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Show CATHOLIC OPINION, j According to the Springfield Republican, Eugene V. Debs seems to have made a foolish attack on the arbitration committee commit-tee of the national civic federation, assailing as-sailing Mr. Cleveland, Bishop Potter, Archbishop Ireland and other distinguished distin-guished members personally, and declaring declar-ing that any agreement between capital and labor is ridiculous, because "there is no land in which capitalist masters and w:orking claves can abide in peace; the war is on. and the conflict will grow fiercer until the crash comes and wS slavery is wiped from the earth." Now, Debs may be a prophet, and yet be extremely ex-tremely unwise as to the nresent. To damn without trial an effort which is certainly meant for the betterment of relations re-lations between members of a common state is not philosophic or effective. Better Bet-ter poised socialists regard these tentative tenta-tive experiments ns part of the road-cleaning road-cleaning that must come before the right thing is found out. Whatever they do of good and they may do much they at least indicate the vital interest there is in these vexed questions, and the mutual recognition that something must be done. More thoughtful socialists believe they have reason enough for cheerful waiting. Catholic Transcript. . s Archbishop Keane, a" noticed in last week's issue, is preaching some sturdy Christian politics at Dubuque that have no compromise in them. Archbishop Keanse evidently believes In making the Church a moral force and its members the moral example thek they ought to be in- every community. Iowa Catholic Messenger. In a recent issue of the Boston Pilot we read a summary of an excellent sermon ser-mon dealing with the financial relations between pastor and people. The preacher preach-er referred to the injustice of the charge that priests are money-grabbers, but pointed out that the charge should oe met by fuller explanations on the part of the clergy of the reasons why money was needed. Children, he said, should be trained from their earliest years to give something to the support of the Church and its pastors, and this habit being once formed will remain with them for life. Casket. In bank failures there is always either a clique of knaves c- a knave and a fool. The latter iuxtari' .Von occurred in the failure of a Detr. . savings bank this week. The knave, was a speculator. The fool was a cashier. Catholic Citizen. The worst and most dangerous citizens are not the poor devils in the ppeniten-tiary, ppeniten-tiary, brught there by ignorance or debauchery, de-bauchery, but the rich and educated and "respectable" scoundrels who corrupt, politics, bribe juries, interfere with justice jus-tice In courts, perjure themselves to escape es-cape taxation, and otherwise defile the public life. They may dress finely, live in mansions, have front pews in the church, and hold their heads hii?h In the community. But they are more wicked and noxious than burerlars. or drunkards, or even murderers. The grand jury In St. Louis has indicted a number of high-toned high-toned citizens for municipal corrouption. If they are guilty and convicted, may they get a salty sentence: Catholic Columbian. Co-lumbian. . -$, Another of those wonderful Englishmen English-men who are so unfortunate as to be entirely en-tirely Irish has just passed away. The Earl of Dttfferin and Ava, who for many years filled the highest posts in the British Brit-ish diplomatic service, has just died at the family seat, Clandeboye. Ulster, once .the ancestral home of the great O'Neills. Lord Dufferin was of the lineage of Richard Rich-ard Brlnsley Sheridan, and his mother inherited in-herited much of that great man's genius. He himself was also highly distinguished in literature as well as in statesmanship and wit. His death was hastened by the humiliation of being mixed' up innocently in one of those huge financial scandals that often convulse the island that dishonestly dis-honestly claims him as one of her own. Standard and Times. For 300 years the Presbyterians have taught that the Pope was "Antichrist, the man of sin." Now they say he is no such thing, and that it was never a teaching, teach-ing, but always and ever a very ugly nickname. Now let them unite in a letter let-ter to the Holy Father apologizing for the insult, since they have recalled the expression. Western Watchman. s The legislatures should lose no time in passing a law making it a misdemeanor misde-meanor to impersonate a person over 1,000 years dead. We do not mind If preachers zlve themselves out as resurrected In-sersolls. In-sersolls. hut we draw the line on Our Lord and the prophets. A preacher up in Chicago is posing as Ellas. Another pretends to be the Messiah. A third has got himself into trouble with a married man by playing his David to his wife's Bersabee. Western Watchman. A "Renuiem Mass" for the repose of the soul of the late Queen Victoria was celebrated cele-brated in the Angelican Church of St. Matthew. Westminster, on the 4th inst. The publication of the "Requiem Mass" stirred up a tremendous amount of latent bigotry in " the English metropolis, and for a week the dailies have been filled with protests from all classes of nervous ner-vous Protestants. These spasms are the sure forerunners of death to the establishment. estab-lishment. Western Watchman. Between the government and the dishonest dis-honest white man the Indian has been fleeced out of almost all he ever had. And now the bureau of American ethnology eth-nology has robbed him of his name. To scientists he will in future be known as "Amertno." and not Indian, using the first two syllables of America with the first of Indian to coin the word. This leaves him with nothing but his life. Church Progress. England has sprung a great political coup on the world an alliance between herself and Japan. It is an alliance for war as well as for peace, and is Intended as a. makeshift against Russia's Influence In China. An edifying spectacle it surely is this compact between a Protestant Dower and a heathen power, all the time the Protestant power is engaged in the extermination of a whole honest Christian Chris-tian people, also rrotestant. in another part of the world. Standard and Times. |