Show THE CATHOLIC CONGRESS Its Session Closed and the Report Presented Pre-sented and Adopted CHICAGO Sept 9Thls is the closing day tof the National Catholic congress Judge Moran of Chicago chairman of the committee on platform embodying the conclusions of the congress presented the report I reaffirms the resolutions of the Catholic congress of Baltimore in 1889 declares loyalty to the pope and to his legate Archbishop Satolli asserting the necessary independence in the exercise ex-ercise of his mission refers to the growing grow-ing discontent among the working classes declares the only ground of settlement set-tlement Is on the basis of the popes encyclical on labor that the right of private ownership of property and independence in-dependence of capital and labor must be recognized and urges consideration consider-ation and arbitration for the settlement of disputes refers to the demoralizing influence of consented population in large cities advises that measures be encouraged encour-aged to assist families to settle agricultural agricul-tural districts points out the evil of intemperance and advises a multiplication multiplica-tion of the extension of total abstinence societies urges Catholics to keep out of the saloon business declares that Catholic Cath-olic education should be steadily upheld according to the decrees of the council of Baltimore and the decision of the holy see and closes with a declaration of loyalty loy-alty love and veneration for the republic The question of the time and place of the meeting of the next congress was referred re-ferred to a committee to be appointed of man which Cardinal Gibbons will be chair |