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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
JOINT DEBATE ON
SOCIALISM.

In the current issue of Every
body's Magazine, the editor an
nounces the publication Of a series
Of articles on Socialism. 1t will
take the form Of a joint debate
in which the merits and demerits
of Socialism will be discussed by
two recognized authorities on the
subject-the Reverend John A.
Ryan, D. D., of the st. Paul Semi
nary, ST. Paul, Mimi, and Mr..
Morris Hillquit, a distinguished
member Of the New York Bar.
The subject has been carefully
divided into natural subdivisions,
and the discussion will continue
for several months, beginning in
Eyerybody's for October.
In order that both sides might
be fairly represented in each issue,
it was decided that the authors
should exchange their manu-
scripts and re-exchange them,
each with the right to revise his
work in the light of what the
other had written, until each
should be content to leave his
paper in the form it had reached
for publication with the paper of
the other writer beside it. These
two treatments Of each phase of
the subject, containing the re-
joinders to each other, will there
fore appear in the same issue of
the magazine until the series is
ended. 1t was believed that this
would have many advantages over
a debate continued through alter
nate months of attack and reply.
The order Of precedence in the
presentation Of the subject in each
issue has been agreed upon by the
authors themselves.
1t is needless to add that this
will be serious discussion of the
teachings of Socialism, and should
prove of unusual interest to all
students who are anxious to get
an able presentation Of both sides
of one of the most important ques-
tions Of the day.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
.@THE poor MANS CLUB.

Walt Mason, who writes in prose
form some excellent verse, is no be-
lever in the saloon as "a poor mans
club" as some of its defenders have
called it. Walt writes as follows in
Golfers:
The poor mans club is a genial
place-if the poor man has the price;
there's balmy smile on the bar
keeps face, and bottles of goods on
ice; the poor mans club is a place
designed to brighten our darkened
lives, and send us home, when we're
halfway blind, in humor to beat our
wives. So hey for the wicker demi
John, and the free-lunch brand OF
grub! Well wassail hold till the break
OF dawn, we friends of the poor mans
Club! It's here we barter our bits of
news in our sweat-stained hand-me-
downs; it's here we swallow the chill
dren's shoes, and the housewives hats
and gowns. It's here we mortgage
mousse and lot, the horse, and the moo
ley COW; the poor mans club is a
cheerful spot, SO open a bottle nowi
5AcSo0CO We II UlOW the
foam till the midnight hour arrives.
when We'll gaily journey the long way
nome and merrily beat out wives. We
earn our dimes like the horse or OK.
we toll like the tabled steer. and then
we Journey dozen blocks to blow in
the dimes for beer. While the women
work at the washing-tub to add to our
scanty hoard, we happily meet at the
poor mans club, where never a soul is
bored. We recklessly squander our
minted Drawn, and the clubhouse
owner thrives; and we'll homeward 90
at the break of dawn and joyously beat
our wives.'
Not very pleasing picture that
But there are many poor men, thank
God for it, who have no use for the
club" and it's dangerous allure
mentS.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
THE CUNARD LINE AGAIN.


The Cunard Steamship Com
pany is still busy trying to ex-
plain how it happened that Cap
tain Prothero of the Carpathia
officiated at the funeral of Cath
Ollie infant, Notwithstanding the
fact that there were three priests
on board, any one Of whom was
ready to conduct the burial serv-
ices. The company claims that
the Captain did not know that the
family to which the dead infant
belonged was Catholic. If he
didn t, it was an easy matter to
find out, and govern himself ac-
cordingly. His failure to do so,
reflects on the company, and it
will not be forgotten by Catholics.
The Western Department of the
Cunard Steamship Company in
letter to 'SThe Christian Year" Of
Covington, KY, says:
The incident on the Car
pathia' was most unfortunate,
especially in view of the erroneous
| impressions that have been created
in the minds Of Roman Catholics.
eve did not know that the fam
lily were Roman Catholics. They
expressed no wish that the service
should be otherwise than was ar
ranged by the Captain, and the
Hungarian doctor who had charge
of the infant states that the moth
er made no intimation to him of a
desire to have the Roman Catholic
service.
eve may assure you that it is
the custom Of the Cunard Com
pany to invite co-religionists to
conduct the burial service if a
minister of the faith of the de-
ceased is on board. !"
This is no explanation. 1t leaves
the matter as it was. Why doesn It
the Cunard Steamship Company
make a manly statement acknoWl-
edging the wrong, and giving as
surance that it's officials will here
after pay more attention to the
religious convictions Of its Cath
Ollie passengers? The incident in
question is beyond recall, but it
should not be repeated. From a
business point Of view the Cunard
Steamship Company cannot afford
to disregard the rights of it's Cath
Ollie patrons.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
PROTESTANTISM OF THE
Y. M. C. A. AND OF THE
Y. w. G. A.

Most of our readers are aware
that the Young Mems Christian
Association and it's sister organi-
cation, the Young Women Chris
tian Association, are distinctively
Protestant, Notwithstanding the
professions Of non-sectarianism so
often put forth on their behalf.
Now and again, however, one
encounters Catholics who, on ac-
count of environment or of irwin
chile ignorance, are SO much out
of touch with Catholic thought
that they are willing to accept at
its face value the statement
made by these Associations re-
garding the undenominational
character of their work. Then,
too, there are many fair-minded
and intelligent non-Catholics who
are loath to believe that these so
called christian" Associations,
refuse to allow any but Evangeli-
cal Protestants to hold Office in
their ranks, while they do not
scruple to solicit support from
members of non Evangelical
Churches.
In order that each one may be
able to Judge for himself how far
the Y. MI. C. IA. il sectarian, we
subjOin that portion Of its articles
Of incorporation which deals with
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
Continued from pageT.)
THE CHURCH AND THE ToFLER

God forbid that that day should
ever come, but if it does, the black,
blood-stained ruins of Gods most
favored land will serve as a warning
to the nations of the future that man
or society, divorced from God, the sole
source of life and law and civiliza-
ton, must inevitably sink under the
brute law of the tooth and the claw
while bloody-handed death, alone, rises
victor from the fray.
There is but one way to avert this
suicidal struggle. The capitalist and
the toiler must eradicate from their
breasts all insensate hatred and dis
trust and, joining hands In fraternal
recognition of their mutual need of
each other, turn their steps back to
the Church Of the divine Toiler and
Nazareth and learn from her their
respective rights and duties.
From her they will learn a truth
that is unfortunately ignored at the
present time, namely, that the issue
between capital and labor is not
merely economic but essentially a
moral question concerning reciprocal
rights and duties.
Were this question purely economic
it must needs be decided by the cold,
memorable law of supply and demand.
The price of labor would be regulated
by the same law that regulates the
price of cattle and produce, but being
question of human rights it can be
solved only by the Christian principles
of justice and brotherly love.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

We can still fill orders for the
Most Reverend Archbishop's adj
dress on Catholicism and Ameri-
canism" in pamphlet form. The
supply, however, is limited, and
those who desire to procure this
pamphlet for themselves or for dis
tribution, should send in their or
ders to this Office without delay.
The pamphlet retails at 2 cents a
copy, or $3.50 a hundred. No bet
ter pamphlet can be circulated to
counterfeit the efforts of anti Cath
Ole bigots who SANDER the
Church, her clergy, and institu-
tons. Catholics should be able to
answer these attacks; and they
should see to it that their fair
minded non-Catholic friends read
Catholicism and Americanism
in order that they may not be mis-.
led by the persistent efforts OF
ever-active and irresponsible
bigots.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13


fronted by special difficulties on
account Of its sectarianism, it has
gone farther than elsewhere in its
professions of large minded unsec-
tarianism, and actually, we are
told, has admitted Catholics into
its local dictatorship. But in those
professions of unsectarianism is
the Association honest and truth
full? Are not those professions as
the ruses of olden-time Grecian
perfidy before the walls of be-
sieged Troy?
A strict ruling in the constitu-
ton of the General Board of Gov
eminent of the Association is that
only Evangelical Protestants may
be permitted to hold office of any
kind in its directorships. A few
years ago a few well-intentioned
delegates to General Convention
strove for the elimination of the
Evangelical Protestant test from
the constitution, but an almost
unanimous vote defeated their eff
forts. In practice, universally so,
in the books and pamphlets laid on
its tables, in the Bible classes it
organizes, in the whole atmosphere
of its halls and class-rooms the
Association is Protestant, teach
er and propagation of Evangelical
Professionalism. Visitors and pu-
pills may be urged, by word, to be
loyal to their several church aft
liations; but at the same time the
Association offers religious serv-
ices of it's own-an obvious temp
tation to the belief that those ex-
ercises suffice, that the Association
is of itself a church, simple and
undogmatic, yet all-suffcing to the
requirements of Christian living.
In Catholic countries the meth
DDS of the Association are particu-
larly dangerous. With Bible-read-
ing and hymn-singing, with the
ever-present and insidious appeal
to Nindividualism in religion, the
dogmas and the discipline of Cath
olicism are made to appear as an
unnecessary burden, unauthorized
additions to the pure Gospel. And
what is worse, in those countries,
the religion Of the Young Men s
Christian Association is put forth
as the religion Of America-the
religion of America emblazoned
by the splendors of the liberty and
the material aggressiveness with
which the name Of America is so
easily associated.
Catholics should have nothing
to do with the Young Men S Chris
tan Association. Now and then
we hear the promise that the As
ISOLATION will alter constitution
and methods; but the promise is
not being fulfilled. When this is
done, if ever it is done, the atti-
tude of Catholics towards the As
ISOLATION may also be altered.
Meanwhile the question rises be-
fore the Young Mems Christian
Association: Does it ostensibly
sail under its true colors? Are it's
professions free Of fraud and de-
ceit? Should it not be candid and
frank and openly declare that it
is in all its parts, Evangelical Prot
estantism-this and nothing else
that it expects patronage, whether
in money, or in Reorganization of
it's halls, from Evangelical Prot
estants, not from others especial
ly not from Catholics?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
THE SHRINERs AT PANAMA.

During the past few weeks the
local press has devoted consider
able space to the trip made by the
Osman Temple Shriners of st.
Paul to the Panama Canal Zone,
where they conferred the degree
of Noble on a class Of Americans
employed in the service of the
government. The public have been
RECALLED with accounts of the "do-
ings" which took place in the Mir
afores lock, where the ceremonial
of the order was exemplifed amid
the burning sands'' Of a made
to-order desert. The lock was
transformed, for the occasion, into
a Masonic temple, and the event
was heralded abroad as a "tri-
umph of Masonry" A bronze tab
let was set in the wall of the lock
to commemorate this Masonic ded-
ication of the Panama Canal.
In this connection we would
like to know by whose authority
the Panama Canal was transform
ed into a Masonic temple? Did
the United States government
grant permission for this Shriner
invasionY If so, what justification
can be alleged for using-this great
national enterprise to exploit and
exalt Masonry? Are the Masons
SO strongly entrenched in positions
of authority at Panama that they
take it upon themselves to offer
the freedom of the Canal Zone to
their Masonic brethren? Would
similar concession be made to a
Catholic organization such, for in
stance, as the Knights of Column
bus?
It is hard to believe that this
Shriner event was planned with
out the knowledge of the govern
ment. If it was, then, rebuke
from federal headquarters is now
in order. Some explanation is due
to the public who do not believe
that this and similar unwarranted
assumptions of authority on the
part of an un-American sect
should be any longer tolerated. If
a Catholic society so far forgot
the proprieties as to do what the
Shriners did there is not puny
preacher or a two-by-four bigoted
sheet In the country that could
have resisted the temptation to
get into the limelight and snarl
its disapproval of such an attempt
to take possession of the Panama
Canal in the name of the Pope Of
Romel
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

On August II, in the Sacred
Heart Basilica, Wellington, New
Zealand, the Right Reverend
Thomas O'Shea, S. NJ, was conse-
Grated Titular Bishop of Gortyna
and Coadjutor, with the right of
succession, to the Most Reverend
Archbishop Redwood of New Zea-
land. The sermon was preached
by the Very Reverend Father
Ryan, s. J., of Melbourne. The
new Coadjutor-Archbishop is a
native of San Francisco, where he
was born In 1871. In his youth he
went with his family to New
Zealand, entered the Marist Or
der, and made his vows in 1891.
For some years prior to his con-
secration he was pastor of St.
Joseph Is Church, Wellington. The
Titular See of Gortyna in Crete
is an ancient one, its first Bishop
was Saint Titus, a disciple of st.
Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

America will be represented at
the International Congress on Al
coholism to be held in Milan, Italy,
the latter part Of this month, by
the Very Reverend P. j. O'Cal-
laghan, G. S. P, of Chicago, Ma
tional President of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of Amer
lea, and Mr.. Edwin Mulready of
Rockland, Mass, who was for
many years National Secretary OF
the same organization. At pres.
ent, Mr. Mulready is Deputy Pro.
baton Commissioners of Massachu-
sets. The delegates were appoint.
ed by Secretary of State Bryan
Father O'Callaghan will also rep
resent the Catholic Total Abstin.
ence Union of America, which
voted to send a delegate to the
Congress.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

The Independent, says an ex-
change, is recognized as a pretty
good authority on matters Prot
estant. The following comment in
recent issue is interesting to
those who still claim the Y. M. G.
A. to be non-sectarian "There is
no longer any claim that the
Knights Of Columbus is not a Cath
Ole organization, just as the
Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton is a Protestant institution. !"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
THE SAD SIDE OF ENGLAND.

wish you were here for a few
weeks to study the saloon question "
writes an American tourist in Eng
land to a contemporary. "They are
called pubs or public houses and
tne saloon keeper is a publican and
usually well off and influential.
The women are better customers
than the men and go to the saloons
with their husbands, sons and daugh-
ters as they do to trading houses: in
fact, every public house is an eating
mouse as well. 1t is not unusual to
see woman staggering beastlv
drunk here and a daughter, son. or
husband trying to coax her to go
home
In the reign of the late King Ed
ward a law was passed prohibiting
children under fourteen years of age
from going into pubs and so anv
night in the poorer districts, especial
ly up to 1890, the time of closing.
small children can be seen huddled
around the doors outside on the pave
ment sidewalk and baby carriages
standing along with the baby asleep
or crying or the mother with a glass
OF ale or stout beer in one hand and
baby on the other, shouting, gesticu-
lating, and even swearing at those
around her.
Often you see husband and wife
arm in arm staggering against each
other and stopping on the walk and
with hats off and hair flowing discuss
ing whether they should have another
drink before going home"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
THE CRUCIF|X
MANY SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES
ARE RESTORING THE Cruel
FIXES IN THEIR COURTS or
JUSTICE.

The anti-clericals, that is, the anti
Catholics, of Brazil, initiated their
French brethren by having crucifxes
removed from the walls of the court
rooms where they had hung for cen
turtles to remind all of Him Who sees
and knows and judges all mankind.
But, little while ago, a movement of
protest against this impiety mani
tested itself in all classes of society,
and by their numbers and their per-
severance, the protesters have OBJ
tanned satisfactory results in many
parts of the country. 1t was the rich
Golfer capital, Sac Paulo, which had
the honor of first re-establishing the
figure of the Crucified in the Courts.
Then came San Salvador, in the north,
whose citizens replaced the holy image
on the wall of the tribunal with the
assistance Of the Archbishop and the
Governor. A ceremony still grander
than the two proceeding was held at
Petropolis, the former residence Of
the Emperor Of Brazil, near Rio
Janeiro. The new crucifxg blessed in
the Cathedral, was put in place by
Cardinal Arcoverde de Albuquerque
CavaIcanti, Archbishop Of Rio
Janeiro: and the occasion was made a
public holiday BY the people. Other
cities are taking up the matter and
the movement ID spreading.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
RIahts and DutIes Of the TolIer.

The natural, basic right of the
toiler is a living wage, which means
that the lowest measure of compen-
sation for his toll must be the decent
maintenance OF himself and his home.
This adequate maintenance includes
not only sufficient food, clothing and
shelter for his family, but likewise
the means properly to educate his
children and secure for himself and
wife decent sustenance and comfort
in their old age. To protect this right
the laborer may employ all legitimate
means such as forming labor unions
which are his chief means of defend
ing himself against heartless greed
and of ameliorating his condition. To
deny the Iaborer the freedom to form
or join such unions would be tyranni-
cal and unjust
The labOrer, moreover, has the right
to strike, that is, to refuse to work
and also to induce, by ali lawful and
peaceful methods, his fellow work
men to strike with him. when it be-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

1t is interesting to learn that the
Lithuanian Catholic Total Abstin-
ence Societies Of the United States
have now three thousand mem
bers. Rev. Anthony Bryszko, of
Chicago, is President, and Rev.
Peter Saurusaitis, of Waterbury,
Conn, is Spiritual Director.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

The month of September is ded-
icated to the Holy Angels, among
whom are numbered the Guardian
Angels assigned by Almighty God
to watch over us. During the
month each one should invoke
the intercession of his Angel Guar
dian by reciting the following
prayer: ooh, Angel of God, to
whose holy care | am entrusted
by the supreme clemency, enlight-
en-, defend and protect me this
day from all sin and danger.
Amen"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13

the requirements for membership.
Paragraph 2 says: Any man
under so years Of age who is a
member in good standing of any
Evangelical Church may be elect
ed and upon the payment of $500
shall become an active member of
this Association, and active men,
bers only shall have a right to
vote and hold office. Any man Of
good moral character may be
elected, and upon the payment Of
$500 shall become an associate
member Of this Association, and
shall be entitled to all the rights
of active members, except those
Of voting and holding office. /"
(Book A, interpretations, page
1885,.
Similar provision is made for
membership in the Y. w. G. A.,
according to its articles Of incor-
poration. Section / Of these ar
ticles says: "All members shall
be women of good moral charac-
ter, Is years of age or over who
have been elected to membership
at a meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors by a majority Of the
Board present at the meeting, and
shall be Of the class to which
elected except as herein otherwise
provided. Members shall be
classed as active members and
associate members; and any mem
Der of either class may be desig-
mated a sustaining member or life
member upon payment of the fee
hereinafter fixed for such sustain
ing membership or life member
ship. Every member who shall
be member in good standing of
a Protestant Evangelical Church
may be an active member and en-
titled to vote at any corporate
meeting and eligible to hold any
office provided for in this certif-
cate Of incorporation. No woman
who is not member in good
standing of some Protestant Evan
gelical Church can become an &C
tive member. Associate members
shall have all the rights and priv
leges Of membership except the
right to vote and hold office. Any
associate member shall at any
time when she is a member of a
Protestant Evangelical Church
become an active member upon
her request and be enrolled as
SUCH" Book N, interpretations
page ISL.
The foregoing extracts are
taken from the articles Of incor.
poration Of the Y. M. G. A. and
Of the Y. w. G.. A. filed in the
office of the Register Of Deeds
st. Paul, and should suffice to con
vince any fair-minded person Of
their Protestant character. None
but members Of Protestant Evan.
gelical Churches are welcome to
the ranks and privileges of the
active members, by whom alone
the Association is differed and
controlled. Therefore, no Jew
Unitarian or Catholic can become
an active member. They may be
associate members if they will
but they can have no vote in the
management of the organization
They are made welcome as long
as they are willing to pay towards
the support of the Association and
let others direct it's affairs. Nc
self-respecting man or woman
who, by reason of his or her re.
ligious affiliations, is deemed un.
worthy to have a voice in guiding
these Associations, will have any.
thing to do with organizations
founded on such an un-Americar
principle.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-13
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1918.

Wednesday, Friday and Satur-
day of next week are Ember days,
that is to say, days of fast and alb
stinence on which, however, the
usual exemption is allowed in
favor of working people.