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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

a worse pest rampant among us. 1t is here IN all
seasons 1t withers men and women, youth and
age, 1t spares only the very good or the strong
willed. Some doctors say it is a disease. Perhaps
it is. But if it be disease of the mind or body,
it is more uncomfortable than the plaques which
decimated Florence Milan and old London. These
plaques, like forest fires, burned themselves out
and there was an end to them. But the plague of
alcoholism is ever with us. 1t is dread spectre
that stares at us every day with bleared eyes, stam
mering tongue and flushed face. 1t is more horrible
than the spectre of the Black death.
What family cannot count victiml How few
mothers are there whose hearts not torn by
pangs worse than those of death? A son has gone
away with a promise of an early return. The moth
er has heard that promise before. At last she gives
up the hopes such as mothers cherish for sons. She
asks only that he may not die drunk. For him
living she cannot hope; for him dying, she may.
Now, having said so much we add that we have
no confidence in Prohibition. Prohibition is a
sham. 1t is bad means and no good end can justify
bad means. We are in favor Of any legitimate legal
means to lessen the rayages of intemperance. We
do not deny the right of community to exclude
poisons and prohibit their sale but we insist that
until Congress passes a law prohibiting the manu-
facture of alcoholic drinks, state prohibition is
dream. We know something by experience
of the pitiable failure of Prohibition to
prohibit. We also know that ill-feeling among
neighbors, perjury, hypocrisy, sneaking, low cum
ming, unlawful collision between sherifs, police
men and liquor sellers, are begotten of prohibition
We believe that the greatest and blacklist curse
resting on the youth of our country today is i'm
purity, and that intemperance in the use of liquor
is running a close second for first place If alco-
holism be disease, then, after tuberculosis, it is
the most dangerous enemy of the American people.
We stand ready to support associations for fight
ing it. For many years have advocated high
license and diminution of the far too numerous
saloons. The movement for moderation is good
the abolition of the treating habit is better but
total abstinence is the best.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union has our
support and sympathy but, with the scholarly ed
itor of the Catholic Quarterly Review, "we are
sorry to see its members allying themselves with
the Prohibitionists." And we say this, not because
the Prohibition states are VIGOROUSLY the most
bigoed, minded and least progressive states
in the Union, but that we are convinced that Pro-
hibition is "bad medicine"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

who would believe in and cleave to God. 4rIrrr.
and falter and fall by the way and we cry .,a,.t
to our preachers, to our professors to our .o..,
fists: We cannot see Him. We cannot find F,.
Lead US to Him"
And the GhoAt of the dead centuries ar.y,....
Il speak for the "a id of the ages: We also can.l
upon our preachers, our professors our ssfor.;-.-
They led US; we found after we had all fallen init.
the ditch, that they also were blind. They led r.
into a slough Of despond Like you. we saw In .,..
day as through a mist Everything was -r-la-.
vague, uncertain. We heard voices rh. Sam.
voices that you now hear, calling: Lo here is nj.
Lo, there! Lo, He is not here! We followed arrr
to find shadow. We heard, as you do. ia. co.,
and the din of colliding creeds, the bla.ur.o...
and shocking denials of the atheist mingled v.:..
the ribald laughter of the scoffer, and. in the o
fusion, we thought Hell opened and the rap-ob,..
stalked among us"
10 this state of unrest and universal J.ub
outside the one Church did the "irreverzifla econ.
illusions" of the editors progress of y-fa-,
thought bring those who followed it, and are no,
following it. without looking for, or rejecting
wholly, the light that is from above.
As in the world Of thought, so in the world Of
action. Are not men looking, with dismay. ON tbs
decay of civilized society over the face of +la
earth? We do not refer to movements which a,o
accepted as legitimate agitation against ra.,--
nized wrongs We simply call attention to those
movements which the natural outcome of lie
mental and moral blindness contracted from com
tact with the progressive thought" which would
shut out God from His own creation. Anarchi.m
Communism, Socialism, Nihilism, all the other sns
which convulse and would overthrow civilization
What are they! Spawns of atheism which is the
essence, substance, fruit and flower of that prog
ress Of human thought advocated bIindIy BY our
rural editor, and against which Leo XIII, Plus Y.
and the Catholic Church protest in the name Of
God and ON behalf of decomposing man.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

creasing prices at which they have been selling,
there is every reason to believe that that number
will be exceeded in the present year. With prices
around $40 hundred pounds, it can readily be seen
that the hog raising business is at of great i'm
portance to the people of the United States, and
especially to those who engaged in it.
There is very large prejudice against the hog
as food, based principally believe upon the fact
that the animal will eat almost anything from rat
tIesnakes to corn. But while the hog is not the
daintiest in his tastes, and has been widely abused
because of his supposed fondness for filth, the ex-
tent of business done in pork products shows he
holds place in the hearts stomachs OF his
admirers. The race is being developed by careful
breeding and the best breeders know that the use
of the best foods produces the best porker The hog
is given better surroundings today than formerly,
and the superior quality of eorn-fed hog IS recog-
nized by all who have given the matter attention.
We would not attempt to overcome anyone's preJu-
dice against the humble ANIMAL but an acknowl-
edgement of his growing Importance in our COM
mercial life is necessary.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
THE MEAT STRIKE.

The boycott of beef, which got it's start a few
weeks before the Lenten season, and has presum-
ably been continued by few has had no appre-
ciable effect on the price of the products of the
beef trust. Indeed, if prices furnish criterion
by which one may judge, the demand is greater
now and has continually been greater since the
Inauguration of the boycott. Perhaps the enthusi-
asm of those who enlisted in sixty-day strike
against the beef trust dampened when the odor
of a steak was waited to them on the breeze It
requires so little to change enthusiasm to disgust
There times when action is taken on the SOUR
of the moment, when enthusiasm runs high which
action is regretted after mature deliberation. No
doubt many of those who joined the meat boycott
did so without mature elaboration Some of those
who did not observe Lent, perhaps kept their en-
thusiasm alive for much as night and a day.
Then mature elaboration took the place of en+hu-
siasm and beefsteak took the place it occupied he.
FORE At least that seems to have been the result
if we are to judge by the effects of the strike on
trade. The butchers in many parts noticed no
change; others took note of a slight slackeninp of
demand for few days. and then the normal trade
was resumed. The boycott was futile.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOG.

The great American hog in the fiscal year end
ing in June, 1909 furnished an export product val
ued at more than $1O6,O0OOOO Besides this export
business, there was undoubtedly a great deal more
ham and bacon and pork and lard consumed in the
United States than was shipped out but we have no
figures just now to show what that total was But
the export figures alone sufficient to show that
the humble and much despised hog is one of our
greatest sources of wealth, asset, indeed which
compares favorably with almost any other of our
farm products. In the year there were nearly 55,-
100000 hogs in the United States, and with the in
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
DICAY OF THE PULPIT.

"We beaeec you, brethren, to know them which
labor among you, and are over you in the Lord,
and admonisb you, and to esteem them very highly
in love for their works sake"-L Ep Thess,
u, 10.
This was the text selected last Sunday by one
of our city preachers to impress upon the mem
bers of his congregation respect for the ministry
and admiration for the work appointed to be ac-
complished by those "called to be ambassadors of
Christi
The innate dignity of the clergyman mad the
duty and hgih obligation of his work no one may
venture to deny or dispute. But when we begin to
examine the functions of those charged with carry
ing out the behests of the highest of all ambas-
sadorial missions, we are confronted with state
of things alike repugnant to the plaines directions
of Holy Scripture and Of good government
Faulty and unscriptural veiws of the duties in
cumbent upon an ambassador must necessarily
affect the whole relationship injuriously. What
affinity is there today between the sensational, po
itical and economic addresses delivered, Sunday
after Sunday, from Protestant pulpits and the
severe, moral and doctrinal sermons of st. Paul?
In his second letter to the Corinthians, the Apostle
to the Gentiles makes this declaration "God hath
given to us the ministry of reconciliation
He hath placed in US the word of reconciliation.
We are therefore ambassadors of Christ, God as
it were exhorting by u.s."
In the discourses spoken from sectarian pulpits
where can we discover the slightest trace of an
ambassadorial mission or of God exhorting by
US" If the abreviations of the sermons preached
from our pulpits every Sunday, and published in
our Monday papers, be fair specimens of these
discourses, then a Mahometan might father them
and remain true to his Moslem religion.
If Christianity have no place in the home, be
banished from the school and be reduced to pure
secularism in the pulpit, then, goodbye to moral
ity, decency and clean living.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
THE WISE DANIEL AND HUMAN THOUGHT.

The passing of Halleys comet tempts one of
our country exchanges to revive the old story of the
communication of this celestial visitor by Pope
| Calixtus III, when that fiery body made its APP
pearance in the heavens in the fifteenth century
But it is when our rural friend rushes fercely for
ward to the attack of the Catholic Church he be-
comes really dangerous and formidable. Listen to
this: at seems to be about time" shouts the ed
itor oraculary and authoritatiyey, chat the Cath
Ollie Church began to recognize that the progress
of human thought cannot be stopped, and that it
might be well to reconsider some of its irreversi
BILE conclusions" There's wisdom for you. When
or where did the Catholic Church or its Supreme
Head attempt to stop "the progress of human
thought"
The Church never attempts the impossible or the
absurd Human thought is human thought and
no papa bull nor Russian ukase can touch it.
What the Church of God did in the past, she does
now and will continue to do for all time, that is,
to lead human thought away from what is false
and conduct it into safe paths, SAFE because worn
by the march of truth from the birth of time. Be
hind the Church is the experience of the ages her
perpetuity the indwelling of God, and
when she undertakes to direct human thought into
safe channels, she is simply fulfilling her mission
of universal teacher to the universal pupil, man.
Like the expert charioteer holding back and
directing his high-spirited horses, the Church is
forever directing and encouraging human thought
EDWARDS and upwards, into and through the 1nys-
teries of all science natural and supernatural see
ing and, showing God, the Author of nature and
Creator of all, working in and through all.
The "human thought" of which the rural ed
itor writes, is evidently the thought that would
shut out God, the Creator, from His own creation
and His own creatures; that appauds progress
rushing onward blindly and recklessly like rum
away horses; progress of human thought leading
to a mental hell and into a cave of intellectual
darkness, like the abode of lost souls, "where no
order reigns but chaos, night, and eternal horror
dwell" Such would be the end of the Iirreversi-
bic conclusions" to which our friend would com
NIT the Church and the Sovereign Pontiff
1t is demanding of oneself an act of. sef-denial
to keep patience with these fippant and thought
less writers who, not knowing what they speak, OF
to what their words lead dismiss the gravest sub
jects with the flip of pen and condense the wis
dom of ages into passing paragraph
To open and earnest minds of whatever creed.
or of no creed the ghost of the dead centuries APP
pears and asks this question: ON the world of
religious belief, In the rule and conduct of human
life what have you outside the Catholic Churchw
And here is your answer, and it is true for men
do not lie to the dead. Guinness, darkness; faint
beartedness uncertainty dispair-almost To us
nothing is certain, nothing fixed, nothing sure We
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
CARD FROM BISHOP snA-IAN.

feel It my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time to time that person bearing the
name and garb OF priest sister anyone else, In
authorized permitted 10 solicit collect in this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with the
Catholic Church without having from permission
In writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such a document he or
She the may be- should be regarded by all
@ fraud and a imposter. L SCANIAAN.
Bishop of Salt Lake
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
BOOK NOTES.

"The Causes and Cure of Unbelief7 is the title
Of book recently published. It is edited by Car
dinal Gibbons and its last chapter, "Paganism un-
der name," is from the pen Of Archbishop
Ryan of Philadelphia. The volume is an eloquent
protest against religious Indifference Another
hook just published by the Society Of the Divine
Word, Tiehny, Ill, is Our Faith Is a Reasonable
Faith In proving the harmony between science
and religion the chief merit is in the quotations
from learned scientists. Both works contain
sublime exposition and defense of Christian truths.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

The Intermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home in this diocese circulation in Mon
tana- IDAHO Colorado, Wyoming Nevada and many
other states lie very large Only reliable firms and
business men advertise in the paper Ali subscribers
VIII find TO their advantage when about to invest
purchase insult business matters to read over
the list = advertisers. We not only recommend
but ask -E t1sn the patronage OF all our readera
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

An enterprising printery in the east adgertises
bogus stock certificates for young people who would
like to pose as capitalists. Consider the conse-
quences if humanity were brought under the pro-
visions of the pure-food law and masquerading un-
der false label were made penal offense.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

After telling us how we are a thriftless lot an
economist says: cts jolly good way to live but
we must not kick when the bill comes in" Butt if
that is So we might just well give up the ghost.
That S about all we haven't given up yet
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

It used to be thought that comets were the cause
for wars, pestilenee and other earthly ealamities
but the scientists assure US these things can be ar
ranged without the celestial visitors.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

The Arctic explorers certainly didn't show the
same acumen as the colonel when they neglected to
take couple photographers along with them
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

The tail of the comet is past. Like most Of the
other tales we have read so much about, it proved
to be mostly vacuum.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

A Chicago doctor says six drinks of whisky will
tire man much as day s hard work. Often
wondered why the old soaks never seemed inclined
to do manual labor
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

When Robinson Crusoe expressed the sentiment
that he monarch of all he surveyed, he must
have been thinking of the dismal days of house
cleaning time, back In civilization.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

Conservation in some instances seems to mean
spending lot of money to keep anybody from max
ing any money out of our natural resources.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

Could it possibly have been the sudden drop
prices that caused the earthquake?
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

Of coruse, our navy is built for fighting, al
though there are other purposes-to keep the peace
for instance.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

Experience is a dear teacher, but most Of us
wouldn't sell it as the same price.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

That earthquake shock came early enough to gel
people out in time for church.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

A crowd of young fellows having eorkng good
time are usually engaged in uneorkng the founts OF
pleasure
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

Another pleasant feature of the spring seaso
is that the June bride will soon be with Us.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

No man is a born thief Thievery is an acquire
ment. =,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

successful business man is one who can get
rich selling his merchandise at half price and less
than cost.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

subscribers removing from place to anotnS
&nd desiring papers changed should always give foi
mer as we'll present address
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
RElIITTANCES.

Hernittances should be made by postofdce or %
press money orders, drafts or registered letters.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04

that he monarch of all he surveyed" he must
have been thinking of the dismal days Of house
cleaning time, back In civilization.
A Chicago doctor says six drinks of whisky will
tire" a man as much as day s hard work. Often
wondered why the old soaks never seemed inclined
to do manual labor.
The Arctic explorers certainly didn't show the
same aeumen as the colonel when they neglected to
take couple photographers along with them.
Conservation in some instances seems to mean
spending lot of money to keep anybody from max
ing any money out of our natural resources.
The tail of the comet is past. Like most Of the
other tales we have read so much about it proved
to be mostly vacuum.
Of coruse, our navy is built for fighting, al
though there are other purposes-to keep the peace
for instance.
A crowd of young fellows having eorEdng good
time are usually engaged in uneorking the founts OF
pleasure.
A successful business man is one who get
rich selling his merchandise at half price and less
than cost.
Another pleasant feature of the spring season
is that the June bride will soon be with Us.
That earthquake shock came early enough to get
people out in time for church.
Experience is dear teacher, but most Of us
wouldn't sell it as the same price.
prices that caused the earthquake
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-06-04
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

Inc Reverend Clergy requested to send to TIE
ANIERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC news contribution
OF interest to their respective parishes
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-08-25

In Miss Grace NJ Sheperd of Boise,
who presents herself for the nomina-
oHqnd 10 lu9pu9auIIadns elBls 10Y uon
instruction, the Republicans of Idaho
possess candidate of superior abil-
ity and fitness. Miss Sheprerd would
bring to the office not only splendid
technical training, but practical ex-
perience, such as is possessed by no
other candidate in the field.
Not satisfied with the preparation of
a high school and college education
and the degree of Bachelor of Arts,
Miss Shepheard received technical
training In her profession at the Kan
sas State Normal school, of which she
is graduate, and later perfected her
self by postgraduate work at the
University of Chicago.
She served her apprenticeship in the
country and city schools of Iowa, Kan
sas and Nebraska
Eleven years as a teacher in the
state of Idaho, five of which were
spent in the Lewiston State Normal
school and six in the Boise high school,
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-08-25
LOSES LIFE IN RIVER.
Lawrence Stout browns While in Bath
ing With Number of Friends.

Lawrence Stout lost his life Tuesday
afternoon while bathing in Snake river
with number of other boys and
young men. The river furnishes an
excellent place for swimming within
short distance of the town. and 1t has
been the custom for some time for the
boys here to spend much of the after
noon in the sport. The usual crowd
was bathing Tuesday, and as all had
become accustomed to the place there
was no thought of danger.
Tho larger boys were well out in the
river, while most of the smaller ones
were on the shore dressing. Lawrence
was about half way between, at dis
lance of $50 feet from the shore, when
he was seen by the boys on land to go
down. AT first they paid no attention
to it, but when he came up and disap-
peared for the second or third, time
they gave the alarm. However, before
the larger boys could reach him he had
gone down never to come up alive
again.
The word of the terrible occurance
was brought into town and a large
party turned out to search for the
body. After half an hour it was To-
Gated by Don Bennett, one of the
searchers, and Sam Buckley, another
of the party succeeded in diving down
and bringing it to the surface. The
doctors worked over the remains for
over an hour, and every possible
means of restoring life was resorted
to, but to no avail. The soul had sep
arted itself from the body, and it was
beyond the power of man to restore it.
Lawrence was the son of A. j. Stout
one of the oldest and best known citi-
zens of Burley. The boy was about
twenty years old. He was steady
hard working young fellow, and well
| liked by all who knew him. AS he was
| strong and athletic, the strange part OF
| the sad affair is that he was drowned
in small hole not more than a few
| feet across. 1t appears that he could
not swim, and when he got into water
over his head he lost control of him.
self and was unable to do anything
! Burley Bulletin,