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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

Federation of Patriotic Voters, =
and it was organized at a meet
ing held in Chicago on August II
and IL.
This Federation purports to be
a sort of clearing house for the
several patriotic orders in the
land, among which the so-called
!" Guardians Of Liberty" and the
knights of Luther" hold a fore
most place. The national presi-
dent of the Federation is D. j.
Reynolds, of Minneapolis, and the
national secretary is G. w. Bibb,
'2208 Girard Avenue, Minneapolis.
The new organization is said to
represent 100000 voters, whom
it proposes to band together in a
solid phalanx to oppose the efforts
now being made by the Church Of
Rome to secure governmental con-
troll of the United States and rob
their fellow citizens of the rights
and privileges guaranteed by the
Constitution. One of the first acts
of the Federation was to protest
against the efforts now being
made to bar from the mails the
bigoted publications whose stock
in-trade is utilization of the Cath
Ollie Church, her practices and in
situations.
The-new society will find plenty
to do in living up to the demands
of its self-imposed task. We
would suggest that its officers
familiarize themselves with the
history of the Church S growth
and development during the
period of A. P. A. activity. For
once they realize that persecution
serves as a stimulus to spur on
the Church to greater conquests
and the faithful to a more loyal
and devoted manifestation of fdel-
ity towards her, they will know
how to temper their zeal with
prudence, and not expend their
energy in fruitless efforts to de-
stroy the influence of the only in
stitution that can guarantee them
the rights and liberties Of which
they call themselves the guar
dians.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

whose duty it is to put into opera
ton the compulsory minimum
wage law for women and children
adopted at the last session of the
Legislature, has recommended that
all women workers in manufac-
turing establishments receive a
minimum wage of not less than
1854 a week. The maximum
hours of labor are nine a day, or
fifty-four a week.
A st. Louis Company which
manufactures women's clothing
has announced the establishment
of a minimum wage of $500 per
week for the four hundred girls
in it's employ. Beginners are paid
$3.50 for the first two weeks of
service. The new scale is the re-
suit of Investigations conducted
by a committee of the State Sen
ate of Missouri into the employ
ment of women.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20
NOTED GERMAN CONVERTS

Much has been heard lately of the
recent conversion of Bavarian no
bleman, Baron Won Kramer Kleft, a
councillor of the empire. His recep-
ton into the Church seems to have
astonished the Protestants, though it
is generally known among Bavarian
Catholics that the Baron has long
been Catholic in soul and even in
practice, although his conversion was
not published.
It is, however, remarkable in two
ways. He is the richest man in Ger
many, and under clause of his IA
TIERS will he loses a portion of his
property when he abjures Protestant
ism. Also it was love Of the religious
orders which eventually effected this
conversion, and before he actually re-
nounced Professionalism he had been a
large benefactor to the Jesuits and
the Benedictines. He presented the
latter with a magnificent monastery,
where he lives with them and shares
their religious life, though he has not
yet taken any vows.
This conversion reminds one of the
long list of great Germans converted
to the Church during the past cen
fury. Among list too long to quote
in full are Alban Stolz, the great
writer; Overlook, the painter of
note; Cramer, Mueller and the two
Schadows. In the middle Of the
century the Peoples Mission preached
by the Jesuits drew many to make
their peace with the Church, among
these being Prince Paul of Wur-
temburg, the Countess Hahn-Hahn,
and many men of letters The per-
secution Of the Archbishop of Cologne,
Mgr. Drost Viscering. was the cause
Of an influx OF converts, while SO late
al last year the reception Of Professor
Ruville, Of the University Of Halle,
caused a sensation, when he conse-
Grated his pen and his science to the
Catholic Church.
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SECRETARY OF STATE COM
MENDs TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

Some time ago Secretary BRYAN
gave an address to a Washington
company of Boy Scouts on the adj
Vantages of total abstinence for bows
and men. The boys visited Mr.. BRYAN
to present him resolutions adopted by
them commencing the stand taken by
the Secretary of State against king
Alcohol and his hosts" in refusing to
serve wine at his dinners to Ambassa-
doris. Mr.. Bryan said in part:
1 learned when I was boy to be
total abstainer. I do not remember
when | first signed the pledge. 1t is
so far back that I cannot recall it.
Il know that some draw a distinc-
ton between the use of liquor by boys
and the use of liquor by men. l pre-
sumo there is scarcely a person who
would stand in a public place and ad-
vocate the use of liquor by boys
Everybody recognizes that liquor is
not good thing for boys.
Il have now been of age thirty
two years and / have found that there
is no use for alcohol after one ceases
to be boy, and I only hope you will
be able to maintain and to keep the
pledge while you are growing, and
! hope you will see no reason after you
are grown for changing your habits
of life on this subject.
Il appreciate the compliment you
pay me, because the opinion of boys
is not only a compliment but it has
its usefulness.
II shall feel that / have not lived
in vain if by abstaining from
liquors and beverages I
have given any strength to any one
and helped him to resist temptation.
IF l have been the means of help
ing just one boy | do not know how
much service / have rendered to the
world through him, for we can never
tell what boy can do. The possibiIi-
ties of a boy are beyond the power of
language to escribe-especialIy an
American boy. Nowhere else has the
individual a greater opportunity to
come into touch with and to influence
his fellow men and in no former age
was this possibility of service greater
than it is now"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

The Cunard Steamship Com
pany has been considerably en-
barrassed by the report which has
gone abroad that it's boats will no
longer call at Queenstown, Ireland,
on their Transatlantic trips. Ac-
cording to an official statement
the company has no intention of
abandoning Queenstown as call
ing point. Until different ar
rangements can be made for the
embarkation of mails, the Lusi-
tania and the Mauretania will con-
tinue to call off the port of
Queenstown, weather permitting,
but no passengers will be en-
barked at Queenstown on these
two vessels. On all other Cunard-
ers passengers will be booked from
Queenstown as formerly. The COM
pany declares that it appreciates
to the fullest extent the good will
and loyalty of it's Irish trade, and
the present reports regarding the
abandonment of Queenstown as a
calling point have created a
wrong impression in the minds of
Irish passengers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20
CEMETERY SUNDAY.

For number Of years it has
been customary in the Archdio-
cese of st. Paul to hold public
services for the dead in all ceme-
teries on the third Sunday in Sep
TENDER. Accordingly, next Sun
day will be Cemetery Sunday, and
in the afternoon the people Of the
different parishes, led by their
pastors, will proceed to the local
cemetery and there pray in COM
mon for the repose Of the dead
who rest within it's silent en-
closure. The services prescribed
for this visit include an instruc-
ton on some phase of Catholic
doctrine appropriate to the occa-
sion.
The Most Reverend Archbishop
will be present at the services in
Calvary Cemetery, St. Paul, and
will preach the sermon. The
Right Reverend Bishop Lawler
will oficiate at St. Mary's Gene
terry, Minneapolis.
Cemetery Sunday affords Cath
olics an opportunity to visit the
last resting place of their depart
ed relatives and friends and join
in the public prayers offered up
in their behalf, These prayers are
intended not to supplant,. but to
supplement, private devotion to
the dead. They are intended as a
public expression Of the Church s
unceasing remembrance of the
souls of those who have died in
communion with her and a re-
minder to the faithful of their
duty towards the departed to
whom they are still linked in the
bonds Of Christian charity.
The Church teaches that it is
"a holy and a wholesome thought
to pray for the dead, that they
may be loosed from their sins. y
To that end, she declares that
there is Purgatory and that the
souls therein detained can be as
sisted by our prayers, and espe-
cially by the adorable sacrifice of
the Mass. It is most consoling to
know that we have it within our
power to relieve, by our suffrages,
the purgatorial sufferings of those
who are expiating the temporal
punishment due to their sins, and
we should never cease to offer up
prayers and good works in their
behalf. Nor should we forget to
invoke the special help of our
Divine Lord through the medium
of the Holy Mass offered up for
their necessities. Our remem-
brance of their needs will rebound
to our own spiritual welfare when
we, In turn, viii add our voices to
the supplicatory dirge which new
err ceases to issue from the prison
house of Purgatory: Have pity
on me, have pity on me, at least
You, my friends, because the hand
of the Lord hath touched me.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20
WHERE THE CATHOLIC PA
PER BELONGS.

There is one place, above all
Others says the San Francisco
Monitor, "where a Catholic paper
should be found, but where it is
too often conspicuous by its alb
sence. That place is the rectory
table the waiting room of the
parish house. There are scores Of
visitors to every parochial resi-
dence in this city daily. In some
of the larger parishes more than
one room has to be given up to
the reception of callers. And
those callers often must wait ten,
fifteen, twenty minutes, perhaps
half an hour or an hour, before
they can see the priests with
whom they wish to confer. Usual
ly the waiting rooms Of parish
houses, as Of most Catholic insti-
buttons, are inclined to be mon
astically bare. A half-dozen
chairs and table or desk COM
plete their furniture. There are
some sacred pictures on the walls.
But on the table how often do you
find a Catholic magazine or paper
lying at hand to invite the visitor {?
Not very often! Yet what dreary
minutes yes, and hours patient
callers at the parish house have
passed, looking out the window,
studying the holy pictures at
ever conceivable angle, getting
the carpet pattern down to geo.
metrical certainty or rearranging
in their eye the lines and curly
cues of the wallpaper while they
sat waiting for the busy priests
How proftably that time might be
spent glancing through the pages
OF a Catholic paper or magazine
Who knows what little miracle
the printed page might silently
work there in that bare waiting
room while the pastor is making
his way through a siege of duties
to his visitor?
"All that is said here of the
waiting rooms of parish houses is
doubly true Of the reception halls
of schools, converts, asylums- of
practically every Catholic institu-
ton we know. There is no sign
Of Catholic paper within sight.
And so also is this pitiably true Of
the reception rooms of Catholic
professional men. +"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20
SHALL THE HIERARCHY
CONQUER?

This topic Of perennial interest
to the so-called Guardians Of Lib
erty" and their sympathizers,
was discussed last week for the
delectation Of a goodly number Of
the citizens Of Mankato, Mime
sofa, who assembled in the Pres
byterian Church to listen to one
j. B. Cleaver, who styles himself
Judge. " If his legal knowledge
is as vast and as exact as his in
formation on this subject, he is
certainly walking encyclopedia
of facts about things which are
not so. The Judge halls from New
York and is a lecturer-at-large
for that un-American aggregation
Of self-styled defenders Of civic
rights known as "The Guardians
of Liberty If his lecture in
Mankato be taken as a criterion
of his fitness for the position, no
one can doubt that he is the right
man in the right place. Of course,
he told his audience nothing new.
Hesdoes not possess even the merit
of originality in the presentation
of his subject; but that did not
prevent his hearers from relishing
his disconnected discourse. The
class of people who take stock in
the inane drivel Of such man as
Judge Cleaver are usually as ig-
norant Of the facts Of history as
the lecturer himself, or so blinded
by i-Catholic prejudice as to
be utterly incapable Of weighing
the merits of case which involves
the Catholic Church.
The learned Judge" lost no
time in paying his respects to the
Hierarchy whom he berated for
their supposed attempts to secure
political control Of the United
States. In view of the fact that
1.-THE last struggle between the
hosts of iniquity and the, hosts of
light, is now on, = he urged the
"spineless Protestants who are
inclined to be civil to Catholics to
awake to the real situation that
confronts them in this country and
beat back the advancing hosts of
the Catholic Church, who hate the
Bible, who are not allowed to read
even the Douay version, who, in
fact, are not Christians at all, but
pagans.
1t is not necessary to follow him
through the maizes of his untruth-
full arraignment Of the Catholic
Church. With the masterful in
genuity of an adept in the art of
mis-stating facts, he anathema-
tized Pope and prelate, priest and
Jesuit, and their illiterate follow
ers. The walls Of his wrath were
poured out on the Knights of Co
lumbus and the Ancient Order Of
Hibernians whom he characterized
as 1.-THE private bodyguard Of the
Pope" who tthas issued orders
that all America shall be made
Catholic and that the Bible shall
be taken from the public schools. !"
This was the climax Of his denun-
citation. He then called upon his
hearers to rally round the stand
ard Of the so-called Guardians of
Liberty" who have sworn that
America shall never be made all
Catholic. /"
It surpasses comprehension how
any body of sane people possess
ing even a modicum Of common
sense can even listen to the
charges of disloyalty made by ir-
responsible bigots against their
Catholic fellow-citizens whom they
know and among whom they live.
One would think that the Presby-
terians Of Mankato would be
above opening their church to
such base vilifers Of their Catholic
brethren with whom they profess
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

A Catholic contractor in At
lantic City, N. j., has been sued by
the Y. M. G. A. for contribution
which he promised that organiza-
ton in the belief that it was non
sectarian. When he found out
that Catholics were not allowed
to hold Office in the Association,
he refused to pay and he will be
given an, opportunity to defend
his action in court. Thus, little
by little, Catholics are beginning
to know that the profession Of
non-sectarianism made by the Y.
M. G. A. for the purpose of OBJ
tanning good American dollars
from gullible Catholics, is about
as substantial as the airy fabric
of a dream.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

We have received the first num-
Der of 'The Liguorian," publish
ed by the Redemptorist Fathers
of Oconomowoc, Wis. 1t is a
monthly magazine devoted to the
growth of Catholic belief and
practice. The current issue con-
tains a choice assortment of care
fully selected articles, many of
which are written by the Fathers
of the Community and are redo
lent of the spirit of their patron,
st. Alphonsus Liguori. A note
worthy feature is the Question
Box, which is conducted by the
Rev. P. Geiermann, G.. SIS. R. We
welcome "The Liguorian" to the
ranks of Catholic periodicals and
bid it God-speed on its journalistic
career.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

The new st. Augustine Sem
mary, Toronto, Canada, opened
its doors to students this week.
It is under the presidency of the
Very Reverend DIR. Kidd, and the
following constitute its profess
sional staff: Rev. DR.. Ryan, for
merly of Rochester Seminary,
New York; Rev. Cyril Kehoe,
Rev. E. j. Kissane, Rev. John
Grant, Rev. Francis Morrissey,
Rev. Dennis Mcbride and Rev.
Ambrose Kevkowycz, who came
from the Seminary of Lemberg,
Galicia, to teach Moral Theology.
The Seminary is the gift Of Mr..
Eugene 0'Keefe, of Toronto. who
also provided for sixteen scholar
ships of S., 900 each. In addition
to this, the priests Of the Arch
diocese of Toronto contributed
$4,000 to endow the Chair of
Sacred Scripture and the Diocese
of Hamilton has pledged $4,000
for scholarship.
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ANOTHER PATRIOTIC (?)
SOCIETY.

To Minneapolis belongs the dis
tinction, If such it may be termed,
of providing the principal officers
for another anti Catholic society
founded for the purpose of fur
nishing to its members the proper
information relative to the stand
Rome is taking In our fair repub-
lie. = The society bears the high
sounding name Of American
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gu TsIDE The FOLD
MENTAL ATTITUDES OF PROS
PEcTIvE CONVERTS.

Mr.. Wilfrid Ward, the distinguished
Wish to Believe" describes Through
the words of Walton) the various at
titudes of mind in religious enquiry
which are characteristic among those
who approach the Church from the
outside. There is, first, he says, the
superstitious attitude which implies
f1ippancy in belief, readiness in it's
adoption, equal readiness in changing
it; SO slight a depth that belief can
hardly be distinguished from magma
ton and an easy surrender to ideas
begotten of hope or of fear. Such an
attitude is absolutely unreasonable,
and in it's most direct relation to the
theme of the discussion, it may lead
man to adopt Christianity from a
momentary excitement which its
beauty produces in him, his belief hav-
ing no root and being unaccompanied
by any deep sense of the Importance
of a true decision. Such an attitude
might lead as readily to the grossest
superstition as to truth, and it does.
not seem unreasonable to say that a
belief so skin-deep and so lightly as
sumed, could not stand the test of con-
slant action depending for it's worth
upon the truth of the creed adopted.
We have next the Law-Court atti-
tude of mind-excellent for investigat-
ing matters in which the evidence is
purely verbal and which arouse in us
speculative interest only, but in
which the true state of the case has
no bearing on our own personal vel
fare. Such an attitude demands abso-
lutte impartiality and Indifference as to
what conclusion the evidence may
point to- 1t is suspicious of any ex-
element, as experience has shown
that excitement in such cases disturbs
the reasoning power. It goes on the
principle, perfectly sound in such mat
to the love of truth because passion
generally acts in self-interest, and
self-interest in such things generally
involves prejudice; and so the only
way to go safely towards truth is to-
undoubtedly lead to scepticism as i'm
plying the absence both of fanaticism
and of passion for all knowledge at
tainable on matters of religion. 1t will
overthrow a false religion, but will
fail to find true one.
And there is, lastly, the Religious
attitude of mind properly so called.
And this is the attitude for viewing
all proofs connected with knowledge
that is of vital Importance to oneself.
The first essential of this attitude is
deep sense of the Importance of the
knowledge and of the fact to be known
upon oneself. This Immediately issues
in the passion for true knowledge
based on this sense, and thus passion
is enlisted on the side of reason. And
here we must make a distinction. If
but two alternatives are before the
mind-th suficiency or insuficiency
of proof explicitly before us, in most
cases the fact that the matter is of
vital importance will pre-suppose that
one decision is considered to be
supremely good, another supremely
bad. This is, in most cases, the very
ground of the all-importance of the
matter; and in such cases the intense
longing for knowledge is insepara-
bly, bound up with the intense wish
to believe.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

The city of Houston, Texas, has
a board Of theatrical censors
clothed with the power to imme-
diately stop the exhibition of any
Objectionable or indecent picture
or performance. There is crying
need in every other city in the
country for board invested with
similar powers. 1t should be made
up of half dozen reputable citi-
zens who could be relied upon to
do their duty without fear or
favor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

Two weekend retreats for lay
men were recently held in the
Seminary of st. Charles Bor-
romeo, Philadelphia. The first
was attended by sixty representa-
tives of the business and profess
sional world, and the other by
eighty-fve. Both retreats were
preached by the Rev. Father
Shealy, S. j., Of New York, and a
permanent organization was plan
ned for the purpose of promoting
this feature of Catholic religious
life.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-09-20

Man, says st. Ignatius, was Gre
ated for this end: to praise, rever-
ence and serve the Lord, his God,
and by this means to save his soul.
All other things have been created
to assist man to this end for which
he was created, and he must
choose only those creatures that
lead more surely to this end.
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GET WISE, Mr.. DRINkER.

AS a matter Of fact, the total alb
stainer is real beneficiary of the
drink business. He gets the benefit
of all the modern conveniences in the
hotels and restaurants at less than
cost because OF the profit the drink
ing men contributes for the mainte-
nance Of the establishment. United
States Brewers Association Year
Book.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918.

Have you distributed any copies
of Archbishop Ireland's address
on Catholicism and American
ism?" 1t can be obtained in
pamphlet form at this office for 2
cents copy or $3.50 hundred.
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to live in Christian peace and
friendship. Surely, the intelli-
gent Protestants Of Mankato do
not accept the Judges estimate Of
their Catholic fellow-citizens.
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Entered as second-class matter, Jan
uary 12 1911, at the post Office, St.
Paul, Mimi, under Act Of March 3, 1879.
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