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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
DEcADENT DRINKERS.

Our drinking population has become
fearfully decadent. Men used to be
willing to battle for the drinking privi-
lege. Once the distillers could count
on an unbreakable phalanx of booze
fighters at the polls, shouting "Per-
sonal liberty forever" and full of the
thing for which they voted. Those
good days are over. The bartender in
these degenerate times listens unpro-
testingly to prohibition conversation
from serried ranks of lips moist with
the aromatic cocktail and the cool
highball. More horrible still, the bar
tender often drops remark showing
that he is himself "prohib" in SYM
pathy. The average drinking man
either does not care a continental
whether prohibition carries, or pumps
his vote for it. Anti-saloon sentiment
has broadened tremendously. Nobody
can be counted on to respond to the
old wet slogans, simply because the
number of Americans who feel any
deep interest in their grog has dimin
ished until it is practically confined
to the most recently arrived foreign
element and to certain groups with
whom drinking is cult.
Golfers Weekip.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
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MAY THEIR TRIBE INCREASE


tt is gratifying to read from
time. to time of the efforts made
by certain persons who have at
heart the interest of the Catholic
press, to increase the circulation
of Catholic papers. Among the
latest to which our attention has
been called are the following:
/ a':iMark Kenney of Baltimore, in
sending check to Cardinal Glib
bons for twenty subscriptions for
The Catholic Review Of that city,
wrote: Kindly permit these
twenty paid subscriptions to be
credited to various n-Catholic
institutions throughout and trib-
utary to Baltimore. -
At a Knights of Columbus
banquet recently held in Lancas-
ter, O., D. S. Twohey announced
to some 400 Catholic men that he
would pay for twenty-five yearly
subscriptions to The Columbian,
and would guarantee proper dis
tribution. -
These are isolated instances that
are. worthy Of imitation by many
Catholics who could easily dupli-
cate these gifts and enable their
respective Catholic papers thereby
to attain a wider circulation.
Has The Catholic Bulletin any
such interested friends among its
readers? IF so, we are ready to
place their names on the honor
roll, headed by pastor of this
diocese who, for the past five
years, has seen to it personally
that each family in his parish re-
ceives a weekly visit from The
Catholic Bulletin, and with the
names Of half a dozen other
priests who have done yeomen
services in helping to bring The
Catholic Bulletin to the attention
of their parishioners. Who will
be the first reader of The Catholic
Bulletin to distinguish himself in
this way?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

st. Paul has AIS licensed sa-
looms, 50 per cent of which, ac-
cording to Commissioner McColl,
are owned and controlled by brew,
ers, who pay the license fee and
allow the saloonkeeper to refund
it at the rate of 500 a week. The
County Assessor S books show that
few saloonkeepers own the fix
lures in their places of business.
In most cases the tax on the fix
lures is levied against the brew
cries.
This is the story in every large
city in the country. The brew
ers and not the saloonkeepers are
primarily resp ohsib le for the evils
of, the Liquor traffic. They could
if they would, make the saloon
business at least ,laW-abiding but
their greed stands in the way, and
they will not wake aup until al
aroused public opinion will insist
upon banishmg not only the sa.
loon but the brewery from every
state in the Union.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
NO LIQUOR DRINKERS NEED
APPLY.

A special dispatch to the Boston
Herald from Topeka, Kan, June 20,
reads as follows:
A man who takes a drink cannot
work for the State of Kansas. That's
the new order of things in the State
that has had prohibition thirty-five
years and now has fewer liquor users
than most States. Governor Capper
laid down the rule in a letter to the
new civil service commission, which
goes to work in July, and applicants
for jobs and those now holding places
on the State payroll must be without
the liquor bouquet" The Governor,
in discussing the proposed rule, said
Kansas should have applied it many
years ago.
There are about 5000 men and
women on the payroll of the State.
1t is big employer of labor of all
kinds, from the high-priced scientist
in it's schools and its heads of great
institutions, down to the lowest paid
laborer to be found anywhere.
Kansas is the first State to prohibit
the use of liquor by it's employees. AS
the rule is proposed to the commits
sion, two members of which are
named by the Governor, the use of
liquor will be sufficient cause for dis
missal from the public service.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
TEMPERANCE AND
PROHIBITION.

Temperance against Prohibi-
ton" is the title of the five-cent
Catholic Mind pamphlet for Au-
gust s, issued by The America
Press, SO East SD Street, New
York. 1t is a spirited discussion
of the liquor question that sup
plies one in handy form with
arguments, worth having, of the
partisans on either side of this
much-discussed subject of the
day. The pamphlet concludes
with an instructive and startling
article on European Alcohol
ISM" by DIR. Austin O'Malley,
which maintains that restrictions
of kind in sale Of alcoholic drinks
has not improved conditions of
sobriety in European States.
Agitation for national Prohibi-
ton law makes the sociological
issue of Temperance versus Pro
.hibition one Of very active present
interest. The arguments pro and
con have been arranged most at
tractively in this pamphlet. The
conservative view is stated plain
ly by DR.. Maurice; a number OF
individual opinions are added,
and the effects of alcoholism
throughout Europe are forcefully
shown by DIR. O'Malley.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
MY MORNING THOuGH7
written for The Catholic BuIIetln.)

written for The Catholic 5uIIetin.)
Thy attributes, Oh God! in Thee are
one,
Thou art the Holy Ghost, the Father
and the Son,
All knowledge is Thine, all power
likewise,
Thy glory is on earth and beyond the
skies.
Where man seeketh not, Thy glory is
found,
'Mong the poor and the lowly Thy
graces abound,
For the poorest of men, Oh God! is
Thy child,
And for him Thy Son became humble
and mild.
Interchangeable Thou art, yet to us it
Thou art ever changing, or is it a
dream
That Thy justice SO rigorous to mercy
gives way,
And Thy honor is safe in saving this
clay?
Human flesh that / am, permeated
with sin,
Gould give Thee glory, Lord, let me
begin
Let me love all Thy attributes and
Thy persons three
I'll love divine justice, letting mercy
save me.
My soul saved, Oh Lord, Thou shalt
have but me,
While /, human atom, shall have all
of Thee;
Reward too great for reason-Give me
light divine,
Fill my heart with graces, that its
aR love for Thee may shine.
Among angelic consultations, always
in Thy sight,
Where day endures forever without a
IA shade of night;
o blessed Cod may I, child, ask
this of Thee,
In Thy unbeginning life of bliss, how
coulds't Thou think of me?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

no educational advantages except
those of the parish school. There
are some, no doubt, who cannot
afford to do more than this, but
the great majority should see to
it that the portals of institutions
for higher education are open to
their offspring. Nothing less than
this will suffice for the needs of
the times. Education is q neces-
.sity today as, perhaps, never be-
fore, and no education is so capa-
bic of fitting a boy or girl for the
demands Of modern life as that
which is impaired in Catholic in
stitutionssit
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
THE HISTORY OF THE DRUNK
ARD.

No man ever became a drunkard
in day. No man ever set out with
the avowed purpose of becoming a
drunkard. We point the fingers OF
scorn at the victim of drink and say,
"Why doesn't he quit his drinking?"
IF | were him, would take the
pledge" You know the most disgust
ing sot that ever filled drunkard's
grave said and thought the self-same
thing. He could boast of being able
to take drink or leave it alone. But
the time came when the boast was
in vain, for he was helpless in the
grasp of that vice. The panther never
stole with half the stealth, to make
the final leap upon his victim, as
does intemperance creep upon it's
prey.
The human being for whom l have
the greatest sympathy is the drunk
ard. Not that | admire the driveling,
idiotic counterfeit of man. Not that
condone his crime Not that l can
overlook the suffering and grief and
hunger and want he has caused; but
in his helpless, pitiable condition he
needs sympathy and assistance.
Strange, it is how, very often, the
sunniest, best natured of men fall
victims and that demon drink trans
forms their nature so that we can
call them by no other name than
devil. Yet they once felt secure per-
haps as you do now; never dreamed
that they would lose control, and here
they are now, slaves bound hand and
foot, ready to be cast into HE'LL
Rep. William p. Curtin
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
THE SALOON AND BUSINESS.

Now that the railroads have become
remains only to make the business
men so in order to abolish the saloons
in Chicago and in the United States.
The economic argument for the sa-
loon as an aid to legitimate business
was never anything but carefully
fostered superstition, as statistics Of
banking, building, and postal receipts
in dry territory have amply demon
strated.
Although nearly every line of bust
ness shares in the loss the heaviest
burden of the saloons great economic
waste falls upon the grocer, the
butcher, the baker, and the clothing
and shoe merchants. The saloon is
doomed when these business men
awake to the fact that these traps for
family money are their deadliest, most
successful competitor, open long
hours, and selling mostly for cash.
Whatever gods there may be on
high Olympus must occasionally laugh
in derision when they see the rich
brewer corporations sandwich their
family money traps in among clothing,
shoe, grocery, furniture and hardware
stores and savings banks-each saloon
taking in from $50 to several hundred
a day-and then see these same pur-
blind merchants contend that the sa-
looms aid their business!
The business men Of Chicago should
form a mental picture of the food Of
silver that daily pours into the saloons
OF Chicago, these merciless traps for
family money, and vote to turn this
money into the channels of legitimate
trade. The housekeepers of Chicago
will vote with them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN

sociations that do not rise above the
low level of the saloon and drinking
club.
when we consider the duties a man
owes his neighbor, the Christian home
and society rise before us. The moral
life of men can be measured with fair
exactitude by the reverence in which
they hold women, marriage and do
nestle life. Men who respect the vir-
tue of women, who regard the mar
rage VOW as sacred, and value the
sanctity of the relations of husband
and wife, of parent and child, are al
most sure to be morally sound.
9f Il Equal Rights for Catholics.
r'"There is among large number of
our felloW-citizens an undeniable and
apparently an incurable antipathy and
hostility. to Catholic because of his
religion. Many signs and occurrences
of the present day indicate that there
is an organized, well devised and
strongly financed campaign of SLAM
der, abuse and calumny against us.
The anti-Gatholic press, pulpit and
lecture platform are pouring out a
| flood of villification, insult and cal.
jimmy against the Church and Catho-
| lies that delight the ignorant and
malignant bigots who still survive 139
years of civil and religious freedom
1t was the fond hope of the patriots
who framed the. noble charter OF
American rights and liberty that
Providence had decreed this land to
be the grave of persecution and the
home of religious tolerance and civil
| liberty. Multitudes have yet to learn
that Catholics are in the United
| States not by Protestant tolerance
but by equal rights of citizenship; that
the Constitution under which we live
| is not an instrument drawn by Protes
tants as the liberators and benefactors
of Catholics, but sacred compact
between freemen, under which all
are equal in religious and civil
rights. Therefore, it is proper fol
us to be vigilant and resolved to lei
no body of misguided and evil-mindet
men impeach our patriotism, asperse
the purity and sincerity of oul
motives, rob us of the least of oul
civil rights and privileges, or limit
the opportunities of wealth and ad
vancement that should be equally
open and guaranteed to all equally
worthy citizens of the Republic.
ut cannot be denied that a Catholic
sometimes requires the courage of g
soldier and the will of a martyr in
the battle. The world says to him;
All these will l give to thee, i
falling down thou wilt adore me.
The bride of worldly advantage is
ever offered the renegade and hypo
critic who will outwardly deny the
faith in which he believes. In politics
in business, in social life, the Cath
Ollie must often content with grea
odds and secret foes as he struggle:
onward and upward on the paths thai
lead to the higher positions of trus
and honor; to opportunities of JUS
and fair competition in commercial
enterprise; to equal and impartial
advancement and reward of merit
and to that decent regard and con
sideration to which honest men are
entitled by the canons of civilized
society and the distinguished anC
noblest principles of free institu
tions."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

The Right Reverend Joseph S.
Glass, C. NJ, was consecrated
Bishop of Salt Lake City last
Tuesday, August "a, in st. Vim
cents Church, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, of which he has been pas
tor for several years. The Most
Reverend Archbishop Hanna OF
San Francisco was the conse-
orator, assisted by Bishop Grace
of Sacramento, and Bishop Lillis
of Kansas City. The sermon was
preached by the Most Reverend
Archbishop Keane of Dubuque
On September first, Bishop Glass
will be installed in his episcopal
see, in succession to the late
Bishop Scanlan, first Bishop Of
the diocese.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

The death of His Em1inence
Cardinal Serafno Vannutelli,
which took place last week, re-
duces the membership of the
Sacred College, of which he was
Dean, to fifty-seven-thirteen less
than the full number. OF these,
twenty-six are Italian and thirty
one foreign. Were it not for the
war it is probable that a Consis-
tory would be held in the near fu-
ture. As it is, no one knows when
Benedict XIV will decide to fill the
vacancies in the Sacred College.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
AN EVENTFUL YEAR.

On September 3, His Holiness
Pope Benedict XIV will complete
the first year of his Supreme
Pontificate. We recall the eager
ness, not to say anxiety, with
which the Christian world looked
forward to the election of sue
cessor to the sanity pontiff whose
last days were saddened by the
initial horrors Of 4the European
conflict. When it was learned
that Cardinal Della Chiesa, Arch
bishop of Bologna, had been ele-
waited to the Chair Of Peter, all
realized that the sacred interests
of the Church were safe in his
hands, and since then the convic-
ton has grown stronger, day by
day, that his election was provi.
Dental.
The past year has been an
eventful one in the history of the
world, and during it the Papacy
has played a very important role
When Benedict XIV came to the
Papal Throne the nations of Eu-
rope were embroiled in a war
which has been the most disastrous
in the annals of history. Even
after a year Of strife and blood.
shed without parallel in the his
tory of humanity, there are nc
signs of speedy cessation of hos.
tilities. There is an indication
that the war will be prosecuted
with still greater disregard fol
the sacred rights of individuals
and of nations than has charac.
terized it in the past.
In the midst of this clash OF
arms the pleading voice Of the
White Shepherd of Christendom
has never ceased to appeal to the
warning nations to recognize the
claims of religion and humanity
and make overtures for an AMIGA
bic settlement of their differences
But in vain. The most the Holy
Father has succeeded in obtaining
from the belligerents is a promise
to treat prisoners of war humane
| ly and an exchange of those wht
are. physically unfit to bear arms
Nevertheless, his activity ON be
half of peace has not abated. Ell
| is doing all that lies in his power
Ito. prQmote peace and harmony
among the eontending rulers. Ht
khas called upon: the Christian
world to- pray. for peace and has
succeeded in maintaining tina
strictly neutral attitude which
must characterize a sovereign
whose spiritual children are fount
in every army that treads tn,
blood-stained battlefelds of Eu
rope.
Pope Benedict has earned tn.
name of the Pope of Peace. III
has dedicated his pontifcate tt
the re-establishment of peace II
the world and even non-C Catholic
have come to realize that he alone
of all earthly sovereigns must ex
Eercise a dominant influence in tn,
final negotiations for peace
While we rejoice in the impor
liant part which the Supreme Pom
tiff has played in world affair
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28


The Roman correspondent of
the Catholic Press Association is
authority for the statement that
''Pope Benedict XIV has issued a
Pontifcal Constitution granting to
all the priests of the world the
privilege of saying three Masses
on All Souls Day, which was
granted by Pope Benedict XIV to
the priests of Spain"
The privilege of saying three
Masses has heretofore been con-
fined to Christmas day; but for
some years there has been an agi-
tation in favor of extending it to
All Souls Day as well. This Pope
Benedict XIV has done.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

The Year Book of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union Of Amer
lea, issued last month under the
auspices of the executive council,
gives an extended account of the
forty-fourth annual convention
held last year at Niagara Falls. It
also contains a large number of
advertisements from different
parts of the country. st. Paul
firms and institutions occupy two
pages.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28


AT meeting of the Board OF
Governors of the Catholic Church
Extension Society of Canada, held
at Toronto on August II, the res
ignation of Mgr. A. E. Burke,
Ill. D., first president of the soci.
ETY. and editor of its official organ
was formally accepted. The
Right Reverend Mgr. Kidd, pres
ident of st. Augustine Seminary
was appointed Managing Cover
nor until Mgr. Burke's successor
is named. "A terna of names fol
new president was made and
forwarded to Rome, and fromsthis
list the Pope is expected to select
the next president Of the society
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

Why go to the enemies Of the
Church to find out What she
teaches in the matter of dogma
and morals? Her official teachers
and her authorized publications
are accessible to all who desire to
know the truth. The Church has
nothing to hide and her doctrines
are an open book to all who wish
to know what she teaches.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
Beginning September l, the Col

Beginning September l, the Col
lect, "PrO quacumque necessl-
tate said at Mass in the Prov
ince Of st. Paul whenever the
1ruhrics permit, and the Litany of
the Saints, recited before the SER
mon at the principal Mass on Sun
days in all Churches, to obtain a
bountiful harvest, cease to be of
obligation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons
of Baltimore, who was created and
proclaimed a member Of the
Sacred College by Pope Leo XIII
in the Consistory Of June Z, 1886,
is the oldest Cardinal with the ex-
ception of Cardinal Netto of Lis
bon, who was elevated to that dig
nifty on March "a, 1884.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

For prayer will in time make the
human countenance It's own divinest
altar, years upon years Of true
thoughts, like ceaseless music shut up
within, will vibrate along the nerves
Of expression until the lines Of the
living instrument are drawn into cor
respondence, and the harmony of Wis
ible form matches the unheard har-
monies of the mind.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28

during the past twelve months,
we pray that he may be long
spared TO rule the Church of God
and to exercise his peaceful medi-
alton for the welfare of humanity
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
WHY THE SCHOOLS FAIL.

WHY The SCHOOLS FAIL.
Under this caption, a writer in
the Minneapolis Tribune, COM
menting on the s'bitter criticism
of the public school system of the
United States, = which has been
INDUCED in at intervals for a good
many years, says that the break
down. of the public schools is due
to the fact that parents have
failed to cooperate with the
teachers by preparing their chill
dren in the home for the work
which they will later on be called
upon to do in the school. His
statement of the case is interest
ing, and conveys a valuable lesson
to parents in general, whether
they send their children to the
public school or to the parochial
school. 1t is as follows:
The important point too often
overlooked by critics Of the
schools is that however good a
school may be, it is foredoomed to
failure, unless parents cooperate
properly with it's teachers.
Moreover, proper parental CO
operation means that before send
ing children to school, parents
must look to it that the children
shall have received a careful pre-
liminary home training in the
principles Of right thinking and
right acting.
Many parents unfortunately are
derelict in this regard. They
seem to think that little need be
done toward the development of
the child s mind until he reaches
school age.
Then they assume that the
school can and should mold the
growing child according, to an
ideal pattern.
Possibly the school could do so,
if the child came to it as absolute
ly raw material. The trouble is
that, neglected though the child
may have been by his parents, he
is already a partly finished prod
uct by the time he gets to school
He has acquired, precisely be-
cause he has ,npt. received a pre-
liminary home training, faulty
habits of observing, Of Analysing,
of judging. He has acquired the
habit of being sWayed more by de
sire than by reason.
For lack Of proper guidance, he
may even have acquired the habit
Of being chiefly interested in
things that are detrimental to his
best welfare, no
These habitsGthe schools can
never hope completely to correct
for the reason that the impress
sions received d during the first
years of life are the most lasting
and most influential Of all impress
sions.
This is one Of the most soundly
established truths of modern psy,
theology.
Consequently those who have
closely studied the educational
problems are coming more and
more into agreement that it is in
the home and by the parent that
the education Of all children
Eshould be begun.
Even in the second or third
year it is not too early to begin
the educational process.
| If you do begin it then, and if
you carry it on wisely, you need
never fear that your child will
grow to be another example Of the
ineffectiveness'' of the public
school.
The school will mold him Alright
because you will have. made him
properly receptive to the school I
efforts for his good.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-28
SATURDAY, AUG. %, 1915.

A worthy and devout Commun-
ion, says Father Russell, S. j., in
creases our treasure of sanctify-
ing grace.