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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
IN THE TOLLS.

Friday, November 13, was an
unlucky day for II. J.. Fowler and
C. w. Bib, members Of an organi-
cation whose main purpose is to
foment anti-C Catholic bigotry by
means Of public lectures in which
the Church and her teachings are
misrepresented. On that day they
were arrested in Red Wing, Mimi,
on the complaint Of T. M. Wilson,
and charged with violating a city
ordinance prohibiting the use of
filthy and obscene language. The
offence was committed in u public
lecture in the 1armory which was
attended by about sixty men and
boys. They were released Oh bail
and on the following morning
were arraigned in the justice court
before S. j. Nelson. Both entered
pleas of not guilty and their cases
were continued until December IA.
Each gave a bond in the sum of
one hundred dollars and was re-
leased. Franks Jordan of Mime
apolis appeared for the two men
in the absence of their attorney,
and State Attorney Hall repre-
sented the municipality. Mr.. Will
son, the complainant, objected to
a continuance Of more than a
week or ten days but finally the
date was set for December IA.
In this particular case the de-
PENDANTS cannot claim that their
arrest was engineered by Catho-
lies, for Mr.. Wilson, who swore
to the complaint, is a non-Catholic.
He is a representative citizen OF
Red Wing where he has lived
many years and is prominent in
city affairs. As a self-respecting
member Of the community who be-
lieves in justice, fair play and
right treatment to all, irrespective
Of religion, he has taken this stand
in an attempt to put an end to
such effort to arouse sectarian
bigotry. For this he will be com.
mended by all right-thinking PEG.
pie.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. -

The most remarkable thing
about Christian Science" is that
it is not Christian and it is not
science.
1t is not Christian. 1t denies
the Divinity Of Christ and the Per-
sonality of God. 1t affirms Pan
theism and Manicheism.
1t is not science. 1t bristles
with contradictions and absurdi-
ties. 1t denies the reality of ma
terial things. 1t abandoils the
scientific method of observation of
nature.
1t bids us all go to school to a
deluded woman. 1t tells us she
learned her new doctrines from
inspiration" and from the
Bible" We must use her ''key"
to the Bible and accept her absurd
misinterpretation of the Word Of
God. Christian Scientists will not
use the word miracle" but pro-
fess to have from the prophecies
the secret of marvellous cures
Independently Of the resources of
medical science. Thus, like all
denials of Christianity, Christian
Science works itself out as a most
pitiful and superstitious delusion.
The man who is fond of pie late
at night wants to escape the dire
results of that habit without hay
ing to listen to the rude remarks
| of his medical attendant. He
takes up Christian Science and is
glad to find that the pie was a
delusion and a dream, while the
elephant that sat on his chest all
night was perhaps a more substan-
| tial entity. Another man learns
that his alcohol and his drugs are
quite unreal when compared with
the green and blue snakes and the
whole moving picture show they
have given him. Dyspepsia and
1"Christian Science" are of mag
nation all compact. Before the
era of cheap and abundant pills
and potions, imaginative and crea-
tive artists used to declaim from
soap boxes about the virtues OF
the Elixir of Life aud the Pre-.
cious Panacea, implaeable foes
to all toothache, corns, bunions
bugs, pleurisy and dyspepsia. A
benign government intimated to
them that their self-sacrifcing
labors might be dispensed with.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
GERMANS KSSAIL ALCOHOL ONCE
MORE.

The report of Professor Elster to
the Prussian Minister of Public
Health has caused considerable COM
ment in Europe because of the sweep
ing character of the charges against
alcohol and the position of the man
making the report.
The Elster report declares that
there is hardly a known disease that
is not developed and strengthened by
the drinking habit, that alcohol causes
80 per cent of insanity, that it less
ems the efficiency of labor, that the or
ganization of young clerks of Berlin
Is burdened with an annual sick fund
bill of 100000 solely for the support
and cure of men suffering because of
drink, that so per cent of the poverty
In Prussia is due to the use Of alco-
holic beverages, that crimes of cru
city, assault, negligence, ETC., are al
most entirely due to this cause, that
thousands are born dead and thou
sands more of infants die in the first
few weeks because of paternal induI-
gence, and that numerous specified
illnesses are caused by the so-called
harmless beer which Americans are
told has solved the problem of tenn.
perance in Germany.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

At present the pills and potions
are spiritualized, as it were; the
dope" assumes the form of pom
pous platitudes, a weak dilutiOn
of Emersonian rhetoric, in which
studied vagueness and avoidance
of meaning fail to hide inherent
absurdities and contradictions.
Unreal entities known as dollars
are painfully necessary for the
propagation Of the new gospel. 1t
is more than likely that the full
page report of the Lecture on
Christian Science" by Jacob S.
Shield, c. s. B., which appeared
in the Minneapolis Morning Trib-
une Of November 13, was not un-
connected with those unreal en-
titles. The Tribune may be only
dream in the minds of the Ed
dyites: but perfectly good dollars,
not fairy money, are always well
come to the Eddyites and the Trib-
une which gives up imaginary
paper and printers ink, and not
for nothing. One has to buy the
absurdities Of this deluded sect in
book form if one is foolish enough
to think that a hard-earned dollar
is as big,a delusion as the pompous
nonsense of Mrs. Eddy.
Old-fashioned medical men
would advise the Eddyite to mod
crate his diet, avoid drugs, keep
in the open air, do real honest
work, and in general, live a sane
and regular life. Old-fashioned
Christians will point out that the
disciples of Mrs. Eddy are the
abject slaves of superstitution, the
very humble chanters Of rigidly
dogmatic formulas which avoid
mutual contradiction by becoming
meaningless nonsense.
Needless to say, "Christian
Scientists" are obsessed by the
vulgar spirit of hatred against
the Church, which is the charac-
teristic of all the sects, old and
new. Hatred Of real historical
Christianity, and zeal for elusive
dollars are about the most definite
things in this superstition. It
will go the way of all the sects,
and has already started down the
incline.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

1894 Congress passed an act making
the flag 15 stars and Is stripes.
This remained the flag of the
United States throughout the War of
1872 until there were 20 States in the
Union. In 1916 an effort was again
made to modify the flag SO that all
the new States would be represented
on it. To be continually adding
stripes would make the flag very awk-
ward in shape and appearance, so after
arguing the matter for two years
Congress decided to return to the
original Is stripes and one star for
each State. Congress has never de-
termined the arrangement of the stars
nor the shape and proportions of the
flag and there has been great varia-
ton, especially in the grouping of the
stars. There are still many who be-
lieve that the symbolic circular group
ing of stars should be restored.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

The Right Reverend Bishop
Macs Of Covington, KY, has re-
ceived a letter from Mgr. De
Becker, Rector of the American
College, Louvain, Belgium, which
contains the good news that that
institution is safe. 1t reads:
Thanks be to God, the Amer
lean Seminary remains, after a
hard struggle, unscathed, and it's
Rector and Vice Rector, who have
looked death i'll the face, have
escaped by what L consider a
miracle. The details of our treat
ment are in the hands of Mr..
Brand Whitlock, Ambassador of
the United States in Belgium. To
him, after God, / owe my life; to
him our American College Of Lou
vain is beholden for it's unique
privilege of standing whole in the
midst Of surrounding ruins
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
OLD CATHOLIC LANDMARK
SCHOOL SUPPORTED BY AssocI-
ATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES
WILL SOON DISAPPEAR FROM
LONDON.

An old Catholic landmark, recalling
the struggles made for the Faith and
the sacrifices for the education OF
poor children a hundred years ago,
will become only memory in a few
days, and vanish from the face of Lon.
don before the march of modern i'm
provements, says the London Uni
verse.
The old schools in Gate street, Lin.
coins Inn Fields, founded and sup.
ported by the Associated Catholic
Charities" with which were incorpo-
rated in 1911 three previously existing
societies for the education and ap
prenticing the children of poor par.
ents, are in the housebreakers' hands
with the monumental cross erected
in 1889 in the courtyard to the
memory of Mr.. Joseph Booker, book.
seller and publisher in Bond Street
and honorary secretary to the
Associated Charities"
1t is the last Catholic landmark in
Lincoln's Inn Fields, SO rich in Cath.
Ollie associations, unless We include
the old Ship Tavern" at the Great
TurnstiIe, where DR.. Chaloner gath
cred his flock in an upper room, y
and preached to them in secret. But
much water has flowed under the
bridges since those dark days.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

Next Sunday, the twenty-fourth
after Pentecost, marks the close
of the ecclesiastical year, which
differs from the secular year in
that it opens with the season of
Advent. The Gospel read on the
last Sunday in the calendar OF the
Church s year predicts the terrible
events which will take place when
the end of the world is approach
ing and the day of Judgment is at
hand. 1t warns Christians to pre-
pare for the second coming of
Christ when He will judge the liv-
ing and the dead. This is a fitting
conclusion. to the exhortations
which the Church addresses to the
faithful during the year, bidding
them be ever ready for the final
summons which will usher them
into the presence of the Eternal
Judge Who will reward or punish
them according to their deserts.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

If, as some Of our esteemed con-
temporaries report, Governor
Glynn of New York, declared, be-
fore the late election, that "if
both branches Of the New York
legislature should enact bill
providing for public payment of
the work of parochial schools
while he was Governor, he should
promptly veto it, +" he deserves the
fate which befell him OH election
day. What right has he, or any
other public official, to set himself
in opposition to the expressed
wish of his constituents, or to
refuse to tighten the burden of
taxation that falls SO heavily on
his co-religionists, if it can be done
by lawful means and the people
wish it? We thought better of
Governor Glynn, and we hope that
the alleged statement is not true.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
ALCOHOL AND INHERITANCE.

The influence of alcohol as detri-
mental factor In Inheritance is one
which has not readily lent itself to
convincing experimental proof in the
past During the last four years Pro-
lessor Stockard of the Cornell Uni
versity Medical School in New York
City, has been engaged in study
of the effects of alcohol in heredity.
He has demonstrated conclusively
that the germ cells of male guinea
pigs can be so injured by allowing
the individuals to inhale fumes OF al
cohol that they give rise to detective
offspring although mated with Vigor-
Gus females. The extension of these
unique investigations, in which the of
spring from the treated animals which
reach maturity are usually nervous
and slightly understood, have further
shown that the effect of the injury
of the germ cells is not only exhibited
by the immediate offspring of alcohol
lied animals, but is conveyed through
their descendants for at least three
generations. There are many in
stances of matings followed by mega
tive results or early abortions, still
born young or detectives.
An instructive illustration was af-
forded in case in which two of the
four young animals were completely
eyeless, the eyeballs, optic nerves, and
chiasma being absent. Such defects
result, according to Stockard from the
injury originally inflicted on the germ
cells by the experimental treatment.
Yet this injury may have been received
by earlier generations only. Thus the
parents of the guinea pigs mentioned
were untreated, their four grandpar-
ents were also untreated, but their
great-grandfathers were all normal an
imals. The defective eyes of descend
ants are due to impaired development,
not to direct action of alcohol.
Plainly the germ cell is actually
weakened, if not disabled, by the alco-
hol treatment and all individuals aris-
ing from combinations involving such
a germ cell are likely to be below nor
NAL. AS the Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association says, there is
food for reflection in these facts.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

that nobody" knows. But, Doc
tor, how do you know thatg Who
gave you the right to speak for
anybody except the editorial
'sWeng Some Of the sllreds and
patches Of omniscience cling round
the oracle even while it confesses
that it knows as little as sensible
people always suspected. This
oracle will not be dumb hence
forth: but it is bound to speak for
itself and for itself alone.
A shallow agnosticism is popu-
lar just now. Start out by assum-
ing that nobody knows if there be
a God, a future life, a difference
between good and evil, virtue and
vice. 1t will save the trouble Of
thought and study for writer as
well as for reader. 1t is pleasant
to be able to go ahead and do
what you like, since nobody knows
what matters or if anything mat
ters. Pose as an agnostic and you
can say nothing, provided you say
it smartly, though not quite SO
smartly as the circus clown. The
poor clown does not know much:
but he knows that several people
know more and have clearer heads
than himself; he does not tell the
world that it knows nothing be-
cause he, the wisest of men, has
fooled himself into dreaming that
he knows nothing.
The child who learns his cate
chism knows a good deal about
God, its own soul, eternity. This
knowledge grows and is extended
as one gives time and attention to
the study of theology. 1t is real
knowledge. It is based partly
upon the unerring word of God,
partly upon the intuitions and in
ferences of reason. By, reason
man can prove that God exists and
is good, truthful, all-perfect; that
Christ is His Messenger to teach
men divine truth: that Christ is
with His Church, as He promised
to be. All this is knowledge &C.
quired by vigorously exact scien-
tific processes. It is not without
mysteries or difficulties, but mys-
teries and difficulties do not in
validate clear and certain knoWl-
edge.
The man who has not studied
these matters has no right to pose
as the onniscient oracle about
them. Because Calvinism has re-
PEELED some men, it does not fol-
low that Calvin's horrible carl
cature is the only possible con-
cept Of God. Blind, unquestioning,
traditional prejudice against the
Church may possibly excuse man
who knows himself to be ignorant
and thinks that everybody else is
as ignorant as he is. But it does
not excuse hun Tor his pOmpouS
oracular tone. If DIR. Crane had
made an honest effort to master a
textbook of sound philosophy and
failed, the confession of failure
would be ineligible, but before
he has done so, to pose as the
oracle on all human thought and
knowledge is to emulate the per-
formances of the quack medicine
man. The neglect of the mental
training which the study of sound
philosophy provides, is painfully
apparent in all this vague and
loose defamation. If the oracle
said, 81 know nothing" and then
said nothing, we should all be
truly grateful.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

its officials consider themselves the
moral guardians of the Western
Hemisphere; if national and state
officials would enforce tile law
without fear or favor. and thus
aid in stamping out the fires of
sectarian hatred which have been
enkindled by bigots masquerading
in the guise of patriots. Yes, we
have much to be thankful for; but
let us hope that there will be rea-
son for greater thankfulness next
year.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

A STRANGE-AcTING LIQUID.

One autumn my father and | camp
ed near a pretty lake i'll Southern
Minnesota. In the grove of trees
where our tent was pitched was the
home of Il prosperous farmer. This
man had good wife, who kept his
home neat and clean; he also had
several bright, happy children. His
barn, his sheds and fences were in
good repair.
While in town one day with some
friends, he innocently swallowed a
glass of a peculiar liquid The first
drink he took called for more. The
strange thing about this liquid was
that as he continued to take it into
his stomach, it began to take the paint
off his barn and to remove the boards
from his fences. lit made the weeds
grow eOn his felds;' his horses and
cattle were neglected. The more he
applied to his stomach the more shah
by his clothes became.
But the effect of this liquid went
even farther. 1t made the tears
stream down the face of his devoted
HA1C' SOW CuCLl Ii GSly
| times. 1t took the bread out of the
mouths of his children. 1t took all
| joy and love out of that home, and
| finally completely wrecked it.
Can you guess what that liquid was
| that created such havoc with this man
and his home? 1t was alcohol. Be-
ware of it! 1t is no respecter of per-
sons, and will use you the same way
| if you have anything to do with it.
Alcohol will preserve anything that
is dead and will kill anything that is
living. 1t is useful in museum; but
keep it in a bottle and not in your
stomach The man who has an am
bition to become anything, from a
ditch digger to President of the United
States, should leave alcohol alone.
&C. E. Holmes in Youth s Instructor
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
oMNIsCIENCE UNMAsKED.

The omniscient Doctor Crane
has given himself away. On Sat
urday, November IA, the est. Paul
Dispatch" published one of his
oraeular editorials entitled,
"What We Do Not Know
Among other Delphic utterances
we note the following:
"We do not know what any
thing is. Nobody knows. Prob
ably nobody ever will know.
= We do not know what God is,
nor what religion, fear, hope,
courage and goodness are. !"
= We do not know what we our
selves are, our real person, our
ego; nor whether it continues
after death, or goes out like o
candle. We may believe, but we
cannot know. = The things
we positively know are of small
consequence.
What has happened to the Doc.
tor? Are all his editorials, after
all, of small consequence?
1t is not OF small consequence
to know the meaning of the edi-
torial Eve" We know it and we
know it definitely. Behind it the
Doctor has hitherto modestly hid
den his omniscience.. Now he uses
it to display, to confess his ignor-
ance. But he feels lonely: the
editorial Eve" is cold comfort to
man who knows nothing. So he
must find company. He tells nt
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
RUSSIA BARS LIQUOR INDUSTRY,

The Russian government never
again will embark in the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic drinks. This
statement, confirming previous re-
ports was made in the name of EN-
peror Nicholas on October 80.
The Russian Union of Abstinence,
which devotes its energies to combat.
Ing alcoholism, addressed to Emperor
Nicholas solicitation that he forbid
forever the sale of spirituous liquors
III Russia. His majesty replied in a
telegram sent i'll the name of Grand
Duke Constantine and addressed to,
the president Of the alliance, i'm which
he said:
I thank you; long ago decided to
interdict for all time in Russia the
sale of alcoholic drinks by the govern.
mcnt."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
WHAT NEXT?

At recent meeting of the Pub.
lie School Board of Minneapolis,
j. f. johnson, who acted as sec
rotary of a mass meeting held at
Unity Church, protested against
the flying OF. the American flag on
the public schools on Columbus
Day, October II. The observance
of this day in the public schools
was branded as "a Jesuit trick
to advertise the Roman Catholic
Church. +" Objection was made to
giving Columbus credit in the
schools for discovering America.
The protest said that, according to
the best authorities, Columbus
was not entitled to this honor.
The only notice which the
School Board took of this protest
was to point out that, by rule of
the Board, Columbus Day had
been observed as a flag day for
thirteen years in the Minneapolis
public schools and it was voted
that the custom be continued.
We are glad the School Board
did not stultify itself by giving
heed to the protest of such a be-
nighted group of people as those
who met at Unity Church. Their
deplorable lack of knowledge of
reliable history suggests many
possibilities for the intelligent
people of Minneapolis who have
time to devote to the instruction
of their fellow citizens whose edu-
cation has been so woefully neg
lected in this regard at least.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

By order Of the President,
Thursday, November 26, is
Thanksgiving Day. We are called
upon to give thanks to Almighty
God for the favors received
through His bounty. 1t is a day
of individual as well as Of national
thanksgiving. As u nation, we
have much to be thankful for
the blessing of peace, a plentiful
harvest, an increasing commercial
Importance, and other material
things. We would have more to
be thankful for if our neighbors
in the republic to the South of us
were receiving the protection from
this government to which they are
entitled in view of the fact that
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
PRIESTS DEFAMERS
CAUGHT.

For more than a year the Rev.
William Leen, pastor of st. JOS
eph's Church, Farley, Ia, has re-
ceived anonymous post cards of a
scurrilous nature through the
mails. He called the attention Of
the postal authorities to this mis-
use of the mails and, as a result
of an investigation carried on by
them, E. G. Arquitt, a barber, and
G. +. Barker, depot agent, both
of Farley, were discovered to be
the culprits. They confessed and
made affidayits to the effect that
they were the authors of the
anonymous post cards and, in or
der to escape prosecution by Fa-
Their Leen, they signed the follow
ing apology which was pub
lished in four Of the leading
papers of the State of Iowa:
eve desire to apologize to Rev.
William Leen, pastor of Catholic
Church, Farley, Iowa, for the OBJ
jectionable cards sent by us to
him by mail, for the sending of
which we had no justification ;
and to say that there will be no
repetition Of same on our part, OF
so far as we can control.
E. G. ARQUITT,
G. H RARKER, -
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

Owing to the fact that Thanks
giving Day falls on Thursday, we
go to press a day earlier next
week. All matter intended for
publication must be received not
later than Tuesday morning to
insure insertion in next week s
issue.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1914.

The poor souls in Purgatory
have claim on our prayers, at
least in charity. What have you
done to aid them during the month
of November?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-21

Do you ever think to have d
Mass said for the holy souls? The
Council of Trent teaches that we
can help the souls i'll Purgatory
by our prayers ''and especially by
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass"