The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
READ THIS, PRAY THEE. lisa. xxx II.

Havana, Nov. 24.-Not since the funeral OF
Maxine Gomez in 1905 has Havana seen such q
tremendous demonstration of popular sympathy
and respect as that which today attended the funer
al of Alberto Yarini, leader of the Cuban white
slave traders who was slain Tuesday in fight be-
tween rival gangs of Cuban and French slave
traders.
The funeral procession was led by police es-
cort in command of General Riva, the chief of po-
lice, and band. Following them came the hearse,
drawn by eight horses. Then came wagonloads of
flowers. In the procession were many thousands of
persons. including hundreds of gaudiIy attired
women of the town, committees of negro voodoo
societies. all the elements of the red light" quar-
ter and delegations from various political and COM
mercial bodies.
There was also 100 carriages containing the rep
resentatives of the government and army and navy
officers.
Despite Yarinis notorious disrepute and his I'M
disputed leadership in the white slave traffic in
Cuba, he had held the position of popular idol as
Havana's exponent of anti-Americansm, since his
assault j. Cornell Tarer, charge d'afaires of
the United States legation, in 1906.
The newspapers, without exception, laud Yarini
as an lustrous Cuban patriot"
Now the American citizen can get a line on the
character of the who are digging at the foun-
dations of the Christian altar, and under the es-
tablished government of the Spanish Monarchy
The same citizen can also understand why the
Portuguese free-thinkers and radicals Infamous
ly drove out Of Lisbon and all Portugal the nuns
and Sisters of Charity, the pure women caring for
the sick, the helpless and the orphan, and-make
note of it-retained, protected, and applauded,
prostitutes white slavers and harlots.
In the procession were many women of the
town, committees of negro voodoo societies devil
worshipers) and all the elements of the red light
(the Commercial street, quarter" What do YOU
think of it? Will you answer us. "Cuba is nom
inally, at least Catholic country. and the Cath
Ole Church has been, for centuries, the only re-
ligion of the beggarly island" And. we reply to
you in the language of the Turk: "The United
States has been for one hundred years a Christian
Republic, and its murders divorces, corporate
thefts, nfanticdes, political corruption and Jury
prostitutions, today menace to the civiliza-
tion of the world" But" you interpose, "we
cannot help it, our people have abandoned the path
marked by the feet of God they have forgotten the
Ten Commandments and the law of God and in |
their pride they gathereth together and like wine
that deceiveth him that drinketh it. are become as
fools; they will longer hear the prophets of the
Lord.
Just so When the army and navy, the news
papers, the politicians and the wealthy and the
proud cry out "Crucify Him." can you blame the |
Inasses-we do not say them asses-if they also
shout: Let free Barabbas the murderer, and cru
city Jesus Christ Il wash my hands of the blood
of this just man" shouted the coward, Plate And |
all the people answering, said: His blood be upon
Us and upon our children
The Catholic Church cannot constran men to
lead clean lives, nor can Protestant Christianity
confer the gift Of common sense upon fools You
can lead horse to the water, but you cannot make
him drink. Write the vision and make it plain
upon the tablets" spoke the Angel of the Lord to
the prophet "that he who runs may read and wo
to him who heedeth not"
Portugal. Spain mad Cuba viii battle in the
blood of their citizens one of these days, and,
like the bastard republics of Central America,
which, long ago, flung away their Christianity, viii
become huge graveyards for the decomposng car
cassses of their slaughtered sons and daughters
When almost an entire people glorify a scoundrel