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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
ANOTHER SILLY PUBLICA-
TON.

Since the Aurora publication be-
gan to herald abroad it's alleged
success in the newspaper world,
a host of imitators have sprung
up, like bad weeds, in different
parts of the country. The latest
addition bears the euphonious
name of "The Rascal Scalper, "
and is published at Bethel, Mimi,
a little village about twenty miles
Northeast of Anoka. It's editor
lis one Sydney Denton Pierce.
Bethel is a Protestant village and
we cannot imagine what it has
done to call down upon itself
such a visitation. The journalistic
infant whose birth has placed
Bethel temporarily on the map OF
A. P. A.-ism has seen four months
of life and is still muling and
puking in it's nurses arms" Its
editor, like the rest Of his tribe.
is directing his imaginary thun-
derbolts against the Catholic
Church and her institutions. He
tells us that he has invested his
all lin machinery with which to
fight the papal system, whatever
that is. If he has, it must require
a high-power microscope to see the
returns, if we are to judge by the
character and makeup of the pro.
duct of his diseased imagination
His "pungent periodical of thrill,
ing thought" as he describes it
is in reality nothing but puny
attempt Of pigmy to secure
passing notoriety by trying to
appear more silly and ridiculous
if possible, than nature intended
him to be. We do not want to
advertise him any further lest he
become inflated and meet the fate
Of the frog in the fable.
For the benefit of our readers
who are, doubtless, interested in
knowing who the supporters of
this silly paper are, we give the
list of advertisers appearing in the
February issue: The Chapman
Supply Co., 2018 Irving Avenue
South, Minneapolis, Mimi; Earl
S. Scott and Company, Winona,
Mimi; J. J. Olfert, Numedahl, N.
D.; William Leopold, Sobieski,
Wis; The Restore Company,
Beallsville, Ohio; The United Cor
poration, st. Cloud, Fla; W. D.
Velie, 228 West Fourth Street,
New York; Frank F'ite, 164 Wav-
erly Place, New York.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
THE SALOON DESCRIBED BY ITS
FRIENDS.

Are those who oppose saloons too
harsh in their criticism of that institu-
ton? asks the American Issue" The
charge is frequently made that they
are, and that the gin mill is not as
bad as painted. Well let us introduce
evidence from the friends and sup
porters of the saloon. Let us put on
the stand the Wholesalers and Re-
tailers' Review, of California 1t is a
periodical devoted to the liquor bust
ness. Here is what it says of the
saloon:
With comparatively few exceptions
our saloons are houses of drunken
men, profanity, and obscenity of the
vilest possible type. 1t is no wonder
that even in the better towns of the
Wild West, as we'll as the effete East
and the conservative South, the stran-
ger who visits a saloon is at once in
voiced, labeled and damned.
Hits pretty hard, doesn't is What
temperance fanatic" has ever said
anything more severe?
Now, try another witness. Here is
BOnIOrCS wine and Spirit Circular of
New York, one of the best known
liquor journals in the country. Here
is it's evidence:
The modern saloon has baen getting
worse instead of better IT has been
dragged in the gutter; it has been
made the catspaw for other forms of
vice; it has succumbed to the vicious
ness of gambling; and it has allowed
itself to become allied with the social
evil.
Damaging and convincing testimony
from those who know. Where is there
an American citizen who needs apollo
gize for his opposition to an institu-
ton so characterized by it's friends
and by those who best know it?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
REFUSED TO SELL LIQUOR.

In the book called "A Loyal Life"
may be found passage showing how
Henry L. Richards, as a young man,
viewed the liquor traffic.
Henry worked in his uncle's store
Whisky drinking and whisky selling
had not earned the odium which now
attaches to them. The records of
Granville, O., where Henry tended
store" show that in one year the little
township with one thousand seven
hundred inhabitants consumed an
estimated amount of ten thousand
gallons of whisky. Henry's uncle
helped to supply the trade, and Henry
was expected to sell any quantity to
any one who wanted it. One day a
customer demanded quart of whisky
and the youth refused to serve him
Confronting his employer, he firmly
refused to sell any more liquor.
Il have made up my mind that it
is wrong for me to have anything to
do with it." "Ha,' rejoined his uncle.
with an oath, those Presbyterians
have been tampering with you, l sup
pose! Well, sir, you may as well un-
derstand that if you can not do as l
wish in this store, you and 1 must
dissolve partnership" VERY well"
was the firm reply; IF the handling
of liquors is an indispensable part of
my duty here, then / must leave"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
ANOTHER LIST OF MENACE
SUPPORTERS.

Last week we published list
of persons in Minnesota who con-
tributed to a fund collected by
the Menace for the purpose of
taking legal means to release lit
tie Viola Martens "from the
clutches Of the Roman beast''-
whatever that means. 1t seems
this monster is holding her an un-
willing inmate Of convent in
LAGRANGE, Ill, and the Menace
would liberate her from the hands
of her supposed abductors.
The following benighted dupes
in the Dakotas contributed to this
fund:
In North Dakota: O. Boards
ley, Underwood; s. s. Edgemont,
McCluskey; Gust Olson, Overly
w. Walls, Bordulac; j. F. Kaser,
Bowbells; F. Foster, Inkster.
In South Dakota: FL. A. Can
tomine, Huron; T. Waldsmith,
Lead; J. T. Bellman, Canastota
Kate Lefors, Bellefourche; Mary
E. Bonney, Forestburg: Clara B.
Mumm, Watertown; A. Switzer,
Novak; Chas. HI. B. Fuller, Owan-
ka; Johan Peterson, Mobridge; A.
Fowler, Twin Brooks; H. W. Will
son, Henry; G. w. Henry, Sioux
Falls.
The following additional names
from Minnesota are given in order
that the list Of friends of the
cause may be complete: Alfred
Miller, Big Lake; Raymond and
Nyle Hammond, Elenville; VIM.
Watson, Excelsior; O. Davis, J..
Painter and B. Winkelmeyer,
Staples.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

Physicians increasingly approve of
total abstinence. And our prison
records show that the sudden total
deprivation of drink to prisoners who
have been long addicted to it improves
their health. 1t has been said that
when adults have been habituated to
the use of drink take the pledge they
often relapse. II that is SO, it simply
shows the natural tendency to back
slide into ones old vice or fault-a
tendency which can be conquered by
grace and good, firm will, and by
avoiding the occasions of the vice.
But though there be really some diff
Guilty in inducing adults to become
total abstainers, there is no difficulty
in the case of children. Temperance
principles should be far more encour-
aged among Catholic children.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
RUSSIAN CATHOLICS
PERSECUT Ed
MINISTER OF PUBLIC INSTRUC-
TON TO SUPERINTEND CATH
oLIC TEACHING IN SECONDARY
SCHOOLS - CATHOLIC PRIEST
AND PEASANTS IMPRISONED.

Conditions in Russia continue to
give alarm to Catholics. The Senate,
which directs the Empire and which
answers to the Privy Council or Coun.
Gil of State in other countries, has
just given judgment declaring that
it is the duty of the Minister of Pub
lie instruction to superintend Catholic
religious instruction in Russian Sec
ondary schools.
This is rebuke for the Minister of
the Interior, who permitted the Cath
Ollie Episcopal authorities to see after
such matters. Everyone feels that
this new regulation is but the pre-
cursor of fresh persecution in the
schools, which some time ago suf-
fered from sudden domiciliary visits.
While things have been comparatively
calm in other parts of the country,
ues. In the parish of Rubiejevitch the
Catholic priest and thirteen Catholic
peasants have just been sentenced to
two months and fifteen days impris-
onment respectively for demolishing a
cross!
This sounds extraordinary, but the
facts of the case are that a Catholic
who died in 1863 had cross erected
over his grave, and this monument
having fallen into decay was taken
down by the Catholics with the inten-
ton to replace it by new one. Now
this FIR. Milaszewski has been wonder
fully successful in the apostolate of
the church, and so numerous have
been those who have come to him for
instruction in the truth that the local
"popes" have their knife in him. They
Immediately made representations to
the authorities that, as the cemetery
had been converted into an Orthodox
cemetery, the cross was their prop
erty and that by pulling down this
sacred emblem the Catholics had
grossly insulted Orthodox susceptible
tiles. And on this flimsy preteXt the
poor priest is sent to prison!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
RABBI DENOUNCEs
PROsELYTIz|NG MET HODs
JEWISH TEACHER SAYS PROSELY-
TIERS DESTROY FAITH OF
IMMIGRANTS.

Catholic immigrants are not the
only ones sought as victims by prose
lytizers, who, in order to gain their
ends, are prepared to resort to the
most dishonorable subterfuges. I'M
migrant Jews are the prey of the same
hypocritical propaganda. Speaking
recently before the congregation of
Temple Shaari Zedek, Brooklyn, Rabbi
Max Raisin appealed to so-called
Christian missionaries to desist from
their work among ignorant immigrant
Jews of the tenement districts of New
York. While in most instances they
failed to make converts, Rabbi Raisin
said they nearly always destroyed the
faith of those they approached in all
religions. The strong and wealthy
Jews, Rabbi Raisin said, were never
sought by these missionaries.
Il believe that the upright and fair
minded Christians" Rabbi Raisin said,
as reported in the New York Times"
'are open to reason, and that the
Christian conscience can be success
fully appealed to-. We have faith in
the noble and honorable Christian, and
we believe that he would not know
ingly lend himself to a conversionist
scheme which, to say the least, is a
disgrace to it's promoters
"Let all such true and honorable
Christians once become convinced of
the full sordidness of the ways in
which the hireling missionary carries
on his work, and we have not the least
doubt that he will cease to substitute
that work. To men and women of
honor and integrity it must surely be-
come evident that not even religious
zeal can justify an unethical conduct.
What, then, can be more unethical
than the preachment of religion
through bribery and insinuation?
What is more immoral than to make
believe that certain hall is a syna-
gogue, when in reality it is but a
Christian church in disguise? What
more criminal than to steal the souls
of young children who are unable to
defend themselves, and whose parents
are too poor and too ignorant to pre-
vent it? The religion worth while
is the religion that works and fights
and breaches it's gospels in the open.
In no other way can it earn the con-
fidence and faith of honest and think
ing men,"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21

have been regarded as too puny to
bear any part in combat, were the
souls of two great armies. In some
heather countries they would have
been exposed while infants. In Chris
tendon they would, 600 years earlier
have been sent to some quiet cloister.
But their lot had fallen on a time
when men had discovered that the
strength of the muscles is far infe-
mind. 1t is probable that among the
100000 soldiers who were marshaled
round Neerwinden under all the stand
ards of Western Europe, the two
feeblest in body were the bunch
backed drawf who urged forward the
fiery onset of France and the asthmat-
ic skeleton who covered the slow re-
treat of England"
This immediate occasion of these
thoughts in the mind of the writer is
the reported experience of one of our
Western States with laws requiring
"eugenic" marriages. Of course, rea-
sonable restrictions upon the marriage
of persons having, as the fruits of
vice, terrible and disgusting diseases,
which may be transmitted to their
innocent and unsuspecting partners
and helpless offspring, are wise and
humane; but the whole subject is an
extremely delicate one, and the Legis-
lature must handle it with exceptional
circumspection. Any burdensome re-
straints on marriage, especially any
calculated to offend the community
sense of delicacy and decorum, must
be, in their effects, either nugatory or
disastrous, or both. 1t would be a
great blessing if all pairs united in
wedlock were in perfect health at the
time of their union; just as it would
be an even greater blessing if they
were all perfectly wise and perfectly
good; but it does not follow that all
young people ought to wait for the
attainment of perfect health before
they get married, any more than they
ought to wait until they become sages
and saints. After all, marriage, like
all other Divine institutions, was
made for man; man was not made to
contract ideally suitable marriages;
and neither the public happiness, nor
the public morals, nor, finally, the
public health will be advanced if these
truths are forgotten.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
PROTESTANT INTOLERANCE.

According to the English Cath
olic Directory for 1914 recently
issued there are 80 Catholic mem
bers of the House of Lords and
IS Catholic members of the House
of Commons. Of the latter rs are
for Ireland and 10 for Great Brit
ain.
These figures, says the Free
mans journal, do not tell much
for the British in the way of re
1igious liberation. There are SGT
English and Scotch members in
the House Of Commons and only
10 of them are Catholics; there
are 1O3 Irish members; IS Of them
are Home Rulers, elected for dis
tricts overwhelmingly Catholic,
while of IS Irish Catholic Con-
stituencies, 9 elect Protestants. 1t
is worthy of note Though not
noted or calling for notice in the
English Catholic Directory, that
of the Is anti-Home Rule mem
bers for Irish constituencies not
one is a Catholic. Such is the
tolerance of the people who are
crying intolerance" against the
Catholics of Ireland.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
RECORD PRICE FOR PICTURE
100000 PAID FOR "CoWPER" MA
DONNA PAINTED IN 15o5-THE
LoVELIEST OF THE MADoNNAS.

The purchase by P A. B. Widener,
of Philadelphia, of the Small Cowper
Madonna" by Raphael, the most val
liable picture ever brought to this
country, for a sum said to be in ex-
cess of 100000, creates record price
for single art transaction in this
country. The previous record was
Mr.. Widener's purchase of "The Mill, -
by Rembrandt, for 100000.
The "Panshanger Raphael was
painted about 1905, when the artist
was twenty-five years old. The pic
ture, which is on panel "a inches
in height and IL inches wide, was
originally acquired by George Nassau,
third Earl of Cowper, when he was
British Minister at Florence in 1880.
The picture, which Moreli, the lead
ing authority on Raphael, describes
as the loveliest of all RaphaePs Ma
donnas," belongs to the masters early
Florentine period. The execution is
easy and graceful and the drawing Of
the hands, especially those of the
Virgin, is of an elegance seldom seen
in other works of Raphael.
The background is beautiful fea-
ture of the picture. 1t shows on the
left winding river flowing between
wooded banks to the hills. To the
right is seen, with its dome and cam
panile, the Church of San Bernardino,
near Urbino, standing in bright sun
shine under an almost cloudless sky
of exquisite graduating blue.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
THE CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION.

1t Is something to be thankful for
that in SO many circles the old way
OF celebrating Christmas by drinking
to excess has almost completely died
out. Certainly, nothing could have
been farther from the true spirit of
the Christmas season than the custom
whereby men-and women, too, alas
made themselves lower than the
beasts of the field. The sweetness and
beauty of the day which commemo-
rated the coming of Our Blessed Lord
as little Child, was lost and forgot
ten, drowned in very ocean of drink.
Today better state of things pre-
walls. A growing sense of decency
has made drunkenness odious, and no
longer is Christmas merriment made
the excuse for beastly intemperance.
There still exists, however, more than
trace of the old spirit The custom
OF offering intoxicating liquors to 9TH
ers in honor of the Christmas season.
is still firmly established, though not
so wide spread as formerly, and manv
young men still are tempted to drink
at Christmas by those who should be
the last to offer them the intoxicating
cup.
And although the custom of Christ
mas drinking has measurably declined
among all classes, there has grown
up another custom which surely leads
TO lntemperance and other irregulari-
tles-the custom of taking Christmas
dinner in hotels. This has a most per-
nlc1ous effect on many people. It
taxes them away from the quiet,
natural atmosphere of their own
homes and leads them, among the arti-
| localities of public clearinghouse, to
commit extravagances that they would
not ordinarily dream of.
Christmas is festival of the home
and the family. It is a season of
| simple home happiness. The Holy
Family should be the model of the
Catholic family at Christmastide and
while the Christmas spirit should ex-
| press itself wherever possible in
friendly gifts and kindly good wishes
| and good cheer, there is no excuse
for emphasizing the eating and drink
ing feature Of the holy day. In the
drinking, particularly, which so many
people over do, the Catholic family
should be model of Christian re-
straint.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
WHAT THE WHITE STAR LINE
DOES FOR ITS CATHOLIC
PATRONS.

Some time ago we had occasion
to criticise the White Star Line
for the dearth of provision made
on board it's transatlantic liners
for the celebration of Mass and
the holding of Catholic services.
We noted a specific instance in
which scant courtesy was shown
to a Catholic priest who tried to
make arrangements to hold a
Catholic service on board the Ma
jestic.
This editorial was brought to
the attention of the General Pas
senger Office and we received a
communication, dated January 5,
1914, from Mr.. r. III. Farley, who
is in charge of the Passenger De-
partment of the International Mer-
camille Marine Company in the
course of which he said: "We
might say that there is no line
which has done more to make pro-
vision for Catholic services than
the White Star Line; and we will
point out in this connection, that
Altar Stones, which are, as you
no doubt are aware, required for
the celebration of the Mass, are
on our piers to be placed on board
steamers on which priests are
travelling"
This letter was delivered to us
through the Minneapolis office of
the Company, through which we
asked for an official statement in
regard to the provision made for
the celebration of Mass on board
the White Star Liners. Shortly
afterwards we communicated di-
rectly with Mr.. Farley and asked
him for this information. In the
course of a few days we received
from the Minneapolis office a let
ter, dated January 16, from which
we make the following extract F:
"I am in receipt of a letter from
Mr.. R. II. Farley, in charge of
the Passenger Department of the
International Mercantile Marine
Co., New York, and I have pleas
ure in communicating to you the
following extract from his letter
Regarding the inquiry you
received from Rev. Reardon as to
what arrangement exists on the
White Star Line steamers for
Catholic services, you can inform
him that on all steamers Of the
Canadian service there are altar
stones at which Mass can be cele-
brated. On the steamers of the
Boston and New York services,
while we have no altar stones
here, or in Boston, there are no
objections to the celebration of
Mass on the part of the Company,
when the clergyman has the neces-
sary equipment to perform same,
every facility being granted by
the ships officers in the way of
providing space on shipboard for
same. >"
On February IL, Mr.. Farley, In
reply to our letter to him, makes
the following statement: ere
verting to that part of your letter
in which you ask as to what pro-
vision is made for Catholic serv-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21

L HC OdCI1OIIC 1ICdLIC N1OFC-
ment inaugurated by Cardinal
Farley Of New York, and Of which
Miss Eliza OBJ. Lummis is Di-
rector, has issued a bulletin Civ
ing a list Of wholesome and ele-
waiting plays which may be patron
lied without detriment to faith or
morals.
The idea of a white" list is
an excellent one. 1t is much bet
ter to give a list Of plays which
are morally clean than to tell the
people what theatrical perform
ances should be avoided because
Of their suggestive or immoral
character. We hope the list will
be materially increased for there
is no dearth of good plays that
can be secured by theatrical man
ayers if they are made to see that
it will pay to produce them on the
stage
1t is useless to urge that thea
tre-goers, as a body, want risque
plays. They do not The people
are ready to show their apprecia-
ton Of plays which do not offend
against the ordinary conventions
Of polite society whenever they
have an opportunity to do so.
Playwrights and theatrical manag-
ers try to put the blame for the
character of many Of their plays
on the shoulders Of theatre goers
themselves, and they have tried to
hoodwink the public into the be-
lief that they are merely catering
to a popular desire when they
stage improper shows. But
such is not the case Of course.
certain class of theatre goers
revel in suggestive, if not indie
cent, performances, but their taste
must not be set up as a stand
ard of Judgment for all. The peo-
pie at large are clean-hearted and
will always show their apprecia-
ton of high class moral plays.
We would add to the published
white" catalogue of plays "The
Confession" by James Reid Hal
leck, and "The White Sister" by
Marion Crawford. Both of these
plays were presented during the
past month in the Shubert Theatre
in this city by the Wright Hunt
ington Players and drew capacity
houses-the former for two
weeks and the latter for one.
Both plays are intensely Catho-
lie. The one, as the name indi-
Gates. has for its central idea the
sacred and inviolable character
of the seal of sacramento con-
fession, while the other presents
the teaching of the Church in re-
gard to the binding character of
the vows taken by a religious.
Both plays were admirably staged
by Mr. Huntington and his COM
pany and the crowded houses
which greeted them at every per-
Torrance was a sufficient indica-
ton of the great interest aroused
by this method of presenting
Catholic truth. Both plays de-
serve place on the 'white" list,
and Mr.. Huntington is entitled to
the commendation and patronage
of all who enjoy clean and in
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21

Wednesday Of next week. Feb
ruary 25, is Ash Wednesday, the
first day of Lent. 1t marks the
beginning of the forty days of
prayer and self-denial which
serve as a preparation for Easter
Sunday. The ashes placed upon
the foreheads of the faithful on
that day is the outward mark of
the interior spirit of recollection
and penance which should char
acterize the true child of the
Church. It is symbolic of the
sackcloth and ashes" which
served to show the penitential
spirit of the holy ones of other
days, reminder of the lowliness
of man s bodily origin and destiny
as indicated in the words used by
the priest when he signs the faith
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21

During Lent faithful Catholics
refrain as far as possible from tax
ing part in worldly amusements
and the ordinary forms of legiti-
mate enjoyment in which they
participate at other times. This
voluntary withdrawal from the
distractions of the world is in
keeping with the spirit of this
penitential season and enables the
soul to grow and expand under
the influence of the Holy Spirit
whose voice is heard more dis
tinctly in solitude and retirement
than amid the unceasing din of
the world and it's interests.