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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
BIGOTRY.

Tom Watson in mis- magazine,
S'The Jeffersonian,'' INDUCES in
invectiye and vituperation against
all things Catholic. A recent case
that has been given wide publici-
ty was the result Of his bigotry.
Watson is alleged to have made
attacks on a certain Miss Loyett,
a Catholic lady teaching in the
Atlanta, Ga, schools. He accus-
ed her Of taking Bibles from the
mont Catholic children and burn
ing them in the stove at the school
where she taught. Miss Lovett
answered categorically the charge
made by Watson and was official
ly exonerated. Public clanor,
however, of the Georgia type,
soon compelled her resignation
from the school which after eight
years of labor she had built up
from the beginning. She was as
signed to various other schools,
but bigotry followed ever9in her
wake until she was kept as a
mere substitute teaching only at
odd times. The fact that she and
her sister are obliged to teach in
order to help a widowed mother
and another sister did not make
the situation any more congenial.
Incidents Of this kind point re-
Falistically to the abject nature of
bigotry which is a blind, uncal-
culating, diabolical perversion of
reason and justice. Bigotry orig
mates in narrowmindedness and
malice. 1t has no reason for it's
existence nor as a rule can cir
cumstances justify it. Where
there is question of simple justice
for a human being, bigotry is alb
lsolutely without logic or extenu-
alton. The days of fanatical big
otl.y happily are passed through
out the greater part of the civil
| lied world, but a state that revels
in lynching, in convent-inspectien
laws, in ignorance and illiteraey,
can scarcely, be accused Of civihh-
cation, 81
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Righteousness is to be found in the
transformation effected in the
soul of the individual. Every
Saturday night of the year and
on the vigils of great festivals, it
lis a common sight and an or
binary one to behold crowds of
men, women and children throng-
ing about the confessionals in
our Catholic churches. There
they go, not from love of novelty,
nor to give vent to their desire
for social enjoyment, but to per-
form a duty painful to human
nature and distasteful to them as
individuals. When they come
forth from the sacred tribunal d
transformation, impossible to
mere nature, has been effected i'll
their souls, and they carry within
them the bond of friendship and
the pledge of a reunion with the
God Who created them. This in
the Catholic Church is the test of
true religion when a man casting
aside all earthly considerations
cleanses his soul of earthly at
tachments and is purified by the
grace of God.
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JUDGING RELIGION.

;.
A contemporary speaking on
the subject of religion remarks
that oyster. suppers and fancy
sales do not by any manner OF
means constitute religions
Judging from reports IN local
papers throughout the country a
person acquainted with the facts
might reach the conclusion that
the essence of religion consists in
promoting the social life of man.
Outside the Catholic Church more
prominence usually is given to
affairs of this nature than to the
solid fundamentals of religious
belief. A preacher may be a won
derful success as a promoter OF
social activities, and still fail III
ministering to his people the COS
|peI OF life. A church OF an or
ganization may far outstrip It's
rivals In the brilliancy of its so.
Ecial functions and still be any
thing but a religious Institution.
The true test Of religion and Of
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
War and Oberammergau
WAR HAS TAKEN NO TOLL FROM
AMONG PLAYERS OF THE
PASSION PLAY.

The war has taken no victims from
among the players of the world-famous
Passion Play of Oberammergau. So
says the pastor of that village in a
letter to Mr.. Anthony Matre, *. S. G.,
of Chicago. r
The following is the letter from
Mgr Joseph Schroeder of Oberam-
mergau stating this:
Oberammergau, October r., 1916.
Dear Mr.. Matre: a
Your letter inquiring whether Anton
Lang, who played the part Of Christ in
the Passion Play of Oberammergau,
died on the battlefield was duly re-
Eceived. In response & wish to state
that Anton Lang is not dead, but is en-
joying good health and working quiet
ly at his trade. He never was in the
war nor did he ever do military serv-
ice. OF the other principal perform
ers of the Passion Play, / must say
that none of them is in war and all
are still among the living. The only
death have to report is that OF
Thomas Rendl. who died a few days
ago at the advanced age of 78 years.
Mr. Rendl played the part of Plate in
1890; Peter in 1900, and Simon OF
Bethany in 1919 We are all well.
With best wishes to all my friends
in America, am yours,
MGR. JOSEPH SCHROEDER,
Pastor Of Oberammergau.
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MAKING RESOLUTIONS.

One Of the peculiarities of
human conduct and light is found
i'll the fact that man frequently is
the object and the victim Of emo
tions. An emotion is that inward
feeling which results from an I'M
usual presentation. Of a. specific
object. While under the stress of
emotion the soul rises from the or
binary plane on which it usually
lives and beholds things in a new
light. Great emotions such as
love, hatred, and ambition, may
cause man to soar so high as to
enable him to perform duties or
dinarily considered far outside his
powers. When an appeal suffi-
GENTLY strong is made to the mind
it evokes some latent emotion to
action for good or for evil.
The beginning Of new year
usually augurs well for a wide
play of emotions. Looking back
ward oyer the past year a man
views his success and his mistakes
with a knowledge of their cause.
He then attempts while under
emotion to form a resolution to
avoid past errors, especially in
some particular line. The resolu-
ton itself may be strong and sin
cere, but being the result of ex-
allied feeling it usually disappears
with the emotion which produced
it. Hence new year resolutions
are seldom kept because the cause
and the origin have lost their
strength of appeal. A new year
resolution should not be made ex-
cept after calm and deliberate
thought with foreknowledge of
all possible difficulties and OBJ
staeles that may be encountered
i'll its attainment.
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IGNORANCE.

Frequently one hears COM
plants with regard to ignorance
of religious matters even amongst
otherwise intelligent and we'll
educated Catholics. It is, per-
haps, q strange phenomenon that
Catholics with their wondrous
history and the undisputed place
which their Church holds in civil
lization,. should still be ignorant
of many things that pertain to
that Church. 1t would seem that
the average non-C Catholic, being
somewhat distrustfuI OF his own
position, reads and investigates
along many lines in order to
strengthen his position or to find
reasons why it may be untenable.
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France Gains Spiritually
FORTY THOUSAND PRIESTS ARE
IN THE TRENCHES WITH THE
FRENCH SOLDIERS.

Mr.. Ian Malcolm, M. F., speaking at
the annual congress of the General
Association of Church School Manag
ers and Teachers at Brighton, Eng
land, emphasized the need and value
of definite religious instruction by ref
erence to what is happening in
France:
War" he said, "does one of two
things to q man-either it deepens his
religious sense or it expels it altogeth-
er. Which it does depends enormous
ly upon early training" He had MOTTO
ed the occurrence Of both of these
phenomena in the French army since
the beginning of the war, and among
French people behind the lines, but
UNNECESSARILY the greater number of
the cases that he had heard of had
been of men deepened in their convic-
tions, or returned, perhaps after long
desertion, to the colors of Christ Be
fore August, 1914, France as a nation
seemed to be straying very far from
the fold of the Church.
But the war has changed all that,
changed it for good. Now there were
quite 10000 priests serving in the
trenches Mass was celebrated daily
under fire in forests or dug-outs or
stables, in all parts of the line; the
churches in the rear were never emp
ty; the cathedral and churches in all
parts of France are now filled. There
was no installing the signs of the
times in France; there was a tremen-
dous religious revival, for the French
have realized that glory to God comes
before peace on earth. He had seen
regiments and -battalions bowed in
worship, silent, shrouded congrega-
lions at all hours, pressEate in prayer
and intereession. They were not NOV
ed to such devotions by any ethical,
indeterminate, undenominational, new
tangled theories of a higher life. No,
they were Just practicing the religion
taught them by their mothers and
their village priests in their childhood
"a religion based upon the most def
mite, the most dogmatic principles of
the Incarnation and the Atonement;
that was what they wanted in time of
trouble. No shadowyl substitutes or
shortcuts, or compromises could give
them the courage that they needed in
the trenches or in the home; SO, under
the thunder of the guns or stunned
with grief, they turned again like chill
dren to their mothers knee, and
clasped in faith the outstretched hand
of the Man of Sorrows.
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DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
CANDY AS A BOOZE CURE.

F
It's interesting occasionally to have
the opinion of man who is probably
not financially interested in the sale
of corrections, and who is in a posi-
ton to speak with authority regard
ing the effects of sweets on the body
The editor of the Medical World,
after quoting from the Confectioners'
Journal regarding the value of candy
as a preventive of alcoholic craving,
proceeds:
IF any man doubts that candy will
cure him of the drink habit, he can
easily test it. The man who puts lots
of molasses on his wheat cakes at
breakfast will find himself gradually
forgetting to step in for his customary
drink on his way to his work. IL
the man who goes out between times
for liquid refreshments will go into a
candy store instead and get five or ten
cents worth of candy, and eat it, he
will be surprised at the effect, for it
will not be very long until he will
have box of candy in his pocket or
desk.
1T has often been noted that, in
theaters where candy is sold during
the intermissions, going out to see a
man. does not prevail to anything like
the extent it does in other theaters
where no candy selling is permitted.
Not one man in a hundred knows why
he forgot to go out and see man
| q flor hc ho6 lnJ1pIn+ n hnx AF "
for his companion and eaten a little of
it himself for politeness' sake.
'The more sugar and sweets a man
takes at a meal the less alcohol he
wants. Conversely, nearly every
drinking man will tell you that he has
lost his taste for sweets. The more
candy nation consumes, the less al
cohol it imbibes."
This being the case, it is significant
that in prohibition states where sa-
looms are closed out, candy stores
often take their place, and not infre-
quently the former saloonkeeper runs
the candy store. AS the supply of
| liquor is cut off, the demand for
sweets increases. However, it is hard
to reconcile this with the fact that the
per capita consumption of both sugar
and alcohol has been increasing at a
marvellous rate in this country.
| The advice from the editor Of the
Medical World to his fellow practi-
TONERS is:
LET us persuade all our alcoholic
patients, and those inclined to be al
coholic, to eat candy instead of i'm
billing alcohol, and cultivate taste
for confectionery and thereby lose the
taste for alcohol"
Undoubtedly, candy and all sugars
have high food value. They furnish
energy to the body in form that is
almost Immediately utilized. The mil
itary authorities of Europe have act
ed in accordance with this knowledge,
in sending liberal supplies of sweets
| to the front.
The American Patriot.
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THE WAR AND RELIGION
ENGLAND AND THE CATHOLIC
FAITH.

Perhaps the Birmingham, England,
Daily Post is correct in saying that
many of the expectations of changed
world which people have been forming
are doomed to disappointment. Human
nature remains much the same at all
times. If it is thrust out at the front
door it returns at the back. Doubtless
when the war is at an end many Of
the old defects and vices will make
their appearance again in the social
organism. !; But saH the same. it is
pretty certain that there wilI.ibe. 10
spiritual re.aWakening in England.
1t is improbable that the Protestant
soldiers who have. gone to the con.
tinent fro:nalt this country and have
been in close intimacy with Catholics
will come back without having altered
their views of the Catholic Church.
They have seen that religion enters
largely into the life of Catholic,
that it rules his thoughts and habits,
that it tends to make him true to
principle and fearless in the hour of
danger. Many of them will want to
know more about the Catholic faith,
and therefore Father Hugh Pope, o.
p, chose an appropriate title for his
lecture at the public hall, Manchester
on Sunday, when he called it "The
Resurrection of England" The return
of the soldiers from the front will
bring nearer the prospect of the re.
viyal of the old faith. For the work
they will be called upon to perform
the clergy, it may be safely assumed
will be ready.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
VALUABLE MEMOIRS
CARDINAL GIBBONS PUBLISHES
HIS "REMINISCENCES.

That Cardinal Gibbons, notwith.
standing he passed his SD birthday
the past summer, still possesses re-
markable physical and mental vigor,
has been evidenced by the fact that
he has just completed a six-volume
series of his "reminiscences. He re-
Gently devoted an entire month to
the reading and revision of proofs of
the last two volumes, often working
far into the night, and his keenness
and quickness in detecting mistakes,
HIS intimates say, were surprising.
I His latest work is. "a Retrospect of
Fifty Years. in which he has gather.
ed many of his more notable SER
mons and addresses, together with
personal "reminiscences of his long
life. Outside of church matters he
devotes several chapters to such sub.
jects as Patriotism and Politics.
Irish immigration" "The Lynch
Law" "The Funeral of General Sheri
dan" and evil the American Repub
lie Endure?"
Very few people now living have
seen the country in such distress as
have seen it," he says, "but | have
lived to see it in wonderful prosperity
and to behold it grown into one Of
the great powers of the earth
Younger men may tremble for the
future of this country, but l can have
nothing but hope when | think what
we have already passed through, fol
can see no troubles in the future
which could equal, much less surpass
those which have afflicted us in by
gone days.
IF only the American people viii
hold fast to that instrument which
has been bequeathed to them as thu
palladium of their liberties-the Con
stitution of the United States-ant
fear and. distrust the man who woulc
touch that ark with profane hands
the permanence of our institutions il
assured"
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4. as.8t57s 9g-5.as D. ltsA s-l4t.ll.s "a ~
BRITISH DOCTOR SAYS DRINK is
NEARLY AS DEADLY AS WAR.

DR.. G. w. Saleeby, +. r. G. S., +. Il.
S., one of the most eminent physicians
of Great Britain, has issued a state
ment declaring that during every year
of peace alcohol takes in lives three
fourths of the toll eXacted by the first
year of the great war, that it makes
45,445 widows and orphans in England
and Wales every year, and that, as a
racial poison" an ally to syphilis, its
trail is over the whole colossal loss
of life before and soon after birth.
This, he estimates, is not less than
100000 annually. lie says:
''The first year of the great war
cost us about $4,000 fine lives of our
soldiers and sailors.
But during every year of peace, al
cohol takes at least $4,000 lives in
this country. On the most moderate
reckoning, it is responsible for one
seventh, or about fourteen per cent, of
the whole death rate. This toll OF
over thousand lives week, year in
and year out, is three-fourths of the
toll exacted by the greatest war in
history.
Estimating from the average size
of a family and the known death rate
from alcohol, we find that this de-
stroyer of the people, by it's destruc-
ton of husbands and fathers, makes
AS, 445 widows and orphans in England
and Wales every year, or over 124
every day. These figures are an I'M
reinstatement, for they do not recog-
nize the fact that the mortality due to
alcohol is really much higher among
men than women.
I'VE have in this country an infant
mortality Of about 100000 per annum,
and mortality of infants before birth
which is at least as high. 1t is esti-
mated that not less than half OF this
ante-natal mortality, namely, $4,000
lives per annum is due to syphilis.
Over the whole of this colossal loss of
life, before and soon after birth,
amounting to not less than 100000
lives annually, is the thrail Of alcohol,
either doing it's deadly work hand in
hand with syphilis or destroying life
directly on it's own account.
OBVIOUSLY, therefore, the abolition
of the mortality directly and indirectly
due to alcohol would vastly more than
compensate for the unprecedented loss
of life due to the deadliest war in
history"
Toledo Blade.
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IMMIGRATION BILL
MAY PASS
MEASURE HAD EMIT
VOTES TO BECOME LAW DE.
SPITE CHIEF EXECUTIVES oP-
POSITION.

The immigration bill, containing the
restrictive literacy test for admission
of aliens, which has caused three Pres
idents to veto such a measure, was
passed by the Senate last week, Ga to
z. The bill as amended in the Senate
now goes to conference. Itlpassed the
House last session.
Authoritative statements have been
made that President Wilson intends to
veto the bill second time because OF
the literacy test. In this event an
effort will be made to pass the bill
over the veto, tWo-thirds majority in
each House being required. The bill
passed the House last April by vote
OF 30S to 81, more than two-thirds
majority, and the Senate vote, if re-
peated, would be sufficient to override
an executive veto.
When the bill was UP for discussion
in the Senate, Mr.. Smith of Michigan
made a strong appeal to. have the lit
eracy test stricken from the resolu-
ton. He said, in the course of his re-
marks:
sWhy should not character be the
test of immigration? 'Aliens have
helped to win our battles. Foreigners
unfamiliar with our language have
made it possible for this Republic to
survive it's severest trials.
In the Hall of the House Of Repre-
sentatives the only portrait upon the
walls is the portrait of the immortal
Lafayette, who came here from France
to uphold the banner of our liberty.
In Statuary Hall are the statues of
Kosciusko and Pulaski, Polanders,
who fought on hundred battle-fields
that we might enjoy our liberty. One
of the great parks of this capital front
ing the White House has upon it's four
corners the statues of foreigners who
have rendered our country distin-
guished service in time of greatest
need, and we sit here and speculate
and contrive and plan to keep out of
our country those who would be an
honor to it. (And these foreigners
were Catholics!)
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1916.


The Catholic Bulletin extends
to all it's readers, patrons and
benefactors, sincerest greetings
for a prosperous, successful, and
most happy New Year.
With this issue The Catholic
Bulletin completes the sixth year
of its existence. Founded with
the purpose in view of keeping
Catholics Of the Northwest i'll
close touch with religious events
and Of spreading enlightenment
ON matters of Catholic belief, this
paper has ever aimed towards the
attainment of the object of its ex-
iStence.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
INITIATING ROME
ANGLICAN CHURCH STILL RE.
FUSES TO RECOGNIZE AUTHOR
ITY OF POPE.

The Anglicans are more and more
embarrassed by the title Protestant
They cannot give it up, for it is the
legal description. Even the Bishop
of London, whilst contending that
they are Catholics, maintains that
they are also Protestants, but the
word as he uses it is spelt with a
small D. The process OF evolution is
going on, and the hope is entertained
that in the course of time the ugly
word may be got rid of altogether. In
everything there is. to be imitation,
except in the great essential of unity
obedience to the authority of the
Vicar of Christ. The Anglicans are
now taking to the cult of the pilgrim
age. There was such demonstration
at the opening of the National Mis-
sion" in Canterbury, and the chron
ieIer who gives an account of it i'll the
Church Times is enthusiastic. "The
second station" he says, was made
at the market, when Canon Mason
took our memories back to the pro
cession many centuries earlier than
those of the Middle Ages, when st
Augustine brought Christianity to the
Kentish kingdom with monks singing
litany, the forerunner of that in oul
prayer-books which we we're chanting
Thus in visible emblems the
Church of Canterbury of to-day was
linked with its original foundation.
And so on. Why not go farther ant
accept the authority upon which st
Augustine acted The Anglicanf
must know that ais they refuse to dc
this he would hold no connection witt
them
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Says The Catholic Citizen
Josh Billings used to deliver a
lecture on milk, which he began
by saying: L have read much on
the subject of milk, and / have
seen much on milk; but the best
thing / have ever seen ON milk is
cream. And this is the best
thing to see on any subject--the
cream of it. And it is precisely
the cream of reading that most
people never3get. You turn over
the pages of a monster Sunday pa
per to find a few articles here and
there which interest YOU. But
every pagesof. your Catholic paper
has articles appealing directly to
your interest and written from
your standpoint"
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AS the nations of Europe are
tearing at one another's hearts
the sentinel Of Christendom gazes
abroad from his watch tower IN
the Vatican searching for oppor-
tunities where he may administer
encouragement, consolation or
spiritual assistance. Ever and
anon he reaches into his slender
purse and sends forth material as
sistance where it is most needed.
The representative of the Prince
of Peace surely in these days has
q most trying task.