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Show i God has loved; all i said. Henceforth no j mystery to me bliall seem incredible." Spalding. : 4- Is it not, indeed, the mystery of mysteries that I . the infinitely holy God should so love sinful man I as to lay down His precious life for man's salva- i tion ; J i But precious as it is to the heart of man to . know itself beloved, a still greater boon is it to ! i feel the ineffable bliss of loving. How dear to our I . hearts, therefore, should be the assurance that the J ' iniinitely lovable God yearns for the love of His creatures I On Thursday next Holy Church celebrates the I feast of the Ascension. 'Tis a feast that should I move the hearts of the faithful to lay their loving I aspirations at the foot of the blessed throne of I Heaven. It is there that the Son of Man demands I the price of Hie Precious Blood, the salvation of all who will accept it. That was a wise and just decision the opinion I of Attorney-General Moody, recently rendered, holding that the eight-hour law must apply to the Isthmian canal commission on the Isthmus of I Panama. The employers of labor commit a fatal I and inexcusable folly in opposing the eight-hour tystcm whenever its inauguration is at all prac- I ticable. -4, I .lohann Iloch, the Chicago wile murderer, has been condemned to death on the gallows. The re- I markablo appeal of his lawyer to the sentimental j t-idc of the jurymen, in reading to them the two ! first vci'M's of Cardinal Xc-mnan's ''Lead, Kindly I Light," and handing each of them a copy of the 1 hymn just before they retired, proved utterly fu- I tijc, as the fatal verdict, was'. reached in less than f thirty minutes. ' ,lunr is the month dedicated by Holy Church I for spcci.d devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I Cuu anyone -cm-five a more fitting object for the tender and ardent devotion of the, human heart ; thai) the tenderly and ardently loving heart of the I -God-Man? - How efficaciously should not this dt- votion remind us that our religion is essentially a I religion of noblo love and aspiration, and not one of ignoble and superstitious fear. I ; 1 I Query: Would that -doughty reforjner, Mr. ! Andrew Carnegie, include among the quasi-public institutions, which he would fain pjaco .under the I absolute control of an unsympathetic and irrespon- I sible public, the hospitals, orphanages and other I like eleemosynary institutions now so admirably I conducted by such religious communities as the I Sisters of Charity i If he should, indeed, be so I inexcusably fatuous in his "democratic" zeal,' it is- i safe to conclude that he would meet with the dc- Icrmined opposition of all fair-minded and intelli- 1 gent people, regardless of their religious or anti-religious anti-religious bias. These institutions are the one redeeming re-deeming feature of. a commercialism-mad age. f . Verily, the people are prone to regard our most i popular President as the father of his country. I The latest manifestation of this disposition is in I the shape of a petition that the Chief Magistrate pf the nation take a hand in the management of the monster lifo insurance companies. He could I no' assuredly, be expected to interest himself in I restoring the management of these institutions to I ' the policy-holders by virtue of his exalted office. I If these policy-holders have, through willful neg- ; lect. or inadvertence, permitted the officers to as- l eume arrogant and autocratic control, they should be capable of wresting such control from the male- j factors without the assistance of the federal or any ' other government. . .' ...... i The sales of real estate in Salt Lake City aggregated ag-gregated $176,300 during the first three days of this week. The activity, long predicted, seems ta have fairly begun. . -f, ; . In Massachusetts, too, Socialism is on the decline. de-cline. And therefore will all order and" liberty-loving liberty-loving people of the land heartily felicitate them- selves and one another. -r - : The nasty imbroglio in Philadelphia municipal circles, in consequence of the alleged dishonest leasing of the city's gas plant, furnishes another powerful argument in favor of the suinmary squelching of all public utility corporations. - The woes of the editor are manifold, if -not grievous. To have a paragraph on the first page inverted, as happened in last week's issue, is one of them. Th initiated will, of course, understand that -this is duo to the inadvertence of the chief "typo." Others, however may marvel at the significance sig-nificance of the strange occurrence. ; 4 ; . The death of Herbert Croker, youngest son of Richard Croker, as a result of indulging in opjum smoking, should serve as a warning to other young men inclined to '"go ihe pace that kills." Young Croker, having turned his back upon his religion and his God, sought to gratify the yearnings of his heart in leading a fast life. How heart-saddening it is to see young, men pom pi it the desperate folly of turning with disdain from the bread of ainrels and endeavoring to subsist on the husks of swine! ; In Catholic Belgium the Government owns and operates its railroads, and there is no Socialism in that country. Xo wonder Socialists do not regard with favor the idea of public-ownership! That government -owned railroad system is said to work most satisfactorily, and as it has been in operation, opera-tion, more or less exclusively, for seventy years, it presents a valuable object lesson for the people of this country. . i We may be pardoned, we trust; for once more adverting to the adpiirable contributions to this I journal by pupils of St. Mary's Academy, of Og-den, Og-den, and which appear in "Our Literary Table" on page five. Take, for instance, the essays printed in our issue of May 13th "Music's Magic Power" and ''Mary in Poetry," from the pen of Clara I O'Connell, and "One of the Immortals," by Florence Flor-ence O'Xeill, in our issue of May 20th. Are they not, in very deed, gems of lofty thought and beautiful beau-tiful diction? Emanating, as they do, from' tho brains of "mere schoolgirls," we hesitate not to declare that they would grace the pages of the most ambitious and brilliant literary publications of the land. . . - ' ' '" Upon the devoted philanthropist who, in his self -righteous -indignation, would summarily demolish demol-ish labor-unionism, with the purpose of forever ridding society of the annoyances resulting from strikes, devolves the task of pointing out some less objectionable method of protecting the wage-earner against the injustice of rapacious greed. To turn the army of toiling producers over to the tender mercies of a conscienceless class of employers,, and deny the former the only means of redress at their command, because their power is sometimes abused, would only result in ridding the nation of one evil by fastening upon it an evil of inestimably graver import. Xo genuinely patriotic citizen can wish to see a large majority of our people reduced to a state verging on serfdom. - "To our beloved son, J. Redmond, leader of the Irish party in the House of Commons, with the wish that he, together with his equally beloved colleagues, col-leagues, using oil legal and pacific means, may win that liberty which makes for the welfare of the Catholic Church and the whole country, we impart our apostolic benediction with particular affec: tion. PIUS X." The foregoing is, as reported in the press, an inscription on a portrait of the Holy Father, pre sented by His Holiness to Mr. John Redmond. It is now reported that Englishmen are disposed to enter a vigorous protest against this action of our Holy Father. Considering the very conservative and pacific tone of the sentiments expressed, such an attitude on the part of these sturdy Britons is, to say tho least, very surprising. : s- : Xever in the history of the country, it is safe to assert, was our daily press so burdened in chronicling chron-icling crime as has been the case in recent months. Gratifyingly sensational are the daily reports of murders, suicides, divorces without number, private pri-vate and public defalcations, bribery in high, places and other violations of the laws of God and man. Add to this the crimes, perpetrated and obviously contemplated, in the name of humanity and justice, jus-tice, in connection with the Chicago strike, and the less sensational but no less damning indulgence indulg-ence in dissipation and debauchery so common in our day, and the picture is certainly a sufficiently lurid and appalling one. Is not our land going, pell-mell, and with a frightful recklessness, to the devil? Timely and urgent is the call of our Holy Father: "Back to Christ," Shall it be wisely heeded, or have the "gods" marked the nation for destruction, and therefore .made it irredeemably mad? ' f The charms of Salt Lake City have captivated the impressionable heart of another fair artist. -Mrs. Marian 'A. White, editor of the Fine Arts Journal, of Chicago, "came, saw and" was "conquered." "con-quered." In an interview, in addition to saying other pretty and gracious things about our "peerless "peer-less city and her favored denizens, she paid the following graceful compliment to the peculiarly artistic features of the.' eity and its environments: "I have read so ; much of Salt Lake and her people that I have always desired to visit here, and now I find myself agreeably surprised. You have so many beautiful, wide streets, splendid residences and lawns. And then-tho mountains-which surround sur-round the city, touched with the pure snow.. They make a deep impression on me. It seems as though the sight of them should keep one good and pure,." ( After all, it takes a woman pow, doesn't it? to say a charming thing in an' unusually charming ojanrjfr. i '.. |