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SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1915.
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hon to commemorate ,oment and lo. the result!
Day which was Whether or not the United States
to the activities ot the Knights ot +„i
Columbus in that State. Judging
"Ky it the Knights are "doinffj
things" in that locality.
Owing to the illness of the I ie0 a stable form of government
Right Reverend Bishop Matz of I |n which the fullest liberty of
Denver, the Most Reverend Arch-1 conscience will be granted to
bishop Pitaval of Santa Fe will
all.
officiate at the consecration of give up its "watchful waiting'
Bishop-elect Schuler of El Paso policy. It is now more necessary
in the Denver Cathedral next I than ever before to "watch" the
Thursday, October 28. new Chief Executive of Mexico
Take an interest in the social President Wilson to see that Car
activities of your parish and help fulfils the pledges he has
to make the members of the
con-
Rregation acquainted with one an- country, likewise, look to him to
other. This is a phase of Catholic that tl.cir brethren beyond.the
life which is too much neglected R'» ,1 5
in many plapes. Dearth of social Prac
intimacy among Catholics is
a
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tered and lowly. It is a book of I therefore, that the editorial
meditation which deals with the
loftiest themes the human mind Ljent
is privileged to contemplate. The
the
greatest intellects in the Church I erg
"Hail
recognized
Sir Edward Carson, former
leader of the Ulster rebels, has
resigned the Attornev-General
stiip in the British Cabinet There I
Will be
ure. He was unworthy of the
honor and should never have been
given a portfolio. None will re
joiee more sincerely in his down-
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Hospital, Rochester, Minn., and
found that he had completely re
covered from the injury received
some time ago. The attending
surgeons located the bullet in the
muscles of the upper shoulder
where its presence will do no
harm. No attempt will be made
to remove it. The Bishop is able
to say Mass again and to walk
about the city every day. He will,
however, remain at St. Mary's for
some time before returning to his
home in Winona.
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AN UNWORTHY CHIEF.
General Carranza, erstwhile
revolutionary leader and brigand,
is now the official head of a sup
posedly stable government in
Mexico, raised to that honorable
I Position by the formal letter of
recognition delivered to his repre
sentative in Washington last
°r Tuesday by Secretary of State
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, I Lansing. The South-American
US Newton Bidg., St. Paul, Minnesota.
Republics represented at the con
ference held a week ago in the
National Capital have followed
the lead of the United States and
have given formal approval to
the new ruler of the neighboring
Republic.
This is a triumph for Carranza.
lie has reached the goal of his
ambitions. What matters it that
The lovers of the Rosary are|h" has literally waded through
loved by the Queen of the Rosary, f-lood and lust to a throne that
Get into the charmed cirele of this
h"
The vigil of All Saints, which I ants—men, women and children
will be observed this year on Sat-|niat- jie yjas striven to rob Ihe
urday, October 30, is a day of fast
has permitted, ,f not er.com--
fstmUv aged, his followers to eornmit the
most shameful atrocities on the
persons of innocent non-combat
poopie 0f
and abstinence for all the faith-1 their forefathers by torturing
fill not legitimately dispenpec}1 and exiling priests and religious,
therefrom. looting churches and desecrating
sanctuaries that he has plundered
Have you been faithful in the his fellow citizens of their lawful
daily recitation of the Rosary I possessions and paralyzed legiti
during the month of October? If mate business of all kinds! Is he
not it is not yet too late to make not now, by the favor of our ad
amends for past negligence in I ministration, the first citizen of his
this respect.
Mexico of the faith of
country? For over two years he
has detied the American Govern
ment and practically coerced it
into extending to him the right
Carran?a
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TOWOrthy
this country helped
was justified in taking this step
remains to be. seen. Jndgin^ by
the past, little confidence can be
placed in Carranza. It is true he
lias pledged himself to give Mex-
But this country must not
The people of that country look to
made and the Catholics of this
the,r
prolific source of mixed mar
riages. THE "MISSIONARY
QUARTER.'
.Do not be afraid to be seen
thumbing your beads. The Ros-| The September issue of Bxten
ary is not a form of prayer de-
Magazine" is a missionary
mimber.
written
It is not inappropriate
by Dr. Kelley, the Presi
Gf the
Society, should take
form of an appeal to its read-
0ne
have said the beads with the sim-1 contribute a quarter of a dollar
pie faith and confidence of the I to the home mission work of the
most devoted client of Mary. church and to urge their friends
to do likewise
Xast week some one sent us a
efhy of a chain-prayer with in- was suggested by Dr. Kelley at
structions to send it to nine others I the Toledo Convention of the
and a warning not to break the American Federation of Catholic
chain We promptly consigned it Societies and met with general
to the waste paper basket and
we
of whom is asked to
The "Missionary Quarter" idea
approbation. Twenty-five cents is
advise the sender to confine him-1 & small contribution to the work
self or, more probably, herself, to of church extension, it is true
the "Our Father," the
but there are at least sixteen mil
lion Catholics in the United
prayers of the Church as a means I States, and if the majority ol:
of obtaining spiritual favors and them would give a quarter, the
pay no attention to such un- aggregate would suffice to "do all
authorized pravers. The only con- Jthe work the Catholic Church Ex
sideration one" should give to a tension Society has to do in i
chain-prayer is to burn it. To|year? and to do it better than it
carry out its pro visions w a sign I iR being done now, by allowing
of superstition.
the society to plan ahead and
make provision for the future.
Besides that, it would enable
the society "to sga^ke ^donation
to foreign mission! at'least' as
large as that which is contributed
f°r
no regrets at his.depart-1United States," and leave a sur
fall than the friends of Home Rule bilities are unlimited. But—how
which he opposed with all the|many
forces of Protestantism he could I
command. It is too much to be-
"Hmelight ^air means or foul. jjow
plirp0se today in the
plus sufficient to solve the immi
gration problem.
The '4 Missionary Quarter" idea
is an admirable one. Its possi
w^j| see
manv wjj|
|jie point? How
contribute a quarter
t^e name of God,
lieve, however, that he will sink 1church Extension How many
into well-merited obscurity. I will sweeten the gift with what
P? ^.s I
for
raanv will
v- Last week the Most Reverend I fund to the extent of another
Archbishop paid a visit to the quarter!
Right Reverend Bishop Heffron, During the ten years of
who is convalescing -at St. Mary's existence, the Catholic Churc
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the recognition accorded him
\^Y the United States goes without
It is a case of
q« storm
r\ i ^f it+u I necessary that some definite step
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any port
in a storm. Our blundering
policy towards Mexico made it
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the dig.
Tirliinli fViio nnnntmr IiaInprl
the work
ever sacrifice it may involve
see that one other
at least, will help to swell the
Extension Society has done won
ders. It has more than justified
the hopes of those who called it
into existence. The remarkable
story of what it has accomplished
will be told in detail in the De
cember issue of'' Extension.'' The
chapels built in mission districts
the churches helped in poorer
parishes the altars, vestments
and other requisites provided for
the Holy Sacrifice the furnish
ings donated to churches and
schools the support given to mis
sionaries, cateehists, and sohool
teachers the Mass intentions
distributed to needy priests the
chapel and motor cars that bear
the gospel message to the scat
tered Catholics of remoter sec
tions the literature and church
goods of all kinds sent broadcast
the missionary spirit fostered
among Catholics the relief given
the Mexican refugees—these
and a score of other good works
constitute but a small part of
what the Church Extension So
ciety has done for the home mis
sions during the past deeade of
years.
But what of the future? The
demands made upon the society
increase, instead of lessening, as
the years go by and it needs a
well-filled treasury to meet even
the most pressing of them. It
depends entirely upon the charity
of Catholics. Its ability to carry
on its chosen work is measured,
aye, and limited, too, only by the
generosity of those to whom it
appeals.
The "missionary quarter" will
solve the problem for it if the
response be commensurate with
the number of (Catholics in this
country. To reach the majority
of them, the Society relies on
'Extension Magazine" and its
readers. The result will depend
upon the amount of publicity
given to this appeal and the
charity and good will of Cath
olics. The readers of Thfc Cath
olic Bulletin have been generous
in their response to charitable ap
peals from individual mission
aries in this and other lands, and
we are confident that they will
not overlook this opportunity of
participating in a work which has
the approval of Holy Mother
Church and the blessing of the
Supreme Pontiff. We will gladly
undertake to forward to the office
of the Catholic Church Extension
Society all the "missionary quar
ters'' contributed by our readers.
NEW RITUAL FOR ALL SOULS'
DAY.
Two very timely topics are
treated in the current pamphlet of
the Catholic Mipd series: "The
Catholic School," and the new
Apostolic Constitution concerning
the celebration of three Masses on
All Souls' Da^ The attitude of
the Church and the Catholic
point of view on the important
and far-reaching subject of the
education of children in the pub
lie schools are set forth by the
Hon. William D. Guthrie, one of
the leaders of the New York Bar
and esteemed among the foremost
constitutional lawyers of the day
Concern for the souls of the
dead has ever been one of the
most consoling of Christian prac
tiees. Hence the concession to all
priests by the present Pope of the
privilege of celebrating three
Masses, on the day on which the
solemn commemoration of all" the
faithful departed is observed, has
occasioned the greatest rejoicing
throughout the Catholic World
The reasons actuating the Holy
Father in granting this privilege
as well as the special prayers, in
Latin and English, prescribed by
the Sacred Congregation of Rites
for the Masses to be celebrated on
the day, are given in this pam
phlet. Priests and the laity thus
have in handy form all the de
tails necessary to comply with the
new decree for the celebration of
All Souls' Day. The American
Press, publisher, 59 East Eighty
third Street, New York. Price
five cents..
TOTAL ABSTINENCE PR0PA
GANDA.
Among the resolutions passed at
the late convention of the Cath
olic Total Abstinence Union of
America, held at Pittsburgh, is
one which deprecates "the per
nieious habit of treating to intoxi
cants, whether in public or pri
vate, as one of the greatest in
centives to intemperance." it
urges on clergy and laity the or
ganization and maintenance of
juvenile societies, and appeals to
teachers "to instruct the youth in
the value of total abstinence and
to make this a part of their curric
ulum,''
It is well, of course, to reiterate
these time-honored resolutions
but we fear that, in the majority
of cases, the appeal will fall upon
unheeding ears. Every right
thinking man is convinced that
the treating habit is the one great
curse of the liquor traffic in Amer
ica, and that its abolution woulc
go far to solve the problem by do
ing away with the greater part of
the evils connected with the sa
loon business. B|it is it not too
strongly intrenched to be driven
out by anything short of a mira
clef Few saloon patrons have
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courdge enough to challenge its
prescriptive right to their alle
giance by refusing to "set 'em
up" and "have another," when
boon companion pl^lli un
quenchable thirst. j! V."
The value of inculcating total
abstinence among the young is too
elementary a principle of sobriety
to be gainsaid by anyone who
knows that "the child is father to
the man." If the child be trained
in home and school to take a right
attitude toward- the drink habit,
there is little reason to fear that
he will prove recreant to the
promise of early years in after
life. In view of the baneful influ
ence which the drink habit has
over its victims, it is not too much
to assert that every child should
be taught to avoid the flowing
bowl as the greatest enemy to his
physical, industrial and moral
welfare. Not even the possibility
that he may never exceed the
bounds of moderation should
tempt parent or friend to offer the
first glass. All things considered,
the person who knows not the
taste of alcoholic beverages is far
better off than one who indulges
even moderately. It is true that,
total abstinence does not make up
for the lack of other virtues. No
one claims that it necessarily
makes one a saint. But, other
things being equal, the total ab
stainer has a decided advantage
over the tippler, no matter how
moderately the latter may indulge.
At the present time there is lit
tle hope of injecting new enthusi
asm into the ranks of total ab
stainers unless an effort be made
to teaCh the rising generation the
scientific and moral principles
which underlie the total absti
nence movement. It is not suffi
cient to administer the pledge to
toys and girls at first Communion
or Confirmation and then pay no
further attention to them. They
must, be able to give reasons for
the faith that is in them, and to
meet the challenge of those who
would know the rationale of total
abstinence. To that end children
should be instructed in the need
and value of the pledge as a per
sonal safeguard and made famil
iar with the economic, physiologi
cal, social and moral reasons that
make the keeping of it a Chris
tian duty. This involves work on
the part of parents, priests and
teachers in the home, in Church
and in school: but it is a work
that will redound to the future
welfare not only-of the individual
but of the Church and of the na
tion.
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"HOME, SWEET HOME.
How many of our readers know
that the meiody of "Home, Sweet
Home," had its origin among a
Catholic people and a people,
who were, strange to say, classed
amongst the world's illiterates
The story of the composition of
the words of thy* song, although
familiar, will bear repetition
John Howard Payne, who wrote
it,, had, after a disastrous career in
London, gone to live in Paris
There in tne attic of a house in
Palais Royal with sounds of the
gay boulevards eoming up to him
the opening words of his undying
song were written. In 1823 Ivem
ble bought his manuscript and one
was used for the libretto of an
ofera. In this "Home, Sweet
Home" was introduced. It is of
the music of the song, however
that we now write and when it is
'earned that this is a setting of an
old Calabrian peasant song, fa
miliar to the mountain folk of
Southern Italy and Sicily for gen
erations, its Catholic origin will
be evident to all, the peasantry of
Southern Italy being amongst the
staunchest Catholics in the world
SOME DRAMATISTS AND,
LITERARY IDOLS.
Teachers of English literature
students of the drama, discerning
theatergoers, and even the "gen
eral reader" will find the Septem
ber 22 issue of the Catholic Mind
an informing and interesting num
ber. The Catholic's attitude
toward the modern stage and the
literary idols of the day is indi
eated with their customary felicity
and acumen by Father James
Daly, S. J., and Mr. Joyce Kilmer
From our colleges and academies
requests frequently come for erit
ical papers on contemporary writ
ers. This issue of the Catholie
Mind meets th^ need admirably
When "everybody is reading,'
and almost everybody is praising
authors of today whose principals
are anything but Christian, Cath
olics sometimes grow bewildered
begin to fear that they are too
narrow and suspect that "the lit
era'ry and
dramatic
world" is
right after all. There is a good
corrective for this tendency in
this number of the Catholic Mind
in which Father Daly and Mr. Kil
mer, with their usual literary
charm and critical discernment
put in their proper places such
idols of the marketplace as Ibsen
Shaw, Tagore,
Lafcadio
Hearn anc
certain contemporary dramatists
The higher English classes in our
colleges and academies will doubt
less find the pamphlet of great
value. Price, five cents. The
America Press, 59 East Eighty
third Street, New York, publisher
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A FORCE FOR
IT APPEALS TO ALL CLA8SES IN
AN EMOTIONAL RATHER THAN
AN INTELLECTUAL WAY—SE­
CRET OF ACTOR'S AND PLAY
WRIGHT'S SUCCESS.
Without doubt, the two great lay
influences in the world'today are the
press and the theatre, writes Charles
Phillips in "The Monitor," San Fran
cisco. While the press reaches the
readers, the thinkers, of the land, the
theatre appeals alike to all classes,
for there is something in everyone
that answers to the outward and
visible sign ill attractive giiise. Men
and women are truly, after all, "chil
dren of a larger growth," and we all
kno that the imagination is the door
to boyland. The stage shows us a
picture of life, and somehow there is
enough good in all of us, that even
the lowliest feels instant sympathy
for the hero, be he Hamlet soliloquiz
ing on the mighty problems of life in
words that strike home to the souls
of men, or but the lusty lad that
escues some fair lady from the villain
of melodrama.
If the stage is often used to spread
the contagion of evil, it must be re
membered also that from Shake
speare's day to our own time, many
a sublime theme has been brought
home to the world through the po
tent agency of the drama.
The stage and the press may be,
jind often are, made efficient aids in
the triumphant march of civilization,
and whatever tends to elevate the
tone of these great agents is a dis:
tinct benefit to humanity.
"People like that sort of thing" is
the excuse given by one manager for
purveying the vilest of the vile. It.
is true, some'people do, for like calls
to like, but generally speaking, I have
the greatest confidence in the people
they are clean at heart and love the
clean and the pure. After all, we, as
a mass, are emotional rather than in
tellectual. We deal in hearts, not
heads, and the impulses of our hearts
are very easily directed toward the
ood. We crave the better things
not the baser.
People go to the theatre to feel,
not to calculate," said Miss Anglin the
other day, during a rehearsal of "The
Divine Friend," which she is to pro
duce at the Columbia Theatre next
Monday. In that fact lies the reason
for the failure of the "dissection
drama which attacks the head and
not the heart. And in those words,
too, it seems to me, lies the whole
secret of success on the stage,
whether for actor or writer. The
actor who touches the hearts of the
people succeeds the play that, lit
erally fulfilling its destiny, "plays"
upon the feelings of the people, is a
success.. It is their feelings that peo
pie bring to the theatre, not their cal
culating intellects.
So much for the audience. For the
actor and the playwright, the position
is rather paradoxical. They may ap
peal primarily to the hearts and not
the heads of their auditors, who come
not to think, but to. feel. But their
own heads they must use in the proc
ess, or be lost! Verity must be the
touchstone of their every word and
action.
Again, if the secret of the actor's
and the playwright's success is to be
found in the fact that the masses at
the theatre feel rather than think
likewise, in that same fact, lies tlieir
responsibility. All art is responsible
"Whatever lacks purpose is evil," the
poet O'Malley tells us. If it be the
province of the dramatist and actor
to play upon the feelings of the
crowd, to arouse their emotions and
mold their impulses and actions, then
by all that is moral and right, they
are in conscience bound to give to
the people plays and acting that will
stir men's higher and not their lower
selves, lifting their emotions up, not
dragging them in the mud.
To me the most wonderful thing
about Miss Anglin, the great artist
who is to produce "The Divine
Friend"—the thing that surpasses all
the transcendent beauty of her act
ing—has been her unwavering fidelity
throughout her stage career to the
high responsibilities of her chosen art
Very wisely has she said that the
people go to the theatre to feel rather
than to think. Knowing this, and
realizing that the actor's message to
the souls of men must be reached
through their hearts, she devotes her
self whole and entire with all her
power and strength, to the clean and
purifying things—to the things that
refresh people's spirits and lift up
their minds above the sordid and the
commonplace, directing the impulses
of their hearts to the highest planes
molding their feelings and emotions
into forces for good.
OUR LADY'S RQSARY
Mother, now I'll say my beads,.
For my soul some comfort needs
And what better can there be
Than to raise my thoughts to thee?r
Sweet Mother!
This simple little rhyme, says the
Sacred Heart Review, was written by
the Rev. Matthew Russell, S. J., of
happy memory. Many are the wit
nesses to the rest and refreshment
that come to the spirit through the
homely devotion of "saying the beads."
The late Cardinal Vannutelli, who,
said Pope Benedict XV, "was the glory
of the Sacred College," loved to re
cite the Rosary. In the closing years
of his life, his brother, Cardinal Vin
cent Vannutelli, came to him each
day in the quiet evening hour, and to
gether, these two brothers—princes of
the Church—"said their beads." What
a holy and beautiful practise! Praise,
of our Lady and of her Divine Son at
one and the same time.
He who will our Saviour praise,
And honor Mary, too,
Must heavenward his spirit raise
And say the Rosary through,
says an English Rosary manuscript
book of the fifteenth century.' A. later
poet pays this tribute:
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Mary resplendent reigns on high,
Queen of the Holy Rosary,
She who on earth had sorrows keen
Dwells now in heaven, the Angels'
Queen.
Mary conceived Immaculate
Worthy of more than royal state
Virgin for ever, thee we praise,
Blessed art thou, through endless
days.
Father Sheehan, in "Luke Delmege,"
puts into vivid words stories of Irish
devotion to the holy Rosary. He
depicts the young priest's mother
with "the eternal beads in her hands
and the toil-worn woman kneeling be
fore the altar, her baby kicking and
crowing in her arms, and catching
at the beads as they slipped through
the mother's fingers. But most vivid
of all is the picture of Father "Pat,"
the great friend of the Delmege
family. He had been the guest of
honor at the gathering for the home
coming of Father Delmege, who had
said his first Mass that morning. As
the evening drew to a close,*Father
Pat took his leave and strolled down
the moonlit field, but just at the stile
he "thought of something" and came
back.
They were all kneeling, and Luke
was reciting the Rosary. Father Pat
heard the murmur of the voices, and
paused. And there outside the win
dow he took out his own Rosary beads
and joined in that blessed prayer that
echoes night after night from end to
end of Ireland.
And there was Father "Tim" Casey
'who didn't preach, but only spoke
to the people." He was our Lady's
sworn knight, and had sounded her
praises all his days. What wonder
that when he lay on his deathbed he
had no fear! "The Blessed Virgin will
be there at the foot of the bed," he
had said, **she will be standing there
when the light is going out." As the
end drew near, he spoke again:
'Didn't I tell you, Martin—that the
Blessed Virgin would come for me
There she is, Martin. Look there—
over her picture. Yes, I'm ready."
And Father Martin was alone in the
room.
Another Irish writer, Seumas Mac
Manus, in his Donegal tales, describes
what the Rosary meant to the people,
whose last act at night wafe to join in
this beautiful devotion: "Uncle
Donal" is a type of the spiritual
minded peasant. "The Rosary, Dinny,
the Rosary," he says to his orphaned
nephew, to whom he gives a father's
love. Dinny recalls the scene:
We got on our knees by the fire,
and Uncle Donal gave out the Rosary
in an even more solemn voice than
usual." Amongst the solemn prayers
with which he followed it—prayers for
friends living and friends dead, for
friends near and friends absent, as
well as for those who in the world
were friendless, he asked, in a voice
that shook, for one other prayer
which, in all my memory, he had never
omitted—"Wan Pater-and-Ave for poor
sufferin' Ireland that God may lighten
her burden, and b,e,r into the
bright sunshine of His eternal smile."
And we chorused the response from
our heart's deep depths.
Later, on a pilgrimage to Loch
Dearg, Dinny again tells of the re
cital of the Rosary:
"Let us say the Rosary," «aid Toal
a—Gallagher, drawing forth his
beads. We all drew out our beads
and we knelt in a circle, some on the
shingle, some on the heather, and
from our hearts chorused the respons
es to Toal, or led, each in turn, in a
decade. The Rosary of the Five Joy
ful Mysteries it was that Toal recited
He needed neither light nor book, for
he had all the-Rosary by heart, and he
worded the mysteries in an impres
sive manner, pouring into them the
fullness of a pious heart. The volume
of our voices filled the air, so that it
seemed as if a multitude prayed upon
the moor. Such joyous bliss, too
filled our souls as if we waited out
side the. gate, on the eve of our en
trance into Paradise.
Reading these holy and beautiful
thoughts we have borne in upon us the
great and wonderful heritage that is
ours—the heritage of faith. Let us
be worthy of it, %nd prove our loyalty
and devotion by word and deed. In
this month of October let us join in
the Rosary daily, lifting our hearts to
God and His Blessed Mother, and so
gaining comfort and strength as we
humbly "say the beads."
RABID
BOOK
WITHDRAWN
METHODIST BOOK CONCERN
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IN
DUBUQUE REFUSES PLACE
TO ANTI-CATHOLIC BOOK.
The following communication which
lis self-explanatory was received re
cently by the Dubuque Times-Journal
for publication:
"I am happy to state that the plac
ing for sale upon the book tables of
the Methodist book concern of a rabid
anti-Roman Catholic publication, pur
porting to be the autobiography of an
ex-priest of the church, was a mat
ter with which neither the pastor of
St. Luke Church nor the Upper Iowa
conference had anything to do what
ever. As soon as it was noticed, its
immediate withdrawal was demanded
and the agent compiled at once with
proper apologies.
"The sale of books attacking in an
unfair or discourteous manner the re
ligious views and practices of our fel
low Christians, is not countenanced
by the conference or by the local
church. It is our wish to live in cor
dial and tolerant relations with all
who love our Lord Jesus Christ sin
cerelj and to give no needless offense
"I freely make this statement as a
sincere message to any who have been
disturbed or offended by the incident
mentioned above.
•V "HUGH D. ATCHISON,
pastor of St. Luke Methodist
-1? Episcopal Church, Dubuque.
Jlrjpiind that is conscious of its in
tegrity scorns to say more than
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DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
FLORIDA'S LIQUOR LAW.
Florida refepntly passed a liquor law
which places severe restrictions upon
the sale of liquors in that state. Th#
most important points of the law artl
summed by the Commoner as fol
lows:
First: That intoxicating Hqtior can
only be sold in sealed packages
Second: That the dealer shall not
himself drink, consume, or give away
any intoxicating liquor, and that he
shall not permit any employee or pur
chaser to drink, consume or give
away any intoxicating liquor on the
premises :ci"
Third:'That the. liquor sha^l toot
be sold before 7 o'clock" in the morn
ing or after 6 o'clock in the evening
Fourth That no chairs shall be
allowed in a place where liquor fit
sold that no music or other attraij
tions shall be permitted there, and
that no blinds or curtains shall ob»
scure the interior, of the saloon, day
or night and
Fifth: That BO goods shall be sold
on credit.
These are the principal features of
the new law, although there are other
provisions, such as the prohibition
at
the employment of minors or women
the sale of liquor to minors or to
drunkards, etc."
The legislature has taken a step in
the right direction. The new law is
not only good in itself but will make
easier the next step which can not
long be delayed, namely, the entire
prohibition of the manufactiset and
sale of liquor in the state.
A WORD TO LAWMAKERS.
Moral suasion and high examples,
are very good in their way, but no
moral influence can counteract the
shameless temptations that lie in the
path of our young men and women
today. It is unnecessary to enumer
ate them here. We claim as a right
to have them removed by act of
Parliament. Our men on the way
home from work on pay days, our
women in the poorest districts, onr
young boys in their clubs with
licensed bars, are all tempted to
violate the laws of sobriety, and it is
the duty of every government to con
cern itself seriously in the matter. If
acts of Parliament cannot make them
sober, they can at least make possible
and easy the practice of this hardy
virtue. Human nature is not radically
bad, and, given fair conditions, it will
become strong in the practice of a
virtue that makes for physical and
moral progress. To our law-givers
we say remove the inducements to
drinking that stare our young people
in the face, and trust to religion, to
self-interest and love of virtue to
make them sober and self-respecting.,
—Father Mathaw Record*
"BROKEN DOWN."
Dr. O'Malley holds up the light of
truth to the old excuse we hear of
frequently of the man who is "broken
down."
The vice of intemperance, he says,
with its integral parts, gluttony,
drunkenness and unchastity, is the
cause of more sin and misery than
any other form of revolt against the
law of God. The concupiscence of
the flesh is the predominant failing
of the vast majority of the human
family, and is the source of at least
one-third of all the pauperism and
crime in civilized nations. There is
good reason for the opinion that this
vice is also the main source of in
sanity and other diseases, directly or
indirectly. Gluttony alone, or over
eating, to use the more polite term,
fills a thousand graves, whilst war
and pestilence together fill only 10.
An amazing number of '"martyrs to
pain" that pass through life in an In
cense cloud of sympathy are in real
ity martyrs to their bellies and most
of those eminent citizens who have
"broken down from overwork," and
are constrained to take long vaca
tions and distant voyages, are simply
broken down from over-exertion with
the knife and fork. Over 90 per cent
of Bright's disease, rheumatism—
whatever that it is—neurasthenia, un
fitness for duty, brought to the medi
cal men for cure by merchants, law
yers and physicians, is caused by
overloading the stomach with palat
able food or by taking alcoholic bev
erages for the stomach's sake. The
theories on whiskey as a panacea for
all the ills of middle life, inflicted
upon kind doctors by otherwise in
telligent gentlemen, are positively in
numerable. But it is a stern fact that
no person has ever yet taken habit
ually two or three drinks of whiskey
daily, or a pint of claret, or a quart
of ale, and escaped chronic alcohol
ism and when such a patient comes
to a physician and prates about "a
break-down from overwork" or "the
will of God," and the like, he is either
a hypocrite or a fool.
These two or three "drink# a day"
mean the month's rent for tEe man
at a moderate wage, or the summer's
vacation for the family of the man
with twice that much, or better food
and larger opportunity for the family
of the man with still more. The bur
den of denial does not always fall on
the wife in a way she can measure.
It is like an indirect tax, a little here
and a little there, scarcely measured
at the time, yet making life a suc
cession of worried days and sleepless
nights. It is not a world where a man
may live unto himself, or where the
result falls only on the waster. What
ever lessens a man's efficiency han
dicaps his wife and children.
It may not be actual money.
haps the husband has the price of a
drink, or many of them. But he is
fighting a losing battle against age.
He needs the resilience of his arter
iJI and the elasticity of his tissues
and the clearness of his thought proc
esses in his battle—not only for him
self, but also for the wife whose liv-
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