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Show OUR ANNIVERSARIES, This number of The Intermountain and Colorado Colo-rado Catholic begins the seventh year of the joint publication of both papers and the twenty-second year of the founding of the Colorado Catholic a't Denver. This paper has observed the virtue of restraint re-straint in all things never so much as in the one particular of self-praise. If it is a good paper, others have said it was, and that counts best. The Rocky Mountain Xews of Denver, commenting one time on an editorial it copied from this paper, pronounced pro-nounced The "Intermountain Catholic the strongest and most' influential newspaper of its faith in the west. Such flattery was not repeated in print in this paper before. We prefer to let others do that sort of business. "What rejoices the publishers and writers most is the heart-to-heart feeling shared with its patrons. It is ono of interdependence upon each other; the harmony of thought and action in whatever makes for virtue and citizenship and love for humanity. Ours not to invite that sectarian controversy which leaves a. sour taste in the mouth without accomplishing the ends which temperate discussion discus-sion plans and provides. Ours rather to -make a clear and fair presentation of facts and invite our non-Catholic brethren to meditate on ihem. Only when our position is misrepresented by bigots do we return 'the attack with interest, but always in the sober language of truth and decency. And, strange as it may sound, the most generous gen-erous words of cheer come from our non-Catholic patrons. |