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Show CATHOLIC OPINION Prince Henry will be the guest of the city on Monday. His welcome will cost many thousand dollars. Seventy odd years ago our fathers greeted General Gen-eral Lafayette. It cost the city thirty-seven thirty-seven dollars. How our greatness and extravagance have multiplied. Church Progress, St. Louis. It is to be hoped that the meeting i of the Mothers congress' and the advance ad-vance in the price of brooms are purely pure-ly coincidental. Should they be related, relat-ed, however, we extend our sympathies to the fathers who have not been conducting con-ducting themselves with decorum while the mothers have been away from home. Church Progress. We must be on our guard about rumors ru-mors from Rome these days. A forty horse-power prevaricator has now hold off., the Rome end of the cable. Last week he had Cardinal Martinelli in Rome. This week he has the bishop of Portland in the Eternal City on his way to the Philippines. The story about Cardinal Ledochowsky may be true, but in that case' it is only a good guess. The prefect of the Propaganda is almost totally blind. Documents requiring re-quiring his signature are signed in obtain the consent of the" holy fathers that he has not resigned long ago. Western Watchman. American scientists have discovered the case of infection in cases of epidemic epi-demic fevers to be the mosquito. The Germans have traced. their contagions to rats. We are going to kill the mos-quitos mos-quitos with coal oil; they are going to inoculate the rodents. If they ': reversed re-versed the policy they might accomplish accom-plish some good. Western Watchman. Watch-man. One of the strongest testimonies to the practical value of the movement represented by the Irish League, which is spreading rapidly in Ireland and overflowing Into this country, is a statement attributed to the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham, chief secretary for Ireland. At a recent political gathering gather-ing Wyndham condemned the league in strong terms, declaring it to be "a political machine which constituted the gravest menace to the community." He advocates the application of drastic I V.UCH.IVC lucaauies lor us suppression. If there was any doubt among Irishmen Irish-men and sympathizers with Irish victims vic-tims of English misgovernment, as tc the usefulness of such an organization as the new Irish League, properly directed di-rected and administered, Mr. Wynd- : ham's attitude, reflecting that of Lord Salisbury and other implacable hostiles, would go a long way to dispel the uncertainty. un-certainty. Monitor. The intelligent way ia which the daily press of Buffalo has discussed the letter of Bishop Quigley, gives us reason to hope that in bis endeavor to purge the labor unions from the poison of Socialism, he will have the effective support of the conservative element of the community, regardless of creed. Union and Times. A kinetoseope view of Senator Tillman Till-man and McLaurin in action, a la the Marquis of Queensbury. would not be without educational' effect among the oeuigm,ea aenizens or our newly ac-uired ac-uired possessions, whom Mr. Taft has pronounced, incapable of the dignity of self-government. Monitor. " $ . The Associated Press dispatches state that the pope wired a message of hope to President: Roosevelt during the crisis in the illness of- the latter's youthful son at Groton, Mass. If the report be true, it was a thoughtful and appreciable appre-ciable kindnessr on the oart of the venerable pontiff, and will doubtless cordially commend itself to the gratitude grati-tude of the strenuous executive, who an affectionate father. Catholic Mirror, Mir-ror, . .... . . y The McLa'urin-Tillman episode calls attention to the dispensing-ipf-government patronage in South Carolina. It seems that Senator McLaurin wus opposed to ,tr He was suddenly "' I the Fa, treat d Jmrnediately T'irJCUi7h f vorUc hil1 "f the admin- caste. Whether nc w- , .UPStion oi the administration ' U s.y speculation. The unci ar i. utm.st yes. The 'L ll .y ,,, not know. The :;in,u:en, wiu not u'ng but think mud,. j j Transcrint. i Lvcrv now r,nd then the reader of hus- 'torv is subjected to a violent men tal ion . -as it were. He finds luinseh )bl , change his point ot vi., i re'",Y-.l-.eed 1 opinions, and set aright h sympathies. The last WnnS ,he been compelled to descend from nc pedestal m-n wluH. rome.nce. if not : nis i,.-v vHccii l-.cr is the P.rapn - jo-Vnmn- sk- vas not all our fancy hod Pai.uTber. says certain ;Vontmporary documents. " There is comfort in th I act that if some historical characters M' from the high places, they have held m our affections, other are lifted by a tard but sure iustice from the mire of slanderous sland-erous traditions to the seats ot honor which are theirs by right.-Lecotitetilx Lender. Ruffai". ' American readers wh- love Zola and hH ftith will bo interested to know how their darlinjr is appreciated by another great novelist. Sienkiewacjs suggests that if von tabulate-Zola's women you will fmo . that 95 out of W are abandoned creatures. This man whom the leading spirits of Fraiu-e and the press throughout the i jv-ilized jv-ilized world were recently nll-hailtng as the foremost ch;rn;ion of justice in all ' France, professes to reflect the actual life of the nation. Are 95 per cent of the - women of France mere bauds? If not. what becomes of the boasted justice for which this writer stands pre-eminent among his countrymen? The great Polish novelist is not too strong when he refers to v.oh'.'s work as "a literature of lies, exaggerations, end love of filth." The Springfield Republican says that "Z"UJ daubs the whoie nation with tsrr.ut. let we are assured that American readers who are riven to the study of nature as she 1:: would not be witnout Zola. j Transcript. i |