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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
Pro CATHEDRAL
LECTURE COURSE
THE HONORABLE JOHN BARRETT
WILL GIVE AN ADDRESS ON
"AMERICA AND THE SISTER
AMERICAS" NEXT SUNDAY
EVENING-A RECOGNIZED AU-
THoRITY ON SOUTH AMERICAN
PROBLEMS.

In the lecture course mapped out
to commemorate the civic opening of
the Pro-Cathedral of ST. Mary, Mime
apolis, the second place is given to
the Honorable John Barrett, of Wash
ington, D. c., who has chosen for his
subject, America and the Sister
Americas" This lecture will be given
in the Pro-Cathedral Auditorium, Hen
nepin Avenue and Sixteenth Street,
next Sunday evening at quarter past
eight o'clock. In addition to it a
splendid program of vocal and instru-
mental numbers will be rendered
The Honorable John Barrett needs
no introduction to the people of
America who take an interest in pub
lie affairs in so far as they refer, espe-
cially, to South American problems
Mr.. Barrett is President of the Pan
American Union whose purpose is to
bring about solidarity among the
Republics of South America and to
establish and preserve harmonious re-
lations between them and their sister
Republic of the Northern Hemisphere.
Mr. Barrett has made a thorough
study of the conditions in South Amer
lea. He knows the history of these
Republics, their achievements and
aspirations He has studied them
from the commercial, political and re-
ligious points of view with an eye
single to the acquisition of truth. He
is not swayed by political expediency
or religious bias; nor does he assume
the role of defender of the South
American Republics He simply tells
the truth about the industrial, political
and religious conditions just as he
finds it. We hear and read SO
much that is disparaging to the peo-
pie of these Republics from super
fetal observers and casual visitors
who are biased by their preconceived
ideas that it is refreshing to have the
truth from one who knows whereof he
speaks.
We have no doubt that Mr.. Barrett's s
lecture will prove intensely interest
ing and instructive to thoughtful peo-
pie, and an antidote to the false ideas
in regard to the South American Re
publics which have been so indus
triously circulated by a certain class
Of lecturers and writer's who are un-
willing to give the Catholic Church
and Catholic institutions full credit
for whatever they have accomplished
in these localities.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
CATHOLIC STUDENTS
ASSOCIATION
FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
WILL BE HELD AT IOWA
CITY THIS MONTH.

The Most Reverend Archbishop
Keane of Dubuque and the Right Rev
erend Bishop Davis of Davenport will
be honored guests at the fifth annual
convention of the Catholic Students
Association of America, which meets
in Iowa City, November 13, Ia and Is.
They will speak at the annual banquet
on the evening of November 13.
Twenty-Five educational institutions
will be represented at the convention.
Besides the regular sessions of the
convention great variety of enter
tainment has been provided for the
visitors.
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CALIFORNIAN ITALIANS
INCREASED NEARLY ia PER CENT
IN TEN YEARS-NOW ESTI-
MATED AT 1o2,61s-DIVoRcE
PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN.

During the decade of years between
1900 and 1910 the Italian-born popu-
lation of California increased 1899
per cent and rose from the sixth posi-
tion among foreign nationalities to the
second place.
These statistics have been compiled
by Mr.. Leslie of the California State
Bureau of Vital Statistics from the
census returns of these years. His
compilation also shows that the
Italians marry among themselves
much more than they intermarry with
Americans. Including children born Of
this intermarriage, the Italian popula-
tion of California is estimated at 1927
618, of whom more than one-quarter
live in San Francisco. Divorce is
practically unknown amongst them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
ST, VINCENT De PAUL SOCIETY

important part in the history of Min
nesota
The constitution of this pioneer or
ganization provided that the Society
be known as ST. Joseph's Conference
of st. Vincent de Paul." It's govern
ment was vested in president, vice
president, recording secretary, cor
responding secretary, treasurer, book
keeper, and a stewart, who were
elected at the semi-annual meetings in
May and November of each year
They were entrusted with the general
supervision of the Conference and the
making of all appropriations for the
carrying on of it's work. 1t was the
duty of the Stewart to take charge of
all clothing purchased by the society
or donated to it, and to employ per-
sons to make and deliver the same to
needy applicants on orders signed by
the Chairman of the Board of Visitors.
The Board of Visitors was appointed
every second month and required to
investigate the condition of all
applicants for aid without reference
to nationality, to see whether they
were deserving of help. 1t was also
authorized to dispose of the funds of
the society under the direction of it's
officers.
The members of the society were
recruited from among Catholics of
good moral character proposed by a
member and elected by vote. No
specified dues were exacted from
them but each was expected to con-
tribute to the funds of the society as
needed
The bylaws, few in number, pro-
vided for the orderly transaction of
business at the regular semi-monthly
and other meetings of the society.
Later on, when this pioneer con-
ference became affiliated with the
parent organization in France, it
adopted the constitution and bylaws
which governs the establishment and
procedure of every ST. Vincent de Paul
Society. The society is at present
represented in this city by Particu-
lar Council and several subordinate
parochial conferences.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
DR.. GEOFFREY KEATING
FAMOUS PRIEST, SCHOLAR, POET
AND HISTORIAN, HoNoRED.

A memorial was lately erected at
Tubrid, near Cahir, in Tipperary, Ire
land, to the memory of the Reverend
DIR. Geoffrey Heating, the famous Irish
priest, scholar, poet and historian
who was born there, and preached
and suffered for the faith, in the six
teenth century. In a cave Of the
neighboring Ga1tees, whittier he had to
fly from the priest-hunters, he wrote,
in classic Gaelic, his History of Ire
land" "The Three Shafts of Death, =
THE Key-shield of the Mass" and
other patriotic and devotional works,
in prose and poetry.
During the Mass, which was cele-
brated in the open air, Rev. DR..
Power of University College, Cork,
and Rev. DR.. Sheehan OF Maynooth,
delivered addresses in Gaelic and
English on the permanent influence Of
Dr. Keating's work and character.
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had done in 997 when he introduced
Christianity in those parts. After the
ceremonies had been brought to a
close, says the ''Fjordenes Blad," the
Protestant paper of Norway, some of
those who took part in the festival
went in motor boats to the rocks of
the monastery of Selja, which are not
far away. About two hundred people
gathered on the rock which is called
Sunnivahemmeren. At the entrance
of what was once the choir of the
church the celebrated singer, Kval-
helm, described in a brief discourse
the ancient buildings of Selja After
having drunk at the spring of st. Sun
niva they met again at the church of
st. Alban, which is so remarkable for
its imposing tower. There the Pastor
Hognestad standing before the main
altar intoned the Pater Noster, in
Latin, using the old melody of the
middle ages while the assembly lis
tened respectfully with bowed heads
and hands united in prayer
It is, says the "Olaf," a striking
proof of how the recollections of the
past exercise an unusual power on the
national mind. Not only were the
Catholics in that assembly so i'm
pressed, but Protestants as well, who
know very little of the grandiose and
solemn worship of the Middle Ages,
yet who now feel themselves i'm
PEELED to do what they can to revive
the memory of their ancestors.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
BISHOP VOLLMAR RETIRES
CHAPLAIN GENERAL OF cATHo-
Lie ARMY CHAPLAINS IN GER
MANY Is SUCCEEDED BY DR..
JoPPEN OF RREsLAU.

After ten years service Mgr. Voll-
mar, who has reached the age limit,
retires as Chaplain-Genera of all the
Catholic army chaplains in the Ger
man Empire, and is succeeded by DR..
Heinrich Joppen of Breslau.
Bishop vollmar is familiar figure
in Berlin, where he has been since
1894, when he was appointed general
vicar of the military chaplains, sue
ceeding DR.. Johann Assman. Born in
1889 in Paderborn, which has given
many eminent Bishops to the Church,
DR.. Vollmar was ordained in 1889, and
became military chaplain in Trier
after a few months on the mission.
He has spent thirty-nine years in
the Army, and was through the
War of 1870, where he did much good
work. In 1904, he was named Chap
lain-in- Chief of the Prussian Army,
and the same year was given the titu-
lar See Of Pergamon.
The new Chaplain-Ge was born
in Huls, Lower Rhine, in 1853, and
was ordained in 1875. He was for a
long time vice-rector Of the Munster
Seminary, and editor of the Pastoral
blatt of Munster. In 1904 he became
Pastor OF Division in Vessel; and i'm
1908 he was transferred to Munster.
Two years ago he was appointed
military chaplain of the Fifth and
Sixth Army Corps In Breslau.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08

The second installment of articles
on Socialism: Promise or Menace?"
in the joint debate between the Rev
erend John A. Ryan of ST. Paul Sem
mary and Mr.. Morris Hillquit of New
York, appears in the current issue of
"Everybody's Magazine"
Mr.. HilIquit contends that most
modern social evils are due to Capital
ism and that Socialism is the only
fundamental remedy. DR.. Ryan de-
clares that the Socialistic indictment
of Capitalism is overdrawn and that
Reformed Capitalism, and not Social
ism, is the only true solution.
We subjoin a portion of DR.. Ryan's
article in which he summarizes and
contrasts the conclusions arrived at
by himself and his opponent at the
present stage of the debate.
My opponent contends that many of
the proposals set forth in my main
article are contained in the Socialist
platform, and that some of them were
first formulated by Socialists. The
latter statement appears to me to be
very doubtful. OF late years the So
cialist party has been fairly enterpris-
ing in adopting among it's immediate
demands" reform measures which
have attained certain degree of popu-
larity, and claiming them as its own.
For example, the legal minimum
wage has been advocated and agitated
by different groups of social reform
ers for several years, but it made its
first appearance in an American So
cialist platform in 1912. When it was
embodied in the Progressive platform
about month later, some of the lead
ing Socialists claimed that Roosevelt
had stolen it from them!
AS matter of fact, the German So
cialists in the early years of their par
liamentary activity opposed some very
necessary social reforms; Socialists
everywhere subordinate such measures
to party welfare and tactics; and no
Socialist platform, so far as l am
aware, contains single reform pro-
posal which was not borrowed from
non-Socialist sources. From the So
cialist viewpoint, however, all these
and similar policies are consistent and
logical
The reformative principles and
measures which have been sketched in
my preceding article are adapted to
meet specifically all the main abuses
of our present industrial system. In
greater or less degree they have all
withstood the test of experience. They
can be made effective as rapidly as is
consistent with the limitations of hui
man nature, the lessons of history, and
justice to all classes of the community.
When their full results have been
attained when decent minimum of
working and living conditions have
been secured to all persons; when the
great majority of all the workers pos
sess some share in the means of pro-
duction; when economic opportunity
has become equitably distributed,
through industrial education and the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
I'M MI GRAFTON
DURING THE PAST YEAR 37,o23
IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM IRE
LAND AND BROUGHT WITH
THEM $1,ss5, ,7os-THEIR DIsTRI-
BUTTON IN THE UNITED
STATES.

A leaflet published by the Mission
of Our Lady of the Rosary, New
York institution for the protection of
Irish immigrant girls, says that during
the past fiscal year 37,023 immigrants
came to the United States from Ire
land. Of these 2,543 were under IA
years; 32,491 were between Ia and A !;
2,O39 were As and over; 1892 went to
friends; 3O,5S8. to relatives; 3,173 to
others. Irish immigrants brought
over 81 1885, ,7O3.
The destinations of Irish immi-
grants showed 81 to Alabama, 80 to
Alaska, 81 to Arizona, II to Arkansas,
1888 to California, SO to Colorado,
1,095 to Connecticut, "a to Delaware,
81 to District of Columbia, rs to
Florida, "a to Georgia, 8 to Hawaii,
n to Idaho, 2,173 to Illinois, 1853 to
Indiana, 1877 to Iowa, so to Kansas, "a
to Kentucky, 81 to Louisiana, 470 to
Maine, 1T to Maryland, 6,607 to Mas
sachusetts, 1857 to Michigan, 372 to
Minnesota, to Mississippi, 251 to
Missouri, $50 to Montana, 81 to Ne
braska, 29 to Nevada, 241 to New
Hampshire, 1,943 to New Jersey, 20 to
New Mexico, 11,961 to New York, to
North Carolina, 127 to North Dakota,
7O5 to Ohio, 5 to Oklahoma, 247 to
Oregon, 4,104 to Pennsylvania, 573 to
Rhode Island, to South Carolina, 19
to South Dakota, 13 to Tennessee, 113
to Texas, 81 to Utah, 81 to Vermont,
40 to Virginia, 8S1 to Washington, q
to West Virginia, 11S to Wisconsin, 33
to Wyoming.
The Mission of Our Lady of the
Rosary which is located at State
Street, New York, provides a home
free of charge for Irish immigrant
girls who have no definite places to
go after their arrival in this country.
1t tries to locate relatives for them
and to secure positions in good fami-
lies for those who wish to go to work.
1t looks after their interests from the
time of their arrival at Ellis Island
until they are placed in charge of
their friends or otherwise located. 1t
is in charge of the Reverend NJ. J.
Henry, assisted by the Reverend A. J.
Grogan, and has been in existence for
thirty years. 1t is supported by
voluntary contributions from friends
and gives its services free to all who
desire to avail themselves Of the ad.
vantages which it offers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
THE CHURCH IN NORWAY.
ITS GLORIOUS HISToRY-EvI-
DENCES OF A REVIVAL OF IN
TEREsT IN THE CATHOLIC RE-
LlGlON.

An old Norwegian legend tells us
that in the times when Otho was
ruling in Germany from the year
936-973, an Irish princess, ST. Sun
niva, who was remarkable for her
beauty and wealth, as well as for her
fervent piety and charity to the poor,
left the Emerald Isle to escape the
tyrant who endeavored to take her
prisoner and to seize her kingdom,
writes Baron Armfelt in America. =
With several faithful subjects she en-
barked in three ships and after a
perilous voyage on stormy sea ar
rived at Selja, an island on the coast
of Norway. AS protection against
the pagan Inhabitants of the Nor
wegian continent they took refuge in
the caves of the island. But the
pagans under the leadership of
Haakon Ladejarl set out to kill them.
Anxious chiefly for their souls saliva
tion, they asked God to let the rocks
of the cave fall on them, so as to pro-
tect them from the hands of their
enemies. Their prayer was heard.
The great rocks crumbled around
them and formed an immense sepul-
chre, so that the pagans, in spite of
all their efforts, found no victims
upon whom to wreak their hate.
Miracles at seIja.
But when Olaf Tryggvason ascend
ed the throne of Norway and propa-
gated the faith with tireless zeal in
all of his kingdom, miracles, SO his
tory says, began to take place at the
tomb of the martyrs. The king. him.
self went to Selja and succeeded in
finding not only the bones of the
martyrs, but discovered that the body
of the saint, which exhaled a sweet
perfume, was intact. A chapel was
built on the island and in it were
placed the relics of the saint That
was in the year 996. Later on in ITO
the bishop of Bergen translated them
to his cathedral where they were
placed in a magnificent shrine At
the time of the Protestant Reforma-
tion the shrine was destroyed, and
Catholic worship along with the re-
membrance of the holy martyrs was
buried in as great an oblivion as were
the relics of St. Sunniva under the
rocks of the Island of Selja.
A recent Pilgrimage to seIja.
But just as in the time of Olaf Tryg
gvason there were miracles, so in our
days remembrance of the martyrs is
beginning to exercise it's empire on
the minds of the people of Norway
This is true not only for the Catholics
of the country, but for Protestants,
who In spite of themselves feel It's
influence. The excellent little weekly
review of the Catholics of Norway
called the ''St. Olaf" furnishes us
with striking example: On the
feast Of st. Peter and st. Paul cross
was erected at Drayseidet in com
memoration OF what Olaf Tryggvason
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
BUSCH REMEMBERS
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
MILLIONAIRE BREWER GIVES $1o,-
600 TO EACH OF THREE CATH
oLIc CHARITIES IN ST. LOUIS.

The will of the late Adolphus Busch
disposing of an estate, estimated at
$75,0O0,O0O, was filed for probate in
ST. Louis on October 20. Ten thou
sand dollars are bequeathed to each
of twelve Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish institutions. Three st. Louis
priests, Fathers Snigardi,- Dempsey
and Dunno, receive OO0yeach, to be
used in the charity work they are en-
gagged in.
Father Dunno is at the head of the
Newsboys Home and Protectorate,
Father Dempsey has established ho-
tells for workmen and working women,
and Day Nursery, and Father Spig-
ardi is Rector of the Italian Church
of Our Lady Help of Christians.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
SOCIALISM OR SOCIAL REFORM

abolition of private monopoly when
no capital is able to get more than the
competitive or ordinary rate of inter-
est; when unusual profits are possible
only to those directors of industry who
in active competition with their fell
lows can produce unusually large
amounts of product; and when the
working class is in position to Sc
cure an ever-increasing share of the
national product, up to the limit of in
dustrial resources and social well-be-
ing-then there will be nothing left of
the social question except that healthy
measure of discomfort which is con-
dition of all individual development
and social progress.
The Next Step Forward.
My opponent attributes to me the
thought that, when the reforms that l
have advocated had been realized, So
cial progress would stop and the work
ers become passive and contented."
But have not explicitly repudiated that
supposition in the statement that the
workers would be in a position to go
farther, and obtain an indefinitely in
creasing share of the national product? +?
How much farther they would be en-
abled to progress, can not tell. am
not prophet. I can only indicate the
next important step, which seems to be
continuous with the past, and to be au-
thorized by experience. Possibly the
process will go on until interest as we
now have it will be for the most part
abolished. hope so, but I believe that
this result will be reached not through
Socialism, but through the direct own
ership of the greater part of the in
struments of production by the work
ers themselves by such methods as CO.
partnership schemes and cooperative
societies.
And submit that this will be more
democratic, more conducive to indi-
vidual initiative freedom, and oppor-
tunity, and in hundred ways more de-
sirable than society in which the
State has monopoly of all social pow
only through the State.
Mr.. Hillquit has, therefore, mis-
understood my position when he says
that l would establish a terminal to
social progress "at an indefinite point
in the middle of the road" / do not
attempt to fix a terminal anywhere,
for the simple reason that the facts
do not warrant such an attempt.
Ny opponent does set limit to in
dustrial evolution, namely, the So
cialist State. In so doing he aban-
dons the position of the evolutionist
for that of the utopian. I am the more
consistent evolutionist because do
not attempt to forecast any final or
fixed industrial system. The only uto-
pia of which I know anything is on
the other side of the grave.
My opponent contends that Social
ism is the logical and necessary out
come and terminus of industrial prog
ress. do not see either the necessity
or the logic; for | am unable to ac-
cept the a priori social philosophy
which underlies Mr.. Hillquit's social
faith and hope
We shall see more of this in a later
chapter. In the meantime would OBJ
serve that this belief in Socialism as
the industrial finality is another proof
that the Socialist is not more but less
scientific than the social reformer.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-08
CIVIC OPENING OF PRO- CATHEDRAL

ARCHBISHOP IRELAND'S LEG
TURE THE PRINCIPAL FEATURE
-ExCELLENT PROGRAM OF
MUSIC RENDERED BY THE PRO-
CATHEDRAL CHOIR AND THE
ST. THOMAS COLLEGE Or
cHEsTRA-2,5oo PEOPLE SHOW
THEIR APPRECIATION.
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ST. JoSEPH'S CONFERENCE WAS
ORGANIZED IN ST. PAUL ON NO.
VEM8ER 16, 1856, UNDER THE
DIRECTION OF BISHOP cRETIN
A. L. LARPENTEUR AND Will
LIAM MARKoE THE ONLY SUR
WING MEMBERS OF THE CON-
MITTEE WHICH DRAFTED ITS
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS.
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DR.. RYAN SUMS UP THE siTUA-
TIoN IN THE JOINT DEBATE
BETWEEN HIMSELF AND MR..
HILLQUIT OF NEW YORK-SO-
cIAL REFORM AND NOT SOCIAL
IsMIs THE REMEDY FOR EXIST
ING SOCIAL EVILS.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-07-17

Dat vos de name ov de tellar' yes
Now I know It. / saw him mere ae9'"
soon. You know him?"
by sight only; he is not the orls, g.
inal owner. nor the man am trying ~
trace. You know nothing OF "here n'
got the bag, l presume"
81 know noting more as l tell YOU
alreatty," rather disconsolately, as "e
realized that one drink was all ne was
going to receive.
Hamlin elbowed his way out 70 tne
street. He had learned something ou'
not much that was OF any value IN
doubtedly the haversack had come IN
to Duponts possession through MS
wife, but this knowledge yielded no IN
formation as to the present where
abouts Of lie Fevre. When the latter
had separated from the woman, the
old army bag was left behind, and
needing money, Dupont had disposed
Of it, along with other truck, seeming
ly of little value.
The Sergeant reached this conclu
sion quickly, and. satisfied that any
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CTO BE CoNTINUED.)
Manhattan Manners.

"Roofers are said to be going out
Of fashion. Know what a "roofer" is 4?
1t is the letter you write to people,
after you have been a guest at their
house, telling them what a delightful
time you had under their hospitable
roof" and thanking them for all the
generous favors you enjoyed at their
friendly hands, and expressing the sin
cere hope that the baby has got over
her cold. Nowadays, instead OF writ
ing this graceful letter, you generally
call your friend up on the telephone,
you tell him that the train made good
connections, and you add: MY that
was a bully time l had out there, old
mani" Not so nice as the old episto-
larry way, but better than nothing; for
when you have had a friend at your
house and he has taken his departure
you do not like to feel that he has
gone into the outer void that he has
fallen off the edge Of the world into
echoless space. That is what II
amounts to when he gets home and
writes not nor telephones and gives
no sign.-New York Mail