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Issued Every Morning Except Monday
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
HARVESTING A CATARACT.

Up in Washington state, near Seattle and Ia
coma, there used to be mighty cataract-greater
Ill height than Niagara-whose water Numbered
over the precipice of some 268 feet for centuries
and ages, SCATTERING itself into spray upon the rocks
beneath and running away in a torrent 1t was
known as the Snoqualmie falls. That great cata-
ract is more. The waters of the Snoqualmie
now, instead of dashing over the precipice, have
been guided into pipes and made to turn gigantic
turbines to generate electrical power which is used
by the cities of Tacoma and Seattle. 1t is a tri-
umph of engineering; it is conservation in its best
form; it is using the forces of nature for the bene
fit and comfort of man. Of course, natures hand
iwork is robbed of its pristine grandeur and beauty
and the of the cataract has been stlled but it
makes cheap light and cheap power for Seattle and
Tacoma, and no doubt those whose sensbilities
are shocked at this ruthless destruction of natures
handiwork, this quoting of the mighty waterfall,
can, by exercising little imagination, hear the
of the falls in the rattle and clatter of street
cars in the two cities and in the hum of wheels in
the factories which get their power from the falls
power plant. While Washington loses one of its
most attractive scenes, the cities are made much
more desirable places of residence, and the de-
struction of the falls has added greatly to the
pleasure and prosperity of the men who so kindly
lent their aid at conserving this wasted water
power.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
OUR EX-PREsIDENFs

That there is not very good knowledge of the
history of the United States held by the general
public is patent to any observer. We have fire.
quently called attention to the fact that the part
taken by Catholics in the foundation and perpetr-
alton of this government is forgotten and seldom
mentioned in the histories of the coutry And now
have further demonstration of lack of histor-
ical knowledge not only by the general public, but
by the press we'll, in the discussion concerning
the domination of the policies of the Republican
party by our only living ex-President 1t is assert
ed and reiterated that no ex-Presdent before Mr.
Roosevelt ever exerted such an influence as he
does on the policies of the nation Even superb
cia knowledge of the history of the country would
dispei such erroneous impression In his activ-
tiles in politics, Mr.. Roosevelt is but follow
ing precedent established by Washington himself
When Washington succeeded by John Adams,
up to the time of Washington's DEATH he was ac-
tive in the counsels of the Federast party and his
advice sought even more keenly than was the
advice of President Adams himself.
. While the Federalist party went permanently
out of power with the retirement of Adams and
the inauguration of Jefferson, Adams as an ex-
President power in politics. Jefferson how
ever, was probably the most influential ex-Presi
dent in the list By some he was called dicta-
tor. Madison, the successor of Jefferson had been
in Jeffersons cabinet secretary of state for eight
years. and throughout his administration, Jeffer-
sons influence was most potent Jacksons career
as an ex-President also marked by an activity
in politics very similar to that of Washington and
Jefferson
Other ex-Presidents exerted their influence and
their counsels were sought While it was Cleve-
lands wish to live in retirement he exerted pow
crfu Influence in the destnies of the Democratic
party, and to this day, the phrase cleveland Dem
ocrat." refers more to the Democracy exhibited by
Mr. Cleveland an ex-President than the princi- |
pies upon which he twice elected to office Mr. |
Roosevelt, therefore, as an ex-Presdent, is not es
tablishing anything new in his political activity
The precedent of many former ex-Presidents has
been established, and he is merely following those
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
TAFT AS A TRAVELLER.

President Taft, following the precedent of for
mer President Roosevelt, has travelled extensively
since he was inaugurated Indeed, his travels have
extended over pretty much the whole of the coun-
try Last week he visited Maine his first visit to
the far northeast corner of the country which
he presides and the first President to visit that
section of the state In his address at Eastport,
Me- the President said his travels had impressed
him with the homogenity of the people; he had
found the ideas held by the people in all parts of
the country regarding true American citizenship
virtually the same.
The fact that the President has visited all four
corners of the country, Seattle on the northwest,
San Diego on the southwest, the. southernmost
points of the Florida coast and the northeast cor
ner of Maine, where the Canadian line separates
the two nations, and has stopped at many places
in between, gives him rightfully the title of
travelling President" His trips have not only
impressed him with the homogenity of the nation,
but they have served to bring the people of the
widely separated sections into closer relations His
trips have not only been advantageous to him in
giving him an acquaintance with the aspirations
of the people, but they have served to acquaint the
people with the aspirations of their neighbors in
the far-distant sections of the nation.
There can be no doubt that beneficial results
will follow his visits to the four corners of the
country Mr.. Taft is an observer, and while much
may be lost upon him in the rapid and constantly
changing scenes, he observed at Easport that "the
style of woman's bonnet is just the same here as
it is way down in San Diego" When a en-
crossed in the affairs of great nation notice
the similarity of womens bonnets at opposite ends
of the country certain it is that no trivial thing
like freight rates and conservation will escape his
attention May the Presidents travels continue!
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
THE BISHOPS COLUMN. -

Among the Oldest, and, emphaticaly, among
the very ablest of the Catholic newspapers of these
United States, the Catholic Union and Times
buffalo, n. W holds a conspicuous position.
Founded nearly forty years ago. the Union and
Times has always been the fearless and the TN
flinching advocate for truth, fair play, decency
and righteousness. 1t is now, and has been since
its inception, well, and, occasions, brilliantly
edited Under the editorial headshp of the lament
ed and beloved Father Cronin, the Union and Times
became an acknowledged influence and power. hold
ing. position in Buffalo and Western New York
like unto that of the Freeman's Journal in New
York City. Brooklyn and the Hudson country. To
day the Union and Times is singularly well edit
ed has enlarged Its territory and appeals to
greater constituency of Catholic clergy and aymen
than at any time in its history Beyond dispute one
Of the most attractive and instructive departments
of this excellent newspaper is that known as the
Bishops Column" in which, every week, rain
or shine" the Bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo
holds conference with the readers of the official
organ Of his diocese.
This Bishops Column is rather a UNIQUE fea-
ture, if not an experiment, in Catholic journal
ism, and is destined by the force of example to
have beneficent influence on the future of the
Catholic press in our republic.
And now what of the man-of Bishop Colton2
If ever priest merited the reward of the Crozier
the mitre and the ring, and, amid the rejoicings
the "God bless yous" and friendly greetings of the
Jew and Gentle, that priest was Father Cotton.
when, after pouring oil on the troubled waters of
st. Stephens, lifting from the parish staggering
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30

islands before we could say Jack Robir.o.y
general thanks heaven that there is IittIa -. @a
of war with the Japs. They are too busy ;r.. pect
in Korea, and the condition of the national sn. O'
precludes the undertaking of war with the ~
States, even though this great nation is
helpless. The statesmen of the two coun+,;.s ny
getting to understand each other better and -
general believes that any trouble that NAV ~'
up will be settled by diplomacy
This Japanese war talk has furnished OIL
furnish much food for thought. There can bo Ivy
doubt that in a war suddenly precipitated, Jar.S
would hold strong position on our west o,s
and would probably have this advantage 70. ~
months or a year if there was no interference
any European power. The militant powers If +
rope would like to see the socalled opeu-door noI;
in China so strongly urged BY the American o.
ernment maintained, or if not maintained tho,
partition of the Chinese empire, each holding a..
for fair division. The ambitions of the Janar.
are directed more to the possession of that Sam,
vast empire than they are to any conquest in II.
west. A war with America would resolve itself !,
fight for possession of and the dismembermert n.
the Chinese empire and. as we see it. would nyov,
all those European nations which have set coyetor,
eyes upon that country.
The dictates of prudence, therefore, on the Da.
of the Japanese government would point to III.
maintenance of peaceful relations with the United
States. Certainly the United States is not seek.
ing war with Japan. There is no interest in Amer
ice looking to the partition of China; that is an
element of the schemes of empire of European
nations, and japan wants the whole thing for her.
self In a war with America therefore JaDan
would stand to win nothing and to lose her prestige
in the east World politics and the dreams of ma.
tions sometimes move in opposite directions Wills
China is the coveted country Of the world powers.
the establishment of constitutional government
in that country and the general awakening of tbs
people to the fact that they have stood still whs
the whole world has gone ahead would seem to
show that before the dreams of partition are real.
ized China viii herself have something to say Of
the matter and viii be in position to defend her.
self against the proposed Plundering.
America may not be prepared for war, but as
long as the Chinese empire is the pawn be fought
for, the danger of attack from the japanese is in.
deed remote.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
THE WOMAN AND THE BALLOT.

Here is an extract from pamphlet recently
issued by the Illinois Association of Women. II,
view of the SERIOUSNESS of the agitation behalf
of womanhood suffrage in London and New York
the address of the Illinois Association of Women
takes on additional interest:
In the States where woman suffrage prevails,
how many important offices have ever been held
by women! In Colorado, during the first years
after the ballot was obtained. few women were
elected to the Legislature, but Louise Lee Hardin,
then editor Of the Business Woman's Magazine at
Denver, said editorially that every year after
men were allowed to vote fewer places were allot-
ted to them party tickets till at last there was
not a woman in either house of the legislature. A
well known woman of Utah adds to this testimony
that the nomination of a woman to an elective
office is now considered by all parties as an ele-
lnent of weakness. 1t is no longer considered es-
sental to recognize or cater to the woman vote at
any convention by any political party. Woman
says Mrs Hardin, and it must be remembered that
she is a thorough suffragist, and voted more
than once in the earnest faith that the ballot in
the hands of women would be elevating influ-
enee, have only followed where men led 1t is
true that they have caused the passage of some
petty measures, but it was only as little sop to
keep them in line for something which men had
promised a great corporation that they would put
through"
On this continent the movement for electoral
equality is hardly perceptible. We have for many
years. been told from pulpit, hastings and plat
forms Of the millennium that would follow the ex- |
tension of the franchise to women In Colo |
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
THE 1NTERMoUNTA1N CATHOLIC, July 80, 1910

| debt, and erecting great parish school, he was
called higher up and told to govern diocese.
The young bishop carried with him to his epis-
copal city the love and reverence the respect and
admiration of New York City's priests and peo-
pie He did more; he brought with him to his new
home the amiability of address, the tenderness of
malntr, the generosity and piety, which had evoked
the love and reverence the respect and admira-
ton Of those priests and people of New York City.
As like causes always produce like effects these
lovabie qualities, let call them attributes of the
Bishops character, have done for him in Buffalo
and Western New York what they did for him years
ago in ST. Stephens parish and New York City.
If ever man. bishop or priest, deserves applause
consistently living up the advice of the saint
ly author of the Following of Christ" Never
be wholly idle, but either reading writing, or
praying meditating, or laboring at something
Tor the common good" surely Bishop Cotton is
entitled to the distinction:
What may be achieved by judicious division of
time, by industry and fair measure of good health
we learn from what the Bishop has accomplished
and is accomplishing In addition to the govern
ment of his large diocese and all that it implies,
he has written Seedlings" and Buds and Bios
scmc," two works filled with intimate talks and adj
vice on questions that are of paramount interest
and timeliness to every individual whether young
or old
Then, week after week, from his pen there
comes as "from the pen of a scribe, that writeth
very swiftly" those charming weekly talks in the
Catholic Union and Times, which full of good
meat exhaling odors nourishing to the everyday
man. and like the myrrh, aloes and cassia of the
Psamist, pleasing to the spiritual sense
The Intermountain Catholic extends to its bril-
liant companion in arms, the Catholic Union and
Times, its congratulations. To Bishop Cotton it
sends greetings-the 'fausta quaeque ct salutara"
of the early Christians.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30

RADIO, where women vote and sit in the legislature
Ithey recently defeated strong effort on behalf
of moral reformers and temperance agitators to
make Colorado "dry" state. Prohibition also
an issue in the local election in Denver city lately
and the "wets' won out. 1t is possible, of COURSE
that the level-headed women of Denver took prac-
teal view of the situation and supported high
| license that can be enforced in preference to
Iimpracticable prohibition ordinance impossible of
enforcement.
Thus the Colorado women make it rather diff
cult for their sisters elsewhere to belong both to
: the w. c. T. .. (Womens Christian Temperance
Ufion) and to an organization like the W. E. S.
(Womens Enfranchsement Society to secure the
curse the blessing of the ballot to their sex,
Tie fair inference from the Colorado vote seems
to be that women, like men, will separate into op-
posing camps, and thus neutralize the influence
of the sex as whole.
If the women of Colorado and of our own state
had held together and continued to cast a solid
VOTE they would have forced the politicians to
make serious bid for their support Many Of
fees would have been allotted to them; and they
would have held the balance of power between Re-
pubcans and Democrats. Now they are humored
By the "bosses" with little sops and are then de-
ivered in blocks to the highest bidders among the
corporations 1t is probable that realization of
such condition of affairs makes the great ma
jor;ty Of women indifferent to the movement for
female suffrage.
The fact is thoughtful and, observant men and
women have long ago reached the conclusion that
manhood suffrage is dad medicine; that too
many rather than too few vote; that there is too
much dead wood" and rubbish deposited in the
ballot boxes now; that real reform can only come
when thousands are disfranchised who are unfit
for the responsibilities of citizenship.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
NOT PREPARED FOR WAR.

The startling announcement that the United
States is not prepared for war was made last week
by Brigadier General Jacob H Smith, q. s A.
retired, and carried matter of news by the As
ISOLATED Press. In his summing up of our national
defenses, lack of national defenses he points
out the inadequacy of our army and the ineiciency
of our navy. He says the ships are all right, but
the aboard them have different ideas of battles
from those held by the Japanese. The Japanese are
fanatics, fatasts who believe they win go straight
to heaven if they are killed in battle for their coun
try. Now that may be true of the japanese, and
it may be true that the idea of the American blue
jacket to what constitutes the strategy of battle
is different from the idea held by the Japanese
fighting sailor, but one good live American gunner
is certainly worth whole regiment of japanese
who have sacrificed their lives in defense of their
country.
After painting in lurid colors how the Japan
csc would grab the Philippines and the Sandwich
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
THE LURE OF THE WEST.

Vague ideas held by children in the east thirty
or forty years ago to the nature of the country
called "the west" have been dissipated largely by
the better teaching of the geography of our own
country. Tie fertile prairies and hills and valleys
making up the wonderful states of the Dakotas,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and
Texas, some thirty years ago were peopled in the
maginations of the children of the east by Indians
buffalo hunters, cowboys and vast rowing herds of
cattle When those children got little older they
emigrated to those new states and helped to de-
velop them, helped to build the cities and towns
and to make the land productive And now the
country beyond the great continental divide is
looked upon with much the same mysterious awe
as were the prairie States and the railroads which
have been built throughout this vast region annual
ly bring thousands of people, some looking for
homes, some for investment opportunities, and
some merely to satisfy their natural curiosity.
Those who take up their residence in the west
end stay for year become permanent residents
Perhaps they strike it rich in a short time and de-
eide to return again to the east to live-but if
SO they always come back The lure of the west is
upon them; it be resisted; it is as insistent
in its call as ever siren music was to distracted
mariner. The lure of the west-who knows what
it is?
man whose business calls him to make two
or three visits to the east every year tells us that
he never feels just right after he crosses the Mis-
souri, river; there is something wrong with him
until he comes back and he has left the Missouri
behind him. The lure of the west is upon him. as
it is upon everybody else who comes here to live
Noholv knows what If &c evca,,+ +bo+ - - e+ro,o
ly compelling force which holds all who come into |
its presenee-holds them everlastingly as the love
of home binds them. Whether it is in the air or
the SOIL the lure of the west is a stern reality
9 reality that none of us would escape if we could
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Congress has passed a law which requires all
ocean-going vessels with capacity of fifty or more
passengers to be equipped with wireless elegraphJ
apparatus This is a good law, tending to conserve
human life. 1t may be cassed with the law that
requires certain equipment railroad trains which
has been the cause Of much litigation In years gone
by But the railroads came around TO its provisions
after a good many tests in the courts. That is
most Of them did.
The wireless telegraph has proven its useful.
ness, its indispensability. In the few years that
have passed since Ocean-going ships were equipped
with the apparatus, hundreds of lives have been
saved. II has come to be rather uncommon occur
renee to read Of vessels sending out their messages
of Distress giving their longitude and latitude and
thus to secure assistance from other boats that
otherwise would have passed several hundred miles
from the distressed steamship. The perils Of navl'
CATION have been greatly reduced by the invention,
and it is only justice to the travelling public that
they should have all the benefits to from the
invention.
No doubt as the years go by and competition be-
tween the steamship companies makes it impera'
tive that all vessels shall be equipped with the latest
and most approved cOnVenienceS ana safety "PPH
ances, the general adoption of the wireless telegraph
would be brought about but this action by Congress
will hasten the installation of the equipment IL
was suggested in these columns when the FIRST
practical demonstration of the wireless was msds
that the day not far distant when all ocean
going vessels would be compelled to carry wireless
apparatus, and this action by Congress confirms
that belief. Vessel owners really cannot afford 70
send out ships without this means of communities
ton 1t is as essential in modern navigation as af
chambers or an adequate food supply.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-30
CORRESPnNnENCE snr1n1rE
CARD FROM BISHOP SCA--IAN.

feel II my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
nc generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time TO time that person bearing the
name and Garb Of priest sister, or anyone else is
authorized or permitted TO solicit or collect this
diocese for any purpose whatever connected with
Cashohc Church without having from M permission
IN writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged In doing this unlawful
work or collecting without such document he or
She as the may be- should be regarded by all az
AFauo ana an irnposter. L SEAMAN,
Bishop of Salt