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Show - ( CATHOLIC OPINION. If the Filipinos are really as bad a i stock as some of our military men and missionaries make them out to ' Americans are obliged perforce io take , ' off their hats to oid Spain for the su-! su-! perior skill exhibited in one thing, at least. During the past 3W) years our predecessors ruled the islands in peace with the support of a mere handtul of soldiers. The natives were raised from the lowest condition of savagery to a higher state of Christian civilization than that attained by any other savage sav-age race, within a like period, of which history furnishes any record. The worse the character of the material they had to deal with, the greater the credit due to the civi!i3ers for this result. re-sult. It may seem humiliating to some minds, but there is no escape from the fact that we have something to learn j from Spain when it comes to uplifting i inferior savage races. Monitor. - ' ' Rev. C. H. Parkhurst says of John I E. Redmond that "he i3 entirely harm-I harm-I less, even at close "range. Although an Irishman, and a full-blooded one. and a man who is a chronic perplexity to the British parliament, he nevertheless, carries himself as a gentleman and a Christian." This is "real nice," and reminds us of what the landlord of the Green Lion tavern said of Artemus Ward: "This 'ere North American has been in my 'ouse for several days and hasn't once tried to scalp me or any of my family. I consider Mm hentirely 'armless and propose "is "ealth." Mr. Parkhurst is unconsciously very funny. Pilot. As for the navy department "snubbing "snub-bing Dewey," this is like a mote colliding col-liding with a planet. His great fame is as imperishable as the stars and his statement that Schley was and is the hero of Santiago will be accepted by the American people and by history as the utterance of the final authority in the dispute, the navy's ranking admiral ad-miral and America's most illustrious living sea-fighter. Union and Times. They consecrated a Protestant-Episcopal bishop for the Philippines last week. Poor man! He comes just 400 years too late. But he can claim that he came as soon as he was sent. The trouble is, the church that commissions him was a trifle late in coming into the world. Western Watchman. Things in contrast are sometimes very severe censures. For instance: Our admirals, generals and United States senators are marrying into the Catholic church and our Catholic young men are marrying out of it. And of the two we do not hesitate to say that the latter are getting much the worse of the bargain. Catholic Progress. Think of it! Cincinnati once the mecca of A. P. A.'s has a reform league composed oi itepuoucans. memDers or the Baptist Young People's league. Christian Endeavors and Epworth Leaguers, who recently sent out 50,000 circulars in support of John Fanben-bour, Fanben-bour, a Catholic, Democratic candidate for the legislature. Catholic Light. Verily Dooley spoke correctly when he described o,ur enthusiasm as a people peo-ple as a bonfire on ice. It burns brightly bright-ly for a time, but the ice doesn't catch. There was a great ado about raising the $100,000 ransom for Miss Stone, the missionary, who was captured by brigands bri-gands in the backyard of Europe. Miss Stone is now trying to convert her captors. cap-tors. This looks to be her only chance or freedom. Mirror. |