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SATURDAY, DEC. 9, 1911.
The feast of the Immaculate
Conception which fell on Friday
of this week came within the pro
visions of the decree of July 2,
1911, regarding feast days of obli
gation that occur on days of fast
and abstinence. Catholics are al
lowed the use of meat and the
usual number of meals on such
occasions.
The labor unions that passed
resolutions demanding the ex
treme penalty for their erstwhile
brothers and leaders, the McNa
maras, are to be condemned just
as strongly as those which, by de
nouncing their arrest as an injus
tice and proclaiming their inno
cence, showed themselves unwill
ing to leave their fate in the hands
of the courts. The less noise the
labor unions make at the present
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tral-Blatt and Social Justice pub
lished by the Central Bureau of
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Street, St. Louis, Mo., contains a
number of meritorious articles on
the social queston. Among
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Socialism and Religion, Social
Work for Catholic Women Mini
mum Wages in France and Eng
land, the Priest's Attitude towards
Social' Questions, the Aims and
Methods of Social Reform and
Solidarity. If one wishes to keep
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the social question he will find
much to interest him in this re
view which is published in German
and in English. Sociological topics
of timely interest are discussed in
its pages and a list of pertinent
books and pamphlets advertised in
each issue.
His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons,
representing the trustees of the
Catholic University of America,
has issued the annual appeal to the
clergy and laity on behalf of that
institution. While the success of
the University is assured there is
urgent need of funds for the erec
tion of new buildings and the pur
chase of a larger equipment. "It
is a promising nursery of Catholic
scholarship," says His Eminence,
"a training school for the eminent
Catholic leaders of the future.
Scholarship and leadership are
necessarily slow growths. Time
and experience are of their very
nature, are like the atmosphere in
which alone they can grow to per
fection, are the indispensable con
ditions of that large academic
wealth and comfort that are put
together only gradually. The
young institution is daily giving
on all sides excellent evidence of
the rich harvest of service that
Holy Chureh will one day reap
from it, both in her clergy and her
laity." He appeals in his own
name and in that of the trustees
to all Catholic people to continue
their generous sjipport of the Uni
versity and, if possible, to enlarge
their contributions.
THE NEGLECTED SOULS.
There is a story told of the late
Dr. Dwight, Dean of the Harvard
Medical School, which illustrates,
says the Buffalo Union and Times,
the attitude of mind of a dis
tinguished modern scientist to
wards the old Catholic custom of
having Masses said for the dead.
Dr. Dwight made it a rule to have
a Mass offered up for the repose
of the soul of every person whose
body was brought to his ana
tomical rooms for purposes of
dissection. He knew that these
human derelicts had few, if any,
to think of them, and none, per
haps, to succor their souls by hav
ing a Mass said for them. His
Catholic heart was touched at the
thought of what it might be their
lot to suffer in Purgatory in de
fault of even one Mass for their
spiritual welfare. His sincere
faith and practical devotion found
expression in this remembrance
of them at the altar.
This charitable consideration
for others will plead for him now
that he has passed to his reward.
It also conveys a lesson to others,
and especially to those who, for
one reason or another, are in
clined to f&rget their dead rela
tives and friends. If Dr. Dwight
did so much for strangers and out
casts surely others should not
neglect the claims of kindred and
of friendship. The custom fal
lowed by him, suggests the
thought that we, too, are expected
to bring spiritual consolation to
jthe poor souls in Purgatory who
have none to pray for them. His
example should teach those who
need such a reminder, that they
owe the tribute of prayerful re
membrance even to those who
have no greater claims on their
charity and suffrages than that
implied in the Communion of
Saints.
PAULIPOLIS.
A Name for the United Cities.
That before many years St.
Paul and Minneapolis will be one
city, in complete political union as
today they are one commercially
and socially, is being universally
admitted. The question of the
serious advantages accruing to
both cities from such union is
beyond dispute. Let us announce
to the world that at the head of
navigation on the Mississippi we
have even now city of 550,000
people, and are racing fast towards
a population of 1,000,000, at once
we gain in prestige and power,
we throb with new life, new
hopes, new ambitions, and every
interest connected with the newly
born municipality is strengthened
the ten-fold. The union of the two
cities is the talk in homes and in
clubs: a year ago President Taft
set upon it his seal of approval:
the newspapers, discuss it at home
and abroad, in distant Kansas
City and in New York. Lately
"The Star" of Kansas City dedi
cated to the project several col
umns, illustrating its words of
praise and encouragement with a
splendid picture—a bird's-eye
view of the great metropolis,
geographical lines heretofore di
viding and marring its iair face
blotted out, and upper-town and
lower-town borrowing in frater
nal peace the one from the other
stateliness of beauty and impres
siveness of force and prosperity.
"The Sun" of New York consid
ers the union an assured fact in
the near future and lends its help
in the selection of a name, that
would embody in itself past tradi
tions and present aspirations.
What, then, shall be the name
of the great city? "The Catholic
Bulletin" is ready with its
suggestion.
Let the name be Paulipolis."
A name this is that recalls the two
cities of older days. One half tells
of St. Paul the other tells of Min
neapolis. It is important that
neither be forgotten, that the
once separate achievements of
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both be re-echoed adown the
years. Hearing the name, "Pauli
polis," all will remember the two
cities that had entered into bliss
ful wedlock—St.. Paul and Min
neapolis. The name, too, is
philologically correct, as the name
Minneapolis is not. He who had
invented the latter name dreamed
that he was blending into signifi
cant form Dakotah and Greek
words, so as ,to make it mean
"City of Waters," while in fact,
in rank contempt of the language
of Homer and Demosthenes, he
gave us "Water without City'
as things were in the dim long ago
of pre-Hennepin times. The name
"Paulipolis" born of Latin and
Greek classics well befits a city
housing an illustrious university.
Paulipolis''—literally and gram
matically, "City of Paul."
Other names have been sug
gested—none equalling in remin
iscence and euphony "Paulipo
lis." "Twin City"—who is not
shocked at its prosaic vulgarity?
Geminopolis," or "Didymopo
lis,"—the Greek for "Twin City"
—altogether too Attic for Amer
ican democracy. "St. Anthony"
—beauteous, indeed, as a reminder
of Hennepin's discovery of the
cataract that created Minneapo
lis, but saying nothing of St.
Paul. Mendota''—obliterating
both Minneapolis and St. Paul,
while, however, telling of a near
by spot of which neither need be
jealous. "The Star" of Kansas
City brings forward "Minne
haha"—"Minne for Minneapolis,
and Ha-ha for St. Paul"—alto
gether too jocular, particularly so
far as it refers to St. Paul.
The defects we see in other
names vanish when "Paulipolis"
is spoken: the intrinsic merits of
"Paulipolis" are beyond denial.
All hail to the great city— "Pauli
polis"!
THE DUTY OF LABOR
UNIONS.
The startling admission of guilt
made by the McNamaras in Los
Angeles last week brought to an
abrupt close what promised to be
one of the most notable trials of
recent years. The prominence of
the accused, the crimes with which
they were charged, involving mur
der and dynamiting, and the very
general interest taken in the case
forecasted a long and hotly-con
tested trial. The prisoners, n^
doubt, realized that the evidence
against them was overwhelming
and that the hope of favorable out
come was very remote. Their con
fession would win sympathy for
them were it not for the dastardly
nature of the crimes to which they
have pleaded guilty. They deserve
the punishment which has been
meted out to them by the court.
We are sorry for the McNa
maras, and sorry for the cause of
organized labor, which many, no
doubt will hold responsible for the
acts of its agents. It is not just,
however, to impute to the labor
unions responsibility for the acts
of the McNamaras who, in their
hearts, must have known that the
cause of labor could not be ad
vanced by the methods which they
employed to obtain redress for
whatever grievances, fancied or
real, they may have had .against
capital and capitalists. The lead
ers of organized labor, especially
John Mitchell, has expressed re
gret at what has taken place. He
knows very well, as every thinking
man must know, that organized
labor has no right to employ such
means as those resorted to by
these guilty men to accomplish its
purposes.
This incident furnishes an unex
pected opportunity for organized
labor to set itself right before the
bar of public opinion. The result
of the trial in Los Angeles ought
to strengthen the labor unions if
they take advantage of it in the
right way. We have nothing
against labor unions but, on the
contrary, we believe they are nec
essary under the* conditions of
modern industrial life and that
they can accomplish much for the
benefit of the workingman. There
is no doubt, however, that in their
ranks there are many unworthy
members who do not scruple to re
sort to violence in times of indus
trial stress. Their anarchistic ten
dencies reflect on unionism in gen
eral, and the sooner these organi
zations repudiate such an alliance
the better. They must now see the
need of purging their ranks of all
radicals and extremists and they
should do it quickly. The country
will judge them not by their theo
retical teaching, but by their pub
lic acts and recent events show
that some of their members are
capable of resorting to extreme
measures for the attainment of
their ends. It is unlikely that the
McNamaras would have attempted
what they did if they did not feel
that they had the tacit approval
and encouragement pf many
others in the ranks of organized
labor.
The Labor Unions throughout
America must repudiate all sug
gestion of violence on the part of
their members in order to retain
the confidence of the American
people. And if they take advan
tage of the opportunity for doing
so which the present case affords
they will gain rather than lose by
this deplorable incident.
CATHOLIC RECORD SOCIETY
OF IRELAND.
At the annual meeting of the
Maynooth Union held in 1910 a
resolution was adopted favoring
the organization of an Irish Cath
olic Record Society for the pur
pose of making accessible to stu
dents the mass of unpublished
documents which serve to throw
light upon the early, medieval,
and modern religious history of
Ireland. Until these records are
given to the world no satisfactory
religious or general history of
that country can be written. A
committee was appointed to ar
range the necessary preliminaries
for the establishment of such a so
ciety and in its report read at this
year's meeting of the Union it
was suggested that the work be
taken up at once, and that a Cath
olic Record Society be founded
for the purpose of gathering his
torical documents and arranging
for their publication.
His Eminence, Cardinal Logue
of Armagh was named patron
and Archbishop Healy of Tuam
President of the Society which is
composed of a large and influen
tial body of the Irish clergy and
prominent professional men. The
Society will begin its work at
once. It will confine its attention
entirely to the publication of
documents in Irish, Latin, Eng
lish, etc., which have a bearing on
the religious development of Ire
land. These documents will be
published in a journal which the
Society intends to issue at least
once a year and which will be
sent to members free of cost. Dr.
MacCaffrey of Maynooth has been
appointed editor. The Society has
issued an appeal o the friends of
Ireland throughout the world
and by means of an annual mem
bership subscription of ten shil
ling a year,, it hopes to obtain suffi
cient funds to carry on its work.
Shis movement is a step in the
right direction and, no doubt, it
will receive the patronage it de
serves from Irishmen and their
descendants everywhere.
THE ITALO-TURKISH WAR.
'The latest dispatches from the
seat of the Italo-Turkish war have
put a new aspect upon the situa
tion in Tripoli. They show that
the previous reports in which the
Italians were held up for the ex
ecration of the civilized world on
account of the alleged atrocities of
which they were said to have been
guilty were, to say the least, gross
ly exaggerated. As a result of
these new developments Italy has
completely recovered the sympa
thy of the European press, includ
ing that of England, which was
largely instrumental in spreading
the first defamatory reports. This
revulsion of feeling has been
brought about by dispatches tell
ing of shameful mutilations and
hideous tortures inflicted upon
Italian captives in Tripoli by the
Turks and Arabs. It would be too
much to expect that the Italian
troops were entirely guiltless of
cruelty in the present war. The
•carrying on of active operations
against an enemy in the field
usually arouses the baser passions
that lie dormant in the human
breast and not infrequently these
succeed in obtaining a temporary
mastery. This is the more likely
to take place whenever the enemy
has been guilty of cruelty and
treachery and when those who are
looked upon as friendly or neutral
take up arms against the invaders
as they did in the present instance.
The Italian troops in Tripoli
were engaged in warfare against
the Turks. The Arab population
was treated with consideration
and appeared to be well disposed
towards the invaders. But while
the Italian troops were fighting
the enemy, the Arabs who had
hitherto shown no signs of un
friendiness attacked them from
the rear. They were thus placed
between two fires and were forced
to defend themselves against the
treachery of the Arabs. Orders
to shoot were given and who will
blame the soldiers if, stung to
madness by the inhuman conduct
of the Arabs, they went beyond
the bounds of civilized warfare in
defending themselves against their
treacherous foes? They were sub
jected to the fearful strain of a
'ouble attack, jthe one from the
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rear being unexpected and regard
ed as treacherous, and it is not to
be wondered at that a not unnatur
al spirit of savage reprisals took
possession of some of them. It is
not an easy matter to condone
such conduct on the part of civil
ized troops, but due allowance
must be made for the provocation
to which they were subjected. It
is not unlikely that the soldiers of
any country would have acted in
a similar manner under the cir
cumstances.
The special correspondent of the
London Times is authority for the
statement that when the Arabs
first rose in arms against the Ital
ians "they were ensconced in a
labyrinth of walled gardens, fig
groves, and cactus-lined alley
ways. They shot all and sundry in
uniform or on horseback that came
in sight They destroyed
a fatigue party of Bersaglieri who
were bringing rations to the out
post line These same
Arabs exterminated two compan
ies of the 11th Bersaglieri, shoot
ing them at close range in the
back while the men were facing a
persistent enemy on their front. A
gallant little colleague of mine,
who spent the whole day with an
other company of Bersaglieri, has
remarkable photographs showing
this company manning its trenches
front and rear at the same mo
ment- Some of us partici
pated the frightful moment
when the Italian army from its
generals down to the musicians
realized that there was the possi
bility of 10,000 rifles rising in fan
atical rage upon their rear. And
we can perhaps appreciate the
mental strain and fearful anxiety
which developed into the blood
lust I have already described than
those who were absent from the
actual scene of the Arab uprising,
and certainly better than those
who were not in Tripoli at all."
From this account furnished by
an eye-witness on the scene of
the actual uprising it is not diffi
cult to realize the conditions which
forced the Italian troops to defend
themselves against the attacks of
the Arabs with a disregard for
anything except their own safety.
When the final history of the
Italo-Turkish war is written it will
probably be found that there is
nnjch to be condemned (in the
methods of warfare on both sides
but it is safe to assume that the
conduct of the Italian troops will
not be painted in as dark a color
as some of the published reports
would lead us to believe.
II PROTESTANT'S CATHOLICITY
IjSAAC BUTT, FOUNDER OF THE
HOME RULE MOVEMENT, HAD
CATHOLIC PRACTICES.
An article in the "Irish Summer
Magazine" by the confidential secre
tary of Isaac Butt, founder of the
Home Rule movement, gives many
interesting items not generally known
concerning the Irish tribune.
Mr. Butt, though a Protestant, in
dulged in several Catholic practices.
He kept a Crucifix on the desk in his
study, and beside it St. Alphonsus
Liguori's "The Glories of Mary," a
book which he read frequently and
greatly treasured. Mr. Collins, the
writer of the reminiscences, "often
heard him, when reading the book,
express in most endearing tones his
veneration for the Mother of God."
He carried three religious medals in
his pocketbook, and was careful to
have them in his counsellor's gown
while pleading in court. When en
gaged In important cases he would
arrange to have a Mass said to assist
him in his advocacy, and he was wont
to contribute to the maintenance of an
altar dedicated to the perpetual ador
ation of the Blessed Sacrament. He
had made all arrangements to spend
some time in Mount Melleray, in the
room occupied by O'Connell during his
stay at the Trappist monastery, when
he was suddenly stricken by the fatal
illness that resulted in his death.
He was buried, by his wish, at
Stranorlar, Donegal, the home of the
O'Donnells, with whom he claimed
kinship, and his head rests in death
on the Catholic medals which he Wore
in life.
BI3HOP OF KILLALA.
Fattier Naughton, President of 8t.
Muredach's College, Chosen. For
This County Mayo See.
Official notice of the appointment of
the Very Rev. James Naughton,
President of St. Muredach's College,
Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, as
Bishop of Killala in succession to the
late Bishop Conmy, was recently re
ceived from Rome by the Archbishop
of Tuam.- Bishop-elect Naughton was
born in Ballina, and made his studies
preparatory to the priesthood at May
nooth College where he was ordained
in 1889. Two years later he was
appointed administrator of the Cathe
dral parish of Ballina, and five years
ago, when the new college waB
opened, he was appointed its Presi
dent.
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DOMAIN OP TEMPERANCE.
TEMPERANCE A88ERTINQ ITSELF,',
In a sermon preached at Clonmei
recently, Bishop Sheehan of the Dio
cese of Waterford and Lisemore, said
in part:
"Thank God, there is no need to
speak about the sin of intemperance^
today in precisely the same language
that was imperatively demanded even
in the memory of many men and
women who are here. The Spirit of
God appears to be breathing over the
land, stirring the hearts of men and
women in regard to temperance. Men
and women everywhere, as we know
from evidence of many kinds, are be
ginning to see now, as they never saw
before, as their fathers and mothers
and grandfathers and grandmothers
did not see—they are beginning to see
the sin and shame of intemperance.
There is the strong, almost compel
ling reason of self-respect that is
deeply implanted in the hearts and
minds of our people. Then, again,
the old bad customs—that the devil
makes use of to perpetuate and extend
intemperance in this land—appear to
be expending their forces and every
thing points to the fact that before
very long this great danger to our
people will be removed, that temper
ance will assert itself as a living
virtue of the Irish people, and God
in heaven only knows what a blessing
that will be for the father and mother,
the poor little children, for the coun
try, for the Church, and for God. May
it come soon, may it come at the earli
est moment, and when it does it will
be, next to the preservation of the
Faith, the greatest blessing, I believe,
that heaven has ever brought down
upon this land of ours."
DRINK, A DESTROYER OF MEN.
The first and most seductive danger
and the destroyer of most young men,
says Andrew Carnegie, is the drinking
of liquor. I am no temperance
lecturer in disguise, but a man who
knows and tells you what observation
has proven to him and I say to you
that you are .more likely to fail in
your career from acquiring the habit
of drinking liquor than from any or
all other temptations likely to assail
you. You may yield to almost any
other temptation, and reform, may
brace up, and if not recover lost
ground, at least remain in the race
and secure and maintain a respectable
position. But from the insane thirst
for liquor, escape is almost impossible.
I implore you to hold it as incon
sistent with the dignity and self
respect of gentlemen—with what is
due from yourselves to yourselves,
being the men you are—and especially
the men you are determined to be
come—to drink a glass of liquor at a
bar. Be far too much of a gentleman
ever to enter a bar-room. You do not
pursue your careers in safety unless
you stand firmly upon this ground.
Acfhere to it and you have escaped
danger from the deadliest of your
foes.
There are some great rocks ahead
of the practical young man who has
his foot upon the ladder and is be
ginning to rise. The principal is
drunkenness, which, of course, is fatal.
There is no use in wasting time upon
any young man who drinks liquor, no
matter how exceptional his talents.
Indeed, the greater his talents are the
greater the disappointment must be.
CAUGHT UNAWARES.
No man begins to drink with the
intention of becoming a drunkard,
writes Dr. A.* C. Murphy in Every
body's Monthly. If indeed the order
of experiences were reversed, and the
penalty preceded the pleasure, where
would there be a drunkard at all? If
the delirium tremens went before the
career of dissipation, instead of after
it, who would pay the price of
delirium tremens for all the pleasure
that was" to follow it? But every
drunkard thinks to snatch the pleas
ure and escape the penalty. He in
tends to stop short before the danger
point is reached, however the faculty
of self-judgment and self-measure
ment is seriously impaired. There is
an island in the midst of the sloping
flood of Niagara, just above the point
where that vast wilderness of water
tumbles over into the abyss. The
boat that is caught in the current
may still be saved by making for the
island. The man who is caught in
the current of intemperance calculates
that he can still steer his boat to the
island of abstinence or of strict
sobriety. Fond infatuation! His hand
is unsteady his brain is in a whirl
his spirit is confounded with the rush
and thunder of the waters his eye
sees double. There are two islands,
three islands, ten islands there is no
island at all—not one other landing
place between him now and the curb
ing lip of the cataract. He swims
over the Up. He is sucked down into
the depths. He is dashed to pieces
on the rocks, and the mangled all that
is left of him is washed ashore among
the wandering eddies and spent spray
a mile below the fall. The illustra
tion is extreme, you say, or it has but
a partial application. Is it not one, I*
ask, that is verified in some one
within the circle of acquaintance of
every one of you? And was there, I
ask again, a single one of those in
whom it has been verified who would
not have been one day as ready to
laugh at the idea of its application to
himself as you are ready to laugh to* i
day? Is human nature one thing m,"
you, another thing in all the world
besides? Is the awful law of aver-*"'
ages by force of which annuity com*
panies and insurance companies live
and flourish, going to be set aside for"
the benefit of the present generation
of transgressors?
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