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Show oooooxxxxxxx i (MBilK PRESS OPINION, f oxocxox A good place to begin the crusade against anarchy would be in the lynching lynch-ing belt. The suppression of this hideous hid-eous form of lawlessness and the punishment pun-ishment of its aiders and abettors would produce a wholesome moral effect. ef-fect. It is puerile to declaim against the wickedness of imported enemies of law and wder while we tolerate the wholesale violation of both by mobs of our own "best citizens." It is a tremendous undertaking, but if we are to be appalled into helpless inactivity by its magnitude, the country is in a bad way. The ax must be laid at the root of the evil. Moral sentiment must be aroused to the perils of the barbarous bar-barous practice. We must realize that among no other civilized people on the face of the globe, even those whom we look upon as "inferior" or "backward," does such contempt for orderly modes of Justice exist as that proclaimed by constantly recurring exhibitions of mob vengeance in this favored land. It will be easier to deal with detested imported im-ported anarchy when the "respectable" domestic article shall have been rendered ren-dered obsolete. Monitor. A number of sensational preachers, including the leather-lunged Dr. Mac-Arthur, Mac-Arthur, are exhibiting written "warnings" "warn-ings" from annonymous anarchists threatening their "removal." Why these harmless blatherskites should incite the ire of the wild-eyed gentry who are supposed to have their gaze fixed on larger game, passes all human understanding. under-standing. It is not unfair to suspect that the notoriety-hunting pu!piteer3 may be the victims of practical Jokers. Or. possibly, it would be nearer the truth to assert that the "warnings" in question are products of their own genius, ge-nius, as that would be entirely in keeping keep-ing with their methods of self-advertisement. Monitor. . Talking about anarchy, what worse form can it take than when deliberate I bodies legislative bodies vote to disregard law? Thi. fa what the Cleveland school board did last Mo-n- day night when it passed a resolution imaking the teaching of religion a part of the studies in the ' public ; schools. It had no more right to pass I that resolution than it had to proclaim j Methodism the LU.te religion. It is not only against state law, but against I the constitutional enactments of the j Federal government, which " forbids 1 any state to interfere with the rellg-! rellg-! ious rights of the people, or to sup-I sup-I port any particular form of religion. Are we to suppose that the Cleveland school board was too ignorant to know this? And if the members did know it and voted to disregard the lav and ! impose their own intolerance as a rule for others. In what do tl.ey differ from other anarchists who do the same? The principle of anarchy is to do away with law. Universe, Cleveland. The spasm of morality that attacks so many people on the occasion of a great crime ends as it began in paleness pale-ness and cold sweat. Too much frothing froth-ing and not enough of fundamental doctrine to produce, any good result. Every corner spouter has his panacea 1 that ia more dangerous than the dis- ea- to be curedf As 1 V iduSn de suSiS morality. U ' , need not talk of Europe mk,r.? ; ous.Catholic Universe. Western Watchman: Word cme? from Manila that preachers are swarm - r.l there. They do not know Spamsn. The people know nothing " them or their relUion. so they spend their a.--tivitv or. the poor American soldier. j' he annoyance they add to th tr'a'J. of garrison life in the Philippine Ph.pe is held out that they will disappear dis-appear with the mosquitoes in th-rainy th-rainy season. Western Watchman: The cable in- forms us that the Holy Father to' the Cardinals last Thursday that t wa too much liberty in this country T.Ti , Holiness was incorrectly r"rfrt" ! He said th-re was too much license n L this country. It is to an excess of !- f - cense that the crimes of the murdro-? anarchists must be ascribed Lib---v : H a good thing, but liberty abused V . f comes license, which is a very b;i ! i I. , thing. v Western Watchman: The Chine minister to England, who died the ..ti er dav. was a Catholic. The preser;: Chinese minister to France is a ;i frolic. fr-olic. China can teach this country diplomatic dip-lomatic manners. Her ministers to Catholic countries, with the except!.-., of Mr. Storer. are Protestants. Ar ! all the members of the civil government govern-ment of the Philippines are Prot-?t-i ants. Republic: The assassin who struck down the late President William M--Kinley was not an immigrant. Cons., fiitentlv an anti-immigration law wr; not soive the problem of unbridled r-i- " nrchy. He was educated in the r" v'.:' schools. The public school system therefore, or universal education, is in- - ; capable of curing our social and p. ' .J. ( ical ills. He eschewed all religion fs ; his young manhood, he scoffed at !';.' v , and gloried in his infidelity. Did th - f Godless school start him upon the mn ! t to crime which is to end at the electri- 1 ri chair? I "Devotion to St. Anthony of Pad'n u T making great progress," says the r:t?s- burg Observer. "This is desirable. Hi,- j the reason for hi popularity peerr. f . J b' the belief of his clients that he -viH I I obtain for them temporal advantage. I What is most desirable in him is th-Franciscan th-Franciscan spirit, the purity. th detachment de-tachment from material comforts :n 1 the spirit of penance. If those tvh seek his invocation would only aik more of these Vfts. and fewer pecuniary pecu-niary favors! they would do him more I honor and themselves more good." |
