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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
WHAT rs PROSPERITY?

During the last two years, national bank loans
throughout the country have swollen more than
$oOO0OOOOO, according to the returns to the treas
ury at Washington. The loans of state banks. pri-
vate banks, insurance companies and trust com
panies are not included in these figures and it is
believed that the total increase in the two years is
well over the billion dollar mark And that is the
prosperity we have been enjoying during this time
We have borrowed billion dollars and are eniovne
the prosperity which in the spending of that
vast amount of money.
This may seem contrary to the generally ac-
cepted theories as to what constitutes prosperity
The individual who manages to save few dol
lars out of his weekly monthly pay check figures
that he is prospecting. But these figures showing
the increase in the loans of financial institutions
plainly indicate that the prosperity Of the country
which permits the worker to save few dollars de-
ponds upon somebody going into debt to pay him.
Nor have we reached the limit of our borrowing
propensities in times of peace and plenty. Another
big yield of and wheat is expected and prepa-
rations are making for another big expansion of
credits. The railroads. too, are preparing for new
capital, that is, more debt their physical prop
ery that prosperity is likely to stay with us until
time comes to pay off some Of these obligations
Although it may seem contrary to good sense, it
nevertheless appears that prosperity comes only
when we get into debt, and hard times when we
try to get out of debt. That is considered broadly
Individual prosperity probably depends on the
ability of the individual to secure profitable employ
ment
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
BACK TO THE FARM.

The reasons given in years past why young men
and left the farm and journeyed to the city
to try their fortune based primarily on the
loneliness of the farm, the lack of agreeable COM
partnership and the ceaseless grind Of hard work
with accompanying poverty These reasons undoubt-
edly most potent in days gone by, but today
they have lost their force for abandoning
the farm Nowadays if there is an absence Of agree
able companionship, the reason must lie with the
suffering from the cause, for the progressive
farmer is possessed Of telephone, and that nstru
ment has brought the whole countryside IN
nication and made neighbors of those in the
next section. And to the ceaseess grind of hard
work with accompanying poverty, that is probably
reward of city dwelling than life in the
try. There is plenty of work. as anybody who has
ever lived a farm we'll knows but the poverty
part is refuted by figures gathered by the govern
ment and other investigators. For instance the ag
ricutural state of Iowa has 10000 automobiles, of
which 5000 owned by farmers These machines
occupy not only place in the pleasures of the Iowa
agrculturists, but they have been put to practical
uses and have come to occupy important places
as do the pillow and the harrow. They deliver the
milk to a central station; they make hurry calls for
the doctor; they rush the needed article from the
city store to the field. Thus the machines pay for
themselves in practical service.
These things beginning to be recognized by
city jewellers, and the farm has taken many success
full away from the dismal grind of the city out
into the fields and the open, free, heathful life of
the farm 1t is also having tendency to keep the
boys and girls the farm. And above all, the
standard Of living has been raised, and intelligent
work is bringing surer rewards there than in the
city.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
LEPER SISTERS OF CANADA.

A subscriber to the Intermountain Catholic writes
us for information the ''Leper Colony" of Cana
da. The leper refuge, the only in Canada, is at
Tracedie, Groucester County, Province of New
Brunswick Tracade is in the diocese of Chatham,
which Bishop Thomas F. Barry so ably pre-
sides. The government Hospital for lepers is under
the care of the hospital nuns of st. Joseph How
this most dreadful of all diseases, eprosy was in
troduced to New Brunswick, and by whom, has
been satisfactorily explained. When we Wis
tied the hospital some years ago, we were told of
tradition which recorded that nearly one hundred
years ago two famished sailors who escaped from
West India ship, wrecked off Caraquet gulf of ST.
Lawrence, tenderly cared for by the few peo-
pie then living at Caraauet. These sailors settled
here and married About fifteen years after the
death of these two men the dreadful leprosy began
to show in their descedents For time the local
doctors failed to properly diagnose the frghtfu dis
ease, and not until the attention of the government
drawn to the condition Of affairs on the gulf
shore around Caraquet was it known that the dis
ease was tubercular leprosy. Then-about fifteen
years ago-the Provincial authorities opened the
lazaretto at Tracade and invited the Hospital Nuns
of st. Joseph to the leper patients confined
in the lazaretto
These heroic sisters live in the same building with
the lepers do all the work in the hospital minister
to the Victims renew the bandages on the supurat
ing sores OF these outcasts from civilization Manv
OF the predecessors of the sisters now in the azar
etto died from the oathsome disease and TODAY fill
lepers' graves The devoted nuns apparently have
no fear of the contagion, indeed from their cheer
fulness and sublime resignation to the will of God:
one might be pardoned for believing they welcome
the disease and the death. Like the preaching of
ST. Paul, the devotion OF these holy women is ITO
the Jew stumbling block, and to the Gentiles fool
ishness. - What manner of women are these nuns
who, for Christ's sake and for the sake of these
diseased members of the Body of Christi said
goodbye forever to those at home, to all that women
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14

pretence has killed all religious reality. 1t is terri
Bile price to pay, and unfortunately, too, many are
found willing to pay it. May we wonder then at
the humiiating position which the modern preacher
has to occupy. His spiritual office is alto
gether eliminated, he has become the h1rellng or
religious club, whose interests he is expected to adj
vocate by his youthful distinguished appearance
by eloquence or by business capacity.
At meeting of Methodist ministers held In Oma-
ha, not long ago, Rev. Mr.. Magwood had this to
say: ''We must not blind eyes to the fact that
the position of the ministry is by means so as
sured as it once was Articles are begin
ming to appear on the SUBJ ect-'Do we need min
stry or minister's once the minister was the sac
red ambassador of God; he is considered an OF
ficial of the church,
This is the condition Of things today among the
denominations. The leaven of repudisted ministry
is present with every Protestant denomination in the
United States, the Protestant Episcopal not ex-
cepted
1t was the respected and deservedly honored
Bishop Baldwin of the P. E. church who said to
friend of his: "Half the clergy of my diocese wish
to be changed and the people ask for the other half
to be removed Mr. Magwood is very much sur
prised that anyone should debate the question: 10
we need minister's" forgetting that today churches
and pupits have ceased to be places where the word
of God is preached and prayer sincerely offered LII
is not the most reasonable thing IN the world 10
conclude that if the preacher be merely saared Of
fetal of club, the club and the interests OF tne
club may very we'll dispense with his services, but
Mr. Magwood has a remedy, "cure-all, y If you
please, and here it is: E'When ministers are big
enough to look at academieal questions without
prejudice, we shall have accomplished something
which will greatly prejudice the public in our Ia
for'' When ministry has no higher object than
that of seeking to prejudice the public in its favor,
its usefulness as Divine institution has disap-
peared. 1t is to be feared that in the modern de-
velopment of clerical life there is a good deal OF
this seeking to "prejudice the public" among the
preachers of our own city The acceptable dis
courses delivered from pulpits Sunday after
Sunday are not modelled on the sermons OF our Lord
or on the preaching of the Baptist. There is much
of advanced thought of higher conceptions" of
progressive religion and very little of Jesus
Christ and Him crucified, and the "thngs concern
ing the Kingdom of God"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
TO STOP GAMBLING.

The length to which well-meaning men who pose
as reformers will go to stop an evil by Legislation,
and the unnecessary hardshipk imposed upon others
by their proposed action is shown IN the AgnewPer-
kins BILL designed to prohibit betting on horse rae
ing recently introduced in the legislature Of New
York state Now we would not be understood as
defending betting on horse races or as champonlng
the cause of the booksellers On the other hand our
influence as the influence of all right thinking men,,
is thrown to the opposition to pool selling and gamo-
ling in general. The bill in question forbids the
publication of betting odds of any kind. If a news
paper should inadvertently say some morning that
the chances are about in hundred million that
Haley's comet would strike the EARTH the innocent
comment might be construed as the publication of a
statement on which bets might be placed We don It
know that the publication of premium rates by life
insurance companies might not be so construed for
life insurance is in reality bet at odds of the pre-
MUM against the face value Of the policy that you
will live or die.
This bill makes guilty of misdemeanor any per
son who publishes any statement setting forth the
betting odds which have been offered, which are be-
ing offered, or which are expected to be offered
upon the result of any trial contest of SKILL speed
or power of endurance of man or beast, whether
held within without the state upon the result
Of any lot, chance, casualty, unknown contingent
event whatsoever wheresoever the same may occur
who, either before after such trial. contest
event shall take place, advertises publishes any
information, report concerning the terms
Of any pools sold offered for sale of any bets
or wagers made or offered to be made, within or
without the state, upon any such trial, contest or
result, with respect to any tips given prognos
tications made concerning the same, or who adver-
tises publishes any advice to such betting Odds
or which is designed to facilitate pool selling, book
making the making of bets or wagers upon such
trial, contest or result
Certainly the language of this bill is all inclusive
1t is so broad, especially the phrase unknown or
contingent event whatsoever" to be repugnant
to common sense Betting on horse races and gamb-
ling in general to be depored, but hardly more
than would the passage of bill such this
Ours is a government founded law, but if we
have laws which honored in the breach
than the observance, then we travelling back
ward.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
AN AUTOMOBILE YEAR.

1t is believed that no less than $300,00O.0OO worth
of automobiles will be manufactured and sold in the
United States this year Some estimate the prob
able value of the machines at $10000O.000 more
than that This is certainly wonderful growth of
the industry which ten years age amounted to hard
ly anything, and fifteen years ago really was moth
ing And there is hardly any line of endeavor which
has not been favorably affected by this immense
growth of our latest ''infant industry" The dis
bursement of this vast sum Of money on automobiles
has increased the demand to manufacture the ma
chimes and for the buildings to house the machines
of individual owners 1t has stimulated ADVERTISING
giving work to printers and reporters on the news
papers. 1t has made demand for special dress
which has brought many thousands Of dollars into
circulation for these necessities of the oy ride In
deed, the whole country has profited and will profit
more IN the future from the remarkable deyelon
ment of the "horseess carriage" if we NAV be per
mltted the use of an obsolete term
And yet there is luguhrious note in the prac-
tical mans observations of this remarkable indus
try Who pays for the automobiles eventuallyq
Does the man already possessed of more than he
needs give up portion of his horde sacrificing the
JOY of mere possession Of wealth for the pleasure
to be derived from the machineq But no matter
The nation may gain in health and pleasure mora
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
THE JUDGE AND THE BOY.

The recovery from the serious injuries which
Judge Lindsay of Denver received when fast pas
senqer train of the Chicago and Northwestern left
the track will be welcome news to many who never
had the pleasure of meeting him. 1t was he who
founded the first juvenile children's court, IN
1899 TO deal with conditions of youthful crime with
which he had grown familiar while county Judge IN
Denver Before his time the only method OF treat
ing wayward and vicious boys and girls was to send
them to a reformatory, which in practice simply
a iai The judges experience on the bench salts
fled him that the word "reformatory" applied to
such institutions was misnarne. Nnty per cent of
the children that came before his predecessors on
the bench were sent to the reformatory, where they
were not reformed So far in his ten years court
Judge he has sent very few boys to the reformatory
A case which he deems neorrigable he commits as
a last resort. He makes out the necessary papers,
gives them the boy and tells him to go to the In
dustrial School. Strange to say, not Of these
BOYS have gone back on the judge. Mr.. Lindsay
has paternal talk with the youngster, then puts
him on his honor and sends him unguarded to the
school. He carries with him his committal and de-
livers it to the warden who receives him.
When the police bring little ineorrigable into
the court, the judge talks the case, finds out
the reason for the little fellows misdemeanor and
gives him advice. Then the young prisoner is given
card containing long list of questions which
must be answered every week and signed by the
boys teacher. Every Saturday the boy must go to
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
DEATH OF ENGLAND's MONARCH

England at home, and in all her colonies, is In
mourning Death entered the Kings palace Satur-
day the whole civilized world was Informed that
King Edward VII, England's monarch, was dead.
"God s finger touched him, and he slept. How Won
derful is death! Death and his brother sleep" 1t
alone exercises supreme and universal jurisdiction
over the dissolution of the soul and body With it
there are no favorites, and when the time for the
final call comes medical science is helpless.
During his brief reign of nine years he took an
active and leading part in the government Of the
kingdom and its colonies. Apart from the frivoi
ties of his young manhood he was highly esteemed
at home and abroad, because of his kindhearted-
ness and charity. To illustrate his goodhearted-
ness. the following is vouched for by Catholic
Clergyman residing in London at the time: Soon
after his coronation school teacher who was taken
i'll and was penness, wrote his Majesty about her
situation. A message dispatched from Buck
ingham palace to the Dominican Convent where the
invalid stayed, to inquire about the statements In
the letter Being informed that the letter simply
stated facts. King Edward sent ten pounds for the
relief of the invalid.
He was favorably disposed towards the Catholic
Church and was ever ready to protect Its rights.
When Church property confiscated by the ltal-
ian government King Edward, as Prince OF Wales,
was in Rome The president of the Irish College,
British subject, appealed to him for protection He
ordered the British flag to be hosted. The college
was immune beneath the Union Jack.
AS Prince of Wales he gave banquet to which
all the Lords and church dgnitaries OF England
were invited and regardless of criticism he gave the
first place of honor to Cardinal Manning, because,
as he said, he was Prince of the Church
Towards Ireland and the Irish he had the k1ndl-
est feeling and full confidence IN their honesty and
integrity.
Before his first visit as King, elaborate prepara-
tions were being made by Scotland Yard detectives
to protect his Majesty Learning of the precautions
that were being TAKEN he expressed his confidence
in his Irish subjects and refused to make the Trip
in the company of any detective. HIS decision be
came known and when he reached Dublin, ne re-
cpived an ovation that was never given to an Eng
lsb monarch in the Emerald Isle
Proud of his mother, who gave eclat to'the BRITISH
crown. he followed her footsteps during his short
reign. He was for universal peace. His death is
great loss not only to England, but to all civilized
governments
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
OBSERVING THE RATE Law.

An amusing incident came up last week in which
three railroads and the United States government
figured The government had occasion to transport
a couple of regiments of infantry from one post :,
another, and, forgetting that we have outlived tb
good old days when railways were in the habit Of
giving special rates to the government and other biz
shippers, asked for competitive bids for the work
In due time three bids were received By the war
department and opened. Each bid called for S47
27650 for the job which was according to the pub
Ished rates, to which the railroads were bound.
We said this amusing incident; but it nav
have been tragic The incident got into the senate
of the United States and a wonderful discussion
arose among the senators. One of the old guard in
that dignified body suggested that it was the duty
of Congress "to frame statutes capable Of opera
ton and to substitute something practical for some
thing that is impractical" With which longsuf-
fering public will agree.
No doubt many of the railroads of the country
charge more for certain services than they are worth
But to a layman it seems that any method Of obtain
ing revenues which up for adjudication is de-
clared to be UNJUST and unreasonable" But the
bid of SAT 1850 for transporting couple Of reg-
ments of infantry from three competing lines Of
railway indicates that they neither observing the
rate law entering into another conspiracy to
defraud the government.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
IT'S TIME TO ACT.

The Fourth of July celebration last year cost more
than 200 lives and than 5000 injuries as toll
to what may rightfully be termed idiotic cele-
bration Of the holiday The returns of property loss
by fires caused by fireworks not complete, but
the figures, no doubt, amount well into six, and
perhaps seven figures. Now this is not reasonable
IF the United States should get into a war with
some obstreperous nation and 200 lives were lost,
those 200 would be given martyrs graves and their
surviving relatives would get pensions, But the an
nual celebration of this holiday is more costly than
a war would likely be. 1t is also more fatal and
perhaps more idiotc. There is not even the saving
grace of patriotic enthusiasm in our slaughter of
the Fourth. 1t is too preposerous to be considered
by an enlightened people,
Yet go on, making little or no preparation to
avert the annual calamity. The only protection the
people of Salt Lake have is state law prohibiting
the sale of toy pistols. Giant fireerackers that
would tear off hand if they exploded prematurey
have been part of past celebrations, and other
death-dealing and noise-makng devices have occu-
pied prominent places The 'safe and sane' move
ment has not set in very strongly here. Other cities
and towns have taken it up. New York Boston,
Cleveland, Chicago, Springfield, Mass New Haven,
Newport and Pawtucket, R. l., Montpelier, VT. and
other cities have adopted restricting ordinances Of
more or less severity The Fourth of July band
wagon just is for safe and sane'' Fourth
Let's get into that wagon.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
THE BARRIERS WATERLOO

Utah prides itself on the high standard a. -,
ficiency Of its tonsoria artists In Utah the bo,K
are regulated by statute No dub may enter ~
state with a pair of clippers, a shears razor
cup, soap and brush and a comb and brush main
pole and set himself up in the time-honored b,,;
ness of removing the superfuOus hirsute adornra1.
of the genus homo. In Utah BARRIERS have to ~
satisfactory examination before board oP -
perts duly constituted under the laws Of the st.t.
and receive license bearing the Great Seal Of ~
Board of Barber Examiners, which must be- Al,
played prominently in their places of business l.
Utah we think we have the barber duly tamed al
in fear of the law. Yet we are hopelessIy in -
rut when it comes to regulation of this much-gbrs5
profession. Down in Waterloo, Nebraska, the rrn
fathers have ordained that no barber NAV eat ono,
between the hours of a and p m. and ORA.
tice his profession that day. Neither can barb,
in Waterloo use tobacco. Furthermore, barber "
Waterloo must refrain from discussing town goss;D
to insist on a SINCE of neck shave to suggest tbo
many desirable qualities of the hair tonic h,
invite customer to have fashul massoe'' or y,
enlighten him on the condition of his scalp, with in.
suggestion that seafoam OF a shampoo would h.
desirable, is absolutely prohibited by ordinanc,
Happy men of Waterloo! Hapless BARRIERS!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
wANE OF THE pRoFEsTANTRY MINISTRY.

In the wide spread apoctasy of so many Protest
ant churches from their early creeds the ministry
has not escaped deterioration. In early times the
popular saying was, 'Like preacher, like people; -
but today it ought to read, Like people, like
preacher" If we ask what has caused the change
we are told that the causes are cumulative rather
than singular.
Money is king, and the golden calf is wor-
shipped with intense and savish dolatry entirely
unprecedented Churches have become, to large
extent business organizations in which the club ele-
ment is the dominating factor
Dr. Hook, the popular English Congregational
preacher, recently said that In their efforts to
save men, the churches have forgotten to look up
to the Master. They obsessed by organizations
and committees that neglected Him, without Whom
the most elaborate machinery is of no vaue.'
In other words business men, who are firm be-
levers in the flesh, who have no confidence in the
spirit, have commercialized the churches AS ac-
cordng to their theories spiritual methods and agen-
cies are not in harmony with the spirit of the age
they perver the churches into clubs whose business
it is ito entertain and make ends meet 1t is
painfully clear then that the man who has been or
daned for purely spiritual work finds himself with
out occupation, unless he is willing to become hui
man instrument In an organization where religious