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Show ' . So Ihe Republican national committee is responsible re-sponsible for putting the prefix 'Rev." to the name of a Catholic layman who wrote and exploited "One of the Soblcsf of Presidents.'' So full of sloppy adulation is it, that .even Mr. Roosevelt would have spurned it. : The famous silver watch which Captain Cuttle presented to the bridegroom in "Dombey and Son"' regulates the time of Colorado railroads, and in consequence; Bourke Cockran misled connection s M-ith the train which should have brought him to Salt Lake on Monday last. The people of Montana were also denied an opportunity to hear the famed orator. '. ; ( Xolody felt the disappointment over the non-arrival non-arrival of Bourke Cockran more keenly than Barney Bar-ney Quiria, Democratic candidate for county as-; as-; sessor. Mainly through Mr. Quinivs urgent re quest did the distinguished Tammanyite place Salt Lake on. Jus-list of western cities for campaign epoeehes. ' Mr. Quinn and Hon. Bourke Cockran were neighbors in Ireland. T 1 j . So many of our Anglicen friends object to '"Protestant Episcopalian' that an effort was made in the convention at Boston 1o have the words ' dropped from the title page of the prayer hook. The proposition met with an adverse vote. Soon it will be apparent that those ashamed of the name given their creed will also be ashamed of its origin, and name and creed will both be rejected. f- According to Mother Hart well, of the Mission Helpers pi : the Sacred Heart, a daughter of General Kuropalkfu, is living in Xew York, and has been . sWral years a Catholic. She is highly educated and speaks' English as well as Russian. Father Lambert says that a Russian young lady answering j tlw description was baptized eight or nine years ; : . ago at Holy Family' Church, and has lived in Chicago. ; The best scholars sometime leap from the sub- : lime to the ridiculous, so we may expect a Method ist preacher to slip ovcr.the precipice of oratory before be-fore he thinks of the quiet humor his unconsciously uncon-sciously uttered words produce. The last one is a mountain exhorter who got a chance to expand before be-fore a fashionable Xew York congregation. Said 1k7 "IlookpJ at the mountains, and could not help thinking 'Beautiful as you are, you will be destroyed, de-stroyed, while m., soul will not.' And to the ocean i; L cried: 'Mighty as you may be, you will dry up, but not I.' "' : . ; The fall r .-tr.. ,u of 17,:l'3 pupils taught by oil teachers in ;!h parochial schools of Buffalo points to the xVci -at "while the religious training ; of the pupil gets The preference due its vital im portance, the mental equipment of the future bread-j bread-j winner is not wanting," says the Union and Times of that city. The magnitude of such figures almost take one's breath away as he contemplates a time when the one parochial school of Buffalo numbered about forty in the basement of old St. Patrick's a crowd of unruly youngsters who would rather kick a pig skin at recess than look up the difference be-twern be-twern the pope's Latin and the Latin of "the hay t hens.'' . . . The house of bishops and the house of lay delegates of the Episcopalian church got together on a compromise over the divorce tangle. Here- ' af,cr, 110 Episcopalian minister may solemnize the marriage of divorced persons except such per- I son.be the innocent party in a divorce granted for I Y v adultery. That is a little better than the law it J 1 v repealed, Gut its knock at the door of divorce will be unresponsive, and the evil will continue in so- I c,ctr If aa Episcopalian minister will' not ! j ' . I I I marry divorced persons, it is not hard to find others who will. The Episcopalian church will never harm divorce so long as it compromises with it. In j no form whatever should it be recognized in its canons. : . Handy lliough he be with, his knuckles, Boh l itzsimmons 'announces that he is through with prize fighting. That's a sign of old age. The Cor-nishman Cor-nishman also gives out another announcement that he is through with acting. That's a sign that Bob is foxy, for he never succeeded in striking Thespis in the solar plexus. Fitzsimmons is the craftiest of the half-score of prize fighters whose names were once recalled with greater ease than the liberty-loving liberty-loving and intellectual American could memorize the names of statesmen. The daily newspapers enlarge en-large Bob's scheme to purchase a farm and stock it, not with 'Ereford "eifers, but with millionaires who broke their health in breaking other people's wealth. The ex-prize fighter advertises to put new life into them by means of the punching bag and other instruments of health-restoring torture. ' "Without modifying an iota of criticism of the priest who abases holy orders by becoming an employe em-ploye of a partisan political bureau, additional facts ascertained since an editorial appeared last week upon such topic, prompts us to square the matter with all priests going by the name of LVycr. The name of "Rev." T. A. Dwyer was given as the author of the Republican tract. There is no priest in the Catholic directory belonging to that name. There may be one in heaven or in purgatory, but if here be, it is certain he is not in touch with the Republican national committee. ''Rev." T. A. Dwjer is a man of straw, ordained by the Republican Republi-can literary bureau to offer up incense "and adulation adula-tion to "One of the Xoblest of Presidents." The patholic Xews of Xew York says "Rev." T. A. Dwyer is a layman. Accepting that statement as fact, we apologize to all the other Dwyers in the priesthood. .. Those presenting evidence favorable to the admission ad-mission of Arizona to statehood should investigate the affair resulting in the expulsion of nuns and the kidnaping of their charges in that territory recently. Such conduct is damaging to the civilization civil-ization of the state. The fact that law is administered adminis-tered by law breakers is not a recommendation to win the favor of congress. The particulars arc given by the Xew York Sun. Summarized, it appears ap-pears that three Sisters of Charity, "four nurses and Dr. M. Whitney Swayne left Xew York for Clifton and Morenci, Ariz., with forty young ehil-! ehil-! dreit from the Xew York Foundling Asylum, intending in-tending to place their charges with Mexican families fami-lies in that neighborhood. The Sisters and nurses got back, nervous wrecks. They had been mobbed, threatened and tun out of town, and had left nineteen nine-teen of their charges in the hands of the Americans of Clifton. "Kidnaped from us out and out," the Sisters say. . t : Anybody with an ounce of political erudition or even common sense knows why the words "complete separation of church" and state in political affairs" were placed in the Democratic national platform. The intent is obvious wjien one reads the text of which the quoted words form the addition. It is: "We demand the extermination of polygamy within the jurisdiction of the United States, and the complete com-plete separation of church and state." Plain enough for anyone to comprehend its application. It was offered in lieu of another resolution more drastic in punctuation, to cover conditions in Utah and Idaho. Xotwithstanding its intent and plainness, the Boston Bos-ton Pilot illogically assumes that it.is an exhibition of bigotry against Catholics and an flnnpnl in tlno I A. P. A. to help defeat Roosevelt! And the proof for such the editor of the Pilot pretends to find in the plan the Xew York World put out to increase circulation through club rates with weekly newspapers, news-papers, one of which happened to be an organ of the A. P. A. Sophistry is too classical to apply to such kind of argument. Poppycock is .the word which better defines it. It is the method of the political po-litical guerilla rather than of the knight who fights fair for conviction's sake. Our brethren of the Methodist cloth should or-" or-" ganize some press subsidy scheme which would prevent pre-vent the publication of clerical scandals, except such as come from "Romish" couutries and the rogues are other than Methodists. The two morning and evening yellow papers of this city last week contained con-tained a long account of the crooked doings' of Rev. Homer L. McKinney, for years one of the best known evangelists of the Erie ; (Pa.) Methodist conference. He set up a matrimonial agency as a "side line" to gospel exhortation,, and did a land office business through love letters addressed to rich and bald-headed admirers of "Katie" and "Xellie," the aforesaid damsels being the Rev. Homer L. McKinney Mc-Kinney himself. Of course toward the last his dupes "got on to him," and the evangelist now languishes in prison. Xo Christian will rejoice over the downfall of any minister. Rather should we deplore scandal of this kind, and wish less of it to appear in the public press. Because it gives aid and comfort to the enemies of every religion, and is used as an argument to disprove religious efficacy for the restraint of evil in society.. The example of this Eric preacher will be cited by enemies of religion to impeach the character and suspicion the morality of all preachers, most. of whom are pure-minded, pure-minded, God-fearing men. The same method, of attack followed the few' Filipino frairs who fell from grace. Thereupon it was assumed and argued ar-gued that the whole archipelago reeked with "Romish" "Rom-ish" uncleanness. ' A |