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Show PORCE OF CATHOLIC PRESS PROTESTS. The Catholic press of - this country is not all that it should be; it merits some portion of the dispraise and blame unstintedly, and at times unthinkingly, un-thinkingly, lavished upon it ; and it is still notably dstant from the ideal Avhich its best friends pro-post pro-post as its objective. All must admit, however, that it is accomplishing excellent Avork in convincing non-Catholic publishers that a religious body numbering num-bering from 12,000,000 to 15.000,000 is a constituency constitu-ency Avhich can not be disregarded as unimportant or outraged with impunity. Within the past quarter quar-ter of a century, and more especially the last decade, de-cade, we have noted numerous instances in which Avell known publishing firms have paid due heed to the protests of Catholic journalists, and eliminated from such works as encyclopedias, general histories, and text books for schools, extravagant exemplifications exempli-fications of anti-Catholic partisanship and bigotry. Often enough the offensive features of such books existed unknown to the publishers, and it needed only the calling of their attention to the matter to insure the desired rectification. At other times the pocket rather than the conscience of the offending firm Avas appealed. to; and the realization that it was not good business practically to exclude one-sixth one-sixth of the population from the list of possible purchasers led forthwith to equally good results. We have had some experience ourselves in this matter mat-ter of protesting against palpably unfair attacks upon Catholicism in Avorks intended for the general gen-eral public, and are accordingly the better able to sympathize with the Catholic Standard and Times in its natural gratification at having secured the emendation of a work known as the "UniAersal Encyclopedia." En-cyclopedia." Eternal vigilance on the part of Catholic publicists is the price of fair play to Catholic Cath-olic interests and Catholic truth. Ave Maria. |