Aeane, gave to all present at the Total Abstinence
convention which met in Philadelphia in the srr,-
ner OF So. After congratulating the delegates ON
ne progress made by their organization, he said
40 to our Catholics who are engaged IN +ba
quor trade, do not abuse them do not hean od;,,,,
n them but persuade them that it would he moro
their credit and more to that of their church e
hey would abandon the business It is a delico+o
1eme, and because it is delicate theme. snaak -
lem gently speak to them fraternally. Gentlenan
othlng has ever or will ever, be ACCOMPLISHED :,
lie moral order by abuse"
In all the writings, speeches and addresses of the
postle of Total Abstinence, Father Mathew NO
ave not met a solitary word-not one--insnltinr -
lie seller of liquor
NOW, let us have heart-to-heart talk on this Il
lor proposition. One-third of the saloons If IT,
INTO continue in business solely bv the aid al
fence of Eugene O'Keefe and Lawrence Cosyrave ]
ngene O'heete is one of Gods noblemen. bonorad
the Supreme Pontif for his splendid charities
ID his loyalty to the Catholic church Ia,vrono,
'sgrave was educated at st. MichaeTs COLLEGE, r. :
nto is practical Catholic, most generous COZ q
butOr to his church. and straight up-and-nn +
IN. The two breweries owned by these gentlaroen
rel out more beer to saloons than anv +broo
her breweries in the Dominion 7
lhe Seagram and Walker distieries r;obt a. n
e door of the London Record. shin and coll - b
nlsky than all the distiers, if we except the 7