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Show Tom Johnson of Cleveland is a political heavy weight. Something just as. good sounds better than it ; ' is. UMially. ' - - - i ; Woman can be happy with a new hat, but man requires a beefsteak. (Jams may be said to love their ante as much as they do their wives. j - . I Pre-election prophecies certainly warrant the belief that all men are liars A statesman without a presidential boom these days is only half a statesman. Science has at last found an absolute specific for laziness. It is known as the sine-cure. Christmas will soon be with us, which proves I that Julius Caesar was not born on that day. A man who has never learned to toe the mark will never be able to mack one in the world. Happy marriages sometimes are wrecked because be-cause the booze bill is bigger than the grocery I bilL i The re isn't- very much tainted money going around these days, to say nothing of any other kind. Even the best of husbands make strenuous ef- forts to get home by midnight during houseeleaning time. It appears that there was an election in Salt i Lake snme time during the early part of this month. The edict has gone forth that the Utes must go 1o work or starve. This certainly is rank class leg-, leg-, islation. Elastic currency agitators are making a mountain moun-tain out of a molehill. Why don't they build it out of rubber? I TT.. !i. i s jiuue-.ei. li is imp.F$iDie to convince the de- ' feated candidates that the people are always and irrevocably right. If ihc government should drain the swamp lands of the country, the land shark would be sure to be found there. j - . . . Considering the strained financial condition of ! ! ne country, an extra session of congress might break the camel's back. New York health officer says it's all a mistake I hat money does not carry contagious diseases nbout with it. It doesn't now, sure. . remedies for colds used to be the most plentiful, plenti-ful, but they must now give way to the remedies for ihe nation's financial difficulties. Many people will give thanks that they lost no money in the recent financial smash, which proves i that it is good sometimes to be poor. 1 One of our Catholic exchanges recently re ferred to General Booth as a garniloua old man j Bnd tlie man "nko wrote that is not himself a Chris- j tian .at l?ast not a proper one. Even if we think I ucn thoughts of others we are in duty bound not to express them in public. The life of General "' "" " 1J "llIG wimmmwmmmmm mmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Booth has not been wasted even if he is a non-Catholic. non-Catholic. Anyhow, we respect his gray hairs. War is not so bad, considering. Over half a million dollars was spent at The Hague for dinners alone. Reports say provision' prices are going down, but the Salt Lake householder would like something more definite and satisfying than reports. It is especially noteworthy that the multimillionaires multi-millionaires who lost their all in the Wall street slump are not out rustling for a meal ticket. I It isn't because the other fellow has so much money that causes so much worry in this world, but because the rest of us are worrying about how to tret a little more. i Did you ever stop to meditate on the solemn stillness of the Sabbath day, with its fragrant and beatific atmosphere, which proves it is not a holiday hol-iday in honor of Nero. November seems to be trying to outdo the beautiful brown October. If it were not for the financial clouds people would have nothing in the weather line to kick about. That newspaper editors are a patriotic and public-spirited class is evidenced from the fact that they have not withdrawn any of their funds from the banks during the present money stringency. Some people imagine they possess a round trip ticket to hell, and that if they should happen to get there they will be able to get back to heaven, but the devil will never forsake them enough to part company with them. That the local street car service has improved greatly is evident to anybody who rides a bicycle. A year ago a bicycle rider could easily beat any car on any line between any points, while now sometimes the cars beat the bicycler as badly as an automobile beats the cars. Catholic I maintain that faith without works is dead and of no avail. Protestant I oppose your contention. I contend con-tend that faith in the divinity of Christ is sufficient suffi-cient for salvation. Catholic But faith means to do the works Christ commanded. Protestant I can't see it that way. Catholic Why, then, did John the Baptist say to the Pharisees and Sadducees who came to his baptism, ye brood of vipers who hath showed you to flee from the wrath to come. Bring forth therefore there-fore fruit worthy of penance? There was a lot of talk a few years ago concerning con-cerning the formation of Catholic Y. M. C. A.'s in the United States. Only recently we heard a Catholic Knight of Columbus assert that prejudice against Roman. Catholics was still in existence in the American Y. M. 0. A.'s. While it is not always reliable to believe all one hears, this charge has been made so often that it will not down. We know positively, .-ynd it has never been denied that the women's branch of this order refuses to accept Catholics even for passive membership. Of course the Catholics who could endure such membership as to be excluded secretly or openly from serving on committees are hardly worth caring about. We have nothing against the Y. M. C. A. personally, as we never were a member of it. We do know that it has done much srdendid work in thia cruvli world, and that among its members a many bright, upright and God-fearing men, but as we hold positively that Christ established the Catholic church of whose membership were St. Peter and St. Paul, we naturally and conscientiously desire to 1 osc no members of the true shepherd and true fold. Cornelius, the Roman centurion, was visited by a messenger from God, who said to him : "Thy prayers and thy alms are ascended for a memorial in the sight of God. And now send men to Joppe, and call hither one Simon, who is surmaned Peter, lie lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the seaside. He will tell thee what thou must do." And when Peter came he instructed him as to the true church. Cornelius was, according to the Scriptures, a good, charitable, upright man, yet with all this God wanted him in the true church. This is the Catholic argument absolutely with regard re-gard to the Y. M. C. A. |