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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
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the only Church, that body which is
now distinguished from other relig-
ious bodies as the Roman Catholic
Church.
The Roman Catholic Church was
then, as it is now, a great democracy
There was no peasant so humble that
he might not become priest, no priest
so obscure that he might not become
the Pope of Christendom, and every
chancellory in Europe, every court
in Europe, was ruled by these learned
trained and accomplished men, the
priesthood of that great and dominant
body.
What kept government alive during
the Middle Ages was this constant
rise of sap from the bottom, from the
rank and file of the great body of the
people through the free channels Of
the priesthood.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
OCTOBER, MONTH, OF THE. AN
GELS.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Dr.. James Henderson.)

Tread lightly, the month of the
angels g
Is. going the way of 4 the years g GO 3
Speak softly, the voice / z Of the
angels
Is flooding this valley of tears,
And the sweet, holy runes Of October
We hearken, and bless their glad
song
AS the. day@wears into the shadow,
[ And Gods holy rest .draweth on
We hear them at midnight, the voices
Rhythmic and ruf1ic, and grand
Like the voices DER Bethlehen's hill
sides
Proclaiming the glory at. hand.
Breathe lightly, the breath of the
angels
Seems brooding on river and lea;
Be reverent, for out on the green
sward
The birds even, move silently.
This is the month of the angels
Sweet, from the months thai
precede,
Prayed with her beauty of colors,
Earth yielding eyer her mead;
This, the. ripe month of the harvests
Field tree. and earth too respond.
Glad with their fu1lnesss Of giving,
Vintage and furrow, and frond.
They seek no portion, no cOlnfoT
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
THE ANGELUS.

The red moon CLOVIS like some rich
poppy-fow'r
Against the Nights blue breast;
green saplings stir
Their tiny hands in sleep; shy laven.
der
Enfolds each valley-hamlet,. tower on
toW'r.
Now for space Queen Beauty Yields
her poW'r:
Before her: throne, far from the City's
whir,
Earth bows, and like blown franklin
cense and nlyrrh,
The hush of evening rises hour by
hour.
And 10, across the dusk, I hear g
bell
The low-toned Angelus that calls tt
pray'r,
In memory of Mary, pure and fair,
Who knelt long since beneath bright
Gabriels spell.
Somewhere a homing thrush his love
song trills,
And Night creeps down upon The
sleeping hills.
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
A LESSON IN cATEcHIsM.

In the Sentinel of the Blessed Sac
rament story is told of an ingenious
military chaplain's explanation of the
Mass, given to a poor soldier. The
latter was able neither to read nor
write, but was accustomed to send
his messages to his mother at home
through friends who were better edu-
Gated.
THE Mass" explained the priest,
lis like letter that the faithful do
not know how to write to the great
country to which we are, going, and
where are all our relations and
friends. To write it, there is public
scrivener, a friend who has studied
the language of that country 1t is
the priest. The desk is the altar
The heavenly ink is the Saviour's
mysterious Blood and when
the letter is finished the priest turns
around and says to those in attend
ance: tie missa est which means:
Now you may go. The letter is on
its way to heaven"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
THE PRICE OF VICTORY.

There are some people who are
spoiled by few successes. Because
their first attempts are successful,
they imagine that everything will be
plain sailing from that time on. There
are others who are disheartened by
a first failure. Because they are not
successful to begin with, they assume
that they never. can succeed, and al
low themselves to become discouraged
and gloomy.
Don't lose your head over a little
success. Remember that hard. work
and "eyerlastingly keeping at it." are
the price of ultimate victory. Don't
lose heart over little failure. That
has been the prelude to thousands OF
successful lives. The way things
start proves nothing. Industry and
determination can make up for poor
beginning, and they are necessary tt
carry a good beginning to a triumph
ant end.
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coLoRs OF VEsTMENTs.

Concerning the colors of the vest
ments used in Holy Mass: White is
the color of innocence, of joy, and of
glory, and is used on the feast of our
Lord, of the Blessed Mother, of con-
fessors, and of virgins.
Red is the color of fire and of blood,
and is worn on the feasts of the Holy
Ghost, of the Precious Blyood of our
Lord, of the Holy Cross, and of the
martyrs. e
Green expresses hope. and is pre-
scribed for the. time extending from
the octave of Epiphany to Septua.
gesima Sunday, and from the octave
of Pentecost to Advent.
Violet symbolizes sadness and pen.
ance and is used during the seasons
of Lent and Advent, and ON days OF
special penance and prayer
Black is the color of mourning and
death and is worn on Good Friday
and at Masses for the Dead.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
GROCERIES

crowned at Milan; Macmillan I in
Germany, at the hands of Legate a
latere (1496), Charles V, of Bologna,
(153O), Napoleon 1, Milan, (1S05), and
finally Ferdinand 1, of Austria, Milan
(1838).
On two occasions the Crown was in
danger of being lost. In 1878 the Tor
regiani, the lords of Milan, being in
need of money, pledged part of the
treasury of Monza, and with it the
Grown of Iron. But in 1919 it was re-
deemed by Ottone Visconti. Five
years later it was sent to Avignon to
save it from the fury of the factions.
1T was restored to Monza in 1916 by
Clement vi.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
SPONSORS AT BAPTISM.

What does baptism ask of the
Church of God?-Baptism.
What does baptism give you?-Life
Everlasting.
Do you renounce Satan?-I do re
nounce.
And all his works. I do renounce
And all his pomps?-I do renounce
Do you believe in God the Father
etc. ?-I do believe.
Do you believe in Jesus Christ
etc. p do believe. .,
Do you wish to be baptized?-I do
Do you believe in the Holy Ghost?--
do believe.
Sponsors are to recite the Greed
and the Our Father but not the Hal
Mary. Before baptism give the pries
the name of the child, when it was
born, the fathers name, the mothers
maiden name and tell whether the
child was baptized privately.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
WHAT DAILY MASS DOES.

You know what is done each day
during the heat. of summer by those
who rise early. They open all the
windows; fresh and vivifying breeze
enters; it drives out the heavy at
mosphere of the night; it renews the
air of the interior, and prepares a pro-
vision of freshness for the rest of the
day. Then they draw the blinds and
thus preserve themselves from the
increasing heat of the day. Each
morning, if possible, open the win
dows of your soul during the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass; call God to
your help; consecrate to Him all the
actions of the day; let grace enter
and renew the life of your soul; and
when the heat of the day comes
that is. to say, the, work., the wear:
mess, temptations under the weight
of which, you have, too, often to sigh
you viii have in your heart your pro
vision Of freshness and strength to
bear All. b.rnu ,fsail.s..ssrg 81
II s,..sssa IA .fs{ffs Ayev4Fr1t hfShDn af4i9H,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05

. Is,
Theirs but the peace and the
prayer,
AS grand hallelujahs are floating
Out on the palpitant air.
Joining the poor souls devotion,
Taking their place and their stead;
october, the month of the angels,
& Also the month of the dead.
October, sweet month of the angels,
Is going the, way of the years,
Soothing as softly she's faring
Pain, and 1ife's harshness and tears
Ransoming those in the valley ).
Lifting to love and to light;
Souls that were thralled may go for
ward
Up to bright mansions tonight.
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Continued on page p
FRA PACIFIco.

in the kitchen and off the bare deal
table, and insisted afterward on wash
ing his cup and platter. Perhaps this
custom is enjoined by the rule of his
Order. Perhaps it is part of a private
system of his own for attaining the
completest of self-abnegation and
humility, | do not know. t.sa
e Fra Pacifico came again to break
fast" and again l did not see him.
Again he brought me Vegetables
dainty CARTOONS, sweet kidney beans
and sdcculent artichokes. r gave or
dera that he should have the bounte-
GUS aims of a franc a month lie left
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-05
SAVED BY THE CHURCH.

President Wilson in his book THE
New Freedom says:
The only reason why government
did not suffer dry rot in the Middle
Ages under the aristocratic system
which then. prevailed was that SO
many of the men who were efficient
instruments Of government were
drawn from the Church; from that
great religious body which was then
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Bismarck Conferred
The Title Reptile

The fund was officially known then
as the Wclfenfond Guelph FUND.- be-
cause the ruling house Of Hanover was
Guelph.
Bismarck made the most reckless use
of the annual income from this source,
amounting to about three million dol
lars, TO bribe politicians, employ stool
pigeons and sycophants, pay perjured
witnesses willing "to swear anybody
dlslihed by the powers that were, even
their nearest relatives, into state
prison. and buy newspaper publishers
and editors. Whoever dared to dissent
from Eismarck's policy was branded as
vie traitor, a term that was changed
10 "Reichsfeind" (encmy Of the empire)
after the erection Of the German EN-
pirc. There is not single political
party in Germany which has not been
attacked az traitorous by Bismarck, his
succeszors and their reptile press.
Reptile" The name WAS first con-
ferred by the Saekuarmcnsch imam Of
the century,, az Bismarck used TO call
himself through the writer's and politi-
cans on his payroll. on the Cuelnh
propaTandists- Bat public opinion
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Sale Of tiles
Swelled the und

ms "cakness was made most OF TO
increase the secret fund at the dis
position Of the Berlin government.
Orders and titles wore at sale at fixed
prices plus commission and donation.
The fixed prices went-as the "yor-
warts" the "Kolnische Volkszeitune :"
the "Munchener Neueste Nachrichten"
and other papers openly stated in June
and July. 1914, without incurring Grim
inal prosecItion-to the Kaiser. his
consort and other ruling princes Of
Germany
These disclosures shook the monarch
ical system il the Fatnerland and were
one Of the main causes Of the war.
For the masters Of Germany, who
heard the rumbling Of an impending
revolution, preferred 10 divert the dis
satisfaction Of the people against the
,creign enemy IN an attempt to save
heir thrones. The commissions were
received by the agents, mostly ladies'
and gentlemen Of undoubted crooked
ness. Ard me donations were well
come additions TO the Reptile Fund"
the annual income Of which grew so
immensely that ana'ly the greater part
OF the German language press OF
Switzerland and influential papers of
Holland. Denmark. Sweden. even Ct
Austria Hungary snd of other eoun-
tries, could be broUrh. under German
control.
Other Swiss. Dutch. Scandinavian
and Hungarian newspapers WIRE
bought outright. It was generally
known among the political circles Of
Germany what Or. Mdhlon stated IN
his diary, recently published under the
title "The Devastation OF Europe"
that the berlin government believed In
the omnipotence of the bribe.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Row Reptile und
came Into Being

Inc submissiveness of the over
'asiming majority Of the Germans, the
''as' Of centuries Of oppression by
.'ossds Of absolute princes, under
'ss very eyes nearly all the Teutons
mad 10 live, increased the efficiency
'hs Reptile Fund established in 1867
part Of state policy and originally
'"'"n as Welfenfond Guelph Fund.-
~nien has been increased ever
,'''s until half hundred million dol
:. Or more was used within less
'nrss years in this country alone
'ns purpose Of making mental and
~'@i nslots Of the Kaiser's out Of the
''pa'a'ion of our Republic.
;. Dnmarck, when Chancellor Of the
h 'ernan Federation and Prussian
'"''%r, was the first leading states
- VINO openly owned up TO The wish
"A''nz sush fund for political cor
'h a. hie disposal But he would
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

known as the National German-Aner..
can Alliance, N presentation at the va.
r'o"s German courts and in orders and
titles
Orders and titles welded within the
German circles in the United states tn.
same influence as in the Fatherland
"here no only the public officials bu,
also the members Of the liberal cali
lngS' wealthy merchants. manafactur-
ers and owners of estates earnes+l,,
seek such "honors." For even # the
men themselves don't care much for
the privilege Of being called privv
counsellor. commercial counsellor. acri-
cultural counsellor or chevalier or tho
0fder Of the Crown or PrussIan Red
Lagle. etc, thor wives and daughters
'es' themselves humi'iated IN case they
are not addressed IS Mrs. and Niss
"Connsellor' by their women friends of
the same soc al set.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

ruptlon. The powers Of darkness had
grown stronger and stronger by ever
increasing systematic and persistent
efforts aiming at the perversion of ma
tional and individual ethics
Only a few of the great da.iies were
bought outright-those which we're
published at loss. The others were
favored with exclusive news Twenty
years ago even the "Frankfurter lei
tung," under Leopold Sonnemanns di-
rection, an upright, democratic pub
hcation, and perhaps the most serious
newspaper with.n the Fatherland, be-
came semi-oftical regarding foreign al
fairs. Its Berlin CORES spondent was al
lowed to use the back stairs when he
wanted to see the Chancellor or Sec
retary of Foreign Affairs on urgent
business or when he wanted no one to
know Of his secret visits Favors were
exchanged between the government and
even radical newspapers, and nearly
all of the press lost its independence
and responsibility.
When the corruption Of the German
press had progressed far enough the
politicians were bribed. To what ex-
tent it was done may never be re-
vealed, although the veil of secrecy has
been partly lifted by Eugen Richter,
the most brilliant German parliament
tartan. who in 1886 in his "Fre!sinnige
Zeitung" published a partial list of the
benefcaries of the Guelph Fund
Among those mentioned was the
fatherin-law of Won Boetticher, the
then Secretary of the Interior. and sew
eral German-American newspapers.
The s3,0o0,00o annual income Of the
Guelph Fund. which was at the dis
posal of Bismarck, was a large cor
ruption fund half century ago, when
the purchasing power of money was
about five times as great as it is now
IN this country and the population of
the North German Confederation was
only 30.0Oo.000. The struggling coun-
try paper was subsidized and at the
same time edited according TO govern
mental orders. The editorials, full OF
calumny and derision OF any move
ment opposed to the governmental pol
icy, were furnished by an official press
bureau. Only governmental papers
were selected for the publication Of
paid official vertisements. which
every German must read The small
farmer and the small business man
and the worker had neither the time
nor the money to read or subscribe 10
more than one local paper. And very
small was the number of those who
read in addition newspaper pub
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

done and health often sacrificed.
The continuance Of the Indian
Civil Service means that the struct-
ure OF administration, including
finance and the law, will not be
roughly shaken. But the basis of
authority will be transferred grad
ually to the people themselves.
The change is inevitable. Not only
has India furnished a million men
for the war and s5oo,0oo,o0o, but
she has seen autocracy fall in Rus
sia, in China and in Japan, and she
knows that autocracy is doomed in
Turkey and Germany. The only
question is, therefore, how changes
within her own coasts can be made
with least disturbance.
Mr.. Montagu begins by trans
ferring the government Of India as
far as possible overseas to India
herself. His object is to get rid of
the telegraph wire. Let the deci-
sions be taken on the spot. But he
also thinks that Britain should keep
friendly eye on what is going on
and so he sets up a special standing
committee for Indian affairs in the
House Of Commons. This is clearly
an adoption of the committee sys-
TEN famil ar in the American Con
gress end the Frel,c.. Legisla ture
The Indian Committee at Westmin-
ster will be non-party and will con-
sist wholly of members. themselves
elected to Parliament 1t will deal
with those Indian measures which
require imperial sanction.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Increase in the
Secret Funds

In the same year in which the Guelph
Fund was turned over to the Duke of
Cumberland the item "Secret expenses
Of the Foreign Office" in the imperial
budget was increased from 10000
MARKS to 100000 marks. The same
item grew to 100000 marks in 1907
and to 100000 marks in 1910 Official
documents referring to later years are
not available in New York City. Dur
ing the same period (1893-19l0) the
fund for the furtherance of German
schools and education and other vel
fare institutions with the exception Of
hospitals and aid societies in foreign
countries" was increased from 10000
to 900,0 900 marks. Also this fund was
ut the disposal of the Foreign once,
as were also the general fund, which
had been added to the budget OF the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Had Reached 1900, 600 Marks in 1910
Used to Subsidize Newspa ners and
All Politicians in the Empire

lished in one Of the large cities. There
fore the great majority read the "Ants-
anzeiger" official organ of district ,
in nearly all cases a Reptile" organ.
Only under especially favorable cir
cumstances could an opposition news
paper exist outside the big cities.
And in Germany the small newspa-
pers exert the greatest political inAu-
ence. Their readers believe IN the
printed word, while the subscri bers to
the large newspapers are, as rule,
better educated and more inclined TO
judge for themselves Publications Of
the Hearst type, read for their seasa-
tional headlines, their touching love
episodes and har-raising murder
stories. were unknown on the European
continent up 70 few years ago. The
governmental conquest Of the German
nation was started in the country dis
tricts, and progressed, by and by, to
the cities. where even great news pa
pers succumbed to the methods Of the
Reptile Bureau"
Incredible as it sounds. It is never
theless true that German language
publications in this country which were
CT the payroll of the Reptile Fund"
were also subsidized by American pub
lie authorities. All our backstair poll
ticians who had the interests of the
Potsdammers a heart-and their mum
Der is far greater than the American
the many disclosures in that direction
left nothing undone TO secure for the
kaiser's papers in this country public
advertisements. Many German daily
in the United States could not exist
without the receipts from municipal
and state Advertisements
In q good many instances these re-
ceipts were greater than the total pay
rolls. 1t was an ingenious scheme to
make the blodsinnige Yankees pay for
the Hohenzollern propaganda. And i
is still stranger fact that these Ger
man language papers had to be loyal
Ao tueti DCTIif SLSTS OF IlSk tne loss
Of the American subsidies. For the
same German American politicians who
had obtained by the passage of state
laws city ordinances or personal fa-
vor the public advertisements were in
a position and were under obligation TO
withdraw them in case the Berlin or
ders were not respectfully executed.
The politicians themselves were paid
in cash. in free first class passage to
and from Europe on the steamers of
the Hamburg American Line or the
North German Lloyd. in lucrative
American agencies OF the biggest Ger
man firms whose prosperity depended
to large extent on the good will of
Berlin. in the votes controlled by that
eminently traitorous organization
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

turned the table on the sycophants, de
marck, and called the benehciaries Of
the Guelph Fund "reptiles," and the
fund itself was generally known as
"Reptile Fund
Bismarck was a junker, the incarna-
tion of reaction and oppression; and so
was every one of his successors, the
fact that Caprivi, Prince Hohenlohe
and Prince Bulow liked, at times. to
pose as liberals Notwithstanding. But
even the Conservatives were, thanks to
the power of the "Reptile Fund"
pushed against the wall until they
squeaked" when they attempted to op-
pose the Iron Chancellor in 1874, and
were reduced to the position of minor
party in the Reichstag, when their
Deputies, to quote Bismarck's trium-
phant phrase, altogether at the same
time could ride in a single carriage
and only one proud column, Baron Min
nigcrode, remained"
The "Rcptile Fund" changed for the
worse, if that were possible. when it
ceased to be the Guelph Fund and be-
came the secret fund Of the Foreign
Office. After ex-King George Y of
Hanover had died, his son and heir, the
Duke of Cumberland, wrote on March
10, 1892, letter to the Kaiser denying
that he would ever undertake or favor
anything hostile to Prussia or her in
terests. The sequestration of the
Guelph Fund was repealed and the
capital of sl6,ooOooo was paid to the
Duke of Cumberland, father of the
present Duke of Brunswick, who mar
ried the kaiser's only daughter