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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
THE PRESIDENTS VETO.

On january %, President Will
son vetoed the immigration bill
and sent special message to Con-
gress saying he disapproved Of
the measure because of the literacy
test and other restrictive tests
which it contained for the admis-
sion of immigrants to the United
States. The text of the Presi-
dent S message is given elsewhere
in this issue. 1t is a clear, COM
nonsense announcement on a
question which has been much agi-
tated during the past few years.
The fundamental reason for his &C
ton is the same as that which in
fiuenced President Cleveland and
President Taft to veto a similar
measure. The literacy test is not
test "of quality or of character
or of personal fitness, but of OPP
portunity. !
The advocates of the bill dis
agree with the President on this
point and an effort will be made to
pass the measure over his veto. In
deed, the immigration committee
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
CRIME DECREASES IN WEST
VIRGINIA.

In "a cities of West Virginia drunk
enness has decreased 73 per cent. and
all kinds of crime has fallen off 81
per cent during the first three months
of Prohibition. In these twenty-four
cities the total number Of DRINKS the
first three months without saloons is
291 against 1850 during the CORE
spending three months of last year
with saloons. The total arrests dur
ing the last three dry months is 1892
against 2,486 in the corresponding
three months of last year
In the city of Wheeling in the five
months following the elimination OF
the saloons there have been GA ar
rests for all crimes against 1906 ar
rests for the corresponding five
months of last year. The police de-
partment of Wheeling reports that
for the month of November the de-
partment made 121 arrests against 37S
arrests for the same month a year
ago.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

of the House Of Representatives
voted to reject the President s
veto and have already decided to
attempt to have the bill re-enacted
by the House. This requires a
two-third majority. After the bill
has been acted on in the House it
will then go before the Senate.
The course taken by President
Wilson in vetoing this measure
which aims at the restriction Of
immigrants from Southern Eu-
rope, who are largely Catholic,
meets the approval of all who have
at heart the best interests of the
country, 1t does not appeal to
the A. P. A. and other self-styled
patriotic" organizations whose
fundamental plank is hatred of
the Pope.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
IGNORANCE AND CRIME
STATISTICS OF ILLITERAcY AND
cRiMINALITY IN NORTH CAROL
INA, A STATE ALMOST WHOLLY
PROTESTANT AND RICH IN AN.
TEcATHoLlc SHEETS.

North Carolina, says a writer in
''The Catholic Standard and Times"
of Philadelphia. is the home of several
vile and scurrilous anti-Catholic
sheets, among which 1.-THE PERIL"
''The Yellow Jacket and "The indie
pendent" seem to take the lead in
handing to their dupes all kinds of i'm
aginary tales of the illiteracy and
criminality of Spain, Mexico and other
countries where Catholics are in the
majority, caused, they say, by the
Church being opposed to education
and in favor of union of Church and
State. These sheets also endeavor to
tell their poor deluded readers that in
countries and States where Protes-
tants predominant that there you will
find hOurishing schools and education
galore, very few criminals, empty jails
and prisons and churches leaving the
affairs Of State alone. These SANDER
Gus papers are continually repeating
the vilification that the Catholic
Church is political machine, dab
bling In the politics of the State.
What are the facts with regard to
Protestant North Carolina, the home
of so many anti Catholic journalistic
reptiles?
In the Raleigh News and Obsery-
err" of December u, 1914, we find the
following paragraphs concerning the
previous days proceedings OF the Bap-
fist State convention:
DIR. J. X. Joyner filled his brief adj
dress with significant figures on the
state of literacy in North Carolina
There are, according to the report of
qualifications in the 1910 census, 132,-
900 white illiterates in North Carolina
over ten years of age. OF this num-
Der $4,000 are in the country dis
tricts where the Baptists are pre-emin-
emily strong. This In the final ana1y-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

gether for religious, education-
al and charitable purposes in the
object of bills introduced into the
legislatures Of Texas and Mis-
souri,, Last week we referred to
the Missouri bill, and all that was
said about it is true of the bill
introduced into the Texas legisla-
Eture by Mr.. Dickson Of Lamar.
Another bill has been presented
to the same legislature, the pur-
pose which is to compel all chill
|dren between the ages Of eight
and fourteen years to attend the
public schools of Texas for at
least eighteen consecutive weeks
of each school year, or for the
whole term if the school year be
less than eighteen weeks. This
attendance is to begin at the open
ing OF the school year unless per-
mission is otherwise granted by
the district school board, or ull-
less the child is being educated
at home by private tutor or
other competent person or in a
private or parochial school APP
proved by the County Superin-
tendent. This bill makes the
county or state superintendent Of
each school district the sole judge
of the efficiency of private and
.parochial schools and gives him
the power of preventing any child
from attending a school which in
his judgment does not meet the
requirements of the act.
Both these bills are aimed at
Catholic Institutions. Will they
be enacted into law? Surely
there are enough intelligent and
.broad-minded legislators in Texas
TO relegate to the waste basket all
such attempts to rob the Catholics
of that State of their rights as
American citizens.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
"Do YOU DRINK"

Going South one spring" said Con-
ME Mack, Il took fancy to young
ster who was to be tried out. / liked
his looks and liked his line of talk
above all, | liked his high spirits.
Seemed to me that he would be there
fighting all the time-never down in
the mouth and ready to quit. So,
having taken such fancy to him,
began to pry into his private life
little, but in such way as to make
him see that was-you know-really
interested in him, not merely curious
about his own affairs. Quite casually,
as I might have asked him if he liked
to go to the theatre, inquired if he
drank.
Well, that young fellow was frank
and above board about it. Said he
took drink once in while-a glass
of beer occasionally, sometimes
whisky; but almost always he drank
to be sociable-to be "a good fellow
DO you ever go a while without
drinking?' 1 asked him.
"'Sure' he exclaimed. Sometimes
/ go two weeks or a month without
taking drink
Don't you miss it?' | asked him.
"'Not bit! Never miss it at ALL
Il kept quiet few minutes. Then
came at the youngster this way:
of course, understand know your
drinking doesn't amount to anything.
But if anybody was to ask me about
you, of course | couldn't ring in ex-
ceptions-Td have to say you drink
Here / stopped-to let it sink in: then
l went on.
Now, SO long as you don't miss
it when you're not taking it, if were
you I'd think it over and decide wheth-
er the drinking is worth CHASING
yourself with those who do drink,
with those who can't get along with
out the stuff
"Say, in two days that youngster
came to me and said:
Mr.. Mack, if anybody. asks you
whether drink, you tell 'emi L don't,
for do not drink
Perhaps there's something like a
tip in that" commented Mack. ANY
business man who has to handle men
can take it for what it's worth. l
haven't any patent on it, although it's
my method"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
"NEvER GIVE. HIM WHlsKYI"

A western railroad issues instruc-
tions on how to give first aid to an
injured man. The following passage
is of particular interest:
Now we have stopped the bleed
ing and have the man lying down,
but another good friend with bottle
of whisky arrives and gives whisky
to the injured man in such large
quantities that he often becomes
drunk and by the time he reaches the
hospital he is drunk.
"The injured man is put on the
operating table and the doctors and
nurses try to hold him down in order
to administer chloroform. BY his
struggles, due to his intoxication, he
probably wears the doctors and
nurses out. You can readily under
stand that If man uses his strength
to the extent of wearing out four or
five other people, he has wasted
tremendous amount of his own ener-
gy and vitality, which he needed to
stand the shock of the operation. The
man needed all his reserve strength,
and that is the reason he should not
have been given whisky. SO you SEQ
the net results are that the man has
been shocked when he was hurt, and
we have to shock him twice as much
with chloroform as would have been
necessary if he had been sober. Oc-
casionally, however, a man is serious
ly injured who has to travel some dis
lance. This man needs stimulant.
There is just one stimulant that will
do no damage, and that is hot black
coffee. So when man Is being taken
to the hospital and needs stimulant
give him hot black coffee, put warm
things around him, but never give him,
whisky
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
THE OPEN BIBLE.

The three downtown Protestant
churches of this city which are
modifying their forces for an
evangeliStic campaign next month
report an increase in attendance
at last Sundays services as a re-
suit of the publicity given their
"Go-to-C hurch-S un day" agita-
ton.
One of the ministers said that
the great reason" why people
attend church is because
"the open Bible is here" 1t
seems to us that a consistent
Protestant who accepts the funda-
mental principle of Professionalism,
namely, the Bible privately inter
preted and nothing, but the Bible,
will find in this "great reason
"a legitimate excuse for staying
away from church on Sunday.
If he really believes that the
Bible, as interpreted by himself,
is the sole. guide i'll matters OF
faith, why should he 60 to church
to hear it interpreted by another ?
Why not stay at home Old Sunday
morning and read and interpret
the Bible for himself? Has he
not as much right To do so rs
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
MINISTER SAYS ED
UcATloN is NOT COMPLETE
WITHOUT MORAL TRAINING.

At Fort Rouge Methodist Church, in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can, not long
ago, a sermon of broad-minded appre.
citation of the virtues of an ecclesiasti.
cal system profoundly different from
his own was given by Rev. DR.. James
Elliott, who remarked in the course OF
forceful address on education and its
relation to the church and state:
What are we saying in these days
about Belgium? We are saying brave
Belgium, manly Belgium, patient Bel
GUM. Thank God for that great his
toric Roman Catholic Church. Belgi.
um has been taught by Roman Cathol.
icism to her everlasting credit"
Throughout the sermon, which was
based on the text, Take fast hold of
instruction. Let her not go. Keep her,
for she is thy life" proverbs Alb,
DR.. Elliott made many suggestive
statements. After the remark given
above, he went on: 81 am convinced
that if religion had been thoroughly
taught by men who call themselves
Christians there would have been no
war" Eucken had said before the
war, In every great city of Germany
any antagonism or aspersion that is
cast upon Christianity is applauded"
He had also said, I'm these our mod
ern days the morals of Christianity
are considered too soft" The preach.
er then quoted q number of texts illus
trative of the teaching held to be too
soft, and declared that if the spirit
of those texts had been put into prac-
tice, the great war would never have
occurred. Turning directly to his
hearers, he said that the war was on
in Winnipeg as we'll as on distant bat.
tlefields. There was war when men
who called themselves Christians did
things toward their fellow men that
were unChristian. What we need to.
day is the essential spirit of Christian.
ity, and il that is applied, men every.
where will look up to God and say
Father so that the time will come
speedily when war shall be no more
Discussing the meaning of educa.
ton, DR.. Elliott said that the day was
gone when it was considered to be a
mere matter of memory knowledge.
True education is the real develop
ment and fullest unfolding of our
whole being, physical, mental and
spiritual" No education was COM
plete, in his opinion, that left out the
moral and spiritual element. Thomas
Carlyle had said: "The most impor-
tant thing concerning man is his re-
ligion." Then the preacher exclaimed:
Il have a quarrel with these times.
The churches want religion in the
schools, and yet they cannot agree as
to what is to be taught in the schools.
Consequently they say, since we can
not agreed what to do, let us put the
Bible out of schools altogether. Poor
churches His personal view was
that religion must be taught in the
schools, or man would suffer.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
SPANISH FESTIVAL
SAINT RAYMUND HoNoRED I'M
BARCELONA AND ON THE IS.
LAND OF MAJoRCA.

January % was the festival day of st.
Raymund of Pennafort, and it was OBJ
served with curious rites by the pious
people of the Island of Majorca, in the
Mediterranean, and Of the Spanish
city of Barcelona An ancient chapel
on the Barcelona water front is the
center of the st. Raymund day observ-
ance. This old building commemo-
gates one of the most astonishing
miracles ever attributed to any saint,
for it is said to mark the spot where
st. Raymund landed after passing over
sixty leagues of water, from Majorca
to Barcelona, with his cloak as yes
sci!
st. Raymund was born in the
Twelfth century, and entered the order
of st. Dominic. He was one of the
founders Of the Order of Our Lady of
Ransom for the Redemption of Cap
tives. He first attained prominence
by preaching a crusade against the
Moors, who then held large part of
Spain, and was successful in restoring
many thousands to Christianity. To-
ward the close of his life the Saint
accompanied King James to Aragon to
the Island of Majorca, and converted
many of the pagan inhabitants to
Christianity. The Kings immortality
SO shocked the Saint, however, that he
expressed a desire to return to Spain,
unless the monarch would give up his
evil practices. The King refused per-
mission for the Saint to leave, and
threatened with death any person who
assisted him to escape.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

The state officers of the knights
of Columbus have secured for
free distribution, 10000 copies of
the pamphlet issued by the SUI
preme Council of the Order un-
der the title, ''Knights of Column
bus Versus Criminal Libel and Ma
licious Bigotry." This pamphlet
gives in considerable detail an &C
count of the legal proceedings in
stituted in different parts Of this
country and elsewhere to show the
falsity and malicious nature OF the
so-called knights of Columbus
oath which has been, and is be-
ing, SO industriously circulated
throughout the nation by the ex-
ponents of anti-C Catholic bigotry.
1t is the intention of the knights
to distribute these pamphlets to
interested non-Catholics, as far as
possible, and thus allow the truth
i'll regard to the result of these
prosecutions to become very gen.
orally known among the people.
The State officers are most anx-
ious to secure the names and adj
dresses of persons to whom the
pamphlet may be sent, and any
one who desires to secure a copy
for himself or for others. can do so
by writing to Mr.. John A. Burns,
State Deputy, st. Paul, Mimi.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
CHRISTIAN PURITY.

Our Holy Father, Benedict XIV,
asked the members of the League
of the Sacred Heart to pray dur
ing the month Of February for
Christian purity.
The spirit Of Modernism, which
would solve every problem and
answer every question on a pure
ly natural basis, has gone even
into the field Of morality. Con-
scious of the havoc which is being
worked by the ravages of impur-
ity, the Sociologist is trying to
correct the evil by natural means.
Men and women who have no
sense of morality as a Christian
virtue, who know nothing of the
Nervousness Of sin, realize that the
physical and mental vigor Of the
race is being weakened by disre-
gard of what they call the natural
law. They are prolific with sug-
gestions and remedies. Their i'll
tentions may be good as far as
they go but they cannot bring
definite or permanent results.
Sex hygiene, with its disgusting
detail, eugenics, with its undem-
onstrated theories, can never keep
a man or woman clean of heart.
The whole idea is based on natur-
alism. The aim is knowledge.
The appeal is to the wrong facul-
ty. knowledge is not moral
power. Experience shows that
those who know most are not
necessarily the purest in their
lives. immortality Is not the
heritage Of ignorance alone. We
find it just as widespread among
the rich as the poor, among the
learned as the illiterate.
Christ alone saved the world
and Christ alone can clean the
world. Chastity belongs to the
spiritual and the grace Of God is
necessary for the spiritual life.
Social movements may help.
They can remove many tempta-
tons. Popular sentiment can
purge the press and elevate the
theatre; it can abolish unclean
literature and suggestive dances !;
it can teach our boys to respect
their growing manhood, to revere
womanhood. It can teach our
girls modesty in manners and
dress. All this will help, will
remove many external tempta-
tions but with it all grace of God
must work.
To be clean Of heart we must
pray as well as watch. Therefore
our Holy Father would have us
pray that the most pure Heart Of
Jesus, through the intercession of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
may preserve in us Christian
purity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
AN IMPORTANT MARRIAGE
CASE.

A marriage case Of considerable
Importance was decided last
month by the Roman authorities
case which, in one respect at
least, is identical with that of
Count Boni de Castellane and his
wife, formerly Miss Anna Gould,
which is now before the tribunal
of the Holy Rota for final adiudi-
cation. In both cases, one of the
parties to the marriage claimed
that the marriage was invalid be-
cause of a mental reservation con-
trary to the verbal assent given
at the time of marriage. In the
case recently decided, the con-
tracing parties resided at Pine
Ridge, Ore. The girl, Dina Smith,
"a Catholic, became engaged to Alb.
ner O'Kieffe, an unhaptized man,
without any religion. The girl S
parents opposed the match. On
the death of her father, the moth
Ell urged her daughter to break
off all relations with O'Kieffe I'M
less he was baptized. TO this
O'Kieffe consented and ON March
II, 1895, he received baptism
and on the following .Octo-
Der s was married to Dina
Smith in the Church of
the Holy Rosary at Pine Ridge.
The marriage proved unhappy
and five months later Abner de-
serted Dina for another wom-
an. Subsequently Dina wished to
marry another man and petitioned
the ecclesiastical authorities of
Oregon to declare her first mar
riage null and void on the ground
OF simulated consent OH the part of
O'Kieffe. The matrimonial Curia
decided in favor of the validity Of
the marriage. She then appealed
to the congregation of the Sacred
Rota and asked, us the nullity of
this marriage evident" On the
evidence submitted, the tribunal
declared that the fact that Abner
intended to leave the woman, il
he did not like her, did not affect
the validity of the marriage be-
cause she was not aware of any
such intention; but, ON the con-
trary, declared, when questioned
about it, that she would not have
married him had she known that
such a course was contemplated by
him. The summing up of the
Tribunal Of the Rota was, there
fore, as follows:
Having weighed all these points
of law and fact, having invoked
the name Of Christ, we, the under
signed auditors of turnus, sitting
as q tribunal and having only God
before our eyes, decree, declare
and definitely sentence, replying
to the question proposed in the
negative, for the nullity of the
marriage is not evident.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

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.plorable condition than they are
at present in regard to religious
training, for it would lull them
into a false security with the
thought that they were doing
something for the spiritual vel
fare of their pupils whereas, in
reality, they would be feeding
them on empty husks from which
every grain of religious truth had
been extracted. We cannot hope
for anything in the way Of even a
workable solution of the question
of religious teaching in the public
schools from the prize essay con
test proposed by the National
Education Association.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
PRESENT STATUS OF ALCOHOL
QUESTION.

The fact that from the first day of
mobilization the sale Of all kinds Of
alcoholic drinks was forbidden in all
the railroad stations of the whole
German Empire, and also with the
fact that the officers forbade the send
ing of any kind of alcoholic drinks to
troops, both show better than hun
dred lectures and congresses possibly
could the present status of the alcohol
question.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

We have been patiently await
ing the appearance of the Official
Catholic Directory for 1915 which,
we were assured, was to be issued
early in the year. The English
Catholic Directory appeared a
month ago, and we see no good
reason why our own should not be
ready for delivery the first week
OF January. Last year the blame
for it's tardy appearance was
placed Oh the Chancery officials.
Who will have to bear the odium
this year?