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Show ' Catbplic Opinion We knew Cardinal Satolli would catch it for his magniloquent endorsement of the Knights of Columbus. Co-lumbus. The anti-American Catholic newspapers are now spreading the report that his eminence received re-ceived a check of $100,000 for marrying that Philadelphia Phila-delphia millionaire's daughter. .Western Watchman, Watch-man, St. Louis. So long as Professor Goldwin Smith confined his attention to the foundations of Christianity, the American press was willing enough to recognize his prophetic genius. When he foresees the early collapse of the American republic as a result of the elements of corruption undermining its' social and political vitality, he is amiably tolerated as1 a senile alarmist. Yet his logic is straighter in the second case than in the first. Monitor, San Francisco. Talk about superstition! At Bloomsburg, in Pennsylvania, only a few days . ago, 1,000 persons were afraid to go on an excursion because a "fortune "for-tune teller" had warned a silly young woman that . she was going to an affair at which there would be a terrible accident. And there was no accident. The future is known only to God. Even the devils, with their piercing, although darkened, minds can make only guesses. ' Clairvoyants, not assisted by demons, can make no better predictions than you can. Only the ignorant and the superstitious would put faith in their bogus prophecies. .Columbian, Columbus, O. - 4 During the week a crank from Cincinnati has written this journal that the Irish countenance does resemble that of a "monkey, and asserts that the editor of the Xew World is aware of the fact bjut will not so admit. The letter is signed by some award aw-ard who calls himself Pat Murphy. Ordinarily-we , pay no heed tcanonymous notes;.still if Cincinnati Pat will look in a 5-cent mirror he will inevitably behold the countenance of a white-eyed, shallow-pated shallow-pated goose with a head filled with, pea-green notions. no-tions. Whenever the Angel Gabriel blows his trumpet trum-pet Pat will answer derisively with a hiss from his swamp. Xew World, Chicago, 111; f .- Protestants who do not accept miracles and reject re-ject special providences are at times puzzled to explain the role of the .Creator after creation. If he does not. interfere to prevent' crime lie. might without hurting his reputation step in to check . catastrophes in physical nature. But nature is in- J tangible. She must be governed by her own laws, j God must not interfere. He cannot if He would; i aud He would not if He could. But if it is hard for Catholics to accept miracles and mysteries, it is doubly hard for. Protestants to explain inundated Johnstowns and engulfed Galvestons, and fiery Pe- lees and burning Slocums. God permits evil that the wicked may be punished and the good tried. Western Watchman, St. Louis. T The managers of the St. Louis exposition complain com-plain bitterly that their show has not been sufficiently sufficient-ly noticed by the press. Considering that it is a private commercial enterprise, which the govern-' ment has aided by a loan of several millions, and that the profits, if any, are to go into the pockets of its managers, their complaint is not over-modest. The press has been more than generous in booming it gratis, when it might have justly expected a fair share of advertising patronage. Some features of the enterprise have attracted an attention more ! general than desirable. This is especially true of the "Irish Section," where, in spite of many, indignant indig-nant protests, the management insisted upon producing pro-ducing the offensive stage Irishman in all his dull vulgarity. The performers from Ireland who had come over to represent the beautiful Irish drama were, dismissed when they, objected to playing on the same stage with the Bowery baboon who typified the representative Irishman in the minds of Manager Hanley, Director Murphy and their associates, an Englishman named Martin and a Hebrew named Posencrest. The last named will be remembered 'as. -; the jj.roduccr of "McFadden's Flats," a foul thing, which was rotten-egged off the Xew York stage.' This degraded Irish show has, we believe, disappeared disap-peared from the exposition. Pilot, Boston. All honor to the bishop of Dejon,- who; despite the contrary commands of Combes, has elected to obey the orders of Christ's icar on Earth. rafTier than those of the "church's persecutors in France. Verily, it is better to obey God than man. Union and Times, Buffalo. . ' ' - |