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Show The preachers are pursuing among the Indians the policy that has mad" th friars so unpopular among th-j b'liipinos. The gifts of the government are made dependent o:i the attendance of the children chil-dren at a non-sectarian school. TO is means that Catholic Indians must sutler tor their faith the loss of food and clothing cloth-ing and every other relief that the preachers preach-ers can control. Why these preachers should be so interested in the success of non-religious schools passes our understanding, under-standing, if it is not that the devil prompts them to oppose and frustrate everything Catholic Western Watchman. 5 The latest comparative statement of the commerce of the rtiinppine.s siiuw.i that the trade of the islands with England and France has increased tremendously during the past fiscal year. Exports to ( the United States have decreased over 25 I per cent during the same period. It we omit the item of supplies for our own ! military establishment over there, im- j ports from this country would cut a sorry figure indeed. It is not surprising that our European friends are so urgent in their advice to us to keep the Islands. We monopolize the expense and responsibilities, responsibil-ities, they capture the trade and profit. Monitor. The proposed Catholic labor union which Mr. Thiele. chairman of one of the committees com-mittees of the Federation or German jCatholic societies in Illinois, has outlined may be left to the mercies of free discussion. dis-cussion. We doubt the utility of the project, proj-ect, and we still more doubt whether it will ever get on its feet. Catholic Citizen. It is now proposed in England to send women colonists to South Africa. These will help. It is stated to keep British .soldiers .sol-diers there and persuade them to settle in the country. This may not be so desirable de-sirable in the end, as the soldier-settlers may in time become as antagonistic to England's sway as the lloers themselves, unless they become interested in the mines and ;-:tand on a par with the schemers schem-ers who engineered the war and caused its outbreak for their own interests-Baltimore interests-Baltimore Mirror. No man from the days of Jonathan Phillips to the present time has received so emphatic a mandate from the people as that given to Patrick A. Collins. Me towers above factions and parties. Hi;s fellow citizens have come to realize that reforms in the management of their affairs af-fairs are urgently necessary, and they have entrusted the work of reform to him without qualification, relying Implicitly Im-plicitly unon his honor ;md hl lntee-Htv to perform the task. "We confidently predict, pre-dict, knowing the man intimately, that the confidence reposed in him Is not misplaced. mis-placed. Boston Republic. Says Kgiise" in "Church Record" of Buffalo Commercial: "The usual ecclesiastical times of fasting fast-ing before Christmas and Easter were abolished in Germany at the time of the Reformation." The blessed "reformers" had little use for "fasting" or any other species of bodily bod-ily mortification, says the I'nion and Times. They laughed at St. Paul when he talked of mortifying the flesh and its concupiscence. Wine and women, mirth and song, were Luther's favorite quartette quar-tette as he quaffed his foaming tankards m the tavern of the "Black Boar." He practiced the philosophy of that other pagan sensualist Horace: "Pluck the roses while you mav. Old Time is ever flying; The rose that blooms for thee todav. Tomorrow may be dying." g When Mr. Burke Cochran was helping the gold standard men by his speeches he was always referred to by them as the unrivaled orator. Now, when he raises his voice on behalf of the suffering Boer non-combattants and asks the administration adminis-tration to say something to mitigate Wev-lensm Wev-lensm and its horrors in South Africa he is described as a blatherskite demagogue, dema-gogue, whose oratory is all empty wind and not worth a moments consideration by responsible legislators or statesmen. Standard and Times. |