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8ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914.
Make the rosary your daily
companion. There are many mo
ments, even in the busiest day,
which the devout client of the
Blessed Virgin can profitably em
ploy in saying a Hail Mary, if not
a whole decade of the beads.
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velope bearing the name and ad
dress of the sender.
We are almost at the threshold
of the month of October, a month
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin
Mary under the title of Queen of
the Most Holy Rosary. Every
Catholic knows the value of the
Rosary as a devotional exercise
freighted with the greatest bless
ing for those who make the recita
tion of it part of their daily
tribute of divine worship and of
love for the Mother of God.
"The Denver Catholic Regis
ter" has decided to raise the sub
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provement. The publishers frankly
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tion price is necessary "to assure
its existence." It is a hazardous
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People get accustomed to the
lower price and very often are un
willing to pay more. We hope the
subscribers to the Denver Catholic
Register will remain loyal to it
and enable the publishers to reach
the goal of their ambition which
is to make it "the greatest Catho
lic paper in America."
A new plan is being put into
operation in the public school sys
tem of Gary, Ind. It was inaugur
ated on September 16, with the
opening of a school under the
auspices of the Christian Church.
The Methodists and other denom
inations are expected to do like
wise. These church schools have
been recognized by Superintend
ent Wirt of the public schools and
the City Council to the extent of
modifying the school hours so as
to permit the pupils who wish to
attend their respective denomina
tional schools to do so without in
terfering with their public school
duties. In these sectarian schools
the children receive religious in
struction from teachers of their
own denomination. Attendance
at these schools is not compulsory.
It will be interesting to see how
this plan Works out. It is another
indication that the public schools
are coming to realize the insuffi
ciency of their course of instruc
tion and are seeking for some
means of imparting to the children
the religious training which can
not be given in them. This ar
rangement will probably make no
difference to the Catholics of Gary
as there are two large parochial
schools in the citv.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
Last week Sir Lionel Garden,
former British Minister to Mexico
and recently appointed Minister
to Brazil, made a statement in
which he criticised the United
States for withdrawing the Ameri
can troops from Vera Cruz. He
declared that4'the people who did
not get protection in Mexico City
and elsewhere went to Vera Cruz
for protection. What will they do
now? They have no means of
getting away and will be left to
the mercies of a lawless element
tfiat will immediately Over-ran
the town and country.
"When it is said that a state of
absolute anarchy exists in Mexico,
it is not stating the facts too
"Neither life, liberty nor prop
erty is safe, and whenever an
officer so desires he may turn a
family out of its home and com
mandeer everything. There is no
redress, for there are no courts, no
congress, no laws—nothing but
anarchy and military despotism,
with not even a supreme chief to
oversee them.
"Huerta had some sort of a
government Carranza has none
whatever the only claim he has
to greatness is his physique, and
that is not so terrifying, either.
There is not even martial law
there because there is no recogni
tion."
Sir Lionel may have been im
prudent in his utterance, but it
can scarcely be denied that he
ought to be, and, undoubtedly, is,
familiar with conditions in Mex
ico. The fact that his criticism
was resented by the American
Government is significant. In view
of the wholesale expulsion of
priests and religious, the con
tinued looting of churches and the
confiscation of property, it looks
as if Sir Lionel's statement was
not very far from the truth. A
late dispatch from Washington
says that General Funston is urg
ing the War Department not to
withdraw the troops from Vera
Cruz. Is he, too, afraid of the
consequences? Not unlikely. Re
ports from the border cities indi
cate that revolutionary plots are
being hatched in Mexico, that the
troops of Carranza and Villa have
added extensively to their arma
ment since the embargo on arms
was lifted by the American Gov
ernment. No, Mexico is not paci
fied, nor is there anything like a
stable government there, despite
the assurances of the advocates of
watchful waiting."
The story told by the latest
group of refugee priests who ar
rived in San Francisco after being
expelled from Mexico by the Con
stitutionalists is harrowing in its
details of the hardship and suffer
ing inflicted upon them. General
Dieguez. the Consitutionalist Gov
ernor of the State of Jalisco, who
expelled them, is a former convict,
having served time in the state
prison of San Juan de Ulna. Ac
cording to the San Francisco
Monitor," he told them that he
did not respect any flags, heeded
no consuls, and did not fear the
protest of foreign powers. He
only respected the United States
of America, he said, adding:
"They are fully aware of my do
ings and heartily endorse them."
Dieguez is another of the
henchmen with whom Carranza
has surrounded himself in his ef
forts to restore peace to Mexico,
and yet he and his subordinates
enjoy the friendship, if not the
active support^ of the American
Government!
HOW MASONS CAN OPPOSE.
Under this heading the "Ma
sonic Observer" of Minneapolis,
the official organ of the Masonic
fraternity in that city, quotes,
with evident approval, an article
from "The Masonic Sentinel" of
Chicago in which that paper gives
a list of questions sent by the Cath
olic Union of Illinois to candi
dates for the next general assem
bly of that state, as evidence that
the Catholic Union is "attempting
to secure a state legislature that
will be bound to support only
opinions advanced by the Roman
Catholic Church." It then points
out to the Masonic fraternity the
means by which they can oppose
this alleged assault on their rights
by the Church.
At the outset it may be well to
state, for the benefit of those who
might be inclined to accept the
illogical deduction of "The Ma
sonic Sentinel," that the Catholic
Union of Illinois is not the Catho
lic Church, nor is it authorized to
speak for the Catholic Church
and hence whatever action it may
take in public affairs of local or
state interest in no way com
promises the Catholic Church.
Now what is the specific offence
of which the Catholic Union of
Illinois has been guilty? If has
been guilty of the atrocious crime
of asking candidates for the state
legislature whether they favor the
inclusion of vocational education
in the curriculum of public
schools what their position is in
regard to Bible reading in the
schools to pupils of different
denominations whether they
favor a more strict divorce legis
lation which shall also meet the
conscientious convictions of the
parties separated: whether, in the
event of free text-books being sup
plied to the children of the state,
they would restrict this privilege
to public school children or ex
tend it to all children, regardless
of whether they attend public,
parochial, or private schools:
whether they favor a continuance
of the policy, now incorporated
in the state law, of exempting
from taxation church, school and
property used for charitable pur
poses whether, in the event of
election, they would support a
measure providing pensions for
civil service employees, and a min
imum wage for women and child
dren: whether they favor the giv
ing of free transportation and
lunches, in ease of necessity only,
to pupils of all schools, public,
private, and parochialj and, filial­
ly, what their attitude is in re
gard to the teaching of sex hy
giene in the public schools.
This is, indeed a formidable
indictment. It is evident that the
Catholic Union of Illinois is vi
tally interested in problems which
are now the subject of much pub
lic discussion—problems in which
every true citizen should show in
terest. They affect the civic wel
fare more than do the political af
filiations of the candidate for pub
lic office who appeals to the voters
for support. Does the Catholic
Union of Illinois violate any con
stitutional right in asking such
candidates where they stand on
these questions Can its action be
construed as an attempt to bind
the next legislature of Illinois "to
support only these opinions ad
vanced by the Roman Catholic
Church?" The Catholic Church,
as such, has made no official pro
nouncement in regard to these
matters. Catholics in general, as
well as the members of the Catho
lic Union of Illinois, are entitled to
have their own views on these
matters and to express them pub
licly if they see fit to do so nor
can their action be regarded as
taking part in "politics" in the
sense in which "The Masonic
Sentinel" uses the term.
But the interesting part of the
Sentinel's article is that in which
it points out to Masons how they
can oppose this entrance of the
Catholic Church into politics. It
says: "The customs and laws of
our institution forbid Freemason
ry taking any part in politics we
cannot discuss these questions in
our lodges. But, as individuals,
we can and should see that, if in
our power to prevent, the legis
lature of this state (Illinois) does
not pass into the control of per
sons sworn to obey the mandates
of any sect or creed. It is the
duty of Masons to preserve those
liberties which have been secured
at so great sacrifices of human life
and after so much mental and
physical suffering. Every at
tempt to unite church and state is
contrary to the teaching of Free
masonry and should be opposed.
"Because Freemasonry cannot
as a society engage in conflict with
the Catholic Union of Illinois, The
Masonic Sentinel recommends to
its readers that they seek informa
tion through the Guardians of
Liberty and other patriotic so
cieties that have been organized
to combat just such situations as
have been forced upon us by the
action of the Catholic Union of
Illinois in seeking pledges from
candidates for public office."
This is very interesting. Since
when have Catholics "sworn to
obey the mandates" of the
Church? Does the Sentinel still
believe in the K. of C. "oath," the
Jesuit4'oath,'' etc. Furthermore,
we were not aware of the fact
that the Masons regarded the so
called Guardians of Liberty as
substitutes to fight their battles
against the Catholic Church. The
Guardians of Liberty will, no
doubt, be very much pleased to
learn that the Masons are willing
to use them as catspaws, while
publicly repudiating all sympathy
with their purpose and all affilia
tion with them.
The "Masonic Observer" of
Minneapolis, evidently approves
the idea of using the Guardians
of Liberty and other "patriotic"
societies to fight the bugaboo of
papal domination in the United
States. Its attitude toward Cath
olics is not unknown to us. Our
readers will remember that, less
than a year ago, this same "Ma
sonic Observer" published a state
ment made by "Brother" Irving
P. Jones, Secretary of Minnesota
Lodge, No. 224, and in charge of
the Bertillon room at police head
quarters in that city, which re
flected on the Catholics of Minne
apolis—a statement which a little
investigation would have shown
to be utterly false, as was very
clearly evidenced when Mr. Jones,
on being challenged by a represen
tative of The Catholic Bulletin for
proof of his assertion, retracted it
and published the retraction in the
'Masonic Observer" on December
17, 1913. This would indicate
that the "Masonic Observer" is
not over-scrupulous about publish
ing articles reflecting on Catholic
citizenship and thus places itself
on the same plane as other anti
Catholic sheets.
THE BOND OF PEACE.
The hollowness of modern civil
ization, as demonstrated by the
explosion that has convulsed Eu
rope and the world, is the prevail
ing theme of preachers and of
writers at the present time. They
are asking what did the world
lack, what was the disease that
led men to dream and to say
peace," "peace," when there
was no peace. And some are fore
casting the future, hoping that out
of evil, however colossal, lasting
good will surely come.
Some look for a decay of the
arrogant spirit of exclusive, nar
row. aggressive nationality, and
the birth of a spirit of universal
brotherhood, whereby for all fu
ture time peace among men may
be secured,
'When the war drums beat no
longer and the batileflags
are furled,
E CATHOLIC BULLETIN, SEPT. 26, 1914.
In the Parliament of Man, the
federation of the World."
Others looking deeper into
causes, anticipate a unity of re
ligion and of moral ideals among
all men.
We are told that the pagan
Japanese meet the Christian mis
sionaries with a sneer at the con
duct of the nations of Christen
dom. But does the word Christen
dom stand for a concrete, definite
reality now? Has not spurious
nationalism and.patriotism seized
upon religion itself as a mere
tool and a pretext? Josephism
in Austria in the eighteenth
century, Gallicanism in France,
Erastianism, avowed as a prin
ciple in the England of the
Established Church and in the
Germany of Bismarck and of the
Kulturkampf, were so many bold
denials of the divinely ordained
unity of Christendom. Today in
America we hear voices calling
out from Protestant pulpits and
platforms that Americans must
have an American religion with
nothing foreign about it and some
go so far as to say that this idol
atry of our own country must be
preached to the Europeans as soon
as they find time to listen to us.
Catholics by the very force of
their name must stand for the re
ligion which Christ commissioned
His Church to preach to all men
They stand for one Lord, one
Faith, one Baptism, one God and
Father of all. They pray with
their Divine Master that all men
may come to the knowledge of
the truth and be united in the one
Mystical Body of Christ, under
the Supreme Head, Christ's Vicar
on earth. And because Catholics
are loyal to Christ and His
Church, to the Universal Kingdom
He established, is precisely the
reason for the outcry that ac
cuses them in every land of a
want of true patriotism.
Repudiation of Catholic unity,
has implied the abandonment of
the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of peace. And rebellion against
Peter has meant what Peter's
Master said it would always
mean: He who despises you de
spises Me, and he who despises
Me, despises Him Who sent Me.
In the non-Catholic universities
of the world, and alas! in too
many Protestant pulpits men no
longer hesitate to deny that Jesus
is the Christ the Son of the living
God. Claiming to found them
selves upon the latest results of
modern scientific thinking, men
deny that this world is anything
more than a huge dead, soulless
machine they deny that the world
has a Creator and a God and that
man has an immortal soul.
Thence flows immediately the
ethics of the brute, common to
atheistic socialist and Epicurean
capitalist alike: let us eat, drink
and be merry, for tomorrow we
die.
The Father of Christians dies
of a broken heart because his poor
deluded children would not hear
the voice that warned them of
the abyss towards wrhich they
were rushing. And his successor,
full, though he be of the high
courage which Christ's presence
must give, cannot withhold the
plaintive remonstrance that this
poor world is sad enough without
men making it sadder.
Benedict XV. bids us pray for
peace, pray and labor for a last
ing revival of the spirit of relig
ion. If we seek not first the king
dom of God and His justice, all
our boasted progress must inevi
tably lead to new catastrophes.
The discoveries of genius, the
enormous expenditure of mental
and bodily vigor can only build
up new machines of destruction,
nay, they can make of the very
flower of each nation's young
manhood, a huge, heartless ma
chine of devastation. Holy de
sires, right designs and good deeds
come from God, and in answer
to our prayer for that peace which
the world cannot give, may God
turn the hearts of war-worn men
to him who from Peter's Chair
holds out the hand of Fatherly
invitation. This is the future that"
Catholics hope and pray fw.
At Bon, in the year 1899, a
celebrated surgeon, surrounded by
his numerous students, stood in
the operation-room of a large hos
pital. A countryman was brought
in. Before beginning the opera
tion the surgeon warned the man,
not for the first time, that after
it he would be unable to utter an
other word. As writing was not
an easy task for the countryman,
the surgeon advised him to ex
press now any wish or communi
cation he desired to address to his
friends. The man bowed his head
reverently, folded his hands, and
said: "Praised be Jesus Christ,
praised for evermore." The sur
geon as well as the students were
greatly moved. The operation
was successful, but these were the
last words the man ever uttered.
No one can grow while his thoughts
are self-centred. The sympathies of
the man who thinks only of himself
are soon dried up. Self-consciousness
acts as a paralysis to all expansion,
strangles enlargement, kills aspira
tion, cripples executive ability. The
mind which accomplishes things looks
out. not in it is focussed upon its ob
ject, not upon itself.
(Continued from Page 1.)
THE SOCIAL SIDE OF CHARITY.
They were in a large proportion of
instances, probably in a majority of
instances, social rather than indi
vidual factors. In most cases they
were no doubt ultimately due to in
sufficient wages and insufficient em
ployment. For example, "lack of male
support" denoted not merely culpable
wife abandonment, but inability to
provide for dependents through income
or through savings and insurance.
Sickness and funeral expenses are fre
quently responsible for distress be
cause the income of the individual or
family had been inadequate to pre
vent or to provide for these natural
contingencies. And the old age which
inducco want is in a very large pro
portion of cases only an instrumental
cause which is itself caused by wages
insufficient for normal saving. Com
bining all the figures considered in
this paragraph, we find that in 70 per
cent of the 115,000 cases examined by
Professor Warner, the causes seem to
have been predominantly, or for the
most part, social.
In his work entitled, "Misery and
Its Causes," Dr. E. T. Devine analyzes
and interprets the causes of dependen
cy in five thousand families recorded
by the New York Charity Organization
Society. The most striking facts dis
closed by this study are the following:
Unemployment was a cause of dis
tress in 69 per cent of the families
overcrowding, in 45 per cent widow
hood, in 29 per cent five varieties of
sickness or disability, in 74 per cent
more than three children under four
teen years of age in the family, in 19
per cent and old age in head of
family, in 12 per cent. It will be ob
served that this table is arranged on
a different basis from Profesror War
ner's presentation of causes. The
latter gives only one cause, the im
mediate cause, of each case of dis
tress, while Dr. Devine enumerates all
the factors that were operative. As a
rule, there were three or four of these
in each family. Consequently the sum
total of the "percentages of influence"
is much above one hundred. It is
about 340. Of this total the six per
centages above enumerated constitute
nearly 250. In other words, the six
causes specified are active or prev
alent in three times as many in
stances as all the other factors (15
in number) combined. A careful
examination of these six factors will
how that they are predominantly so
cial rather than individual.
Moreover, some of the specifically
individual factors, such as, intemper
ance and immorality, are ultimately
traceable in part to social forces.
Immorality is due in some measure to
bad home conditions and a bad neigh
borhood, which are in turn occasioned
by lack of income, and want of proper
police regulations. Intemperance is
likewise caused to some extent by an
ill-regulated liquor traffic.
Industrial Social Factors.
Another indication of the part
played by social forces in making pov
erty and distress, is to be found in the
history and the conclusions of the
Committee on Standards of Living and
Labor established by the National Con
ference of Charities and Correction?
in 1909. This committee was formed
in recognition of the fact that a large
and continuously increasing share of
distress is due to those social factors
which we call industrial. In their in
vestigations and programs its mem
bers proceeded on the theory that the
impoverishing influence of socio-indus
trial forces will not be eliminated un
til all our people are provided with
certain minimum requirements of well
being. At the end of three yeanr
the Committee formulated a pro
gram or platform of living and
working conditions defining this
minimum. Under the heads of
Wages, Safety and Health, Housing.
Hours of Labor, Term of Working Life
and Compensation or Insurance, the
Committee undertook to describe the
lowest standards of life and labor
compatible with human welfare, and
capable of abolishing industrially
caused distress. These standards and
formulations are in fairly close con
formity with the requirements of de
cent living laid down by Pope Leo XIII
in his encyclical "On the Conditions
of Labor." No intelligent and humane
person will contend that they are too
high. Every well informed charity
worker, every enlightened student of
social conditions, will admit that until
these standards are universally
realized in actual life a greater or
less degree of distress will be specif
ically traceable to socio-economic
causes.
And yet a very large proportion,
possibly a majority, of the persons to
whom these standards are respectively
applicable, are at present living below
them. For example, the majority of
our wage earning population are not
receiving living wages the majority
of women and minor employees do not
enjoy the eight hour day and a very
large section of the laboring class is
without sanitary and decent housing.
The amount of misery which is
palpably traceable to socio-industrial
conditions is of itself more than suffi
cient to justify a systematic study of
and attack upon poverty from the so
cial side.
Remedy for Social Causes of Distress.
What are the weapons by which stu
dents and workers in the field of
charity shall oppose and abolish the
social causes of distress? Certain
phases of this question will undoubt
edly receive specific treatment in the
papers and discussions of this Com
mittee this afternoon and Wednesday.
In the few moments that remain to
me I can only suggest the barest out
line of a very general answer. The first
desideratum is knowledge. We must
form the habit of seeking, recognizing,
and appraising those factors of misery
which are wholly or mainly social.
Whether the influence exerted by
these factors is in any given situation
predominant or only secondary,
original or only instrumental, are
questions that cannot, indeed, always
be resolved with certainty. But they
need not be so answered. It is enough
that the presence of the social factors
should be detected, and their activity
effectively counteracted.
The next requisite is cooperation.
However successful the individual may
be in relieving and even in preventing
single cases of distress, he can
achieve practically nothing in dealing
with social causes. For the latter pur
pose we need organized effort, not
only among Catholic individuals and
Catholic societies, but between Catho
lic individuals and associations on the
one hand and non-Catholic or secular
individuals and associations on the
other hand. Movements which have
for their objects a more effective con
trol of the liquor traffic and of com
mercialized vice, movements to secure
adequate compensation for working
men on account of industrial accidents
and diseases, schemes of social in
surance, methods of establishing a
living wage, projects for the improve
ment of housing conditions, campaigns
against tuberculosis and other diseases
which contribute so largely to the
sum total of poverty,—all these and
many other social activities of the
same general type ought to command
the active support of all Catholics
who are interested in the study and
work of charity. Such support and
participation are by IJO ipeans difficult
Every wide-awake Catholic charity
worker necessarily comes into fre
quent contact with already existing
groups and organizations* which are
engaged in these social works, these
movements for the diminution of one
or other of the social causes of dis
tress. As examples I would cite the
National Child Labor Committee, the
National Consumers' League, the
American Association of Labor Legis
lation, the various societies which are
working for better conditions of hous
ing and sanitation. The dispropor
tionately small membership and in
fluence of Catholics in associations
and movements of this kind is a
distinct handicap both to the Catholic
cause and to the cause of social bet
terment. It is only when Catholics
shall have assumed their full share of
participation in these activities that
they will command that measure of
social and civic prestige which they
ought to possess, or contribute ade
quately toward that effective charity
which consists in the removal of the
social causes of poverty. Let each
one of us do his utmost to hasten that
day!
PSALM XLIX.
DEUS DEORUM.
(Written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Helen Hughes Hielscher.)
God has called and time and space
Has heard His voice
in fire and tempest shines His face,
His saints rejoice.
Gather those who praise His name,
And let the heavens declare His fame.
Let heaven and earth in judgment sit,
\nd let His holy ones arise,
Who greater deemed than sacrifice,
The law for their instructions writ.
Hear ye the voice of Israel's God,
Did I reprove thy sacrifice,
Burnt offerings laid before Mine eyes?
And think ye do I look abroad,
Desiring for the calves ye feed,
Thy he-goats from the guarded flocks,
Thy playful lambs or patient ox,
That for my glory they may bleed?
Know ye the riches of the field,
The birds, the flowers, the lowing
kine,
The fullness of the earth is Mine,
Its treasures to My wants to yield.
ff I were hungry would I seek
The bullock's flesh to be My food.
Or drink the goat's empurpling blood
From ye whose hands with slaughter
reek?
Offer to God the sacrifice
Of praise, and vows unto Him pay,
And call upon Him in the day
Of trouble, He shall hear thy cries.
But God unto the sinner spoke,
Why dost Thou witness to My cause,
Or take within thy mouths My laws,
When thou dost hate and scorn My
yoke?
My words behind thee thou dost cast,
With thieves and robbers thou dost
run,
And with adulterers art one,
Thy tongue to frame deceit is fast.
Sitting thou wrought'st a tale of guile,
A scandal to thy brother's name,
Thy mother's son to bring to shame,
And I was silent all the while.
Didst think that I was like to thee?
Before thee I reproof have set,
Ye senseless ones that God forget,
Lest ye for all eternity
Be snatched away to endless night,
The sacrifice of prayer and praise—
These are the only means and ways
That leadeth to eternal light.
GRANT'S CATHOLIC
DESCENDANTS
TWO OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN RE
CEIVED INTO THE CHURCH
ONE OF THEM DIED RE­
CENTLY.
It will, n6 doubt, be interesting to
our readers to learn that two of the
grandchildren of General U. S. Grant,
President of the United States, after
the war, were received into the Catho
lic Church during the past decade.
These are Algernon Sartoris and his
sister, Rosemary Sartoris, children of
General Grant's daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris Jones of Chicago.
Algernon Sartoris was received in
to the Church by Archbishop Glennon
of St. Louis in 1904. His sister who
married George H. Woolsfon of New
York, in 1906, made her abjuration and
received baptism and first communion
at the hands of Father Morris, a Pas
sionist, in Hempstead, Long Island, in
1912. Her death occurred recently at
the age of thirty-four.
DOMAIN OF TEMPEBAHCE.
WHAT THE DOCTORS
SAY.
The Journal of Inebriety quotesthe
following passages as the "leading
thoughts" of the addresses delivered
in the city of Birmingham, by fifty
members of the British Medical Asso
ciation, each physician being free to
express any opinion which he might
choose.
That alcohol does not quench but
awakens thirst.
That alcohol of no value, when
work is to be done.
That alcohol diminishes the quality
and total output of manual work of
all kinds.
That alcohol blunts perception and
feeling, impairs moral sense and im
pedes intellectual processes.
That alcohol, when taken by chil
dren, checks growth and development,
both mentally and bodily.
That alcohol weakens the power of
self-control, thus leading to immorality
and crime, poverty and misery.
That alcohol has a narcotic poison
ous action and must be classed with
chloroform and ether.
That alcohol predisposes both di
rectly and indirectly to infectious
fevers.
That alcohol is now known to be
one of the most important factors in
rendering patients more susceptible to
the attacks of the tubercle bacillus
and so to tuberculosis.
That in pneumonia and typhoid
fever alcohol does more harm than
good.
That alcohol hastens the end in a
fatal illness, but prolongs the duration
of the illness in those cases in which
the patient recovers.
That alcohol predisposes to heat
stroke in hot weather.
That alcohol causes rapid loss of
heat in cold weather.
That alcohol is one of the great
predisposing causes of heart-failure
and cerebral hemorrhage.
That alcohol often causes neuritis
or inflammation of the nerves.
That alcohol is one of the great
causes of degeneration or too rapid
aging of the tissues of the body.
That those who take no alcohol can
perform more work, possess greater
powers of endurance, have less sick
ness, and recover more quickly than
non-abstainers, whilst they are un
affected by any of those diseases spe
cially caused by alcohol.
That the great amount of drinking
of alcoholic liquors among the work
ing classes is one of the greatest evils
of the day, destroying more than any
thing else, the health, happiness, and
welfare of those classes.
That the universal abstinence from
alcoholic liquors as beverages would
contribute greatly to the health, pros
perity, morality and happiness of the
human race.
That the general adoption of absti
nence from all intoxicating beverages
is the most natural, surest, simplest
and quickest method of removing the
evils which result from their use, and
is the first great step towards the solu
tion of many of the most difficult
social problems by which we are con
fronted.,
A HAZARDOUS OCCUPATION.
The mortality records of all big
companies show that in proportion to
the number of men insured, more
saloonkeepers die yearly than men in
any other work save, perhaps, railroad
brakemen and gun testers in the navy
'and army.
"What is the cause of this great
mortality among men who keep sa
loons? Liquor, you will say, and you
are right in a measure, but not wholly
so. No doubt many saloon men do
shorten their lives by use of alcohol,
but if they do not drink at all the
rate of insurance we charge them
would still be very high. The reason
is what we call the moral hazard.
Just what this is it is hard to say.
Summed up, it is merely that they die
easier and more often than men in
other occupations.
"Detailed, it is, in a general way,
they are open to greater temptations,
break down their resistance, and many
of them contract diseases where
other men would not. How many
saloon men have died of pneumonia
during the winter? Scores of them,
usually. And pneumonia is not the
only disease. Their money is made
easily (speaking of the saloon owner)
and among that class easily won
money, means that it is spent easily.
'Easily spent' means a free and easy
manner of life, which cuts years re
lentlessly from the lives of men.
"Then there is the mortality through
accident. The list of saloon men who
have been shot or killed with a blow
from a bottle, or in brawls and melees
is long, especially among the poorer
class saloons."
The man behind the bar does not
look upon his job as dangerous, no
matter what the insurance companies
say. However, it is interesting to
know how these big insurance com
panies look upon one who occupies
such a position.
—Montgomerv Journal.
THE GREAT ENEMY.
"There la an enemy, ever threaten
ing, which can be defeated only by
sleepless vigilance and unremitting
endeavor, the evil of intemperance.
Notwithstanding the efforts which
have been made, crowned, thank God.
with signal success, there are still
many lives ruined and many souls
imperilled by excessive indulgence in
drink. In many parts of the country
imposing demonstrations have been
held to foster a healthy public opinion
against this degrading vice. On the
25th and 26th of last June a supreme
effort was made to further this im
portant object by a general temper
ance congress of all Ireland, held in
Dublin. I earnestly hope that both
clergy and people wiir co-operate en
thusiastically to make the movement
a triumphant success."
—Cardinal LogutC
He who knows how to laugb, wl
to laugh, and what to laugh at hois
achieved a philosophy all his own.