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Show CfmOZYC OPINION. There are some' noteworthy points in the Sun's editorial on Archbishop Corrigan.' It says: "During his administration ad-ministration there came about a very radical change in Protestant sentiment towards his church. Animosity gave place to high and hearty appreciation of the splendid service to religion and morals rendered by Catholicism, and its firm and uncompromising maintenance mainten-ance of its ancient faith and doctrine commanded . respectful consideration, even in the time of scepticism which goes to the extreme of doubting the very lounaauon 4and authority of religion. re-ligion. Nowhere , was there a more inflexible in-flexible exponent of this fidelity and of the ecclesiastical discipline which enforces en-forces it than Archbishop Corrigan." Again: "Archbishop Corrigan was distinguished dis-tinguished by a repose and serenity both scholarly and of the cloister. His administration was firm and of a determined de-termined persistency, but it was without with-out harshness, for he was naturally of a gentle and amiable disposition and strife of itself had no attractions for him. His bearing was always marked by a priestly dignity which won for him the respect of a large social circle outside the ranks of Catholicism. It will be seen, therefore, that the dead archbishop, was a religious figure entitled to respectful and even affectionate affec-tionate consideration from this community com-munity generally, even from people not of his own faith or of no religious faith at all. He lived to see the last traces of animosity to the Roman Catholic church obliterated in every church, so that his death was looked on by all as a grievous loss to the cause of religion and good morals in New York. He left his archdiocese in a condition of greater prosperity and harmony than it had ever known throughout its history." his-tory." Home Journal and News. Women who adore criminals are just now coming under inspection by reason of the sentimental solicitude shown by the ladies in Italy for a notorious noto-rious brigand at present in prison awaiting trial for numerous murders, the fair sex gather at the jail, brine flowers, magazines and jelly, and write letters. The brigand is their hero. They don't want him punished. Other examples, just past, in the United States, are cited to show that this quality in women is universal. Mention is made of a widow who has become the bride of a man convicted of murdering his aged millionaire friend. It is recalled that only a few months ago the wife of a Pennsylvania jailer eloped with two tenants of murderers' mur-derers' row. The romance of this last-named heroine is noted with the more interest inter-est and pleasure because she had been an exemplary wife and mother. Lombroso, the high Italian criminologist crimin-ologist and composer of large-selling works on degenerate man, appealed to for an explanation, asserts that the ladies are yearning for the mediaeval; that in fact they are themselves mediaeval, medi-aeval, and their souls sob for recov ered joy over the reappearance, if only for a few hours, of the brilliant dash and knightly abandon in their modern godling. Another diagnosis suggests that all the personal power, certainly all the muscle there is in Italy, has come to America and the ladies are on that account ac-count disconsolate habitually, always ready to crown the brow of brawn when by chance it appears. Commoner still is the hastily adopted theory that the women who send jellv to murderers are themselves affected with an abnormal streak; that they are not representative women, but defective, de-fective, ranging from the silliness of cheap novel-reading to the criminality of vice. More careful students of the matter, however, jail officers, lawyers and re- porters, reject this natural notion as not in accordance with the facts. They say the murderer-worshippers belong to no one class in any respect. The jailer's wife in Pennsylvania, the widow wid-ow in New York, who could say aught against them before they began the adoration? Nowhere does attention seem to have been directed to the deeper cause. Is it possible the commentators commenta-tors have never heard a mother sav she was sorry for all prisoners and hoped they would escape, because her own boy might go to jail some day? When -a woman sends jelly to a murderer mur-derer it is the mother in her protesting, protest-ing, against the punishment of a son she may never have for a crime he may never commit. Republic. Mr. Herbert Spencer, having published pub-lished all. th.e ascertainable facts in the universe, with regrets for the unascer-tainable, unascer-tainable, now at the age of 82 finds a i number o comments which he some- how failed to fit in anywhere along the way. These odds apd ends he has gathered up into a book by themselves. If Mr. Spencer should ever die, the world is safe. Philosophy is complete, even to the odds and ends. Republic. It is a shock "tcTThe country that several officers of an American naval vessel in Venice should have been condemned con-demned to prison for resisting the police, po-lice, even if they have since been mercifully mer-cifully pardoned by the king of Italy. We have no good reason tc believe that they were not justly condemned and punished, although we reserve acceptance accept-ance of the report that they were intoxicated in-toxicated and violently disturbed the peace. Apart from the disgrace that such a thing could happen is the unfortunate un-fortunate fact that their conviction seems to have pleased the Italian people. peo-ple. But that means that they saw in it a kind of retaliation for the unpun-' unpun-' ished murder of Italians by American mobs. That there should be such a feeling in Italy is in good part the fault ' of congress. More than one president 1 has urged that congress enact a law I which shall put the trial of those accused ac-cused of offenses against foreigners into the United States courts, but congress con-gress has been deaf to the request. Meanwhile, more than once the Ita'ian government has asked punishment of those who have murdered her citizens, only to be told th-Jt these offenses came under the state law, and that the national na-tional government could no intervene; it c-culd only pay money damages. The ! condition is disgraceful and humiliating, humiliat-ing, and we hope this affair in Venice, where there seemed to be a bit of retaliation, re-taliation, may stir congress to its duty. . Independent. |